chunkystyles
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- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 1 day ago:
I pay a 1% income tax to my local government.
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 4 days ago:
And in this one, if you move the stick back and forth wrong, you can spin out.
It’s pretty janky, but you can get used to it.
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 6 days ago:
I love NMS, and I think it’s a better game than Starfield overall. But they’re extremely different.
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 6 days ago:
All of your criticisms are spot on. The only thing is disagree with is the story. I thought it was alright. Some of the side quests were great, but there weren’t a lot of those.
I really enjoyed the ship building, but it was extremely limited and unbalanced.
I will say the loading screens didn’t bother me, though.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 1 week ago:
I’ve always been a mid-range gamer. When I was younger, that’s just what I could afford. As I’ve grown older, I didn’t see the point of spending more for high end. Mid-range already feels too expensive. But luckily, the parts last for 5 years easily.
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 1 week ago:
Dropping the Windows tax means being able to offer computers for cheaper prices, which is attractive to consumers. Several companies are offering Linux these days.
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 2 weeks ago:
When I was 5 or 6, my grandmother got a NES and three games. One was Crystalis.
Me and my two cousins played the game in turns, and we eventually got to the first boss, which was quite an achievement because there are puzzle elements to the game.
We could not beat this boss. Several years later, I have my own NES and I borrow Crystalis. I’m pretty sure I got to that boss again and realized something. Hitting him produced a sound that no other monster had. It sounded like hitting solid glass. I finally intuited that I wasn’t strong enough and leveled up to level 3, and wouldn’t you know it, I beat the boss.
It’s one of my all time favorite retro games. It was so ahead of its time. Worth playing if you’ve never tried it.
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 2 weeks ago:
Linux is still not ready for mainstream consumers
Jorge Castro of Universal Blue likes to say that the average person doesn’t install operating systems, and I fully agree with him.
People rock what comes installed on their computer. Anyone who installs an OS them self is not an average user.
I think we’ll see the average user start to choose Linux as more and more manufacturers ditch the Windows tax and ship computers with Linux.
- Comment on What is Docker? 2 weeks ago:
containers should be immutable and not be able to write to their internal filesystem
This doesn’t jive with my understanding. Containers cannot write to the image. The image is immutable. However, a running container can write to its filesystem, but those changes are ephemeral, and will disappear if the container stops.
- Comment on Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S. 4 weeks ago:
While the Switch 2 has better hardware, that’s only a tiny piece of the value proposition. The Deck is leagues better in value. I guarantee it will be able to play new release games for another 10 years. You can’t say that for the Switch 2. It won’t be able to play all of the new releases, sure, but thousands more than the Switch 2.
And that’s not to mention the tens of thousands of games the Deck can play now that the Switch 2 will never be able to play.
The truth is that hype and FOMO are powerful drugs that push gamers to constantly shell out their hard earned money to chase the newest things.
And, to an extent, I get it. There is something to be said about playing games when they come out and experiencing that moment with other gamers. There’s a sort of fraternal feeling about it.
But if you can step back from that and be patient, you can play all the games you have time for and not play into their trap.
- Comment on Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S. 4 weeks ago:
That’s part of the issue, though. Sometimes they sell trash for high prices, too. Sometimes they sell the same game across three console generations and increase the price.
There are way more issues with Nintendo than just whatever your beef with Smash is.
- Comment on I too like to live kind-of-sort-of-dangerously 4 weeks ago:
What is the part for? What does it do?
- Comment on It always seems like its time to move to linux 4 weeks ago:
I had win 8.1 for a long while. It really wasn’t bad. Win 11 is what finally pushed me away from Windows.
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 5 weeks ago:
Comments shouldn’t explain code. Code should explain code by being readable.
Comments are for whys. Why is the code doing the things it’s doing. Why is the code doing this strange thing here. Why does a thing need to be in this order. Why do I need to store this value here.
Stuff like that.
- Comment on Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming 5 weeks ago:
MK 8 is also a previous generation title that Nintendo got to double dip on already.
MK night be a good value proposition for some folks. It’s still too expensive. I have games that I’ve paid $20, $10, sometimes even less for that I’ve gotten more play time out of. Play time to cost is not a good argument.
Let me also contrast with some of Nintendo’s worst practices, like selling 3 old Mario games with no enhancements, that are just emulated, for $60.
- Comment on Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming 5 weeks ago:
FOMO is a helluva drug.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 1 month ago:
Because they are one of the most consumer hostile gaming companies. The only redeeming quality is their games are usually top notch. I personally refuse to give them any more money.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 1 month ago:
That was one of the things that drove me away from Windows. Coming to my desk in the morning to see my computer on not sleeping because it woke up to apply updates or some other shit pissed me off.
Just one of the many ways that with Windows, my computer didn’t feel like I was in control of it anymore.
With Linux, I’m in complete control and it feels so good. Also knowing that I’m not giving out data just by using my computer is great. And FOSS is just cool.
- Comment on Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now 2 months ago:
I agree. HDD to SSD was a huge leap. NVME was a small, sometimes noticable upgrade. Past that, I can’t tell a difference. And it’s hard to get excited about the hardware updates when the software can’t use it.
- Comment on Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now 2 months ago:
I have never once been about to tell a real world difference in SSD speeds. Until OS I/O code improves, faster SSDs don’t excite me.
- Comment on What car stickers say about you 2 months ago:
Thieves are opportunists. Not criminal masterminds. No one is doing car sticker recon.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 2 months ago:
Cast iron for sure works and I’m pretty sure carbon steel does, too. If a magnet sticks to it, it works.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 2 months ago:
They are garbage for heat control if you use them the same way you would a gas or induction stove. If you learn how to use one, resistive electric stoves cook just fine.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 2 months ago:
You like using cheap aluminum pans?
- Comment on Ain't no hate like conservative hate! 2 months ago:
Nobody here wants you dead
This is a lie or willful ignorance.
- Comment on After Years of Struggling To Be Noticed, My Indie Game Was Covered By VICE 2 months ago:
Because of Proton and also how shit can just break on Linux (see the current glibc fiasco), it might be better to have just a Windows version.
I when I play a game, I don’t even notice if it’s Linux native unless the game specifically tells me it’s a Linux build.
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 2 months ago:
Didn’t be so hard on yourself. You can also pester us about the status of Jira tickets.
- Comment on Single-photon LiDAR delivers detailed 3D images at distances up to 1 kilometer 3 months ago:
Despite all of the evidence to the contrary, you chose to be confidently incorrect about this?
- Comment on The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disaster 3 months ago:
I was a loyal Windows user for nearly 30 years and they pushed me to Linux, too. The upside is that Linux is really great.
- Comment on What are your Homelab goals for 2025? 4 months ago:
I did this recently. Opendrive is free up to 5 gb and works with rclone. All I’m backing up is the config and data needed to recreate my containerized services. I’ve even had to recreate them from the backup, once.