darganon
@darganon@lemmy.world
- Comment on For here am I sitting in my tin can 3 months ago:
They have a squat machine up there.
- Comment on How does car insurance on multiple vehicles work (USA) 3 months ago:
Liability only is dramatically cheaper, and older vehicles cost less. My motorcycle is $90 a year, whereas my Model 3 and my wife’s CX-5 is $3600 a year combined.
- Comment on Overthrow a Government and Install a Puppet Dictator? The CIA will do it for Bananas! 5 months ago:
I’m all for keeping the CIA accountable, but you’re conflating two things there.
- Comment on How does data sent over the internet know where to go? 8 months ago:
There are things called routers that…route traffic. A dumbed down version is routers talk to other routers to find out what they know about.
If a game server you connect to matches you with someone in Japan, your computer sends a packet with the address in Japan attached to it. Your home router probably has no clue where that is, so it goes to its upstream router and asks if they know, this process repeats until one figures it out and you get a route.
This all happens very quickly, and it’s why people say the Internet routes around damage.
- Comment on When people say that apps are stealing your data, what exactly does that mean? 10 months ago:
That’s pretty gross, but the fries are tasty!
- Comment on When people say that apps are stealing your data, what exactly does that mean? 10 months ago:
They surely agreed to it, the mixup is that people in general don’t realize how much data and how often Tim Horton’s wants to collect it.
Tim Horton’s should probably just know which Tim Horton’s you’re closest to when you go to place an order, and that’s about it. There’s no reason they should even be allowed to ask to track you all day every day, even if you agree.
That’s sort of the gist of it.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 10 months ago:
I don’t think steam has any anti-competitive behavior that I’m aware of.
Fortnite has roughly 100 million more monthly active users than steam, to say nothing of every piece of software running Unreal Engine, Epic is huge.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 10 months ago:
Who cares about the backing if it has no effect on anything?
It’s more illustrating that Epic isn’t underfunded. I don’t know anything about steam in China.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 10 months ago:
The multi-billionaire owner with the backing of the Chinese government is claiming that he’s the underdog against a popular company/piece of software/GabeN. He’s made some poor choices interacting with the community.
Yes, it’s probably nice for a publisher to have a guaranteed income, which is why they sell exclusivity. It leaves a sour taste in my mouth, so I choose not to support it.
The rest about the launcher being bad sounds unhinged to me, but some people are really into that.
They bought Rocket League and actively made it worse.
- Comment on Why didn't SBF flee? 11 months ago:
Interesting, I’ll have to check that out, thanks!
- Comment on Why didn't SBF flee? 11 months ago:
I recommend the book Going Infinite by Michael Lewis for an answer to this question, as it perplexed me as well.
- Comment on Dollar Stores: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) 11 months ago:
They built a dollar general right across the street from some section 8 housing near me, even better than the ice cream stand in front of the gym down the road.
- Comment on World of Warcraft's new Warbands system is going to force me to resub - PCGamer 1 year ago:
Yeah the gear upgrade system was even more convoluted before they reduced some confusion. I just wish we could do things without just filling our bags.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 dev shows off the level of optimization achieved for the Xbox Series S port, which bodes well for future PC updates 1 year ago:
I have a 3080 that is maxing out in BG3, my buddy’s 3070 overheated
- Comment on That's The End Of Activision Blizzard's $120 Million Overwatch League 1 year ago:
OWL dying is a shame, I was excited for it, and right when they were about to do the games in the proper cities COVID stopped that, then whoever was asleep at the wheel let the GOATS meta run an entire season when it should have been stopped by a rule change after one match, destroying any desire to watch further.
- Comment on For the King II released on Steam to "mixed" reviews, mostly citing bugs but an otherwise good game. 1 year ago:
Super pumped about this, can’t wait to get this semester over with so my group can finish BG3 and get into this. We played the first one a ton, and adding a fourth will be nice!
- Comment on High winds lift a forest’s floor in Scotland 1 year ago:
Yeah, trees weigh a lot.
- Comment on Why cant the Middle East just chill out? 1 year ago:
The wikipedia article on that piece of land is crazy. Religious zealots have been fighting over it since basically recorded history started.
- Comment on Is Windows 11 decent yet? 1 year ago:
I have been using Windows 11 pro since it came out and it’s fine. I’m not sure why windows is obsessed with trying to replace their older, functional menus with the new style settings apps (which usually just lead back to the old style ones) but I never get reinstalled bloat, ads, or anything remotely like people are complaining about.
For reference I do powershell for a living and use ArchLinux at work, and have windows 11 and arch machines at home, but use windows the most at home.
- Comment on Do you bite your ice cream or use your lips? 1 year ago:
What kind of maniac uses their teeth on ice cream?