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- Comment on Xbox's handheld is coming this year, is also really a new Asus ROG Ally 2 weeks ago:
But can it run SteamOS?
- Comment on Switch 2 Teardown: Still Glued, Still Soldered, Still Drifting 2 weeks ago:
My wife’s car? Replaced a few parts over the decade we’ve owned it.
My old truck? Replaced several major parts over the 2 decades I owned it.
Computers? Most of my parts replaced are upgrades, but I’ve replaced a laptop keyboard, a cpu heatsink fan, a power supply, a case, two hard drives, and a dial up modem from a lightning strike all on PCs I’ve personally owned over the course of 30 years that I can remember. I also did warranty repair work for Dell, HP, and Lenovo/IBM in my time as a tech. So many laptop and desktop mainboards…
Don’t sell yourself short. Fixing up a tractor that was free only costs you the time and parts you invested into it. You saved something from being junked and having to buy a working tractor. That alone is worth the endeavor.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 4 weeks ago:
I’m not going to do all the work for you. Go into business for yourself or check indeed or some other job site. I honestly thought I was being trolled with how little you tried to understand or put forth some modicum of effort, but now I somehow think it’s genuine that you need someone to hold your hand through the entire process. Change is scary and often not easy. I don’t know how else to break it to ya.
If you are the audience, then the industry is doomed to be stuck in the Adobe abusive relationship until some self starters take over. All it takes is some effort to break a habit, effect change, or start something new. If you expect to have other people change things for yourself, well good luck with that.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 4 weeks ago:
How does someone starting design tomorrow get schooling and career experience (both of which almost universally require Adobe products) without using Adobe products?
Watching YouTube videos, reading manuals, just using alternatives, and asking questions to other people in places like forums, stack exchange, and the like. The self taught route is a completely valid option when the whole world is-wrapped up in nonsense. My experience post school taught me more in 6 months in the field than schooling and prepping for certification exams ever taught me. If you watched that 2nd James Lee video he goes through what he did to switch to DaVinci.
Where are these programs and jobs accessible to the entire market?
Many of these programs are free and open source and available across all platforms.
as far as jobs go, if it’s like mechanics, you bring your own tools and do the job required. Even if Adobe products are provided, use alternatives when and as often as possible. Then when the opportunity presents itself show how you did your work without Adobe to those with purchasing power at the company. Change isn’t going to happen overnight.
Where the easy path that most will take?
I never claimed that ditching Adobe would be easy. My opinion is that it is necessary for the health of the industry.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 4 weeks ago:
That’s the other half of that saying. Hindsight is 20-20. (I could’ve sworn the tree planting idiom was more well known, sorry for not completely explaining it) Obviously the best solution is to not get in an abusive relationship . The next best time to not be in an abusive relationship is right now.
Yes I know how many users the major centralized social media platforms have. I’ve chosen not to be on those platforms and with it the benefits that come with having those amount of users. Like I said though, I don’t blame one for staying and I cannot pity those that stay because there are options.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 4 weeks ago:
I thought my answer would be obvious, but the answer was to not use Adobe from the start and the next best time to stop using Adobe is right now. It doesn’t matter where you are at in your career. The answer isn’t always easy to implement and it isn’t what we want to hear. It’s why many of us are here on Lemmy and not Reddit. We decided that not having the good things at Reddit was better than the shit we had to put up with over there.
As far as the cloud goes, moving things back on prem is the best option to not be in that abusive type relationship. It’s what I’ve been learning in my skillset in IT over the past 2 years in my spare time with some junk parts I had laying around, a few hard drives, and retired PCs I acquired that can’t upgrade to win 11. My skills will be sharp as the momentum builds toward the tipping point of moving off cloud including running AI locally. My favorite thing has been learning pf/opnsense. If you’re old enough to remember the PIX before Cisco it was originally created with off the shelf hardware. pf/opnsense feels like a return to that adapting to a lot of different hardware.
Ultimately I don’t blame someone for staying in an abusive relationship, but I can’t pity them when there are options to get out. I just show them how to get out and the struggles that will come with my choices. Otherwise the next cloud thing will be User Operating Systems as a Service and that’s going to be a whole 'nother shitshow. Imagine $20+/mo just to boot your computer/phone/tablet.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 4 weeks ago:
It’s like the saying: The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time to plant a tree is right now.
If James Lee’s videos are a barometer on how artists and creators deal with Adobe, I’m convinced that a relationship Adobe is abusive. He went from defending and offering to help Adobe to cutting them out of his life over the course of 5 months. No one deserves an abusive relationship, but leaving or staying in one is totally a choice that has real consequences.
- Comment on 4chan has been offline for over a week, and it's probably not coming back 1 month ago:
The .edu emails in the mod list didn’t spell it out enough?
- Comment on Former SIEA President Says Players Will Pay $80 For Switch 2 Games 2 months ago:
I think the good will toward players died with Iwata.
