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- Comment on What 3 hours ago:
I worked at a Chinese restaurant for some years, and my boss natively spoke Mandarin but whenever he was muttering to himself about something or another he would always cuss in English. I have no idea why this should be but it was always hilarious.
- Comment on Why do each gaming fraction (pc, consoles, mobile) hating each other? 1 day ago:
That’s the real deal, right here.
The SNES vs. Genesis war from the 1990s never really ended. The banners being flown have changed over the years but the battles are pretty much the same. Me personally, what with having the luxury of being a perfectly responsible fully grown adult — that’s what it says on my driver’s license, anyway — I have at least one example of pretty much every console from the Atari VCS up to the PS3.
My beef with consoles now is that they’re all, with the exception of the Switch and its sequel, just watered down PC hardware anyway. And I already have a PC. And by and large my PC plays what I tell it to, not what Sony and Microsoft and for fuck’s sake not what Nintendo try to dictate at me. Thus, for modern games I play on PC.
As far as insufferable computer users go, that all started with Doom. Doom was the killer app of the 90s and every console maker at the time either wished theirs could run Doom but it couldn’t, or barely managed it and the experience was dogshit. Before that, it was the opposite: PC games and their developers fervently wished they could match the capabilities of the game consoles of their era, which all had specialized hardware specifically designed for the types of things games from that time did. It’s probably no coincidence that id software’s formative outing started with John Carmack and Tom Hall’s Dangerous Dave In Copyright Infringement,, which as dumb as it sounds was genuinely showing off at the time in that they managed to make a bog standard PC pull off a platformer with smooth(ish) scrolling, which is something the NES can do in its sleep.
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 1 day ago:
Another in a long line of messing with user interface things on updates, without any prior warning to the user. And if you even get a changelog at all on the update prompt it’s always just vague bullshit like, “Bug fixes and usability improvements,” without explaining what those “improvements” are supposed to be.
In unrelated news, the last major update on my Moto G changed the incoming call screen from swipe up to answer, swipe down to reject to swipe left to answer, swipe right to reject. What is this, fucking Tinder now? And don’t come at me about the “gesture” setting in the dialer app options, either. Yes, I am aware of it. The only options listed there are now “horizontal swipe” and “single tap to answer.” Why any rational individual would want to inflict the hell that is the latter option on themselves is unknown to me.
This kind of horseshit is why boomers and old people are terrified of updates and drive us IT nerds up the wall by perpetually ignoring and dismissing them. Because when you change the user interface choices people are used to behind their backs and without warning, as far as they’re concerned you just broke their device.
Cut it out.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 4 days ago:
Yes, but Minetest/Luanti is not a fork of Minecraft, it is its own separate thing.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 4 days ago:
You can use the same license for both, and your purchase includes access to both versions regardless of how you buy it, unless that’s changed very recently when I wasn’t looking.
Officially, both versions also explicitly require you to create (or already have) a Microsoft account to sign-in and play. Unofficially, the Java version is dead easy to pirate.
- Comment on Are bots on lemmy? 4 days ago:
I’m pretty sure I’m not a bot, but some days it’s difficult to be sure.
- Comment on NOW! 4 days ago:
The mattress industry is notorious for being rife with this. And for anyone wondering, the markup on mattresses is also insane. I briefly sold them, and most of our brands forced us to maintain a markup of around 800% via UMRP (i.e., the manufacturer sets the retail price and revokes your dealership license if you sell below that price).
- Comment on PC Master Race 4 days ago:
If you’re genuinely spending $15,000 on a rig you are not competing with a goddamn Playstation; at that point you’re either mixing it with low end datacenters or you’ve now got a ziggurat of monitors on your desk that could backdrop a Daft Punk concert. I just built a pretty much top of the line (AMD based, mind you) machine a few months ago for under $3000. I could have gotten away with less, but I didn’t feel like it.
