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- Comment on 2 days ago:
I wonder if this just means the supply was really low.
Considering the current ebay pricing, it doesn’t really make sense for any scalper to buy it unless they think it will become some weird coveted collectors item.
Either way rip steam machine. I hope they continue to fund Proton and Lepton because it really made a massive impact for gaming on Linux.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
forever game
TeamFortress 2 lol
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 3 days ago:
I guess Steam Machine is basically DOA unless they delay for another solid year and a half in hopes the AI bubble pops and the production recovers before their AMD spec becomes dated.
- Comment on lol 4 days ago:
I actually used to hate it back in the day because it was so overused but then when I hit the Skype era, I succumbed to my friends and started spamming it along with lmao because it was easy to type on a keyboard with zero effort.
Also that one evolution extinction meme of all the dead ones like rofl and roflmao.
Rest in Spaghetti Never Forgetti lol
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 1 week ago:
I thought they were making complete bank by getting rid of their exclusives and going the open platform route (which everyone complained about)?
They did so well that Xbox became an irrelevant choice between PC and Playstation.
Plus they were doing delayed PC releases, so I don’t really see how that would affect PS sales since the port would come out much later.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
No, its just that the current administration has been going around and depoting visa and greencard holders.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
If it were not, it would just be inviting the government take a massive dump all over it.
Despite the crapshow that is the current US government, you can’t be arrested for standing in front of the Whitehouse shouting your support for whatever idea or group you beleive in (granted you are a Citizen of the USA).
Compare that to something like the UK where people have been charged and thrown in jail for wearing a t shirt or holding a sign, even outside of a protest because the government can just designate whatever it wants to be “hate speech”.
Private spaces like social media are not bound by this which is fine, but social media is so ridiculously controlled and filtered as a result, that you’re better off sticking to a non mainstream platform (like lemmy) where your comments won’t get banned and deleted for stepping out of line.
- Comment on Just say no 2 weeks ago:
Reminds me of some funny old posts on r/sysadmin of greybeards who had essentially automated their entire jobs and life in perl lol.
Best one was a script that would auto text message his wife he would be coming home late if he still had an active terminal session.
There was a recent post around here or reddit that was about management trying to gauge performance via AI use, and how they had caught on to the token spending tricks people were using, but honestly it doesn’t seem that hard to fake around it if it ever came up.
Just throw some agent work at it like codex and watch it burn tokens running grep lol.
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 2 weeks ago:
Switch was what made me realize golden era of gaming was over, but it took about a year to set in because of the disconnect between the NX presentation and the actual product.
Seriously, go take a look at the original NX Switch presentation and it would almost seem that Nintendo was selling a completely different product.
All of the Wii era inspired hardware went mostly unused because the Switch couldn’t play Wii games, and Nintendo didn’t bother to even port their own titles outside of recycled Wii U content that didn’t sell well on the original console.
The software similarly was a joke. I have more functionality on a Nintendo DS than a Switch, and that isn’t even including “unofficial” homebrew. You can’t even voice chat with your friends without using an external app, which is insane considering the DS, DSi, 3DS, Wii, and Wii U that preceded this.
Major features that gave Nintendo the edge were gone. DS Downlaod Play, Streetpass, included minigames & apps, themes, free online, eshop points, wifi events, etc.
On top of that, the library was just not interesting enough to warrant paying $60 a pop for single player games, and the multiplayer selection was sparse, despite the main feature of the console being joycon controllers.
I got bored of it after only a year, and ended up having to change the joycon c-sticks a couple years later because of the drift issues.
IMO it was a massive success just because of the portable format allowing you to play big name games on the go, but it absolutely fails as a handheld console when compared to the DS line, which did so much more for so much less.
Now that other handhelds like the Steam Deck, AYN stuff, Legion, etc exist, there’s really no need to buy a Switch (2) for third party titles, which makes it a complete Nintendo only buy in.
The kicker is that Nintendo made absolute bank which is now why the Switch 2 is going for $450 (soon to be $500) and bumped their game prices to a whopping $70-80 because they know people were fine with it.
If I had more time on my hands, I would legitimately go make a modern version of Streetpass and download play for modern handhelds because that stuff was so cool and useful.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 3 weeks ago:
Anyone have that ratcheting effect graphic lol?
- Comment on “I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!) 5 weeks ago:
Gamenative is absolutely sick but Android is also a PITA for handhelds these days. The kernels are always dated, the task management sucks, the UX sucks, and everything has to be ported into an APK with cruddy Android API mappings.
I have Rocknix dual boot on my AYN Thor, and it is so much easier to run native emulators on linux then to run the Android counterparts, which are guaranteed to be missing features or are out of date with upstream releases.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 5 weeks ago:
Within America would be pretty easy, you just have to listen to your constituent demands and acknowledge them publicly with proper respect. Like how Mamdani was literally the only candidate who wasn’t shilling for Israel and actually explained his policy which people wanted.
Internationally, lol it was already down the gutter post WWII. Kind of hard to realive foreign leaders you already assasinated.
