dinckelman
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- Comment on Fossil Fuel Interests Ramp Up Their “Solar Makes Electricity More Expensive” Falsehood 2 weeks ago:
This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. Fossil fuels are on the way out. The companies in possession of the resources have a vice grip over the entire planet, and they know that their time is limited. You can’t monopolize wind or the sun, and they’re afraid
- Comment on LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players 5 weeks ago:
You’re misunderstanding. I’m not talking about drive space, i’m talking about the space the physical disk cases take up
- Comment on LG discontinues all UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray players 5 weeks ago:
As much as I hate that this is happening, I think once you turn to digital media, it’s incredibly difficult to go back. The convenience of having your stuff at a click of a button is just too good.
That said, if you’re into movies specifically, i’d personally still go the route of buying a disk, and ripping it to your local storage, but that’s both expensive, and inconvenient in terms of space
- Comment on The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’ | Semafor 1 month ago:
That’s current Verge for you. It only got worse since then
- Comment on The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’ | Semafor 1 month ago:
Ironically, it’s news that’s free, and garbage is behind the paywall
- Comment on X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit 1 month ago:
Can’t wait for this to be thrown out of court. No one is forced to buy anything on his neo-nazi platform
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 2 months ago:
So pretty much everyone, who’s already got a reputation for being shit, or has fallen from grace completely, has returned. No surprises there
- Comment on STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Potentially Banned in Russia Due To Potential 'Justifying Terrorism' 2 months ago:
The absence of self-awareness there is astounding
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 2 months ago:
Very important distinction. I’ve deleted the apps long before, thinking i’d keep the account to occasionally look at someone’s feed. When they publicly reinstated neonazi accounts, it was the last drop in the ocean
- Comment on Nine trillion dollar investment in 'Super-AI' isn't that much, says SoftBank CEO. 2 months ago:
Just imagine if that money went towards improvements in society, instead of a pump and dump scheme for the top 0.01%
- Comment on Siemens to buy Altair for $10.6 bln in digital portfolio push 2 months ago:
I had no idea they even have this kind of money today. Was interesting to browse through the history for a bit
- Comment on Intel hasn't sold a single Arrow Lake CPU at Germany's largest retailer — Core Ultra 200S sales stagnate after just one week 2 months ago:
The last few generations were plagued not only by heat output issues, poor pricing, and underwhelming performance in all but gaming, but also suffered irreparable manufacturing defects. The new lineup is essentially more of the same.
I always try to buy the better product, when given a choice, and it’ll take a lot of convincing me to consider this
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s kinda the problem too
- Comment on What do you like/dislike about lemmy? 2 months ago:
I genuinely cannot express how much it annoys me that I cannot have a blocklist for keywords.
Most of the things I read are from my subscribed communities, which i’m very happy about generally, however given the overall state of life today, half of the posts in completely unrelated communities end up being one of the following:
- Twitter CEO
- Hate speech in US politics
- AI propaganda for some pump and dump quick money
I really just don’t want to see any of those things
- Comment on Path of Exile 2 is getting delayed again, but only for 3 weeks | Digital Trends 2 months ago:
I’d always take a release that’s done right, over something rushed, broken, and something that will leave a poor first impression.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 2 months ago:
It’s already really difficult to engage with the content you want to see, but now they’re also taking away the only immediately noticeable metric of a successful video? Genuinely just why
- Comment on Russia finds way to buy sanctioned Nvidia AI chips: through Asian countries. 2 months ago:
Can’t wait to see what kind of BlyatGPT these assholes come up with. The sanctions aren’t harsh enough
- Comment on What's the point of a long-distance friendship? 2 months ago:
Some of my closest friendships are people I’ve either never seen, or only got to meet a couple times. It’s not like living far away makes them worse friends.
You never know what kind of situation you’ll end up in. One time my transfer flights got messed up, and I was left stranded in a random airport for almost a day. I ended up asking around, and one of those long-distance friends drove hours to pick me up, get me some food, and let me get rest too.
Of course I’d love for them to live closer, so we can see each other regularly, but i’ll take what I can have
- Comment on Postbox Acquired by eM Client, Ends Development. 2 months ago:
Basically every single email client I have ever used, with the exception of Thunderbird, has somehow ended up in the hands of some soulless corp, and has either been discontinued, or got a subscription price that’s impossible to justify.
Some of these genuinely make no sense too. I’m paying per inbox, and a weird web wrapper that just opens google calendar? Come on
- Comment on Apple Could Reportedly Stop Vision Pro Production Soon 2 months ago:
Your eyes on the front display is what i mean. Passthrough for your own vision is awesome
- Comment on Apple Could Reportedly Stop Vision Pro Production Soon 2 months ago:
This could have been an absolutely insane product, if they sold it without all the useless bullshit like the facial passthrough, at a decent price. As it is, especially given how fragile it is, it’s just a toy at best.
It’s basically taken the exact opposite route of something like the Xbox Kinect, which turned from a toy into something people use in science
- Comment on Balatro nominated for THREE Golden Joystick Awards! 3 months ago:
Hope they win. Very well deserved nominations
- Comment on WIRED: Neo-Nazis Are Fleeing Telegram for Encrypted App SimpleX Chat. 3 months ago:
Neo-nazis, or any kind of fascists, have no space anywhere. They can fuck off to the next platform, but they can’t run forever
- Comment on The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve — SteamOS and Arch should both benefit greatly 3 months ago:
Oh no, not a new thing. Manjaro has a very long history of consistently fucking things up. I would not, in good consciousness, recommend Manjaro to anyone
- Comment on The Arch Linux team is now working directly with Valve — SteamOS and Arch should both benefit greatly 3 months ago:
Endeavour will benefit from it directly. There’s nothing proprietary in the distribution, except for a repository with their theming, a keyring/mirrorlist, and a few alpm hooks for nvidia and dracut installs.
With Manjaro it’s a little different, but who knows. They have other issues to worry about
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 3 months ago:
I never found that to be an issue, personally. It’s not as satisfying, as it is in other games, but i enjoyed it enough
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 3 months ago:
It’s not a review bomb if it’s fully deserved. If you make a bad product, you deserve a bad review, and maybe Bethesda should have thought about that ahead of time
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 3 months ago:
Post-2.0 Cyberpunk is one of the best gaming experiences I’ve had in a long time. You can tell it’s a product of effort, and love for the project. They have taken in a considerable amount of feedback from pre-1.5.
Meanwhile, Starfield is a complete miss in just about every way imaginable, and the expansion has followed through the same footsteps. On top of that, the studio actively gaslit people who expressed disapproval, even when it was constructive criticism.
- Comment on PlayStation product manager says ads being shown was just a bug 3 months ago:
I don’t understand how giant corporations repeatedly get away with treating their customers like they’re completely fucking stupid.
Some manager purposefully ordered the engineers to put the ads there. That’s how they ended up there
- Comment on Apple’s first smart display with new HomeOS likely to launch next year 3 months ago:
This would have been great back in 2016.
I used to really like my Home Minis, until Google enshittified the platform to the point of being worthless