PieMePlenty

@PieMePlenty@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one bright second⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The more you zoom out, the more you realize how insignificant we are. I’ve heard a lot of people realized this when they saw “The Pale Blue Dot” photograph of earth, but I had to have the perspective of time to realize it. We are nothing, not even a spit in the sea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it? What gives it away? Text on whiteboard looks suspicious, but it was probably added in post.
  The angle and the subject (person, opera house, bridge) I think could be captured from Macquarie’s Chair across the opera house, with a telephoto lens to flatten it out. But I’m not 100% on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grab your pitchforks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t try it but whatever floats your boat. Who the fuck am I to tell someone what they should eat and like? Matter of fact, who the fuck are you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨See ya.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When lunchtime approached at her usual morning time, Becca waited and waited, still and silent, till the sun set on the calm and foamy sea. She sat waiting in the golden hour sun, stomach churning, wondering why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine has seen some use… but its nowhere near what I was expecting when I bought it. I own it for the exclusives and while I did enjoy them (GT7, Ragnarok, Spider Man 2, Astro Bot, Death Stranding 2), I also think I could have done without them and waited for the eventual PC release. I hope Intergalactic (Naughty Dog) remedies my feeling towards the console, but so far, nothing it’s seen has been generation defining.
  Most probably skipping consoles after this gen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tabletop convection oven ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  More power to them. I love it when I get to use a flame to cook, as long as the fuel is wood or charcoal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tabletop convection oven ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Energy usage is the only consideration for me. It hurts a little when I have to fire up the oven, knowing an air flyer could do it more efficiently. I do use an induction stove for everything else though and that shit is efficient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tabletop convection oven ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true. I own a frying pan and an oven.
  Health benefits don’t really concern me. I’m in no hurry to get anywhere so the time benefits do not apply to me. I never deep fry things. I think I’d sooner buy a rice cooker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get a load of this guy!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What a nutter!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  .NET is FOSS. You’re welcome to contribute or fork it any way you wish. If you think they are committing crimes against humanity, make a pull request.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Readarr alternative suggestions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ive not looked into it so I don’t know what kind of challenges they face. Theoretically, I don’t see where the problem is though…

  The primary input is a users “wishlist” of things they want. Each thing is then compared against a master list which confirms it exists and when it should be available (metadata). This is optional, but offers a more rich experience. Lastly, each thing is queried against a torrent index to try and find it. Its a relatively simple procedure. I guess the only question is whether books appear on these indices or not.

  After a quick glance at the notice on their site, it seems metadata was the problem… or more precisely, no work was being done to move to a new provider. It kinda reads like they lost steam and stopped developing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’ve pirated a game since 2008! Used to be if I didn’t like their price, I waited and bought on sale or used. Now that I play on PC and used games aren’t a thing anymore, I just don’t play it.

  There’s a sea of games out there and If I don’t like the practices of the publisher, I skip them. Why should I engage with their product if they don’t respect me as a customer or share my sensibilities? I’m not a hypocrite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say no to oblivion remaster treatment. Completely new models and environments in a new engine, while running the old game logic.
  Right now it really does look like they remastered it to in 2007 and are releasing it now.
  I think its more sad they’re doing a remaster and not putting more effort into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daily routine for me ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of old youtube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get why they’d be called hallucinations thought. What LM’s do is predict the next word(s). If it hasn’t trained on enough data sets, the prediction confidence will be low. Their whole output is a hallucination based on speculation. If they actually don’t know the next word order, they’ll start spewing nonsense though I guess that would only happen if they were forced to generate text indefinitely… at some point they’d cease making (human) sense.

  LMs aren’t smart, they don’t think, they’re not really AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Incorrect?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3143: Question Mark⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Forgot to close out italics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man I remember this photo. Bought V for 360, beat it and haven’t touched it since. After Gay Tony and The Lost and Damned I waited for a story expansion that never came.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Cars Just Becoming Giant Smartphones on Wheels?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since building an internal combustion engine that complies with the regulation, is fuel efficient and fast is really difficult for them since they lack the century of experience that the other manufacturers have.

