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- Comment on culture 3 days ago:
Don’t worry this isn’t reddit where people scream about reposts despite the entire site being reposts of content from other sources.
I’m just keeping count because it flew over people’s head the last two times too lol.
- Comment on culture 3 days ago:
This is the 3rd time this has been posted this year and the comments section is still clueless even with a caption hint
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 1 week ago:
This community doesn’t contain any actual shitposts, it’s just a crosspost target for the 10 other linked communities in the rules, which means it’s just another c/memes clone.
- Comment on Housing prices 1 week ago:
This is technically backwards. It should be if income growth had followed inflation, the average income should hsve been ~$300,000 by now.
- Comment on Could I theoretically grind up one of those pink salt lamps and use it to season my food? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, they come from the same mine in Pakistan. They process it into lamps, animal licks, rock salt, fine salt, etc from the same source.
Just clean the surface with a wet cloth to ensure there’s no residual dust/debris and you can shave away. It probably won’t yield even size grains, but you can use it for whatever you like.
it’s more for a joke example though, much easier to just buy the salt.
That all being said, the ones from Pakistan are not coated in anything, so if its from an unknown source, you might want to check if the seller maybe added some spray on agent to protect the salt, although I really don’t see any reason why they would do that.
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And don’t buy any pink salt that says “made in India”. That money essentially funds some PMLN crooks who thought it would be funny to kneecap Pakistan’s agriculture export market by banning sales to any broker except themselves, of which they heavily undersell to India who then makes profit and shares it back only with them.
- Comment on Will Hollywood's remake of Parasite really succeed? 2 weeks ago:
Really depends on the director and how they adapt it.
Despite Hollywood’s horrendous reputation around recycled IPs, their adaptations of foreign media have actually turned out quite good for several films, although arguably nothing compares to the original.
The Departed was a remake of Infernal Affairs and there are still mile long threads to this day arguing about which one you should watch.
tbf though I wouldn’t keep my hopes too high because there is a ocean full of poor adaptations and sequels, regardless of the quality of the original media or even when reusing the exact same film team.
- Comment on Tried to login to the arch wiki but was given a 3 minute crypto challenge. 2 weeks ago:
Maybe we should do a capture-able reward for anyone who can bypass Anubis lmao
- Comment on Tried to login to the arch wiki but was given a 3 minute crypto challenge. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve actually wanted to deploy this with some absurdly difficult challenge as a troll but I don’t know what’s worth putting behind a webpage with effectively a client side loading bar lol.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’m Pakistani
PTSD from reddit larpers made me vibe check your account lmao.
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You passed
- Comment on Is the world more volatile now or is it just the abundance of news? 3 weeks ago:
It’s multiplied and accelerated, so yeah.
History always had power struggles, empire exploitation, death disasters, etc. but the modern era has significantly expanded on that with the boom in technology and the global population.
Add to the fact that we are digging our own grave in several forthcoming critical problems that the world is already starting to see the effects of.
- Comment on When you can’t upload an image to Lemmy, is it… 3 weeks ago:
Ah the good ol days of cisco packet tracer.
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Screw that noise lol.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Least insane egocentric frontend dev lmao
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Anyone have that post of one of the lemmy devs reviewing a PR during his HS prom lol?
- Comment on A box of buttholes 4 weeks ago:
There’s probably a docker joke in here but thanks for the whale deepseek
- Comment on The forever war for your FACE 4 weeks ago:
but when I walk into a room shirtless, covered in honey, people notice.
Soldier is that you?
- Comment on Has anobody seen Odyssey? 4 weeks ago:
RT lost its credibility a long time ago and IMDB just results in the bell curve effect where most things end up at 3.5/5 which is too accurate/condensed for most people.
You need to follow a couple or even just one film critic who makes quality reviews on their own if you want good information.
- Comment on EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’ 4 weeks ago:
The funny thing is they did used to do this back in the day with games like Crazy Taxi. It was a decent way to get some development funds as well.
They stopped doing it because I think it was too hard to gauge how much of am effect it actually had.
Knowing EA, they’re probably thinking about unskippable slop and not franchising ingame universe with billlboards and locations lol.
- Comment on How do other countries view American super hero movie's always putting the threat in new york or whatever? Instead of their own country and have their own superheroes? 4 weeks ago:
It’s pretty indifferent because Hollywood has an excellent track record of screwing up literally every aspect of a foreign country, even with next door Canada and Mexico, so people would rather just see a good movie than a bad depiction.
As for superheroes, I’ve always made the argument that most people actually don’t care all that much about the current genre outside of fictional entertainment because to them it’s purely fictional entertainment. Especially for 3rd world countries, they would find it dumb for some superhero to battle a supervillain in their hometown when there’s a shitty government/military/cartel/mob right down the street that’s done 999999x worse than whatever a fictional villain can threaten to do.
One of the reasons the Batman trilogy was so well received internationally is because unlike the rest of the superhero genre, it revolved around Gotham’s decrepit justice system being reignited and actually leading to a systemic improvement in society, which is everyone’s pipe dream.
- Comment on These corpos who feel entitled to Open Source code 4 weeks ago:
AGPL is outright banned at Amazon which is not surprising considering their entire cloud business is built on serving a SaaS platform for any FOSS project imaginable.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 5 weeks ago:
I want an edit of the “he can’t keep getting away with this” to “he can’t keep winning” lol.
- Comment on How do I figure out where flies are entering my house? 5 weeks ago:
Supplement your offensive salt gun strategy with spiders.
- Comment on The Old Car Summertime Struggle 1 month ago:
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 1 month 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 month 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 month ago:
Because YOU-tube is where the POOP is
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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 month 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 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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.
