MystikIncarnate
@MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
Some IT guy, IDK.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 week ago:
Not yet
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 week ago:
Adulting is hard. I don’t even have kids, and even my childless friends have scheduling issues.
It’s universal, we’re all busy, especially at this time of the year (until we get mandatory days off at least). So much family stuff to do, even if you don’t have kids, seeing parents, siblings, cousins, whatever… It’s a whole thing.
I don’t think our games overlap very much, so I wouldn’t make a good gaming buddy for you. I hope you get to have fun with friends in good games soon.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 week ago:
I’m pretty deep into satisfactory most of the time. Over 1800 hours… That isn’t a typo.
I figure that it’s close enough that it might just fill in the gaps between satisfactory content updates. :p
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 week ago:
My friends rarely play what I play. It sucks.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 week ago:
I’m thinking about grabbing…
Star birds
Last caretaker
And rv there yet
I’m also eyeballing planet Crafter, and a couple others on my wish list that dropped below $10.
I’ve also wanted to pick up ultra kill for a while but I never see it on sale for under $20 (Canadian schmeckles)…
Some that I’m still waiting to see come down in price to something more reasonable…
Horizon: forbidden West
Split fiction
Borderlands 4.
Even on discount, these are well over $40.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 week ago:
This is the way.
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 1 week ago:
Child.
- Comment on THIS is a real test of how old you are. If you score 20 your future is short 1 week ago:
According to that, I should be 53.
That’s over a decade older than I am right now.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 weeks ago:
I would argue that capitalist monopolies are the problem.
There are examples where a “monopoly” has 100% of the market and they do a good job, usually in non-profit driven contexts. To provide an example: there’s only one organization in pretty much any given area, that handles extinguishing fires. Usually called the fire department, and it’s run by the local body of government in a monopoly context.
They still do a great job, but there’s no competition in fire fighting.
They’re not inherently profit driven.
Also, hats off to the firefighters out there, you guys are awesome. Anyways, back to my point.
There are good organizations that operate a monopoly in their service segment. They’re just typically owned and operated by a democratically elected government. Of the people, for the people, by the people.
Any monopoly that is profit driven, especially any that are capitalistic, will succumb to enshittification, 100% of the time, it’s just a matter of when it happens. The only time that it is possible to not have that happen, is in privately owned corporations, which are rare… But the leadership believes in improving the product more than profiteering. But on a long enough time line, that will also fail because inevitably someone will buy the company or inherit it, and they will want to maximize their profits over everything.
It will always happen when things are privately held, and especially if they’re publicly traded.
- Comment on Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video] 2 weeks ago:
There’s a paradox I heard of that’s pretty relevant in this line of thought that is pretty transportable to most things. I heard it in the context of IT security.
It goes something like this: you buy security and after 2 or 3 years when you need to renew, nothing bad has happened, so it seems like you don’t need security. When in actual fact the extra security has been the reason there haven’t been any incidents.
So it’s almost impossible to prove that buying the security is helping without extensive analytics.
In many cases those analytics are either very difficult or impossible to get.
To demonstrate the transportable nature of this concept, let’s transpose it to vaccines.
If everyone is vaccinated, then nobody gets sick from those diseases, making it seem like the diseases are not a threat anymore, which means that vaccines are no longer useful.
Meanwhile, in all actual fact, the only reason why polio is so rare is because there is a safe and effective vaccine for it that everyone has taken (replace polio with whatever disease you want that has an effective vaccine).
It’s a paradox of: how do we prove this is working, without discontinuing it and possibly being eaten by rats/leopards/whatever.
If there’s only monopolies in the market then is their product the best on the market, or is everyone using it because there’s no alternatives?
Leaning that monopoly argument against capitalism, it’s almost certainly not the best product. When you have a captive audience, those that need your service and don’t have an alternative, there’s no incentive to innovate, or invest in improving the product at all. Do innovation stagnates so that corporations can maximize shareholder value; because the focus of a corporation isn’t to innovate, or improve what they do, their focus is always on extracting the most value for the least cost.
Therefore, monopolies will almost certainly lead to a sub-optimal product. The people that suffer for this are the users of that product. In the case of something like Google search, that’s basically everyone.
There’s a more modern term for this phenomenon: enshittification. Actively making a product worse specifically for the purposes of creating profits for shareholders.
Late stage capitalism is fun, isn’t it?
- Comment on The President of the United States of America 4 weeks ago:
So this is what a puppet looks like when you pull your hand out… Very interesting.
