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- 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' 21 hours ago:
At this point I am just expecting Half-Life 2: Episode 2, Part 2
- Comment on The amount of people your age is only going down with time. 2 days ago:
Finally, a banger shower thought. But now I’ve got an existencial crisis lol.
- Comment on Election Simulations 1 week ago:
He was not
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 2 weeks ago:
That’s clearly a cail
- 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:
Most games are ok, big online games are usually not (anything that has kernel level anti cheat, straight up bans Linux, or uses a third party launcher that doesn’t have much support on Linux). Usually can be overcome, but can result in a ban. For those games, you can either dual boot or virtualize Windows (which also can get u banned).
Tons of games have Proton support (check ProtonDB). If you select a stable distro and don’t install custom stuff, you should be good without knowing much besides hitting Update all button from time to time and pasting any error message you get into your preferred search engine. Hell you can install SteamOS and be eternally happy.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
Hopefully only Linux ISOs ^/s^
- Comment on ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) 4 weeks ago:
Not sure if the article is legit, but there is hope for an antidote: scientificamerican.com/…/worlds-deadliest-mushroo…
- Comment on How do decide what language you speak living on a countries border. 1 month ago:
Why not spagutese?
- Comment on BRO 2 months ago:
For those unitiated, he started overeating again
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 2 months ago:
I call them “degeneratives”. They are both degenerated, and want others to degenerate Atwell.
- Comment on Average game chat censorship 2 months ago:
Genshin
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 2 months ago:
Oh, completely forgot about my Steam Deck, it is just that seamless.
I also hate the other side of the coin that is against both Steam and EGS. Citing Steam doesn’t “deserve your loyalty”. Why not? I can’t really pinpoint any particular fuckup in the 15 years I’ve been using it. Sure, some delays in games, updates, and other minor shit - but imagine if like game ratings broke, I am sure they’d get fixed in an hour.
Steam absolutely deserves our loyalty.
- Comment on Words truly matter 2 months ago:
Imagine the screams, just like grass.
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 2 months ago:
I kind of cracked up at “Steam does very little”.
Hell, Epic does not have any social features, didn’t have cart, refund process through support only, very basic search, I am not sure about cloud saves and if they don’t break completely when you play offline (is there even offline mode?).
Steam, on the other hand, is constantly adding and improving features - like the new beta family sharing which is finally what an easy way to share with my GF and sister.
The only things that Epic has are free games, exclusivity, and lower fees - and that’s about it. All three, as you can see, are not really hard to implement for the developer team, but easy to throw large sums of money at for a quick boost so they can boast numbers.
Fuck Epic, seriously. Money can solve lots of stuff, but not by throwing it at the wall. Meaningless.
- Comment on About 500,000 trees cut down at site of Tesla gigafactory near Berlin | The Guardian 2 months ago:
I’d rather not have a Tesla even if it meant I dont have an EV ever. Crappy overpriced cars.
- Comment on Grok do a good 2 months ago:
I was using Grok before it was cool: www.elastic.co/guide/…/plugins-filters-grok.html
- Comment on AltStore PAL drops its annual subscription thanks to a grant from Epic 2 months ago:
I hate how good the software is, truly undeserving to be under such a company.
I also hate the new MacBooks are ARM based. Lots of x86 stuff that is battletested is suddenly broken. Can’t count the number of Docker containers broken on Mac while it works perfectly on your regular non-ARM based Linux.
- Comment on Telstra, Optus to delay 3G network closure amid public safety concerns 2 months ago:
So, if you ain’t gonna be using it anymore, it will be transferred to public domain, right?
- Comment on Civil servants cannot wear ‘fetish gear’ to work, minister confirms 3 months ago:
It’s probably about lingerie, bandage, butt plugs, etc.
- Comment on 2.9 billion hit in one of the largest data breaches ever — full names, addresses and SSNs exposed 3 months ago:
How about you send it to me instead and I’ll pay you the 4k
- Comment on Why won't companies release old games or at least make very old ones free? 3 months ago:
But maybe you’d want to play the new one after liking the old one.
- Comment on Mastodon's fundraiser for Kamala Harris needs fediversal support to reach it's 500.000$ goal 3 months ago:
So, getting two people in trouble instead of one?
- Comment on Cars Are Now Rolling Computers Now. So What Happens When They Stop Getting Updates? 3 months ago:
If it was a carburetor (which EVs do not have), I’d be okay with a DRM. But boards? Is there an organized crime group that steals EV boards? Next time it will be funking wipers with DRM.
- Comment on Cars Are Now Rolling Computers Now. So What Happens When They Stop Getting Updates? 3 months ago:
Software control should be kept for luxury aspects of the vehicle. Nothing critical.
Tesla would disagree, lol. But then again, for the price, the whole car is a luxury.
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
The one thing Apple did right. AirDrop is nice, and I wish PairDrop worked for Bluetooth aswell.
I mean, we already have Nearby Share/Quickshare on Samsung, but it is still kind of finnicky.
- Comment on CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed 3 months ago:
What are you doing Counterstrike
- Comment on Look you've just to got read the prologue that was a limited edition IHOP giveaway in 2015 and the story is awesome 3 months ago:
Fate/Stay Confused
- Comment on Long COVID puzzle pieces are falling into place – and the picture is unsettling 3 months ago:
Well, he didn’t get any long term effects of COVID, besides death of course.
- Comment on Amazon should've made Prime Day fall on a date corresponding to an actual three-digit prime number. 3 months ago:
It works differently for each number. For 2, the last number has to be divisible by 2. For 3, the sum of the digits has to be divisible by 3 For 5, the number has to end with a 0 or a 5. For 7, it is kinda tricky. Take the last digit, double it, and subtract it from the numbers on the left. If the remainder is 0 or divisible by 7, the whole number is divisible by 7. For example 49: 9×2=18, 4-18=-14, -14/7=2 with remainder 0. For 700, 0×2=0, 70-0=70, 70/7=10 remainder 0.
This is usually specified for prime numbers, for non-prime number, you just do calculate the prime components of a number and combine the rules.
For example, divisibility by 15: it has to be divisible by 3 and 5. 1+5=6, 6/3=2 remainder 0. 15 ends with a 5. For number where with multiple same prime components the rules for these duplicate numbers have to apply multiple times. Like for 25, it has to end with a 5 or 0, and when dividing the number by 5, the result has to end with a 5 or a 0 aswell.
- Comment on Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher of Manor Lords, citing how gamers seem to be trained to expect endless content work now 4 months ago:
Holy shit, he said that? What a legend.