moody
@moody@lemmings.world
- Comment on U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business 9 hours ago:
“Nationalized” with a heavy dose of quote marks. The government now owns about 10% of Intel in non-voting shares. It’s basically meaningless.
- Comment on Flight attendant union leaders ‘ready to go to jail’ as Air Canada strike outlawed 5 days ago:
The union and airline have been in negotiations for a long time, and the goverment is using the lack of agreement after so long as a factor in forcing the two parties into binding arbitration, which greatly benefits the airline.
So they’re not banned from striking, technically, but the government has measures in place to force the employees back to work. These measures have rarely been used in the past, but have been used 4 times in the past year against rail workers, port workers, postal workers, and now flight attendants.
- Comment on Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines 6 days ago:
You can often change your IP by rebooting your router. So the only way an IP ban can really work is when you start banning blocks of IPs, but that can hit other people who have no reason to be banned.
VPNs also aren’t always slower, though they often are. They change the route your packets take, which could have fewer hops to get to their destination, or could have faster connections in some places compared to your standard route.
- Comment on A handful of people are slowly killing over 8 billion people, but we're expected to sit idly by and let it happen 6 days ago:
What you’re saying is we’re also to blame because we participate, as a society, in 10% of global emissions by flying. What about those same few who fly 2 people at a time in a private jet instead of 200+ in an airliner? People like that Starbucks CEO who would commute from LA to Seattle in a corporate jet, or any other rich fucker who can’t be seen near the poors and has to put out thousands on times the amount of emissions as the average person.
Sure, I’ll take my 0.000000001% of the blame, and Brian Niccol can take his personal 0.1%.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The easiest way is to use Heroic launcher to manage GoG games. It will install everything, and set up Proton for each game.
Do you use that PC for any other games? How’s the performance with them?
And what are the specs of the PC?
- Comment on Bonk. 1 week ago:
Bop it!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s odd because on PC I can post there on VPN, but on mobile I can’t.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 weeks ago:
That was my point. The comment I was replying to was suggesting that people switching from Spotify will be blown away by better quality audio. Most wouldn’t notice a difference.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 weeks ago:
Most people can’t tell the difference between 128 kbit MP3 and high quality recordings.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 2 weeks ago:
I thought the original Prey was boring as hell. It’s not like it didn’t have any interesting features, but the lack of penalty for dying meant that failure is impossible.
Prey isn’t really a franchise at all, just two completely unrelated games with the same name.
The newer one was supposed to be a sequel when it was being made by the original devs, but in the end it’s a completely separate game with no connection to the first.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 3 weeks ago:
Clogging the pipes. Taking up resources. Costing them money and time.
Meh, not really though. The employees are paid whether or not you call. They’re not going to hire more people just to deal with complaints, they’ll just make the wait times longer.
The number of complaints they receive is going to have a bigger impact than a few people wasting time on the phone.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 4 weeks ago:
If people aren’t property, why would damaging property be so severe?
Sorry in advance for defending the concept of defence of property. It’s not that I think it should be that way, but currently it is.
Property can easily be equated to either work or status. In today’s society, we work to earn our property. Damaging property is then damaging work, or at least the value of the work already done.
On the other end, status is something we already know that the elite value above all else, so it makes sense that attacking someone’s status is going to get punished.
So it’s not so much that people are property, but that harm to property is harm to its owners.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The 3 ways to make money in gaming are to a) be exceptionally good at games, b) have an entertaining personality, or c) do something that nobody else does.
For a) either you’re good enough to make it in esports, or you’re good enough that people want to watch you stream. For b) gaming is really just a small part of what brings people in. c) might be doing things like challenges or other niche gaming related stuff.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Game testing is a shit job. It’s incredibly tedious and the pay sucks.
If your goal is to work in game design and you want to use that as a way to get your foot in the door, that’s one thing. But the career of game testing is much less interesting that gamers might expect.
- Comment on Delta Air Lines is using AI to set the maximum price you’re willing to pay 5 weeks ago:
e.g., your mother is dying in the hospital, increasing your desperation to get a flight to that location
Airlines have lower mourning rates specifically for that. There are many other bad reasons for them to charge you more, but this one is a poor example.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, 5 years ago Proton was already in pretty good shape. 2018 is when I switched to Linux, and already had very little trouble gaming.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 month ago:
Steam doesn’t have non-Linux games enabled by default. In the settings, you’ll find a compatibility tab. From there, enable the setting “Enable Steam Play for all other titles”
That’s what lets it use Proton for everything by default.
- Comment on Can all the milk replacements bubble if you blow thru a straw in it like a child? 1 month ago:
About 6 inches.
- Comment on Steam now generates three times more revenue for Capcom than PlayStation 1 month ago:
People do vote with their wallets. They say it’s ok.
- Comment on This Cyberpunk 2077 mod literally called "Weeee" lets you leave your flat via a big slide like a trash Batman 1 month ago:
Walking around the building and taking the slow elevator down is long and tedious. This juat makes sense.
- Comment on How do I use Firefox and block YouTube ads? 1 month ago:
Every once in a while, Youtube makes some change to how they serve ads, and uBlock stops working for some people for a while. An update will typically come up pretty quickly that fixes this. Odds are tomorrow it will be fine.
- Comment on I have never in my 43 years heard of anyone else with the first name Sigourney. 1 month ago:
That’s an assumed name though, it’s not her real first name.
- Comment on Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison' 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure other scientists are also looking into that issueas well.
- Comment on Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket 2 months ago:
An alternative to.space junk clogging up the sky would indeed be nice.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
What’s this about dumplings?
- Comment on Dyson Has Killed Its Bizarre Zone Air-Purifying Headphones 2 months ago:
I hate the fan buffeting noise, and would be happy to have a fan that doesn’t do that. Not $500 happy, mind you.
- Comment on Dyson Has Killed Its Bizarre Zone Air-Purifying Headphones 2 months ago:
Fill them with farts and then pass them around to friends.
- Comment on Help with Bambu AMS (retraction) 2 months ago:
Have you tried moving the spools around? Could be the AMS system is struggling with that one specific tube, or it could also be that the curve in the filament is making it hard to pull it into the extruder.
You could try feeding a lower spool into the tube that is currently holding the upper spool to see if that changes anything.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 2 months ago:
The easy way around this is to require passing regular fitness tests. If your obesity isn’t an impediment to the fitness test, then it shouldn’t be an impediment to your job.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 2 months ago:
That’s a misunderstanding. CRTs technically don’t have refresh rates, outside of the speed of the beam. Standards were settled on based on power frequencies, but CRTs were equally capable of 75, 80, 85, 120Hz, etc.
Essentially, the speed of the beam determined how many lines you could display, and the more lines you tried to display, the slower the screen was able to refresh. So higher resolutions would have lower max refresh rates. Sure, a monitor could do 120 Hz at 800x600, but at 1600x1200, you could probably only do 60 Hz.