Blackmist
@Blackmist@feddit.uk
- Comment on Is it weird to show your son how to shave his pubes if he asked? 12 hours ago:
They don’t half nip your plums though
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 12 hours ago:
Yeah, but I have to stick my face right up close and slowly move it away to do so.
Phone/tablet screens work best for it.
- Comment on Nintendo Wii The Size Of A Game Boy Cartridge Finally Released Open Source 18 hours ago:
Next task: put in into an actual cartridge so you can play them on a real Gameboy Color.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 day ago:
His old one was very similar, but a darker colour so we called him The Fall Guy.
Or rather the few of us in the office old enough to remember that show did.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 day ago:
So do a lot of other governments, to be fair. It’s one of those industries that employs a lot of people, and it’s always bad press to close it when a bit of money could have kept it. Certainly cheaper than putting thousands of people on benefits.
Plus there’s subsidies for domestic sales as well. The UK at least had a grant for plug in cars that they ended a few years ago, presumably just to get the infrastructure up and running.
But then the new vehicle price is neither here nor there in the long term, since most people drive used vehicles anyway. What matters is how many vehicles trickle down to the masses, and whether wear on the battery is a concern. Some of the early smaller models didn’t have great batteries to start with, but as a daily driver to the shops and work it’d probably be fine. For some reason the conversation always drifts over to “but what about that one time you drove across the state” or “remember that time you transported a fridge”, as if that’s something people can’t work around for the once a year they do it.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 day ago:
Oh no! The type of capitalism where we have to compete!
Make it go away, Daddy Trump!
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 day ago:
My boss in the UK got one. In bright red. It looks like he’s driving a fucking fire engine.
- Comment on My world is so much better because of immigrants 1 day ago:
Obligatory Stewart Lee routine: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y38pbfJ4i_U
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I’m surprised it isn’t just Elon typing really fast at this point.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 2 days ago:
And cover your damn face.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 days ago:
It’s just a shame it’s such a half arsed VR conversion. Way too much UI going on for my tastes.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 days ago:
I just can’t get into it. I can see there’s a progress path of stuff to do, but it feels like there’s grind to get anywhere.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 days ago:
I was on an EA boycott for a while without even realising it. They just stopped making anything that interested me.
Only broke it for It Takes Two and Split Fiction, which I paid full price for. I did play a few Respawn games as well (Titanfall 2 and the Jedi games) but got them either as part of PSPlus or Humble Bundles.
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 2 days ago:
- Comment on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not 3 days ago:
I use it on mobile. It’s mostly OK tbh, and the addition of a working ad blocker means it’s far better than Chrome for me.
In fairness that is an invalid URL in my book, but it should at least be consistent across desktop and mobile, or at least tucked behind an option.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 days ago:
On an individual level I can’t unalive a child.
Well, with latest in Israeli technology…
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 days ago:
I fear that the likes of Trump in charge will only reverse any progress we’ve made in the West.
The developing world is going to use more and fossil fuels unless we basically pay them to use something else. And foreign aid seems to be a thing of the past too. I can’t really blame the rest of the world. The west has grown fat and rich off the last 150 years of using it, and now we’ve got the gall to turn to them and tell them not to.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 days ago:
The consumption data is quite interesting. Takes into account the fact that we put most of our emissions in China, and shows what we actually consume per person. And indeed the UK and US have gone down, and India and especially China, have gone up. But that World figure seems pretty flat overall. And we all live on the same ball of slowly heating rock, and none of us are anywhere close to being net zero.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 3 days ago:
You’re an original Xbox controller kind of guy aren’t you?
From the PS4 onwards they did at least acknowledge that most people don’t have tiny child-sized hands, and that most consoles are bought by adults.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 days ago:
OK, if society achieves net zero, you can have as many children as you like.
But given that it’s been going up since the industrial revolution, and it’s still going up, it seems rather fanciful to suggest that it’s within our grasp.
A number of countries have reduced emissions massively, but realistically that mostly means “we’ve moved all our emissions to China”. I could buy green energy from my supplier, but for me that was still coming from a big coal power station a few miles up the road until last year when they finally closed it.
And frankly, if corporations can count the carbon a tree will capture over 30 years and somehow “offset” that against a dirty great factory when they hurl a few pennies at a third world farmer, then we can count the carbon our descendents will emit over that time as well.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 days ago:
Starve the beast.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 days ago:
I’ve got an LED bulb so efficient it glows slightly even when it’s not plugged in.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 days ago:
Yeah, that’s one that doesn’t take a lot of lifestyle change either.
Although it’ll vary based on how much you drive. My wife drives a tiny car and did under 3000 miles last year, so wouldn’t actually make a lot of difference for us. Might as well run it until it keels over, by which time electrics will be even better than they are now. Or enshittified beyond belief. One of the two.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 3 days ago:
Yeah, I couldn’t get on with it at all. Most games are designed for a right analogue stick, and not having one just kills it.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 3 days ago:
It’s weird how quickly Sony discovered the perfect layout and how little it’s changed since.
Analogue triggers are the only really great addition since the original Dual Shock.
The gyro aim on the PS5 (well technically all the way back to the PS3, only not as good) are actually really nice too, but I can count the games that use it on one hand. I’ve no idea why devs are so adverse to using them.
The PS4/5 touch pad would be OK if it wasn’t just used as a giant Select button, because for some reason the actual Select button is now “Share” which literally nobody ever asked for.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 days ago:
Although if you regularly eat a kilo of red meat a day, you should probably talk to your doctor about those blood spots when you wipe your arse.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 3 days ago:
That’s almost certainly the biggest dietary change you can make.
But for overall impact, there’s one winner and it’s bigger than everything else put together.
theguardian.com/…/want-to-fight-climate-change-ha…
Capitalism hates this one weird trick.
- Comment on Just.....why? 4 days ago:
Deshittify, technically.
- Comment on AI agents wrong ~70% of time: Carnegie Mellon study 4 days ago:
We have created the overconfident intern in digital form.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 5 days ago:
protections we put in place to secure players’ data
The player data that we are required to agree to share with 1643 trusted data partners in order to connect to your service? That player data?
Go fuck yourself, you ghouls.
