Pika
@Pika@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on How can I create an alter ego for publishing stories? 3 days ago:
You can put a different name than what’s yours as the author, but unfortunately if someone is dedicated if you’re writing style is still similar it’s not outside the realm of possibility that someone might be able to connect the dot eventually. Unlikely unless you got super huge, but not impossible
- Comment on Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve 3 days ago:
I think the answer is because they don’t believe they need that market, they were obviously okay with losing that market share in the first place due to the fact that they put the requirement in there. As their announcements have said, requiring a PSN account is something that gives them more control over abuse (and ofc data) and allowing more players that are in countries where they are not currently allowed to have those accounts are counterproductive to what they are currently driving for
I’m not surprised they didn’t reverse the region locks they believe it’s something for the best and that’s not something that the consumer is going to be able to change, regardless of the reviews or protest, worst case scenario for them is they just go back to being fully console exclusive if the PR pressure gets too bad
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
This type of review bombing is actually against steams terms of service for reviews in the first place, they’ve stepped in a few times now to hide campaigns like that, I expect they will do the same with this one.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 2 weeks ago:
this process will cause most smaller creators to just leave the platform, it’s already super difficult to to get established, this would essentially force them to operate at a loss until they can get a foothold which concidering a lot of the time it can take months to years to get established? I can’t see that system being sustainable either.
- Comment on Wgen you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be? 3 weeks ago:
fully agree, but honestly I think it would be easier to just leave the country then ever actually having that happen, it’s too far again those in power’s ideology, which is land of the free but not for thee/only for me
- Comment on Wgen you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t donate, I’m phobic of needles and I disagree with the commercialization of the industry. The fact that my blood likely won’t be used by someone who needs it and instead will be up charged to the highest bidder sickens me.
- Comment on Do you encrypt your data drives? 4 weeks ago:
TPM is a good way, Mine is setup to have encryption of / via TPM with luks so it can boot no issues, then actual sensitive data like the /home/my user is encrypted using my password and the backup system + fileserver is standard luks with password.
This setup allows for unassisted boot up of main systems (such as SSH) which let’s you sign in to manually unlock more sensative drives.
- Comment on Do you encrypt your data drives? 4 weeks ago:
I’m surprized as well, like I guess I would understand if it’s a no log DNS server but, what else wouldn’t have sensitive information.
- Comment on I could never work food service. It crushes my soul to see food go to waste. 4 weeks ago:
I worked closing shift, it was faster for me to cook then rely on mcdonalds to have my food ready in a timely manner. At some point of the night they start cooking everything to order, so I pull into mcdonalds, spend 10-15 minutes waiting, or I can drive home space the same amount of time cooking and sleep around the same time and save like 20$. Was a no brainer for me
- Comment on Final Factory Launch Trailer 5 weeks ago:
I’m not a big fan of posts that are only videos, but I have to say this is one of the few times I actually watch the video and that game looks absolutely sick. Instantly wishlisted to keep tabs on it
- Comment on Jenes 5 weeks ago:
I’m glad they added the genes ref, 8 was thinking they were talking about DNA
- Comment on The FTC and DOJ want to make sure it’s legal to repair McDonald’s ice cream machines 1 month ago:
this is like years too late, I’m not going to mcdonalds for ice cream anymore, especially not now that it’s almost 6$ for a mcflurry. l can spend that much buying M&M’s and the ice cream myself and grt more than one serving for it
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yes they would, that is why I am for UBI however not without harsh restrictions on rental or mortgage costs in regards to the UBI. I’m not concerned for normal prices but, I know rental and housing costs will rise in comparison. Needs restrictions before implementation
- Comment on Peak technology 1 month ago:
I won’t go eco tank personally, clogs and cleaning is a royal pain on them and there’s no good purge feature. I would fully recommend going this path only if accuracy on color is requirement further then laser printers do
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
Just responding that I did see this, The video has peaked my curiosity and I plan on watching it later when I have more free time outside of midterm’s season
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 2 months ago:
yea looking at wyoming I can see there is defo a lack of EV stations, it looks like for southern wyoming the longest stretch is between rock springs and Lareme, but that’s mostly if you lack the ability to use super chargers. I can see how it would be a pain to use an EV in that case, doable but it would stretch it a little further than i would be comfortable with as well.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
this is how it should be anyway, you do not want any ledger or database to be mutable because it allows for integrity violations and will cause you to lose the ability to trust it. Even non-blockchain styles follow that principle.
