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- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 3 days ago:
Bosch makes a few descent models.
Things to skip on all brands.
External water & ice dispensers,doesnt matter the brand. You’re cutting a fucking hole in the thermal envelope to put a faulty device that’s experince ing mechanic stress on parts every time you open/close the door. It’s not a matter of if it will fail, but when. Also, increased operational cost. Internal water dispensers and automatic ice makers are always the better option if you want those features.
Smart features. Why the fuck do yiu need smart features on my fridge? Even if it’s using AI vision to scan for recorders… Just no, fucking no. That’s more personal data on you to be bought, sold, data breached, and utilized to fuck you somehow.
Fridges that split the freezer and fridge on a vertically.
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 1 week ago:
Escuse me, but I’m aging at just the right rate. Not rapidly, not slowly, but exactly as the universe planned it as we hurtle through time and space on our planet size space ship.
- Comment on Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat 1 week ago:
So, back to hand written reports, and physical books only found at the library?
- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 2 weeks ago:
Yes, hence the second part of the sentence.
Unless you need to use the precise word for communicating the “context difference”, just use the word impact(ed/ing/s). Makes it a lot easier for ESL speakers as well.
Even then, most people can understand the meaning of the misused word due to the context of what’s being discussed anyways.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 weeks ago:
Games still crash on windows for multiple monitors, or launching in full screen for the first time, and more. Often without an error message without digging into event viewer or game logs.
And TBH, once you learn how to troubleshoot on Linux, it’s actually quite informative. For instance, I resolved a cryptic error message being returned by steam on launch by launching steam from the CLI and then used the steam gui to launch the game and was given live event stream logging.
Once there’s better GUI tooling and and more passionate techs with a design/UX passion join the community, I can only imagine how seamless things will get.
- Comment on Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn’t worried about Elon Musk’s Grokipedia: ‘Not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now’ 2 weeks ago:
Effect vs affect: Use ‘impact’ and not have to worry about two words that essentially mean the same thing but are context based.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 2 weeks ago:
Did they do Tripple Band at your show at the very end as well with the opening act joining in with Double Band? Was a ton of fun.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 2 weeks ago:
Twinsies!
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 2 weeks ago:
I saw Jeff & Pup last month. Was such a blast to party with punks of all ages at that show. Even bought myself a nice Death Rosenstock (yes, death), that has a nice “Fuck ICE” message on it.
- Comment on Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses Users Film and Harass Massage Parlor Workers 2 weeks ago:
How does a massage parlour help with your brother’s eye issues?
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 3 weeks ago:
Since a lot of Furries work in STEM, and Seattle has a ton of STEM folk, a furry that’s flirting or making a nuclear innuendo joke has a much higher probability of happening in Seattle than most other places (except for maybe Portland).
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 3 weeks ago:
You probabaly won’t have to wait too long. At this rate, the US is going to fracture and as a result I predict a large part of WA will become a new Canadian territory/province.
- Comment on Anyone had any luck running Fusion 360 on Linux? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem 1 month ago:
She now uses an even more masculine pen name for her detective novels.
Hilarious that a TERF is using a masculine pen name for her book sales.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 1 month ago:
Doorman was a cheater that made his own game hacks, not a god!
Context: =DiG= (Doorman is God) was the FPA clan where that boycott started. I was a member of that clan for some time (before it came out about Doorman’s cheating and no longer playing the games they were a clan over), and one of the mods of that boycott group that failed so hard due to consumer apathy.
AMA.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 2 months ago:
UE5 performance is fine these days if the game developer actually utilizes the tooling in place to catch problematic assets, sequences, blueprints, and more. Now, those tools may not be the easiest to use, but they do exist, and, with official documentation. It’s got challenges, but the tooling exists. In 5.6 there was even an expirmental plugin released that’s supposed to help with the burden of integrating this work, so it’s obvious there’s effort being put into providing tools for developers to make performant games
The problem is that takes additional time in a production pipeline, and is uaully pushed off to the side til the end of a game’s dev cycle instead of the beginning, if it’s done at all. And due to the way that many game studios are funded and operate, it’s not uncommon for product quality to follow the model of delivering features first to meet funding milestones instead of focusing on making sure the work that’s being introduced is also performant.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 months ago:
Screen space.
