Buddahriffic

@Buddahriffic@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I had an A5 a while back and samsung didn’t make me hate them so the next phone I got was an s10. On that phone, they decided that they needed to dedicate a physical button to their fucking virtual assistant bixby. It was pretty obvious to me that these virtual assistants were mostly actually data vacuums, wanting to integrate into every aspect of your life so they can access better data on all those aspects.

  Every single time it opened that fucking thing, it was unintentional. It wasn’t as annoying as your TV, since I bet the phone was way faster and had enough memory to not have to discard whatever else you were doing just to open its app, but it exemplifies how I see samsung today. Hardware had great specs but the software made it annoying by trying to lock everything in to their ecosystem without a hard lock like apple. Even MS had ways of disabling the windows button (which used to have a high chance of crashing a game if you accidentally hit it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I didn't verify the headline.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  He must think his god is very weak if all it takes are magnets to… uh make you forget about him? What exactly does he even mean by magnets sucking god from people’s minds? Wait, maybe it’s a bad attempt at a blowjob joke?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows 10 had a better kernel than 7. Unfortunately, that kernel was packaged with the rest of windows 10.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember being annoyed that I had to install yet another launcher and make yet another account when I was installing portal. But I didn’t know at the time that this was the launcher to end most other launchers and accounts, or at the very least made most of that transparent other then adding an extra click to launch some games.

  Iirc, Blizzard had just replaced the wow in-game patcher with a launcher (though I don’t recall if they had a unified launcher for each game, if they all had their own at that point, or if it was just wow), Oblivion had a game launcher, and I think there were a few others. Some of them even needed to be installed separately iirc.

  Steam is nice because, being the launcher for most of my games, it’s just always open and helps organize my games. And it doesn’t feel like its main purpose is to make money, with everything else just being about opening pathways to that money. And even though it is meant to make Valve money, it’s the lack of blatant dark patterns and constant upsell attempts that makes it feel better than most of the rest of the commercial world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodnight sweet prince⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a convection toaster oven/air fryer, and even that is way better than my oven.

  Whatever the baking instructions are normally, I can cut 25% of the time off (actually have to or it will burn), plus I don’t have to bother preheating it, unless the cook time is very short.

  Plus it uses way less power than the fullsize oven. The one I have takes forever to preheat and has to be set 25 degrees higher, and the convection function doesn’t seem to make any difference because the fan blows. As in it sucks, and I don’t mean the air behind it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even do Price Discrimination on video games now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of the time I installed a 3d modelling program at work and decided I liked it and pirated it at home.

  The work one took weeks of troubleshooting on my own with the instructions followed by email back and forth with support. And the business I worked for had a partner license the whole time. Their DRM involved a dongle in the parallel port and a license server running on the local machine.

  At home, I decided one day to use it to make test files for a raytracer I was writing, found it, downloaded it, installed it, and was running it by the end of the night without any of the fancy shit they tried to add to prevent this.

  That was when I learned that that pain in the ass DRM was only a pain in the ass for legitimate users and lazy/naive piraters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a trick to it...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah patient gamers check in!

  When you feel like it, that is, assuming checking in lives up to any of the hype or seems fun at all.

  For impatient gamers, pre-order checking in right now and I, uh… And my LLC pinky promises that checking in will be amazing, so you better give me money to reserve it now in case we run out of check ins by the time you get to the front of the line. You don’t want to miss out on something great, do you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Jarvis, arm the valediction*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It could also mean something like, “I am going to challenge your opinion but don’t intend it as a challenge to your position”. Or even, “I respect your opinion and think you might be right, but I don’t understand it, so here’s the thing that has me confused so we can clear it up and get on the same page”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol thanks for the reminders with the corrections. Funny thing was I had started with S, then remembered shi, so switched to T. Should have done K instead. T also has tsu instead of tu, so even S would have been more correct than my “correction”.

  I think I might have initially had katakana written down but second guessed (though I did initially misspell it again right here, so it was probably another one that started wrong and was corrected wrongly).

  And yeah, the origin of hiragana has a story of overcoming oppression. From women not being allowed to use katakana to them just deciding to invent a new alphabet so they could write anyways, and apparently being better at it because that’s now the main alphabet, it’s like the hero’s journey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking back at the thread, bans were mentioned, but the context that I was following looked like it was about wanting to go beyond what’s banned because the industry just rotates in variations of the chemicals whenever specific ones are banned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but if I use stainless steel pans, I can use stainless steel wool to clean them, so the sticking doesn’t really matter aa much when it does happen, plus cooking techniques can reduce or eliminate sticking even on stainless steel. So I’ll adjust to say I’m not losing anything I value.

  And I don’t have a huge issue with it being used on things that doesn’t touch our skin or food/water often. And my goal is to minimize exposure in this plastic world. I understand that at least some restaurants (if not most that use pans) probably use nonstick pans and that I’m getting exposed to BPA every time I touch a receipt. So I don’t use those pans at home and don’t let receipts linger in my hands and use gloves when going through a bunch of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She's out of town and I'm cleaning her entire collection as a surprise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How is it an overreaction if it can be done without losing anything in life? I retired all my pans with non-stick coating years ago and haven’t missed them a single time and appreciate that it makes it easier to minimize the number of plastic cooking utensils my kitchen has, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I started learning Japanese and it quickly became clear where that accent comes from. This comment is about the mechanics, as I understand them, so skip if you dgaf.

