ryathal
@ryathal@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 11 hours ago:
The public domain allows free use of anything in it. It allows people to innovate and expand upon established knowledge without having to pay tribute to original creators or their estates.
Intellectual property was created as a compromise to get people to be more open with their works. It allowed artists and writers to create things without risking their creations copied and losing their livelihood. Similarly inventors were also encouraged to publish how they invented because it granted them a period of exclusive access to controlling that method. In the long term the public benefits by getting access to everything.
- Comment on Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade. 12 hours ago:
All companies are tech companies, those that aren’t will be replaced by those that are. It’s been a common theme for a decade. I don’t really care that some venture capitalists lost their easy button to decide where to throw money for massive returns. Investing is supposed to require diligence.
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 13 hours ago:
It’s my second store, but it’s still a distant second to steam.
- Comment on Hooters files for bankruptcy 1 day ago:
Twin peaks and tilted kilt took the model and added better food.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 1 week ago:
Wild boars are an invasive species, they don’t have natural predators.
- Comment on Hey, do americans just want to take a break from normal politics for a bit and focus all our efforts solely on the wild boar problem? 1 week ago:
It’s really not, boars can breed multiple times per year, have litters between 2 and 12, and can breed as early as 6 months old.
It takes lots of effort to keep a population stable, actually eliminating them is very difficult.
- Comment on Sadly, Athena toppled over on the moon. With a lunar eclipse coming shortly, why didn't they design in a secondary power source over solar? 3 weeks ago:
It’s all about weight when going to space. It’s one of the basic parts of rocket science. If you want to send 1 pound into space, you need to add gas to cover that weight, and the weight of the gas you add. Eventually you reach a point where the combined weight of the gas is more than the thrust it provides and you can’t add more. Solar is light, a few hours of no power isn’t a big deal over months or years of operation time, if you are confident things will come back on when there’s light again.
- Comment on Does Monster Hunter Wilds still look and feel like dog water? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a new game. Unfortunately I think we are now in an era where we can expect new games to run like shit on release, and be improved over the first year.
- Comment on If tomato's are a berry and jelly is a sugary fruit spread then my cheese pizza Lunchables is more akin to a pastry..? 4 weeks ago:
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
- Comment on Why do i see so many americans obsessed with the concept of "this is a thing that [Ethnicity] does" 4 weeks ago:
This is based on the census bureau definition, which is much more inclusive than just large cities. 84/510 urban areas have a population greater than 500k. 198/510 have sub 100k population.
- Comment on Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies? 4 weeks ago:
The first two years of Biden are roughly equivalent to what Trump has now in terms of power and support, but there’s a massive difference in results.
- Comment on How do people doctor shop? Don't all doctors pass info on all their patients between each other? And in this day and age how do they do it.? 5 weeks ago:
This feels too much like a post about how to get opioid prescriptions.
- Comment on Why would America declaring cartels terrorist organizations be a problem for Mexico? 5 weeks ago:
Even without the war on terror, Congress gave the president the power to wage war for two weeks however they are fit. Congress is supposed to be notified and they can approve more time, but it’s been violated multiple times with no consequences.
- Comment on What to claim from Prime Gaming, February 21st edition - plenty for Steam Deck / Linux 5 weeks ago:
That what I use for gog games.
- Comment on Is it a pattern that every time a movie, show or animation that doesn't have a white person as the protagonist is attacked by right-wingers? 5 weeks ago:
No one cares who the lead is in a good show. It’s been popular to blame racism/sexism for shitty shows for a while. It’s easy to find a couple tweets and turn a handful of assholes into the face of criticism.
- Comment on Avowed is the most fun I’ve have had since Skyrim! 1 month ago:
There’s never been much content blocking in elder scrolls. You could always master every skill even in Morrowind. Morrowind had a few exclusive guilds, but even Skyrim had a couple. Role playing in Skyrim is self imposed.
