Cocodapuf
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- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 5 days ago:
I mean, yeah. I’m with you 100%
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 5 days ago:
Yeah, I might accept that.
Actually, I could use a new fridge…
Ok, who wants to pay me a subscription fee to give me a fridge? Get in line, I’ll only be accepting applicants today!
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 5 days ago:
You not only paid for the refrigerator, but also the electricity and the internet access.
That’s a good point actually. You can eliminate these ads by taking it off the Wi-Fi.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 week ago:
Hey, if I’ve offended you, I do apologize for that, it truly wasn’t my goal. But I do strongly disagree (which is allowed).
And I think it’s pretty obvious that microtransactions could never, ever, possibly be more lucrative for Valve than selling games. It’s just a numbers thing. I mean, dlc can sometimes make more money than game sales for some titles, that’s a fact. But Valve has what, a dozen games that they could potentially sell dlc for? That’s a pretty hard limit. Whereas they also make money on every title sold in the store, and there are currently over 10,000 titles available from the steam store. That’s just like, a lot more than a dozen…
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 week ago:
Um, no?
I guess this must be surprising to hear, but it’s just easier to sell content of actual value than bullshit. Yeah… some people will buy bullshit, and yeah, one can take advantage of those people, but having actual products is still a better business model.
But hey, if you’ve got these things all figured out, totally start your own game studio/global digital distribution system. Go make bank on microtransaction garbage.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 week ago:
I mean, they get a sizable cut from the majority of games sold on PC. I think that’s their business model.
I hear you about loot boxes and skins and stuff. It’s just, that has to be a small part of their total profit.
- Comment on Camera Capabilities Unlocked From A Mouse 1 week ago:
The picture isn’t great, but I’ll bet the framerate is amazing!
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 1 week ago:
That’s what I’m hearing. Honestly, I think that checks out.
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 1 week ago:
This is the same reason that harvesting solar energy in space and beaming it down is also a stupid fucking idea. It’s politically problematic. Nobody wants anybody to have giant death rays in space, so there’s effectively no way to get the energy down to earth. It looks like we’ll all just have to rely on all the green technologies that already work.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 2 weeks ago:
Having played Minecraft and No Man’s Sky, I can say that no world is necessarily too big, because infinite is not too big.
- Comment on If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs. 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough.
When given the option “spare him, or kill him”, one has to ask “is he worth XP?”
- Comment on If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs. 2 weeks ago:
A lot of Crusader Kings or assassin’s Creed?
(I think in one of AC games you’re actually doing missions for Machiavelli himself.)
- Comment on If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs. 2 weeks ago:
That many anvils… Maybe that’s wipe out the iron supply.
Though death valley might be an even stranger landscape, covered in the anvils left behind.
- Comment on If video games actually determined our real world behavior, we wouldn't be violent we would be obsessed with powerwashing and all have CDLs. 2 weeks ago:
And I’d be eating readily available street pizza all the time!
“Hey look, someone left a full ham roast here on the sidewalk! I’m bleeding pretty bad, so I’ll go ahead and chow down! Let me just squat over it real quick, I can usually eat a roast ham in 0.06 seconds (assuming I’ve lost enough blood).”
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 2 weeks ago:
I had some of these in my video card back in the day. I was extremely proud of myself for managing to order some replacement capacitors and soldering them in myself.
The most impressive part might be that I ordered the right items. I knew nothing about electronics repair at the time, I just wanted to be able to play World of Warcraft again.
- Comment on An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, it’s hard to figure out what the first step in that chain is. If you want to start up industry in space, great, there are lot of potential benefits to that. But where do you start?
Within the next 50 years I do expect a broad sector of space industry to emerge, but I really can’t predict what the first opportunities might be. Still, we can poke fun at it all we want right now, but I suspect a great many people will be working in space 50 years from now.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 weeks ago:
Ok, so let’s say you’re making dinner and you want to watch something at the same time. Perhaps you’re chopping vegetables on the counter. Do you really want to be looking at the front of the fridge while you do that? If the fridge is against the same wall as the counter you need to crane your head back to see anything, and if it’s on a different wall you need to turn your head a totally different direction. Why not use one of those tablet cases with a kick stand and then put the tablet right in front of you, on the counter? Like right in front of the the cutting board you’re using.
I don’t know, I think if you do anything other than putting it right in front of you, you’re gonna and up losing some fingers instead of chopping veggies.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 weeks ago:
The fridge is also a good location for it, and you’d have to otherwise run a wire across your fridge to power your own tablet.
What? How is the fridge possibly a good location for it? In what world could that ever be true? And do you not have wall outlets in your kitchen? Put your device on the counter!
I mean… what?
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 weeks ago:
But… Do you need the LCD panel? Will the box still get cold without it? Cause I do have a hammer…
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider -SteamDeck 3 weeks ago:
Hah! Well played.
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider -SteamDeck 3 weeks ago:
Wow, terraria looks really different in that screenshot, must have been a huge update…
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider -SteamDeck 3 weeks ago:
Yeah!
New favorite character, Scilla and the sirens
- Comment on Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory 3 weeks ago:
Wow, that’s just incredibly dismissive and rude. And in response to a completely reasonable comment!
Look, forget the whole AI discussion, I don’t care. Here’s the thing, I really like Lemmy. I really like this community and I want to continue using it as a way to have discussions with people about interesting topics. What I don’t want to see is people yelling insults and swearing at any user they disagree with.
Frankly, that behavior is unwelcome. That’s reddit behavior, you can go there if that’s what you want to do.
- Comment on Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product 3 weeks ago:
I’m not talking about how efficient sea shipping is vs flying or driving.
Well I guess that was what made the original statement confusing, because that’s definitely what it sounded like you were saying . I imagine this feels like a frustrating conversation (and I am sorry for that), but it’s probably because of that lack of clarity.
- Comment on Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product 3 weeks ago:
I mean, yes. It isn’t longer enough to make sea travel anything but the most efficient method to ship something.
- Comment on Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product 3 weeks ago:
I just looked it up, it’s a huge distance between Thailand and Argentina, about 17,000 km if you were flying. Going around the tip of South America adds an extra 1000 km, making the trip 5% longer. Meh.
- Comment on Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product 3 weeks ago:
Someone is dropping pennies in the vacuum tubes again! Now the whole thing is jammed and we’ve got cargo backed up all the way to Guam!!
And yes Bob, we all know it was you!
- Comment on Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product 3 weeks ago:
By sea is an extremely direct route, and by land isn’t an option, so yeah, the only comparison left is by air. And shipping by air is less efficient in all respects except time.
So saying this route is especially inefficient by sea is just a confusing statement.
- Comment on Nvidia and TSMC produce the first Blackwell wafer made in the U.S. — chips still need to be shipped back to Taiwan to complete the final product 3 weeks ago:
Longer than what? By plane?
Not not but much…
- Comment on Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory 3 weeks ago:
Wow, way to completely ignore the content of the comment you’re replying to. Clearly, some are better than others… so, how do the others perform? It’s worth knowing before we make assertions.
The excerpt they quoted said:
“Gemini performed worst with significant issues in 76% of responses, more than double the other assistants, largely due to its poor sourcing performance.”
So that implies that “the other assistants” performed more than twice as well, so presumably that means encountering serious issues less than 38% of the time (still not great, but better). But they said “more than double the other assistants”, does that mean double the rate of one of the others or double the average of the others? If it’s an average it would mean that some models probably performed better, while others performed worse.
This was the point, what was reported was insufficient information.