toddestan
@toddestan@lemmy.world
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 5 days ago:
The only two games I have that I’ve put more than 1000 hours in are Factorio and Rimworld. I’d highly recommend both.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 1 month ago:
The Samsung monitors we get at the office still appear to be just dumb screens. No remote or anything like that. But that’s from their business lineup of monitors. Wouldn’t surprise me too much if their consumer/gamer lineup would be different.
- Comment on What’s a game you can 100% without hating by the end? 3 months ago:
I got all but one achievement in Subnautica, and all of the achievements in Below Zero (the sequel) in my first playthrough of both games, just from taking my time and thoroughly exploring both of the worlds and completing the story.
With that said, they are open world games and at times don’t really give you a whole of guidance as to what you need to do next. So you are kind of left to explore and figure it out on your own. If you don’t like that sort of game you might end up hating them by the end too.
- Comment on Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. 3 months ago:
It probably has to do with whether the driver’s license is Real ID compliant or not. Here in Minnesota, you have the option of getting the Real ID license that can be used as a federal ID card for things like flying, or the regular old driver’s license which soon will really only be good for showing you’re allowed to drive a car.
I only have the regular driver’s license so I don’t know what all getting the Read ID involves, but having your biometric data scanned and stored seems like something they’d require.
- Comment on YSK the full scope of the recent US presidential immunity decision 4 months ago:
The supreme court left it kind of vague in their ruling. The courts are supposed to decide, but for something like this no matter what the lower courts decide, any ruling would almost certainly get appealed up to the supreme court. So what is or isn’t an official act is basically boils to whatever the supreme court decides it to be.
- Comment on Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained 6 months ago:
That’s my experience with Asus going back over 25 years now. To me, Asus has always been substandard products sold at premium prices. If I wanted a substandard motherboard, I’d buy ECS and save a bunch of money. And to be fair to ECS, I’ve had some of their boards that have worked just fine, which is more than I can say about the Asus stuff.
- Comment on 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com 7 months ago:
It certainly could. That’s the gamble you’re taking.
I usually replace drives after 5 years if they are doing anything I consider important. So those drives to me would have 1-2 years left in them. Of course, I have seen a good number of drives I have repurposed to things less important things still manage to rack up impressive numbers of hours.
- Comment on In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From 8 months ago:
I’d say not really, Tolkien was a writer, not an artist.
What you are doing is violating the trademark Middle-Earth Enterprises has on the Gandalf character.
- Comment on Is TV Dead? Global TV Shipments Hit a Decade Low in 2023 8 months ago:
How do they compare to TVs? At least the last time I looked into it, pretty much every TV was terrible compared to even a halfway decent computer monitor.
- Comment on What are some good games with *zero* replayability? 8 months ago:
For me, it wasn’t just the story, but also just randomly going out and exploring, checking things out, and finding cool (and sometimes scary) things.
It’s one of those games that I’m hoping in like 10 years or something I’ll have forgotten enough of it that if I go play it again it’ll be mostly all new again.
- Comment on What's your favorite game that you will NEVER finish? 10 months ago:
That’s one of the reasons I lost interest as a kid, as I really didn’t know what to do and you could totally wander into an area you just weren’t ready for yet. For that reason, I liked FF2 (FF4 everywhere else) as that one pretty much guided you along on rails.
- Comment on What's your favorite game that you will NEVER finish? 10 months ago:
I was thinking about that game as I was scrolling this thread. That’s one I should revisit myself. I played that game a lot when I was younger, but managed to never complete it as I always lost interest sometime during the World of Ruin.
- Comment on Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 10 months ago:
That’s actually just what I did. New PC runs Manjaro Linux. So far all the games I’ve thrown at it work just fine.
Maybe I should have done that with the old PC, but I’m lazy and Windows 7 was working well enough.
- Comment on Steam no longer supports Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 10 months ago:
Not anymore since it no longer works.
I was still using Steam on Windows 7 as late as last month. Losing access to Steam was one motivation to finally upgrade my computer.
- Comment on Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed 1 year ago:
It’ll probably end up worse than that. Turn off secure boot and Windows may still run, but it will no longer verify and all these sites will now refuse to work on your computer. So if you like to run Linux, even dual booting or running Windows in a VM won’t be good enough anymore.