Blackmist
@Blackmist@feddit.uk
- Comment on Axel Rudakubana: 'Evil' Southport killer jailed for minimum 52 years 1 week ago:
It’s way better than his actual photo.
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 1 week ago:
Not a terrible idea, but you’d have to have some security.
Say it generates a changing QR code that must be scanned by an authorised party within a few seconds, and that party just gets the relevant info they’re allowed to access. e.g. for buying alcohol a photo and age (or even if just over 18 or whatever the item needed) and nothing else because it’s not relevant at all. Nothing stored on the phone except for an ID number.
There’s no need for it to display anything else.
Let us lock it with a fingerprint like a banking app.
- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bloodletting recommended for Jersey residents after PFAS contamination 2 weeks ago:
A course of leeches?
- Comment on Germany hits 62.7% renewables in 2024 energy mix, with solar contributing 14% 3 weeks ago:
Biomass may well be renewable, but I still don’t think it counts as green.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 4 weeks ago:
This is their best behaviour.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 4 weeks ago:
It shouldn’t be a massive surprise. The whole platform exists as a way to circumvent minimum wage laws for drivers while taking a massive slice of restaurant profits.
No hygiene inspections either, half the places listed aren’t even restaurants or takeaways, it’s just in somebody’s house…
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 4 weeks ago:
Astro Bot.
- Comment on The writers have run out of ideas 4 weeks ago:
Really going all out in this final season.
- Comment on Steam Winter Sale Featured Deep Discounts - any recommendations? 5 weeks ago:
Picked up Firewatch and Divinity Original Sin 1&2.
FW is a short and sweet walking sim. Well worth the £1.60 or whatever I paid for it.
No opinion on DOS yet because I doubt I’ll play that before the new year.
- Comment on Ice cream machine is also broken 1 month ago:
What if a worker didn’t dob them in, and they said they did in order to hide the real way they found them.
The NSA ain’t giving up their secrets that easily.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione Played 'Among Us,' Breathes Air 1 month ago:
Lots of people played Among Us and haven’t killed a CEO.
Yet.
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 1 month ago:
And who is going to pay for that? If they could afford to refund all their customers they wouldn’t be going bust.
- Comment on Just put a spray tan over it 1 month ago:
Hit the gym. Awaken the she hulk.
- Comment on What's next after Half-Life? 1 month ago:
Effect and Cause is one of the best levels in any videogame, period.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 1 month ago:
That final dive to earth in LCU is amazing, it’s like they suddenly had a Call of Duty budget to play with.
- Comment on Fashion is cyclical 2 months ago:
Waiting for us to nuke each other so they can reclaim the earth.
- Comment on Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' 2 months ago:
Can we just sever the internet in half and let these pricks live on their side so they don’t bother us any more?
- Comment on Kate Nash and Lily Allen on OnlyFans should be a wake-up call for the music industry 2 months ago:
If anything it should be a warning about signing bad record contracts. If I make something at work and they sell it, I don’t continue to get paid if I do no more work.
She’s a millionaire from past work. She doesn’t have to sell her body on Only Fans. She’s doing that for a laugh. Frankly it makes a mockery of the platform for the people that do use it to make a real living.
- Comment on Low turnout in the 2024 election may have been due to undecided voters being overwhelmed by choice 2 months ago:
Red tie, blue tie, brown teeth, bin.
Wow, spoilt for choice.
- Comment on A common nasal decongestant lacks evidence but is still sold in the UK 2 months ago:
The missus bought some salt specifically for saline rinse and they recommend not even using tap water in case it gives you an infection.
Shudder to think what you might get from Skeggy.
- Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return? 2 months ago:
Doubt it.
The rest of the world isn’t lucky enough to never have to hear about the perpetual US election cycle again, and frankly there’s just too much money in it for them to give it up.
It’ll be a fucking clown show for the next four years though.
- Comment on Time for a road trip 2 months ago:
You missed out Minge Lane.
- Comment on Petrichor 2 months ago:
You think rain is your ally?
You merely adopted the damp. We Brits were born in it, molded by it. I didn’t see dry sand until I was already a man…
- Comment on X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit 2 months ago:
The thing is Twitter costs under a billion to run.
He could pull all advertising and run it to the end of his life as a hobby.
But he can’t have that, because the line must go up and the workers must cower in fear whenever their boss stalks the building.
- Comment on AMD captures 28.7% market share in desktops 2 months ago:
It may well be the case that they’re similar or even swapped now. I can see that the N100 is pretty low power compared to the newest low end AMD chips, but then the AMD chips are better in terms of what they can do.
This one reckons they’re pretty similar.
reddit.com/…/ryzen_vs_intels_idle_power_consumpti…
This one reckons Intel are better.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32809852
I doubt there’s much in it either way. Even if AMD are ahead now, laptops don’t get replaced right away, normies replace shit when it fails or is too slow to run whatever shit Google shoehorned into Chrome this year, and the most popular laptops are probably the ones with the lowest sticker price.
- Comment on AMD captures 28.7% market share in desktops 2 months ago:
That’s under load. At Idle (which is where your average home PC will spend most of it’s time) I think Intel has the edge still.
It’s certainly a consideration for a battery device. Watching a video reading emails or staring at a spreadsheet will likely have better battery life than a similar spec AMD device.
We’ve reached a point where most everyday computing tasks can be handled by a cheapo N100 mini PC.
- Comment on For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value. 2 months ago:
I haven’t got around to playing it yet, but what you’ve described sounds a lot like The Witcher 3 for me.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed it enough to finish pretty much everything (except all the Skellige question marks which thoroughly outstayed their welcome), and Hearts of Stone is better than Blood and Wine, but the gameplay was pretty flat throughout, and the most of my enjoyment was in the cutscenes and dialogue and following threads to their inevitably grim conclusions. It’s not a game that I would ever replay.
- Comment on The PlayStation Portal remote player experience to evolve with new system update 2 months ago:
It does seem like a very obvious thing to add, and the mind boggles at how it wasn’t there to start with.
- Comment on AMD captures 28.7% market share in desktops 2 months ago:
It’s taken this long for Intel to lose gamer trust.
Intel also have lower power consumption iirc, which is useful for laptops etc.
AMD have the best server chips: www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html
You have to remember that most people aren’t “choosing a CPU” as much as buying a PC. If the majority of pre-build retail PCs have Intel, then the majority of purchases will be Intel.