- Comment on Close enough 5 weeks ago:
Pakistan being in both the “mutilations and genocide” zone as well as the “dictatorship” zone because the line strikes right though Islamabad.
spoiler
Fun fact, back when Pakistan gained independence, its capital was actually Karachi, which was and still is the largest city in Pakistan. Recently during the tons of document drops by the US Government, it came out that the CIA’s foreign HQ for Pakistan was set up in Rawalpindi, which is where the Pakistani Army HQ was stationed, and is where they built the adjacent city of Islamabad which became the new capital. It was the one of only a handful of maybe 5-6 cities that had a CIA command center not stationed in the nation’s captial lol.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 5 weeks ago:
You mean physically or the software input stuff?
Haven’t tried the steam deck, but I grew up on the DS Dpad so anything that can’t handle 8 direction input with minimal movement is a complete turn off for me.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 1 month ago:
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 1 month ago:
I’m too lazy to find my 3 year old comment but it went something like “AAA games are about as AAA as the mortgage bonds were in 2007”.
The era of the AAA gold standard is long gone. You no longer need a million dollar studio bankrolled by a big name publisher/console to make a groundbreaking AAA game.
Most if not all of those studios have been cost cutting for the past decade to maximize profit which is how we reached the current market of UE5 slop and DoA live service games.
There’s even an entire YouTube channel dedicated to showing how many current “AAA” titles have regressed in graphical optimization and quality from older game engines due to the lack of proper development, despite the advancement in consumer hardware.
- Comment on Purge home alone night 1 month ago:
Wouldn’t that just be a scaled up version of Saw?
- Comment on Who?¿ 1 month ago:
Hey at least its not Windows lol
- Comment on Sneacking a meme in before .world updates 1 month ago:
Something something Indian something something
Anyways, the human trafficking flow is the opposite for South Asia. The oil rich nations like KSA and UAE are notorious for enslaved labor by trapping poor people trying to find work abroad with promises of a living wage and foreign national status.
Which is why their foreign abused labor is mostly Pakistani, Indian, and Sri Lankan.
Pakistan is also so ridiculously starved of international tourism that foreigners have trouble trying to pay for stuff because the locals offer too much.
Some examples:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Ljwq0ZAQc www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ2Y65KrS4M www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFIB9CwTu0
- Comment on Can I still bypass Microsoft account creation when reinstalling windows through the "reset this PC" option? 1 month ago:
And because someone is going to say “Just use Linux”, believe me, I’d love to, but the user experience sucks for literally anyone who isn’t a software developer and the accessibility has actually gotten worse over the 15 years I’ve tried to use it.
Don’t listen to people who suggest Ubuntu (or its downstreams) and the clownshow GNOME desktop environment.
If you have a spare USB lying around, try this live (without installing) to see if you like it and please do share your feedback: fedoraproject.org/kde/
Or even just your general gripes with Linux. I had the same outlook when I first tried Ubuntu but I didn’t realize it was just Ubuntu and GNOME being really crappy until I tried a different distro and DE.
but does that still work when resetting?
Yeah, once you reach the setup screen and it asks you to connect to the internet, hit Shift + F10 (sometimes CTRL + Shift + F10) and it’ll pop open a CMD window in which you want to type in “oobe\bypassnro” and hit enter. PC should restart and when you reach the internet screen again, there should be an option that says “I don’t have internet”. Click that and make your local account.
If it doesn’t work, sometimes you have to do it twice. Just did it yesterday on a real machine and it worked first try, but every VM I’ve made had me do it twice.
- Comment on Space Honey 1 month ago:
I’m too lazy to find it now, but one of the tests they tried long before NASA started sending people into space was eating a banana upside down where they figured out the digestive tract can function against gravity.
There was also an encyclopedia brown story about this in which I remember Geese and Ducks rely on gravity to swallow, therefore they wouldn’t be able to eat in space.
- Comment on Finally someone we can get behind! 1 month ago:
That’s some garbage W/R and it also doesn’t mean anything unless they share their account name so we can look at the gameplay stats which shows how good they actually are in whatever ship they play in lol.
I’ve seen a guy with 10,000+ games that were almost all in PvE, so he was dogwater in literally every other gameode.
- Comment on What are the most confusing false friends from your language to another that are spelt exactly the same? 1 month ago:
No one who speaks German could be a killer!
- Comment on Fan-made Medal Of Honor remake. 1 month ago:
The amount of times this has happend with Nintendo leaves me mystified on why modders and devs don’t bother to use anonymizing tools like Tor.
- Comment on What the Hell is this Bull shit ? 1 month ago:
Its like when you buy a 1tb drive and the real capacity shows up as like 920Gb lol
- Comment on Why do some people with college degrees and an education, still act so fucking stupid? 1 month ago:
If you’re in the US, bachelor degrees are pretty worthless lol.
- Comment on Killing the intellectual future of Iran. Science has no borders. 1 month ago:
There’s a dumb dumb feddit and world user but I actually don’t see any tankie comments here lol
- Comment on Security lines at JFK airport, NYC 2 months ago:
All three NY area airports are notoriously bad in every aspect lol.
- Comment on WHERE THE FUCK IS THE CURSOR? 2 months ago:
I might have missed it but I’m surprised no one has mentioned a tiling WM.
I almost expect them as much as arch users lol.
- Comment on If you're fond of restoring 30-year-old PCs, but then you see some old PC parts being obliterated by scrappers just to get small pitiful pinches of gold. 2 months ago:
Yeah I can’t wait for when enthusiasts want my stacks of 2004 laptop RAM sticks and LCD panels.
The demand will open up any second now