FigMcLargeHuge

@FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I bet they would be willing to do it right while you are in the middle of something important if you paid them an extra $30 on top of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That said, this has always been the case, they’ve just covered their legal bases by updating their TOS.

  Can you be a little more specific with your definition of this and always? I am old enough to remember that when you purchased a physical copy of a game, you got the game in it’s entirety in perpetuity. Eg: I still have my Donkey Kong cartridge for my Atari 800. To be a little more current, I have a copy of Kerbal Space Program from the company that I can download the entire copy of the game and install it on my pc. So what do you mean by your comment, as I remember a time when it wasn’t the case that you were only purchasing a license? Or do you mean that it’s always been the case with these services?

  I was just had by rockstar when they cut off certain people who paid to play GTA Online and are now blocked. I will be voting with my wallet and never purchasing another rockstar game in the future, and in case they ever happened to see this, I was considering picking up the rdr games not only on pc, but my xbox and maybe even the switch. It has soured me to the point where this steam issue more of a concern and something I will be keeping an eye on.

  Also, one last comment about your last line. We don’t need congress to get involved if we as a collective of gamers just gathered together and stopped “licensing” their games. Just like if everyone, instead of complaining about the price of beer and hotdogs at stadiums, would just stop buying them for a while, the people raping our wallets would be forced to bring prices down. But alas, I think the chances of that happening are next to zero.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sh.itjust.works announcement regarding the recent spam wave⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You guys must be doing a great job because this is the first I have seen of this!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There exists a position inside the earth where it is possible to cook a perfect pizza just by leaving it there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or my car…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm deploying a Laravel app on nginx. Only the main route works, every other throws me a 404⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the uid you are using to run nginx have permissions to read the root folder (defined above as /var/www/html/partviewer/public , not the actual linux root) and below?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Server for a boat⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just got an email about a new power supply board for the rpi5 - PD Power Extension Board for Raspberry Pi 5. It’s on their pihut website and is $20. Has multiple input types.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A movie theater combining with an oxygen bar could probably make a powerful smell-o-vision experience⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure what circles you run in, but it’s talked about a lot with my family and friends. We quote it quite a bit. But hey, my brain is not a good brain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Lays Off Employee Who Slept In Car To Work Longer Hours⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Box III Signature Edition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was downvoted to fuck when I suggested this as a conspiracy theory on reddit. One of the reasons I left that place, because of the toxicity. I thought it was a thought that might have had some merit. You don’t really know what’s behind the glass on that sensor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe we just need a code word that we never tell the computers. Like a secret handshake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I could upvote this comment twice! I have the same feeling about how the media and others keep trying to push this “intelligence” component for their gain. I guess you can’t stir up the masses when you talk about LLMs. Just like they couldn’t keep using the term quad copters, and had to start calling them drones. Fucking media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would you like to play a game…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rant: Cura did the one thing a slicer shouldn't do⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in IT and I get that, but we also should have some reasonable expectations here for how a program should handle updates. Not losing key configuration files is definitely one of those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rant: Cura did the one thing a slicer shouldn't do⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally agree. Cura has bit me more than once with losing my settings. To Lmaydev’s point, it’s hard to “back things up” when you don’t know where the settings are stored and sometimes you don’t know you need to be Sherlock Holmes until it’s too late.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We that’s some shit. I often use that to get info off of pages that I won’t be clicking on normally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I completely agree. There’s no way it would ever happen, but damn wouldn’t it be beautiful to watch if it did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At some point, people need to band together and do something. Like $12 hotdogs and beer at stadiums. If people would just collectively say no to shit like that and refuse to buy them for a number of games, they would be forced to bring the prices back down to something more reasonable. But we as a group just cannot seem to do things until an extreme is met. To put it in perspective what I am saying is, if everyone just didn’t buy it, then it wouldn’t become the norm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure what you are talking about. I have the freedom to not sign some dumbass agreement with tesla and not purchase a shitty looking cyber truck, and I will use that very freedom. No one is being forced to take this deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or a beer… As long as it’s Lite Beer!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox users call out Activision and Microsoft for "vomit inducing" full-screen Modern Warfare 3 ad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They are the same people who complain when a news story alerts them to the fact that facebook is collecting their data. They whine about how the govt should do something about this egregious act, and then share that with all their facebook friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AIs can guess where Reddit users live and how much they earn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At least your scat fetish is kept on the down low.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nasa can’t open its asteroid capsule - Tortoise⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Meteor shit!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[VERGE] Amazon will now let you access Crunchyroll’s anime library right from Prime Video⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But there’s a convenience aspect in that Amazon handles all billing, and more importantly, you can watch these channels directly inside Prime Video without having to hop between numerous entertainment apps.

