chronicledmonocle
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- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 2 hours ago:
Until someone tests it independently, this should be considered BS.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 1 day ago:
That’s just what they fucking want you to think.
- Comment on U.S. agencies back banning top-selling home routers on security grounds 4 days ago:
All WiFi routers should run OpenWRT or another open source solution. There is nothing in these black boxes that needs to be closed source. They’re WiFi and NAT FFS.
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 1 week ago:
At least in the rest of the world you don’t end up with crippling debt when you try to get mental healthcare that stresses you out to the point of committing suicide.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
This is the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever read in my life.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 1 week ago:
Not really surprising. Windows hasn’t had significant investment from Microsoft in a while, unless it’s cramming bullshit AI and telemetry “features” in.
- Comment on Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party 2 weeks ago:
Nice idea to make Xbox and PC one platform, but given how badly the ROG Xbox handheld was implemented (since you can’t play Xbox games on this “Xbox”), good luck with that.
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
It’s just a search engine choice.
I agree with the sentiment, but this is quite possibly the least offensive idea Mozilla has had in a while.
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 3 weeks ago:
Oh yeah. The DLC doesn’t add an incredibly large amount of content, but there are a lot of awesome nuggets in there. The Citadel DLC for ME3 is flipping hilarious and incredible, too. Easily adds 10-15 hours of gameplay. Wrex’s “MOAR ICE” loves rent free in my head as one of the funniest ME moments ever.
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 3 weeks ago:
Yup. Especially with The Arrival DLC.
- Comment on Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters 3 weeks ago:
Meanwhile in LibreOffice-land…
- Comment on What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific. 3 weeks ago:
Playing the Mass Effect Trilogy for the first time.
Sure the ending was a bit disappointing, but the ride was absolutely phenomenal.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 3 weeks ago:
That is fair. My example was extreme, though. These people are just assholes. Do you throw away the code of an asshole because they’re an asshole?
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 3 weeks ago:
That’s fair and I knew someone would make this argument. My example was a bit of an extreme, though. These people are assholes spreading asshole-ry. Not murderers.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 3 weeks ago:
See…when it comes to open source, it’s a little different for me:
I don’t support or condone any of these pricks, but I can mentally divorce, somewhat, the open source code contributions from the person, because their contributions are useful. If this was a closed source solution, it’d be different, because the code wouldn’t be released into the community. There are a lot of weird, closet-dwelling shut ins that fall into the extremist margins.
A lot of early medical knowledge, for example, was acquired from…less than morally clear ways. So do you just take that information and throw it away on principal? Does that make the death and pain of those people for nothing? Or do you use it and don’t condone the person or their actions? This is a difficult moral choice to make that is heavily debated by philosophy, media, etc. There are entire SciFi TV episodes, movies, and books written about just such a debate.
That said, I don’t know the usefulness of Hyprland. I’ve never used it and I feel like it’s pretty niche, so I’m surprised Framework aren’t telling this person to fuck off.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
If you add --delete-before, it absolutely can delete stuff.
- Comment on this level is amazing 4 weeks ago:
Which Batman game is this from?
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 5 weeks ago:
EA has no values, because they’re a soulless, shit hole company, so they’re not lying (this time), I guess.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 5 weeks ago:
I know Plex is a business that has to make money, but if I hadn’t bought a lifetime pass for $50 a decade ago, I’d have dropped them at this point.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 1 month ago:
Devices don’t “need breaks”. This problem is indicative of a memory leak, which means they coded something shitty.
Sure, playing for 7 hours straight is excessive, but this shouldn’t happen.
- Comment on My reaction when there's a new Star Trek show for pre-schoolers 1 month ago:
Your kid might be defective. May want to take him back for a new model.
Lol kidding.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
It’s actually really neat. You should check it out.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 1 month ago:
I’m aware, but while it works with some features limited, it’s still Microsoft’s intention for you to purchase a license.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 1 month ago:
Especially one you have to PAY for
- Comment on My reaction when there's a new Star Trek show for pre-schoolers 1 month ago:
There are, in fact, multiple episodes with Discord. He’s an amazing character.
- Comment on My reaction when there's a new Star Trek show for pre-schoolers 1 month ago:
Are you referring to Discord, the Lord of Chaos? Or something I’m not familiar with?
- Comment on Silksong (emulation) 1 month ago:
Why not stream it from Steam Link or via Game Pass?
- Comment on Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” Is Now Available for Download 1 month ago:
Its a point release, so that’s to be expected.
They also updated to kernel 6.14 and updated mesa to 25.0.7, which means for people like me with a Radeon 9060 XT, it’s no longer necessary to use a PPA for updated mesa.
- Comment on Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form] 2 months ago:
Linux gaming users are in the tens of millions of people. It’s not like this is some super tiny community. There are more Linux gamers than macOS gamers by around double.
About two years ago Linux gaming market share was hovering below 2%. Now it’s over 4%.
Yeah…it’s smaller than Windows by A LOT, but it’s continuing to grow every single month on the Steam Hardware Survey. With Proton, SteamOS/Bazzite, and the Deck Verified program, Linux gaming has gone from “this sucks” to “this works unless there is kernel anti-cheat”.
- Comment on Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form] 2 months ago:
Linux has doubled its market share in the last couple years and is on an exponential growth curve right now. Valve’s push for Proton and Steam Deck has changed a lot.
Also, if Linux-based, non-Android phones or tablets became fully functional and feature complete, there would absolutely be a good number of people who would switch. I’d be one of them.