dubyakay

@dubyakay@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing to learn. Mint and Fedora were click click done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Also c/politics is a shit hole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  DTAG should be a wholly state owned company again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah well… I never liked Savör products too much. They go out if their way with all their branding and claims, but you can get very tasty butter from local creameries at similar prices, without the need to ship it frozen halfway across the globe. Especially with milk sourced from the eastern townships or the Saguenay region. And Quebec (where Savör is operating) runs on 100% hydro power, which is equal or better to geothermal. So whatever Savör is gaining from the Miraka plant, is lost on the need to import basically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Billions of flies can’t be wrong!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does putting clothes in the closet protect them from dust, or is the dust in there too?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But are you skin inside?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Star Wars is a fantasy space opera, not sci-fi.

  I thought combat sucked in ME1, especially compared to the follow-up instalments. It did have a good story though and amazing world building.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's the best material for wiping out a cast iron skillet?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So microplastics and soap embedded in your iron. Yum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey fellow RO player.

  I quit when my hometown Morroc got obliterated on iRO. I’ve tried coming back once right after the server mergers, but I don’t know what kind of methodology they’ve used when determining name conflicts, I’ve lost quite a few character names to what I assume were randoms from other servers banking on taking over the names. Pissed me off way too much. Tried coming back a second time about a year ago, but I was unable to figure out my character account passwords with the warp portal changes and what not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New study sheds light on ChatGPT’s alarming interactions with teens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Survivor bias, eh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, don’t worry. Big tech will get exemptions and write offs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marco Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. But it excludes any sort of custom OS versions due to the way it’s implemented. So no Lineage, no Graphene.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marco Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  prototype app

  Ahh yes, the app that coincidentally locks mobile OSes into the google ecosystem. 🤮

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if we just take heat pumps for example, or even cpu water coolers, the heat is carried away from where it’s hot to somewhere where it can be radiated off and equilibrium of heat conducting material and surrounding occurs.
  You can bet your ass that these US data center are just brute forcing heat exchange via evaporation instead to make the initial investment cheaper. It’s the equivalent to burning coal instead of straight up going for the renewable but initially more costly option when it comes to energy production.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three questions about superpowers, which is the best, and which is the worst?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine being invulnerable and not being able to receive a jab for your illness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not understand half of what you’ve written. But what do I need to get this running on my home PC?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve probably also ages out of it. I never thought it’d happen, but I can feel my hand/eye coordination getting worse over the decades.

  It’s well document in Korean pro leagues that APM decreases with age as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But it was a tournament among gaming studios, with Valve being on home turf basically.

  It’s like when you had the Blizzard dev smurf the SC2 ladders at a really high level, but the guy regularly lost to the actual Korean pros.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers have you ever been in a game competition or something similar?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve competed on stage in a rural village in F-29 Retaliatory head2head tournament (over serial cable) around 1993. I’ve gotten to grab first place in a Bo3 single elimination format, defeating my nemesis, Lil’ Cloud, in the finals. I took home a mobo for a 286 (but no cpu, PC case, peripherals or anything else). For a bonus prize, they’ve pitted me against the final final boss, the IT admin from the neighbouring town. I’ve beaten him 4:1 in a Bo7, and my reward was an AdLib card. I did end up using this one in a 386 SX build that my dad bought me a couple months later.
  Despite being on stage, I do not remember having any stage fright at all. I remember the crowd around us, but everything got drowned out by the sound blasters screeching the noise into my ears through some cheapo cans. I just remember being baffled that after having my toughest final against Lil’ Cloud, I suddenly have another challenger I have to sit down against.

  Around '97 I got sucked in by Quake II in PC cafes, mostly playing FFAs on LAN. However the Q2 scene gradually moved on to QuakeWorld, Quake 3 Arena and Counter Strike. Since my PC was always lagging behind in performance, I chose to stick with QuakeWorld, and mostly played in 320x200 software rendering so I could aim for 120Hz + 120 fps vsync as time passed.

  Around this time, between 98-2003 there were a couple LANs in and around Budapest that were CPL feeder events, however QuakeWorld has long been dropped from the biggest international events, and was relegated to mostly online tournaments and smaller local LANs only. Despite this, they always allowed QuakeWorld players in and even offered prices for first three places within categories. However the participants gradually declined from 50:50 Q3/QW to 50:40:10 CS/Q3/QW to 75:20:5 CS/Q3/QW by the end.

