Blackmist
@Blackmist@feddit.uk
- Comment on Anon questions our energy sector 5 hours ago:
They didn’t have to but they did anyway.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 6 hours ago:
What did Episode 1 and 2 push forward?
- Comment on A Netflix exclusive 12 hours ago:
It will consist of 4 x 20 second rounds and they will both be wearing inflatable Hulk Hands.
The expected pay day is $100 million each.
- Comment on Petition: Create a public consultation on freedom of speech and disinformation 18 hours ago:
Do we really want the government to be the arbiters of truth though?
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 20 hours ago:
Elon turned it into his own personal Nazi blog where people can’t block him.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 1 day ago:
The first is a bit rough. It got a remake with Black Mesa which used to be free, but I don’t think it is any more.
I’d honestly just start with 2. It’s a better game all round. You can always go back and play Black Mesa later if you like it.
If you have a VR headset and a decent rig, Half Life Alyx is well worth it. I’d definitely play HL2 plus Episodes 1 and 2 before heading into that one.
- Comment on But yes. 2 days ago:
Fun fact. Coal plants release more radioactive materials than nuclear plants.]
Except the ones that blew up. Those ones were extra spicy.
- Comment on But yes. 2 days ago:
Seems to be just photovoltaics and spinny things.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 days ago:
Last time I thought about static I wondered why colour TV didn’t show colour static.
Turns out the colour signal was on very specific frequencies, and if it wasn’t present, it would assume it was a black and white signal and turn off the colour circuit.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 2 days ago:
Well they only need to do the first part of that.
- Comment on People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set. 2 days ago:
I think they’re more likely to have been scrapped than other old tech.
They’re bulky, and mine was too heavy to get out in the attic. I still have my ZX Spectrum and Amiga, but the CRT needed for lightgun games is long gone.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 days ago:
I hear the new guy in charge of that is a genius!
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 days ago:
Man, I bet those dead kids in the back seat feel so stupid now.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 days ago:
Look it’s very simple if you get in a crash and are on fire.
Stop. Drop. Roll. Remove the mat from the bottom of the rear door pocket. Press the red tab to remove the access door. Pull the mechanical release cable forward. Remember that not all Model Y vehicles are equipped with a manual release for the rear doors. Die.
Rolls right off the tongue. If you’re still in trouble call 0118 999 88199 9119 725 3.
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 days ago:
- Comment on Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash 3 days ago:
This is what it says on their website. Hope you’ve got the link handy if you’re in a crash, and also that you’re not in one that doesn’t have this…
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it? 1 week ago:
I never really thought of Robocop as being cyberpunk either. It is though.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 weeks ago:
What caught me out recently was infinity minus infinity.
It does not equal zero. Instead it breaks your sorting algorithm.
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 2 weeks ago:
OK, what about 2 monkeys?
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but if a cyber attack knocks out your credit card systems in a targeted attack, chances are they’re taking your cash machines down as well.
And who carries enough cash around to be useful any more? I know I don’t. I might have a £20 note tucked in my phone case at a push.
- Comment on Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot" 2 weeks ago:
Why is anyone going full speed in the dark? Let alone an unsafe self driving car.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 2 weeks ago:
As long as your default mode is sleep it’d be ok. I touch my PCs power button only when it crashes so horribly that a forced shutdown is the only way out…
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 2 weeks ago:
Use it as a helmet at the Motocross!
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 2 weeks ago:
Maybe because jeans wearers don’t spam up every thread about clothing with “JUST WEAR JEANS!”
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 2 weeks ago:
Or Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft on consoles.
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 2 weeks ago:
I class market trackers as investing rather than gambling.
Sure they can still go down (and by a lot), but it tends to be big events like COVID that do that, and it soon bounced back up again.
If you’re investing more than a few percent of your portfolio in any one company, you’re probably gambling though. And sure, nVidia look a safe bet today, but if Sam Altman comes out tomorrow and goes “sorry guys, this ain’t going anywhere” then you’ll lose over half your money before you can blink.
I wouldn’t invest on a timeframe of less than a few years either. It’s not for boosting your rent money. It’s just better than leaving your spare money in cash. If the concept of “spare money” is alien, then it’s probably not for you.
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 2 weeks ago:
It’s also why he’s hanging it all on Trump right now.
That’s what he’s after - the complete deregulation of self-driving safety standards in the US.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 weeks ago:
TSMC are probably making more money than anyone in this goldrush by selling the shovels and picks, so if that’s their opinion, I feel people should listen…
There’s little in the AI business plan other than hurling money at it and hoping job losses ensue.
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 2 weeks ago:
That kind of defeats the whole purpose of moving from 10 to 11 though. Stopping security updates for 10 would be like 99% of the point, unless somebody has suddenly found a use for DirectStorage…
- Comment on What I learned from 3 years of running Windows 11 on “unsupported” PCs 2 weeks ago:
I mean, the real danger is they shove out an update that straight up breaks on your PC, as in won’t boot even in safe mode because it does something with the TPM, and it’ll be your own fault for deliberately circumventing the requirements.
Non-geeky people will generally run things until they actually stop working completely. They don’t care what OS it runs as long as it runs all their shit.
