darth_helmet
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- Comment on Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros 9 months ago:
They’re a public company, we’ll get sales figures and enough proxy numbers to have a good guess. Shareholders are going to want to know.
- Comment on Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros 9 months ago:
So the quest pro? Foveated rendering only matters if you don’t have the graphics throughput to render it all, so I don’t totally buy that it’s key to a good vr headset so much as helps you get away with cheaper silicon. Maybe enough-lower tdp that it enables slimmer design.
- Comment on Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros 9 months ago:
And here I am just thankful that I don’t have to hold the camera with one hand
- Comment on Are there any games like Diablo but not Diablo because Diablo? 9 months ago:
Path of exile charges for inventory QoL and with the ludicrous amount of different stuff that drops, it’s arguably kind of mandatory if you’re trying to complete seasonal objectives
- Comment on Ending Dead Cells updates is a "marketing stunt" to "leave room" for Windblown, claims former lead designer 9 months ago:
Well. You probably shouldn’t sell out if you want control of the game’s roadmap.
- Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 9 months ago:
Literally the wet dream of every gun owner.
- Comment on Apple employees outnumbered customers at Vision Pro launch in San Francisco's Union Square 9 months ago:
Very real possibility
- Comment on Apple employees outnumbered customers at Vision Pro launch in San Francisco's Union Square 9 months ago:
lol you’re dreaming if you think Apple is going to introduce a new computing platform and not wall its garden off so it can take a cut of all sales. That’s just how it is now, and every year they take a little freedom away from macOS. Mac users haven’t had true root for years.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 9 months ago:
Yeah, they have order me minimums for some of their shipping options anyway. $25 for same day in my area, but once my membership lapses I bet I still end up getting shit in around the same time
- Comment on Tesla Cybertruck Owners Who Drove 10,000 Miles Say Range Is 164 To 206 Miles 9 months ago:
Yes it is a complete friggin coincidence! The meter is 1/10millionth of the distance from the North Pole to the equator (but just so slightly shorter than that due to measurement errors in 19th century France), but I’m still not sure why they landed on that ratio or that particular distance. I assume they were looking for a base unit of a size that would be really easy for everyone to estimate: if I asked you to demonstrate a meter, you could approximate it probably within 15% with your hands.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 10 months ago:
Another Epic con: they bribe devs to not launch their games on Steam and GoG, because their store isn’t good.
- Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap 10 months ago:
I must have missed the cutoff by a couple of months. But here’s the thing: that cpu is still more than enough to drive 60fps on all the games I play, which includes typically demanding categories like fps, while running discord and YouTube and recording software. So the fact that Microsoft decided to fuck me over feels bad. TPM is garbage design from the hardware up, but I know to run secure workloads in secure places already.
The right thing to do should have been to force oem-licensed win11 to have TPM, and allowed retail versions to install with a pop up about security features which won’t be supported without it. Fuck Microsoft for not doing this obvious, simple thing.
- Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap 10 months ago:
Corporate IT requires a backdoor on all systems, the only thing sticking out is how automated they can make that on windows and macOS. And they do need that backdoor, so that they can check on and force patches so that you don’t end up with anyone else’s backdoor. Pretty reasonable when you really think about it.
- Comment on Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap 10 months ago:
I built a $1500 pc 6 years ago that doesn’t have a tpm. One gpu upgrade and this thing still does everything I want it for, including running modern games and VR with entirely acceptable performance. When windows 10 stops getting security updates, I’m just going to install arch on it.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
If this guy isn’t rolling his own distro he’s basically a scrub like the rest of us.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
Taking a thing and then improving it to the point that it has massively larger appeal has value, innovative or not.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
The graphical user interface.
They don’t invent it (xerox PARC did), but Apple correctly identified that the user experience of existing computer systems was holding it back from being a thing everyone owns, and made computers a bad fit for many types of work that seem extremely obvious now (digital media creation particularly)
They did this more or less again with the smartphone: business folks and super nerds were the smartphone market before Apple. Now it’s the average person’s computer.
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 11 months ago:
What do you think “improved” means in the OP?
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 'Isn't Going to be on Game Pass', Insists Larian Boss 11 months ago:
Steam has a two hour refund window. Watch a stream and then set a timer and try it out.
- Comment on Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence 11 months ago:
Running android puts rather a low ceiling on security and privacy
- Comment on Driverless cars were the future but now the truth is out: they’re on the road to nowhere 11 months ago:
One hundred years from now, it’ll probably mostly still be cars. Aerotaxis for the rich, maybe
- Comment on The Anacrusis IGN Review (4/10) 11 months ago:
The build system for different archetypes is relatively satisfying and interesting to grind through, it hugely changes how you play a match and I think it’s a really good addition to the formula. It’s a decent time with the lads, which is all it needed to be.
- Comment on The Anacrusis IGN Review (4/10) 11 months ago:
Back4blood doesn’t suck, but it did really take a while for the game to be tuned at the harder difficulties. It’s a solid upgrade over l4d2 in every way, but doesn’t benefit from nostalgia goggles. I wish it had l4d vs mode and mod support, but I still put in a hundred hours or so (haven’t checked dlc) which is pretty reasonable value.
The problem with back4blood is that it’s good: not great.
- Comment on Paradox's The Lamplighters League adds new playable character and Events system in latest free update 11 months ago:
It is a fun mashup of stealth and tactics, but there’s so much to play right now that I’ve only put in a couple hours. This just came out the wrong year.
- Comment on Fallout TV Show - Trailer 11 months ago:
… you know it omitted the last three books, right?
- Comment on Waluigi Creator Reveals Scrapped Design for 'Walpeach' in Mario Power Tennis 11 months ago:
A stealth-action game where walpeach kidnaps each of bowsers kids
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
Maybe it’s because cars suck now: filled with spyware, massively complex systems that aren’t better at doing car things than similar systems in the 90s, and with a price tag that considers this garbage as worth something to the consumer.
- Comment on What "sacred Bajoran trinket" do you suppose this is? 11 months ago:
On mobile you have to remind it that you don’t want to use the fucking app, and also that you don’t want to fucking log in with your Google account, and yes really I don’t want to use the fucking app, and no I don’t want you to use cookies, and no I don’t care if the app experience is better and also no, thank you, I don’t want to log in
- Comment on Sonic Shower Thought: Someone has probably used holodeck technology to feel like they're pooping at home. 11 months ago:
It’s a job in Lower Decks which I think makes it canon.
That being said, it would be hilarious if holodecks can be self-cleaning but they still make ensigns do it anyway to “build character”
- Comment on Sonic Shower Thought: Someone has probably used holodeck technology to feel like they're pooping at home. 11 months ago:
We didn’t need any more supporting data to cement “cleaning out the holodecks” as the worst job in starfleet