Lemming6969
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- Comment on Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN 2 days ago:
Physical versions only have value of they are complete and relatively bug free, and originally purposed to avoid big downloads.
Nowadays day 1 patching may be the same size as the install or larger negating half the point. The other half is lost because almost everything is a subscription, multi-player, or delivered with too many bugs as a beta test.
Collecting physical copies is a thing, but is niche.
- Comment on Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won 2 days ago:
Usually the lawsuit itself isn’t considered damages. Maybe in this case he was awarded something, but usually it costs a ton. You get what you sued for awarded, but often nothing else. At 20 hours for self service, which isn’t possible for most people to deal with properly, you’re in for at least that plus cost appearance fee… Maybe 500/hr from a lawyer all in starting… 10,000 minimum. This guy got his out of pocket costs covered and probably not all of them, but nothing for time.
- Comment on Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won 2 days ago:
Wonder how he got this done. Hiring a lawyer and setting this up and going to court can cost tens of thousands of dollars.
- Comment on YSK that Elon Musk now hates California. He lives in West Lake Hills, Texas. He loves to visit Austin. 1 week ago:
Can save 1m at 500/month with historically decent/good returns and 750/month with bad returns in 30 years.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 1 week ago:
Raw dollar value means nothing if it’s not tariff and inflation adjusted. Report total pieces as well.
- Comment on My Religion 1 week ago:
The first is how many think it works, but it’s just a ruse. It’s always the second, and religious magical thinking always results in social positions and votes that are damaging and regressive.
- Comment on Dead mosquito proboscis used for high-resolution 3D printing nozzle 3 weeks ago:
There is no way this is more viable than a manufactured micro needle, nor scalable.
- Comment on xkcd #3167: Car Size 5 weeks ago:
Should have to register them against a business or something that is licensed for truck use… Then let other people rent them.
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 1 month ago:
This was always the case. Most people couldn’t Google factual info previously either… I’d almost be willing to argue the rate AI is wrong might actually be less than the previous rate… But it’s also possible AI being fed presupposed answers embedded in the questions combined with prevalence of disinformation farms + no scientific consensus truth authority could lead to an ouroboros effect, greatly amplifying bullshit seekers and magical thinkers over time.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 month ago:
People are legit sitting 15+ feet away and thinking a 55 inch TV is good enough… Optimal viewing angles for most reasonably sized rooms require a 100+ inch TV and 4k or better.
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 2 months ago:
I’ve become massively hardened to online discourse. I don’t need to block users when I can just ignore and not need to get the last word in. I know this is an incredibly rare ability, but I just wanted to entertain the idea here that there are alternatives.
The exception could be for discoverability. If garbage trolling spam overwhelms your front page, then it’ll be too time consuming to wade through it… So blocking entire communities makes a lot of sense in this case.
- Comment on Do you think The Boys is an accurate representation if real people had superpowers? 2 months ago:
This is one of the only issues I have with the show… Homelander’s leash appears to be super hamfisted in, or in general it makes little sense why corporate has so much control with so little relative power. Lots of people in that world have powers, and it would be total anarchic chaos in reality.
- Comment on This is art 2 months ago:
Everyone was once a child
- Comment on If reincarnation exists, you could do the same thing the next life and have no memories of it. Think of all the bad things that happened to you, it can happen OVER AND OVER AGAIN! 2 months ago:
If it is, then it already is, so your experience wouldn’t change from how it already is, which you’ve already been through… So the concept that it’s worse (or any different) to go through again ends up being moot.
- Comment on Nasdaq Seeks Nod From U.S. SEC to Tokenize Stocks 3 months ago:
Prevents naked short fraud and manufacturing shares that they can locate at a later date.
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 5 months ago:
Maybe with a schema that allows a one time verify, and then churns your entry. If that verify occurs upon entry synchronously at the time you vote, if possible, that’d be no less safe than the paper ballot you feed into the machine.
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 5 months ago:
No different than how it’s recorded today. We can improve from there but it’s not worse with the upside of a public ledger.
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 5 months ago:
This is the exact use-case for a blockchain, a public immutable ledger where you can validate your vote, but nobody can tie it back to you.
- Comment on Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers 5 months ago:
You mean 4 and 6
- Comment on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach | Review Thread (92/100 OpenCritic) 5 months ago:
I see a 7/10 in there that seems the most honest.
- Comment on Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks] 5 months ago:
It requires drill down now and doesn’t list visits on the location itself which is a huge negative.
- Comment on WomensStuff has moved.... 5 months ago:
There isn’t, because you cannot prove a Lemmy user’s gender to enforce this. You can only moderate the content.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 5 months ago:
How about blocking this nonsense on Xbox? Need a pi hole yes?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Why no social connections? Best thing to do is to externally connect and have things outside the confines of your current unhappiness.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
This is the correct answer in any single chain deterministic universe… It always happened just like that.
- Comment on Governments continue losing efforts to gain backdoor access to secure communications 6 months ago:
There are certain kinds of rules and discoveries that society can make that they must defend by making rules that eliminate anyone that dares bring the adverse ruling up again. You want slavery and propose it back into law? Society kills you for that.
- Comment on There are people who are still using toilet paper purchased during the pandemic. 6 months ago:
Correct despite downvotes
- Comment on Oof 6 months ago:
Then fix the interest rates. Set them to 0% and do a mandatory income based repayment with a subsidy reduction from the graduating institution to incentivize them to help place graduates in better positions. If you hit the institutions with non-placement claw-back fees they will help.
- Comment on Meditation is like drugs but better 7 months ago:
You have a medical problem, possibly schizophrenia, get help. Meditative thinking does not produce any of this for a normal person.
- Comment on California Bill Would Require That AT&T And Comcast Make Broadband Affordable For Poor People 7 months ago:
That’s what taxes and public utilities are for. Convert them.