Dudewitbow

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG launch their Preservation Program to make games live forever with hundreds of classics being 're-released'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  its not that they dont work on linux, its morelikely they just dont test for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just beat Luigi's Mansion for the first time! Happy (almost) Halloween everyone!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i dont think it was that spooky going in blind (except the basement of THAT house I was NOT prepared for and got jumpscared)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the price of real estate rising so dramatically?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  mixture of housing supply shortage, empty homes, fucked investments, a bit of zoning laws, and nimbyism, and airbnb

  housing supply shortage

  younger generations want to live in cities because thats where both employment and “fun” is reletively speaking. the demand is very high for limited space.

  empty homes

  in some areas, there are homes that are completely empty, some due to negligence, inheritance and some just to artificially decrease supply. to put an example, San Jose, CA legitimately has more empty homes than it does homeless.

  fucked investments/nimbyism

  some people see housing as an investment instead of putting it into stocks. the investments keeps proces high because its seen as profit rather than a basic necessity to live. people who own houses will use all their power to prevent more houses to be built because more home lowers procing because of more supply.

  zoning laws

  some places, they restrict building to strictly residential or strictly commercial building. as WFH becomes more mainstream more land needs to be made as residential land. or remove the zoning alltogether

  airbnb

  airbnb gets you more money in popular areas. it takes away a potenial home for a local worker in favor for maximum investments, which is bad for the city, because it circumvents hotel taxes, and takes away potential income tax from someone who would have lived and worked in the area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grr Windows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i mean you still update on your command, its just that you update all the stuff at once, and theres virtually almost always an update at a given time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of the reason why when people were saying they wanted competition to unseat x86, I didn’t want it to be ARM based, because I knew 100% that ARM would jump in and do some shit to rake in more profit and negate all the potential cost savings to the consumer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD’s Ryzen 9000X3D processors, with their fancy-pants cache, are launching November 7th⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  theyre hard to find because AMD sunset production of them. (despite the fact the 5700x3d and 5800x3d is functionality the same chip)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, the mmo at launch was a huge flop, so much so that the newer version of it kind of makes fun of the old world that was destroyed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SSD capacity could quadruple by 2029 — 8Tb NAND will bring big and affordable SSDs to the market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  NAND density is always useful for the ultra portable end, be it used in applications like phones, portable gaming devices, microcontroller boards and such, where space or pci-e lanes is often the limiting factor. when the capacity of nand grows, options become better, as nand usually doubles in capacity per chip.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switzerland authorizes removable PV plant on railway track⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  parking lots would require the government to own said parking lots. its why you often see them at schools (because its government funded)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  think of it similar to consumer examples like adobe products. there are a lot of people/industries toed o it where they can start to charge ludicrous prices

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  thr manifest v3 version is basically ublock origin lite, whoch has extremely limited control of what you can and cant do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  basically the major points of change was launch, then cyberpunk edgerunners clothing dlc patch (1.0 but bigs fixed). 2.0 rewrote some of the games mechanics that dropped before the expansion. and then the expansion was released (which added new endings)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  well its usually not in your basement, but should be outside in a home sized battery cage (similar to those used in parking lots to charge EVs). in a more ideal time period, itll just be another external installment like outdoor AC units. to get there, home energy storage has to get cheap enough so that people installing solar at home also opt for energy storage.

  one of the big problems EV have is most charge at home at night when peak usage is at instead of the most opportune time, which is when the sun is up during working hours. Its why theres a movement to install charging stations at workplace buildings as a benefit to workers (no longer pay for “gas”). If the average home user had a battery wall, then you can just circumvent that problem alltogether.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  not saying they wont be used of course, just less optimal because the size and characteristics of the battery may be less ideal. for example, while salt ion batteries wear level decreases at a slower rate than Lithium ion based batteries, when salt ion batteries go bad, they suddenly stop working (e.g goes from a wear level of say like 60% to almost immediately zero) which is not the ideal situation to be in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Altech’s sodium chloride solid state battery exceeds expectations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  its why their main benefit is cost and safety. for power storage in a standing field or wall density isnt as important compared to for mobile usages (EVs) so sodium based batteries make more sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UBO Lite Pulled from Firefox Store by developer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  iirc the dev claims its more useful for firefox mobile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to the turn based RPG and RTS genres?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  AOE2DE is the 72 most played game on steam currently in reference to RTS, its much higher than several other games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  theres definitely people in there for the long haul, but most people are just job hoppers jumping onto companies paying more till they land into one with the perfect work/life balance for their preferences. Part of the reason why unionization int he programming sector is hard, because most of the people already willingly leave jobs for higher paying ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  FAANG looks good on the resume so people go there with intention to eventually leave for another company willing to pay for FAANG experience. unless you work in a very focused team (e. g Occulus) youre better off jumping companies for higher pay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  anythings capable of it, but the companies behind the (premium) boxes have less of an incentive. While theyre all capable, its a matter if you have trust in them. At least for the Shield TV for example, go download a shield tv rom if you really don’t trust Nvidia. If you are paranoid that they all can do it, than any smart device can do it because its connected to the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this is why you get a separate apple tv/android box and not connect your tv to the internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  its more or less that yes. they saw the money but not the time and effort to get users to use your platform.

  and its not like impossible, as long as you can create games people will play and stay at itll work (e.g Riot), but they legit put such little effort in the launchers that it was creating a negative user experience, and never put in the money to make it better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  a couple of reasons, some being that 1, ip addresses are limited on the internet, and making it free would instantly fill it up. another is that there is still some work involved,because once you register for a domain, internet service providers and DNS providers around the world need to also add your newly established domain to ip to their DNS so that people get redirected to your domain correctly. the domain endings also have a cost attached to them due to popularity and who is allowed to hand them out. e.g country related domains (e.g .kr for korea, .fr for france has their reasons to charge or without handing a domain out, but some countries may get lucky and happen to have a domain thats desirable (e.g Anguilla has .ai) and thus will charge more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50%⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i meam the payment for a domain name is kinda worth it. as well as a functional vpn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish Japan was easier to immigrate to.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  hard to land a job unless you have a job and chose to work in the japanese branch there or have considerably helped japan financially (aka rich). you also must renounce your citizenship with your previous country (which is a huge dealbreaker in cases)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The recent events will probably be the first time that Gen Z and Gen alpha are hearing about 'Pagers'.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Millennials at least had media that were still active that used pagers. For example, any kid growing up with Hey Arnold (1996, the final cutoff year for a millennial roughly), you would get introduced to Big Bob’s Beepers which is literally just a store that sells pagers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Concord Director Steps Down As Studio Behind Historic PlayStation Flop Waits For Sony's Decision⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  battlefields a bit different. battlefield basically nowadays is that the game always launch in a terrible state, and fixes itself a year down the line. battlefield players will play the game regardless and maintains ~6000 user playerbase active

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Biden moves to crack down on Shein and Temu, slow shipments into US⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jerseys and stuff arent usually bought on Temu/Shien but rather DHgate, which is MUCH more niche in terms of Chinese marketplaces known in the U.S. The average person outside of the internet/sporting fandom probably doesn’t know what DHgate is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The $700 PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a disc drive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  basically market has always shown convenience often trumps ownership, music streaming, video streaming, games now. ownership is the vocal minority

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the problem is the covid supply chain ended a while ago and console sales havent drastically picked up since then. the PS5 has been orderable direct from sony for quite a long while now, and shortly after in stores. physical game sales (something console users champion, has gone way down (according to sony, only 30% of their users buy physical now)