njordomir

@njordomir@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point. People are right that a week is unlikely to change much and we should set our sights higher. That said, you are also right that if we approach it with a “this is pointless and will fail” attitude, then no one tries the alternatives at all and the conditions that eventually lead to change will never develop. Best to participate, encourage your IRL friends to participate, and spend the whole week telling everyone who will listen about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, are they going to stop after a week, stomp their foot, and tell Sony to knock it off?

  I boycotted Walmart for years, realized I would never see any change, and continue to not shop there because Walmart sucks and my life is better now. If you make the change the goal, you are lining yourself up for disappointment. If you make doing business with companies congruent with your values the goal, you win if you last a week, you win bigger if you last a month, and you win the grand prize if they change or you leave and never look back!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think we ever got to see a dual disk drive console, at least not in production (exempting gaming PCs). Perhaps in a parallel universe on board storage became cost prohibitive and games came on two simultaneously inserted optical disks, one with the game code and the other with texture packs and art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternative medicine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well said. A balanced viewpoint that doesn’t try to be all black and white. Even the stupidest bullshit can sometimes contain a kernel of truth. That doesn’t mean the 99% bullshit isn’t any less shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These corpos who feel entitled to Open Source code⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Private owners and small businesses still get to have principles or choose to do things the right way. For all its faults, Steam is often talked about in this way. Corporations on the other hand have to view every square of toilet paper through the lens of profit and loss on the timescale of a single fiscal year or even a single quarter. I often wonder if it is even ethical to invest because doing so profitably seems to inherently feed this system of economic cannibalism.

  We are incentivising companies to find the maximum spread between their expenses and their revenue at any cost and we are arming them with the tools and data to ruthlessly pursue this goal. You WILL be monetized. A scam is the most lucrative business of all because it only takes into account the benefit of one party. No wonder almost every brand name now days carries the reputation of a used tissue. They’re just taking the whole pie because the middle class isn’t needed anymore. It served its purpose by distracting Americans from some of the “communist” ideas happening at home and elsewhere in the world in the 70’s. That’s not needed anymore because they’re projecting power through surveillance and social influencing instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What should I do with boxes of old photos?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, having the physical medium gives you a more trustworthy backup. Instead of all your hard drives getting wiped by the solar flare, you have multiple different mediums with strengths and weaknesses. I’m also inclined to hold onto physical copies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, if they actually had to clean up their messes a lot of things would have reflected their true costs and we probably would have built out the alternatives way further by now. Imagine if the motorcar had barely existed and we skipped straight to PEVs (personal electric vehicles) and distributed solar battery charging cafes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prop65 label on my beans!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought some imported candy at the Asian supermarket (in the US) and the bag had this warning on it. I know it’s a CA thing. Now I wonder if it’s an import thing too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I broke the ice with a lot more of my IRL friends in the last few months and most lean anti-AI with a few exceptions, for example, when your end goal is actually to get slop.

  It’s probably the friend group you hang with. Based on your lack of capitalization, I’m guessing you are younger than me (maybe I’m wrong). A lot of young folks don’t see it because the worst AI shit was targeted at them and poisoning their development with AI dependence.

  I do have someone close to be who loves AI, but I think they’ll come around when they see the US start paying for its AI missteps. Taking shortcuts only matters because quality and thoroughness isn’t valued. A good email should take at least a few minutes to write and a pro can weave in the appropriate details, requests, confirmations way better than a clanker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Building on your first one: I would make businesses publish the one, singular, authoritative, legal price for their product and a percentage breakdown of where the money goes (wages, CEO compensation, raw materials, legal battles, royalties, brand name deals). No hiding discounts or costs behind loyalty programs, exclusive tiers, affiliate programs, surveillance pricing, etc. You take the manufacturing cost, add your margin, and divide by the number of units and that’s the price you sell to everyone.

  Your product gets judged on a fair playing field based on quality, price, and how you pay your employees/ use your profits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it safe to use a non-gaming computer for light gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, typically safe. If it overheats it will likely thermal throttle and lag on intense graphics tasks.

  When I was in college, I had a extremely weak netbook that I would carry with me and even that Celleron processor, without a graphics card, could run the original Torchlight game with minimal lag. I play Minecraft on a Dell XPS 9370 with an i7 and no discrete graphics card all the time, I just can use shaders or excess mods. It doesn’t feel snappy like my desktop, but it is 100% playable, even at full resolution.

