Strayce
@Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation 4 days ago:
Oh hey it’s me
- Comment on You know what would be cool? If all those (job name) simulator games could all be joined. 5 days ago:
!outside@lemmy.world
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 1 month ago:
Even if it isn’t changing IP, you still want it in your DHCP table so that IP doesn’t accidentally get assigned to something else. It’s unlikely but it can happen.
- Comment on Apple Vision Pro 2 Reportedly Entering Mass Production In H2 2025, Sporting The New M5 SoC, Spatial Computing & Generative AI Could Make It A Hit 1 month ago:
Oh wow I can’t wait to strap a hallucination machine to my face
- Comment on How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse 1 month ago:
I picked up a wireless Cooler Master mouse on impulse for $20 from a bargain bin and it’s … Actually okay. The software doesn’t even need to stay running. You open the util, change the settings, close it, and that’s it. Downside is the cable… While it is technically USBC, they’ve done that thing where the port is recessed in a specifically shaped divot that only their cable will fit.
- Comment on New Cheat Code Discovered in Sega Saturn Doom After 27 Years 2 months ago:
As an old school doom mapper from the 90s, it absolutely isn’t. You build a room, apply F_SKY1 to the ceiling, and that’s it. The engine renders it more like a wall, but it’s not a traditional skybox in that it doesn’t exist in the map outside of the level.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 2 months ago:
Not really. They have a lot of bits and in-jokes which are going to seem incomprehensible to anyone from the outside, but most of them are pretty chill if you engage in good faith. It’s like a lot of tech communities; if you don’t do your research and ask intelligent questions, you’re likely to get told to RTFM.
- Comment on Bazzite Linux gets keyboard-less installation (good for handhelds) and smaller updates 2 months ago:
Installed this on my Legion Go today. Took about an hour, all hardware supported out-of-the-box. Hardest part was mapping the controller. Haven’t actually played much on it, but I’m very impressed with the experience so far.
- Comment on Are there any video games in the Warhammer universe that are actually good? 2 months ago:
Speed Freeks is extremely underrated. It plays like Unreal Tournament x Twisted Metal.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
Timing and length of ads won’t be consistent between users so this approach doesn’t work.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
Using a different client won’t help if the ads are injected directly into the video stream.
- Comment on Onlyfans creators will eventually market meat of themselves 4 months ago:
There was that artist back in the early 2000s who made caviar from her own eggs.
- Comment on Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions? 4 months ago:
Short answer: yes.
Shattered Pixel dungeon is based on pixel dungeon, adds a bunch of new stuff and is reasonably actively developed.
- Comment on trending on facebook 4 months ago:
That AI moderation thing is working real well I see.
- Comment on Australia | Supermarkets could face billions in fines for grocery code breaches as Labor commits to reforms 4 months ago:
Suppliers should be paid fairly, and I’m glad the fines actually seem meaningful (in theory, anyway; those are maximum penalties. I doubt they’ll actually get applied any time soon). It won’t help the average consumer tho.
Supermarkets here use their position as middlemen to squeeze both ends of the supply chain; they short their suppliers and price gouge their customers. The code of conduct only fixes one side of this. It applies purely to dealings with suppliers, and has nothing to do with retail pricing.
It’s more likely prices will increase to maintain the profit margin. Line must go up and the plebs just have to suck it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
From the article, it seems like it isn’t overriding preferences if you have it set in the app. Looks like it’s an analytics thing in the backend at the moment. Of course, I wouldn’t put it past them to eventually require ID if your settings don’t match their prediction.
- Comment on Yes, Australia’s big supermarkets have been price gouging. But fixing the problem won’t be easy 6 months ago:
The code of conduct only covers dealing with suppliers. With no breakup of the duopoly and no regulations in place regarding price at point of sale, making it mandatory is only going to force prices higher to maintain the margin. I do believe suppliers should get paid fairly, but the average person is going to get fucked here.
