JustEnoughDucks
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- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 week ago:
I would like to see the stats on that. A lot of times people who are in the industry or know someone in it see their wages and others’ wages going up and say “wages went up with inflation” where the starting wage or the wage normalized to seniority level actually hasn’t changed much at all. For example, in engineering like electriical (outside of silicon valley in the US which has its own economical wage ecosystem) has had entry level positions that have gone up around 20% since the 2008 while inflation has gone up almost 50% since 2008 and productivity has skyrocketed with CAD advancements.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 week ago:
Yes, but the difference is that wages have not significantly gone up since then apart from minimum wage in a few states. That is the difference. People are literally poorer because of the massively increased wealth inequality coming from employers shoving down wages while making yearly record profits…
If peoples’ purchasing power is more or less the same, factoring in inflation to game prices would result in a ton of people simply not being able to buy “luxury goods” like video games.
- Comment on What Can We Do to Get Youth into Ham Radio? 3 weeks ago:
I love LoRa for IoT devices, sensor nodes, automation, environmental monitoring, etc… And I think it is absolutely the future for outdoor electronics. As far as communication I am really not so sure.
What benefits does it have to ham radio though besides no license? There is no real time communication, no possibility of voice, mesh-based which results in delays or dropped messages, and it only works within walking/short biking distance (a couple kilometers) without line-of site tower infrastructure or in mountainous areas.
I could see a potential use of it as a broadcast system during emergency by a central tower for messages that work over text, but further than that I have only seen personal projects or youtubers use them.
Camping isn’t even a great usecase (in my opinion) because in an emergency there are 3 things needed for communication
- Satellite or very long-range communications/broadcast to alert S&R
- GPS location
- real time communication to guide someone out of a dangerous situation or guide them to you using descriptive markers
Lora only has the possibility one of them: telling people your location who are within walking distance. Not to mention it is blocked to a degree by vegetation. Most people go camping with all of their important people within like 100m, and the number one rule of backpacking is don’t go off on your own, especially not off-trail.
- Comment on 11 Best Indie Games of All Time 1 month ago:
This is a better list than the actual list probably 😅 Not having hollow knight or cuphead on the actual list is pretty insane and it is much more of a “non-mainstream best indie games” list
- Comment on Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around? 1 month ago:
That is very cool, I have never met someone who had success with open hardware. Can I ask what the company is?
Any tips for doing crowd funding if I decide to put my stuff on the market? I feel like crowd funding has died off a lot in comparison with 10 years ago since most campaigns either don’t reach the goal, don’t deliver the product (or a very basis version), or were scams to begin with.
- Comment on Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around? 1 month ago:
Open-source hardware is almost non-existant compared to software. There is a reason for it.
I am an electronics engineer who makes open source hardware as a hobby.
Hardware is extremely different from software. It requires substantial monetary investment.
My company last year did a dirt-cheap lowest-possible-budget prototype design and run of 10 for someone funding themselves independently. It cost 8000€ for the design and that one prototype run, and an extremely simple design at that (electronically, medical-spec mechanically).
Software you buy a system and you can develop and develop and iterate and test 1000 times and develop multiple projects on that single machine. If you sell 0 units, sure you are out a computer and a ton of personal time. Sucks, but you won’t lose your house.
If you do electronics + mechanical development, every time you iterate on the electronics, that will be 200€-1000€ please, plus test equipment. If you make a small mistake equivalent to a wrong pointer that is another 1000 down the drain.
Hardware projects, pure material-wise, can cost more than a car to develop (just going through CE and FCC compliance testing can be 2k-10k and you aren’t allowed to sell in the EU without it.
You need capital to burn. Most people would rather make a down payment on a house than develop open hardware that might never recoup just the material costs.
- Comment on Pokémon games have become consistently ugly, and it's alright to wish they weren't 1 month ago:
I love how they say
there are moments when Arceus is genuinely pretty
and then show a screenshot of a game that looks objectively worse than a low-budget movie tie-in from 2007. I mean look at the 1 tile, non-randomized, no noise, no depth, repeating light effect on the water with 0 effort put in to even make it look slightly good. The depth of field and fog looks like it is from pokemon pearl with a gaussian blur put on top of it.
