Kyrgizion
@Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
- Comment on No machine (or person) can replace the exercise of thinking for yourself. 3 days ago:
Absolutely agree, but I’m continuously surprised at how many people don’t WANT to think for themselves. It’s not that they lack the ability or their IQ is too low, they simply have decided to outsource their goddamn morality. That’s perhaps worse than simple ignorance.
- Comment on Maybe Trump's Presidency Will Make Everything So Awful It Will Facilitate Actual Positive Change Nationwide 6 days ago:
That’s a legit societal theory called “accelerationism”. Make everything so awful that people will realize what’s happening and instigate massive backlash.
Except… the first time this was tried, in the 30’s, we got WWII instead of solutions. So maybe not that great of an idea after all.
- Comment on Nintendo is Trying to Stop You From Filing Lawsuits Against Them With New EULA Amendment 1 week ago:
Don’t worry Nintendo, even as someone who grew up on SMB, you’ve thoroughly convinced me to never do business with you ever again. Not even nostalgia…
- Comment on Assuming the world is a simulation 1 week ago:
Until you name that “brain” Azatoth and everyone loses their minds.
- Comment on Has Reddit acknowledged the existence of Lemmy? 1 week ago:
Several subs have automods set to autodelete any comments referencing Lemmy or links to it, not to mention the manual deletions by mods. It’s definitely being talked about, despite these attempts.
- Comment on Someone give me money so I can find out 1 week ago:
Yeah unless your stomach is producing aqua regia that gold’s coming out the exact same way it went in.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Always did…
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 1 week ago:
For real. I explicitly append “give me the actual objective truth, regardless of how you think it will make me feel” to my prompts and it still tries to somehow butter me up to be some kind of genius for asking those particular questions or whatnot. Luckily I’ve never suffered from good self esteem in my entire life, so those tricks don’t work on me :p
- Comment on People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies 1 week ago:
Precisely. We like to think of ourselves as rational but we’re the opposite. Then we rationalize things afterwards. Even being keenly aware of this doesn’t stop it in the slightest.
- Comment on Are we the dark timeline? 1 week ago:
They could also be better.
- Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts 1 week ago:
We’ve been up against the 5Ghz thermal wall for over a decade. We can keep adding cores but we need significantly improved design (less nanometers) for these gains - and these are now running up against another wall, namely quantum tunneling which begins being a problem at around the nanometer scale.
I assume only a radically different architecture (light instead of electricity?) will be able to smash these barriers.
- Comment on A Brutal message to Americans who are whining about Chinese dominance in electric cars, claiming it's ''unfair'' 1 week ago:
I keep hearing that for all new EVs you practically pay 20K for the batteries alone. No idea if that is actually cost or just extortion.
- Comment on What is your favorite Fediverse specific creators? 2 weeks ago:
My favorite fediposter is /u/pugjesus . Strong mix of memes and actual engaging content. Also, focused on modern politics plus history. The kind of people who would’ve created the Alaxamenos graffito two thousand years ago.
- Comment on Day 288 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Horrible creatures.
- Comment on Shrigma 2 weeks ago:
Who needs they shrussy ate?
- Comment on Only the biggest ones, folks, trust me! 3 weeks ago:
Satire is well and truly dead, isn’t it?
- Comment on Oblivion Remaster Rockets Past 100K Players on Steam Hours After Launch - Insider Gaming 3 weeks ago:
Damn, this is with everything on max at 4K with DLSS & Framegen?
- Comment on Odin 2 Maker Ayn To Join Anbernic In Pausing US Shipments 3 weeks ago:
Send 'em all our way (EU) I’m sure we’ll find a use for it.
- Comment on Oblivion Remaster Rockets Past 100K Players on Steam Hours After Launch - Insider Gaming 3 weeks ago:
I must admit, it’s not “just” a remaster, but they somehow managed to capture the spirit of '06 when this first came out PERFECTLY. Picture this: I was still in college and studying at home when Oblivion was finally released. I had been waiting for it for a long time (to my young mind back then) and I remember it was a perfectly beautiful, sunny day and I was home alone with no obvious way to get to a game store.
So I asked my elderly neighbor if I could borrow her clunker of a car for “an errand” and drove over an hour to the nearest game shop.
From the game itself I mostly remember how drop-dead gorgeous everything seemed - and how terribly my PC’s performance was back then, especially in outdoors areas.
Today, I experienced the exact same form of awe, followed by the most gorgeous graphics I could imagine, and… 15 fps outdoors. EXACTLY how things used to be when I was a young man.
Magic. Truly a win for Bethesda (after Starfield). Now all I need is a PC who can actually run the damn thing on high with over 60 FPS.
- Comment on Cops are deploying AI-powered social media bots to talk to people they suspect are anything from violent sex criminals all the way to vaguely defined “protesters” 4 weeks ago:
Amen. Added to that I have an extremely common name (both actually) so even if someone were to find that out, they’d still have to sift my shit from all my doppelgangers’.
- Comment on Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Party Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to an Infinite Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out for Revenge | Key Visual 4 weeks ago:
Surprising they didn’t include the end twist in the title somehow.
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 4 weeks ago:
The enshittification/rent seeking continues. Nothing is sacred.
- Comment on Bros being bros 4 weeks ago:
Like the other poster said, just make it yourself. Reddit is bound to piss off more of their users and they’ll need a place to land.
- Comment on If all the money in the world can only make you look as good as elon musk or jeff bezos there is truly some things money can't buy. 4 weeks ago:
Terrible sense of style though. Always so incredibly tacky.
- Comment on If all the money in the world can only make you look as good as elon musk or jeff bezos there is truly some things money can't buy. 4 weeks ago:
I’m amused by the idea that the more rich and powerful these people grow, the more certain “common” things are pretty much out of reach for them: regular friendship, love, family ties. Everything is about power balance and tit-for-tat with these guys. Good luck finding anyone who loves you for “you” and isn’t after your fortune. And even if you do, good luck recognizing it and acting on it!
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 4 weeks ago:
Amen. I also work in IT and I find the longer I do, the more I loathe new tech stacks and developments. I used to be passionate about new tech and its applications. Now I just want to be left alone where possible.
- Comment on Rubio wages new war on federal workers who reject theocracy 4 weeks ago:
Fascism wrapped in the flag and carrying a bible. Exactly like it was predicted.
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 4 weeks ago:
China can afford to sit on these minerals for years or even decades. EU, US and Russia don’t have that luxury.
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 4 weeks ago:
No matter how you spin it, China comes out on top. They get to sit back while their main adversaries simply throw away every advantage they’ve built up over the last five decades or so. The only winning move is not to play…
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 4 weeks ago:
Most retailers have announced price hikes across the globe. I had hoped EU would actually get cheaper electronics and whatnot because of dumping. Oh well. Guess this 7 year old pc is going to have to sing it out for a few years longer at this rate.