frododouchebaggins
@frododouchebaggins@lemmy.world
- Comment on Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield 1 year ago:
Your average game devs still have little idea how to get the best performance from the hardware, and hardware vendors are still patching things under the hood so they don’t look bad on benchmarks.
Yes they do. We know they do because current gen consoles are frequently providing better fidelity and better stability than PC games. Not because PCs have inferior hardware. But because optimization is actually incredibly hard when your custom base is all running different hardware AND different drivers. So even when the hardware is “the same”, it’s not.
This has been true forever. It just took 30 years for high performance computing to be affordable enough to put in consoles. 30 years was a long time for PC gamers to feel superior. Now they enjoy humble pie and make comments like this on the internet to explain why things are so “bad”.
PC games are still great. Don’t let this bother you more than it should.
- Comment on YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead 1 year ago:
Why do you people insist on this conspiracy theory where you blame the person because you think they are lying? Fuck off. Google’s algorithm is malicious.
- Comment on Wyze security camera owners reported that they could briefly see feeds from cameras they didn’t own 1 year ago:
“how would I do something that is impossible because I think I’m making a clever point”
use a different protocol
- Comment on Wyze security camera owners reported that they could briefly see feeds from cameras they didn’t own 1 year ago:
What’s the alternative to putting them on the pUbLic InTeRnEt? I pay my ISP $2000 per month for my own private MPLS? It’s not a bad idea because there is no reasonable alternative. Risk mitigation is the key, as you seem to be aware.
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 1 year ago:
You totally forgot about webkit or is apple a non-starter? LMAO
This whole thing started with Apple blocking 3rd party tracking coockies in Safari in 2020.
- Comment on Senate confirms Biden FCC nominee, finally giving Democrats a 3-2 majority 1 year ago:
He’s pandering to his base. They don’t understand Net Neutrality. But they know Obamacare = bad. They are this stupid.
- Comment on All of Japan's Toyota Assembly Plants Shut Down for a Day Because Their Server Ran Out of Disk Space 1 year ago:
The IT people that want to implement that disaster recovery plan do not make the purchasing decisions. It takes an event like this to get the retards in the C-suite listen to IT staff.
- Comment on “AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator 1 year ago:
Headline should read:
“Software took my job, literally”
10 years ago I replaced an entire department with custom software that automated their jobs. The department did manual data entry into an ERP system, feeding it the manufacturing data from the previous day. We did not automate it to be evil, we did it because humans make lots of mistakes. If you ask the human, they definitely typed it correctly and itf there is a problem it’s a computer “bug”.
Miraculously the automated system has made exactly 0 typing errors in 10 years.
- Comment on Starfield players pirate the DLSS mod after the developer locks it behind paywall 1 year ago:
Gaming community reaction to new games in 2023:
Starfield: install these community mods to get the game to look good, 9/10, GOTY candidate.
Jedi Survivor: some performance issues but overall complete, 2/10
BG3: same issues as Jedi Survivor but no one cares, 10/10, definite GOTY
- Comment on Mozilla review of 25 car brands finds they're "a privacy nightmare" 1 year ago:
Yes. I live in a cold climate. I can start my car with my phone and it’s defrosted and heated before I drive. It’s awesome. And then I get exact directions that re-route me based on traffic conditions. The efficiency gains are incredible. I love technology.
- Comment on Mozilla review of 25 car brands finds they're "a privacy nightmare" 1 year ago:
You save the environment by using a car for as long as possible. Genius.
The total natural resources consumed to make an entire new car is much, much worse than an oil on a car that was already produced. Please, stay in school.
- Comment on Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep? 1 year ago:
Can you link me to lucid dream training that was created by someone that holds a doctorate of medicine?
I’ll wait. Thanks.
- Comment on Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries 1 year ago:
No offense, but that’s like pissing into the wind. As you know, business drives IT adoption. We have 50 engineers that can only use Windows because we depend on Autodesk software. We spend $50k per year on Office E5. I, as an individual, will never spend in my lifetime, what I spend in 1 year at work, with Microsoft. I’m not saying this to brag, but to give perspective. It’s how you have to drive Linux adoption too.
It is my opinion that the iPhone became successful because it supplanted Blackberry as the preferred corporate phone. At the time, the iphone did not play nice with any IT management system (like Active Directory). IT staff hated it, but we couldn’t say no because there was no equivalent alternative, Corporate adoption drove the iPhone’s success. Linux needs to do something that no one else is doing well.
- Comment on Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube 1 year ago:
The solution I used is to pay for the service that removes ads and scroll right past shorts, ignoring it. Let me guess, google should provide you that infrastructure for free?
- Comment on Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube 1 year ago:
YouTube is far from ruined. There’s a ton of educational and information channels making high quality content. These are some of my favorites:
- Throttle House (car reviews)
- Savagegeese (car reviews)
- Adam Ragusea (home chef)
- Coffeezilla (independent journalist)
- Dave2D (technology reviews)
- Donut (car news, humor)
- Food Wishes (pro chef)
- Johnny Harris (independent journalist)
- Louis Rossmann (tech repair and tech politics)
- Skill Up (video game reviews)
- SmarterEveryDay (science)
- Veritasium
Are these channels perfect? No. Nothing is perfect. But these channels easily justify paying for YouTube premium.
- Comment on Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube 1 year ago:
That person is not being honest. They want us to believe they disliked 100 consecutive shorts and on 101 it looped back to the first short? A total lie.