moody
@moody@lemmings.world
- Comment on Smolderin station recommendation 2 days ago:
You can use the Pinecil to solder a new wire onto itself!
- Comment on Smolderin station recommendation 2 days ago:
Yeah, one of those tiny barrel jacks. But it doesn’t come with an AC adapter, so you have to find one that matches.
- Comment on Smolderin station recommendation 2 days ago:
The Pinecil is nice for small projects and accurate work because of its size. It heats up in just a few seconds, and fits nicely in the hand. It’s USB powered, so you need a USB-C PD power source to run it, ideally with a long enough cable that it won’t get in your way.
If I had a need for frequent soldering, I would get one of the high-power models with a small pen, or at least one with a better cable. I like the Pinecil a lot, it’s really good at what I need out of it, but I think it needs some work before it becomes a good professional tool.
- Comment on Steam Deck sales drop hard following the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement 6 days ago:
It would be nice if we could see that kind of information
- Comment on Steam Deck sales drop hard following the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement 6 days ago:
Its ranking has dropped by 44 spots on Steam’s top sellers list. Unless the sales numbers of everything else have shot up significantly, that implies that sales of the Steam Deck have gone down. I don’t know how significant it is because I don’t know how the rankings are done, but it’s a pretty big drop for a 2-week period.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549) 3 weeks ago:
Actually AMD has said they’re ditching their high end options
Which means there’s no more competition in the high-end range. AMD was lagging behind Nvidia in terms of pure performance, but the price/performance ratio was better. Now they’ve given up a segment of the market, and consumers lose out in the process.
- Comment on Justin Trudeau resigns as Canadian prime minister - live updates 3 weeks ago:
The NDP is unfortunately not a real contender in the federal elections. There’s no “choice between the NDP and the Conservatives.” They have zero chance of winning an election, but at least they can win enough seats to matter.
- Comment on Marvel Rivals team issue a statement on recent bans for Steam Deck and macOS players 3 weeks ago:
And made it clear that it’s not a bannable offense to play the game on Linux or MacOS.
- Comment on Bill Nye should host a New Year's Eve event and call it Bill's NYE 4 weeks ago:
The ball drops at mid-Nye.
- Comment on VPN connections keep getting blocked 4 weeks ago:
I use Surfshark as well and have your problem 1, as I assume most VPN users do, but not your problem 2. My connection and speeds seem pretty stable, even allowing me to max out my connection many hours later.
Perhaps the issue is which server you’re connecting to.
- Comment on Greeks still skeptical Britain will return Parthenon Marbles 1 month ago:
Have the Greeks lost their marbles?
- Comment on sampling bias 2 months ago:
It’s almost like that’s the joke presented in comic form.
- Comment on Help me identify a filament's material 2 months ago:
Brass nozzles are cheap. Cheaper than a length of purge filament. But if you’re using a specialty nozzle, it can certainly be worth a good purge before throwing out an otherwise fine nozzle.
- Comment on Help me identify a filament's material 2 months ago:
Could be some sort of purge filament. They’re meant to be run at high temperatures and forced through the nozzle so that they can flush out any leftover material stuck inside.
- Comment on BIOMES 2 months ago:
Love is a battlefield
- Comment on There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation 2 months ago:
You don’t. That’s the point.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 2 months ago:
Weren’t the two episodes free?
- Comment on French court blocks Google project to limit news content in searches 2 months ago:
Google is trying to pick and choose who to filter out of results.
The SEPM claims that Google was preparing to test a scheme that would exclude articles from specific media outlets with which it is in dispute over rights to online news content.
- Comment on Durge 2 months ago:
I would guess it’s a juvenile peregrine falcon
- Comment on Bradward Boimler is actually a deceased USS Pegasus Ensign. Prove me wrong! 2 months ago:
Yes, sorry. I confused them for some reason.
- Comment on Bradward Boimler is actually a deceased USS Pegasus Ensign. Prove me wrong! 2 months ago:
There was a crossover with Enterprise.
Enterprise S2E7, Those Old Scientists.
- Comment on Be a rebel, pick up trash. 2 months ago:
If I was a hungry sea turtle, I’d open the jars to check which one of them has jellyfish inside.
- Comment on After six years of hardware ray tracing, the best examples of it are modified old games, like Quake and Minecraft. 2 months ago:
Yeah, for sure. Raytracing is very computationally intensive. It doesn’t make sense to do full-scene raytracing unless you have hardware that’s specifically designed for it. It works for something like quake since none of the scenes are particularly complex, but obviously you don’t hit anything close to the same framerates as you would with raster rendering.
- Comment on After six years of hardware ray tracing, the best examples of it are modified old games, like Quake and Minecraft. 2 months ago:
I’ve been playing Cyberpunk on an RX 7900XT at basically maxed out graphics, with only some of the raytracing reduced to get it to a consistent 60 fps. The game looks stupid good. But the raytracing is only for shadows and reflections and it has such a massive impact on performance, though I know my GPU is not as effective at raytracing as Nvidia would be.
Like the other reply mentions, Control also looks great with raytracing on, but the scale is not the same as Cyberpunk, so the framerates don’t suffer as much.
- Comment on Clever, clever 2 months ago:
McGruff, the crime dog
- Comment on What Ever Happened to Netscape? 3 months ago:
Even better, that splash screen was only 16 colors.
- Comment on “I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock 3 months ago:
Perhaps they own a business that pays for their employees’ phone service,
- Comment on xcoffee 3 months ago:
Laziness is the mother of invention.
- Comment on First Steam Deck plugin on Steam will bring GOG and Epic Games compatibility 3 months ago:
A paid plug in just seems pretty shitty to begin with.
I know Heroic can add your GOG and Epic games to Steam which would make it moot, but unfortunately most people probably don’t use the desktop mode anyway.
- Comment on Windows MR Headsets No Longer Work In Windows 11 24H2 3 months ago:
That’s worse than just not maintaining code. They could stop maintaining it, but keep the current version active. Instead, they remove it entirely, and now a physical object that was purchased becomes ewaste.