FluffyPotato
@FluffyPotato@lemm.ee
- Comment on If the EU uses online signature for European Citizen's Initiative, why isn't voting online for elections or policies not allowed? 5 weeks ago:
It takes like 5 minutes to vote and so far it has worked without issue. The same digital ID system is used for digitally signing documents, banking, medical history etc as well.
- Comment on If the EU uses online signature for European Citizen's Initiative, why isn't voting online for elections or policies not allowed? 5 weeks ago:
Estonia has online voting
- Comment on Tencent, Guillemot Family Said to Consider Buyout of Ubisoft 2 months ago:
It’s not like ubisoft games can get any worse
- Comment on PlayStation 6 Priced At $700 Like PS5 Pro? It’s Looking Likely 2 months ago:
True, if you wanna play games with really high requirements you need to cough up mu h more than 700 euros, I’m just saying the Steam Deck is better value than a PlayStation.
- Comment on PlayStation 6 Priced At $700 Like PS5 Pro? It’s Looking Likely 2 months ago:
Or a steam deck. The cheapest option for that is like a bit under 400 I think and it doubles as a PC while having a massive library of games plus emulation.
- Comment on Inflation? 3 months ago:
Inflating money only loses purchasing power if it’s tied to the value of something else as I originally said. That was literally my original point.
- Comment on Inflation? 3 months ago:
So what makes the stuff stores buy more expensive? Like you can create a chain of price raising as far as you want but ultimately it’s just someone deciding to raise prices and that creating inflation.
Again, only a handful of countries own US debt and I don’t even know how US debt interest rates are going to connect to inflation in other countries. Like China and Japan are the largest debt holders and their inflation is vastly different.
- Comment on Inflation? 3 months ago:
There are a handful of currencies backed by USD but most are not. I only know of Belize dollar, the Hong Kong dollar and the Dirham as backed by USD, as far as I know those are the only ones.
Do you think stores look at the inflation and raise their prices accordingly or do they raise their prices and inflation is calculated based on that? One of those is correct.
- Comment on Inflation? 3 months ago:
I don’t think the federal reserve is active outside the US. Also printing money was the cause of inflation when gold was backing the money, now the worth of money is only governed by what you can buy with it. Like you can double the amount in circulation but if no one raises prices there would be no inflation.
- Comment on PoE 2, lets goo 3 months ago:
My first though was “Hell yea, another Pillars of Eternity game” then I remembered that Deadfire has been out for a long time and Avowed was announced a while ago.
- Comment on The Air BnB Market is very competitive 4 months ago:
Quality is actually not bad. Like yea, they usually don’t have modern wiring but since the construction materials used are insanely durable and thick renovating those buildings with new windows, heating, pipes and wires gets you like the best possible apartment. You will never hear your neighbours, winters are warm with minimal heating and that building will last for like centuries with minimal maintenance.
Source: Lived in one and renovated it too.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 5 months ago:
No chance, I usually don’t care about American politics but I’m not gonna miss the chance to watch 2 geriatric fucks attempt to debate one another.
It was so much worse than I envisioned it to be though. Like one guy seemed to make up literally everything with insane claims that were delivered with confidence only rivaled by how stupid they were and the other sounded like his brain turned to soup if he spoke for more than 5 seconds and when not speaking he looked like a frog seeing a very tasty fly on the wall.
I really hope Europe can get our collective shit together and supply Ukraine once the US shits the bed there.
- Comment on I bring cushions and a whole kit with me to jobs 6 months ago:
Mr. Du Bois, I insist you sit in the chair before we continue our discussion
- Comment on Disc market share for week ending in 2024-05-18: As it is written, the Lisan al Gaib will save the 4K UHD format! 6 months ago:
I still have a 1080p TV and I ain’t getting a new one since they are all now infested with spyware for some god forsaken reason.
- Comment on Let's discuss: The Sims 6 months ago:
Fair enough, that’s a sense you build up over time with some plunder, or at least it was for me.
If you wanna try Sims 4 I’m using Sims 4 updater by anadius, that gets everything you need and keeps everything up to date (while having less of a footprint than Origin).
- Comment on Let's discuss: The Sims 6 months ago:
I have exactly the same issues with Sims 3. My PC is pretty much as powerful as it’s gonna get but Sims 3 with all the performance tweaks and mods just won’t run properly, it’s downright unplayable. Too bad it’s my favourite Sims.
Does anyone actually buy the Sims games? Like the full game costs a fortune, just sail the high seas, EA shouldn’t get a cent.
- Comment on Sims 4 devs assemble team to focus on fixing bugs and upping performance 6 months ago:
I tried playing Sims 3 again recently and holy hell is the performance bad. Like the FPS is running at whatever I cap it at but there are constant freezes and stuttering with no FPS drops even with all the recommended performance mods. I then remembered I stopped playing for that very reason ages ago and now my desktop is like 100x more powerful.
- Comment on Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down 7 months ago:
Google has been unusable in English for at least 2 years now. Searching in Estonian makes Google behave like it did when it was still good. I wonder how long that’s going to last.
- Comment on Never Forget 7 months ago:
There’s a reason the EU doesn’t extradite their citizens to the US: the justice system is considered inhumane.
- Comment on Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. 7 months ago:
I’m sorry you misunderstood what I said. I was saying that Sony is encouraging piracy by making it impossible to play their games legaly in some regions, including mine.
Personally I don’t think piracy is wrong with the exception of indie devs. If you think you are fighting corporations by pirating then yea, that’s dumb but I haven’t heard that stance yet.
- Comment on Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. 7 months ago:
If your only option to play a game is moving to a different country then I’d say it’s the most justifiable. If you only have a PlayStation piracy won’t really help you play PC or XBox games though so I don’t see how that would help.
- Comment on Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. 7 months ago:
Is Sony saying piracy is justified by making it not possible to buy this game? I guess if I have to.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 7 months ago:
It actually does, it’s something people get their accounts banned over.
- Comment on It definitely *was* a good idea though 7 months ago:
This triggered a lost memory of watching bootleg MacGyver with some friends while getting blackout drunk celebrating Estonian reindependence after the soviet occupation collapsed. It was in German (None of us spoke German) and he was also doing something with some nitroglycerin on a truck.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 7 months ago:
A relative in their 80s with a dumb phone is the average usecase for me.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 7 months ago:
It also includes calls and Internet. Also I have never sent more than 50 SMS messages per month so I guess I haven’t ever cared, most of my communication is either Signal, WhatsApp or Discord. On average it’s probably like 3 sms’ per month though.
I guess I always though it was pretty cheap since I never ran out of data or anything, I don’t think I could send 500 SMS messages if I tried.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 7 months ago:
They are expensive? I pay 10 euros a month and that includes 500 SMS messages and 100 MMS ones along with call time and Internet that I have never exceeded so I haven’t checked how much it is.
- Comment on Anon has an asexual gf 8 months ago:
How did you mispell pedophiles that badly?
- Comment on New Scam: Asking to download Signal/Telegram? 8 months ago:
Wow, I was born during the soviet occupation and I haven’t even seen a check. Checks haven’t been used for over 50 years here.
- Comment on New Scam: Asking to download Signal/Telegram? 8 months ago:
Are checks still used somewhere or are you from the past?