  Some games won’t run well on weak hardware, but if you look for the recommended specs you’ll see which developers went put of their way to support weaker hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you stay on vpn 24/7 or turn it on whenever you need it?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always had it on, and got banned from my favorite game server for possible alt-accounts. It’s a tight-knit community and the admin fixed it for me a few times until it got annoying. Now I start my game with a shell script that turns off the VPN via CLI before loading so I don’t get banned over and over. 90% of everything else goes through a VPN, not because it has to, but because I want my ISP to be blind by default, at least to the degree I can make that happen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Find Cow⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good description. I read this and perfectly estimated the location you described within 5 seconds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats a good etiquette to show you are doing a U turn in a left turn, so the cars behind you know?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I look for lane positioning to see if the person in front of me is doing a u-turn. We have mostly 2+2 and 3+3 roads and almost everyone drives these big clunky SUVs and massive trucks. They’ll turn from the furthest right part of the left turn lane and still need the whole road and the merge lane to spin around. Conversely, people turning left tend to sit in the middle or on the left of the lane. The bigger problem is many don’t realize that a u-turn must yield to all other movements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any ways to reverse AI brainrot and force myself to do any creative endeavor, even if inspiration didn't strike?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Take the hard path on purpose. It’s about the journey.

  My friends and I did a silly PowerPoint night where everyone made a presentation on a topic they found interesting. I think I did dystopia in video games, a friend did the great Australian Emu war, and we had a half dozen others. It was surprisingly fun. Without the pressure of having to make it flawless I got to be more creative and silly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It hurts.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Cities Skylines had traffic that was reactive to design. I’ve played some CS2, and while some things are improved (like lane connection), it feels like the traffic is just simulated sprites based on a traffic congestion variable for the area or something. Upgrading roads sometimes helps, but providing better routes doesn’t always help like you would expect. It feels very disconnected and rewards linear progression rather than skillful or smart gameplay. I still play CS1 and I check in on CS2 once or twice a year to see if it still sucks. I did enjoy the bike patch to some degree, but the gameplay in general just seems artificial and lame. CS1 may be old with mediocre graphics, but it’s still a 9/10 game in my opinion and you can buy in cheap nowadays to get caught up on DLCs and such. I have nearly everything except the radio packs. The menus are inconsistent and the way they organize things doesn’t always make intuitive sense. I think they would be better off recreating CS1 on a more modern engine than trying to reinvent a masterpiece. For me CS2 was the biggest disappointment of the gaming decade. With that said, lots of games sucked on release. Fallout 76 grew into it’s shoes, Stalker 2 was panned at release and is now much more highly regarded. I hope CS2 finds its way back into sync with the community, but I’ll be enjoying CS1 and other games until that happens. Thankfully MS hasn’t completely destroyed Minecraft. I practice city design on a much smaller scale on there (more “place making”, less traffic management, more roleplay, less mechanics).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It hurts.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t see the pic, but I am gonna guess Broadway and Lincoln between 19th and 20th?

  Interestingly enough, Denver has 3 main grids:

  The range and township grid as the typical NS/EW grid, the Araria grid by DU which is largely built over, and the downtown grid, the last two of which are aligned to Cherry Creek and the Platte River, though I’m not certain which one to which waterway. If it wasn’t for one-ways, that area would be screwed up beyond belief. As it stands, it just looks a little odd and everyone needs to try to pick their lanes in advance. :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we cured all forms of cancer with the ease of taking a pill, what would be the next thing medicine would put the biggest focus on?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Monetizing that pill and wringing every last dollar out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plastic hinges on modern headphones⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a dangerous position to put people in: run vulnerable software or we will break your device. No one should have to choose between breaking their TV via update or staying on an insecure OS version and getting hacked.

  In a functioning economy, the consumer goal of not getting hacked and having a functional device would be shared by the consumer AND the manufacturer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plastic hinges on modern headphones⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they vibe coded the driver. :-D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you ride the trails at night and follow the potent smell of skunk you will find either:

  A. a skunk B. Some dudes named Jellyfish and Willy, parked a bit off the trail smoking a J on a park bench talking about metaphysics and fried food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans: How the hell do you meet new people or get into relationships after college?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hobbies. I struggled with this after college also because I left the church and my old social life had dried up. I was conditioned to just show up and my friends would be there and the nonreligious outside world doesn’t always work that way.

