EvilBit
@EvilBit@lemmy.world
- Comment on Poop In A Box 1 week ago:
There’s a VR game that I think has a flat port as well, called The Last Worker. You basically play The Last human working at an obvious Amazon analogue. It’s pretty entertaining.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 1 week ago:
8 was designed terribly, but the engineering was unbelievably good. It was more streamlined and stable than it had ever been, it was just skinned by a tablet-obsessed moron.
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 2 weeks ago:
As I understand it, Onyx Boox/Palma devices are great, but Onyx is a flagrant violator of GPL FWIW. For a full size reader I always recommend/second the Kobo Libra Colour and for a Palma replacement, the Bigme Hibreak is fantastic and also comes in color for a great price.
- Comment on Pick-ups from the Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo 2 weeks ago:
It really was brutal, but in the way that makes you very aware that it’s your fault for sucking at it.
- Comment on Pick-ups from the Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo 3 weeks ago:
I used to sing Sub Terrania’s praises long before it was cool. That game is a gem. The development team was a bunch of demoscene madmen who were able to wring miracles out of the Genesis.
Their later game, Red Zone, is a technological flex like nothing else.
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 3 weeks ago:
Now apply this to like, everything else ever.
Machine designed to convincingly fake human internet conversation sucks at ____________!
- Comment on Winging it 3 weeks ago:
Reminded me of this old gem, original source sadly lost to the sands of the web.
- Comment on Finished SMW: The Crown Tale 5 weeks ago:
I assumed as much. :)
Now get outta here, ya Powkiddy
- Comment on Finished SMW: The Crown Tale 5 weeks ago:
Retroid*
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 5 weeks ago:
If you like pedantry, people have definitely flown in vehicles and even jumped.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 5 weeks ago:
That’s great advice. At least for as long as libraries still exist. 😫
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 5 weeks ago:
I hear good things about Pimsleur as an alternative.
- Comment on Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy - Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
Excuse my ignorance of genre names, but isn’t Rogue Trader a fully blown Warhammer CRPG?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Republicans: “Hey, you suggested it, but now that we’re thinking about it…”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
“Own the libs”
- Comment on Judge Rules Apple Senior Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral 1 month ago:
True enough, but you’d still be playing legal whack-a-mole because by the letter of the law, you could still be legally relatively poor but have access to an insane amount of money in lots of ways.
- Comment on Judge Rules Apple Senior Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral 1 month ago:
In principle, yes, but hiding wealth is also like Rich Bastard 101 stuff.
- Comment on Hotdog for Scale 2 months ago:
Corrected. One pedant point awarded.
- Comment on Hotdog for Scale 2 months ago:
Knowledgeable identification of an insect from the photo with cited reasoning: nice.
Dick joke : 4x the upvotes.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 2 months ago:
The problem is that the winners don’t share. They exploit the others. That’s exactly what got us here in the first place.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 2 months ago:
Any economist or data scientist should be able to pretty easily compare the economic course to a forecast of what would have happened with minimal interference.
Will we listen? No, because experts don’t count for shit in the US anymore.
- Comment on Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs 2 months ago:
I would say the only silver lining here is that the exploitation of labor puts these giants in a precarious position where all of their critical work is being done by unhappy, extrinsically motivated people who are often only still there because they’re relatively immobile (i.e., they aren’t good enough at their job to find another one easily) or they were kept on because their salary is lower and they’re less experienced. It makes these massively complicated technology ecosystems extremely brittle, which is why software has been shit across the board for the past decade or so. It’s possible there will be a pendulum swing if and when quality becomes an attainable and marketable feature again.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I do. It’s not ideal but it still gives me something better to do than social media.
I’ve heard it’s quirky and kinda mid as a phone, but not unusable.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Color screen and the fact that Onyx, the makers of Boox, flagrantly violate GPL terms.
But it was the Boox Palma getting publicity that made me aware of the form factor and start digging. I’m super happy with the Bigme Hibreak, but I don’t have a SIM card in it. I mostly use it in airplane mode as a dumb e-reader and don’t even install any apps besides the minimum needed to do that.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I got an e-ink e-reader in the pocketable form factor of a phone (Bigme Hibreak Color). Instead of doomscrolling social media, I read a couple paragraphs of the Oppenheimer biography. Next I’ll reread Neuromancer. It’s life-changing. 10/10 highly recommended.
- Comment on Go meet grass or touch your neighbors. 2 months ago:
And it’s amazing if anyone hasn’t seen it
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 2 months ago:
Yo momma so fat her waist size is “Schwarzschild”.
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 2 months ago:
You callin’ me fat?
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 2 months ago:
True, sure. I’m just saying the overall price of games has gone down significantly over time. An upward correction makes some sense. I’m not cheering it on, just trying to help frame the circumstances.
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 2 months ago:
Ocarina of Time cost $116.91 at launch, accounting for inflation.