A_Random_Idiot
@A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 14 hours ago:
You’re the kind of person that says gems like “Computers don’t make mistakes, sir”
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 5 days ago:
“we’d rather amputate that entire source of revenue than pay workers fairly”
Oh come now, Its not just about money.
Its about making sure frat boy culture of sexual harassment and assault continue unabated.
- A great video going into details that proved that some people actually cared, even if Todd Howard and the other higher ups didnt.www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 2 comments
- Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake 1 week ago:
If only there was some sort of…blocker… of ads… on websites…
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 1 week ago:
I believe in the majority rule.
Got more standing pissers than sitting pissers? Seat stays up.
Got more sitting pissers than standing pissers? Seat stays down.
- Comment on Croutons are just stale, dry bread with good PR. 1 week ago:
croutons are just stale dry bread with incredible seasoning that taste fantastic*
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 week ago:
mmhmm.
Once you get above a certain value in your bank account, laws stop applying to you unless you do something catastrophically stupid as to threaten the whole scheme, then you’re hung out as a sacrificial lamb to protect the others.
I guarantee epsteins cartel never died. its headquarters just moved, and the leader changed. thats all.
- Comment on Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith 1 week ago:
Which is why their latest generation of cards costs almost a thousand dollars or more.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 1 week ago:
their power and influence wont stop 100 million people breaking down their gates, grabbing them out of their beds, and throwing them into woodchippers.
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 2 weeks ago:
Completely offtopic, but just saying Pollyanna causes me emotional turmoil thanks to the Earthbound Tribute for the 20th anniversary… 11 years ago, which means Earthbounds now 31 years old. .
Which…Combining the tribute, with the fact its 11 years old, just critically hits me for psychic and emotional damage.
- Comment on How to play old CD-ROM games on a modern Windows PC 2 weeks ago:
last time I tried it was Simcity 4, and I couldnt get it to install right.
But I’m not an IT/SysAdmin professional. I’m just a random idiot, so my capabilities with linux… while improving over the years, are still far from useful in most circumstances.
- Comment on How to play old CD-ROM games on a modern Windows PC 2 weeks ago:
Its not exactly easy on linux either, unless you are lucky to find a lutris script specifically for the CD install.
at least in my experience.
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but everytime a company gets sold, they always say a bunch of shit that always ends up being lies.
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 2 weeks ago:
Why is this happening if nothing at all is changing and everything is sunshine and butterflies.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Its Bethesda and Todd Howard, their entire career is built on learning the wrong lesson.
Its just gotten to the breaking point of where its castrophic for the games. the point where even modding wont fix it create interest in.
I remain convinced to this day (aint seen season 2 yet) that the only reason Fallout TV is as good as it is, is because theres enough people in power on the show to basically tell Howards worst ideas and impulses to get bent.
- Comment on Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics” 2 weeks ago:
Trying to get all they can out of the last great tech bubble before total collapse.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
So Linux, “the free alternative to Windows”, needs corporate backing to sell it and make it mainstream?
It does help. Just look what has been achieved thanks to Valve.
And I think the worst thing, the thing holding Linux back the most, is the divisiveness of the Linux community
True, but the linux community is SO much friendlier and welcoming now than it was 20+ years ago. And its getting better all the time as that kind of behavior gets further and further ostracized, alienated, and shut down.
I still remember the amount of toxic hostility and hatred I received from Linux communities in the late 90s and early aughts when i gave my first couple tries to linux.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
Average Joe lives in ignorance and doesnt know enough to care.
and theres also a good chance they don’t care enough to know… until shit hits the fan of course.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
I felt the same way when I switched to Nobara.
it was the fastest, easiest, most hands off install of linux I ever had. and that same kind of stuff carries over into its every day usability. I do precious little thinking of “I have Linux” or “I have Nobara” anymore, I just think “Imma go do X” and immediately do X without issue.
Linux has become absolutely amazing, especially for gaming, in the past couple years… as I said in a previous post, yeah you’ve been able to game on linux for longer than that… but the past 2 years have just been fuckin butter.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
Yep, choice is nice, but everyone and their uncle rolling out distros is excessive as all fuck. Especially when there is precious little that isnt ultimately, deep down, just another flavor of Debian, Arch or Fedora.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 2 weeks ago:
No one wants to use any OS, period.
People just want to use their computer easily, and do what they want with relatively little hindrance or concern. The overwhelming bulk of people, I’d wager, Don’t care about the OS as long as it stays the hell out of the way and isnt obnoxious.
Which is why Windows reigned for so long, because regardless of what criticism you throw at it… Microsoft was amazingly successful at creating a GUI and interface that you could set anyone in front of and they’d be able to figure out basic usage in half an hour with relatively little direction… and, especially in its heyday of windows 7, did an excellent job of just being mostly invisible to everyday use. It wasnt even a thought in your head. Just throw your disc in/download your software, and run. No thought, no worry. Just doing what you need and want to do, without having to think about it or worry about it.
Linux, depending on the distro, is finally getting close to that same place… Where you can just use it without having to think about it to much. Where you don’t have to dig into a terminal and look up command line actions and such. For basic mom&pop email and banking computers, you know…basic web based stuff, Linux has been there for I would say almost a decade at this point.
But for gaming and other stuff? I You’ve been able to do it for longer, but I’d say the past 2 years have just been an absolute golden age of being able to just do stuff without really having to worrying about your OS/proton/etc. The only remaining roadblock that requires you to stop and think at all is to see if the game uses a kernal based anticheat, and thats pretty much the only roadblock to playing a small minority of games on linux, Which doesnt feel like a small minority if those are the bulk of the games you play, in all fairness… But thats not even linux’s fault. Blame the devs for being shady fuckers for it, cause plenty of BIG games out there use regular old anticheat that doesnt have to have full root access to your computer and often does an even better job at stopping shit than the kernal anticheats.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 2 weeks ago:
for now
by the time i can afford it, and a new PSU, the ram issue will probably see GPUs skyrocket as well.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 2 weeks ago:
i really wish I could have eeked out one more GPU upgrade before the shit hit the fan…but GPUs are at the point now where you gotta upgrade the PSU to upgrade the GPU since power draw demands are getting absolutely donk.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 2 weeks ago:
I for one am in favor of throwing the rich into wood chippers.
The rich and their bought and paid for politicians.
- Comment on Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses 2 weeks ago:
Honestly thats my experience with most codes, in general.
Which is why those deal sites that give you codes are ultimately pointless, especially since they started making super specifically regional codes and other excessively extreme limitations that render it useless for everyone but one random guy that lives in a blue barn to the north east of a pig farm.
- Comment on Honey Targeted Minors & Exploited Small Businesses 2 weeks ago:
Oh, another MegaLag video about the honey situation.
Last time this happened, LTT had a psychotic meltdown and sic’d his base on GamersNexus for…reasons.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 3 weeks ago:
Comics were great too. Wish there was more of those too.
There was almost a TF2 show on adult swim, too… I dont remember all the details, I think it fell through cause Valve refused to listen to any input the CN execs had?
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 3 weeks ago:
Hackers have already proven that your webcam can be activated and monitored without the indicator LED even turning on.
If hackers are capable of it, you know the CIA have been doing it for even longer.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 3 weeks ago:
man… I really wish valve would go back and make new Meet The videos… or just TF2 videos in general. The first ones, like Heavy, got so ripped off compared to later ones like the Pyros
- Comment on Half-Life 3 Reportedly Delayed Due to Steam Machine Price, Leak Claims 3 weeks ago:
the orange box wasnt released along side any steam hardware? that i can recall at least.