  Most of their consonant sounds are paired with a vowel sound that follows, eg: ta (tah), te (teh), ti (tee), to (toe), tu (too), though they aren’t always audibly pronounced (eg, in Naruto, Sasuke is the spelling, but it’s pronounced like Saskeh). That’s where the “su” sound sometimes replacing an “s” sound at the end of words comes from, or “ru” replacing an “r” sound. It’s correct with and without audibly pronouncing the “u”, so Japanese speakers might add or omit it based on preference.

  They also don’t have all of the consonant sounds we do. Most notable is their lack of an “R” or “L” sound, but they do have a sound that is like a mix of the two. Sasuke’s voice actor pronounces “Naruto” with that sound instead of an “R” sound. It’s like an R with a slight roll, not as pronounced as in French, but from making an R sound and briefly touching your tongue to your teeth as if you were making an L sound.

  They are also missing the V sound, their closest would be the B sound. Their word for GPS navigator is “Nabi”, for example.

  And they have so many loanwords from other languages that they even use a seperate alphabet (katanaga) for them. It’s a one-to-one translation from their other alphabet (hiragana). Though even two alphabets wasn’t enough and there’s kanji on top of that, which is another set of over a thousand symbols that help disambiguate their many words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently (basically which syllable the rise in pitch changes to a drop in pitch).

  Also, their sentence structure is very different. Like a typical english sentence might go: Subject verb object. Jaoanese sentences are more like: Subject object verb, though, like English, their grammar allows for many variations, and also omissions. Like they can drop the subject entirely from the sentence. Like I could introduce myself as “Buddahriffic desu”, but I could introduce you as “SaraTonin desu”. A direct translation would be “SaraTonin is” or “Buddahriffic is” and you’d need to figure out who the subject is using context.

  The end result is that I’m impressed with any Japanese person who can speak english well enough to communicate, let alone if they are fluent, because it’s a lot more than I was able to do with theirs, unless the necessary communication is very basic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think the bubble bursting will slow AI that much, it’ll just be a round of hot potatoe over, the losers will lose their money and others will come in hoping to be profitable since they can skip a bunch of R&D costs.

  AI is overhyped, but just like the internet after the dotcom bubble burst, it’s not going anywhere.

  Plus I suspect that this time will be a dollar collapse rather than stock market collapse, which would mean prices would go up even more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cleaning can still help if it only slow charges (if you mean it used to be able to use high wattage ones).

  Gunk prevents a strong connection, which can mess with the handshake. Charger will say, “yeah, I can fast charge, check out these amps!” but not all of it gets through and the case will decide the charger is a liar and just go with slow charging. Don’t assume that something getting through at all means the connection is fine because USB has fallback options when conditions are sub-optimal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Soft is good because you want the cleaning tool to break before it can apply enough force to break or scratch the contact. Use a cleaning solution to soften the gunk instead. Doesn’t have to be a part of a kit, just make sure it’s safe for metals, like isopropyl alcohol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would not use metal simply because its hardness is going to be similar or higher than the hardness of the contacts themselves, which means there’s a chance it could scratch or break the contact entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The specs of saliva that go along with blowing corrode the contacts over time, so it is actually better to find an alternative with a soft brush and non/less-acidic cleaning solution.

  Nintendo sold cartridge cleaning kits in the 90s (maybe even the 80s).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol you just saying that made me nervous. Using a staple would make it easy to accidentally break a contact off entirely, and I’m not sure if there are any consequences for shorting any of the USB pins to each other. Even a twist tie would be better, since it has another material to do the rubbing and the metal is less stiff than a staple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t want to be too rough on it. There’s electrical contacts that can get blocked by dust, lint, and crap, so cleaning helps, but the contacts themselves aren’t that thick, so you don’t want to wear them down too much while cleaning. A cleaning solution helps loosen up everything with less force and a softer brush/pad is less likely to knock bits of contact off.

  So just be careful because that brush might be like blowing in nintendo cartridges (clearing dust but leaving saliva specs that would wear the contacts), where it helps in the short term but makes things worse in the long term (resulting in more blowing and an acceleration of the process).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I can say that covers most of the “troubleshooting” I’ve had to do with games that don’t work. I usually go in thinking “uh oh, maybe it’s time for me to have to check a bunch of proton versions, this will be a pain” only to see that it’s trying to run it natively and switching to proton at all resolves any issues.