I work in tech doing performance, memory management, and developer workflow tooling and automation for a large 3D Rendering/Creation tool.
Being able to throw a long setup doc, or a large class file on a 4k portrait monitor allows me to read things through with a ton of context and far less scrolling.
It’s also useful for putting two window tiles that have related content, or one is a reference content.
I currently have a tie-fighter monitor setup (2x4k portrait on either side of a ultrawide) and will put comms and email/calendar on my left monitor, core work in the center, and overflow reference/research on the right.
It’s less hectic for personal use, but I still use all the space.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 2 months ago:
4k monitors in portrait orientation are amazing for productivity. It’s a shame more people don’t do this
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 months ago:
If you’re just looking for an engine that recommends you music based off your likes, the FOSS community could utilize the Music Genomoe Project to build a tool too do that based one a folder or Playlist of music provided to it. I would be surprised if there already wasn’t a FOSS tool to do that.
- Comment on well? 3 months ago:
There’s also been some major leaps in dark matter physics in the last few years. Revisiting primordial black holes using lasers and microlensing might actually be able to get supporting evidence here before long if the hypothesis holds.
PBS Space Time has a good video breaking this possibility and methodology down.
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 3 months ago:
SG1 was amazing. I really wanted to like SGU but the drastic change in story telling and direction made it difficult for me.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 4 months ago:
At least they were used incorrectly to be just as unpredictable.
- Comment on (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞ 4 months ago:
Fun fact: Many cultural artificats do go on tour!
For example I’ve seen both Pompeii & King Tutt exhibits in San Diego that have since rotated. I’ve also seen other traveling exhibits in several other major cities I’ve lived in that were far more than art.
Many cities also have free admission days to museums for people that live nearby (depends on the institution but it could be for City/County/State).
With this knowledge, you too, can now learn and explore societies that predate written word.
- Comment on I'm not okay. 4 months ago:
Or create leaf mold (a pile of sticks and leaves) in targeted areas of your yard/property that are ideal for breeding fireflies and other desired native insects/spiders. Especially if you live in an HOA community that requires reqular raking and can hide the leaves under bushes/shrubs/trees/garden beds as mulch.
Raking of leaves isn’t really the problem so much as is the complete removal of leaves from the property & neighborhood (which also removes the nutrients from the local top soil).
- Comment on Big Tech Wants to Become Its Own Bank 5 months ago:
Nah, I’m cool. I’ll do without.
- Comment on Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it 5 months ago:
This could be a non-profit funded by participants and government grants.
- Comment on Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets 5 months ago:
This is incompetence.
I’ve been in and out of games for my entire career. Every place I’ve been has had strict policies on outside art assets. I’ve even seen every new art asset to require a monthly license review to prevent any chance of outside art having slipped in somehow, including any usage of Blender’s example model Suzanne.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 5 months ago:
Seattle? Sounds like Seattle.
- Comment on Gig Companies Violate Workers’ Rights: Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Favor, Instacart, Lyft, Shipt, and Uber claim to offer workers flexibility but end up paying them less than state or local minimum wages. 6 months ago:
The big problem with modernization of gig work by these companies is that they’re screwing of the gig workers by inserting themselves in the middle and fucking over everybody else involved.
Town car services existed for years before Uber came to the scene. Before Uber you’d have to call a town car service that may be a single person operation, or a small group of people getting together and hiring a calling service.
The idea of the modern, centralized, gig services is not a terrible idea in itself. But running that as a capitalist business is terrible. This is one of those things that should be required to be a government service or a non-profit.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 6 months ago:
Don’t forget, outright removing a UI for modifying settings forcing users to use registry mods, potentially a PS command, or a third party tool to force the behavior you lost from a simple setting removal.