vithigar
@vithigar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Netflix used to not have ads, now it’s ‘celebrating’ two years with them 1 week ago:
My partner was subscribed to Crave for ages. A little while back she was in the middle of a rewatch of Sons of Anarchy when the app started to act up and wouldn’t work, so I grabbed a copy and put it on Jellyfin.
She was floored by his much immediately better the video quality was and cancelled Crave the next day. Shocked at how much worse the experience was with the paid service was compared to free.
- Comment on WILD 2 weeks ago:
Why do you think that?
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 2 weeks ago:
It is absolutely not true of all AI images. I’d be surprised if it’s even true about most AI images.
- Comment on AMD rakes in cash with best quarterly revenue ever amid datacenter business rise, but gaming business craters 3 weeks ago:
Regardless of whether the gaming market itself is growing or not you can sell compare to Nvidia to see how AMD is doing within that environment. If no one was buying any GPUs Nvidia would also be showing a dip, but they’re not.
- Comment on McDonald’s posts biggest decline in global sales in four years 3 weeks ago:
Hopefully!
- Comment on McDonald’s posts biggest decline in global sales in four years 3 weeks ago:
Both of those things were far too recent to have an impact on the Q3 numbers this article is referencing.
- Comment on Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, there are some disappointing limitations for sure, but it definitely is interesting, and does at least feel more like a human player than the normal CPU opponents.
…if a somewhat schizophrenic one.
- Comment on Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know what it’s using specifically under the hood, but in Street Fighter 6 Capcom recently added a new AI opponent you can fight that they say is trained on actual player ranked matches and fights more like a human opponent. You can even have it try to mimic you own playstyle if you’ve played enough.
It can do some odd things and it’s mimicry isn’t perfect. But it definitely doesn’t feel like the typical high difficulty CPU opponent which uses things like input reading to react faster than a real player ever could.
…it also has been seen teabagging.
- Comment on LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences 4 weeks ago:
Sounds way more interesting than most IT work as well. I’d definitely rather do some investigative work like this than a typical parade of password resets, email assistance, and software installations.
- Comment on Marvel's Spider-Man 2 - PC Announce Trailer 4 weeks ago:
People complain when EA and Ubisoft do it too. As for Valve, what game that’s not on Steam requires a Steam login? That’s the issue here, being required to use their platform account when not on their platform.
- Comment on Former Intel CPU engineer details how internal x86-64 efforts were suppressed prior to AMD64's success 4 weeks ago:
Yes, they were, and that highlights the problem really. Nvidia’s grip on mind share is so strong that AMD releasing cards that matched or exceeded at the top end didn’t actually matter and you still have people saying things like the comment you responded to.
It’s actually incredible how quickly the discourse shifted from ray tracing being a performance hogging gimmick and DLSS being a crutch to them suddenly being important as soon as AMD had cards that could beat Nvidia’s raster performance.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim 1 month ago:
As Edge comes pre-installed by default on Windows machines, users must navigate the Microsoft offering in order to download their browser of choice.
What’s the actual alternative they want here? That users look up download URLs on other devices and download their browser of choice via command line using
cURLInvoke-WebRequest? That ISPs provide browser installers on USB sticks?Also, it’s not like MS is cornering the market on browser share here. Even with this “unfair advantage” they’ve only scraped together a 5% slice of browser usage.
- Comment on More trustworthy than what's currently on the road 1 month ago:
KITT is self driving in the same way that people are self walking.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
The dndmemes protests were a pretty incredible thing while they lasted. The mods changed the subreddit to “nsfw” because that disabled most of the monetization. Then Reddit admins told them the subreddit obviously wasn’t really nsfw and to change it to accurately reflect the subreddit content.
…so the mods changed the subreddit rules to allow actual nsfw content and people went nuts. In multiple senses of the term.
