Supervisor194
@Supervisor194@lemmy.world
- Comment on Ring is always recording and uploading to their servers, even with you're not paying for the subscription 1 day ago:
haha you can’t use them, because you don’t pay, but the government gets a free universal pass. Glorious. Just as the Founding Fathers would have intended.
Anyone who willingly installs these things is part of the problem.
- Comment on Discord is about to require age verification for everyone 2 days ago:
Are they gonna make everyone do it or are they just going to restrict your access to adult channels or something. If so, I won’t care, I’m not on any sensitive anything on Discord. If it’s everybody, well then, my Discord career is over, not that I really give much of a shit anyway. But nobody’s getting ID verification from me, certainly not a fucking shitty chat app.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 3 days ago:
Kind of the point of my comment was that drive size/cost is stagnating despite the massive technical progress in the space. I bought my first 4TB drive in 2020 ($89). Going back to 2015, I was buying 2TB at the same price ($86). Here in 2026, what’s the ~same price? 4TB ($99). 8TB is $180.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 4 days ago:
Ten years from now…
Amazon search: “hard drive”
Result: 4TB $98
- Comment on What type of laptop do you recommend for simply browsing the internet? 5 days ago:
Seriously, get like… a 2020 MacBook. $300
My daily driver I use in the field is from 2012. They last forever.
- Comment on When you know your boss is an insane moron 1 week ago:
Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door - that way Lumbergh can’t see me, and, uh, after that I just sorta space out for about an hour. Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I’m working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I’d say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
- Comment on Why would anyone do this? 2 weeks ago:
Why would anyone ask why anyone would do this? Look around you *gestures broadly*.
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 2 weeks ago:
Namesilo used to be the standard for inexpensive domain registration. They keep raising their rates, however, and now they are expensive compared to the alternatives. Being a registrar takes next to no work. Do not accept expensive registrars. You can safely avoid Namesilo.
- Comment on Chihuahua gang 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Ska ftw 3 weeks ago:
These all represent the good old days to me. Almost like we were manufacturing our own angst because things were relatively nice.
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 3 weeks ago:
Well I suspect the quality is not going to be up to your standard, but this is the one I have in my living room, and I think it’s perfectly fine. But if you just can’t live without 120hz or whatever, then I guess you’re stuck.
Walmart used to have a variety of these, now they’re down to one. All my TVs are either 10+ years old or Sceptre and therefore are all dumb. But I don’t have a purist bone in my body when it comes to AV stuff.
- Comment on Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows 3 weeks ago:
Whoever wins, we lose.
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 3 weeks ago:
Epic and GOG work on Heroic just fine and I’ve run two standalone games (Elite Dangerous and ESO) using Lutris with no problems.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 3 weeks ago:
There’s zero chance there won’t be a Fallout 5 but Elder Scrolls is their next major game, so it won’t be soon.
If it came out tomorrow it wouldn’t be “soon,” Fallout 4 came out 11 years ago.
In the meantime there’s a great free Fallout game for anyone who wants it despite it not being titled Fallout 5.
The game is currently listed for $39.99 on Steam. Reviews are “mixed” after 5 years of Bethesda adding content to the game, which originally released to overwhelmingly negative reviews, so not “great”.
It doesn’t require a subscription or microtransactions and making it sound like some sort of mobile game only shows you don’t know what it is.
The game does not charge for a subscription, but you most certainly have to have one, because you have to login to the game. There would be no way for them to try and sell you shit through their microtransaction store every single time you login otherwise. Which they do. You are not obliged to buy them, but you are obliged to view ads for them.
Now then. Every single thing you just said is demonstrably wrong. What exactly makes you the authority on what Bethesda intends to do with Fallout?
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what your point is - is it that they made Fallout 76 so you could play it for free? Or that Fallout 76 is proof they’re going to make Fallout 5? Or what.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 3 weeks ago:
Bethesda is not going to make a new Fallout game while Fallout 76 keeps printing money.
I’ve said this all along, they want subscriptions and mtx, they don’t want to make video games. Starfield was the last one we will get and we only got that because it was Todd’s stupid baby. ESO and F76 are where they want to be going forward. They will keep expanding them and accepting people’s money and license TV shows now I guess.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
All you have to do to see it is find a piece of current but generally ill-regarded media and post something negative about it. Then just sit back and watch all the totally real users flooding in to defend it and talk about how people who shit on it are only doing so for weak personal reasons, and it’s not that bad they’ve always kinda liked it etc.
Or just go to any halfway popular sub that talks about a food item that comes in a wide variety of flavors and brands. It’s a constant parade of pictures of brands with titles like “Who has tried this stuff and loves it?” or even “I can’t stand this stuff,” with an army of totally grass-roots posters defending it as “not for everybody but I love it” - and so on and so on.
It’s so obnoxious I can barely stand it anymore. Product subs and media subs are just worthless. I still get some traction out of niche gaming and hardware subs but that’s about it.
- Comment on The AI explosion isn't just hurting the prices of computers and consoles – it's coming for TVs and audio tech too 4 weeks ago:
For real, all my TVs are Sceptre. They are not easy to find, but they are incredibly reasonably priced and completely dumb perfection.
If people like us make them popular enough, maybe they’ll realize this is a lucrative niche market.
- Comment on Baby teeth 4 weeks ago:
She probably has an odontoma that redirected the eruption of her adult teeth.
Or is a vampire.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 5 weeks ago:
I was in the middle of making a reply like this but yours is better. Closed as duplicate.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 month ago:
I think the real problem is a government structure that lends itself to being captured by monied interests. The problem of capitalism chasing the money is only a problem because we have a government unable to properly tax the wealthy to ensure no one can amass the kind of wealth that makes it possible to capture the government.
- Comment on US | Trump brags about demanding his own government give him taxpayer money over Mar-a-Lago search: ‘I hereby give myself $1B’ 1 month ago:
You know, as much as it’s possible for me to, I get him. But what the fuck is wrong with these people clapping and cheering for a man seriously suggesting he’s going to just “give himself” a billion dollars from their tax dollars? How do you get from “conservative” to whatever the fuck this is, because it ain’t conservative.
- Comment on TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse 1 month ago:
Welcome to the era of media that cannot die.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 1 month ago:
Yes, yes I will, well Chromium forks.
Yeah, I’m not going to switch to a Manifest V3 browser because Firefox puts in access to an optional AI agent. If Firefox makes it so you can’t turn it off, which I wouldn’t think is likely, I might switch to something like Librewolf, but Chromium? No.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 2 months ago:
A nice M.L.T. - a mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich when the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe…
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 2 months ago:
Speaking of hacks, that title sucks.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 2 months ago:
This is precisely the concept of Asimov’s short story All the Troubles of the World.
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 2 months ago:
Hey I just did it! I completed my migration today. The only reason I keep a desktop around at all is for gaming and I’ve been locked into Windows for years because of it, but no more. Steam is a given, but I’m running games off Epic and Gog through Heroic and standalone games using Lutris (ESO and Elite Dangerous so far). Not a single problem with any of them.
Mint is great, the only complaints I have are minor and I can easily deal with them. Like when you launch things, you don’t always get a cursor animation to tell you you successfully set something in motion and you just have to wait for the window to pop up. That kind of thing.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Ah yes, White Christmas. That episode fucked me up. It’s a depiction of hell, straight up. And heaven is depicted similarly in San Junipero - not sure if you have seen that one.
- Comment on Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass 2 months ago:
You can’t see it? It’s *******
