TheOctonaut
@TheOctonaut@mander.xyz
- Comment on Nintendo has lowered its Switch forecast after sales fell 31% 1 week ago:
I love my Steam Deck. It’s literally beside my hotel bed right now, while the Switch is at home with two kids under 10. But:
- the docking and detaching experience is frustrating as hell
- it is significantly heavier and yet feels more fragile.
- it has profiles but not comparably to the Switch in terms of use and UX
- and the controller experience is very hit and miss. ** It spent 2 months just literally randomly shutting off bluetooth - you had to go into desktop mode and re-enable with a Linux command until they patched it - but that’s not even it - whenever it did that, it also disabled the sticks!. ** I have multiple entries in the controllers screen - none of which can be renamed or show indicators as to which controller they are - where every now and again the Deck decides sorry, I don’t recognise that controller anymore. Please come walk across the living room and awkwardly stand in front of the telly pressing buttons on the switch to re-pair things. ** Oh and controller layout schemes are a cool and powerful feature but way too complicated for me to explain to an 8 year old.
If “I just want to pick up a controller after work and forget what Philip in Marketing said he thought the project was going to look like”, or “I want to buy games once and share them with my kids” or even “I’ll throw this in my bag to kill 20 minutes at the waiting room” are factors, the Steam Deck is very much not superior in every way.
Again. Love my Deck. Almost exclusively buy “Verified” games now. Halfway through a Nintendo game that somehow is easier for me, a software dev to find ajd emulate on Deck than on a Nintendo console. But the Switch has been a remarkable console to have in my living room. The first console I bought (actually now that I think of it, that my wife bought for me) since Wii and before that since PlayStation 2. I’m not really a console player. I have 1000+ games on Steam. Still Switch excels at many things and the sales figures should make that obvious.
- Comment on What is the current best smart TV software/brand/ecosystem option? 5 weeks ago:
Get the android app “Unified Remote”. Works perfectly, and you’ll have several options, from cursor control to buttons programmed with hotkeys.
- Comment on Anon plants a seed of doubt 5 weeks ago:
There’s a height on your driving license?
I’ve never seen one on a passport.
- Comment on stars & sharks 5 weeks ago:
He’s thinking of penguins
- Comment on Anon watches an old concert video 1 month ago:
At a Limp Bizkit concert, possibly
- Comment on Anon tries to impress a girl 1 month ago:
Well the more appropriate term is “gravid”.
Although there are many species of fish that give live birth and therefore are usually described as pregnant.
- Comment on Anon quits their job 1 month ago:
No, why you got fired does not in fact affect your need to eat food and house your family, so it’s not a factor.
And if you are “laid off”, ie the company says they don’t need your job anymore, you are usually entitled to a pretty nice redundancy payment too - plus the usual.
- Comment on Vance Says He Will Keep Calling Haitians Legally in Springfield ‘Illegal’ 1 month ago:
Something many Americans don’t seem to be educated about properly is asylum/refugee status. It used to be considered a good thing that a first world country would provide asylum for those in danger.
Both require the first entry to be an illegal entry, or to have an overstay. If you can enter or stay in a country legally, you don’t need asylum there. You can just, y’know, stay.
America even recognises this by having asylum application stations some way but not very far inside the border, because if you have a massive continent sized country and expect people to go to an immigration office or something, they may not find it or may just not apply even if they have valid reason to.
This deliberate lack of education feels very like how some Americans were never properly educated on the actual purpose of the UN, or how taxes work, or uow “we’re a republic not a democracy” is nonsense, or even what your president does. And they all feel like very deliberate political decisions to make this so.
- Comment on Anon has a special request 2 months ago:
Also… what awesome displays? Does he think knight armour in museums has bones inside it?
- Comment on 'AI is coming for all of us:' Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, and Baldur's Gate voice actor Jennifer Hale weighs in on SAG-AFTRA's games industry strike 2 months ago:
Do one maleshep run. I promise he has some great deliveries too.
- Comment on Just had someone say they are going to have a Fatwa put on me . What the hell does that mean? Do I need to report it or something? 3 months ago:
The issue is taking a broad concept and making it mean a very specific one instead.
(Please note I am an atheist that lived for years in a “Muslim country”. I don’t actually agree with any of the below, but understanding what words are intended to mean is important when you are surrounded by their use in 2 different contexts).
Fatwa: a Sharia law ruling by an imam Fatwa (western): a ruling by an imam that a person is not protected by the law and therefore a target for assassination
Hijab: men and women of Islam should maintain a sense of visual propriety in order to avoid devaluing what can be seen in private. Hijab (western): that cloth Islamic women wear on their head.
Jihad: the righteous struggles that each human faces to choose a difficult path for good reasons. Jihad (western): a holy war of aggression against infidels
- Comment on They did the math. 4 months ago:
Well someone cropped the part of this image where this maths experiment was inspired by trying to figure out how a small dinosaur died in a stranger crater.
