Crozekiel

@Crozekiel@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we have No Man's Sky fans here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked it briefly, but it fell off for me. I feel like there needs to be an area to go to, or missions to pick up, or something that is a higher difficulty. I feel like a mid-range quality ship and weapon will do everything in the game without issue, and when you continue to get upgrades and suddenly everything the game has to throw at you poses so little of a challenge you could afk while being shot at with little issue… Well, it didn’t hold my attention anymore unfortunately. I really want to like it more than I do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why is fossil fuel still used?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are so many factors playing into this. Also, I don’t want you to think this post is suggesting we should give up on alternatives, because that is not my belief. We need to transition to something, and really we should have started this process much earlier. This is more to illustrate why it is a slow process.

  1. Energy density is unbeatable. Around 100 pounds of gasoline (15-ish gallons) will push most small road cars 300-400 miles. To get close to that range from an electric car you are going to need 1500-2000 lbs of batteries.
  2. Transportability. We have yet to really figure out how to get several thousand kilowatts of electricity from where it is easy to produce to where it is needed without losing a good percentage of it. You can fill a tank with Gasoline and haul it across the planet and lose basically none of it.
  3. Safety. Batteries can be very nasty things if damaged, the fires they can cause are astronomically harder to put out compared to traditional gasoline fires after a nasty car accident. Hydrogen is so much more violent in a fire/explosion than gasoline as well.
  4. Economics. Yes, Oil Companies have a huge grip on massive chunks of the world. MANY countries entire economies would collapse if fossil fuels were removed from the equation. And those countries are powerful, and scared, which is a dangerous combo. They are fighting tooth and nail to maintain their GDP as there is not a good replacement. It could be a civilization crumbling event if all money tied to fossil fuels just stopped in an instant.

  Our habits need to drastically change as a society. Fossil Fuels are not the only problem we need to change, as an example, industrial farming is also pretty catastrophically bad for the environment (as we are currently doing it). We need to consume less (both power and stuff), we need to travel less, we need to eat less meat, and we need world governments on board for these changes in a meaningful and peaceful way. Or we need someone to invent a way for us all to survive the problem or reverse it without us changing a damn thing, but that sounds like magic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit this comment came out swinging… A+ job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same dude, lmao.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A blog re-used one of my Reddit posts as a genuine comment on their blog⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Always a good idea to check the CO detectors, just in case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you not think a VPN will affect response time?? I implore you re-read the paper you keep referring to because they spell it out pretty basically what they are doing - and finding a person’s actual physical location behind a VPN is not it.

  I am not claiming a VPN is a perfect or complete solution… The modern web has an absolute ton of ways to track you even through a VPN, but CPV isn’t it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really, because the only reason they have a location to test against is because the connection looks like it is coming from the vpn server location. They don’t have any other location data to test against, and even if they decided to then run the test against every possible location on the planet, they still have the issue that their data is heavily skewed by the fact your traffic is flowing through a vpn, so your latency is not going to be perfectly matching their test servers unless they force the test servers’ traffic through the same vpn server.

  Nothing about this is setup to find your location on the other side of a vpn - it is basically testing if you are using a vpn or otherwise “spoofing” your location and returning a yes or a no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They kind of have it backwards. They aren’t triangulating your location, they are taking the location your connection tells them you are and tests to see if that is correct or not by checking with known servers in an area around your claimed location. It can verify you are not where you say you are, but beyond that it can’t find you. At least, not the paper the person is mentioning - this “other method” they mention doesn’t appear to be linked to any paper or anything and might just be their personal theory, not sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The CPV paper was not doing what you are saying, defeating a VPN by finding your real location. It is basically the opposite - if you are using a VPN to claim you are in a place, it can verify that you are not in that place. It doesn’t find your location, it can only verify you aren’t in the area you claim to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What even is “Political Pre-Crime”??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone know why this weird CD won't fit in my CD drive?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In all seriousness, I’ve always thought the platters were extremely thin inside a HDD, but never actually had one open. That looks quite thick actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A big part the problem is also how they are marketed… Everyone is pushing AI as though it has the entire wealth of human knowledge inside it, it knows the right answer, and can explain it to you in seconds.

  Not, you know, we fed this machine a bunch of words and trained it to spit back out words that look like they fit together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Weirder to me is how many of them seem to work as a team or group… I saw one get into the back seat of the car when they left the other day… How many people you got crammed in that SUV making one below-minimum-wage paycheck??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta’s flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The company did, however, say that Big sis Billie “is not Kendall Jenner and does not purport to be Kendall Jenner.”

  “We don’t want to get sued by someone with actual money and power.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The person you are replying to never mentioned their stance on the rule in question, only the analogies used by the original commenter… Which are terrible analogies both for skisnow’s reasoning, and your comment as well.

  They are not the same thing, because of the power dynamics at play, and I think most people in either a linux forum or PC gaming forum would react negatively if the mods banned people for one comment made while not being the “target demographic”.

  Also, someone can use both linux and windows. Someone can play PC games and console. They might have valuable insight having experiences from both.

