IMALlama
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- Comment on Can't wait. 14 hours ago:
But let’s only do it in some English speaking countries and not others! I am joking, but this is one of the reasons why American English has diverged from British English.
Relevant xkcd:
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 4 days ago:
I bought an ally x about a year and a half ago. At the time it commanded a substantial premium over the OLED deck, but it had the specs to back it up. Since then the price gap has closed and Asus has released another version of the Ally. Asus isn’t the only other handheld maker in town and you can install Bazzite or Steam OS on most of the deck alternatives. Unless you want an out of the box experience that doesn’t involve windows, I am not sure the price point for four year old hardware makes any sense.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 4 days ago:
Consumer spending is something like 68% of the US economy. I suspect that’s the case in most countries?
Consumer spending drives the US economy.
- Comment on How do I get one of those jobs where I send an email and then go to a meeting then draft an email then leave work and get paid $98,000/Year and have a badge on a little cord that says senior deputy analytics coordinator supervisor of marketing and sales? 5 days ago:
The number of things that run on excel in the corporate world is staggering…
- Comment on A lot less blue too... Hmmmm.... 1 month ago:
Speaking in generic terms, film is way more forgiving of over exposure and digital is way more forgiving of under exposure. A fast lens is always king, but once you hit parity on that I would personally take digital for low light any day.
- Comment on 2700 K 2 months ago:
A crop helps
- Comment on Why are people like my grandpa so against seeing the whole world and learning a different language? 2 months ago:
Scrolled way too far to find this. Depending on how well traveled OP is their grandpa might be saying, “there’s tons of cool stuff much closer to home, why not check that out first?”
- Comment on HAIL HYDRA! 3 months ago:
Sounds like a good place to plant some mint!
- Comment on HAIL HYDRA! 3 months ago:
We have a thin strip of mint that’s exactly what you described. Fresh mint all spring and summer is great for a variety of reasons, plus it smells good. That said, we’re constantly fighting runners trying to grow in every conceivable crevice. It tries to grow in the cement expansion joints and in the joint between our house and sidewalk by the door.
- Comment on i'm a hardliner 3 months ago:
Amusingly, modern wifi can offer higher speeds than Ethernet for the same level of effort. Most home Ethernet is still 10/100/1000. That’s megabit, not megabyte. 2.5 gbps and faster nics are not commonplace for both computer and routers/switches/hubs.
You’re never going to see 46 gbps on wifi 7 in the real world, but it’s still way faster than 1 gbps.
From someone with a NAS for photo/video editing and has looked into installing 10 gbps Ethernet.
- Comment on What next, power supply shortages? 4 months ago:
I bought a used workstation (xenon, ecc memory) pre-covid hit. I swapped the processor with the highest spec one that would fit the socket (thanks for changing sockets so frequently intel… not) and 64 GB ecc momory. Both were cheap because they were used. About 6 months before the GPU crazyness I bought a used 1070 TI for around $200. Upgrading the GPU a few years later was out of the question and now upgrading the whole thing is out of the question.
Due to the processor age I’m just going to install Linux on it and cozy into my older game library. Gaming time is pretty limited these days anyway due to having kids and these days I’m doing most of my gaming on a handheld.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 5 months ago:
This is why we drive when we go on our yearly trip back to the east coast to visit family. Flying would cost the same once you factor in a hotel stop midway, and would save 8+ hours if we were actually able to drive without stopping, but no one we visit lives near an airport and transportation to/from the airport adds a ton of cost.
- Comment on Anon tries to understand credit scores 5 months ago:
I kept my kid card open for exactly this reason, but thankfully there were no fees involved. The issuer cancelled the card after two years worth of not using it though :(
- Comment on We're going backwards 5 months ago:
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 6 months ago:
You’re 100% correct at a sane company. At my employer the hardware team is incentivised to cut costs and impacts to productivity are someon else’s problem. Corporate metrics lead to some pretty hilarious situations.
- Comment on #environmentalist 7 months ago:
Not sure how up to date this is, but synthetic fibers are the #1 source of micro plastics, followed by car tires and city dust. Car tires are absolutely a contributor and we should cut our reliance on personal transportation for more reasons than just micro plastics. In addition, we need to move away from polyester, nylon and a slew of other materials.
