chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on arriving 22 hours ago:
I just live in Texas. That’s all it takes.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 3 days ago:
Let’s say you design a revolutionary widget of some kind, but don’t have the means to to produce it at scale. How do you get it to market? You parter with a larger company. For a share of the proceeds, you have them produce the item. Without a patent, when you go to the manufacturer and show them the design, they can just start making it themselves and tell you to beat sand.
Also, patents require competitive companies to alter a product design in order to sell it. If everyone could just copy the same product, there would be further incentive to monopolize the means of production to produce the single product at a larger scale, since the only differentiation between products would be the price. Patents allow competition through limited-term protection of their innovations.
Is the patent system abused by large companies? Absolutely. But removing patents won’t make them.good actors. It’ll just remove any limitations on their theft.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 3 days ago:
I haven’t, and I really should. Like, REALLY should. I was college roommates with and took part in the wedding of someone high enough at Gearbox that I can’t say their role without doxxing myself, and we’ve stayed really close.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 4 days ago:
Yes. The out of left field had more to do with what was expected going in. We all expected silly D&D and fart jokes. We didn’t expect a legitimately touching examination of grief and denial to bring depth to a silly character.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 4 days ago:
BL2 was great. Some of its DLC was even better. Assault on Dragon Keep is one of the best looter shooters ever made. The gameplay was a blast. The jokes were funny…And out of left field it broke your fucking heart by secretly being about a young, traumatized girl’s grief.
- Comment on Too soon? 5 days ago:
Yeah. Modern medicine is amazing, but that looks pretty much un-surviveable.
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 week ago:
That was last year.
Now it’s… Tylenol?
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 week ago:
I wonder if it has something to do with how they count users with ad blockers.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 1 week ago:
I thought it was rough-cut dimensions.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 1 week ago:
The Castlevania date is a little misleading, however.
Castlevania changed from a simple linear level-based side-scroller to the open world exploration, progression, and backtracking formula of the Metroidvania genre with Symphony of the Night in 1997.
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 1 week ago:
Middle class is a fabrication designed to make the working poor think they’re better off than they really are.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 week ago:
They’re waiting until all the products in the wild can be locked down.
Right now, they’re struggling to get people.to jump to Windows 11, and people are hoarding their old computers. They want all the products that don’t have TPM or its equivalent to be outmoded before they remove the mask.
- Comment on IME there's nice guys and then there's "Nice Guys" 2 weeks ago:
If your kindness is transactional, you’re not a nice person.
- Comment on '3d-printing a screw' is a way to describe how AI integration is stupid most of the time 2 weeks ago:
They’re great when you need one or 2 and they’re used properly.
But if I need 2,000 screws, I’m going to the hardware store instead of spending 82 hours printing screws.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
So is it bad that I’m on prescription amphetamines and had to do some unexpected work on the wiring on a 3-phase compressor after having a beer?
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
Sure would be nice to be privileged enough to be able to relocate myself and my family.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 2 weeks ago:
And, increasingly, there’s no such thing as offline.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 2 weeks ago:
The more impressive thing is that they managed to get the Nvidia upgrade to be backwards compatible with existing Framework 16 models.
That’s the push I need to really, truly believe they’re committed to the goal of upgradablity. Too many “mouldular” products have come out where the “upgraded” modules were only available if you bought the newest version of the base product.
In the next year or so, I’ll probably be buying a new laptop, and this has convinced me that Framework is probably the way to go.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
Apple has EU problems. Google got legally fucked in the US with the Epic lawsuit.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 3 weeks ago:
Didn’t they just lose a major lawsuit over their treatment of sideloaded apps and stores?
- Comment on bmw 3 weeks ago:
Are you sure you weren’t just in Houston?
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 3 weeks ago:
Autistic boys sometimes get called quaint. Other times people call the police and they get shot.
- Comment on human geography 3 weeks ago:
That’s true almost everywhere these days. Climate change and pesticides did a number on them.
I used to see hundreds floating around at night. Now I’m lucky to spot one a year.
Also, lovebugs. There were so many everywhere it was difficult to drive sometimes. I haven’t noticed any in years.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
American here:
I’d appreciate help from the rest of the world.
Please embargo us. We need our economy to be in ruins next November, with Trump and his goons as the culprits. Heck - if you can fuck our economy by January, we may even be able to primary some current Republicans so thet Trump is fucked by the midterms no matter which party wins.
- Comment on Tubi TV 3 weeks ago:
These jank movies do have a function.
People gotta learn to use cameras and decorate sets and shit. Might as well make a dumb movie out of it and hope to sell a few units.
- Comment on nooo my genderinos 3 weeks ago:
And then there was quantum.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 3 weeks ago:
That’s so close it should’ve just announced the day it released and blown all our minds.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 3 weeks ago:
That’s the point. Musk wants control over the entire internet.
If all the other internet infrastructure was abandoned, he would be the most powerful person in history. Want to regulate him afterwards? He could just shut down the internet in your region until you accept his terms.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 3 weeks ago:
Theater was the Superman Returns movie tie-in. The game wasn’t good, but the health system for the city was a neat idea, and the flying was AMAZING.
There’s never been a bad game with an element I enjoyed so much as Superman Returns and the flying.
- Comment on worst uber driver ever 4 weeks ago:
Dude only has a rating of 2 chevrons.