Rai

@Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I go to a phone store every time I get a new phone!

  checks when my last phone was bought… 2018

  I go to a phone store every six or seven years!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh my gawd it’s best thing. Hospital was insane but very interesting and by the time I got home I was feeling pretty awesome… my boss told me to not think about work and that he set me up for a leave of absence I still get paid for with HR. I’m treasuring every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The crossover you've been waiting for⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Muramasa gang

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh dear… I was in hospital a few weeks ago and I’ve been recovering at home. In the last two weeks I’ve manly played three games: 64 hours in the first, 50 hours in the second, and 10 hours in the third (that one was all in one day)

  I’d never use a thing like GeForce Now either way, but I’d be boned hahaha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All I need to do is dip into a vial of LSD to feel childlike wonder and glee!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm definitely giggling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw a “NO SMORKING” sign on Engrish dot com circa 2001 or so

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Supporting giant evil DOES sometimes get you free stuff… I know folks who have accidentally been shipped multiple of what they’re ordering (in two cases, the items were quite expensive) and when they’ve brought it up, they were told to keep the extras.

  Maybe not worth the evil, but hey, free stuff is cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I love my iPhone, I’ve been using them for like 12 years (I loved Android but switched when physical keyboards stopped exiting cuz I liked iOS’s keyboard a lot, then fell in love with most of the rest of the OS and how long I could keep my phone for before replacing.)

  The one thing I absolute hate is the App Store. It’s insane. It’s so counter to the rest of Apple’s “simple stuff that works” … “ethos”. I use VERY few apps, I only have a couple installed on my phone. Say I want one, though. I open the App Store right now. Main page it dumps me on: 75% of the screen is a Tinder ad (I’ve never used a dating app and I’ve been with my partner for 15 years.) The rest of the screen space below that is a Google Gemini ad (I don’t use any Google products or services anymore, wtf Apple?)

  I click on the “Games” tab below and it’s an EXTREMELY busy, loud, colorful assault on my senses. Absolutely not! The “Apps” tab isn’t any better, huge ads take up 50% of the screen and below that, GET TIKTOK AND TINDER. Uhhhh no, never.

  Okay, let’s go to search. Click, and it gives me a search box at the bottom with some suggested apps and games I might like. I can appreciate that Apple’s data collection is allegedly a lot lighter than other companies, because none of the suggested shit is anything I would ever touch in my life. Let’s download one of the very few games I have on my phone: Ascension, a deck building game. I type “ascension game” and the first result is an AD FOR A WEIRD MEDICAL APP THAT DOESN’T SAY ASCENSION ANYWHERE AND HAS 70 REVIEWS WHYYYYY?!

  An absolute mess compared to the mostly great layouts of their other programs on the iPhone. I do not love the latest iPhoto UI change but I can deal with that. The App Store is fucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At first I read “Wired West” and got hopeful for a new person experiencing Dust for the first time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’ve just sat on a waterbed I’d count it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost 40, 20 point gang

  I’ve used heaps of typewriters. My mum had an antique one when I was growing up that still worked and I loved it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh … yeah, it’s his livelihood. He writes books on programming with Apple machines. Of course he’s still going to do the things he’s been doing his whole life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've probably met someone who has killed a person⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m four friends (three best friends at various points in life) and five or six acquaintances down, and I’m not 40 yet. I’ll have to agree with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good games to play while sick?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get mega sick every con D: worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good games to play while sick?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Vampire of Rain

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good games to play while sick?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ball X Pit is PERFECT for being sick. I was recovering from hospital and marathoned it in a couple days. Beat it in 33 hours.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the worst thing you have ever done?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also cool that all twelve pixels of this bullshit screenshot of a fake story also has bad words censored

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite ps2 multiplayer games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Return to Arms was everything Norrath was, better! It totally still holds up today! Tons of QoL improvements, especially when you have 3-4 people trying to use the store at the same time hahaha. I loved being able to easily switch from shield to throwing weapon, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite ps2 multiplayer games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Champions of Norrath and Champions: Return to Arms were fucking STELLAR for local co-op. I never see them mentioned. I should bust out my PS2 and go through a run of each with my partner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obama's got jokes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love that we’re just AI boomerposting now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Objectively yes. From the 90s to the early ‘10s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3rd-person shooters optimized for controllers?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As an avid KBM user, I played through “Returnal” with a Dualsense on my computer and wouldn’t recommend any other way! It uses the Dualsense’s triggers and haptics and it’s definitely made for controller play. I loved the game and would fully recommend it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink rival ‘Project Kuiper’ rebrands to Amazon Leo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is everyone‘a jokes here “Law Enforcement Officer”-coded and I’m just missing the joke?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a pi-hope and I’m running Wipr 2… a LOT of blank white space on that page hahaha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It sort of is… I collect consoles, I have everything from the 2600 to PS3/Wii/360. I quit after that because the XBone and PS4 were just horrible shitty PCs that ran games like garbage and had insane load times. I like the newest XBox and PS5, but I’m done collecting consoles forever because they’re just locked down PCs now. The Steam Machine is a console for computer game players with MUCH LESS locked down OS than a PlayStation or XBox and I love that idea very much. I have four high-end computers for games at my house (maybe five, one is old but still works great with linux) and I would still consider a Steam Machine in my house as another first computer… but it does really taste like a console (in a good way)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  BTC is best and I do have some, but I didn’t get into LLMs, no use case for me at this point. But I think VR is in a completely different bucket. VR was so fucking awesome for my partner and myself to chill out in with our friends in 2020 when we couldn’t go out and see peeps. It’s also easily the best most fun form of exercise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  VR is so fucking cool tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Confederacy (or whatever)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Myeeeeess owo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Confederacy (or whatever)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you knot?! I easily have 2k USD in bad dragon toys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank me later...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus! I’m so sorry your friend went through that, that’s awful! I’m very thankful for test strips now… it’s terrifying that something so opposite can just find its way into blow.

  I’m glad you’re safe, and I hope your friend is okay now.

  Good on you for no longer fuckin with it. My partner and I drink too much but otherwise are mainly sober from substances—we just have some random special days every couple months where we do something fancy and fun.