tomkatt
@tomkatt@lemmy.world
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 2 days ago:
Same. Absolutely shoes off now, despite growing up in a shoes on house.
I have inside shoes and slippers/sandals for home and inside exercise use. Outside shoes and boots are for outside only, and come off in the mud room.
- Comment on Ham flesh 2 days ago:
Where’s the pic of the ham for comparison? This is just a pic of your hand.
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 4 days ago:
My wife and I have been working out and losing weight and now the question is “am I hungry, or is it lonely mouth?”
Though I’m burning so many damned calories it’s usually I’m really hungry. 🥺
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 4 days ago:
Just sell Splinter Cell to a company that knows what the hell to do with it already.
- Comment on This kid gets it 1 week ago:
Wrong community. This is for shitposts, not depressing factual information.
- Comment on RAM Prices Got You Down? Try DDR3. Seriously! 2 weeks ago:
For a general use or gaming PC, 32GB is more than enough for the majority of users. It might show its limits with use as a server or dedicated database using complex queries.
Heck, even as servers go, I’ve got an AMD mini-PC running a Ryzen 5700u with 32 GB RAM. It’s running Plex, Jellyfin, AudioBookShelf, Home Assistant, Asset UPnP, and a few other apps, plus has extra VMs and I’m hardly utilizing it. I’m never using more than 8 out of 16 threads, and about half the RAM is still available even under full load scenarios when I’m running updates and using Plex heavily (such as scanning intros, or doing acoustic analysis for Plexamp use).
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 3 weeks ago:
I use it because I love it but no need at least not for app installing having Discover.
Didn’t you have to install that via the terminal? Discover store is not installed on EndeavourOS by default. You must have installed it and forgot.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 3 weeks ago:
Anyway can’t compare an arch based distro to Fedora or Ubuntu
Why not?
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 3 weeks ago:
Depends on your distro. Maybe on Ubuntu or Mint, sure. I’m running EndeavourOS, and it’s terminal or nothing. I’m fine with that, but YMMV.
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028 5 weeks ago:
I mean, I’ve already got a backlog of 100+ Steam and GOG games I haven’t played yet, plus something like 1000+ retro game ROMs, and I’m happy to go digging in the crates as it were. There are already more games available than I’ll have time to play in my lifetime.
They push cloud gaming and I go fuck off entirely.
- Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years 5 weeks ago:
I they’re gonna take 4 years to grow, I’ll just stick with fillings.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 1 month ago:
Firefox currently, though with recent AI related announcements, I’m shopping for replacements. Maybe Iceweasel or Waterfox, have to investigate.
I keep Opera around as a back up option as well though not sure if it’s suitable as a daily driver.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 1 month ago:
There’s plenty of “unbloated” software available. It’s just not on Windows.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 month ago:
Ryzen 5600x here, was rocking a 6700 XT but found a good deal on a RX 9070 for $540 right around when the RAM prices increased. Already have 32 GB RAM, so I’m set for a while.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 1 month ago:
Hah, guess they’re gonna have to run Linux. Windows 11 would choke on 8 GB RAM.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 1 month ago:
This is fucking stupid. There’s no AI assets in the final game, and it was used for placeholders during development.
I dislike AI for a lot of reasons, but this is massively overblown. The genie is out of the bottle and there’s no putting it back. This is right up there with artists airbrushing, photoshop, and so on. People are going to use the tools available if it leads to quicker development cycles to get a product out.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 1 month ago:
…I’m just saying. Making a modern engine from scratch is hard. There are just too many things to worry about. And the record of “RPG studios rolling a new in house engine” is not great.
Larian’s track record is good. They used an in-house engine for Divinity: Original Sin, Divinity: Original Sin 2, and Baldur’s Gate 3. And Vincke attributes at least part of their success to using in-house tools instead of “off the shelf” engines.
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 1 month ago:
Larian is very ambitious in their aims. Divinity: OS, DOS2, and Baldur’s Gate 3 were all huge games with incredible interactions and stories.
I don’t always like everything they do (in fact, I kinda hate BG3), but I respect their efforts. They don’t half-ass anything.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 month ago:
I’ve got a home assistant server hooked into homekit with voice (via an Apple HomePod). I can say something like “turn on home theater” and it will turn on the receiver, TV, and Apple TV, and will set the receiver to the Apple TV’s input.
Then, other automations. Like, I’ve got a Lytmi Fantasy 3 Pro light strip behind my TV, and when I launch video (via streaming, plex, whatever) on the Apple TV, it will automatically turn off the living room lights except for the color strip. Then if I stop or pause the video, it will turn them back on. Stuff like that.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 month ago:
It’s blocked at my router. I’ve had two routers the past few years, an ASUS AX5700 and a NETGEAR AXE7800 (RAXE300). Both allow for blocking a device from internet without blocking LAN access. So you give it an IP on your network, and then just block it from internet.
I don’t know if it’s true, but I’ve read that some TVs will seek to connect to open networks if it’s not connected at all, so I figure that way it’s totally blocked, and I still have access to its APIs for Home Assistant and Homekit use.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 month ago:
So glad I blocked my LG C1 from the internet ages ago. Haven’t received updates in forever, don’t care. It’s a TV, it shows pictures. I even still have it LAN enabled so it can be controlled via Home Assistant automations, it just can never leave the home network, and that’s how I like it.
I can’t even remember how long ago I set it up to do this, I think it was when I heard rumor they’d be including ads in the UI, maybe 2023 or so.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 1 month ago:
Something that existed until the beginning of 2025.
- Comment on Corn for the corn throne 1 month ago:
Heresy!
- Comment on Corn for the corn throne 1 month ago:
Damned Cornites.
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 2 months ago:
I just need Jellyfin to fix their subtitles issues on Apple TV and I’ll be all set. Swiftfin needs some work yet, though I’m told the fix is in the pipeline for release soon^T^M (probably by Q1 next year?).
- Comment on Last Epoch players turn on the action RPG for announcing a paid DLC class, tanking its Steam reviews: 'go play Path of Exile instead' 2 months ago:
Grim Dawn was an excellent and finished game on release, and said DLCs came out years later via DLCs that acted as expansions to the campaign.
Last Epoch doesn’t even have a complete story, just some unfinished tripe with no real lore and oh here’s a bunch of alternate versions of how the unfinished thing you encountered could have happened differently.
They’re not even in the same class. It’s why I have 440 hours on Grim Dawn and would play it more still. I dropped LE at 170 hours and don’t really see any reason to play more.
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 2 months ago:
Way shit’s going, at some point you’re going to have to break your own kneecaps and there will still be a fee associated with the self-service.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 2 months ago:
This is what happens when you abandon Splinter Cell.
- Comment on Valve says it’s still waiting for better chips to power Steam Deck 2 2 months ago:
I’m fine with this. I’ve got over 100 PC games on my Steam Deck currently, plus over 1000 retro game ROMs. I’ll be fine with it for a good while.
