jacksilver
@jacksilver@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11 6 days ago:
Most of that is sadly how they operate, but S mode is for corporate/school settings and isn’t the default install type.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
It was the best selling console in the US this holiday season, but not sure how it’s sales compared to previous years. It also was on a big discount which definitely helped.
- Comment on Jet Set Radio Future on PC? It's not a guarantee, but a new project may lead to such a, well, future 1 week ago:
The article is about Jet Set Radio Future, which is the sequel to Jet Set Radio.
Before this article I don’t think I knew these were two different games.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I figured that hadn’t changed, but was too lazy to actually look up the source, thanks for adding it.
However, with box64 you can emulate x86_64 on arm, however I think macs don’t have the gpu integration. Crazy thing is on some phones with snapdragon chips you can emulate games up to cyberpunk 2077 decently well.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think bazzite runs on ARM macs.
- Comment on 'Backtracking Development Again Was Out of The Question' — Nintendo Says Metroid Prime 4's Open World Hub Was a Victim of The Game's Lengthy Development 2 weeks ago:
To be honest I think BOTW has had a negative effect on Nintendos approach to game design. While BOTW had its highlights, TOTK doubling down on a very large empty world without real dungeons got boring fast.
- Comment on Why You Should Never Use Pixelation To Hide Sensitive Text 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, if I’m making something “masked/obscured” I should export it so that it’s in a raw format. That way there is no Metadata or information that could be leaked by accident.
Think of the Trump Epstein files, in those they kept them as pdfs so you could just unhighlight the redacted sections. If they had export it as a jpeg/png you wouldn’t be able to extract any information.
There are ways to remove the content from a pdf, but as we’ve seen, that leaves rooms for errors.
- Comment on Why You Should Never Use Pixelation To Hide Sensitive Text 2 weeks ago:
If the image/video just has black pixels on the content, then there would be no information to extract and any attempt would just be filling things in.
When you talk about layers, you’re assuming that the creator left information behind in the Metadata, which wouldn’t require AI to extract.
- Comment on Ska ftw 2 weeks ago:
D&D: world is broken let’s adventure
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m probably biased against it cause it didn’t click for me when I watched it, but I don’t think it holds up. It does seem to kinda set in motion the emotional angst that many other anime followed later on and started the trend of “everything is actually symbolism for God and what is the meaning of ‘humanity’”, but I’m not sure either of those tropes were ever really handled well in anime (full metal alchemist, Tri-Gun, etc. for example all get a little heavy handed by the end).
That being said, you won’t waste your time watching it. It is a complete and thought provoking story and is referenced in a lot of pop culture. It just might not be your favorite show.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 3 weeks ago:
I mean if you back to the Greeks and Roman’s, they also had some big payouts for sporting events.
- Comment on BLEACH: Thousand-Year Blood War Part 4 - The Calamity | Key Visual 3 weeks ago:
The brought it back a couple years ago to do the thousand year door arc (which I think is the last arc of the Manga).
- Comment on The events at hogwarts were just an escalating series of magical school shootings 🤔 3 weeks ago:
Looks like it - animesuperhero.com/mashle-magic-and-muscles-seaso…
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 3 weeks ago:
Nice breakdown, I’ve seen a couple people commenting that are missing the fact that quoting a personal religious belief isn’t the same as empirical evidence to back up an arguement.
Not to mention it feels more like the student was just trying to personally attack the TA.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 3 weeks ago:
They called out multiple reasons why their response didn’t rise to the standards of an empirical analysis. Making up your own philosophical reasoning (that isn’t even consistent within the paper submitted) for a sociological analysis means that the paper contributed nothing to the topic at hand.
For a college level course, you shouldn’t need to explicitly state that a mythos can’t be used as empirical evidence.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 3 weeks ago:
That’s definitely fair criticism, but its sad that bringing in their boss should be necessary in a situation like this.
- Comment on The events at hogwarts were just an escalating series of magical school shootings 🤔 3 weeks ago:
You should check out Mashle, it’s basically a parody of your typical “magic school” anime where the main character can’t use magic and literally just out muscles everyone.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 3 weeks ago:
I’m really impressed by the grader’s response. They didn’t just fail her for not doing the assignment, but broke down why and how her rhetoric is flawed. The fact the school couldn’t stand behind this clear and concise feedback just means that Oklahoma doesn’t really care about the quality of the work done at their school.
- Comment on Trump-appointed board renames Kennedy Center to 'Trump Kennedy Center' 4 weeks ago:
They’ve apparently been struggling to fill the theater and have been having numerous technical issues due to bad decision after bad decision:
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 4 weeks ago:
Honestly with that small of a sample size those numbers could mean anything.
Wed need to know things like:
- How many hours worth of new game content was released (maybe there were only enough new games to make up 20% of playtime)
- How mich do Games as a Service impact things (they get new content, but aren’t “new” games)
- Are people playing games more or less (people could be playing new games the same amount, but increasing the amount of hours playing old games)
A small sample of averages is really hard to interpret.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 4 weeks ago:
That’s just how the article phrased it, surprisingly it’s hard to find historical “Steam Replay” stats so it’s hard to confirm/expand on any of this.
- Comment on Player awards 4 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 4 weeks ago:
That percentage only matters in comparison to previous years, otherwise it’s just a random number.
While the article doesn’t give a lot of info, it does say it’s only down 1% from last year.
- Comment on Player awards 4 weeks ago:
I’m not even sure it’s a “horny” game, but just looks like generic free to play anime rpg. Seems even reviews are pretty mild for it, but it apparently has a more leinent gatcha element (although any gatcha is a non starter for me).
It is however made by a Chinese company, so that may be why it got the “popular” vote.
- Comment on what do y'all use for CI/CD? 4 weeks ago:
I had someone swear to me that Github templating was better, but I’ve only worked with Gitlabs templates. Why do you like Gitlab over Github?
- Comment on Finally, Common Ground... 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, people always seem to forget that it’s about what you can purchase, not the $ amount. Similar to living in a city vs a rural area, the cost of food/housing varies widely even in the same country.
- Comment on Are there any sub-$200 handhelds out there that smoothly run Game Cube games? 4 weeks ago:
If you have specific games in mind you can check out this site emuready.com. That let’s you filter by device or cpu to see how well games play, sorta like ProtonDB for Linux emulation.
I think the biggest issue is, are you looking sub $200 before shipping+tax or after. For example I think the Retroid Pocket 5 is supposed to handle gamcube pretty well, but thats $200 just for the device.
- Comment on Why are famous chefs fighting PFAS bans? 5 weeks ago:
This is why I don’t think Newsom will make it through the primaries, he likes to talk the talk, but rarely actually backs it up.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I was going to ask how this is different than a Reinforcement Learning algorithm but then they called out Deep Minds Alpha-Go
- Comment on builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers 5 weeks ago:
It says they’d been tricking investors for 8 years, we’ll before ChatGPT. I assume they overpromised in the early years, leveraging labor as a “stopgap” for the developing AI. Then things eventually caught up and they couldn’t deliver, leading to the current situation.
Eight years is a long time, so who was “duped” when can really change the narrative of the headline.