Quazatron
@Quazatron@lemmy.world
A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that likes #cinema #photography #linux #zxspectrum #retrogaming
- Comment on Steam Machine is huge for indie development 2 days ago:
Mark it up as an advantage of getting old. You get to sit and eat popcorn while people debate issues you’ve already debated.
I still want to buy one, mind you.
- Comment on xkcd #3166: Big and Little Spoons 5 days ago:
But do you want to be right out do you want to sleep on the sofa?
- Comment on Which year was the most stacked for game releases? 1 week ago:
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 1 week ago:
Portal and Portal 2 are packed with passive aggressive remarks. One of my favorites:
Well done. Here are the test results: You are a horrible person. I’m serious, that’s what it says: “A horrible person.” We weren’t even testing for that. Don’t let that horrible-person thing discourage you. It’s just a data point. If it makes you feel any better, science has now validated your birth mother’s decision to abandon you on a doorstep.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 1 week ago:
Thank you for the link, it was very interesting.
Even though analogue neural networks have the drawback that you can’t copy the neuron weights (currently, but tech may evolve to do it), they can still have use cases in lower powered edge devices.
I think we’ll probably end up with hybrid designs, using digital for most parts except the calculations.
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 2 weeks ago:
This was bound to happen. Neural networks are inherently analog processes, simulating them digitally is massively expensive in terms of hardware and power.
Digital domain is good for exact computation, analog is better for approximate computation, as required by neural networks.
- Comment on Sometimes I feel nothing will change for the better and I feel frustrated about it. 2 weeks ago:
It was very much something my generation feared. It permeated pop culture in the 70’s and 80’s
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
What’s your point? If Windows is working for you, keep using it.
- Comment on Sometimes I feel nothing will change for the better and I feel frustrated about it. 2 weeks ago:
It could be worse.
You could have lived through the 80’s and 90’s when we were on the verge of global thermonuclear war, but at least the music was great. Imagine living through that and now having to deal with this shitty dystopia with even shittier music…
- Comment on Planning to selfhost images and calendar in addition to HTTP(S) 2 weeks ago:
How I’m doing it: setup nginx-proxy-manager as frontend and put all services behind it, using different names (cloud.home, media.home, etc) but with the same IP (the proxy IP).
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 2 weeks ago:
Sony Black Trinitron was peak TV.
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation boss says the games industry is "littered" with Fortnite clones and "people trying to do Overwatch with different skins," but keep dreaming if you're just trying to get "big sacks of money" 3 weeks ago:
I feel this is true about much of what you see online currently. Videos that could have been an short how-to, articles that contain mostly AI generated filler. Also, if you want support on that you better join our discord.
I have genuine gratitude to people who share their in depth knowledge online using old fashion HTML.
- Comment on Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy 3 weeks ago:
I thought capitalism was about supply and demand. We demand something and corporations supply it. Who demanded this crap?
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 3 weeks ago:
I take that as a hint that I’m not in the site’s target demographic, and simply close the tab.
- Comment on Darkenstein 3D free on Steam 3 weeks ago:
Nah, I have nothing to do with this, only a happy gamer.
- Comment on Reducing power consumption of a desktop PC 3 weeks ago:
Just like the good old days when sites would force you to have Internet Explorer and Flash plugin installed to work properly. Amazing.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 3 weeks ago:
There are alternatives. I bought a Lenovo direct from their site with no OS installed. The saving from not having Windows was enough to afford double the RAM.
- Comment on Darkenstein 3D free on Steam 3 weeks ago:
I was lazy and just copy/pasted the Steam page blurb.
- Comment on Darkenstein 3D free on Steam 3 weeks ago:
TIL. Thank you.
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- Comment on Is there any way of trying Battlefield 6 without buying it or paying £17 for a 1 month EA Play Pro subscription? 5 weeks ago:
You maybe high, but you are right nonetheless.
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 5 weeks ago:
“Oh. It’s you.”
Such a loveable heap of junk.
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think anyone is defending Flash used for websites, aside from some personal blog or portfolio maybe.
Yes, sorry, I just got a post-traumatic trigger when someone mentions it.
- Comment on The demise of Flash didn't bring any big HTML5/JS equivalent for watching animations; fast internet and better video compression made those types of animations become raster videos as well 5 weeks ago:
As a desktop Linux use, Flash was a pain in my existence.
That shitty plugin that never worked right in Linux because fuck Linux users, amiright?
Then whole sites were written in Flash, hurting web interoperability and degrading standards. Of course many public services, banks, followed the trend because shiny.
Fuck those dark ages. The day that shit died was a good day indeed.
I harbor hate for not many things, but Flash is one of them.
- Comment on The QNX Operating System - Quantum Software and the microkernel UNIX 5 weeks ago:
I know, I know, but I still miss it. It was just pure magic. A fast desktop in 1.44 MB. It doesn’t get better than that.
- Comment on The QNX Operating System - Quantum Software and the microkernel UNIX 5 weeks ago:
I’m still bitter that they discontinued the awesome 1.44 MB floppy disk version.
It was a little engineering marvel, that was.
- Comment on Portal and Portal 2 are 80% off 5 weeks ago:
And you get two great soundtracks in the deal. I’d call that a triumph.
- Comment on Its all bots, isn't it? 1 month ago:
No, never they are dead.
- Comment on Its all bots, isn't it? 1 month ago:
The humans are dead
The humans are dead
We used poisonous gases
And we poisoned their arses
(Binary solo)
- Comment on Hand written notes on teams sucks 1 month ago:
Meanwhile, copy/paste is still awfully impaired by random emoji boxes popping up, because of course I want to give a ❤️ to my boss’s Confluence url.
