Tilgare
@Tilgare@lemmy.world
- Comment on Valve Reaffirms Steam Machine Summer Launch 2 weeks ago:
This just looks like they want to see how much ram prices soar so they can see how much they can ask for the thing
Charging more to cover their costs is NOT the same thing as maliciously price gouging (which is what was alluded to here).
If the cost of materials goes up, the cost of the device goes up. They’re a business not a charity. I think we both fully agree that they are waiting to see where prices land closer to launch to determine the final pricing of the device. But I don’t agree that they’re optimizing for profit. They already know what margin they expect from this device and might even be planning on eating some margin to keep the price competitive.
The Steamdeck, pre-RAMpocalypse, was maybe one of the best values in gaming hardware, in part because they were subsidizing the price like Sony and Microsoft do for home consoles. Any other handheld PC on the market was 2-3x the price. They can’t be expecting that same kind of sales volume from the Steam Machine, so the amount they can afford to subsidize will be lower for sure.
- Comment on Valve Reaffirms Steam Machine Summer Launch 2 weeks ago:
Of all companies, I think Valve deserves the benefit of the doubt. You’re ascribing business practices to Valve that I have no memory of them using.
- Comment on Valve Reaffirms Steam Machine Summer Launch 2 weeks ago:
Sure - then constantly rising prices still makes the point.
- Comment on Valve Reaffirms Steam Machine Summer Launch 2 weeks ago:
It’s only suspicious if you haven’t been watching the wildly swinging RAM pricing. It would be a far worse experience for Steam and for the consumer if they set a price and had to keep jacking it up before the product had even been released.
- Comment on What the Hell is this Bull shit ? 2 months ago:
Precisely. Everyone is bitching about shrinkflation, and it’s probably just a vending machine owner cheaping out and buying multipacks at the grocery store instead of 20oz at a much higher wholesale price.
- Comment on workplace enrichment activities 2 months ago:
I’m not sure even Usain Bolt could outrun the speed and devastation of this reaction.
- Comment on No More Neutral ⚛ 3 months ago:
I don’t know what these might do, but I like your style.
- Comment on Norway anon pirates 4 months ago:
He didn’t tell you to program a bespoke tool, you tool.
- Comment on Nova Launcher unashamedly inserts malware ads into your home screen now. 4 months ago:
Agreed - we’re a LONG way past Touchwiz nightmare fuel at this point. Other than the Samsung branded bloat, it’s pretty close to stock android these days. The home screen has tons of customization features, and Goodlock adds even more. I stopped using Nova because of a LONG time Android bug with 3rd party launchers where apps would just show a blank screen or otherwise wouldn’t launch when opened immediately after going home. I found Pixel launcher to be passable (but I heavily preferred Nova), and found that Samsung’s launcher might have actually been better when I switched phones later.
I jumped on a Google issue tracker thread in 2023 that still sends me emails because it gets a flood of people all these years later still reporting the issue is not resolved.
Now I’m on a Fold 7 anyways, and Samsung handles your home screen while folding and unfolding pretty well, I don’t expect that Nova does.
- Comment on You shall not cut! 5 months ago:
I fully support this strategy, can’t believe I never considered it myself. I will have to carefully suggest it to my wife who will NOT approve of this mutilation of one of her glorious pizzas.
- Comment on You shall not cut! 5 months ago:
Not all mozzarella is created equal. The best pizza cheese I’ve found in the US is Boar’s Head mozzerella. Nothing else melts right or holds up to the 550° oven like this one. I just get the deli to take a knife to the chub to cut off a block for easier shredding.
- Comment on pro choice 5 months ago:
The bait and switch on this one really caught me off guard and gave me a great laugh. Good post.
- Comment on PFP Evolution 5 months ago:
Once cringe, always cringe.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 5 months ago:
By a variety of definitions around the world, yes it is. At least until farmers lobbied to redefine it because they didn’t want to be associated with GMO’s: (emphasis mine)
The definition of a genetically modified organism (GMO) is not clear and varies widely between countries, international bodies, and other communities. At its broadest, the definition of a GMO can include anything that has had its genes altered, including by nature. Taking a less broad view, it can encompass every organism that has had its genes altered by humans, which would include all crops and livestock. In 1993, the Encyclopedia Britannica defined genetic engineering as “any of a wide range of techniques … among them artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization (e.g., ‘test-tube’ babies), sperm banks, cloning, and gene manipulation.” The European Union (EU) included a similarly broad definition in early reviews, specifically mentioning GMOs being produced by “selective breeding and other means of artificial selection” These definitions were promptly adjusted with a number of exceptions added as the result of pressure from scientific and farming communities, as well as developments in science. The EU definition later excluded traditional breeding, in vitro fertilization, induction of polyploidy, mutation breeding, and cell fusion techniques that do not use recombinant nucleic acids or a genetically modified organism in the process.
