Pika
@Pika@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 1 day ago:
man that sucks.
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 1 day ago:
is datacenter ram really not usable on personal PC’s? I figured it was the same as consumer ram but with ECC features.
- Comment on X down – latest: Twitter and Grok not working in another major outage 3 days ago:
I think your biggest roadblock here is the assumption all on the platform are pedophiles tbh. I don’t use twitter either, its blocked by choice on my DNS blocker but, I’m not wearing drunk goggles thinking every person on there is a pedo. regardless of the owners of it, it’s still really the only valid mainstream option for content creators. Do you have a better option? Because I know bsky or lemmy sure as hell aint going to get the job done for them.
- Comment on X down – latest: Twitter and Grok not working in another major outage 3 days ago:
In the case of content creators, you go where your audience goes. Almost all of the content creators I watch went back to twitter and almost exclusively post only live notices and social updates. I don’t have one that has a good opinion of the platform but, there’s a much larger audience there so therefore they stay.
Visibility is everything, and there are many steps between following you off the platform and not engaging with your stuff. Many will not follow a creator to an alternative platform if it means having to juggle an additional network, they will just let that creator fall out of their interest group.
Heck, the same can be said about viewers as well though, I know for a fact I wouldn’t be on lemmy if I still used reddit. It is too annoying having to juggle multiple social media platforms.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Wait did this actually happen?
I just had to look it up, that’s actually really funny as a way to try and hide latency issues. this won’t work well with bad networks though, I could see 1 or 2 frames being delayed or missing but, that’s still a funny way of trying to fix an issue that is a pipeline problem.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
For sure, anything of that caliber, be it a monetary violence such as a massive financial shift from wealthy to either the government structures or the people, to a physical violence such as a revolt, to a virtual violence such as banning products/companies that are not following the established mantra, I do think the end result would be the same, I doubt it would lead to the collapse of civilization but, I do have to say that it won’t be pretty and in best case scenarios the penalty is increased pricing for awhile while things stabilize, worst case scenario is dismantlement of known authorities/governments due to violent protests.
For some food for thought btw on the economic scale? You could take half of amazons annual net income(income after taxes, liabilities, deductions etc) for 2024, distribute it evenly across all known people in the US (Amazons primary market) and be able to give each person $80-90. every person and that’s still allowing the company to keep 30B. It blows my mind. The same can be said about Microsoft. They made 88B in 2024, so half of that is 44B across every person would be 130ish per person. Nvidia would be ~18, apple would be ~144. It’s really sickening when you think of it the amount of money those companies have.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
the thought of dynamic pricing on-top of the outrageous base pricing makes me shudder. All that for a network that will support Elons viewpoints and not have decent stability. Man I can’t wait.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 4 days ago:
Yea, I get that. Stable is from the developer POV, my expectation though was that I could at least finish the install process without running into an issue. I didn’t expect that a built in driver would decide to just black screen and the official driver to just not work period(Linux Mint), or that the installer wouldn’t be smart enough to properly configure the X server to allow for a login(Debian 12).
I somewhat expected it of Mint, but for Debian 12 I was pretty surprised to see it. You would think something that was good enough to reach a point where they did a package freeze would be able to at least reach a desktop before showing signs of an issue. But I guess considering that the installer itself crashes if you try to manually partition a server, and then decide to go back in and set up luks in the installer, I shouldn’t be too surprised.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
honestly, I think it would be a stretch to say this could be resolved in the next decade barring a super hostile action government wise such as a strict wealth tax (including offshore bank accounts). but even i think that would likely do more harm than good at first and would be neigh impossible to actually track logistically without accommodation from external countries.
Slow and Steady will eventually win the race, but it’s going to be a long hard process and will need actual participants.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Sorry, best I can do is a 40% tax break for those making 1m or more annual revenue
- Comment on 4 days ago:
more like if only enough people actually cared about what is going on in life. Most governments with this issue atm are facing massive apathy in regards to actually voting on what they want. They either don’t vote at all, or blind vote not bothing to research anything. I wish I could say this was strictly a US issue as well but, I believe most democratic governments are having this issue. I know for sure Canada is.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
As @TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com stated. This would never work in the US without major overhaul to existing infastructure. I’m rocking a 32/32 Mbps atm. My parents? they get 5. I have to enable steam to limit itself to 512kb/s download or I will take down their network as a whole. Remind me how a cloud based PC is going to work in this state.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 4 days ago:
Fully agree. When I mention switching to Linux on the rare occasion it comes up I make sure to mention that you can do basically anything on the platform, but with that customization comes drawbacks. If you are afraid to research an issue then I would not recommend full stop. I also mention not to be afraid of needing to use the terminal if needed. Don’t expect a 1:1 it’ll do most things you can do on Windows, but there will be some things you just can’t
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 4 days ago:
I think I agree with this. I believe that if you are heavily into group policy or a centralized registry it would be a harder conversion. But you can even “hack” bat files to work for both Linux and Windows depending on what launches it. I had to do that with a testing bot that I sometimes ran on windows, sometimes ran on Linux. It involves abusing the label system on bat (which translates to a command true which accepts no arguments on sh). Granted you are still writing both files but, using this method you can have the windows version of it on the same page as the bash version so you can go line by line instead of having a second file open
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 4 days ago:
Same TBF, I don’t really care if AI was used as long as it is an enjoyable game and the usage of it doesn’t contrast from the game itself.
Being said, most the time when generative AI is used, it comes out sloppy and unenjoyable so if there is the genAI flag on the store page I will definitely give it a more thorough once over.
