jordanlund
@jordanlund@lemmy.world
- Comment on I choose hating your job in unconventional ways. 2 weeks ago:
As someone who did 10 years in retail, this is the normal state of any display after being open to the general public for 20 minutes.
- Comment on Is the bards tale (1) really hard or am not good? 2 weeks ago:
I remember cheating.
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Create a party of x characters.
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Give all the starting gold and equipment to one of them.
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Kill the others.
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Create new characters to replace them.
Repeat as needed.
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- Comment on 'Something really shifted': Inside the software company that laid off 40% of its staff 2 weeks ago:
And HAVE been…
- Comment on 'Something really shifted': Inside the software company that laid off 40% of its staff 2 weeks ago:
Speaking as someone on the inside of this right now… Indian subcontractors + AI. They think it can be done cheaper that way.
Meanwhile our 2026 roadmap is blown up because they let go of everyone who actually knew anything. 🙄
- Comment on Spicy spicy 3 weeks ago:
Coins #2 and 3 are too large and need to be moved farther down and now I can’t unsee that.
But you know what’s WORSE?
Mismatched book spines.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 4 weeks ago:
If you’re buying any Apple product on specs, it’s not for you. 😉
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 4 weeks ago:
As someone who had an iPod Touch and a Gen 1 iPad ganked by OS updates, I have serious doubts about that.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 4 weeks ago:
$599 here, but I also live in a state with no sales tax.
But that’s the 256GB version. 512 is $699.
Of course I have 24TB free on my NAS soooo…
Still not spending $600 on an Apple branded Chromebook.
www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/…/indigo-256gb
13-inch MacBook Neo in Indigo
A18 Pro, 6-core CPU, 5-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine
Apple Intelligence
8GB unified memory
256GB SSD storage
U.S. English Magic Keyboard with Lock Key
20W USB‑C Power Adapter
Two USB-C ports, 3.5 mm headphone jack
Support for one external display
OR… OOOOOOR…
$330:
www.dell.com/en-us/shop/cty/…/usedc15255hbtshqzk
Yeah, yeah, fanboys are going to go “A18 Pro” vs “AMD Ryzen™ 3 7320U with Radeon™ 610M”
But on the other hand, 15.6" display vs. 13", 120hz vs 60hz, 512gb storage standard vs 256. 65w charger vs. 20w.
Goose it to the AMD Ryzen™ 5 7520U with Radeon™ 610M and it’s still $570.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 4 weeks ago:
Prediction - eWaste in less than 2 years. It will only live through 1, maybe 2 OS updates.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 5 weeks ago:
I think what PRS is stating is that Valve needs a license for the music to even display the game in their store, which is utter nonsense.
They aren’t claiming the games are infringing, if that were the case with something like Forza, they would go after the game publisher.
It looks like they are trying to say Valve is infringing by having the games in their store.
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 5 weeks ago:
One question:
"On your first computer, how did you open a program?
Load “*”,8,1 ✅
program.exe ✅
Double click the icon ✅
“Program? Is that like an app?” ❌
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 5 weeks ago:
I can’t help but think there’s money in acquiring all these completed assets and coming up with a story based single player game around them.
The creative part is already done! Pop it into a non-GaaS structure and see what happens!
I’d have LOVED to explore the world of Brink and it was set up to be another Assassin’s Creed Assassins vs. Templars vibe… and it all fell apart…
- Comment on Apple Accidentally Leaks 'MacBook Neo' 5 weeks ago:
Wasn’t that also the name of a Microsoft Surface device? 🤔
- Comment on YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science 1 month ago:
- Comment on Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews 1 month ago:
Weird, I recently bought that same phone and did not have that problem. Why?
“Do you want to transfer your files from another device?”
No.
Just no. I don’t need your help, I can do this myself. Previous phone is backed up to my NAS, I can restore what I want from there.
I see a new phone as an opportunity to leave stuff behind. It’s on the NAS if I REALLY need it.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 1 month ago:
It’s definitely a shitty hardware thing.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 1 month ago:
“Now updating, please wait!”