Most household furnishings used to be made of natural fibers. These days carpets, couch covers and filling, curtains, clothing, etc are often derived from a petrochemical. I suspect oil companies will continue to pivot into these areas to continue as we very slowly ween ourselves of gasoline.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 7 months ago:
I still have a sweet spot for canned corn, especially creamed, as well as canned green beans.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 7 months ago:
Agree with the addition of a low and high setting. I don’t care what the target cabin temp is, if I just got into my car after braving some crazy wind chill I want to be air fried for a bit.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 7 months ago:
Used parts! Junkyards, eBay, whatever. Odds are you’ll be able to find a replacement unless the factory knob was super fragile or your vehicle is exceedingly rare.
If your vehicle is vaguely popular it’ll probably have a stl (think exported 3D shape) available. In that case I’ll print/mail you one assuming you’re in the US. If you’re not in the US hop over to !3DPrinting@lemmy.world and I’m sure someone will help you out.
- Comment on "I used to be with it" 7 months ago:
;)
- Comment on Do deaf people know they have a deaf accent when speaking? 7 months ago:
Speaking and talking are colloquially used to describe people communicating in sign language. “I speak ASL”, “I talk ASL”, etc.
Definitions of the words speak and [talk](www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/talk] cover non-verbal communication.
Speak: to express feelings by other than verbal means
Talk: to express or exchange ideas by means of spoken words or sign language
That said, I agree that OP was likely asking about spoken word.
- Comment on Updates that don't tell me what is being updated 7 months ago:
Maintaining a changelog for very large app development organizations is also a pretty damn hard task, trying to coordinate whatever all teams are releasing in a particular build.
I feel this in my bones. Our biggest device contains hundreds of apps and firmware. We generally update the apps and firmware together. It’s nearly impossible to summarize the changes in a meaningful way. What issues were fixed? Likely a few hundred. What new features were added or improved? Another big list. Management thought AI would magically solve this problem, but it turns out that it has no idea which things are worth mentioning vs which should be glossed over.
It sucks both internally and externally.
- Comment on Longest comment chain! 8 months ago:
This is the deepest I’ve ever seen Jerboa render comments.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 8 months ago:
In total the fediverse is stable or slightly growing. ActivityPub is how fediverse instances exchang information. More and more platforms are getting stood up and there are also a bunch of instances of those platforms.
Platforms are things like Friendica, Lemmy, Mastodon, PeerTube, Funkwhale, Hubzilla, Misskey, and now Pifed. Instances are things like lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works.
This approach was intentional. No single platform or service controls everything and if someone starts misbehaving it’s easy enough to go elsewhere.
That’s not to say there aren’t downaides. We have a ton of communities for similar topics on different instances and/or platforms. Each of these communities need to be moderated, have an active user base, etc.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 10 months ago:
Not sure, but I would suspect that AI output would likely be very similar to procedural generation output in that it will need some massaging before it can be used as a final asset.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 10 months ago:
Procedural generation of content in games is by no means a new thing. Even if the end state isn’t completely procedurally generated, odds are a version of the asset was initially and a human touched it up as necessary. When you’re talking about large asset sets (open world and/or large maps, tons of textures, lots of weapons, etc) odds are they weren’t all 100% hand made. Could you imagine making the topology map and placing things like trees in something like RDR2?
That’s not to say all this automation is necessary a good thing. It almost feels like we’re slowly chugging through a second industrial revolution, but this time for white collar workers. I know that I tell myself that I would rather spend my time solving problems vs doing “menial” work and have written a ton of automation to remove menial work from my job. I do wonder if problem solving will become at least somewhat menial in the future.
- Comment on Canadian Wildfires signal major L over the United States 11 months ago:
I was wondering why our clear skies the past few days looked like they had a layer of lake effect cloud cover. This also explains that.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 11 months ago:
You’re right that phillips screws are prone to cam out if theres a size mismatch, but it doesn’t stop there. Apply too much torque or have a misshapen screw head or bit and you’re out of luck.
- Comment on THE CLASS WAR IS BACK, BABY! 1 year ago:
I’m sorry - what strategy finally got us gay marriage?
Gay marriage is presently legal in the US at a federal level due to a Supreme Court ruling, not a law. It seems inevitable that this will change given the present makeup of the court, similar to abortion.
I am all for LGBTQ rights, but until something is passed by Congress the current situation seems precarious.
- Comment on Heyyy! 1 year ago:
Adam Sandler. He made a cameo at the 2025 Oscars that Conan O’Brien was hosting. The two of them go way back and you could tell both were trying to not break out laughing during the exchange.
