Armok_the_bunny
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- Comment on 'More DLC = More FPS' — Monster Hunter Wilds Players Ask Capcom for Answers After Theory Suggests a Backend DLC Check Is Tanking Performance - IGN 3 days ago:
Fascinating, the most recent update seemed to have massively improved things on my Linux system. At the very least I am no longer getting the problem where my entire computer freezes so hard even caps lock doesn’t work.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
I mean, it is kinda expensive, but that would be more tollerable for everyone if wages weren’t stagnating to fund yachts.
- Comment on Dell brings back XPS laptops — ditches the capacitive touch bar, adds 1Hz display option, and upgrades 14 and 16-inch models 1 week ago:
Since when are there savings accounts with interest rates worth even calculating? The interest rate on my savings account is down at 0.01%.
- Comment on Day 533 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Krafton fired the creators to deny them a million-ish dollar bonus that was promised to them, then made a whole bunch of accusations against the creators to try to shift the blame.
- Comment on Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians? 1 month ago:
To my knowledge the problem isn’t getting together the funds for any single “contribution”, it’s having the funds to pay the politician off over and over again. Sure, half a million dollars sounds like a lot more than a hundred thousand, but how many times can that half million be successfully crowdfunded? It’s much more reliable for the politicians to just accept the smaller but more consistent “contributions” from the more wealthy parties.
On top of that, outright bribery is illegal, attempting something like that is liable to get you arrested.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 2 months ago:
Is that going to kill the need for the various modloaders?
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 2 months ago:
Not quite, deletion from a hard drive also unflags the space the data was located at as being in use, so it will be overwritten eventually so long as the drive continues to have things written to it. Simply flagging something as being archived means that information will remain on the server indefinitely, the exact opposite of what is intended by a delete button.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 2 months ago:
Why yes, I do frequently google things. Searching for proper tutorials and official documentation for technical subjects is a more intelligent thing to do than asking an LLM to do all my thinking for me. As for the actual humans I was talking about there, I meant bringing my car in to be serviced by a mechanic as an example, if I learned the mechanic working on my car was just following instructions provided by chatGPT I would be fucking livid.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 2 months ago:
I’ll be honest, my biggest problem with something like this is that ai sophisticated enough to do anything useful cannot be run locally. That means every single time the clanker is asked to do something you are uploading significant amounts of personal information in an unencrypted form to some datacenter somewhere, for whoever to just do whatever they want with it.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 2 months ago:
Except for the medicine stuff, I am confident I would be able to do all of those things actually, given a bit of time for research and enough motivation. Even more critically, when I have a problem like that where I don’t care enough to figure it out for myself, I call upon the expertise of an actual human that really knows things, not a glorified autocomplete with internet access.
- Comment on Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom 2 months ago:
My answer to you is that I fully expect the ability to do stuff yourself to be seen as extremely valuable in about 2 or 3 years. This whole AI thing is pretty definitely a bubble, and on top of that it also looks to me like the blockchain and metaverse tech-fads, and I strongly believe that when the bubble bursts people that can say “I spent all that time learning to do things myself rather than rely on ai to do my thinking for me” are going to be the only people with careers.
- Comment on Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters 3 months ago:
Counterpoint, I lost an unknown number of files (unknown because I have no idea what all I failed to recover) years ago when my OneDrive backup filled up and my attempts to clear out space in the cloud backup propogated to my local storage, deleting everything I had in my local documents folder.
- Comment on U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after 3 months ago:
So, I do not believe that is a thing. Apparently there are some wind turbines with diesel generators attached somewhere, but it’s not for that reason. Offshore wind seems to have them in case they get disconnected from the grid because they rely on some power to protect themselves from ocean air, and apparently a wind array in Scottland had some to keep the turbines from freezing over. Frankly though there just isn’t room in the turbine’s housing to keep a whole diesel engine, at least most of the time.
- Comment on U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after 3 months ago:
What?
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 4 months ago:
I have exactly one game and exactly one 2fa app that I would meaningfully miss out on switching to a dumb pbone, outside of those two things I would genuinely consider it.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Were this reddit I would be highly tempted to give that some gold.
- Comment on xkcd #3139: Chess Variant 4 months ago:
I would say you can only move a tile if you have a piece on it as well.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 4 months ago:
The worst one I’ve encountered apparently has a secret bench somewhere that makes it much better, and the second worst (the runback that I think everyone is talking about) is about as long as the runback to crystal guardian I think.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 4 months ago:
I mean, there are some really bad runbacks, but yeah most of them are fine.
- Comment on Windows Update and SSD Problem is WAY worse than we thought! Full Demonstration - JayzTwoCents 4 months ago:
I’ll never touch Mac, partly because I have issues with Apple’s business practices, and partly because I manage to break every single piece of software I touch and I’m not confident I’d be able to unbreak a mac, but if not for those factors I actually would be more likely to use it over Windows on the off chance I encounter things I can’t do on Linux.
- Comment on Windows Update and SSD Problem is WAY worse than we thought! Full Demonstration - JayzTwoCents 4 months ago:
God I am glad I switched to Linux.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 4 months ago:
Some of the carbon might return to the atmosphere via rot, but far more of it would be put into the soil or trapped in lumber. Besides, the solution is extremely cheap and effectively self replacing, just let new trees grow as old ones die.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Porn is different for many reasons, chief among them being that the age verification laws don’t actually keep kids from accessing it. On top of that, porn is something that most people are embarrassed about accessing for a wide variety of reasons, and for them any requirement that they make available proof that they did so is equivalent to a legal ban on accessing that perfectly legal material.
- Comment on Samsung schedules Galaxy event 5 days before Apple's 4 months ago:
Wtf are you talking about, apple is nowhere close to 100% market share no matter how much they wish they were, and FOSS alternatives are sufficiently difficult to install that the vast majory of consumers haven’t bothered.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 4 months ago:
Cis effectively means not-transgender, so born as exacly the same gender you identify as. ‘Het’ then means heterosexual, making cis-het someone who is either completely male and into women or completely female and into men.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 4 months ago:
Volume of requests and power consumption requirements unrelated to requests made, at least I have to assume. Certainly doesn’t help that google has forced me to make a request to their ai every time I run a standard search.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 4 months ago:
Cool, now how much power was consumed before even a single prompt was ran in training that model, and how much power is consumed on an ongoing basis adding new data to those AI models even without user prompts. Also how much power was consumed with each query before AI was shoved down our throats, and how many prompts does an average user make per day?
- Comment on xkcd #3126: Disclaimer 5 months ago:
The method I (just now) thought up using to signal humanity was responding to accusations of being an LLM with a “fuck you”. The combination of vulgar language and defiance of the sycophantic tendencies of LLMs feels to me like a pretty effective proof of humanity, at least for now.
- Comment on Calling something "a joke" feels meaner than calling something "a bad joke" 5 months ago:
Something being a joke means it’s [insert negative attribute] enough to be laughable, but it being a bad joke mean it’s [insert negative attribute] but not enough to be funny.
- Comment on McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ 6 months ago:
The risk is that some unknown hacker discovered this vulnerability and abused it before the researchers discovered and reported it. It sounds like the company has confirmed that didn’t happen, but they aren’t 100% trustworthy in that regard, simply because they might have missed something.