PieMePlenty

@PieMePlenty@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, price killed PS3 and with Windows, OEM’s eat the cost anyway. If its cheap, people will buy it. MS isn’t making things harder for developers, they aren’t increasing the price of windows, they offer support to orgs, they offer a whole suite of software for them too, they aren’t going anywhere. They’ll lose out some of the consumer market, but thats not where they get their money from anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unremovable Spyware on Samsung Devices Comes Pre-installed on Galaxy Series Devices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I found this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t quest 3 sold at a loss? Selling similar hardware at no loss will present a challenge.
  Though, at the same time, there’s not much wrong with making low quantities of something and selling them at a profit, slowly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s concordin’ time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Price will make or break this thing. Rumors going around its gonna be around 1k which is a tall ask for the listed specs. 500, I’d buy it without any promise of any Valve backed VR game and I’m not even big on VR. For the rumored price, I’d need to see more commitment from Valve and latest news right now are saying they aren’t developing a VR title.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  uh oh…
  hides remote from myself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No good, you touch a button twice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Octopus didn’t memorize shit. They saw fish and went to get them. Security guard don’t give a fuck about the fish tanks, they were at the gate all night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3164: Metric Tip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do car speedometers have miles/hr or km/h?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont see it. Mario is a forever brand that is handled well. Sonic is a forever brand that is handled a little less well, but its hanging on. Ubisoft had a forever brand, possibility with rayman, but handled it like shit. Forever brand is a mascot and something that associates with the company. AC is an open world action game with little relatability between each title.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My favorite memory of the 3ds is probably from playing a link to the past. My worst memory was selling all the games I had for it… no idea why I did it considering the prices for them are insane now. Should have just kept them…
  I still own the XL version and am not letting it go. Still play fron tine to time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Big Short' Michael Burry bets $1bn on AI bubble bursting | LBC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Less risky: sell stock you hold in nvidia or other AI heavy companies. Invest in non AI.
  Risk to the max: short nvidia stock. Each month they don’t crash, your wallet hurts.

  Just know that Burry is more confident in Palantir crashing than Nvidia (considering how much he’s shoring each).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The green tick may give the impression that the game runs just as well on Windows. In reality, there have been issues with CS2 on linux recently. Even though its officially supported, It may look like Valve doesn’t have good enough testing to actually ensure that. I tried it on Fedora KDE with wayland and nvidia and it crashed after one match (if not in the middle of it). Similar issues have been reported on the issue reporting repo. It may be an Nvidia+Wayland issue again (like there have been so many times before).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, Linux is great. I love it. I run a lot of things on it. But it can be a frustrating experience. Simply put, its not a one to one replacement and it will simply not fit into some peoples lives like windows has up to this point.

  My personal experience with linux desktops (some arch flavors and fedora) combined with Wayland and an Nvidia card have been pretty abysmal.
  On prior Fedora’s and Endeavor, I had Firefox crashing constantly, no clue why. Crashes reduced this week with the release of Fedora 43 but its still not stable. This is something I’ve not experienced under windows ever since they rewrote firefox like… 10 years ago now?
  With KDE plasma, its system apps like settings crash. I’ve not had to restart my PC with the physical restart button under windows for quite a while now. But when using KDE, the whole thing freezes and will just not respond.
  I’ve tried playing some CS2 literally today and couldn’t make it through a match without a crash.
  Vendor software for hardware devices (drivers) is missing linux support a lot of the time and while I appreciate open source alternatives, they just don’t cover the edge cases I had. As an example: razer rbg lighting effects stacking is non existent on linux. Open RBG works… but its not good enough.

  I’m sooo ready to use KDE Plasma on a daily basis and really want to, but the stability I want is just not there yet. If you have simple use cases, don’t stray too far onto the edge, possibly have older hardware and don’t need Wayland or don’t use Nvidia, I’d definitely recommend it. I use Mint on my 14 year old laptop just fine, but its got an old ass nvidia card, uses x11 with cinnamon and I don’t game on it. Stable as a rock. I use Debian on my home server and it hasn’t crashed with a 3 year uptime.
  Desktop linux on a gaming machine… I’ve just been disappointed.

  Sorry for the dump. I’m voicing my frustration out of love for linux, not out of hate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Matrix solved this with decentralization and federation. Don’t tell me its not possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, data archival. Now imagine this future: right now, encrypted data transfers may be wire-tapped and stored. When quantum computers are available, all that traffic will be decryptable. This includes pretty much all general HTTPS traffic since TLS mostly uses ECDHE for key exchange which isn’t quantum secure.
  I bet nation state actors are recording everything they can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best "bang for your buck" NUC/Pi setup for Jellyfin/HomeAssistant/PiHole?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Used to run on a pi 4 but moved to a 11th Gen NUC and wouldn’t go back. Well, the pi was nice when I didn’t have any money but the performance boost of just an i3 is enough to not use a pi for it anymore. With headless debian 13, the nuc now draws 5w idle. Seriously low consumption, costs like 10eur in electric energy per year. Pi 4 still found a home for homeassistant +zigbee stack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one bright second⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What a nutter!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.