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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the year of the linux desktop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there anything at all surprising about teenagers using what might be their only computer outside of their phone to access porn?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the year of the linux desktop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s relative change and not percentage points, from quick mental math that seems to add up. Very weird choice, maybe trying to inflate the perceived increase in linux users. So it would be a change of a bit more than +1 percentage point for linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dynamic difficulty is the game adjusting the difficulty based on how well you’re doing, e.g. in the mentioned l4d (or maybe it was only l4d2 idk) if you have more health and healing, it will spawn more/harder enemies, and vice versa.

  It’s sometimes also used in other ways, e.g. boss fights get easier after failing them a bunch, which I really don’t like because I want to decide myself whether I want to make the game easier. Though roguelite progression systems like in hades in effect do a similar thing, but the player is actually aware of it (though this is why I don’t really like roguelites).

  Mainly I think whether this is a fine feature or shit will just depend on the ability to choose if you want the AI to beat the boss for you or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheat codes and difficulty settings have existed for forever. Dynamic difficulty is common, and used to great success in beloved games like left 4 dead. Just a different option to get past the part you’re stuck in is really nothing bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People just eat the “nuclear waste isn’t a problem actually ignore that in some places we’re already seeing it wasn’t stored safely aftet all” propaganda from the nuclear lobby right up.

  And forget that just because nuclear plants are pretty damn safe when everything is done properly, people are notoriously great at not doing things properly, hence why 2 of the things have melted down so far (though i should say the same applies to hydro, except I only know of 1 disaster instead of 2, and the financial damage is less because water doesnt contaminate the ground for forever. Killed a lot of people though).

  I’ll take it over fossil fuels still because co2 is also a huge problem, and having nuclear waste at all is a bigger problem than adding slightly more while we transition to full renewables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've always thought THIS was unfair⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting that it’s that low, the hotels I went to in japan were all above 10k jpy (~600€) for cleaning fee if you smoke in the room. It makes sense though with how persistent smoke smell can be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not so fun fact: the microscopic bits of poop just spray to different places if you close the lid, but there’s just as many.

  Second not so fun fact: mythbusters tested this as well and found that there’s microscopic poop bits everywhere anyway, and they will get on everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some old ones do. And yes the smell before you flush is as horrible as you’d expect. The combination of diarrhea and one of those toilets made me almost throw up once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Visual snow is when you see it with eyes open afaik. But yea, still not terribly abnormal on its own. Visual snow syndrome is a thing though, but it’s more than just seeing an abnormal amount of visual snow (the normal amount seems to be when looking at unicolored surfaces and in dim light).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Physical retailers have been taking 30% before steam was even a thing. And no, the physical storage does not mean they should be paid more, because steam provides hosting capabilities that also cost money.

  Epic takes less because they operate the store at a loss in a desperate attempt to gain market share.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Complaining about the 30% is insanity, that’s how retailers work, it’s not an unusual cut for an online store.

  I fail to see how steam is anti-consumer, or how it ever actively tried to monopolize anything.

  Selling broken, unfinishedband shovelware games was just them giving in to the demand to let everything on the store, after people (rightfully imo) hated greenlight.

  Fuck the gambling though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I forgot where but some time in the last 3 hours I read that the goal for steamOS is to be supported on all PCs, though it’s an ongoing effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If God was real (just go with it), then how he's portrayed in the Bible might not even be how he actually is.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve thought about this a bunch. The christian god being omnipotent and benevolent is contradictory to the bible and also just the state of the world. So what if there actually is some god (or multiple) but these entities are far from omnipotent, really can’t meddle all that much and maybe don’t really care in the first place.

  I don’t think it’s true (even if it seems more plausible than any religion actually being completely right) but it’s just funny to me to imagine that all religions could just be the result of some higher dimensional beings playing with our planet out of boredom, and humans just ascribed far too much power to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is because no one present likely has anything to do with the decision, and even if someone is actively restraining you there’s a reasonable amount of resistance and while that includes mild violence it does not include shooting someone or similar. Unless you really need to be somewhere reacting to that with extreme violence is completely unhinged.

  Maybe mild violence is what you meant, but that can easily be read differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The one way gates are standard, the only exit being ticket scan isn’t. The change is supposedly only the one way gates, so they’re half truthing to pretend it’s normal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do this so much at work with random german words, because we have so many specific names for our features, some of which I didn’t even know in german before working here. Others I’d know how to translate but it would be ambiguous. And our non-german speaking devs also use the software in german, so they understand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  New right click context menu for files is one example. Not sure about others bc I’ve changed just about everything I can to be like win 10, and in 10 I already changed a lot from the defaults.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Abdul⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the blob was their hands.

  Also the image is very clearly made by mirroring a single image in the center. So at most the original image was AI generated because AI would not mirror that cleanly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Girls⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The order thing is very debatable tbh, I generally agree that going in origin culture order is better (easier to keep consistent imo), but there are at least a lot of japanese artists that swap the name order when romanized. (And I don’t think I’d care if someone swapped my name order when speaking chinese).

  Missing the “Sau” (no idea if Sau Lan is one name romanized as two words or two names) feels like a product of ignorance and pretty disrespectful though, yea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poll indicates over 60% of Jews in the US believe Israel has committed war crimes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lots of propaganda. Likely their entire lives. And the lived reality of attacks from hamas over the years to lend credibility to it. It’s sadly not surprising. Whoever controls the flow of information controls the people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taiwan refuses to move half of U.S.-bound chip production to American shores — trade discussion to be focused on Section 232 investigation for preferential deal on semiconductors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it’s about maximum profit. So if they could make more, it’s insane that they wouldn’t. But it might be that profit in the short term was higher by not spending as much money on R&D, and if there’s one thing stock markets are great at it’s incentivizing short term profit over long term viability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True staple of the format⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do both. When it’s not something I pull from memory I’ll say how I found it and also provide what I found. Which isn’t about telling people that they shouldn’t ask, but rather to teach them for when they can’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That depends on whether the person in charge has any. See rupert murdoch, or the red bull owner basically saying it would be great if he could also be like murdoch.

  A company that’s controlled by investors (aka mostly banks trying to get returns) will basically always just chase short term profit though, and that’s most of them.

  To pressure these companies into doing the morally right thing, we would have to pressure the banks, but that seems hardly realistic since shifting your money away from one in response to an event like this is anywhere from majorly inconvenient to impossible, plus there’d be a direct monetary tradeoff that a lot of people either can’t or aren’t willing to take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this every time with gaming lootbox regulations as well. Like honestly, yes regulate it but where’s the age check for buying pokemon cards?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What even is money at this point⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the problem is that having money leads to having more money and having more money also leads to having more power so every system just gets slowly worse for everyone except the rich

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The good thing is that all sane instances can just defederate and we won’t have to deal with them. They can use the software all they want, and we can shut them out from our spaces all we want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Without unions, they'd have us working around the clock⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That predates christianity, judaism already had sabbath. I wonder if that was an original feature when judaism first came into existence or if the concept of a regular rest day is even older.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bucatini and linguine are pretty similar tbf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day - Kyodo News⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Smartphones aren’t the issue. You can access the internet in other ways. This feels very boomer yelling at clouds.

  That said, as a recommendation, sure why not. People do seem a bit too glued to their phones overall. But I don’t think that’s anything new.

  I also don’t know anything about japanese laws, so I have no idea if this is a concern, but anything potentially enforcable that cuts into people’s freedom arbitrarily makes alarm bells go off in my head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always have a good password⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have seen at least two different “BND Überwachungswagen 00x” here in germany as well. The BND is our national intelligence agency (and Überwachungswagen just means surveillance van).

  Always a fan