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 4 weeks ago:
Man, y’all are wrong. People on both platforms be stupid as hell. Myself included.
What was I talkin’ about?
- Comment on Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all. 4 weeks ago:
This is exactly what I was trying to say. Someone single making $200k might think, well, I’m not struggling at all, maybe I’m on the rich side?.. No, they wouldn’t be rich there either.
$200k/yr is nothing compared to the fat cats on top.
Even double that, you’re still much much closer to begging for quarters in the go station than deciding what yacht to buy next…
The amount of money the rich have extorted from the rest of us is unfathomable.
- Comment on Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all. 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all. 4 weeks ago:
Middle class is gone. You’re either extremely rich, or you’re down in the dirt with us poors.
If you’re not sure which camp you’re in, welcome to the fold.
- Comment on Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all. 4 weeks ago:
Oddly specific.
I hope you’re living your best life just to spite her.
- Comment on Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all. 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Have clankers visited my blog one hundred twenty-one sexagintillion eight hundred ten novemquinquagintillion times so far in November?? 4 weeks ago:
fracking clankers.
- Comment on AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures 4 weeks ago:
I mean, you could take the same logic and apply it to many things AI generated…
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Why do you think that?
Because corporate greed > all?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
The reason is simple. Inflation.
The NES originally sold for $180 USD in 1985, which is worth $530 today. The SNES, circa 1991, was $199 USD or $459 today.
Fast forward a bunch…
The switch 2 is currently priced at $449 USD.
The literal price has gone up, but the cost is going down. Slightly, but still.
I’m sure I could repeat the same experiment for PlayStation, Xbox, or Sega’s consoles and see similar results.
- Comment on A Viral Chinese Wristband Claims to Zap You Awake. The Public Says 'No Thanks’ 5 weeks ago:
The people at pavlok probably would want a word with the people who made the shock bands…
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Idk, $699 USD for the PS5 pro seems a bit closer to “PC pricing” than I would expect from Sony if they’re subsidizing the cost with future game sales.
I’d kind of expect them to be making consoles at break-even/no-profit, more than at a loss right now.
- Comment on Labcoat! 5 weeks ago:
Yeah… That’s just unnecessary to put a dog at risk like that, whether service or otherwise.
Also, don’t work in a lab by yourself. Have a buddy, even if all they do is sit in a corner and scroll on their phone. Have someone there in case something happens.
In the best case, you’ve maybe wasted some of their time. In the worst case, at least you’ll have company in quarantine.
- Comment on Racism restaurant 5 weeks ago:
We need the rest!
For science!
- Comment on Racism restaurant 5 weeks ago:
How dare!
(/s in case anyone wasn’t sure)
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 5 weeks ago:
Fair enough. Have a good day friend.
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 5 weeks ago:
I get it, but MacOS is UNIX which is arguably just as complex, and that shit is far from niche or obscure.
The main difference is that MacOS is unified in its construction and Linux is fractured by design. If Linux can put everything together in a seamless and unified way, even if it’s not seamless under the hood, then we’ll be a lot closer to big OEMs putting out systems with Linux pre-installed.
If OEM systems with Linux pre-installed start appearing on shelves next to Windows systems and Macs at best buy, then it’s actually possible it would happen. But the Linux community needs to do what they can to build, test, and deliver, some kind of front end that gives the end user that polished experience, that for anything that a user wants to do, there’s a knob to do that with which doesn’t require dropping into a config file or to the command line.
I’m not going to delude myself or anyone else, while a lot of this is easy to say, the challenges are immense, and some organizations have been trying to accomplish this for many many years. Linux has come a lot way, but it’s not quite where it needs to be yet, in order for it to happen.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 5 weeks ago:
I work in IT for businesses and the number of times I’ve had to debunk AI slop hallucinations as actual troubleshooting information is not zero.
“Yes, I can see the instructions say to check that checkbox, however, that checkbox does not exist” (screenshot of relevant control panel).
This is just evidence, to me, that business types are already relying on AI instead of doing any actual thought or research on any topic they don’t already have a deep understanding of, or are too lazy to bother with.
Consumers are not driving this change.
The worst part is that it’s an echo chamber of yes-men that seem to be pushing for it. The AI enthusiasts trying to sell their crap, convincing the middle managers that they need their AI crap, and them buying it and asking for more/better AI crap, and the cycle continues. At no point does any of the output of any AI system provide any unique insight, or value, to anyone. The rest of us are being dragged along for the ride, regardless of what we want.
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 5 weeks ago:
Well, I didn’t lift it from anywhere. So, I guess there’s dozens of us?