accideath
@accideath@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Yea, the renault twingo of my ex-fwb felt borderline dangerous above 130kph while in my workplace’s Mercedes B-Class, my comfortable cruising speed is roughly 160kph with 200kph still feeling perfectly in control.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
My dad is also a huge Outlook fan. I think you need to just have been using it for 20+ years
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 1 week ago:
Can I just have a Parker IM Ballpoint? I hate plastic pens.
- Comment on Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli? 5 weeks ago:
I hope that’s Fahrenheit…
- Comment on Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli? 5 weeks ago:
I hope that’s Fahrenheit…
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 5 weeks ago:
Old games being open sourced is a trend I can get behind.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 5 weeks ago:
Not having to pay for hardware transcoding/tonemapping is the biggest „selling“point for Jellyfin. I used to have plex before. It worked well but I didn’t want to pay 100€ for transcoding. Never tried emby for the very same reason.
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 1 month ago:
How would the reading experience improve for regular ebooks?
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 1 month ago:
Ok, the latter might actually be worth it. I’ll have to look into that.
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 1 month ago:
What can I do with a jailbroken kindle that makes it worth doing instead of just using calibre?
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 1 month ago:
Or, if you wanna sound intellectual: „Das tangiert mich peripher.“
- Comment on Microsoft have blocked their own Windows 11 update after it started breaking Ubisoft games 4 months ago:
Depends on the hardware. Intel Chips with big.LITTLE design (aka e-cores and p-cores) work better in 11 because its scheduler is built with core configurations in mind (unless a semi-recent update also brought that to 10. My information is not the newest. I replaced 11 with Linux pretty quickly)
- Comment on Bluesky hits 20 million users 4 months ago:
Yea. Used it for four things. To keep up to date with creators I like, to keep up to date with friends, to keep up to date with a bunch of webcomics and to randomly rant into the void when I felt like it.
- Comment on Potoo Potions! 4 months ago:
I mean, that at least didn’t look like a student film production. But the contact lens work in that show is so godawful, not just Geralt.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 5 months ago:
Back is already bullshit. We have a few trashcan mac pros at work and usually they’re just turned so all the cables stick out towards the user because then you can easily reach the power button. Which makes it look worse than just having a power button in an accessible place aka the front or the top in the first place.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 5 months ago:
On the one hand, I agree. Apple has positioned their power buttons with the assumption that the devices wouldn’t be turned off very often for quite a while now. It was on the backside of the previous mac mini design and also on the backside of the 2013 trashcan mac pro, for example.
That still doesn’t make it less annoying though. We use a lot of macs for work, including aforementioned mac minis and mac pros and we do turn them off regularly because there’s no need for them to use power 24/7. Having to turn them around to find the power button is just stupid. That’s form over function in its finest. But if you’re the type of person who never turns off their computer, obviously it doesn’t really matter.
That’s not to say, that the new mac minis aren’t remarkable machines. The redesign was necessary and is very good in general. It’s a tiny powerhouse. They could’ve just chosen less of afterthought of a power button location.
- Comment on I hate that that happens 5 months ago:
Buffalo buffalo, Buffalo buffalo buffalo, buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 5 months ago:
We live in the 21st century. Anything is possible. Also, women have last names, too.
- Comment on Blessica Blimpson 5 months ago:
Or whose last name is Blimpson.
- Comment on New song just dropped 5 months ago:
- Comment on Do you have what it takes to become a geologist? 5 months ago:
I believe licking asbestos is fairly unproblematic. You just really shouldn’t breathe in asbestos dust.
- Comment on 18 treated for severe nausea in Stuttgart after opera of live sex and piercing 5 months ago:
If the artists can live out their bloody fantasies in the safety of an opera house, they might not take over the country and commit genocide, again.
- Comment on Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes 5 months ago:
No Problem with buying games that launch broken and get fixes later. I‘ll just get them once they’re fixed.
- Comment on Massive generational gap: Gen Z flocks to multiplayer, while 55+ sticks to single-player 5 months ago:
Nah, they defs do. Just less. Also, the trend seems to go towards single player again, so maybe there’s hope for the future. Big multiplayer releases bombing is definitely a sign for devs, too.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 5 months ago:
For ebooks in particular, owning what you buy isn’t that difficult though. You can legally buy DRM protected epubs in a lot of online book stores and then use the software calibre (open source) to strip the DRM. Much easier than with music, movies or software.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 5 months ago:
I‘d recommend the software calibre. Great for managing your ebook library and it can convert epub into amazons azw, mobi or kfx formats (depending on which generation kindle you have). With the right plugin you can even create WordWise data for your kindle-converted ebooks.
You don’t even necessarily need to illegally download the books, as calibre can also handle the DRM of .ebub books you bought from almost any store. Of course, sailing the seven seas is still always an option though.
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 5 months ago:
The game’s not different. But the launcher is missing some features and also, it’s not just a launcher but a store and some percentage of the money you pay for the game goes to them. And if you don’t want to give Epic Games money (which would be fair, considering their relations with for example tencent), buying a game there is out of the question.
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 5 months ago:
But if you don’t like the platform and don’t want to support it, what do you do then?
And a lot of people don’t like epic games for a number of reasons.