nogooduser

@nogooduser@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As of today, I have stopped using Reddit entirely.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem to have got your knickers in a twist over something and I don’t understand what.

  Let me summarise the conversation from my point of view. Someone asked what subreddits kept someone on Reddit. I made the comment that a particular sub that I liked on Reddit was more active than the equivalent communities on Lemmy. It wasn’t a complaint but a statement of fact about what made the transition more difficult for me which I made to contribute to the discussion. Then you seem to have taken that as a complaint and taken offence at it for some reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As of today, I have stopped using Reddit entirely.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A sample size of one isn’t sufficient to conclude that every question gets answered.

  Also, I didn’t say that it was inactive. I said that it was nowhere near as active as Reddit.

  There are about two or three posts per week which includes all the release announcements for home assistant and various components.

  On Reddit there was at least five or ten times that activity with posts every day including questions, automations and dashboard ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As of today, I have stopped using Reddit entirely.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a fair point and it is the latter.

  I have only posted one question about a problem that I had and I got an answer that resolved my issue.

  Unfortunately, I’m not in a position to help build up the community. I have a very small and basic setup and don’t have time to build it up let alone make posts about building it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As of today, I have stopped using Reddit entirely.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I went cold turkey after the third party app debacle but I really missed the home assistant subreddit. There is a home assistant community but it’s nowhere near as active.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tip or skip? How US-style tipping culture is creeping into Australia⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to see tip buttons on payment screens a lot in the UK. That seems to have reduced recently and you have to ask for a tip to be added. There are still restaurants that add a 10 or 12% service charge to the bill though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows machines frequently do updates without a reboot nowadays.

  The problem is that when an update that requires an restart is pending, it changes the standard restart button into one that does an update and restart. You can often fall into muscle memory and accidentally trigger an update. When combined with the fact that you quite often get problems that go away with a reboot you can easily get yourself into OP’s position where they’re waiting for an update to finish at a really inconvenient time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a heavy YouTube user this simply is not my experience. Not that it never happens, but it’s not the default to the point that you can just assume that. In most cases your assumption is wrong.

  Maybe it just depends on your viewing habits and what the algorithm pushes. I see loads of top 10 movie clips (e.g. sci fi movies on Netflix) in my feed that have an AI generated thumbnail and when I’ve viewed some of them there’s been no apparent AI use in the video.

  I am also seeing AI generated clips where the thumbnail doesn’t look AI generated. That one’s very annoying as I don’t want to watch AI generated videos at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨STARCRAFT | Announce Cinematic | Dominion⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking that it was going to be a mobile game until the Xbox logo at the end of the

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I get unblockable pop-ups from my carrier⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s more than mildly infuriating!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every payment option has a fee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And why is that “mildly infuriating”?

  Charging a fee to accept payment is ridiculous. If a cost is unavoidable then it should be included in the price.

  I accept that some payment providers charge more than others but there should be at least one that is free even if that means adding the cost of the cheapest one to the base price.

  Ideally they would all be free and you’d just add the average cost of payment processing to the price.

  There was a time in the UK when you could get a flight from Manchester to London for £8 but the final price ended up being ten times that due to additional costs that weren’t optional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The books have one or two references to him working as a labourer or other jobs between books.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This homeless character, who doesn't go to the gym and survives on junk food, somehow weights 300lbs of pure muscle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He does have access to a shower. He stays at motels mostly and very rarely sleeps outside.

  There’s no explanation for that body though as he definitely never goes to a gym.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mars Bar from the 1990s found during house clearance - shrinkflation in action⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If people weren’t buying more of them, they wouldn’t’ve changed the size.

  That’s not a valid conclusion.

  The only thing that we can say for sure is that the companies benefit from shrinkflation in some way otherwise they wouldn’t do it.

  If sales drop due to the smaller sizes but they still make more profit overall then you can be sure that we’d be getting smaller bars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You pay owner price. They give you tenant rights.": Mexican Lawmakers Drag Sony to Antitrust Court Over All-Digital PlayStation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that it’s the same because Steam and Epic aren’t the only store available to PC users. They haven’t decided that games aren’t available on disc and there are one or two options where you can purchase DRM free games.

  This is Sony, the owner of the platform and the only store available, that is making a decision that will result in players never being able to buy a DRM free game. Not only that but players will only be able to buy games from them unless they intend on allowing other stores onto the platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles…⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A ‘universal’ key, IE a key that can be used to open multiple different locks. So yes, a lock pick. What were you expecting?

  Something like a TSA key that fits the lock in addition to the owner’s key.

  A lock pick requires an amount of skill to use and is definitely not a key.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why you think that I was trying to make it better?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can make a quiet call if you have headphones or earphones but I find that people (myself included) tend to talk louder on a call than they do in person. I’m sure that it’s not necessary but it happens anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It has a lot of content that isn’t available anywhere else. Sometimes the best option is still shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#StopPayingGames⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right. It often comes from the previous game but if that game doesn’t do well then the chances of there being another are greatly reduced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It should be illegal to buy a company on loan and transfer that debt to the company. You should be required to get your money back via dividends or by building the company up and reselling it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s only meaningless if you’re pedantic.

  It obviously means the greatest of all time so far because at the time you make the statement you cannot judge what hasn’t happened yet.

  It gets more complicated when you’re saying it about a company or game in the past but I still think that it has meaning. It could mean that at the time, they were the greatest of all time (up until that point in time) but it could also mean that at this point in time that past version of EA was the greatest of all time (up until now, which is beyond the time that that version of EA existed).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 634 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you been doing mainly stealth combat rather than samurai? I’ve heard that the game goes all stormy if you act dishonourably like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans love videos like this. This is why they are paying higher electricity prices⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have heard it used as a racial slurs once I the film True Romance (1993). It has a scene where Dennis Hopper’s character is explaining to Christopher Walken’s character (a Sicilian) how he’s “part eggplant” due to the fact that the Moors conquered Sicily in the past.

  I’d link to the scene on YouTube but I don’t want to as it’s very racist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game PEGI age-ratings are changing in Europe from June. Four new categories added to tackle elements of addictive design, unmonitored online communication and loot boxes⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d imagine that very few games would be given an 18 due to the unfiltered chat.

  Surely they all have a block and a report function at the very least (even if they do nothing about reports).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you fell out of love with.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cyberpunk 2077. I played that game all the way through three times but lost the love for it when they completely reworked the talents for the DLC. I just couldn’t get back into it after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Control Resonant - Gameplay Reveal⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately you can do damage after release so you’d need to be careful applying updates too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the UK, you can get your license revoked for speeding. You can lose your license if you’re going a lot over the speed limit. If you’re going a bit slower you can get 3 or 6 points and if you get more than 12 points you also lose your license.

  It doesn’t seem to do a huge amount to discourage speeding in my experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure that Amazon also says that you can’t sell things on Amazon for more than you sell the same item elsewhere.

  I’ve certainly seen a video claiming that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They weren’t trophies but I liked the challenges for Titanfall 1 that allowed you to ascend to the next level.

  They were mainly using different weapons that I probably wouldn’t have tried because they didn’t seem as good as the easier to use weapons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet Peeves with Games?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine is similar to yours in that it’s when I come back to a game after a while. My problem is that the difficulty of the game has increased in line with where I am but I’ve forgotten the moves.