- Comment on The Entertainment Software Association have launched the Accessible Games Initiative 2 months ago:
In case you were wondering, this is about accessibility for the disabled, not game preservation or region locking.
- Comment on The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever 3 months ago:
Yeah, which is why I included a news article to get a sense of what it is.
- Comment on The past 18 months have seen the most rapid change in human written communication ever 3 months ago:
I thought there was a social network that is completely filled with AI and no real humans.
- Comment on Making coffee from scratch (is hard) [38:33] 5 months ago:
Hell, a popcorn popper can roast beans if you want to get really cheap.
- Comment on Man in charge of Diablo thinks we should start calling games that he thinks are like Diablo 'Diablo-likes' 6 months ago:
I always thought of diablo as a Gauntlet clone
- Comment on sampling bias 6 months ago:
Yeah, that’s the real answer. 500 responses vs how many sent out
- Comment on Blizzard promise "something for everyone" in Warcraft's 30th Anniversary Direct next month 7 months ago:
Warcraft 4?
- Comment on The Tesla Robotaxi is Confusing... 8 months ago:
After that softball Apple intetview, it confirmed to me he’s just a safe space for tech interviews and reviews (if the price is right). I suspect that he extorts corps for favorable interviews and we can’t really trust him to be truthful.
- Comment on CD Projekt Red Still Seeking To Win Players Back After Cyberpunk 2077 Disastrous Launch 8 months ago:
Just for that clickbait description, heres the quote:
It might be a situation that never happens for some of them. But that’s unfortunately the price we have to pay for what happened. But I hope that, throughout the work that we are doing, throughout the things we are showing, we can actually win some of those people around – and when they hear someone talking to them about the incredible experiences they can have in, let’s say Phantom Liberty, or the next Witcher, next Cyberpunk, or next Hadar CD Projekt’s new IP, at the moment when they see there’s that incredible value in that game, they will actually reach out for it, play it and enjoy it. – Pawel Sasko
- Comment on More info on the Valve (Steam) collab with Arch Linux and potential future hardware support 8 months ago:
Valve is the company itself, Steam is just the platform
- Comment on Eeeeee 11 months ago:
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- Comment on Transformations 1 year ago:
It’s put into a semi truck trailer where other, many times heavier packages are most certainly placed on top of it. Those packages along with the beating it’ll take from the road that desperately need to never be paved with concrete as it goes cross country, it will take some dings. The only way to be sure it’s to make sure your package has adequate packing material.
Otherwise your cardboard box will turn into a cardboard sack.
- Comment on Transformations 1 year ago:
Because it’s been so long since I’ve done any programming. I don’t remember syntax other than BASIC and I’m 80% sure my if statement is done incorrectly.
- Comment on Transformations 1 year ago:
If your package looks like that after shipping, you didn’t use enough packing material.
Step 1: pack your box Step 2: close box then shake If contents of box rattle around add more packing material and repeat step 2 else step 3 Step 3: tape box on seams and apply shipping label on box but not on box seams
- Comment on Anon tells their life story 1 year ago:
in elementary 12 years
I’ve identified the problem, op was held back in elementary school until he was 17
- Comment on temperature 1 year ago:
This came up a week ago. I made a chart:
Temps easily relatable conditions <0 throw boiling water up in the air to make it snow 0-10 dangerous freezing cold 10-20 bitter freezing cold 20-30 freezing cold 30-40 coat cold 50-60 jacket cool 60-70 cool 70-80 pleasant 80-90 warm 90-100 hot 100-110 too damn hot for my fat ass/fry an egg outside One of the conclusions on why I like Fahrenheit over Celsius for weather is it’s ironically the most base 10 like for a non-SI scale. A phrase like “it’s going to be in the 70s today” has so much information in it. Usually with no weather changes like a front coming in, you’ll know that during the day it’ll be pleasant. At night the temperature range will drop by around 10 degrees and you’ll know you’ll likely need a light jacket or at least long sleeves to stay comfortable.
If metric wanted to adopt a scale with more graduations that could be easily grouped to 10s, that’d be great. I don’t know why 0-100 was arbitrarily chosen to be the scale for water instead of 0-1000.
For temp measurements outside of weather I really do prefer Celsius though.
- Comment on Cloudflare Employee records her final meeting where HR tries to fire her 1 year ago:
I know right? Old piece of hardware getting retired? It gets new life if I have something for it to do. I’m looking at my Brother HL-5170DN from 2006 that got tossed because the 2nd tray kept jamming. Guess who doesn’t need a 2nd tray and loves this printer?
My first home server was a decommissioned small business server. Was a file server for a long time until the hard drives started to go.
- Comment on Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (77F) outside. 1 year ago:
Sounds more like an incentive to put up solar panels and battery storage. Even if it isn’t enough to go off grid totally, you can at least store on cheap days.