tehmics
@tehmics@lemmy.world
- Comment on Latest photo of assassin suspect released by NYPD 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think he’s the one having issues
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 3 weeks ago:
Did you try the new netcode test? Just saw the discord announcement today
- Comment on flouride 4 weeks ago:
I also came across the same study while looking to disprove a conspiracy nut. We should really do more research on the effects of fluoride.
- Comment on Air fryers are simpler than you think, but still pretty neat [19:38] 5 weeks ago:
Watch the video
- Comment on Air fryers are simpler than you think, but still pretty neat [19:38] 5 weeks ago:
And I watched every second of it
- Comment on It's a matter of perspective 1 month ago:
Thank you. I’ve seen the old one before and I knew there was an illusion but I obviously couldn’t find it in the OP.
- Comment on Zotac Zone review: Display galore with class-leading inputs 2 months ago:
These reviews never do a great job talking about UI/UX and that’s literally the only thing I care about until they get the steam deck OS or Microsoft actually enters the space with a Windows version.
- Comment on Where does the music go? 2 months ago:
I can’t say this did or didn’t happen, but I absolutely had ‘philosophical’ thoughts like this as a kid.
When I was ~10 I asked my mom how we know other people aren’t ‘aliens or something’. She just dismissed me as being silly, and I didn’t know it at the time but in retrospect I was absolutely experiencing and asking her about solipsism.
I didn’t know it was ‘philosophy’ but I think it’s integral to how we experience the world and sentience in general.
- Comment on Not everything needs to be Art 2 months ago:
So did I, and I didn’t even know I could play until years later when I sat in front of a friend’s kit for a lesson with them. They basically talked me through the setup, gave me a song to play, and I just played the opening without much fuss. They basically told me I could already play and I just needed time on the kit, left the room and let me go ham.
- Comment on He's just lucky I guess 2 months ago:
Yeah it’d almost be like if a person got swallowed by a whale or something. Someone should write a book about it.
- Comment on Steam Now Warns Consumers That They're Buying a License, Not a Game During a Purchase 2 months ago:
It’s data.
It’s never “owning” in the traditional sense, because data is not physical.
When people say they own something, there’s an implication that it’s theirs until they decide to part with it. That is true for games bought without DRM. DRM free the closest you’ll ever get to ‘owning’ data, you possess that on your own local device and it can’t be taken away.
You can lose the ability to download the game, sure. But that is an additional service, not the game itself. You have that data until you delete it. Same with GoG Galaxy. that’s an extra service.
You’re arguing 2 or 3 different things. Ownership as a legal right, ownership as in possession, and a weird third thing where you seem to be confusing meta services with the ownership of the thing itself.
- Comment on Steam Now Warns Consumers That They're Buying a License, Not a Game During a Purchase 2 months ago:
But GoG provides it DRM free, so you can always play what you’ve downloaded til the end of time. It’s as good as piracy in that way.
- Comment on My new company let me join the union on my first day, within their onboarding app 3 months ago:
They let him use the app to do so. This is needlessly pedantic
- Comment on Healthcare 3 months ago:
Pandering
- Comment on Why do people complain about multiple streaming platforms existing? 4 months ago:
It killed the promise of affordable content we had for a decade. When Netflix was the only game in town, you paid less for it and got more.
- Comment on Louis Rossmann's response to harsh criticism of "Stop Killing Games" from Thor of @PirateSoftware 4 months ago:
I’ve heard reference to that and Thor backpedaling calling it ‘car salesman logic’ or something. Do you know where the clip is?
- Comment on I definitely never unsubscribed from a YouTube channel just for that... 4 months ago:
I’ve ranted about this so much to people close to me. Scientific community just needs to adopt a new word like you say, theory is a lost battle
- Comment on Louis Rossmann's response to harsh criticism of "Stop Killing Games" from Thor of @PirateSoftware 4 months ago:
I’ve been a big fan of Thor since his first shorts boom, but this take is a massive fucking L from him that I’m very sad to see.
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 5 months ago:
Nah that trash isn’t touching my phone unless I’m homeless and starving
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 5 months ago:
Never buy chain pizza at menu price. They all run specials all the time, that are around half off. They keep menu prices high so that they can constantly run buy one get one promos and specials to make you think you’re getting a deal. They also happen to gouge people who won’t bother checking the deals section
- Comment on Watching ads while grandma is choking on a fish bone 1 year ago:
I don’t really agree at all.
The overwhelming majority of people are going to be calling from a cell phone with data access now. It’s time to consider including data access to emergency services w/ emergency roaming functionally just like we do with calls and sms. A system can and should be built out to provide emergency gps, video + information services like we described and live video calls. We have the technology we just have to cut through bureaucracy.
Providing advanced smartphone functionality in emergencies could be hugely beneficial.
- Comment on Watching ads while grandma is choking on a fish bone 1 year ago:
They should also be able to rapidly provide instructional video in the year 2023
- Comment on YouTube does this "suggested video" thing now 1 year ago:
Ok Grandpa it’s time for your nap
- Comment on The Fediverse should do what redditors have always wanted and Reddit Inc. has always refused to do; Distinguish between NSFW and NSFL. 1 year ago:
What if we just had specific tags that we could filter for. everything gets the nsfw tag but we have specific tags for nudity, violence, etc.
- Comment on Dusk Developer David Szymanski: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly 1 year ago:
I didn’t have any issues. We did notice some input lag but disabling vsync helped a lot. Not sure if that was controller related
- Comment on Dusk Developer David Szymanski: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly 1 year ago:
I use so many of steams features it’s unfathomable to use any other launcher or even pirate anything because steam is so streamlined. Cloud saves, automatic local file transfers instead of redundant downloads, family share to my friends PC so half the time when I visit she’ll have already downloaded and played my new games. When I get there they’re just ready to go. Remote desktop to make any tweaks on my PC or casual gaming over stream. Big picture mode so I can lay back with a controller and chill, no futzing with m+kb UI. Steam input means I can easily drop in and out with any controllers.
I just got a steam deck and while I could install another app store on it, I’ve entirely stuck with steam just for the UX. I don’t want to fuck with extra launchers and touchscreen bs.
I just played a coop Windows game on a Linux based portable PC on a 4K TV with a $24 USB hub for video out, using an Xbox and ps5 controllers over Bluetooth. This was completely seamless and controller navigated. Steam is insanely good.
- Comment on Dusk Developer David Szymanski: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly 1 year ago:
Free dlc you say… interesting
- Comment on What are the connotations of Joe Rogan? 1 year ago:
Doesn’t matter which side of politics you’re on, Joe Rogan is batshit insane these days.
- Comment on What are the connotations of Joe Rogan? 1 year ago:
Yeah I don’t remember exactly when he went completely off the rails, but early on it was just a chill podcast that talked about the kinda shit you’d bullshit with your buddies about