chronicledmonocle
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- Comment on Nintendo has sent a DMCA notice to Ryujinx forks 4 days ago:
Emulation isn’t piracy and you’re allowed to back up physical games you own. That’s legally your right.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 4 days ago:
This firmware update applies to laserjets. Not inkjets.
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 1 week ago:
I used to just use Firefox for Google Meet, but it seems they broke it somewhere along the way. Probably on purpose.
- Comment on William Shatner Confirms Talks for Star Trek Return at 93 Years Old 1 week ago:
Please no. Look…I am glad you played Kirk, man…but your story is DONE. Picard’s story didn’t need its own show either.
Stop making rehashes FFS. Stop leveraging nostalgia and then disappointing us.
Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds: Do more of that (I know SNW is a prequel, but it explores characters that barely saw the light of day).
Fucking Orville did Star Trek better than modern Star Trek.
- Comment on ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online 3 weeks ago:
Cool story. I don’t care if they know I fucking hate them.
- Comment on What is everyone using as a HTPC? 4 weeks ago:
I’m using a Ryzen Mini PC running Debian and Flex Launcher.
Works well as both a media consumption machine and light gaming rig.
- Comment on Need for Speed is effectively on hold while Criterion musters entirely around Battlefield, but EA assures players the racer will return in 'new and interesting ways' 4 weeks ago:
new and interesting ways
$80 and more micro transactions.
- Comment on How long does it take for a quantum torpedo to cover a distance of 12 parsecs? 1 month ago:
Me, as a fan of both: “I’m a turbo nerd, aren’t I?”
- Comment on Cold-weather range hits aren’t as bad for EVs with heat pumps 1 month ago:
You’re probably a better candidate for a plug-in hybrid.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 2 months ago:
Would have been fine if it didn’t cost a kidney and they’d invested in app development more.
Too closed off. Too expensive.
- Comment on Preview: The Cerritos Crew Starts A New Comic Book Adventure In First Issue Of ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ 3 months ago:
Didn’t know there was to be a comic series. This is exciting.
- Comment on The Magic Keyboard and Mouse now use USB-C! 4 months ago:
Look…it’s a shit mouse, but all you had to do is press on the right-front corner for right click after you configured it to do so.
I hated the thing and would never get one again, but if you’re going to criticize it, at least point out things that are actually a problem.
- Comment on The Magic Keyboard and Mouse now use USB-C! 4 months ago:
I had a first gen Magic Mouse and you could definitely add right click to it.
- Comment on The Magic Keyboard and Mouse now use USB-C! 4 months ago:
And they still put the port on the bottom where you can’t charge and use it at the same time. Garbage.
- Comment on Excel enters its 40th year 4 months ago:
Don’t forget accounting software.
- Comment on Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations 5 months ago:
I’m all for Sodium batts in cars, but my understanding is this battery tech is a different chemical composition than other Sodium Ion batteries.
- Comment on Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations 5 months ago:
Actually exciting battery tech that isn’t just fluff. They actually built the thing and tested it, rather than it being a theoretical, not-easily-produced thing and it worked.
As others have said, this is for grid-scale and not EVs, but still exceptional progress and very important for energy storage.
- Comment on Tesla Finally Enables FSD Ten Months After The Cybertruck's Debut, But There's A Catch 5 months ago:
That article screams “written by an AI”. It repeats itself so much, it’s like a kid trying to hit the 1k word requirement for an essay in high school English.
- Comment on I just finish to see all TNG movies. 5 months ago:
I honestly think Generations gets hated on more than it should because the Enterprise D is destroyed. People love that ship.
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 5 months ago:
There are plenty of “kids” movies and TV that are excellent for adults, too.
Listing a few:
- Bluey
- Most of Pixar
- Adventure Time (after Season 1)
- Star Wars Rebels/Clone Wars (again, after Season 1)
- Shrek
- Star Trek: Prodigy
This is not an exhaustive list, but you get the point.
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 5 months ago:
Yes they do.
- Comment on Who had it worse: Enterprise-D or Voyager? 5 months ago:
Voyager. Hands down.
“The Borg, Macroviruses, telepathic pitcher plants…the Delta Quadrant is a death trap” -Janeway-
When even the captain acknowledges it, it’s bad. At least Picard had Starfleet support at his back.
- Comment on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced' 6 months ago:
To be fair, Rocket League runs fine in Proton.
Also, to be fair…agreed. Fuck Epic.
- Comment on Can you trust Valve? Honest criticism of Steam. 6 months ago:
I don’t trust any corporation. However, Valve has treated customers with respect and doesn’t try to bend us over. For that, I’ll keep buying from them.
However, I fear for the day Gabe Newell is no longer running the show.
- Comment on Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October 6 months ago:
If you want “Apple-like” look and feel, KDE Neon, Ubuntu, or Pop_OS! are good first Linux distros to start with.
- Comment on Meshtastic DIY - How To Build Your Own Meshtastic Node ESP32 & Lora Radio 6 months ago:
Meshtastic is neat and I always contemplate building a node for fun. However, I’ve yet to see many practical uses for it beyond maybe texting while hiking.
- Comment on Pfsense, Opensense and OpenWRT - what's the deal? 7 months ago:
pfSense = Firewall and router system based on FreeBSD. Has both open source and commercial versions. Built for SMB to Enterprise uses. Extremely powerful with all of the bells and whistles you’d expect from a professional firewall product.
OPNSense = Basically pfSense with a different UI. It’s a fork of pfSense. Much of the same capability, but is built by a smaller company.
OpenWRT = Replacement firmware for embedded devices (as well as x86). It’s open source WiFi router firmware that runs on tens of thousands of devices. Many vendors will even base their custom firmware on OpenWRT and put a different skin on it (GL.iNet, for example).
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
It’s from Google intentionally breaking things
- Comment on AMD's FSR 3.1 upscaling tested: improved over FSR 2 but DLSS and XeSS are still ahead 7 months ago:
It’s DLSS an open standard like FSR? No? Ok then it doesn’t matter if DLSS is marginally better.
- Comment on It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose 7 months ago:
I find the lack of Elim Garak disturbing.