  That doesn’t really apply to a women’s only community. (although I am curious what WomensStuff’s stance on Trans people is - I don’t know of the community that much to be honest).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HOOOOONNNNKK-snewewewewwew⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone’s gonna be disappointed when they get the hat and realize it is child-sized…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Subnautica 2’ Leaders Say Krafton Sabotaged Game Over Payout [new events in the Subnautica 2 story]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This honestly feels like an “everyone sucks here” situation. It’s obviously bad that the publisher just sacked the 3 founders of a developer and replaced them with a CEO from a developer they just scuttled… But then there is this terrible sell-out deal the devs went for where 1/3 of the sale price of the company was tied up in sales performance with the deadline rapidly approaching so of course they want to put out a shiny new title for people to buy even though they keep having to cut the planned content down to almost nothing. (supposedly, obvi I haven’t played it…)

  AND THEN there is what I am calling Schrodinger’s Beta. It is supposedly right now ready for early access release (which means Krafton delaying the game is proof of being shady and avoiding the bonus), but also likely going to flop because they got rid of the founders and now they won’t have the devs to make it any good (making Krafton correct in delaying the EA because it isn’t ready yet…).

  This whole thing is a mess of pointing fingers and no one knows what’s real. Truth of the matter is probably that both sides are right. Dev’s want to push the game out to get the rest of what they feel they are owed, whether the game is ready for EA be damned. Publisher wants to not pay for any of that, downsize the dev team to finish production as cheap as possible just to drop a steaming turd with just enough name recognition to keep their line going up, but not to make enough money they can’t plausible deniability sink another developer. I hope I’m wrong, because I was looking forward to Subnautica 2 (mostly just to have a multiplayer subnautica experience), but the industry has mostly convinced me to assume the worst in everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The amount of work I was spending to fight the recurring bloat of shit in Windows 10 was eating away at me for years… I had the OS drive in my computer die a little over 2 years ago, so I was having to re-install windows from scratch on a new drive, and going through the install process, see skype and one-drive horse-shit popping up - disabling both, running updates, and they pop back up again… It just killed my spirit. I went distro searching that same day. My laptop followed suit about 6 months later. MS will be very hard pressed to win me back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They are so dumb they want to piss everyone off for a lousy 15 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, never trust a company replacing C’s with K’s, especially if it contains alliteration. They will shy away from adding the 3rd K too publicly, but they know what it means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨spicy one⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t convince me that isn’t a nipple snuck in by the image creator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true, but I didn’t say that was the native “frame rate” of the TVs, just a very commonly used frame rate at the time. And, at least in my experience, desync’ed frame rate and refresh rate is less of a problem on CRTs than LCDs - you don’t “feel” it as much generally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of curiosity, did you have an actual N64 hooked up to a modern TV? A lot of those old games meant to be played on a CRT will look like absolute dog shit on a modern LCD panel. Text is harder to read, it is harder to tell what a shape is supposed to be, it’s really bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of it is about how close you are to the target FPS. They likely made the old N64 games to run somewhere around 24 FPS since that was an extremely common “frame rate” for CRT TVs common at the time. Therefore, the animations of, well, basically everything that moves in the game can be tuned to that frame rate. It would probably look like jank crap if they made the animations have 120 frames for 1 second of animation, but they didn’t.

  On to Fallout 4… Oh boy. Bethesda jank. Creation engine game speed is tied to frame rate. They had several problems with the launch of Fallout76 because if you had a really powerful computer and unlocked your frame rate, you would be moving 2-3 times faster than you should have been. It’s a funny little thing to do in a single-player game, but absolutely devastating in a multi-player game. So, if your machine is chugging a bit and the frame rate slows down, it isn’t just your visual rate of new images appearing that is slowing down, it’s the speed at which the entire game does stuff that slowed down. It feels bad.

  And also, as others have said, frame time, dropped frames, and how stable the frame rate is makes a huge difference too in how it “feels”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate IP overlords Wizards of the Coast reveal a new Dungeons & Dragons single-player action adventure⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reads like it is going to be a generic slash 'em up game, but set in the DnD universe? What the fuck does dnd even bring to the table here besides advertising money? Sounds like it’s going to be a generic ass fantasy game filled to the brim with the micro-transactions that get Chris Cocks hard in the morning. I am unlikely to give it a second notice upon release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No looky for you!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They actually do have that, warm air circulation. The real problem is though that the moisture has to go somewhere for the dishes to actually get dry. It’s why a clothes dryer won’t dry your clothes if the vent is clogged. Some of them have basically something akin to a still inside the door - a path for the warm and moist air to travel through that has a lot of right angle turns giving lots of opportunity for moisture to condense out of the air and then it can drain liquid water out the bottom. Some other models have automatic door openers, so once everything inside gets nice and hot and humid, the door pops open and it all just gets spit out into your kitchen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’ll be waiting forever for that one. Not even sure why you would want that; I seriously doubt it would even work as a shortcut to reactos becoming a viable and mature OS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be honest. You guessed ass and not air⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like, who bought ALL of the vowels except I?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what was the last game you played in 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same! I’ve got over 200 hours in so far. It scratches that itch so well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's never a bad time to check your biases⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, so rum is a dude??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been shouting from the rooftops for years that this stuff is malware. I’m not the only one. No one listens.