chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 21 hours ago:
That’s not accurate. A tax write-off isn’t “taxes you don’t pay”. It’s “lost income that isn’t taxed”.
The US corporate income tax is nominally 21%. If a company writes off 100 of loss (or charitible donations, or expenses, or anything else), their earnings are reduced by 100 dollars, saving them 21 bucks. There’s no way to “profit” off of failure through write-offs.
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 1 day ago:
Taco Bell is kinda its own genre of food. I’ve never wanted Mexican food and decided “close enough” with Taco Bell.
But I’ve absolutely bought Taco Bell because I was in the mood for Taco Bell.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 2 days ago:
They can’t sell them at a loss without a locked-down ecosystem. Sony learned that the hard way with the OtherOS support for the PS3 that lead to a ton of them being purchased to build cheap supercomputer ls and never spending a dime on games or software to cover the loss.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 2 days ago:
But you still have to know about it.
Whereas the Steam Maclhine - like a Playstation, Xbox, or Nintendo - just plugs into the TV and works.
Plug in the power, run the HDMI cable to the and log into the wifi after powering it on.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 3 days ago:
It may not he for you, but there’s a huge potential audience. Somebody who is used to the console experience and wants that simplicity for playing on the couch, but wants access to PC gaming platforms like Steam.
I like tinkering with my PC, but a lot of people don’t. They like consoles because they can pick up the controller, push a button, and it powers on and works, and they never have to worry if a game will run. If it’s released on the console, it should work.
Yeah, there’s 1001 ways to get a PC running on the TV, but none of them are as dumb-simple as turning on an Xbox. This device solves that issue.
- Comment on They were well informed. 3 days ago:
I always thought of her as a treasure hunter more than an archeologist.
- Comment on Windows 11 Finally Fixes "Update and Shut Down" Functionality After a Decade 1 week ago:
Yep. And since I carry 3 laptops in my backpack (2 for work and one personal), it’s a problem.
Though I will say the fact that all 3 can be powered by Type-C cables has been since huge life improvement since i don’t need to carry around 3 different charging bricks.
- Comment on So much... 1 week ago:
Municipal development guy here.
You’d be amazed how many contractors and architects have issues with stair math.
- Comment on It's 2025, And We're Getting A Brand New 8-Bit Game Console 1 week ago:
Getting it to display on a screen is gonna cost enough to kill any value proposition.
How many people in 2025 are still going to be using a display with vintage inputs?
- Comment on Windows 11 Finally Fixes "Update and Shut Down" Functionality After a Decade 1 week ago:
Can they fix the “randomly turn itself back on and drain the battery while in its bag so that it’s always dead when you actually need to use it on the go” problem?
Because that’s been a problem for like 20 years at this point and means I have to treat my laptops as if they don’t actually have batteries because it’s schrodinger’s power any time I pull one out to work.
I was at a conference this week, and half the attendees were huddled in the cafeteria the whole time because there were some tables on one wall with outlets.
- Comment on Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting 1 week ago:
Lazlow, Dan Houser, and the rest of the old creative team at Rockstar are no longer with the company.
GTA6 is gonna sell like mad regardless, but unlike the last several Rockstar blockbusters I’m waiting to see if it’s good before giving them any money.
- Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts 1 week ago:
The city is buying me like 15 grand in new software licenses this year, but I can’t convince them to spend another 2 grand on a new fucking computer because mine is “supposed” to be good for 2 more years.
- Comment on Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts 1 week ago:
My work laptop was upgraded to Windows 11 and performance has severely suffered.
As someone who usually uses 3 monitors (sometimes 4) and does GIS, it’s an issue.
- Comment on newbie player 1 week ago:
Seems like as good a place as any to say I did a photoshoot of an underwater poker game a few years back for the Underwater Photography class I teach at a local university.
All the really good shots had students in them, so I can’t share. I’ll check the PC later to see if I have any decent shots without people.
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 1 week ago:
I actually also have a Razr+. My employer pays me a stipend to have a second phone so thay when I eventually leave I don’t have a bunch of contractors calling my personal number.
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 1 week ago:
I just realized my Z-fold with controller case could make a truly excellent DS emulator.
Anyone know if there’s an emulator out there that supports folding phones in landscape mode as a DS, similar to the way YouTube will split the video and the controls when partway folded in landscape more?
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 weeks ago:
Gaming on Linux is like gaming on Windows 20 years ago when you spent more time just trying to get the fucking game to run than actually playing the game.
I got an error trying to launch a BF2 expansion that told me to contact the nearest rendering deceloper.
- Comment on ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media 2 weeks ago:
It’ll be handy to have a tool that makes things up that they can use an an excuse to arrest you.
- Comment on Too late 2 weeks ago:
We don’t have any F-350s in my household…
We have 2 F-150s, a Nissan NV200 Cargo van, an RV built off an E-450, and a Ford C-Max plug in hybrid.
- Comment on Too late 2 weeks ago:
Yeah - I sold zero augers, and ended up calling a location in Minnesota land they were sold out, so we transferred them along with some rifles some of their customers had ordered from our used gun department that had to go through their store for the background check.
- Comment on Too late 3 weeks ago:
A few years ago my local Home Depot was clearancing out Haloween stuff to make room for Christmas stuff the last week of September.
I also used to work for a large destination outdoors retail chain. They held their big sales events at the same time nationwide whether or not it made sense regionally. I was in Texas, and we had a big flannel sales event for the clothing department in August when it was 110 degrees outside.
I ran the marine electronics department, and in 2018 they sent me 3 dozen ice augers for a sale. When I bitched to corporate they said Texas people vacation up North, and didn’t answer when I asked how many people they’d seen pack a 30-pound gas motor and 3-ft drill bit in their carry-on.
- Comment on ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media 3 weeks ago:
That’s the beauty of AI. It can look everywhere without requiring additional manpower.
- Comment on Velma can't math. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. Those guys all work on Futurama.
- Comment on Banana 3 weeks ago:
Picked by slaves.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 3 weeks ago:
They shouldn’t be. My internet comes from a WISP antenna network connected to Fiberlight.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 3 weeks ago:
My internet isn’t great (about 15 megabit), and HBO has really bad compression artifacts and buffers really often, whereas Netflix, YouTube, Hulu, Disney, etc all do just fine.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 3 weeks ago:
My biggest issue with them is their shit streaming quality.
- Comment on Jeep pushed software update that bricked all 2024 Wrangler 4xe models 4 weeks ago:
If I had a car that had suddenly stopped working due to a careless update, I’d want it to be bricked so I could make the manufacturer pay for a different fucking car.
- Comment on Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21. 5 weeks ago:
I think we also need to be careful about what we consider low-quality clones of other work.
Reproduction of research is extremely important. It isn’t glamorous, but it’s how we verify shit.
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but also make it clear why you are leaving. And as dirty as it feels, don’t tell them their actions are irredeemable and they’ve lost you for life.
If you tell them you’ll never come back no matter what, then they no longer have to care about your opinion. You’re essentially telling them that they should start catering more-heavily to the fascists now that the only potential customers don’t mind them bending the knee.