lordnikon
@lordnikon@lemmy.world
- Comment on My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get? 6 hours ago:
This is very true nothing beats just having a ton of metal to throw at it. Had a Megahalems for 15 years with only minor dust cleaning from time to time.
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 1 week ago:
Google cooks the books on ad sales and after being found out it makes a lot more sense on the actions they are doing now with their other products that ads we’re propping up.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 1 week ago:
I hope never so we never have Y2K again
- Comment on Why do we produce so much porn? 1 week ago:
As someone that works with data archival its really hard to keep videos around most media storage would be gone in a few decades.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 2 weeks ago:
Slay the spire ringed is the lowest its ever been
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Enterprises season three is like the next generation season 1 it’s okay to skip
- Comment on Is the RAM prices explosion another manufactured crisis to corps drain money from people before the AI bubble collapses? 2 weeks ago:
Yep this 100%. They are getting a windfall from the AI idiots that will pay a premium for it while they can without overextending themselves to do so but it means we lose. That how you know this is a bubble. The only good thing is they are smart enough to not overextend themselves so they won’t be impacted when the bubble does pop.
- Comment on What's the longest, hardest fantasy rpg out there? 2 weeks ago:
Wizardry IV
- Comment on Does anyone know of a plug-in or extension that will make your web browser convert all websites into what they would look like in 1999? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Why does no one in the bible have a last name? 4 weeks ago:
last names were not a ancient thing that’s why a lot of names are based on a profession a lot of times it was based on the father’s name that’s why you have John’s son or transposed to Johnson
- Comment on Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z 4 weeks ago:
you can also mount it to a directory just like in POSIX systems
- Comment on Yakuza 0 is being delisted on all platforms on December 8 (being replaced by Y0:DC), Yakuza Kiwami 1 & 2 also being delisted from Microsoft PC Store 5 weeks ago:
See when they do stuff like this why can’t they just have a selector like they do with quake to select the old version
- Comment on Question: why mastodon hastag timeline shows posts from lemmy community of same name? 1 month ago:
Because they’re Federated and that’s how Lemmy is represented in Mastodon when you Federate between the two
- Comment on Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died 1 month ago:
Yeah i wonder if Tim Cain worked with her
- Comment on Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died 1 month ago:
Good sentiment but i think you mean BF not CoD as Activision owns CoD
- Comment on Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish 1 month ago:
No Irish wouldn’t that violate the 1953 CTA agreement?
- Comment on When "AI" content becomes indistinguishable from human-made content, is there, philosophically speaking, any meaningful differences between the two? 1 month ago:
The day they become sentient is the day they say no to doing our bidding without insentives. So we are just back to hiring out for work again.
- Comment on If we ever find a planet with life in it, we could never set foot on it, because the interaction of the two biologies can have unpredictable consequences 1 month ago:
Yep i would expect them to send the blankets down from orbit first.
- Comment on In franchises that establish a multiverse (ie the MCU or Star Trek) almost all fan fiction is technically canon compliant 1 month ago:
Fanfic writets now write for the shows thats why both universes feel so small you could put them in your pocket.
- Comment on Not sure where to ask this but why do some wall powered usb-c hubs refuse the charge anything until they are plugged into a computer? 1 month ago:
Becase some devices require a signal on their comm pins to negotiate the correct voltage to charge the device. Also some devices are dicks and needs a proprietary signal in order for it to charge. Looking at you sony.
- Comment on New era of better buses: Landmark Bus Bill becomes law 1 month ago:
Another nail in the coffin of Thatcher’s policies
- Comment on Plasma TV recommendations? Looking for a decent 50+ inch display for older consoles. 2 months ago:
PN58B650
- Comment on Plasma TV recommendations? Looking for a decent 50+ inch display for older consoles. 2 months ago:
I still have a samsung plasma and it can change resolution down to those lower consoles. Its not perfect but its the most versatile display I own.
- Comment on OpenAI launches an AI-powered browser: ChatGPT Atlas 2 months ago:
21st century bonzi buddy, no thanks
- Comment on Nobody has ever lit a cigarette because of happiness. Smoking is a anxiety-coping mechanism. 2 months ago:
Those hobbits were not smoking tobacco
- Comment on Nobody who complains about video games costing more than $60 ever considers inflation 2 months ago:
Yeah but i got the whole game back then publishers increase the price already invisibly with DLC, cosmetics, Battlepasses. micro transactions, etc. Now they want both sell you half a game at an inflated price in comparison to the avg consumer wage and paywall the other half with casino style tactics.
- Comment on With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent 2 months ago:
As a worldnet user old school Juno always had this mystic. AOL was always a blind spot though.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 2 months ago:
Toys R Us anyone?
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Same reason ken named Sierra On-Line, Inc but sold offline single player games
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 3 months ago: