Blackmist
@Blackmist@feddit.uk
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 6 hours ago:
Sounds like a big smart watch.
And I’m not sure how useful the Pip-Boy format would be. Now you’ve got a device that still requires both arms to use, but you can only use one hand…
- Comment on Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian says AI should moderate social media 1 day ago:
“that way we can profit from normies and Nazis!”
- Comment on nets 1 day ago:
The worst thing about paper straws is seeing it poked through a plastic lid.
- Comment on What is the best looking retro console or PC? 1 day ago:
I never liked the side-by-side Mega CD.
The stacked one looked better. Like an old hifi system.
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 2 days ago:
Yeah, if you didn’t see that writing on the wall you need your eyes testing.
No Chrome browser will be maintained to keep using Manifest V2.
Use Firefox.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 2 days ago:
If it’s within reach of a 60 hour week then it’s within reach of a 30 hour week.
This LLM copycat bullshit is never going to be it though. It’s not thinking, it’s looking up the answers at the back of the book.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 2 days ago:
I mean you could argue that them defaulting to Google search is already them selling your data. Google definitely pay them for that.
- Comment on Does Monster Hunter Wilds still look and feel like dog water? 3 days ago:
Depends on your hardware. I ran the benchmark tool for a laugh. I don’t think I quite meet minimum spec, but not far off I think. If you’re down that end, I’d avoid it.
Lots of upscaling and frame generation options, which honestly make it look shite.
- Comment on hate your job? how about you die and still have to do it 3 days ago:
Verhoeven is an understated genius.
We haven’t gone far enough down the timeline to see little X$Σ≞ Musk cutting off the mutant’s air supply on Mars yet, but I have confidence we’ll get there.
- Comment on hate your job? how about you die and still have to do it 3 days ago:
Possibly the most Cyberpunk movie of all time.
- Comment on Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC 5 days ago:
Not really sure who this is for. With soldered RAM is less upgradeable than a regular PC.
AI nerds maybe? Sure got a lot of RAM in there potentially attached to a GPU.
But how capable is that really when compared to a 5090 or similar?
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 5 days ago:
There’s been a handful but nothing I could name off the top of my head and the specs meant anything more impressive than Super Meat Boy might be out of the question.
Just cheap crappy Windows 8 tablets for the most part, with controller buttons tacked on.
- Comment on Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12 6 days ago:
The PEGI management board is people that publish games, people that make consoles and trade organisations.
None of whom want to see sales go down.
They’re behind the bonkers decision that representations of gambling are worse than actual gambling.
PEGI mainly exists to save publishers bothering with each country’s classifications boards. Before that you’d have like BBFC in the UK, and each country having to rate it. It’s industry self regulation, and like any good fox guarding the henhouse, they’re not doing a great job of it.
- Comment on Balatro wins formal appeal to reclassify poker game as PEGI 12 6 days ago:
The publishers own PEGI.
Whatever rating they want, they get.
- Comment on Im thinking we still have a deeper bottom 1 week ago:
Watch a bunch of bootlicking red hats turn up and buy twice as much as they normally do to “own the libs” in some way.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 1 week ago:
“Sorry, it’s literally impossible for us not to sell your data!”
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t mind these apps if there was actually a technical need for them beyond just being a Chromium component, but with added data slurping and pointless notifications.
If I have to use an app to use your product/store, I won’t use your product/store, with a side helping of go fuck yourself on top.
- Comment on Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy 1 week ago:
Or just make it into a park. We’re not so desperate for space we need to build on what little urban greenery we have left…
- Comment on Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy 1 week ago:
Certainly more than golf.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 week ago:
Jellyfin seems solid.
The only issues I’ve had are with dodgy media files. Obviously better player hardware gets you better performance, but transcoding eliminates some of those issues.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 1 week ago:
- Comment on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Spotted with Missing ROPs, Performance Loss Confirmed, Multiple Vendors Affected 1 week ago:
But Nvidia have clearly sold them the chips and told than that some of those cores aren’t working. And they said OK and hoped nobody would really notice.
- Comment on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Spotted with Missing ROPs, Performance Loss Confirmed, Multiple Vendors Affected 1 week ago:
I figure there’s a reason that Zotac and PNY are always the cheapest cards. No idea why anybody would care about the tiny saving if they’re wasting $2k on a GPU…
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 week ago:
Although the tweet isn’t real, what it says about him is real.
- Comment on I miss myspace 1 week ago:
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 2 weeks ago:
Most of that was written hundreds of years later (and rewritten several times since), so who knows what was added later for religious control purposes.
He could have sat around all day stoned off his nut.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I think Italian Renaissance painters may have pre-dated that somewhat.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 weeks ago:
Just call it the Gulf of Fuck The Environment, We’re Getting Rich!
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Discoverability is a serious issue on Lemmy. I’d wager there’s a shitload of people here interested in the big US sports, but unless you know where the community is (and there’s often multiple, and sometimes on instances you’re not linked to), you’re not going to see it.
There’s just not enough users for any algorithm pushing of obscure communities you might be interested in either.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
In the early years fo Reddit, those wouldn’t exist either. You have to start with bigger groups (NFL, NHL, etc) and split them if they ever get big enough.
