Chobbes
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- Comment on Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service 9 months ago:
There’s surprisingly few standalone email clients for normal people on desktop platforms as far as I know.
- Comment on This console generation seems skippable 9 months ago:
The thing that always bothers me about people saying consoles are a good deal as the hardware is cheap compared to a PC is just that it gets more expensive really quickly with software. Particularly if you get a digital only console it only takes a few games until you’re at the price of a PC. I just can’t justify buying a locked down system anymore.
- Comment on YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave 9 months ago:
There is potentially a world in which you want to see ads because ads themselves do technically provide a service. You do want to know about things you care about and would want to buy… you just don’t want it obnoxiously shoved into your face all of the time in psychologically manipulative ways.
- Comment on Can you survive on pickles alone, for a while? 9 months ago:
I mean… Couldn’t rounding be considered a technicality?
- Comment on Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees 9 months ago:
I mean, I wouldn’t exactly call a company with 1000 employees “small”. It’s not the behemoth that something like Google is, but like… that’s a good chunk of people.
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 9 months ago:
I don’t drink alcohol, so I cannot comment on that.
But that said, I kind of think of coffee as being pretty similar to chocolate. It’s an earthy but bitter flavour that can be nice, often when paired with something sweet and creamy. Also there are nice espressos that are kind of fruity and creamy on their own. There’s plenty flavours that are overwhelming on their own, but complement other flavours nicely. People are also known to like intense experiences, like really spicy foods.
Anyway, I won’t fight you if you don’t like it. That’s totally reasonable :).
- Comment on People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why? 9 months ago:
I’m convinced the “ugh, decaf, what’s the point?” people don’t actually like coffee lol.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
This is definitely a thing.
- Comment on bash.org is gone 10 months ago:
That’s fair, but IRC also tends to leak information about users to everybody. They’re maybe bad or slightly different ways, but frankly if you care about privacy that much you probably shouldn’t use either, at least not with additional protections.
- Comment on bash.org is gone 10 months ago:
How has fame changed you?
- Comment on bash.org is gone 10 months ago:
Or maybe… How is discord any worse of a privacy nightmare than IRC? I love me some IRC, but it ain’t exactly a bastion of secrecy.
- Comment on Jellyfin and backblaze b2 10 months ago:
Running Jellyfin off of a VPS provider seems needlessly expensive. I guess server hardware has an upfront cost, but having real hardware to host it on at home will be far more cost effective long term, especially for storage.
- Comment on Xbox Player Gets Banned for 1 Year After Recording Baldur's Gate 3 Scenes 10 months ago:
Maybe not on here, to be fair, lol.
- Comment on What's your favorite game that you will NEVER finish? 10 months ago:
Death Stranding is one of my favourite games, but it’s definitely not for everybody… I’d recommend giving it another go at some point, but don’t expect it to change too dramatically.
- Comment on What's your favorite game that you will NEVER finish? 10 months ago:
I fucking loved Hollow Knight but I put it down right before finishing it and… god… I’d have to start all over again T_T
- Comment on What's your favorite game that you will NEVER finish? 10 months ago:
I was never very good at nethack, but the 3.6 nerfs felt very mean lol.
- Comment on What's your favorite game that you will NEVER finish? 10 months ago:
XCOM games all kind of have a problem where you can really screw yourself long term with a bad mission or by researching sub optimally. It’s kiiiiind of awesome because it raises the stakes of the game… But I don’t want to restart and play another 40 hours or whatever T_T.
- Comment on What's your favorite game that you will NEVER finish? 10 months ago:
Wow. Where do you leave off? It’s not a super long game so I’m a little surprised.
- Comment on Google Photos Alternative 10 months ago:
Yeah, that’s my main concern. I believe the Immich developers have said they have no desire to implement it, though… Which is fair enough, it doesn’t work for my desired use case though.
- Comment on Google Photos Alternative 10 months ago:
I want all data to be encrypted before it even reaches the server. Yes, I don’t want to trust the server for my image backups :), particularly since I would want to use something like Immich to provide photo backups for friends and family and I don’t even want to technically have access to their unencrypted photos unless they explicitly share them. I kind of want the attack surface for my photos to be as small as practical too. It’s almost certainly worse to have them available on my device unencrypted than a dedicated server, but it’s worse to have them unencrypted on both (and I want photos available on device so, thems the breaks).
I get that a lot of people won’t care about this and that they’d rather be able to run the image recognition features of Immich on the server and stuff, but I don’t think it’s entirely unreasonable to want encryption for this. If nothing else I’d love to be able to back up photos for friends and family and legitimately be able to tell them that it’s encrypted and I can’t see any of it. It’d be even sweeter if they could do image recognition on device and sync that metadata (encrypted) to the server as well.