- Comment on Are you prepared for the ramifications of windows 10 EoL? 6 months ago:
Not really, but I have 18 months to migrate all my shit away from there. I’ve already moved a lot of my critical stuff to FOSS software running under win10 and I’m more than passing familiar with Linux. Shouldn’t be a massive deal.
- Comment on Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road 6 months ago:
This is also the company that promises to prioritise the vehicle occupants over pedestrians.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
The specs are insane, but you can’t use it because the servers it needs to phone home to don’t exist yet.
- Comment on State your music taste chat 8 months ago:
I fundamentally object to the horny / sad dichotomy. off to have a good crywank
- Comment on Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models 8 months ago:
Considering how much of Reddit is already bots, I’m sure this will end fantastically.
- Comment on Want to watch porn in Britain? Get your passport ready 9 months ago:
It’s plausible. Could have been a low-effort typosquatting site loaded with porn ads.
- Comment on Want to watch porn in Britain? Get your passport ready 9 months ago:
This is about control. If you’re forced to upload ID, the government instantly has a watch list of people and associated sites. Then there’s the flexibility of the definition of porn. Once the legislation is in, anything regarding sex, sexuality, or gender education gets quietly reclassified. Then you have a watch list of potential LGBT+ people and allies to harass.
- Comment on Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice 9 months ago:
This is one of those utterly brilliant games that I absolutely hate playing. They had a goal, and achieved it with flying colours. It’s just too bad that goal was to create a thoroughly unpleasant, tense, frightening, harrowing experience. I had to put it down and never, ever come back to it.
- Comment on The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending 10 months ago:
I like self checkout as a concept. I don’t like the implementation or what it stands for.
- Comment on For real though, I think about this at least once a day 10 months ago:
Wait, Riker fucked LaForge?
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 10 months ago:
Australia isn’t that much better. Yeah, you’re much less likely to get shot unless it’s by the cops, but housing and grocery prices are insane. Public health is kind of okay at the moment, but it’s slowly and surely being gutted along with most other public services. Disability and unemployment are a labyrinthine nightmare of maliciously incompetent bureaucracy. Workers rights don’t suck in some places. Some industries have very strong unions (construction). My state has sick pay guarantees for casual workers and jail time is a possibility for wage theft. I think it’s the only one where that’s true tho. Otoh we just voted nationally to continue systemic racism, we have nazis sieg heiling in the streets, our prime minister is a non-event and the opposition leader is an angry potato.
- Comment on Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing 10 months ago:
I’m studying at the moment, so I do a -lot- of research. A tablet + stylus is perfect for me for taking notes on top of lecture slides and reading / annotating pdfs. A folding form factor would be really useful for me, so I wouldn’t have to carry around a second device.
- Comment on What is the point of individually wrapping cheese slices in plastic, only to cover a bunch of them in more plastic? 11 months ago:
Food tech is kinda my area, so I went and did a little research and it turned into quite a ride. For cultural context, grilled (broiled in the US, I think) cheese and Vegemite is kind of a traditional Aussie snack. Just a slice of white bread with butter and Vegemite, slice of cheese on top, stick it under the grill.
The Kraft singles I remember doing this with from my childhood absolutely did not behave like anything resembling real cheese when you did this. It melted on the inside, sure. But the outside turned into a kind of plasticky skin, then burned. So you were left with this cracked, blackened, crunchy skin disguising a thin layer of vaguely dairy-adjacent molten plastic goop that was guaranteed to stick to and sear the roof of your mouth.
I’m not sure when OP last ate them, but the Kraft singles I know got axed in like 2017 when Mondelez sold their cheese line to Bega. That makes it incredibly hard to track down the original formula to figure out what in the world they were really made of. They have, however, since been re-released and claim to be at least 45% cheese, which I suspect is a lot more than the ones I remember, probably does melt, and falls pretty squarely into the “processed cheese” definition according to FSANZ.