Dudewitbow

@Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  basically what happens when you create and support a housing system whose goal is to make profit. doesnt matter if you yourself plan on living in it, people voted for the system that approved the nonsense of longterm profiteering of a basic need.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Executive Jade Raymond Leaves Studio She Founded⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  i think the funniest part is ontop of bad acquisitions, Microsoft was only able to buy blizzard activision partially because sony had a history of making non PlayStation versions of games inferior to the PlayStation version.

  had Sony actually played fair ball, none of this would have probably happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian Government orders censoring of accounts on X⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  i mean im not saying. im pro Sikh either, but Indias response and justification for the Assassination of Singh Nijjar was pretty fucked up, even if he didnt have the cleanest of histories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sandy Bridge-era motherboard gains M.2 SSD boot support 12 years after launch — first new BIOS in a decade for decommissioned motherboard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  a handful of sandy/ivy bridge motherboards already had community made bios updates that enable said feature. I personally had it on a asus z77 matx pro board as well as a gigabyte h77 board (albeit ivy bridge, same platform)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is nobody mad about TGI Fridays taking the lords name in vain?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  supply side jesus has different rules

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  you dont block off all vpns, the ips proton vpn uses. vpns in china work the same way… not all vons work in china

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  could they theoretically just block protonvpns ip range at an isp level?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel CEO announces layoffs, restructuring, $1.5 billion in cost reductions, expanded return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  they didnt need upgrading because they sat mostly still till amd caught up.

  they intentionally made the consumer platform stay with quad cores for over 8 generations till AMD came around with Ryzen Gen 1 to be remotely competitive.

  theres a reason why 5% per generation was a joke for almost a decade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slate, a no-nonsense EV pickup for $20k⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  well its less it doesnt have a touch screen, the touch screen is an optional purchase.

  the range iirc in some overview is 2 options, one was i think 150mi, the other was 240mi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the NFL draft day so "special"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  preview on the teams potential future.

  its also like a graduation where theyre celebrating the class who basically worked their ass off for at least half their lives to get to that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Really Who watch it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  its easier to sell popular trends than it is to sell something unique. most people (writers included) are followers, not trendsetters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  according to my friend who uses it, some went to 8chan (4chan but can create new communities in the same vein of reddit), and the more extremely ones would go to soyjack or kiwifarms

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Nintendo games were affordable⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  theres also the chance that at least for TTYD, that was a players choice version of the game, which retailed for 20$ new. since its 2006, on the wake of the Wii

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i typically do not have auto correct on because i tend to type on a lot of tech oriented sites which tend to have a lot of acronyms i dont want autocorrected.

  while typing this, i had to correct 3 words.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i typo a lot on mobile because small phone and i tap to text and not swipe gesture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 game-key cards won’t be account- or console-locked⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  outside of the official service, there is actually one other feature that people forget exists, and would be relevent to the resell of the key.

  updating by local user (no not the recently announced game sharing stuff, but the ability to update a game via just being near a device with the update)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 game-key cards won’t be account- or console-locked⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  its worse than comparing it to physical media that has all content on media, but better than display boxes that only has a digital code in it.

  digital key carts are more replacing the latter (which is better) but there will definitely be a few devs who will opt out of physical media storage costs for the key card

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  no, using sony as an example. all sony consoles are hackable despite effort to stop it. nintendo is the same situation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Gintama is even about⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  its a shounen that parodies popular shows, so it can be anything thats reletively popular for its time period.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Switch 2 Rollout Was So Convoluted It Made Us Want A Steam Deck.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  youd be suprised. all of Sonys consoles are hackable, despite efforts to stopping it. willing to guess that another SD express exploit will be found, as one was already found late last year, and the switch 2 is one of the devices that uses it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 pre-orders will prioritise players with the most Switch playtime⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the deck was released during covid, so it was in the best interest to valve to actually sell the device to people looking to actually buy and play games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 pre-orders will prioritise players with the most Switch playtime⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  steam deck afaik only checked if you have ever purchased a steam game to prioritize. as those with new accounts or never purchased a game would be a red flag on whether they actually want the device for themselves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  besides the lower bar of entry due to being free, Midias research has shown that yhr younger generation prefers online multiplayer, and as you grow older, you start yo favor single player games more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Micron just demoed the world's fastest SSD with PCIe 6.x tech, a sequential read speed of 27GB/s, and yes, it's just a prototype for now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the problem at least in the shortrun, is that if you got that many ssds running in single lane on a consumer platform at the likely inflated cost the drives would be, it would almost be cheaper just to get the workstation platform at that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ill try to name things most people havent played.

  I heavily recommend people to try Downhill Domination. think like snowboard kids or mario kart(specifically mount wario or dk mountain tracks) but on mountain bikes. Silly bike combat with soo many side paths for players to try to forge their own way on winning a race.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i actually think its not the worst priced framework product ironically. Prebuilt 1k pcs tend to be something like a high end cpu + 4060 desktop anyways, so specs wise, its relatively speaking, reasonable. take for example cyberpower pcs build here, which is of the few oems iirc Gamers Nexus thinks doesn’t charge as much of a SI tax on assembly. it’s acutally not incredibly far off performance wise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework wants to fix the budget laptop with its first touchscreen machine⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the model clearly was designed around to cut coat corners and imo, meant to partially replace their chromebook line. using the older 13th gen cpu, ontop of having features like a kensington lock makes it sound like its the cheap option for school leasing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  they already announced pricing for them.

  1099 for the base ai max model with 32gb(?), 1999 for fully maxed with the top sku.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework’s first desktop is a strange—but unique—mini ITX gaming PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  its used to mean a new product that you specifically have to keep track of. e. g if you found framework desktops in a store, it wouldnt all be sold under 1 sku. all 3 ram capacities would be 3 different bar codes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft announces quantum computing breakthrough with new Majorana 1 chip⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  qbits in general yes. with traditional computing, a state is either on (powered) or off(unpowered). the fundamental idea of quantum physics, but also quantum computing, is that there are other aspects of an electron that can be measured and changed. which direction it spins, its offset, what direction its poles are etc.

  with more different “states” that an electron can be in that can be measured, you can get that many times more data, per electron.

  so in laymans terms when comparing it to a lightbulb, at a given moment in time you not only care about if the light is off or on, but what color it is, what brightness it is, how hot it is, if its making a noise, what shape its making. fundamentally speaking, having more states means you can describe something faster since youre sending out more measurable data at once.