- Comment on Google Photos Alternative 10 months ago:
I’m kind of disappointed by the lack of encryption. It sounds great, but I don’t want to trust the server.
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
I get that people aren’t a fan of Google, and I’m not either, but this is a reasonable option that would be better than what the vast majority of people are doing now…
- Comment on 'The Last of Us' Was the Most-Pirated Show of 2023 10 months ago:
Yeah, I can agree with that. I definitely feel like Joel is quite a lot angrier and scarier than Din, which is a pretty big difference. Joel is also far more reluctant and tries very hard not to be overly caring or become attached to Ellie, which is quite different than how Din acts overall. So, fair enough, I think I feel the same way :). But they are weirdly similar rolls at a surface level at least! I don’t think I’ve seen much of Pedro’s other rolls, but I really liked them as Joel (and Bella as Ellie), felt like they had really good chemistry and it was cool to watch their relationship develop on screen. I didn’t really like The Mandalorian all that much, everything felt a bit… stiff? None of the characters really seemed to stick around that long and it felt kind of like just watching a bunch of different short films. I think that was kind of what they were going for originally, but it felt a bit weird and disjointed with how short the seasons were, and when they started introducing more continuity it just felt like there wasn’t enough of a foundation to really support that to me. Still, it’s a really technically impressive show and they definitely picked some really hard problems to solve. Just having your main character always wear a mask and the other main character being a weird alien baby makes it a lot harder to convey emotion and stuff, so it’s impressive how well they handled all of that!
- Comment on 'The Last of Us' Was the Most-Pirated Show of 2023 10 months ago:
Arguably their character in The Last of Us and The Mandalorian are relatively similar, at least I thought so, but I have only seen two seasons of The Mandalorian.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
I like what Valve does and I sound like a fanboy sometimes because they just keep doing great stuff… But I don’t fucking trust them long term. I hope they prove me wrong, of course! I also don’t really trust anybody else.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
Well… Not to take away any points from Valve because it’s still a big chunk of infrastructure, but this made me pause… I think steam content is arguably easier to serve than something like Netflix. Netflix has to deal with encoding content and it’s important for streams to not buffer, so it has to consistently stream data at a decent rate (if steam hiccups it sucks, but it’s not a problem where you’re interrupted mid game, at least). Games can be a lot bigger than videos, but I’m not sure how much that matters for this. Storage is relatively cheap and Netflix will probably have multiple copies of each video in different codecs and bitrates which might make more equivalent storage wise? Per hour of entertainment my guess is that Netflix actually has to send more data over the network than steam on average. There’s plenty of smaller games, and people can often spend hundreds of hours in a single game. If somebody rewatches a show they’ll stream it again, but if they replay a game they might still have a copy downloaded…
I don’t know any of the actual details, but I’m curious now how they actually compare! I’d guess Netflix probably has twice as many active users as steam, and I’d guess Netflix uses more bandwidth per user than steam (I wouldn’t be terribly surprised if it was 10x as much… I think people could easily stream 50gb per day, and I maaaaybe download that much from steam in a couple of weeks on average). Would be curious how it actually works out!
This isn’t to say steam is free to host, it obviously isn’t, I just think Netflix might be harder. I’m a tiny bit worried about Steam’s back catalog long term, eventually it may not be deemed profitable to keep hosting old games “for free”. Like eventually if nobody is buying a game anymore, but people keep downloading it, it couuuuld technically cost steam more to host than they made off of it, and maintaining storage long term costs money too (though hopefully this keeps getting less expensive over time). The margins for Valve are super high, though, so hopefully it doesn’t matter!
- Comment on How do I stop hating children? 10 months ago:
My brain starts to freeze in loud environments. Ear plugs help me too :). It’s a tip that took me far too long to realize.
- Comment on How do I stop hating children? 10 months ago:
Soy paste sounds would absolutely trigger misophonia for me, so you’re not wrong! Haha.
- Comment on How do I stop hating children? 10 months ago:
I have misophonia and kids are definitely a big trigger in a lot of ways… Screaming, crying, chewing, coughing. It’s anecdotal, but yeah the high pitch sounds don’t play nice with my brain. Misophonia suuuuuuuuuucks.
I also don’t particularly like kids, but that’s not really about the sound. Just not my cup of tea.
- Comment on How do I stop hating children? 10 months ago:
I get that, but for what it’s worth… You really can kind of just dump it on them. They’re not allowed to share it, and they’re often happy to just get to the point sometimes.