jacksilver
@jacksilver@lemmy.world
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 2 days ago:
Gotta maintain the roads somehow. Vehicle and gas taxes mean that only those using the are paying.
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 2 days ago:
Yeah, that’s exactly what I was thinking.
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 2 days ago:
I thought he meant more R&D, but even $1200 would be way too expensive for a console (especially a handheld).
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 2 days ago:
Yeah, I know it would mean emulation, the question is more if they can deliver. Since they state it will work with all Microsoft, Epic, and Steam games. Assuming any of the leaks are right.
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 2 days ago:
I mean choosing Qualcomm means they’re targeting Arm chips, which Intel and AMD don’t make.
It would probably mean a longer battery life, but I’m not sure how that would work for backwards compatibility and power.
If that’s true though, it would really set this device apart from the competition.
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 3 days ago:
Hmm good to know, we have a couple and they seem great so far, but wasn’t sure how others felt.
- Comment on YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick 3 days ago:
What’s the consensus on ceramic pots? They seem to be easier for nonstick and I don’t think they have the same issues as Teflon.
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 4 days ago:
Yeah I missed that when posting. Personally I disagree with you regarding tcgs counting, as many tcg video games end up playing as deck builders (since you develop your deck throughout the game). Especially since that’s effectively what happens with games like midnight suns.
One game though I did think of that is sorta a deck builder and not a rougelite (and not a tcg) would be Stacklands
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 4 days ago:
More traditional boardgames like dominion aren’t rougelites. Also the Pokémon trading card games or Yugioh.
Depending on how flexible with the definition you are, the megaman battle network games are also deck builders (there is “One step from eden” which is a rougelite version too).
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 4 days ago:
Pretty much anything handling unstructed data (audio, video, text) is using training data that has copyrighted content.
- Comment on Robot chefs take over at South Korea’s highway restaurants, to mixed reviews 5 days ago:
Star trek touches on it a bit. Some people definitely still cook in the shows, but it’s almost seen as a thing for special occasions.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Have you looked at the state of the world. I think the issue is your just not being absurd enough.
- Comment on How does Netflix, HBO and other services get their subtitles? Are they now using AI to help translate? 1 week ago:
Just to expand on this.
- Dubs are trying to make the audio align with the scene and mouthing of the actors. So youll get a lot of adjustments focusing on pacing.
- Subs are trying to capture the meaning of the original audio as closely as they can (while making it readable).
Because of this subtitles and dubs don’t usually align perfectly and will have somewhat conflicting content.
- Comment on So excited that Avril Lavigne did come back 1 week ago:
That’s why it takes two days
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
I feel like blufire never got the recognition it deserved.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, if you look at most electronics, appliances, etc. you’ll see where purchasing power has increased. Just not sure why food is one of the things that seems to be going crazy lately with inflation.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The US was on its way to that, until Trump and Republicans decided to trash the entire world economy.
- Comment on Microsoft says new accounts will be passwordless by default 2 weeks ago:
The whole idea is about moving to passkeys, which are like super passwords unique to a device. The face/finger/pin is the second Auth to use the passkey.
Not saying this is good or bad, but msoft does have an faq about passkeys
The major thing I still don’t understand is, without a password, how do you authenticate people who lost access to their device/passkey.
- Comment on Duo 2 weeks ago:
If you aren’t anti Disney it’s a really good movie, I think somewhat underrated.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
For me, it’s worked out for plex. What it offered at the time was more than worth the price and I’ve felt a little bad about it being a once and done payment.
That being said they’ve hurt some of the good will with the changes they’ve made, but also I imagine they’re struggling to find a sustainable path for development.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 3 weeks ago:
Hopefully that means it was worth it!
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 3 weeks ago:
I always wonder how many of these are actually just patches behind the scene to fix viral trends. Or even more devious, they use the viral trends to patch a specific failure point to make it feel like progress is being made.
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages | Official Trailer 2 | Available May 15, 2025 3 weeks ago:
Same, it took an hour or two to click, but once it did it was a lot of fun.
I initially hated eternal, but stuck with it because of how good 2016 was. Glad I did because it’s a blast once you get the flow of things.
- Comment on Sell USA? Why Trump's tariffs may be sparking a historic storm on Wall Street 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think there is any doubt to the why, the US has lost a lot of trust people placed in it, and therefore investments don’t feel safe. I haven’t even heard anyone argue that.
- Comment on Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST 4 weeks ago:
I feel like that’s a hard thing to do. Most of the gatcha games I’ve interacted with hide core game mechanics behind gatcha pay walls.
The real issue in gatcha is that many games require money to make actual progress.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 4 weeks ago:
I appreciate the trust!
Honestly it’s kinda ruined other sudoku puzzles for me. Some of the harder ones could take me an hourish to complete.
- Comment on AMD’s Lisa Su Breaks Silence on US Chips, TSMC Hikes Pricing 4 weeks ago:
Tariffs can work, but they should be targeted and executed in a planned way. Completely decoupling China and US is more likely to break things than fix them.
If you look at Biden maintaining tariffs, export controls on chips, and the Chips act you see a very coordinated and purposeful policy to keep the US at the center of chip design and manufacturing.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 4 weeks ago:
While I’m all for glfree sudoku “Studio Goya” and their series of sudoku apps are more than worth the cost, especially Miracle Sudoku
I know this is a thread about Foss, but they really put some crazy thought into these puzzles.
- Comment on Trump admin proposes redefining 'harm' to endangered animals 4 weeks ago:
There is no one in the US who will benefit from what Trump is doing (besides maybe Trump and some cronies). The only people who seem to be benefiting are Russia and maybe China.
- Comment on Trump admin proposes redefining 'harm' to endangered animals 4 weeks ago:
The long term impacts of Trump and the current Republicans is going to be larger than anyone is estimating. All those tech companies will be hurting in the long run.