bisby

@bisby@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree with your definition of “killed Linux gaming.” It killed native Linux development perhaps. But using Linux for gaming is more viable than ever thanks to Valve. They single handedly boosted Linux gaming, if anything.

  And they also offer more than the competition. For a while there games on EGS were just telling people to get support on steam forums because epic had nothing for supporting games they sold. Steam has forums, screenshot storage, achievements, remote play, friends lists, a shopping cart (🙄) and is adding new features like clips. I’m not using steam because it’s a monopoly, I’m using it because it’s a better platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rabbit data breach: all r1 responses ever given can be downloaded⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That didn’t take long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolutely diabolical⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s not like they had the name available to them when they made the meme. It’s not like they could just look at the words they were referencing to see the proper way to spell it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey there gamers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had the same reaction originally though, because I feel like I had seen this previously as just “bending” the list of 1-100 in half.

  1+2+3+4+...+49+50
  100+99+98+97+...+52+51
  =
  101+101+101+...
  

  101 * 50.

  So you have to do a bit more thinking to define your equation but the equation takes you straight to S instead of 2S.

  And since the meme just has + … instead of showing where the end of the list was, I see how one could easily mix up the 2 approaches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Having a kodi box that has all the apps that I would have on roku with a nice ui would be the dream. I’ve never gotten kodi to a point where my wife could install a Hulu app(for example) if she wanted to watch hulu. The YouTube experience was also terrible. Kodi fits my ideals for “open platform” and doesn’t for my “I don’t want to be doing it for my family”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the internet⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my ethics in engineering class, we spent a lot of time talking about things like the Kansas City Hyatt Regency walkway collapsing. The takeaway for me was “Depending on what you are doing, people might die if you are too confidently doing things the wrong way.”

  Most people, even a lot of engineers, don’t have lives on the line in their day to day. Things means that most people don’t have the “What if I am wrong about this and people die?” part of their brain firing 24/7. For most people, the “consequences of getting things wrong” means either a lecture from their boss, or literally nothing. When people never have to face consequences for being wrong, they feel very empowered to be wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its enough for me too. But not everyone has the same use case and environment. I definitely see why someone would want this.

  What I disagree with is that it needs to communicate to the internet to do this. It adds delay and potential for outage if your internet is out. But they do this so they can force you to get their app and milk you for extra data to sell. Internet capable smart devices are to harvest data not grant features. Features could be done better by ZigBee and a hub, but that doesnt grant the device a way to phone home

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh good, if that is all true, you wont have to change anything to be compliant with new laws and should have no issue with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  e^x and 7 were walking down the street having a nice chat, when in the distance, they see a derivative walking towards them. 7 panics, turns and runs in the opposite direction. e^x is smug and walks right up. “Hi, I’m e^x” it boldly declares to the derivative. The derivative smiles back, “Hi, I’m dy/dt”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 has "performed well ahead of expectations" and topped more than 8m sales⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The cross platform friend requests bugs mean I still havent been able to play with the friends who convinced me to buy the game in the first place. But yeah, otherwise quite fun.

  Its 100x better of a starship troopers game than the actual starship troopers game that came out last year

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games like Diablo but not Diablo because Diablo?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its also free to play.

  Or as some streamers say: its a $60 game with an incredibly generous free trial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any good RSS Feed service for self-hosting?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I switched to FreshRSS which works just as well, and doesn’t have a toxic dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Abraham⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If that was his seat, no wonder Booth broke his leg jumping down to the stage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't judge here. :)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This guy inducts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two distinct eras of television⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Flat” and “flat screen” arent the same thing. CRT TVs had a curved glass screen. Due to the fact that the rear projection could just project across the curve. With technology advancements they were able to improve picture clarity while flattening the screen. These were still bulky projection style TVs, but were called flat screen. But then when actual “flat” TVs (in the form of LCD, etc) came around people kept using the term. So a flat screen TV could be very thick.