Procedural or structural AI though I don’t even bat an eye on. It’s whatever at that point we have used tools like that for years anyway and it’s never been a problem.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 4 days ago:
To give the author credit, ignoring the other flaws with windows, most things “just worked” and generally either didn’t have an issue or if it did, fixed it’s own issues. I didn’t really have to resolve any issues or anything. Heck it even fixed itself if it failed to update, rolling back the changes and alerting the user next boot (which I usually just ignored and let fix itself which it generally did after a few days/tries! lol)
My current rig had Windows as the primary OS from 2016 to about 2024, during that time I don’t recall any times I had to actually look up any issues unless I personally created the problem. I think the most extensive issue I had was my 5700xt crashing under high load but that wasn’t something I could fix anyway as it was a driver issue, or when i made the entire system unbootable cause I messed up making a recovery partition
When I swapped back to Linux (Linux Mint at first, then Linux Mint DE, then Debian 12, now Debian 13), I had multiple hurdles from my headset not functioning, to my video card not being supported, no login screen, etc, these issues didn’t fix themselves, I had to fix them. Granted some were easier to fix (like the no login screen was a super simple edit to a config file), but it wasn’t something I had to deal with on windows.
Linux isn’t going to hold your hand like Windows does with issues. So yea you need to resolve your own issues, Linux isn’t going to do it for you, the most it will do is post a command in the log saying “issue X expected, run this command to fix”
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 4 days ago:
I haven’t faced a captcha but, it just took a solid 2 minutes to resolve and load the article for me. Maybe they have something else happening behind the scenes impacting performance so they are locking down certain routes?
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 4 days ago:
I think i had to boot into my windows partition 3 times last year. twice for the battlefield beta, and once for a discord quest because I really wanted the points for something in the shop.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 5 days ago:
I had this happen with the switch originally. Pre-ordered the lets go pikachu&eevee switch, they ended up receiving far less than the company expected. Employees were the first on the chopping block since they worked there. Absolute bullshit.
They did end up making it right and I had first pick from the next shipment, but it made my blood boil.
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 1 week ago:
yea fair, although some countries get super iffy about it. That was a big reason Overwatch ended up swapping to a rolling store with OW2 instead of keeping the loot box system, and that was a first party MTX system.
- Comment on Colorado right-to-repair law covering consumer electronics now in effect 1 week ago:
The latest right-to-repair law includes exemptions for marine vessels, aviation, motor vehicles, medical devices, certain safety and security equipment, and video game consoles
Ah so mostly useless for your common everyday items then. Got it.
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 1 week ago:
I’m surprised that fortnite was willing to front the liability of allowing third party micro-transactions. Especially gatcha or gambling mechanics based ones. That could get fortnite as a whole banned in a few countries.
- Comment on YSK this woman is called Kathlyn Boyle. She is the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley and one of the closest friend of JD Vance. 2 weeks ago:
1000% I stopped contributing complex comments awhile ago due to this, don’t plan to resume again until it’s fix/goes away
- Comment on Creality's Warranty Loophole: How They Tried to Charge Us $30 for a Defective Sensor 2 weeks ago:
my takeaway is don’t buy from this company.
- Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake 2 weeks ago:
those arbitration clauses generally only cover class action, but regardless in this case going through arbitration would be cheaper for them anyway since it’s very likely the third party will side with them. Additionally, I’m fairly certain if they went through the AG it becomes a criminal case not a civil due to them violating consumer protection laws, which would likely make the arbitration clause obsolete anyway.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 2 weeks ago:
I would agree to an extent, but I dislike another step or dependency to change phones. With a physical sim I don’t need to login to a carrier site for it to function, don’t need to call their support, don’t need to wait for activation times, only their towers gotta be working.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 2 weeks ago:
In the US the sim itself is usually dirt cheap (like less than a 1$) but it’s difficult to just buy the sim unless you buy it directly through the carrier.
I’m assuming the 60$ price is including their monthly plan, I know a few carriers offer BYOD kits for 50-60$ which include the sim, but those same carriers usually will offer a 3-5$ multi sim kit (a kit with a bunch of different sim card sizes) that is usually only obtainable via shipping so most go for the BYOD kit instead of waiting.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 2 weeks ago:
The ability to swap it to a new device without carrier approval is a big one for me.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 2 weeks ago:
I think if I ever used ESIM I would do similar Physical sim for the primary line, ESIM for travel or temporary lines
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 2 weeks ago:
I will never use an ESIM due to this. I have had by ass saved multiple times by being able to use a physical sim card when my device failed to work or i needed to be able to port a number.
My last phone went for a swim, I changed phones just be removing the sim card, and putting it in the replacement phone. Easy 20 second process vs an hour trying to argue with customer service that I am the account holder, and no I can’t receive a one time pin, the phone is toast then another 20-30 minutes of waiting for the towers to identify that the ICCID changed and that the new sim is actually allowed to communicate with them. The last time I changed my sim card on t-mobile, I didn’t have roaming data for almost 30 days due to desync between the USC towers and Tmobile on if I was actually authorized to use the tower or not. Then back when I used MVNO’s it was even worse. Arguing over device compatibility and identification when you lost access to the device was like pulling teeth. The agents never understood that broken means broken, and despite saying 4 times the devices either don’t turn on or has no service, they still insist on trying to send a one time pin, because according to their end the phone is active on the tower somehow. Then theres benefits like when I put an s20 on total wireless 2 years before the company supported 5g devices due to the ability to use a physical sim. I upgraded to an s20 from an s9 after being told that both total wireless and red both supported 5g phones. Only to argue with both of them after I actually bought the device that they couldn’t actually activate/transfer it onto the device. I just took the 4g sim card (which they previously said would not work on the device, and threw it into the s20, and then used that until I eventually swapped to a first party carrier.