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- Comment on How do I figure out where flies are entering my house? 1 hour ago:
Supplement your offensive salt gun strategy with spiders.
- Comment on The Old Car Summertime Struggle 2 days ago:
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 4 days ago:
If you really want to piss off Europeans all you gotta do is make the claim that the EU is subsurvient to US foreign policy demands which means they’ll throw away any of their beneficial policies or laws to retain good standing in the US hegemony, no matter how absurd or insane US leadership is.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 week ago:
The whole point of PC is digital data though.
The original DOOM was shareware, you were allowed to copy and share it with your friends or online however you wanted because it promoted and popularized the game.
CDs on PC were always just a retail medium. Unlike classic consoles, there are very few PC games that run right off the disk. It was usually an installer.
I know people complain about Steam all the time with “you don’t actually own your games” but you do own your PC and the filesystem which means you can copy that data and do whatever you want with it. No EULA on earth is going to stop you.
Of course if it ships with DRM or relies on steam to launch, then yeah that’s lock in, but that’s where GOG and pirate repacks fill the space.
It was inevitable for consoles to go full digital because 90% of sales are digital and it gets the inherent convenience of digital media, but consoles don’t let you access the filesystem and do whatever you want. It’s a locked down system with a metric ton of security to prevent you from ever copying the game data.
Retail will also always reduce profit, especially for smaller developers who need to rely on a publisher to sell on their behalf.
Steam and GOG take a 30% cut, so it’s probably better to promote itch.io or some other platform if that’s a concern.
- Comment on YouTube poop 1 week ago:
Because YOU-tube is where the POOP is
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
- War Thunder is objectively crappy for every nationality unless you’re a rich russian whale who eats stalinium for breakfast
- Comment on Me_irl 1 week ago:
Yeah i meant consoles and console disk rips lol.
Don’t know what they’re doing these days exactly but I think for PS4 era they were still doing IO on the disk for game data reads. But that was around when SSDs started becoming cheaper, so one of the upgrade paths was digital release + SSD.
- Comment on Me_irl 1 week ago:
tbf bluray is the medium so it loads immediately instead of downloading first.
Although considering the max cap is 144 Mbps, I wonder if that’s actually too slow for modern games that rely on SSD speeds lol.
- Comment on What is your favourite gaming console you have played? 2 weeks ago:
Nintendo DS
That era was do good that Nintendo didn’t even know what they had until they screwed it up and lost to modern smartphones.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Lol didn’t it get delisted? I think the dev mentioned only like 6 people ever bought it.
Surprised steam hasn’t done the same.
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 2 weeks ago:
His demand to return to the US and give himself in was if he got a public (non military) trial.
The government’s offer under Obama was that the only guarantee they would provide was that he wouldn’t be subject to torture.
Even if he had negligible effect on state level surveillance, the documents he shared provided some insanely valuable perspective into the capability and power of nation states in the cybersecurity space.
Anything the NSA is or was doing can also be applied to other major countries like China or Russia, and the capability + compute power has only grown in size since.
- Comment on Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will officially begin on June 25 2 weeks ago:
Ayyy nice. I’m still on my ye olde R4 clone lmao
- Comment on Pre-orders for Grand Theft Auto VI will officially begin on June 25 2 weeks ago:
Do you have GTA China Town DS version lol?
- Comment on When Windows users find the Threadiverse 3 weeks ago:
The joke is that 99% of the other stalls are also Linux lmao
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
higher than 0% can cause lost grades.
I still lose marks.
Is this actual policy or are you just trying to make sure your AI usage can’t be detected?
Because there is no reliable way to detect AI usage except for obvious styling, prompt traps, and just matching your comprehension with the material (grades on assignments vs closed notes test).
I’ve never heard of any university using such a system and would bring this up to administration with other students if they ever used such an unreliable grading method.
- Comment on Lawyer here: I concur! 3 weeks ago:
As someone else already mentioned, these do exist but you don’t see them on the road because it usually easier to just get a bigger truck.
- Comment on SBA #144 Nosferatu! 4 weeks ago:
Nosferatu
- Comment on Buzz off 4 weeks ago:
I’m usually surrounded by paper wasps who don’t really seem to care unless you actively injure them. Have been bumped many times and they contonued on their way.
I’ve heard yellow jackets are usually the type to screw you over because they can.
(Un)fortunately, afaik yellow jackets are actually a pretty effective means of pest control for several crops because they more aggressively collect protein for their larvae.
- Comment on What do they put in this stuff? 4 weeks ago:
Triple the explosive efficacy when mixed with pop rocks /s
- Comment on Well done, all of you! 5 weeks ago:
Yo dawg I heard you like DHMO…
- Comment on Ultimate laptop 5 weeks ago:
I like how it has several widespread generations of intel processors and then just one random AMD A4 for good measure lol
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer 5 weeks ago:
This dude specifically had a hate boner for linux because they got absolutely shredded in the server space and the only reason MSFT survived in the end user product line was because they were already an established monopoly capable of forcing and coercing OEMs to never to offer an alternative OS from the factory lol.
But yes, at least they had some actual marketing ideas and design talent and not an infinite stream of slop.
Although even Ballmer gifted us the crapshow that was windows 8 before he conveniently dipped.
- Comment on 1 month 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 1 month ago:
forever game
TeamFortress 2 lol
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 1 month 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 1 month 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 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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.