- Comment on Getting a Steam Deck to emulate retro games? 1 month ago:
It works great for emulation. Emudeck will install pretty much everything you need to get started, you can configure it more if you want or do everything manually as well, but it works well enough for me. There’s a few systems you need bios files for, Google can help you find them pretty easily.
I use emulation station (es-de) to launch roms from gaming mode on the deck. It has some cool features to add metadata to your list of games so you can have box art and things in the menus. It also works to keep roms separated from other games in gaming mode.
The only systems that don’t work well are the more modern ones. Xbox, 360, PS3 are pretty rough or have spotty game support. Switch works fairly well, but it’s more complicated to get working but still possible with some googling.
You’ll want to get a few things to make everything easier to work with. A Bluetooth mouse/keyboard or a hub to connect wired ones is helpful in desktop mode to do the set up and configuration work. A hub is also useful to connect a flash drive to transfer time to the deck. You’ll want an external sd card to hold everything, 256gb is probably the smallest you want, but it depends on how many and which systems you want roms for, everything pre 6th gen is pretty small.
- Comment on Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt Steam 1 month ago:
I like prime gaming, sure I haven’t actually bought anything but Amazon has given me a decent gog library and an ok Amazon games one.
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 1 month ago:
It’s entirely possible that the database is pre SQL.
- Comment on Monster Hunter: World sold over a million copies just in the last 3 months, despite being 7 years old 1 month ago:
I bought it with iceborne when it was on sale recently on steam, I had a copy for PS4 but I’ve transitioned to just PC games at this point.
- Comment on Is there an implemented system of automated trucks anywhere that is fully operational? 1 month ago:
Only in extremely controlled areas like ports or mines are there no humans. Farm tractors are close when in the field.
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 1 month ago:
There two big differences to me are scale and value. A ccg has rare cards, but they aren’t actually that rare compared to loot boxes. Loot boxes tend to have both lower drop rates and pollute their drops with lots of garbage, even for rare drops. Secondly, physical cards have value, you can sell or trade them, you can buy singles of cards you want. You can use them for things other than the game as well.
- Comment on Is Civilization 7 not fun? 1 month ago:
As others have said start with 5. The rule of thumb for civ games is to wait for the expansion dlc to release and buy the game on sale. 7 is also a significant departure from the previous games, so it’s probably even more important to wait or outright skip it until they get it more polished.
Also it’s worth looking into endless legend or endless space 2 if you want to try more 4x games.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Light moderation tends to not lead to good communities. You can try 4chan if you want light moderation. Otherwise you might need a better focus than general finance. FIRE is popular online. Wallstreetbets is irresponsible investing. There are pyramid communities.
- Comment on imagine 1 month ago:
I have planted seeds from round up ready soy beans. They grew just fine for my needs, which wasn’t farming. Farmers have also planted harvested hybrid seeds, Monsanto sues the ones they catch, because it’s a contract violation for those that bought seeds.
- Comment on What do you regard as retro? 1 month ago:
If it can be emulated on a potato it’s retro. If it’s it’s old but not trivial to emulate then it’s classic.
- Comment on How realistic is the threat of the government remotely manipulating digital devices you own and planting evidence? 1 month ago:
Could they? Yes. Would they? Almost definitely not for most cases. There’s plenty of crimes they can hit you with if you happen to get on the government’s shit list. A month of active surveillance would give them evidence for a laundry list of felonies. Taking covert action to plant fake evidence is a level of risk that isn’t worth it for the average person. If you happen to be a state level threat that calculus can change.
- Comment on YSK: There's a protest today at noon at your state capitol. 1 month ago:
The news doesn’t cover what happens at 2pm on a Saturday unless there’s multiple bodies.
- Comment on Former Sony Exec Believes PlayStation 6 Will Retain Optical Disc Support 1 month ago:
The PS5 doesn’t even have games and we are moving on to the 6? I guess that’s some innovation.
- Comment on I'll take a liberal. Just 86 the tofu. 1 month ago:
It means you have standards.