  In the last LAN where they still allowed QW players in, must have been around 2003, I think we had no more than 50 players out of 600+.
  I’ve competed, but not on stage, in the 1v1 category, choking due to nervousness around the quarterfinals, dropping to Loser’s Bracker. I did lose my LB match as well, the nerves never recovered. I remember one of my buddies talking over my shoulder, asking me wtf was wrong with me that I’m making all these mistakes. I came out as a sweaty mess from both matches, feeling totally defeated and unable to process why things were going the way they did. It haunts me to this day and gave me flashbacks to it in online competitive play, like WoW’s Arena 2v2/3v3.

  I also competed in 2v2 at the tournament with my best bud as my partner later that day. The nerves were still pretty bad, but I was relying on my partner’s skill to carry us, along with some clever map selections. It was a Bo5, and we knew that with my nerves shot we had to focus on just one map that had mixed shaft (lightning gun)/rocket launcher (RL) play in order to take the series, as otherwise we could dominate maps that relied on RL only, as predictive spawn lockdowns was our forte, in contrast with raw skill/aim. Basically the moment we won first draw for map selection, we knew we could make it a 3:1 or 3:2 at worst if we selected our least favoured map and won it. I’ve still made a lot of mistakes in heated moments, and we did have to draw out one map by deliberately avoiding respawns near the end of the match in order to deny our opponents a win, but in the end my partner carried us to victory.
  While the 2v2 finals were not exactly on stage, they did put a cam on a big screen and we also had a bit of a crowd forming around us. Smoking a light joint an hour before the match did help though. I forgot what we won. I just remember receiving a trophy at the finals ceremony and feeling completely undeserving of it. And then moving out of my parent’s basement and in with my buddy, getting high 24/7 for the next 6 months.

  As for the question is it even worth it: yes, yes it is. Not when you are older though. At 20+ you are already aged out, and the commitment required is tremendous just to scrape the bottom of the barrel. Better stick to turn based strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus its pedos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why? I loved moo3. Not as good as moo2. But still good.

  Either way, Master of Magic was the GOAT!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if mentioned yet, but EVE Online has an amazing soundtrack. Their 10 Year Anniversary Symphony is just the cream on top.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’m surprised they are not on board with Interac Debit in Canada.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s multiple steps to this sadly, including the payment gateway, processor, acquirer and this is before even Mastercard, VISA, Amex or other card companies come into the picture.

  It’s not impossible, but Valve would need to convince the card issuers that they are a valid processor and then also make deals with banks all over the world for GWs. Or they could just act like Stripe and own the full stack and bully their way through the fintech world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak Energy just shipped the US's first grid-scale sodium-ion battery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What about the environmental impact of degraded sodium ion batteries?

  I’m not going to take sodium mining into account, as there are many ways that it can be extracted, with probably minimal impact, like salt evaporation ponds. I assume it’s less destructive than building a hydro dam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam gets a brand new video player for trailers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  np m8

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s anti cheat, not DRM. But recent protondb reports don’t indicate any problems. I haven’t checked areweanticheatyet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube to be included in Australia’s social media ban for children under 16⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking about this being wrong. But then I realized that parents can still grant access to YT for their children. However the unattended restriction age should be lower imo.

  The problem is too many parents not supervising their children at all, and letting the algo make them go down in a truly despicable pile of shit of auto-play queues. My oldest one is six, and if I leave her alone on her tablet or the family room TV with YT, setting her on a path of kpop dance practice videos or some popular non-english kids show, if I check back half an hour later, sure enough the thematic changes from (likely with the help of recommended videos as well) to mindless marble/magnet builder videos, some yanky animated minecraft story or even worse.

  So now imagine a kid that gets no supervision at all, and an impressionable youth without critical thinking is seeking answers and then believes whatever they are told by a late millennial just saying bogus shit for the views.

  I am not sure what the right solution is, and this may not be it, but at least Australia is trying something. Let’s see how it works out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rocket League seems to work fine with Proton GE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a bad thing?