  My 2c:

  You’re right they are going to become the EV king, but its not because they lack experience making ICE engines. Chinese vehicles with ICE engines are being sold on the European market and have been sold there for a while now. They weren’t able to out compete other manufacturers on the EU market because other brands have been well established and their lower prices were not significant enough. What I mean is: you aren’t going to disrupt a well established and saturated market with the same product.

  The shift to EV presented an opportunity of equal ground on the EU market, in fact on worldwide markets. Domestic makers were not fast enough to adapt and so Tesla was able to gain a significant portion at the start. Other makers caught up soon but weren’t able to offer EV cars for the same prices as they traditionally did ICE cars. Now you have an unsaturated market with highly priced products. Chinese companies can exploit that. They don’t even have to disrupt any markets, they just need to enter them. Demand is there, supply is lackluster.

  Its also an opportunity for new companies to start up and start picking at the old guard of 50+ year old car manufacturers. This is where you’re right. New companies don’t need to develop an ICE because its complex and difficult, making an EV is easier. Its just ironic the old car companies weren’t able to adapt. Was it their old ways? Bureaucracy? Oil investments? I don’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So anyway, you guys excited for Hades 2?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah… all I wanted was Freelancer 2.
  Then I realized, Microsoft had to step in, get rid of Roberts so Freelancer could see the light of day. And it dawned on me, we’re not seeing Freelancer 2 from this guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its to hype up stock value. I don’t even take it seriously anymore. Many businesses like these are mostly smoke and mirrors, oversell and under deliver. Its not even exclusive to tech, its just easier to do. Musk says FSD is one year away. The company I worked for “sold” things we didn’t even make and promised revenue that wasn’t even economically possible. Its all the same spiel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh classic, punishing paying costumers while pirates don’t have to deal with any of this shit. I guess the beatings will continue until profits increase!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been seeing a lot of posts about replacing Spotify and such, so I wrote up a guide on how I did just that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, been porting all my music to navidrome the past few months and it’s pretty sweet. I like that there are native subsonic apps for most platforms (using tempo on android at the moment) and that navidrome also comes with its own web player to use on the fly.
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  Although my setup is much more simple, just using samba to get files to it and mp3tag to prepare the files if needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨H1 2025: China installs more solar than rest of the world combined⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  According to globalsolaratlas, solar output is among the highest in Tibet.
  China is also known for high voltage DC power transmission over very long distances.
  Are you claiming they’re building solar power stations and not plugging them to the grid? That doesn’t make much sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Metal genres⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like I’m “Its all metal” cause I don’t judge and will listen to a lot of it as long as I can understand the vocals. But I’ll lean more towards the classic stuff like early Sabbath and Dio (both rainbow, sabbath and solo) and if its more modern it just ends up being Iron Maiden (I still love The Final Frontier or Book Of Souls… which are 15 and 10 years old now… fuck me). No idea of any new artists after like 2000 lol. I don’t see myself here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  be me buy new phone, chose android cause I can install anything on it get free iphone from work sell iphone on ebay cause I can install anything I want on my android google doesnt want me to install anything I want

  Fuck me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linkwarden v2.12 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new features!) 🚀⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually don’t! I’ll check it out if it fits my needs. Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linkwarden v2.12 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new features!) 🚀⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do host an instance of it but rarely use it. I’d love to see more in depth archival features like deep link archiving and archiving resources behind authorization. My use case is more archiving than bookmarking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Run? Probably. Work flawlessly? Questionable. It needs to be built (as with every OS update) for every specific device. The developers only do builds for pixel devices (faq). You can take the source and build it for your device. I have no idea how you’d even begin to do that or what that would entail, but most probably, you’d to be able to add drivers for things like fingerprint sensors or cameras unless you are ok with losing access to some functionalities.

  My understanding is that phones are hard to support with one “do all” operating system. Thats why all manufacturers take AOSP and modify it with their own code - specific to each device and make builds for each. A bit different mentality to what we do on PCs, where one build of an operating system will just work everywhere.