  I would join a club or a group, preferably one with an even gender split or even a skew towards whoever you’re interested in dating. I found dancing in 2006. I never would have expected to get into it and probably spent most of the 90s calling it “gay”. I was tricked into going by a friend who said we were going bowling. I trusted her and she drove, so I had no escape. Many dances are “social” dances which means anyone can ask anyone to dance and you aren’t expected to bring a partner, most people don’t. I kept doing it and eventually started going without my friends. 20 years later, I have been in charge of running dances, I’ve been on the committee of large events, I’ve made some money teaching lessons, but most importantly of all, I’ve collected a circle of awesome supportive people, some acquaintances, some friends, and a handful that I’ve dated. Don’t go in with the intention of dating though because it counter intuitively guarantees you won’t find a date. Instead, just have fun. Ask the people who aren’t getting asked to dance, make friends, enjoy the music, etc. People notice when someone is capable of having fun on their own and they want to be a part of that. They appreciate someone who will dance with the sweet little old lady who shows up every week and not just the 10/10 blonde with the double D’s. My goal was always to dance with every woman in the room once, then go back for seconds with the people I most enjoyed dancing with. It can cost a few bucks to get in, but almost all of them will let you in free if you volunteer for a half hour to collect admissions or help set up/ tear down. It’s harder for guys (if you dance the lead role) to get started, but don’t be discouraged because we’re outnumbered and always in demand.

  Biking is another good activity to meet people. You can join a club in many cities for a few bucks and they’ll basically send upcoming rides to your inbox all year round. If you’re not exercise inclined, there are also PEV (personal electric vehicle) rides in many cities that give you all of the fun and exploration with only a fraction of the workout.

  Other good ideas: Frisbee golf league, ultimate Frisbee, hot springing (hot spring hippies are cool and very welcoming), poetry slams, board game parlours (these seem to be popping up everywhere) etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find myself using this all the time. I search for something in interested in, start reading the post, then realize I wrote it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(serious) What would we be losing in a world where most people didn't own a car? Please read the OP before posting.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like that here. I drove 15 minutes to school . My alternator died and I had to ride the bus for a week. It took over an hour, not counting the lovely walk across a 6 lane expressway and through a WalMart parking lot to reach the bus stop! I think we need a gradient. In rural areas, we have individual vehicles, cars, bikes, motorcycles, etc. In suburban areas, we offer coupled trains where cars link together into trains and drive in sync on a guideway until they break apart for last mile connectivity. In urban areas, we ban all cars, build out public transit, bike lanes, etc. Small electric cars could be permitted for special needs and for tradesmen who carry tools. This future can’t happen in the US because they would just forget about us stuck poor’s and we’d lose all mobility.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond fucked up⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats the ex-redditor in me; I can’t pass up a good pun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond fucked up⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That makes total sense. I’ve spent a lot of non-sexual hours sitting butt naked in the Sauna in Germany with hundreds of people. In the US, that would only happen in the woods with hippies. Thanks for sharing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond fucked up⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  German-American here. I had a stint with organized religion and American purity culture. The church and “purity culture” messed me up pretty good, most notably in the 5 years after my deconversion. Americans love judging people for sex, then cheerfully do all the same things secretly themselves without an ounce of self-awareness. I still can’t decide if I have an irrationally strong fear of STDs brought about by American sex-ed, or of it’s a rational response to the fact that everyone is going around fucking without protection, many without a basic anotomical understanding of their own body. I wish we could get people to take safety seriously because we’re all connected in a giant fucking web.

  What stood out the most to you about Americans sexual hang-ups?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am looking for a Linux OS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bazzite scared me when it chose not to boot one day. I had to do some sort of command and got it working again (saved the details to my system build notes). I can’t have stuff breaking on me so I was concerned. I haven’t had an issue since, so I’m pretty stoked on Bazzite now. I will say, I couldn’t get Steam Play working (the thing that let’s you play games remotely on a tablet or phone or whatever, Steam itself works fine). I fixed the issue with Sunlight/Moonlight which does the sane thing but did it with less lag, picture degradation. Personally, I suggest you hold out on choosing and load a few different distros on USB sticks to try. I recently built a PC for a family member and did some distrohopping to find the right OS for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, I would wake up some time in February with an apetite sufficient to cause a global famine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing video⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Inb4 someone writes a program and calls it AdblockAI. It gets trained on the shape of corporate logos and on the fly in-paints those regions of the screen to remove the logos.

  On that same note, how about AR glasses that put black bars over ads and logos you encounter in real life so companies don’t get to subliminally advertise at you.