Super mario sunshine from 2002 looks almost as good at the water looks 10x better lol
Gamefreak puts literally 1% effort into any of their games…
- Comment on Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump 1 month ago:
Doing my part with 20-30mbps upload 😂
- Comment on Murica 1 month ago:
As someone who lives in Belgium where it is more rainy than the UK apparently, you just need 120€ of good biking gear (maybe 150 now with inflation)
I have some cheap Columbia rain pants, some cheap rain covers for shoes, a decent marmot raincoat, and a very cheap cover for my helmet. I bike 40-45 minutes each way to work.
I arrive to work dryer like that when it is very rainy, especially my feet, than when I have to park in a parking garage and walk 10-15 minutes. With an umbrella and raincoat.
I mean, it definitely isn’t fun at all biking in that, but unless it is really a downpour, it is not crazy.
- Comment on Who here does NOT have intrusive thoughts? 2 months ago:
Aren’t people here conflating intrusive thoughts vs the call of the void? I remember someone explaining it to me a bit like this:
Intrusive thoughts are often violent and more “you need to kill yourself right now, jump in front of that train!” Or “push that person down the stairs now, do it!!!”
Where call of the void is much more passive as in “what if/I could I jumped in front of a train right now” or “if I pushed that person down the stairs right now, they would probably get very hurt” and extends to things like “I could just drop my phone in a sewer grate”
My understanding is that everyone™ gets the second but a lot less people get the first. I also get the second but not the first. I could be wrong because it was a random person that explained it to me.
- Comment on Don't forget where we came from and what shaped us as a species. The Jungle. 2 months ago:
No assistance would be no guns, no bows, no knives, no traps, right?
Literally using your bare hands or something you find on the ground.
- Comment on My Honest Opinion 2 months ago:
community.signalusers.org/t/…/13243
Here is an entire list of years and years of independent audits
Here, go look yourself to verify that the frontend isn’t sending your encryption key back to the server.
www.adobe.com/trust/security.html
Please tell me where I can find the source code of Adobe’s creative cloud and their audits to verify that they aren’t sending my private keys back.
You are comparing an audited, open source program with closed down proprietary system that says “trust me bro, we work with ‘security partners’, no we won’t release the audits”.
Interesting comparison. It’s like comparing a local farming co-op to the agro-industrial complex of Monsanto/beyer and saying “you could say the same about either! Monsanto is at least innovating in the seed space, no no no, ignore how they use it!!”
- Comment on My Honest Opinion 2 months ago:
Spoken like a real Adobe rep lol.
It’s called a backdoor for a reason. Also since adobe software nowadays has almost full access to your machine, what is to stop adobe from simply uploading and storing your private key on their servers and using it when they like? They run their DRM client with a ton of rights to your computer on boot.
WhatsApp can do exactly the same thing and read every message you write and still claim it is “end to end encrypted” for example because key creation is through a process in their proprietary software.
- Comment on Ubisoft announces studio closure as it lays off 185 staff 2 months ago:
External MBAs taking over running businesses will either result in this or making a billion dollar company through the heavy exploitation of their workers and the consumers. I think the vast majority are the former though.
- Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit 2 months ago:
The only things I can think of is credit card charge backs or harassing support services, but if they were doing that, it’s not like they would admit it on Lemmy 😂
- Comment on My Honest Opinion 2 months ago:
And being adobe, they will put a nice little backdoor in it for them to change the credentials so that they can take artists’ work and use it, train their AI with it, and sell it like they have been doing for years.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
When has there been a revolution without a revolt in all of history?
When has there been a 180° change without a revolution in all of history?
In much of the world, Unions were forged in blood of many revolts.
Nation separation and independence was exclusively revolution.
Even the civil rights (which most people have been whitewashed into thinking was peaceful) had the black panthers. They have been completely villified, but the civil rights movement would not have succeeded without their violence.
- Comment on Retribution would be not pulling out his teeth but his testicles 2 months ago:
“Een Eigen Huis”
On VTMGO in belgium
- Comment on Retribution would be not pulling out his teeth but his testicles 2 months ago:
There is a new Dutch renovation show that has a girl with exactly that build. She had to call another contestent info the bathroom because she couldn’t get her leggings pulled up over her ass. It’s definitely causes real problems but if it’s not a fake butt is another question.
- Comment on Are there any games like Starfield? 2 months ago:
Yeah I played it halfway and it didn’t grip me like New Vegas did. The story just seemed pretty convoluted and meandering.
Gameplay was about as fun as NV though!
- Comment on SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck 3 months ago:
I have tried openSUSE Kalpa for a few months and that would literally only boot 50-60% of the time due to not being able to mount volumes for some random reason, also RPM-ostree is better than the suse tool for it (from a layman’s perspective) and saving 10 or so system snapshots doesn’t make sense for my usecase because I would only notice something wrong from a bad update immediately or 4 months down the road lol.
