MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 1 day ago:
Børnich admitted that much of the work will be done by teleoperators in the beginning. Owners will have access to an app where they can schedule when the teleoperator can take over NEO and where they can specify the task they want the machine to do.
Those teleoperators are gonna see a LOT of dicks.
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 1 day ago:
Why would I want this?
Bold of you to assume there aren’t plenty of folks out there willing to overlook any potential privacy concerns for their very own robot butler.
- Comment on What went wrong with Pizza Hut? 4 days ago:
This is a BBC article about Pizza Hut in the UK, posted on the unitedkingdom community.
- Comment on Is holly associated with Christmas because it's a holly-day? 5 days ago:
No, holiday is just a corruption of ‘holy day’.
- Comment on Mass layoffs in the gaming industry continue - estimated 11k layoffs in 2025 and total 46k in the last 3 years 1 week ago:
That post is 2 months old. There’s a more recent update and projection here.
- Comment on Does Coke Zero taste different in the UK vs. the USA? 1 week ago:
Interesting! And thanks for actually reading the question properly.
If that’s true it might suggest Coke Zero tastes the same worldwide? In which case I wonder which original Coca Cola it’s closest to?
- Comment on Does Coke Zero taste different in the UK vs. the USA? 1 week ago:
We love salt and vinegar in the UK. I think statistically it’s the second most popular flavour of crisps here, after cheese and onion.
Sorry to hear the US somehow ruined it, although I’ve had pickle flavour crisps from the USA and enjoyed them, so I think there is hope.
- Comment on Does Coke Zero taste different in the UK vs. the USA? 1 week ago:
This is interesting! But sadly does not answer my question.
- Comment on Does Coke Zero taste different in the UK vs. the USA? 1 week ago:
Yes, I realise Coke Zero is not sweetened with HFCS or cane sugar. That knowledge is in fact central to my actual question: does Coke Zero taste different in the UK vs. the USA?
- Submitted 1 week ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 20 comments
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 2 weeks ago:
Some of the best language-based games:
- Tunic
- Chants of Sennaar
- Heaven’s Vault
- I Mother (not released yet)
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The Truman How?
- Comment on Punch Time 3 weeks ago:
This is exactly why lazily throwing your game’s text into a machine translation tool is not the same as hiring an actual localisation specialist.
- Comment on One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China 3 weeks ago:
I guess thieves found a way to circumvent it, otherwise it wouldn’t make sense
Even if they haven’t (yet), it’s still a recent development. There are plenty of old models out there without it, not to mention Android phones which hold the majority market share in the UK.
- Comment on One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China 3 weeks ago:
(it’s British Broadcasting Corporation)
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on Trump memorandum brands anti-fascism and opposition to capitalism as “domestic terrorism” 4 weeks ago:
It’s McCarthyism 2.0, as American as apple pie
- Comment on Does more expensive phones have better reception? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, iPhone 4 was notorious for having antenna issues if you held it in a certain way
- Comment on Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown gets a first gameplay trailer and you can keep Tuvix 5 weeks ago:
They absolutely knew what they were doing when they put Tuvix in the trailer, and that actually gives me some confidence that they understand their audience.
- Comment on oh cool 5 weeks ago:
A word for this is ‘backronym’
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I don’t necessarily disagree, but this reads a bit like some of the comments on those old Slashdot threads clowning on the first smartphones.
‘these things will fail, I already have a camera, a cellphone, and an mp3 player, why would anyone want them all in one device?’
- Comment on Xbox invests big into indies, signs Game Pass deals with over 50 studios 5 weeks ago:
Given the state of the industry right now, there’s a good chance these games simply wouldn’t have been made without these deals.
If the choice is between releasing on GP or not releasing at all, I don’t begrudge them for taking the deal.
- Comment on Sell or keep 2600 heavy sixer woodgrain? 5 weeks ago:
Heavy sixers are the most sought-after models of VCS iirc, but as you discovered, 2600s just aren’t worth much. I think it’s a combination of wide availability and limited appeal to modern collectors compared to later systems.
Personally I’d hold onto it as a display piece, but if you don’t have the space then I wouldn’t feel bad for selling it on or even giving it away.
- Comment on Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations 5 weeks ago:
it’s a huge fuck up by Valve
Agreed! I’m kind of surprised they don’t automatically scan updates for malware. Or maybe they do but this slipped under the radar somehow? Either way the system clearly isn’t working.
- Comment on Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations 5 weeks ago:
Right, so there’s no such thing as an unverified Steam game because every game has to be approved before it appears on the storefront.
So why does the article repeatedly bother to specify that this was a ‘verified Steam game’? By that metric, they’re all verified.
- Comment on Verified Steam game steals streamer's cancer treatment donations 5 weeks ago:
The headline and article repeatedly call it a ‘verified Steam game’ but at no point do they explain what that means.
As far as I know, the only verification scheme on Steam is Steam Deck Verified, but the screenshot of the offending game’s store page shows that it was rated as ‘Unknown’.
Do they mean verified as in ‘Valve approved it for release’? Surely not, because every Steam game is approved for release so ‘verified Steam game’ would be a tautology.
Either I’m missing something, or this source is just adding words for no reason.
- Comment on Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans 5 weeks ago:
Epic pulled the game from storefronts and then released it officially on the internet archive, fully for free.
- Comment on Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans 5 weeks ago:
And I’m just providing additional context that might help them make an informed purchasing decision 👍
- Comment on Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans 5 weeks ago:
Purchasing Escape from Tarkov directly supports Russia’s war in Ukraine
- Comment on Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans 5 weeks ago:
Good news - there’s a new, officially-sanctioned macOS port of UT99.