vithigar
@vithigar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 18 hours ago:
A persistent assumption about advanced interstellar travel is that engine efficiency is monumentally better to the point that the “tyrrany of the rocket equation” is no longer a factor, and extra mass can be carried without absolutely exploding your fuel requirements into absurdity.
If adding 10kg of payload didn’t mean also potentially many times more mass of propellant we’d be sending up more robust spacecraft, no question.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 2 weeks ago:
By odd coincidence you just named the most recent two games that I purchased.
- Comment on FBI warnings are true—fake file converters do push malware 4 weeks ago:
PDF to JPEG
Don’t most pdf viewers have an export to image option?
AVC to MP4
Do you actually have files with an .avc extension? AVC is a codec that can be used in many different container formats, including MP4. Where did these files come from?
OPUS to MP3
I actually agree that most audio conversion tools are needlessly awkward. Audacity will convert these just fine, though doesn’t really do bulk conversion. Foobar2000 will do it in bulk if you’re on windows.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 4 weeks ago:
I don’t really like Discord, but it has both message pinning, threaded conversation, as well as a full blown discussion forum option for community channels. Your complaints seem to be more about the moderation of that specific community than Discord itself.
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 4 weeks ago:
This was my exact experience as well. I’ll never know how Plex compares to Jellyfin because I immediately noped out when I ran into the account creation.
Frankly baffling to me that anyone with the wherewithal to self host thought that was okay.
- Comment on The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025 1 month ago:
Your laptop uses an iGPU. The “i” stands for integrated, as it’s built into the same package as the CPU.
The alternative, a dGPU, is a discrete part, separate from other components.
- Comment on This speaks for itself 1 month ago:
They’d need to charge amounts that families can afford for that to work.
- Comment on which softwares can I self host without public IP? 1 month ago:
OP doesn’t seem to have responded, so no, but that’s not the fault of the question.
- Comment on which softwares can I self host without public IP? 1 month ago:
Because of the XY problem. The problem OP is stating may not actually be the source of the issues OP is experiencing.
Finding out what OP is trying to do will better inform a solution and may make the stated problem irrelevant.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 2 months ago:
I read thorough it for the details.
It was net negative power, requiring 2MW of power to maintain fusion. The major achievement of this particular experiment was doing so without the fusion reaction damaging the containing assembly.
- Comment on Are mood problems a “turn off” for people even when they’re hard to manage? 2 months ago:
People find sunsets pretty. That doesn’t mean they’re heliosexual. Finding a thing aesthetically pleasing is distinct from being sexually or romantically attracted.
- Comment on As Internet enshittification marches on, here are some of the worst offenders 2 months ago:
Ads on a service I directly paid for was the line for me as well. I have no tolerance for that nonsense and it boggles my mind that anyone else does either.
If even a tenth of the subscriber base for any of these services cancelled because of ads they’d be gone so fast you’d get whiplash, and yet most people just put up with it.
- Comment on Netflix used to not have ads, now it’s ‘celebrating’ two years with them 5 months 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 5 months ago:
Why do you think that?
- Comment on Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months ago:
Hopefully!
- Comment on McDonald’s posts biggest decline in global sales in four years 5 months 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? 5 months 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? 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago:
KITT is self driving in the same way that people are self walking.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 6 months 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 6 months 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.