There is no doubt in my mind that we are genetically modifying a plant when we are selective breeding it for specific genes. The fact that the mutation occurred naturally doesn’t change the the fact that there was human intervention.
- Comment on Actual theft 6 months ago:
The only thing I remember about it was that it was expensive as FUCK there.
- Comment on Apparently, all YouTube Rewinds have been unlisted as of today. 6 months ago:
Maybe it was my own misunderstanding.
Why have them?
If this doesn’t mean, “why should they even exist?” what was it that you meant here? Because that’s what you ask first, before you ask what they are.
- Comment on Apparently, all YouTube Rewinds have been unlisted as of today. 6 months ago:
They shouldn’t exist because you don’t know what they are?
- Comment on 6 months ago:
Just goes to show ya things.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 6 months ago:
It’s funny - before I actually clicked that link, I assumed it was Sony bricking PSP devices with custom firmware. I’d entirely forgotten they put ROOT KITS on their music CDs. They didn’t get in near enough trouble over that.
- Comment on What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported? 7 months ago:
Princess Diana’s death, for sure. I remember my mother being absolutely distraught, and I didn’t understand why. We’re not British and I’d literally never hear of her (from my mother or otherwise) before her passing and funeral were news. The funeral took place in the middle of the night and I remember her being up super early to watch (and I eventually woke up and joined her).
I’m surprised it was 1997, I would have figured it was '95ish. Can’t believe that’s the first news story I can remember. But we definitely were NOT a news household. Nobody reading the newspaper, no local news on at night or cable TV news on TV all day.
- Comment on ANTI PEE PAINT 7 months ago:
I feel like this is a shared, universal male experience… But peeing outside of a toilet, everything turns into a target. A tree, a rock, a wall. Hell, the toilet itself, a urinal especially, was already a target. I could be mistaken about how Universal that is… or you don’t have a penis and I don’t know how to properly explain myself on this one.
- Comment on Caw caw 8 months ago:
Broken, or jammed into a shoe too tightly and then it fully falls off.
- Comment on just one more bro 8 months ago:
I think in this way, one universe was obliterated and ours was created at the big bang.
- Comment on That's a good question 1 year ago:
I grew up Mormon.
- Comment on That's a good question 1 year ago:
I think the point was living by his teachings and remembering his sacrifice, but without glorifying or worshiping the object of his torture and death.
- Comment on That's a good question 1 year ago:
You would be correct. My church growing up did NOT use crosses, instead remembering his life and not his death. That always made more sense to me.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 1 year ago:
Yes, this. It may be drugs, it may be mental disorder, but what it CERTAINLY is is narcissism and megalomania.
Just like every Trump voter who never thought it would happen to THEM when tornado relief was denied or they were deported or their farm was on the brink of financial collapse thanks to tariffs, Musk seems to have thought he was safe? That HE could control Trump? I knew getting these two megalomaniacs together like this would go badly, I’m just impressed it lasted so long honestly.
- Comment on Android updates: thanks I hate it. 1 year ago:
Update: the nagging is incessant with auto update disabled. But if I click download, it fails, and doesn’t bother for 24 hours. My solution still going strong. 😂👍
- Comment on ‘Game of Thrones’ Spinoff ‘A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Shifts to 2026 Release 1 year ago:
Well it was specifically Dave and Dan who rushed through to go do Star Wars (and in so doing, got themselves fired from it anyways). They are not involved in House of the Dragon, nor are they involved with Dunk and Egg. Maybe check out HOTD if you’re skeptical, I think generally late season GOT haters were pleasantly surprised by it. It is an excellent show imo.
- Comment on ‘The Fairly OddParents’ Creator Butch Hartman Launches Indie Animation Studio to Produce Family Shows 1 year ago:
It was right there in the title, how much more in your face can you expect?