Steam being natively installed is a big one too because flatpak steam is simply riddled with bugs and problems. I couldn’t even launch any game at all until I found a command buried not in opensuse’s documentation but another. I think I ran into 4-5 major issues before they were all found out via the web. Definitely not an experience most people would want.
Otherwise it is about the same.
- Comment on SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck 3 months ago:
I’ll be honest. It was a hell of a time getting things working correctly due to the lack of documentation, but now I have everything except scanning and document signing working. (Rocket league runs fine, just with half the fps I should be getting) I literally don’t have to touch anything anymore, it will just keep itself updated and working completely hands-off. That is what I want out of a system now that tweaking and debugging is a distraction from my other hobbies rather than a hobby itself.
The biggest feature that I like is Linux without having any manual update intervention at all. It all just runs and updates itself and works.
If something goes wrong in my software, I can uninstall and reinstall the flatpak delete remaining files, and reinstall with 3 clicks instead of having to search for where the hell this specific program decided to stash its files and configs and cache on my system like I had to with a traditional system.
- Comment on SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck 3 months ago:
I can attest to this. I daily drive bazzite exclusively now.
Rocket league specifically only uses 40% of the GPU and 25% CPU and refuses to use any more at all. It is only a bazzite problem. Other distros are completely fine and other bazzite users have reported the same thing, regardless of settings, launch options, etc…
It is hell when trying to do embedded firmware development. Pretty much everything has to be done through distrobox related to it because JLink needs to be accessible by NRF connect which has to be accessible by VSCode, etc… vscode and oss versions simply don’t work if you have to install more than the very basic UI extensions.
Plus then you have udev rules that you have to manually place in the read only file system (recommended by a Bazzite maintainer on their discord) which they explicitly tell you never to do in the docs. There is absolutely nothing regarding JLink (the most widely used industry flashing tool for ARM) in any universalblue docs, even the bluefin and aurora versions “for developers”.
Also, there is absolutely no known way to handle eID credentials, crypto keys, etc in order to digitally sign documents. Also key management and access simply does not work at all in flatpak.
Network scanning simply doesn’t work at all (yes, saned is set up). It is simply completely nonfunctional.
Outside of those cases though, it works fine. Themes work, font installation works as expected, KiCAD, freeCAD work, browsers, media players, etc… All work fine. Distrobox, while start menu applications via distrobox sometimes simply don’t start, they often work fine. However, I haven’t had to worry about updating my system in 4 months because updates are in the background and completely seamless and not a single thing breaks during updates which by itself is the reason I switched from arch.
(Arch never became unbootable or seriously broken, but I would have update problems and have to search for forum solutions to make a full update work every month or two)
- Comment on ‘Palworld: Feybreak’ Draws 200,000 Concurrent Players, Now In Steam’s Top 10 3 months ago:
I don’t think I will buy another Nintendo console ever (unless they turn around) and will only buy 2nd hand games so Nintendo doesn’t get any money.
The sad thing is that Nintendo does make very good games and some of the only great party games left with a low skill entry level
- Comment on If God is all powerful and created human. How come God in endowed with human emotions? Shouldn't he or she be beyond that? 3 months ago:
Buddhism as it originally was, was more of a philosophy and way of life.
However, as will all organized religion, Buddhism has morphed in Tibet (free Tibet), India, and other places into mysticism with gods, recurring semi-saviors through “reincarnation”, and classist systems and hierarchies. Sad, really. Humans mess everything up for personal gain and control.
- Comment on Privacy: Breached 3 months ago:
Spotify has partnered with a company essentially trying to do this exact thing apparently
- Comment on Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay 4 months ago:
And ceos are somehow significantly worse and consistently and in many industries, almost exclusively make decisions directly opposing the common good. I guess we just have to let AI do it.
- Comment on Good ear protection for concerts. 4 months ago:
If you are in the EU,
These things are pretty awesome. They have the switch which allows you to change the DB drop depending on what you are using them for (or how loud the specifically concert is)
- Comment on Creep. Smdh 4 months ago:
There were many bad translations, and many purposefully bad ones.
Is it easier to exert control over a population with eternal damnation or proportional punishment?
- Comment on Uno what really happened 4 months ago:
Oh no! I really hope this doesn’t start happening to all of the CEOs and board members that make a profit off of legally killing people…