Of course “accurately reflecting the subreddit” wasn’t what Reddit really cared about. They wanted to preserve the advertising stream for a popular subreddit, and this did the opposite of that. Reddit admins soon after basically said “remove nsfw content, restore the subreddit to what it used to be, do what we say or we’ll replace you with a mod team of our own choosing”.
- Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text 1 month ago:
Even with any potential monetization by anyone… you kind of are? You are part of the community here, and that’s what people come here for. Lemmy’s community is the product it offers, and you are a piece of it.
- Comment on I'm listening to a motivational speaker at a corporate conference when I realize... 1 month ago:
The Matrix
- Comment on Important information 1 month ago:
YouTube shorts as well. I long ago stopped bothering to look at any of them after the 666th one that was like “this incredible unknown fact about (insert franchise)” that is invariably someone basically pissing themselves in excitement reiterating a main story beat as if it was some kind of hidden secret.
- Comment on Infinity 1 month ago:
Or it was overcast on those days. 46/52 is far better than you’d be able to manage in my area.
- Comment on Name generator 1 month ago:
Durkey Tinner
Leet Moaf
Chotato Pip
Rizza Poll
- Comment on Oxygen 2 months ago:
The short version is that life needs something that’s at least a little unstable in order to extract chemical energy from things.
The post is correct when viewed in a particular light, on a technicality, if you squint. By that same technicality iron rusting is also burning very slowly. They’re ignoring the rapidity which is implied by “burning”. But yes, oxygen is unstable, oxygen helps burn things, and oxygen is toxic if you get too much at once. Though you’d need to be breathing pure oxygen pressurized to about 1.4 atmospheres, or regular air pressurized to about 7 atmospheres, for that last one to happen. It’s a legitimate concern for deep SCUBA divers.
But why does life need instability? Chemical instability is, in basic terms, just stored chemical energy, and that energy wants to be released. The more reactive something is the easier it is to get energy from reactions involving it. There’s a balancing act here where more reactive means easier energy, but also more dangerous. Oxygen is in a kind of sweet spot where it’s stable enough that it’s not generally going to explode or catch fire on its own, but can be coaxed into doing those things in controlled ways with other chemicals to extract energy when needed.
- Comment on Launches 2 months ago:
Alternatively you do like the Parker Solar Probe and do 7 Venus flybys, bleeding off a little speed reach time with an inverse gravity assist.
- Comment on Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills 2 months ago:
It was and still is valuable to be able to maintain the devices and machines that you and people around you use. I’m not sure why you seem to be implying that stopped being the case for cars.
- Comment on Picture 2 months ago:
At this point you either haven’t read the text, or are simply a troll.
- Comment on Picture 2 months ago:
The school is not congress and its rules are not laws. I’m not sure how you think the first amendment applies.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
The pictures aren’t very good I’ll grant you that, but they definitely don’t require even one kWh per image, and besides that basically everything made with a computer costs power. We were power on nonsense just fine without the help of LLMs or diffusion models.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
D-Brand paid him to bleach it.
- Comment on “Should art be regulated by the SEC?” NFT artists file lawsuit 2 months ago:
At best you’re buying into a collective agreement of ownership among those also participating in the NFT ecosystem. You own a thing because a large enough group of people agree you own it and respect the authority of that token.
At worst you’ve been scammed and are trying to convince yourself the above is true and that said “large enough group” includes anyone at all capable of enforcing said ownership. Spoilers: it does not.
- Comment on EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone 2 months ago:
Is that a step further though? I feel like not giving kids access to VR Chat comes way before not giving them a smartphone in terms of restrictiveness or severity. It’s a far more reasonable suggestion.
- Comment on Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 2 months ago:
That’s fine when you want a setting that exists in the settings app. Let me know if you find a place to adjust your also device speaker configuration, or toggle live monitoring of an audio input.
- Comment on Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 2 months ago:
I’m curious about how this impacts the buttons in the settings app that just open the appropriate control panel applet. Like “additional sound settings” for example.