I suspect that many morons with nothing but decades-old experience, if even any to begin with, still have no comprehension of just how cheap computers are.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Concur. I had a Motorola MPx200 for a while. That thing was boss. This was solidly still in the feature phone era and people’s minds were blown by the fact that you could just do whatever you wanted with this thing and nobody did anything to stop you. Make your ringtone any .mp3 or .wav without having to pay the carrier store 99 cents. Make your home screen wallpaper anything. Just stick programs and games on it by connecting it to your PC and copying files over. Hook it up to anything with a normal for the time USB mini-B cable, not some $40 proprietary bullshit. Etc., etc. It was great.
And since it was a chunky flip phone I could answer a call by flicking into the air like a penny and catching it, because the inertia would snap the screen open.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Support for Windows 7 (SP1) was not pulled until January of 2020 for ordinary users. Extended support contracts ran until 2023.
For reference, Windows 10 came out in 2015. Users could, and absolutely did, completely skip Windows 8 entirely. Windows 7 was supported throughout essentially all of 8’s viable lifecycle because nobody wanted to use 8, and five additional years into Win10’s lifecycle.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Yes, and I distinctly remember people going around believing that Microsoft was going to save us all from the Apple/Google smartphone duopoly with this and deliver us unto freedom and the promised land. Fucking Microsoft, of all people.
All of us nerds who were involved in the prior Windows CE/Mobile/PocketPC debacle saw the inevitable coming from a mile off.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 week ago:
!printmything@lemmy.world
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 week ago:
There exist air conditioners with power outage recovery, and they’ve been around for decades. It’s usually labelled “automatic restart” on the spec sheet. This was already a solved problem before the Internet Of Shitty Things, and it seems that in your case some rat bastard went around and deliberately unsolved it.
Whoever that person is, we need to find him and give him a smart kick up the rear.
- Comment on Progress 1 week ago:
Well you see, they built that house entirely out of old computer cases nailed together.
- Comment on Sad but true 1 week ago:
Why doɇs this pɇrson fɇel the neɇd to randomly decoratɇ the letter Ɇ?
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 2 weeks ago:
Oh, one other point of order on that as well: Obviously even if it’s not all bullshit (spoiler: it’s all bullshit), Revelation is supposed to be a prophecy of the end of times which obviously hasn’t happened yet. I’m pretty sure we would have noticed if it did, what with the sounding of the seven trumpets, the worldwide earthquake, the 200 million horsemen slaying a third of mankind, etc.
So even if it’s all somehow inerrantly true, the Devil hasn’t killed anyone yet.
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 2 weeks ago:
If we believe that the various Satans (in the original Hebrew, literally “adversary,” and rendered without the definite article so there are probably multiples of them) are in fact one and the same with the Devil (singular), this link-up doesn’t even occur until the Book of Revelation which is firmly a new testament thing and wholly unsupported by any of the old testament or ancient Hebrew sources from which it’s derived. Making all the assumptions required on basis that this is so, then whoever he was killed a lot of people in Revelation. But not until then.
In old Hebrew tradition, the Satans are sort of the prosecuting attorneys for god. They work for him in order to tempt the faith and righteousness of various people. Several mortal people are also given the moniker of “Satans” when they’re working against the interests of god or various other individuals.
Meanwhile, the notion that Lucifer is also one and the same with the Devil or any kind of Satan is a much later interpolation made when the church(es) of the era wanted to insert a bogeyman into their religion and they needed a justification for it, some time in the AD 200s. Lucifer is identified as the king of Babylon, a mortal, when he has attracted god’s ire in his sole appearance in Isaiah 14. The situation has become so warped that his name was finally removed in the New International Version of the bible and he’s simply referred to as the “morning star, son of the dawn.” (Isaiah 14:12, if you want to go have a look.)
Modern pontificates will also insist that the king of Tyre in Ezekiel 28 is also somehow the Devil, which is dubious. Even if he were, and god were speaking allegorically for precisely half of his rant as we are thus demanded to believe, god smokes him at the end of the passage anyway so it’s a moot point.
