BeardedGingerWonder
@BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk
- Comment on Google Delists Sites Providing DIY Hormone Therapy at Behest of UK Government 1 week ago:
I’m curious about the blood tests, like how do you arrange them? I’m on some pills for something at the minute that require frequent blood tests to track and it’s onerous enough through the NHS, can only imagine the hassle of getting specific blood tests organised outside the system.
- Comment on Voyager 1 1 week ago:
Jeez, I’ve just looked at the list of utilities, I’m not surprised, it’s got FireWire drivers for dos included. You’ve got to be pretty deep into the weeds at the point you need FireWire support in DOS from a recovery disk!
- Comment on Voyager 1 1 week ago:
Whoa learned that one at the weekend. Added a new nvme drive, cloned the old drive. I wanted to expand my linux partition, but it was at the start of the drive. So shifted all the windows stuff to the end and grew the Linux partition.
Thought I’d boot into windows to make sure it was okay, just in case (even though I’ve apparently not booted it in 3 years). BSOD. 2-3hrs later it was working again, I’m still not sure what fixed it of I’m honest, I seemed to just rerun the same bootrec commands and repair startup multiple times, but it works now, so yay!
- Comment on Sunak accused of making mental illness ‘another front in the culture wars’ 3 weeks ago:
They were sorting of at the point where they were going “who the fuck else is there?”
- Comment on bath time 3 weeks ago:
Lol, it looks like an ObviousPlant product.
- Comment on jants 2 months ago:
No, just this joke
- Comment on Remember me 4 months ago:
Both big fans of cock
- Comment on Why do we have an internal monologue? 4 months ago:
I’d say I can’t actively observe a thought without my internal monologue in some way narrating it or articulating what’s going on. Frankly that’s the reason I have difficulty understanding what it’s like for someone without internal monologue.
- Comment on human.exe 4 months ago:
Ironically probably the most human I’ve ever seen him be.
- Comment on Surf and turf baby 5 months ago:
This is horrific, and I’ll eat just about anything 😂
- Comment on To beat a blind kid 5 months ago:
Didn’t see that one coming.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 5 months ago:
Correct, it’s for tracking work items.
- Comment on Can anyone confirm? 5 months ago:
I’m agreeing with you.
- Comment on Can anyone confirm? 5 months ago:
That’s tea FFS, who has that kind of money to spend on breakfast. It’s reconstituted pork sausages and blood pudding for breakfast.
- Comment on Can anyone confirm? 5 months ago:
Clearly a troll, beans have no place on a greasy fry up.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 5 months ago:
You know when you see people teleport on TV and they just appear in a different place with no major world breaking repercussions? It works like that
- Comment on Non-native english speaker here. Need help with my work emails 5 months ago:
Me too, that seems like a weirdly specific thing for two people on Lemmy to do.
- Comment on What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials & Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working. 6 months ago:
The person you’re replying to is a moron, basic maths tells me they’re wrong. My phone costs £400/year, let’s round that up to £500 for ease of calculation (less once the handset is paid off, but I’ll give them the best possible argument). Living in a 3 bed semi, nothing fancy, decent area. Currently my house would cost £200-250k, I’ll take the lower end, again benefits their argument. At £500/year it would take 400 years for me to save for my home. Not a big fancy home, a relatively small starter home. My smart phone is not the reason I can’t afford a bigger house.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal approved by UK regulators 6 months ago:
Both MS and Sony absolutely produce their own games with wholly internally established studios. MS game studios existed before Xbox even.
I’m not sure what the rest of your point is even about, of course it makes sense for MS and Sony to short circuit work and risk, that doesn’t make anything better for consumers. The better option for consumers is for MS and Sony to build their own franchises and have good exclusives that way rather than taking existing third party franchises and limiting access.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal approved by UK regulators 6 months ago:
There’s a third way here though, MS could make good exclusive games themselves and leave Activision available for everyone.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
NGL, I don’t game as much as I used to so the sample size is probably terrible and I’m on ultrawide which only makes it worse, but the last couple of games I’ve installed either went a bit too conservative on settings or enabled some form of ray tracing because my graphics card supports it - but ultimately it made the game an unpleasant experience.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
So long as it’s a standardisation process I think it’s fine. Most are using prebuilt anyway so having a few standard levels SIs certify to makes it more consoley and anyone who’s rolling their own can use it as a guide or not and it’s exactly the same as the status quo.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Yeah it really is, I jump on protondb and read like 2-3 reviews to make sure the performance is adequate and there’s no major game breaking bugs and it’s fine.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
I don’t think the point was ever to have to buy the hardware from valve, or that’s not how I saw it anyway. They wanted other manufacturers in on the steam machines, I think there were even units produced. The idea (aside from more steam sales) was to standardise PCs around specific performance levels so developers could target them without the faff of having to know how a 12900K stacks up against a Ryzen 7 7800X3D or a 13700 with a 3080, 4070Ti or a 7800XTXxXTTX.
This game is certified steam medium tier, I have a steam high tier machine, I will get xyz performance.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
It’s a different thing IMO, futzing around with PC settings is a pain to a lot of people, which is where consoles lie. Also your 6 year old PC cost twice what your console did. It’s not a like for like comparison.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Maybe Valve should take another crack at the console market.