Strayce
@Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions? 2 days 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 3 days 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 1 week 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] 1 month 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 1 month 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? 2 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 2 months ago:
This is also the company that promises to prioritise the vehicle occupants over pedestrians.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 5 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 5 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 5 months ago:
Wait, Riker fucked LaForge?
- Comment on What is an average person living in the US supposed to do about corporations raising prices? 5 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 5 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? 6 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.
- Comment on Is eating potato chips better than nothing in terms of pure nutrition and wholesomeness? 6 months ago:
Strictly speaking, yes. It’s better to get calories and marginal nutrients than no calories and no nutrients.
Definitely seek medical attention though. Eating like that isn’t sustainable and cold shouldn’t last that long.
- Comment on Spot On - Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal 6 months ago:
That’s academic for “we have no idea what this was for”. Except in the case of “fertility ritual” – that means it’s a sex toy.
- Comment on Best SBC for servarr and jellyfin? 6 months ago:
I’m running mine on Pi4. It works, but I wouldn’t really recommend it. It tends to choke on anything over 1080.
- Comment on EA working on player-voiced characters in games, patent shows 7 months ago:
The shit they will do to avoid paying actors.
- Comment on Is The PlayStation Portal Worth A Purchase? - GameInformer 7 months ago:
Maybe with a jailbreak
- Comment on Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year 7 months ago:
They exist. Screenshot_20231113_080939_Firefox
- Comment on How a false claim about wind turbines killing whales is spinning out of control in coastal Australia 7 months ago:
This reeks of astroturfing. I guarantee you the people behind it do not give a fuck about whales. They’re the same ones spilling crude oil on the great barrier reef.
- Comment on It's so bubbly, cloying...and happy. 7 months ago:
You’re right, and everybody who hates it is right.
It’s cheap, hokey, sentimental, and goddamnit it fucking works on me.
- Comment on X is reportedly selling inactive usernames for $50,000 — The move is the platform’s latest attempt to raise revenue 7 months ago:
This guy is speedrunning enshittification.
- Comment on How well do Swedish fish keep past their best by date? 7 months ago:
Not familiar with Swedish Fish specifically, but generally candy is mostly sugar, which is a preservative in itself so it doesn’t really go off. Also not familiar with the regulations in your area, but in my country foods are generally good for at least three months outside of a “best before” date if kept in their original packaging or at least airtight. Flavour and texture might decline a bit, but they won’t make you sick. It’s the “use by” dates you want to be observant of.
- Comment on Here's what a random person on the internet thought of The Outer Worlds 7 months ago:
No, I said I haven’t enjoyed one since 3. I tried NV and I’ve seen enough videos to get why people like it, but I just didn’t. The crafting system and changes to combat mechanics felt too complicated at the time. Like, I had to go gather three different materials to build the ammo to break one guy’s tank. I didn’t have any issue with the plot or writing, it just felt like busywork. Likewise with FO4, it’s a mile wide but an inch deep. There’s a ton of stuff to do, but very little reason to care about it. Like, yeah, some asshole stole my kid but I’m just gonna go spend however many hours building out this gas station. FO3 just felt like the perfect balance between grindy RPG mechanics and plot driven missions.
- Comment on Here's what a random person on the internet thought of The Outer Worlds 7 months ago:
Yeah, I think you got it. The humour in Fallout is subtle, it’s satire. OW borders on farce.