  The only other thing that comes to mind is that I use dvorak and something about the way keyboard layouts are handled means it tries to “preserve” the bindings when I switch layouts in game, so it keeps the messed up QWERTY keys but dvorak layout even when I switch (and can tell it’s switched from typing things like in chat). Most games let me rebind the keys so I just need to go through the bindings, hitting the key currently bound each time as if I was using QWERTY and it rebinds. Though I suspect that due to the “preserve the layout” behaviour that keyboard input is handled specially by proton and maybe I can tweak settings to get the desired behaviour (ie, changing layouts in game means I want the bindings to change).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a translation layer, but the bit you added “to native code” sounds like you’re misunderstanding what translation layer means.

  Games use a collection of APIs (DirectX is a set of APIs, but there’s others to handle offer operations like network access and such) to interact with OS functionality, and also receive communicarion back from the OS (the windows message loop). Proton and wine are implementations of those APIs that translate the API calls to their equivalent in linux, as well as setting up their own message loop that translates messages from the linux kernel and UI system into their windows equivalent before sending them to the registered windows messaging loop functions.

  A simple example would be if a function header in windows looks like int32 SomeFuncWin( int64 index, char* name ), but looks like int32 SomeFuncLinux( std::string name, int64 index ), then the translation would be something like:

  int32 SomeFuncWin( int64 index, char* name ) {
  std:string TranslatedName( name );
  return SomeFuncLinux( TranslatedName, index );
  }

  So it doesn’t change/translate any of the code of the program itself, it just provides the environment that behaves exactly like a windows environment by translating the “hey could the OS do this for me?” requests from windows to linux. Note that not all translations are that simple, there might need to be more processing on the values, missing arguments might need to be filled in, irrelevant arguments ignored, sometimes data needs to be translated to another format, etc.

  The speed ups can come from improved efficiency in the underlying implementations (which Vulkan has, as I understand even using a translation layer from DX to Vulkan in windows can result in better performance) or having fewer services running in the background.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨card game shop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you come in with basically an expertly placed, “what if medical science has no solution to their uncontrollable stench?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You think a quarter of people are suidical or contemplating it to the point of talking about it with an AI?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, when I got my most recent GPU, my plan had been to also get a 4k monitor and step up from 1440p to 4k. But when I was sorting through the options to find the few with decent specs all around, I realized that there was nothing about 1440p that left me dissapointed and the 4k monitor I had used at work already indicated that I’d just be zooming the UI anyways.

  Plus even with the new GPU, 4k numbers weren’t as good as 1440p numbers, and stutters/frame drops are still annoying… So I ended up just getting an ultra-wide 1440p monitor that was much easier to find good specs for and won’t bother with 4k for a monitor until maybe one day if it becomes the minimum, kinda like how analog displays have become much less available than digital displays, even if some people still prefer the old ones for some purposes. I won’t dig my heels in and refuse to move on to 4k, but I don’t see any value added over 1440p. Same goes for 8k TVs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gotta be more encouraging⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve gotta either interest someone with the knowledge to pursue it or actually go to the college and gain the knowledge yourself. Because the truth is, unless you can motivate someone to do your thing, your thing isn’t going to be as interesting to others as it is to you, even if it would be revolutionary. There’s a good chance the idea relies on phenomena that only exist because of a lack of understanding (if you aren’t able to go from idea to proof of concept), or maybe require a solution to a very hard problem just hiding below the surface.

  Plus, even with the motivation, if you don’t know enough to do the thing and aren’t in a financial position to control the operation’s finances, there’s a good chance you’ll be discarded once you are no longer needed, which in this case is once they understand your idea. That “sorry, not interested” might actually be a “go away, this is interesting but I don’t think you’ll add anything more to this, so I’ll do it alone”.

  So instead of thinking “this is cool but I have no idea how”, think, “what do I need to learn to better understand my idea and its execution?” Hell, even being able to break it up into discrete and complete steps would be a great start because then you can start hiring out those different steps if you can’t do them, without having to give away the whole thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I used to be with it"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, those were CDs. I don’t think I got to the DVDs, since my sense of urgency faded after I saw the older ones seemed ok. I’ll have to check them out after you said that, though lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I used to be with it"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s probably best you maintain some distance from winamp, especially if it’s been drinking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I used to be with it"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently learned of MDisc (there’s a CD and DVD version, too, iirc) and decided to get a burner and convert my old data CDs.

  While I haven’t verified every single bit, I did check that the files copied off of it were still functional and didn’t see any issues. Also didn’t get any errors. I was surprised because I’ve had some of them for over 20 years now and didn’t do more than put them in CD binders to protect them (during the days when I didn’t even consider the longevity of the media, other then obvious things like scratches.

  Only disc I wasn’t able to get the data from was a packet CD, which was a special format that facilitated treating the disc more like diskettes, where you could read or write at will via the filesystem rather than writing the disc as a special package from the start (or having multiple sessions if there’s still room on the disc after one such write). I was able to find references to the tech, though not if it was a standard or just a name a few different companies used for different implementations, but I wasn’t able to find Linux drivers that could do anything other than rip the ISO and a few strings or tell me it can’t find anything. Though it’s possible that corruption is really what happened here because I’d expect RW CDs to last a shorter time than the write once ones.

  Though I suppose I could try it on my old windows machine and see if drivers are more readily available there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I used to be with it"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that last bit a dig at German humour?