carl_dungeon
@carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
- Comment on They're unstoppable 18 hours ago:
Those guys don’t have time for hair.
- Comment on Socialism bad 1 week ago:
Now THATS a shit post
- Comment on A Deadly Love Affair with a Chatbot. Sewell Setzer was a happy child - before he fell in love with an AI chatbot and took his own life at 14. 2 weeks ago:
this headline is disingenuous. There are so many other things going on here:
- step dad and 2 much younger siblings. This kid was probably stressed out with new younger half sibs needing a lot of attention
- gun without a lock stored with ammo in an accessible place
- florida
- Christian prep school. Those kids either believe anything is real or are so hopelessly depressed they get into drugs
- parents are both lawyers. Talk about a high stress time consuming job that probably leaves little time for the three kids
But nah, it was just a chat bot that made a totally normal kid with no other risk factors off himself. They’re probably dying by the thousand right now right?
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
Thanks!!
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m familiar with server- I was asking if you were using official client apps or third party.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
Is it called “jellyfin” like the server or is it another app?
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
Jellyfin have native apps that are any good? I use plex heavily on ps5, appleTV, iOS, and people’s random star TVs, all of which have really good first class apps. I also support users that are not technically inclined, so they would need to be able to just install and app and log in.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 3 weeks ago:
He should know, he fucking killed it
- Comment on My strategy to defeat AI is to be too stupid to realize I'm engaging with it and draining all their resources on the energy it takes to agrue with me. 3 weeks ago:
Apparently just saying please and thank you on every request is eating yup extra millions in compute
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 3 weeks ago:
cbc.ca/…/talula-does-the-hula-from-hawaii-9-gets-…
www.nzherald.co.nz/…/E7OGEDDDEGAWK2V5W4ODX22U24/
So yeah, it should and it is some places.
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 5 weeks ago:
No- is it like a grunt?
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 5 weeks ago:
I really doubt switch 2 games will emulate at all or well for quite some time.
I get the money argument. In that case, get the one that does more for you now now, and save up for the other one later. You don’t need them all at once.
I waited a year before getting the first switch, and almost 2 years for a ps4. I think I waited at least a year for all the other PlayStations too save the 5.
Getting something at launch isn’t all that great- bugs, limited games, max prices, etc… a year or so later and you get bundles and deals and lots of game choices.
I don’t have a deck- but a few of my friends do and I’ve played with it a bit- it’s great and I want one at some point, but I can wait for #2 to come out and then go on sale before I dive in.
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 5 weeks ago:
It’s great!
- Comment on US cuts may affect FOSS projects funding (F-Droid, Tor, Let's Encrypt, TailsOS) 5 weeks ago:
He’d cut his own dick off if it owned some libs.
- Comment on New 'DRAM+' memory designed to provide DRAM performance with SSD-like storage capabilities, uses FeRAM tech 5 weeks ago:
Oooh! Two “disruptive”’s and a “game changer”!
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 1 month ago:
I really truly don’t think so. While there is some overlap, I would never give my 5 yo a steam deck and tell them to just figure it out. And on a steam deck, I’d be really sad to not have any Mario kart, Zelda, etc…
I don’t see the problem with having both- they fill different niches.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 1 month ago:
No that movie was great.
- Comment on What is anti-propaganda? 1 month ago:
Wouldn’t it just be facts?
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 1 month ago:
My understanding is that only some games are a “key in a cartridge” and they are able to be resold second hand.
- Comment on DOGE official at DOJ bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software. 1 month ago:
He sounds like a real asshole
- Comment on What if Apple / other brands sold desktop chips? 1 month ago:
Yeah, from apple’s perspective it cheapens their brand and makes them just another commodity parts supplier. Plus, used outside of their ecosystem, the cups might not shine the way they do on their managed platform which could tarnish the image too. Plus, it kills some of the competitive edge they have on hardware if anyone could slap something together with the same chips.
I suspect keeping their chips and tech to themselves is vital to their strategy.
- Comment on What if Apple / other brands sold desktop chips? 1 month ago:
You mean as stand alone parts for purchase?
Because Apple does have m series chips in desktop configurations already- the Mac Studio and iMac.
- Comment on Consumer confidence is sliding as Americans' view of their financial futures slumps to a 12-year low 1 month ago:
I wonder fucking why
- Comment on Minecraft's 'Vibrant Visuals' Upgrade the Start of a New 'Graphical Journey' 1 month ago:
I feel like all this visual upgrading kinda missed the point of Minecraft. It’s like colorizing black and white movies.
- Comment on DoorDash will let users buy now, pay later for fast food, a possible worrying sign for the economy 1 month ago:
Too late to explore the world with on a ship, too soon to explore space, just the right time to finance fucking door dash.
- Comment on Why can’t HVAC be made smarter? 1 month ago:
My thermostat has a hot and cold setting that will heat when cold and cool when hot- I can also set it to a mode based on outside temp or time of day. You might just need a smarter thermostat.
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 1 month ago:
Oh no anyway…
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You’re thinking of people as a service rather than connecting with a person for being a person. It’s a give and take, you need to give back. Think of the situation in reverse, someone just using you for ass and pep talks.
You should be with someone because you like them and want to do things for them.
- Comment on why was 1995 video games console very pixel art graphics but music was high quality and images were great??, 2 months ago:
It’s bitrate and computation based. Playing back a waveform through speakers takes very little computation and doesn’t really have all that much data.
Computing billion of pixels per second by doing exotic math between thousands of entities with millions of individual physics calculations and then ray tracing all that and doing it 100 times per second… dude, that’s many many many orders of magnitude more complicated.
To put it in perspective- a heavily compressed song almost fits on a floppy disc. A heavily compressed movie almost fits on 600 floppy disks. A decent quality movie takes 4000 floppies. An hd movie- 10,0000. A 4K UHD etc etc film? Close to 50,000 floppy disks. That’s just video, there’s no physics, no ray tracing, no rendering, no bump mapping, no animation, no anything, just displaying data. Now imaging doing all that, but 5x more per second and add all the things I said.
Graphics cards of today are more powerful than an Empire State Building sized computer of the 90s, probably more powerful that most of the computers on earth put together in the early 90s.
Why did games look basic? Because we had basic level computational power. But why was sound so good? Because sound is like stacking wooden blocks when modern games are like colonizing mars. Different orders of magnitude in complexity and scale.
A single smartphone image is easily 3x bigger than a high quality song- and that image needs to be rendered hundreds of times a second for a modern game. It’s not even the same sport.
- Comment on Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around? 2 months ago:
Good point. I believe it’s $$$ and is tough for smalls. Best of luck on your search!