Vinny_93
@Vinny_93@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do you recognize this guy playing video games? 3 days ago:
That’s Christian Bale
- Comment on P600 Mobile for Jellyfin Encoding 4 days ago:
I’ve got a P400 desktop and it handles everything it should. The matrix of another commenter is an important document to keep handy.
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 1 week ago:
Literally the only way they will learn. I really don’t understand how we as a society have accepted ads as a necessary evil. We all hate them, but we all also make them work. It’s horrible.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t looked at the performance reviews per system yet but I recall the complaints for Borderlands 3 mainly came from people trying to run it on an old i5 with a 1060 or similar. You need a high end system, that much is clear. Or you need to get comfortable with 30 fps.
I’m not saying Randy is right to strike that tone, but you can’t deny there is a point to saying that some games are meant to be played on powerful systems and won’t accept anything less.
- Comment on This game is fantastic. 2 weeks ago:
It was also on sale on PC, I’ve been getting lost in it. It’s amazing. It makes me wonder if I should be playing Alan Wake as well. I once got Alan Wake II with my GPU but I sold it
- Comment on What is this thing?! Oh... 2 weeks ago:
Yeah the quality isn’t ace
- Comment on What is this thing?! Oh... 2 weeks ago:
What
- Comment on Big tech should release some privacy friendly products 3 weeks ago:
Idk where you’re at but I frequently see messages from big tech claiming they care about my privacy. They could launch a publicly accessible database that will only show you what they have on you and give you complete control on what to delete and I’d still be sceptical.
- Comment on If autism is a spectrum, does that mean everyone is on the spectrum? 3 weeks ago:
Looking at the answers that have been given I think the degree in which everyone is on the spectrum is, itself, a spectrum.
- Comment on What goes here? 4 weeks ago:
I was thinking maybe some type of hermit crab but too many legs
- Comment on Caught in the circle jerk 5 weeks ago:
The skill you learn in college is forgetting stuff.
- Comment on Hey, that’s not yours! 1 month ago:
I wonder how the dude with the 458 ducks is doing
- Comment on Hey, that’s not yours! 1 month ago:
We were led to believe that the ducks at the park were free.
- Comment on Was there a Cold War conflict where the Soviets funded the right-wingers and the Americans funded the communists? 1 month ago:
- Comment on NSFW on Lemmy 1 month ago:
You’re somewhat correct of course but the NSFW tag exists for a reason. If there is one entire category of /all you can just filter out due to lack of interest, it should be stuff like that. Maybe at some point we’ll also get an ‘AI’ tag.
The pro of being able to ‘safely’, for lack of a better term, browse /all is being able to discover stuff that you are not subscribed to, stuff you might not find otherwise.
- Comment on Can a Russian pls confirm 2 months ago:
It’s funny that the Dutch version is pretty close to what the English one should be: bemoei je met je eigen zaken, literally mind your own business.
- Comment on Women come, women go 2 months ago:
I’ll be glad if the orange man go
- Comment on Those Thanksgiving Debates 2 months ago:
But if it’s the same disinfo would they not agree with one another?
Us millennials really got the raw end of the deal though
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 2 months ago:
Clearly you mean 525413
- Comment on Are display sizes always measured in inches? 2 months ago:
I didn’t realise
- Comment on Not for me, tho 3 months ago:
Ah no I started at one. You can transpose my list by one and set zeven as 12.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 3 months ago:
I enjoyed the Star Wars Jedi games.
- Comment on Not for me, tho 3 months ago:
Dutch is an Anglo-Saxon language so that makes sense.
- Comment on Not for me, tho 3 months ago:
Acht, drie, een, elf, negen, tien, twaalf, twee, vier, vijf, zes, zeven.
8, 3, 1, 11, 9, 10, 12, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7
- Comment on Can an American go to Europe just for cheaper healthcare? 3 months ago:
I take an injection every four weeks, they cost 600 each. Add up a few visits to the dentist, GP and a check up at an academic hospital and I’d pay about a third of the actual cost.
Then again my dad never has any ailments, lives a healthy lifestyle with a lot of exercise and he pays the same.
- Comment on Can an American go to Europe just for cheaper healthcare? 3 months ago:
Yep the issue with our system is that people who never see a doctor or a hospital pay for the ones that have been dealt a rough hand or live unhealthy. The idea is that being ill is not the standard. You should be able to do a Pareto analysis of costs and it might check out.
- Comment on Can an American go to Europe just for cheaper healthcare? 3 months ago:
It varies per country. If you would go to the Netherlands, you’d still need health insurance. You can only get it if you are a Dutch citizen in some way. The costs of this are about 180/month. Plus you have what we call your own risk. If you need healthcare you pay 385 maximum yourself. If you can’t pay that, there are installment plans. And if the 180 a month is too steep for you, there is support from the Belastingdienst (IRS) that is dependent on your income.
So example: if you need an operation that is covered in basic Dutch health insurance and you would live here for a year on work visum, you might pay 2400 a year in insurance costs and 385 own risk, totaling to 2785. If the operation would cost more than that in the US, you’re in luck.
This is all provided you can get health insurance in the Netherlands.
In the Netherlands, as a Dutch citizen, health insurance is mandatory.
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 3 months ago:
I just get a notification stating I don’t allow them to track me so they have no garbage to stuff down my throat
- Comment on Sometimes when I think about US politics, I worry. But then I remember this is a country that had gone through a civil war, numerous scandals, a great depression and dust bowl, two world wars, 3 months ago:
To the point of the one above you, Belgium is technically younger than the United States.
But honestly, the only reason we really know how messed up a lot of these things are, is because of people digging into these things and finding out that power corrupts. We need transparency, integrity and honesty if we are to get to a point where we don’t read the news with existential dread.
I think most of governing at this point is cleaning up messes from before and creating new messes along the way because we are incapable of solving problems sustainably.
Take immigration, which has become a widespread issue all throughout the west. Rather than figuring out how to stop people from wanting to run away to our countries, we prefer to exile these people, separate them from our society and, if at all possible, just make them not come into our countries at all. I’m not saying there’s a simple solution, I’m just saying we are so focused on combating symptoms, we completely ignore the actual cause of issues.
- Comment on hell yea, brother 3 months ago:
How the fuck do you accidentally create a fish hybrid