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 2 months ago:
An alternative idea that I mentioned on a thread yesterday about vehicles with high bumpers, adjust the license class system to be more strict regarding vehicles. You already have to have extra training in a different license to run transport vehicles or semi trucks you should have to do the same with large vehicles, I’m not saying ban every pickup truck out there because I fully agree that trucks are a hard requirement especially in snow covered States like mine but there is a difference between having a pickup truck and having a monster truck at least in my opinion heavier or taller than low end transport vehicles
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 2 months ago:
If you are unable to find a charging station at some point halfway across the state you’re either being too picky, or blind. I live in the middle of nowhere Maine and I can still find at least one electric vehicle charger per major town. Hell there is three of them in the town next over and it’s not even considered one of our highly populated towns. I thought the same that you did actually looked up where charging stations are located I was pleasantly surprized
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
as hostile as people are to block chain due to MFC’s and bad implementations, the technology itself has its use cases. It’s a great solution for information exchange that requires verification and Immutation. This makes them perfect for ledgers or transaction networks.
It’s just there is so much bad PR regarding it everyone just discredits it. Not all of the block chain technologies are massively energy intensive per transaction, it’s just many of the cryptocurrencies use the most intensive one because it’s also arguably the most secure
- Comment on Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars 2 months ago:
Last month, Tesla’s chief executive predicted that Chinese automakers will “demolish” global rivals without trade barriers.
it sounds like maybe they should, idk? work on making their own garbage cheaper then? Ghat soley sounds like a competition problem not a consumer problem.
- Comment on I’d rather stay up anyway 2 months ago:
I have a window of perfection. If I sleep less the 4 hours I’m dead tired in the morning, if I sleep more then 7 hours I am dead in the morning, but for some reason if I get 5, 6 or 7 I’ll be up and at em no issue at all
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 is less about what comes in the box and more about what you get over the years 2 months ago:
For text me the price is the biggest limiting factor, that and it doesn’t work around here anyway. it has almost Flagship level price for just a little bit better specs than your everyday $300 phone that you can buy off the shelf.
- Comment on Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
The company I work for does that as well for its retail environment, it sounds good on paper but the only thing it’s done is all the secondary phones now are ignored until it’s a transfer ring. After a certain time of day it just won’t be answered unless a manager is the one who answers. This is partially due to the lack of training of the secondary and partially of the “no departments ever close” policy so if you answer ig you are expected to help even if it’s on the opposite side in an area you know nothing about
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
reminds me of discord
- Comment on Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’ 2 months ago:
Fully agree, I didn’t think I would use it much either, but the fact that you can make any game suddenly a keyboard and mouse game is a game changer. It opened up the ability to run your strategy and your RTS games using keyboard and Mouse games like Ark I can’t imagine playing with a controller however I can play with my Xbox friends because the fact that I can just play Ark using keyboard and mouse while they play on their console
- Comment on Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’ 2 months ago:
I mean probally cause the console was an utter failure, I see no diff between my ps4 to my ps5, Supply failed at launch for 3 years, the exclusives have sucked, PS Plus went up on all tiers and features for it have been a roaring dumpster fire this is without taking into concideration the UI revamp sucks. I haven’t even had the urge to fire mine up since October.
This compared to the series X that while hasn’t had /great/ exclusives either, has well counteracted that downside with a huge gamepass library that connects directly with PC and had the supply to keep up with demand.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 2 months ago:
this is the reverse of “if you can’t afford a job that pays you find another job”. I’m all for tipping for service rendered and I’m the first to suggest tipping at tables, but some of the “recommended tip rates” requested at establishments are extortionary. I’m 100% ok with tipping 15-20%, even moreso if it’s a super small order or the waiter went above and beyond but, my 45 minute meal that you visited twice maybe 3 times tops for does not warrent a 25+% tip rate.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 2 months ago:
I gave up on matrix, was too complicated of a setup and the site was throughly unhelpful for newcomers. I eventually got it but, the permission system was somehow worse then IRC and due to the federation aspect of it you can’t modify the standard at all because then the other clients/servers can’t recieve you.
- Comment on Lol 2 months ago:
lmao