I mean, technically not “down” but not exactly usable either. 😉
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 1 month ago:
Fiber gear is a little different and I’d rather deal with this than the bullshit data caps and price hike games with Comcast. 😉
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 1 month ago:
The dodgy WiFi gear from my fiber provider requires a hard re-set at least once a week. I had to do that just today.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 1 month ago:
And when your Internet goes down, you can’t even work locally.
Genius!
I’m sure CoPilot in the cloud already took that into account though and goes off on all sorts of tangents with the user disconnected.
What could possibly go wrong?
- Comment on Not good if this is a sign of things to come for anything else. 1 month ago:
Youtube link so you can get to the transcript and such:
Sega hired a junk removal company to get rid of dev kits and cartridges as eWaste.
Instead, they sold it to the guy who got raided.
Sega accuses him of buying stolen material.
- Comment on Microsoft has etched palm-sized slabs of ordinary glass into data “books” capable of storing 4.8 terabytes — the equivalent of roughly 2M books or 200 4K movies 1 month ago:
“Holographic Storage” - en.wikipedia.org/…/Holographic_Data_Storage_Syste…
- Comment on Microsoft has etched palm-sized slabs of ordinary glass into data “books” capable of storing 4.8 terabytes — the equivalent of roughly 2M books or 200 4K movies 1 month ago:
Oh, look, it’s the latest mass storage tech that will never be commercially produced!
- Comment on Amazon Wins $6 Million in Damages Against Pirated DVD Stores, Plus Domain Takeovers 1 month ago:
Can it really be an infringement if there’s no physical source though? That’s the question.
Say someone does an online comic strip, I download the images, re-format them for print, and sell a print version.
There is no physical version to bootleg, the only reason a physical copy exists at all is because I put the time and effort into making one.
Same with the “Calvin peeing on things” car stickers. King Features and Bill Watterson could absolutely produce those themselves, but don’t. Watterson refuses to license the character for anything.
At the same time, they also haven’t gone after the people who are producing them.
- Comment on Amazon Wins $6 Million in Damages Against Pirated DVD Stores, Plus Domain Takeovers 1 month ago:
For gaming, lets say you have a title region locked to Japan but someone sells an unlocked pirated version.
Should they be able to sue for a product variant they very well could make but are choosing not to?
There’s the whole “no harm” rule, if they aren’t being harmed by selling to people who are not and never will be their customers…
- Comment on Amazon Wins $6 Million in Damages Against Pirated DVD Stores, Plus Domain Takeovers 1 month ago:
No, but they shouldn’t be allowed to sue for physical piracy on products they do not produce physically.
- Comment on Amazon Wins $6 Million in Damages Against Pirated DVD Stores, Plus Domain Takeovers 1 month ago:
“Since Amazon has never released some of these Prime Video series on DVD…”
It’s almost as if the answer were right there…
- Comment on Designer claims ‘most’ of Highguard’s dev team have been laid off, weeks after launch | VGC 1 month ago:
There’s probably money to be made in purchasing the IP of these failed live service games and using the assets and art to make good single player games with an actual story.
I’d play the hell out of an Assassin’s Creed ish game in the Brink universe.
- Comment on Is the Xbox One X a good console/4k player in 2026? 2 months ago:
Xbox One X is still a better choice than the Xbox Series S.
Let me explain:
It has more RAM than the Series S, so Xbox One titles and backwards compatible titles will run with Xbox One X enhancements that the Series S cannot run.
It has a physical disc drive for backwards compatible titles, DVDs, Blu Rays, and 4K UHD movies. The Series S is discless.
The only downside are newer games that are exclusive to Series S/X, but really, how many are there? Cyberpunk 2077 plays on the One X.
The new Forza won’t run, but the older ones should!
Source: Put the Xbox Series X and PS5 in the living room, moved the Xbox One X and PS4 to the bedroom. Still use it!
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 2 months ago:
Heard all the good things about Disco Elysium and found it on sale for the Steam Deck… Could not stand playing a character with traumatic brain injury. I thought I did something wrong generating the character, no, fanbase assures me that’s the way it’s supposed to be… Refunded it in less than an hour.
