BitingChaos

@BitingChaos@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AAAAAAAAAA⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Picture unrelated…

  That looks like the species that shows up every year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch updates sexual content guidelines amid ‘topless’ meta backlash⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They usually cover/conceal nipples, so you don’t see everything.

  In the list of “games”, the top item is the “Just Talking” or whatever the category is called. Click that and try various sorting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to finally go mobile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I installed Firefox (Android version) on a Chromebook to see if I could keep 2 browsers with separate profiles and setups.

  The Firefox browser on a Laptop computer looked awful. A narrow phone UI, but stretched really, really wide. It made no attempt at utilizing a wide tablet layout.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse”

  Capitalism 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  1990s: VR is the future. Put these on!

  2000s: VR is the future. Put these on!

  2010s: VR is the future. Put these on!

  2020s: VR is the future. Put these on!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They were willing to fuck over some people and drive them completely out of business.

  Which people? Developers. The very people that helped make Unity what it is. Unity wanted to completely crush their own developers. Some estimates put Unity’s fees higher than 100% revenue in some scenarios.

  Them back-tracking and saying “wow! we didn’t expect this to be so hated!” shows that they either don’t understand numbers (they do) or that they think their users are idiots.

  So why would developers want to come back to them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will it ever get to a point where data is so over-harvested that it starts to lose value?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still waiting for the spooky stuff I’ve been hearing about for years.

  I’m being tracked. My information sold and exchanged. Big, evil corporations trading my data with other companies like it was baseball cards. All my inner-most desires leaked!

  All to get an ad for a “litter box robot” or whatever when I’m browsing memes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 500 smartphone brands have left the market since 2017⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Moto?

  Motorola lost my business when they sold me a phone and then provided a grand total of ONE OS upgrade its entire life (Moto G LTE, shipped with an outdated 4.4 build, and then got a single update to 5.1 before being abandoned forever).

  There is no potential for brand loyalty when the brand themselves tell their own customers to fuck off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple's new iPhone 15 is an underwhelming 'slap in the face,' say disappointed fans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a 14 Pro, and the changes in the 15 Pro are tempting to me.

  I want USB-C, I want the lighter titanium, I want the rounded edges, I want the new camera effects, I want to try the new case options, etc.

  Anyone coming from an older phone would find a LOT to look forward to in the iPhone 15 or 15 Pro.

  It sounds like your life is pretty sweet in order to be underwhelmed by a magic $800-$1000 device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buyer Receives Fake Core i9-13900K With i7-13700K Guts From Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  With GPUs you can do things like dump its BIOS, alter the identification string, and then re-flash the card.

  I’ve modified a lot of GPU BIOSes to tweak GPU and memory clock timings or enable Mac support.

  CPUs aren’t that easy to modify. I am not aware of any consumer tools that can simply re-write CPU’s internal code.

  Regardless, the first time you run a benchmark and it shows that your CPU is really X and not Y, you will know something is wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Buyer Receives Fake Core i9-13900K With i7-13700K Guts From Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re building systems, I would assume you’re the kind of person that knows how they work.

  • The system tells you what CPU it has on boot.

  • The BIOS tells you what CPU you have.

  • MemTest86 would have told you what CPU you had when you tested it after assembling your system.

  • Windows tells you what you have in Settings > About and Task Manager.

  • Apps like CPU-Z have been downloaded a billion times and tell you what CPU you have.

  • Geekbench would have told you what CPU you have and how it performs.

  The article mentions someone paying a bunch for a specific CPU back in April, but then never bothered actually checking it until recently… What the CPU had written on it is meaningless. I couldn’t even tell you what my current CPU looked like before I installed it. It could have said Pentium 2 or 486SX or Core i-13. What mattered was that it physically fit, the system booted, and my software said “yup, this is what you paid for.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overwatch 2 is the worst game on Steam, according to user reviews | "The people who make Overwatch porn work harder than the people who make Overwatch"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As of April 2022, Blizzard had apparently sold over 50,000,000 copies of Overwatch. That is over 50,000,000 copies now gone. Of course you’re going to hear a LOT of complaints.

  Were any of those other games as big as Overwatch? Were they as successful as Overwatch?

  Lots of companies switch games around. Many times it’s because they are financially hurting or otherwise need a way to increase funding.

  Blizzard had a massive hit and also promised updates to make the game even better.

  After years and years of promising this, Blizzard basically told all their customers psych.

  Not only was the big PvE mode not coming, they very game they were already playing all these years was also going away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overwatch 2 is the worst game on Steam, according to user reviews | "The people who make Overwatch porn work harder than the people who make Overwatch"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought Overwatch on PlayStation, Xbox, Switch, and PC. I also bought it for my daughter on PC. We would play online together.

  I would then buy myself and my daughter each a big loot box pack when there was a new event (Halloween, Christmas, etc.) so that we could get some fun cosmetics.

  I paid A LOT of money for Overwatch.

  Blizzard then killed off the game. It’s gone. We cannot play it, ever again.

  In its place is now Overwatch 2. It looks similar, but it plays differently and has new mechanics and a whole-new monetary system that locks gameplay elements behind a paywall.

  The game now being “free” for everyone to download doesn’t make anything about it better. And it certainly doesn’t make up for the fact that the old game is gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stay in School Kids⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The spelling and grammar in both the comic and OP’s title bother me, especially there is a “stay in school” punchline.

  Some examples:

  Incorrect:

  “Stay in School kids”

  Correct:

  “Stay in school**,** kids.”

  Incorrect:

  “Woah”

  Correct:

  “Whoa”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The NES at 40: Seven ways it changed the gaming world forever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say to them You want ice cream cone?

  Both of them say yes

  How in the hell?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The NES at 40: Seven ways it changed the gaming world forever⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  anyone around when it came out will remember the excitement of super mario twins

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mmusks new ideas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Please welcome the new “Truth Social 2.0”!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That's a significant $2 increase with no official announcement.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I pay!

  I was paying $90 a month for cable TV. Something that I hardly watched. When I did watch it, half the time I was watching OTA channel that I could just pick up with rabbit ears.

  I was spending more time watching YouTube (everything from car crash videos, to videos of people doing lawn care, to reviews of tech stuff), and I was getting fed up with the ads.

  So, I stopped paying the $90 for TV, bought a new HDHomeRun with a new antenna, downloaded the Pluto TV app, and subscribed to YouTube Premium.

  Now I get my OTA shows, get some of the stuff I liked with cable (The 24/7 Tosh.0 channel on Pluto TV is pure delight), and I can binge all the dumb shows I want on YouTube without a single ad getting in my way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thinking of getting a 2ds or 2ds xl. Which one would be more comfy at hand?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you consider the second stick that important, you can always add it to an old 3Ds XL…

  I bought the “Circle Pad Pro” for my old 3DS XL.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem different platforms of the fediverse are not so good at communicating with each other? Is this something that will change eventually?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s beta software syncing with beta software, all while being crushed with a flood of users no one expected before last month.

  I’m surprised things are working as well as they are now.

  Things will get better and more functional as time passes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Programing.dev's logo makes it's way onto r/place alongside RBlind.com⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  *its