- Comment on Windows 11 Debloat Script/Program? 2 weeks ago:
Consider the IoT Enterprise LTSC builds. These come premade from Microsoft with less bloat (or none, in the case of the Win10 IoT version), and don’t shove the consumer features down your throat on every update because they’re designed for mission critical embedded applications.
I have 10 IoT LTSC running on most of our machines at work because a significant chunk of our hardware is not Windows 11 “ready” and we use many vendor-specific things that don’t work in Linux or Wine, and I use 11 IoT LTSC at home (locked to 23H2 so my Mixed Reality VR headset remains working!) without incident.
Without either of the above restrictions if I were you I would shop for a new mouse.
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 2 weeks ago:
As far as video games go, an obvious answer is the Sims.
Perhaps only slightly less prominent is Shadow of the Colossus. Insofar as I know all of the spoken dialog is a nonsense fictional dialect that definitely isn’t Japanese, except possibly when calling your horse’s name. The language is based off of syllables and random bits from both Japanese and Latin with some of the syllables being spoken backwards, and with a kinda-sorta Japanese style cadence. But it’s utter gibberish, and only the subtitles make it intelligible.
- Comment on How often should moderators post to grow a community? 2 weeks ago:
Some clients go out of their way to mark posts by a moderator in some way, though. Alexandrite makes their username bright green an bold, for instance.
I wonder what portion of users are turned off by stepping into a community and discovering that basically every post is from its only moderator, and thus feel that whatever-it-is is probably just that individual’s personal hobby horse.
Not that I’d know, or anything…
- Comment on 11 axel wtf. is that ai 3 weeks ago:
Either this exists and is at least drivable at low speed in a straight line, or the North Koreans have done a much better job than usual of creating the illusion that this is so.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb3PxNIZ9jk
It’s got to have a turning radius measured in counties. We may very well be witnessing its top speed, also.
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 3 weeks ago:
Crono needs a legendary sword that requires a time-hopping fetch quest to get all the ingredients. Frog requires a sword that’s already legendary, and a whole episode devoted to getting it powered up further. Marle, Luca, and even Magus require triple techs and in the case of the former two, a deliberate power up by Spekkio to even be able to access them in the first place.
…Ayla can merely punch people for 9999 damage.
- Comment on Which fly came first? 3 weeks ago:
I’ll bet you this also has something to do with the terminology for the rain fly on a tent, most of which have the same kind of flap covering the zippers and/or openings.
- Comment on Organization. 3 weeks ago:
Other than the mixed up V, W, and Q keys I did this to one of those cheap and ghastly low-throw Dell keyboards that came with one of our computers and hooked it up to my boss’ machine.
…After first writing a custom Windows keyboard layout using the MSKLC tool and installing it on his machine to make it actually type that way, too.
A more subtle variation might be to swap a user’s period and comma keys and see how long it takes for that to piss them off.
- Comment on wish 3 weeks ago:
Or Delhi.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 3 weeks ago:
Not with no ammunition in it he won’t. Look closely.
- Comment on Update 3 weeks ago:
It’s worth it to name Barrett “T” in the original PSX translation of Final Fantasy 7 as well, only for the singular scene in which this makes him refer to himself as “Mr. T.”
- Comment on Update 3 weeks ago:
Mine name is Glenn! Cyrus’s hopes and dreams… And now the Masamune… Forthwith I shall slay Magus and restore honor!
As an aside and since I’ll never get to talk about this in context again, every time I play through Chrono Trigger I am exactly the asshole who names Marle as Nadia, Frog as Glenn, Robo as R-66Y, and Magus as Janus. Because being a time traveler, I already know.
It is kind of weird that so many of the main cast canonically go by pseudonyms in the story. Kind of a four nickels situation, I guess.
- Comment on Hospitallers - crusading the Levant since 1113 CE 4 weeks ago:
I like this ancient and crusty airsoft version better:
At least we only pretend to blow up hospitals.
(Pop quiz! Let’s how your client handles images that are a thousand feet tall.)
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 4 weeks ago:
Her, and him, and whoever!