  And the tradeoff for this convenience is that Amazon will scour your usage and make whatever they can of their findings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suzanne Somers, Star of ‘Three’s Company’ and ‘She’s the Sheriff,’ Dies at 76⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This bot does that quite a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[TECHCRUNCH] Week 2 of the Sam Bankman-Fried trial wraps up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But there’s no article here. And the link to the coverage just puts you back in a loop. Even the AutoTLDR bot has a hodgepodge of articles on this page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[VERGE] Netflix is planning to launch retail destinations in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “We’ve seen how much fans love to immerse themselves in the world of our movies and TV shows, and we’ve been thinking a lot about how we take that to the next level,” Josh Simon, Netflix’s VP of consumer products, told Bloomberg."

  I feel like I have awoken in some weird universe lately. These execs are out of their minds, or the general public is. I guess it could be both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Opinion] Xbox Game Studios has a GamePass Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They have forced the Bedrock version on us, which in my opinion is not as well written. They then forced everyone to convert their id to an xbox id. Personally, they have really just seemed to have forgotten about the Switch Edition. It takes a minute to load up and be ready to play. I am talking about loading resource packs, etc. Why it takes more than a second to load your character is beyond me. They ruined the ability to pop out of an online game and check anything, like friends online status, or screen shots you have taken. The second you click on the home button you are disconnected from the online game, including realms. This was an update that caused this, as this used to be doable. I know it all sounds nitpicky, but when you start collectively adding it together it’s just a worse gaming experience. Mojang seemed to actually care and take the time to look at issues and want to make things better. Definitely doesn’t have that same feel now. Might as well be yelling at clouds for all the good it does us. So I expect Call of Duty will get the same. Sure they will make promises that nothing will change, and they will do their best to maintain the status quo, but their detrimental changes will slowly start creeping in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Opinion] Xbox Game Studios has a GamePass Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  FTA “How will Xbox Games Studios treat Call of Duty? Only time will tell.”

  Just ask any Minecraft player. Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you are in for a bumpy ride callers of duty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utah sues TikTok, alleging it lures children into addictive and destructive social media habits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They will impose a digital curfew on people under 18, which will require minors to get parental consent to sign up for social media apps and force companies to verify the ages of all their Utah users.

  This is laughable. I played this game before with my own kids. I would find their new Myspace account and have it removed. They would just go to a friends house whose parents didn’t care and sign up for a new one. It was a back and forth. Then my now-ex started arguing with me about it once the kids started whining about it. Now they are grown and can do whatever they want. It was a battle I was never going to win, but if Utah thinks they can manage this, I would love to watch. Gonna go make some popcorn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the Age of Paid Social Media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I am going to say this, and it’s because this is such a cliche’ response to me at this point, but I call bullshit. People making these excuses are laughable to me now with this. You aren’t talking about scaling Mt. Everest levels of effort here. Everyone you are communicating with has a phone number, and you could take the time to call them if you wanted to communicate with them, use text messaging, or email. As for the birthdays and events, go to the dollar store, or an equivalent and buy a calendar. They sell them with cute pics, or funny quotes, or whatever. Then mark the dates down. It’s fucking comical to me now how people act about getting rid of facebook. If facebook was waking up every morning and driving you to work, then yeah, it might be hard, but come on people… I feel like I am watching a b movie where everyone has been put in a trance and is just walking around mindlessly all saying the same mantra. “It’s too hard. Can’t break free.” And none of this has even touched on privacy, of which there is none on facebook. People spouting this are just willing to give up any shred of privacy for some minor convenience and it’s frustrating to watch.