That image is an outline of the fossil millions of years later, not a drawing of puke containing bones or a dinosaur getting instantly defleshed
- Comment on They did the math. 4 months ago:
The idea is that the impact would have killed a little dromaeosaur
- Comment on Anon tries to be witty 4 months ago:
A calorie is a unit of measurement. In terms of how much energy you are consuming, which is what matters for weight gain, there is literally no difference between one calorie and another.
“Empty calories” does have a meaning and it’s that something is ‘just’ calories with no additional nutrients. Not eating any nutrients will make you sick, but not obese.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator Releases City Update VII: European Cities 2 5 months ago:
Oh I’m sure it’s not wasted work. But any content delivered now, for free, is in direct competition with buying a whole new game, probably for >=$70. I guess they’re very confident in the new game modes or something.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator Releases City Update VII: European Cities 2 5 months ago:
I’m surprised to see this update- I thought MS were making a “new” Flight Simulator for this year. I’m aware that content creation and game creation are usually quite separate but odd that they’d be release stuff to “keep” you on the “old”/current FS iteration.
- Comment on Don't let your dreams be memes ✨️ 5 months ago:
(finally getting dandelions!!)
My friend they grow in the film of construction dust that has built up in the gutter of my shed
- Comment on Girl power 5 months ago:
Scientress*
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 6 months ago:
You know that’s not the LLM’s ‘source’ right? It’s still output. Do you mean the training data? Is that what you mean by CoPilot should be open source? If CoPilot has learned from something GPL then everything else it outputs, or perhaps specifically its training data - should be GPL?
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 6 months ago:
Yeah that’s not the source, that’s still output. You don’t seem to understand how LLMs work and yet have taken a bizarre stance on it anyway.
- Comment on What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments? 6 months ago:
How exactly do you expect to see the “source” of a language model?
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Hey does anyone want to buy a t-shirt from me with this guy’s worst comments printed on it?
- Comment on Anyone else? 6 months ago:
Do good people fuck Bob?
- Comment on Come on, science! 6 months ago:
Why do people believe this shit? Like the Internet was around. You can go see me arguing with people calling my Nokia NGage a taco and me defending having to hold it weird if I get to play Tomb Raider on my phone, on forums, right now. Oh and the kids all hold their phones that way now and yes it looks stupid but they just remastered Tomb Raider for mobile so who cares.
- Comment on Irish dock workers striking to prevent the export of food to Britain during a period of food insecurity in Ireland, 1920 6 months ago:
We were also in the middle of the Irish War of Independence, that feels like important context.
- Comment on 'It should have been safe’: twin of woman found under coat in A&E says death avoidable 6 months ago:
Because the British people that vote, vote primarily for parties that are seeking to destroy the NHS, because they’ve been trained to believe it exists entirely to employ and treat Them. The Others. Their Kind. You know The Ones.
- Comment on Anon manages the impossible 6 months ago:
Given that each year 30,000 or 8% of US military women experience abuse and your first reaction to this person working as a professional killer with you was “she’s cute”, it sounds like her ploy worked perfectly.
- Comment on *sweating intensifies* 6 months ago:
… I don’t see how you can genuinely have understood that to be a point I was making. That’s the opposite of what I was saying. I even gave an example of how you might be forced to drive a car. Because you are in fact forced to live in society. But you are here on Lemmy so you must understand that you are not forced to use Gmail? So either you’re being disingenuous or you’re not actually reading all of what I’m posting. Given how you completely ignored the majority of my other post and went straight to “oH sO iF wE dO iT fOr 20 yEaRs”, I’m going with the latter.
- Comment on *sweating intensifies* 6 months ago:
I’m almost certainly older than you, but I’m still interested to hear how deliberately answering Captchas incorrectly saves time over answering them correctly.
- Comment on *sweating intensifies* 6 months ago:
The 20 years thing was my bafflement as to why people felt the need to explain what Captchas are. Not a justification for their existence. When I ask “why” I think I’m pretty clearly not asking to have how Captchas work explained to me.
Putting that aside, can you explain to me how asking you to identify a traffic light is “at the expense of literally everyone”?
Someone was saying “they’ll train smart cars! And sell it to us as a subscription!” which I think is the same route you’re going down. But… how is that at the expense of everyone? And would not training smart cars benefit anyone? Is someone else going to do it? Is there a FOSS smart car I can contribue to? And is that FOSS going to prevent bad actors from training it to misbehave?
- Comment on *sweating intensifies* 6 months ago:
You’re not doing work for free. That’s a really weird way to look at it. You’re doing it to gain access to a service, an entirely optional one. It’s somewhat believable when people say oh, yes I have a car but I have to have a car, I’d like not to. But nobody is required to use GMail to live.
And yes, feel free to be an AI pessimist. You could quite well be right. It seems bizarre to me however to make an effort to sabotage this one specific AI training (which might stop cars from running us down) so that you can log into something which will also be used to train AI (to sell you shit). And then posting your opinion about it here, where it will be used to train an AI.
