Peffse
@Peffse@lemmy.world
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way [17:59] 2 weeks ago:
It’s not drama, I’m just surprised is all. He’s usually very good about his accuracy, so when the entire premise is wrong I would have expected him to retract the video instead of leaving a comment someone can miss.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way [17:59] 2 weeks ago:
It’s a pretty big mistake, though given it’s his second (casual) channel it is very low stakes.
He can’t posit that re-releases are being done on single layer DVDs to save money, but use bootlegs as proof. Bootlegs aren’t a DVD release done by the distributor. That’s a pretty fatal flaw in logic.
It’s the equivalent of “Steam games are getting re-released in a weird way” and linking to Pirate Bay torrents, and the entire video is about how cheap games have gotten since they don’t have Steam features like achievements and cloud-save.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way [17:59] 2 weeks ago:
I’m surprised this video is still up, since the entire premise is false. They are bootlegs he bought off ebay, not official releases.
- Comment on Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT 3 weeks ago:
Not sure if it’s the one you are referring to, but AI gave discounts on flights.
- Comment on Ultra-rare unreleased Pentium 4 with 4.0 GHz clock speed discovered — CPU-Z confirms it is an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980 3 weeks ago:
I think in this case “confirm” just means it is a second source saying it is a 4GHz Pentium 4. The first source of that information is just marker written on the CPU and thus considered less reliable.
- Comment on Ultra-rare unreleased Pentium 4 with 4.0 GHz clock speed discovered — CPU-Z confirms it is an Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 980 3 weeks ago:
Back when I had my Intel 3GHz Prescott working in tandem with the dustbuster Nvidia 5900XT, I honestly didn’t need to turn on the heat during winter.
- Comment on Microsoft Appears to Have Quietly Ditched the 10% Xbox Game Pass DLC Discount — Including for COD Points 4 weeks ago:
There was an /s missing.
Basically, xxce2AAb is asking why Microsoft PR is not trying to spin this as a good thing.
- Comment on SSDs for long term storage 4 weeks ago:
Burned optical media shelf life can be as little as 5 years, so I don’t think it should be recommended for long-term storage.
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 4 weeks ago:
Don’t want to ruin the fun but he missed an apostrophe in the sentence. His stuff is in the back of the garage. “mine’s at the back of the garage”
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 4 weeks ago:
Easily defeated by those who play Minesweeper.
- Comment on [Whitelight] You Don't Hate Remasters Enough 4 weeks ago:
If somebody told me these graphics are 16 years old, I wouldn’t believe them.
- Comment on [Whitelight] You Don't Hate Remasters Enough 4 weeks ago:
I recently played Final Fantasy XIII on Xbox Series X. I was amazed at how great it looked when output at modern 4K with 60fps and 16x anisotropic filtering. The gameplay was still crap, but amazing to look at given it was on 360 originally.
Because of that experience, I am a little more forgiving for 360/PS3 generation. Those games were mostly running 720p frame buffers (or worse) and seriously gain a lot when given some shine.
(This completely ignores the fact that PC would naturally have these abilities without an additional purchase)
- Comment on Public toilets in China demand ad views for loo roll 5 weeks ago:
The advertisers demand to view any generated log.
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 5 weeks ago:
I know the headline references it, but it’s amazing how much it looks like Invisible War.
- Comment on Indeed updated terms: Forced Arbitration & bundling of consent 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know about this agreement, but of the ones I read: They also have a mass arbitration clause, where if a threshold of people arbitrate you automatically get grouped into a class so the company doesn’t have to pay nearly as much.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 1 month ago:
do people actually buy those? I honestly thought they were some kind of money laundering thing. I’ve never once saw one sell.
- Comment on Fata Deum, a god game where you have convert citizen living across an island to your faith, released in early access on Steam. 1 month ago:
Wololo
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 month ago:
I don’t know if it changed, but when I started looking around to replace my set about 2 years ago, it was a nightmare of marketing "gotcha"s.
Some TVs were advertising 240fps, but only had 60fps panels with special tricks to double framerate twice or something silly. Other TVs offered 120fps, but only on one HDMI port. More TVs wouldn’t work without internet. Even more had shoddy UIs that were confusing to navigate and did stuff like default to their own proprietary software showing Fox News on every boot (Samsung). I gave up when I found out that most of them had abysmal latency since they all had crappy software running that messed with color values for no reason. So I just went and bought the cheapest TV at a bargain overstock store. Days of shopping time wasted, and a customer lost.
If I were shown something that advertised with 8K at that point, I’d have laughed and said it was obviously a marketing lie like everything else I encountered.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 1 month ago:
Wasn’t always the case (I think it changed within the past two years), but upon doing research on when it changed I stumbled on this gem.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure that was implemented a while ago. My install of VLC from F-Droid started showing up in Play Store’s update list.
It couldn’t update since the signature didn’t match, but Google knew about it and included it anyway.
- Comment on PSP games that are enjoyable without the nostalgia-factor 1 month ago:
PSP’s store closed a looooooong time ago. Used to be that you could purchase stuff from the PS3’s store and use a USB cable to transfer the license, but after Sony enabled 2FA that route closed as well.
- Comment on A List of Open Source Game Clones 2 months ago:
I wonder if there is anybody out there insane enough to make a project like FreeDOOM.
- Comment on What’s the best written Pokémon game? 2 months ago:
Is there any reward for the classroom stuff? I completely skipped it thinking it was all tutorial.
- Comment on What’s the best written Pokémon game? 2 months ago:
I don’t recall any choices that mattered. They are all fake choices like “Do you want to be rivals: yes/no” and choosing no just repeats the question.
I only singled out Arven because his character started out kind of bratty and my opinion of him flipped completely by the end of the game.
- Comment on What’s the best written Pokémon game? 2 months ago:
Sw/Sh were a real low point. They boiled the story down to “Let the adults handle it” and left you just running between gyms the entire game.
It’s honestly been too long since I’ve played the older games to judge their writing… but I did play Scarlet recently, and have to give props to Arven’s storyline. It is a shame the game is at Resident Evil 6 levels of unfocused, and brain-dead levels of easy.
- Comment on The industry filed false claims against the "Stop Killing Games" initiative | Accursed Farms 3 months ago:
because it’s a split from his normal monthly update video where he is supposed to be interacting with his channel members.
He’s already fighting the fight, no reason to give him more work. :P
- Comment on Like clockwork, Peacock is raising subscription prices again 3 months ago:
I get my media from the local library and buy the ones I enjoy.
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini on Android — and why you should 3 months ago:
This combo even got rid of something that was ADB blocked in Android 14.
- Comment on Microsoft's real problem was never PlayStation 3 months ago:
I feel like Microsoft was their own enemy. They kept slicing off small portions of their market in pursuit of vendor lock-in. Now there is nobody left supporting them.
- Comment on Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices 4 months ago:
I wish it covered how they went from selling cards giving time for PS+, to requiring mismatched currency cards for PS+.
