CaptDust

@CaptDust@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC game recommendation for my partner and I⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Split fiction was great fun for my partner and I, writing is mid but gameplay is probably the best action adventure coop I’ve played. It has so much variety to offer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ll have to agree to disagree. To go through your points, spell check not particularly impressive. That was a solved previously without needing the power demands of a small town. Grammer, maybe - but in my experience my “LLM powered” keyboard’s suggestions are still worse than old T9.

  I’ve had no luck troubleshooting anything with AI. It’s often trained on old data, tries to instruct you to change settings that don’t exist, or dreams up controls that appear on “similar” hardware. Sure you can infer a solution, maybe, but it’s rarely correct at first response. It’ll happily run you through steps that are inconsequential to fixing a problem.

  It might be better than indexed search NOW - but mostly because LLMs wrecked that too. I used to be able to use a couple search operators and get directly to the information I needed - now search is just shifting through slop sites.

  And it does all this half assing while using enough power to justify dedicated nuclear reactors. I cant help but feel we’ve regressed on so many fronts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell I’d almost settle for just “make it work”. No disclaimers, no bullshitting. Computers should be optimized and accurate. AI is neither.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A complete tier list for our solar system⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we get Saturn up to B tier, just for it’s badass rings? Possibly higher after you visit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Copilot is love, copilot is life. It’s okay friend - these are copilot times, but I still copilot you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom with the real questions ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not allegedly, it’s quite true. CRT’s tech approach adds gradients, depth to the colors and softens sharp pixel corners. Any sprite based game will look richer on a CRT, but filters are eh 80% good enough

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom with the real questions ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My parents rented a storage unit when my grandma passed because no one had room for her nice furniture. And it is nice furniture very well built - but no one is ever going to have the space. Let it goo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was a blast⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  32 will be fine for a long, long time unless something with the RAM situation changes. Especially with manufacturers moving their “mid-tier” machines back to 8 GB, optimization will become mandatory to sell games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I run fedora on 8GB and find it functional but definitely not comfortable. Anything past a dozen tabs and it starts getting choked up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak technology ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please mind your boggling, some of us are sleeping

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game hardware sales had a historically bad November in the US⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not surprising when a Nintendo costs $500

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why make 250GB m.2 disks instead of 1TB⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Using this image as a visual, each of the black squares is a NAND flash memory chip. If you want more storage on the device, it needs more chips on the board.

  Density can vary between manufacturers, some 256 might only use one NAND chip, others may need two or more, but going up to 1TB there will generally need at least 4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Trained dev with a decade of professional experience, humans routinely fail to get me workable specs without hours of back and forth meetings. I’d say a solid 25% of my work day is spent understanding what the stakeholders are asking for and how contort the requirements to fit into the system.

  If these humans can’t be explict enough with me, a living thinking human that understands my architecture better than any LLM, what chance does an LLM have?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This meme is super funny, Especially for people in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Close the internet, nothing will never be better than this. We’re done here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since we're corn posting lately⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  you mah brrrr ra da mmba eeeeenba brrr rat da nnda enda boo…rata teek um blura brrrr ra

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sell your csgo skins

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True romance, despite everything.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I knew how to quit you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have one at home⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The controller was absolute garbage! The analog sticks would get snagged where the battery covers splits. Batteries on the front for who knows why.

  Lol mines living in the closet now and thankfully all those games have released for the PC Gabecube

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have one at home⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ouya wasn’t all bad though! Some great games came out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI guy wants his AI to run companies. Somehow, this is good for business and not a controlling takeover by proxy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  BREAKING: Man decides to install Linux.

  More details to come.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah fuck I burnt it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks burnt mate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans with six-figure incomes are in 'survival mode'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same but now my car and residence are both going to shit, feels like I’ll be thrown back in the cycle any time now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mario Kart DS was released 20 years ago today on November 14th, 2005⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  20 years holy crap. I remember playing this in the school cafeteria with the crew, was some good gaming

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure it’s in the pipeline, with sound. Gonna have our appliances acting like gas pumps do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow. Not even a tasteful design, just turning the fridge into a full fledged highway billboard. Disgusting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨220 Rockstar staff sign letter to management calling for "immediate reinstatement" of fired workers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rockstar announces GTA6 will be delayed into 2027 after firing 220 staff members…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every single one of them has a timecard they’re punching with a name, collective punishment against the entire agency should be on the table.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve and Lenovo released a SteamOS machine not long ago, and it showed marked improvement in performance over windows. Then people have been installing bazzite on the Rog Ally and reporting 30% fps gains on identical hardware over the “xbox optimized” W11. Microsoft might have money but I’m not convinced they have the competency to compete. They’re trending towards digging their own grave in the portable market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear neighbor...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah hell no to a month of that nonsense. I’m jumping a fence and smashing it with a hammer if needed.