Carmakazi
@Carmakazi@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer 2 days ago:
This has been the status quo for many years. Direct file with the government was released within the last few years, which is what Trump is killing.
Historically, you’ve had to pay someone like Intuit, H&R Block, or a local tax accountant to walk you through filing. Third parties that will all charge you a couple hundred dollars for the privilege, though the big firms will have online filing. You could also file purely by paper and mail, if you’re a psycho (confident that you won’t make audit-able mistakes).
- Comment on pyramid of power 2 days ago:
Human conflict is a ruse to sell more Toyota Hiluxes.
- Comment on Laura Loomer wants ICE to livestream arrests for entertainment: "Make it exciting an show ICE agents tackling Juan and Jesus" 6 days ago:
- It would identify in-progress operations, locations, and personnel numbers, so that people listening in could [REDACTED].
- Comment on Everytime i come across a 3d printing post 1 week ago:
What do you think the net pollution of Luigi’s alleged Glock and suppressor print is, all things considered?
- Comment on We will all be slaves 2 weeks ago:
If “public housing” is a euphemism for a football field-sized lye pit, then sure.
- Comment on White House to Vet Smithsonian Exhibits to Ensure They 'Align With Trump's Interpretation' of US History' 2 weeks ago:
The Smithsonian operates museums for African history and Native American history in DC. I doubt they will fare well in this purge of Degenerate Art.
- Comment on How to make physical PC GOG games 2 weeks ago:
Its slow as shit for whatever reason. Less than 1x speed by its own metrics. There may be a problem somewhere, but I don’t care about speed as much as accuracy and not ruining disks, so I haven’t looked into it.
- Comment on How to make physical PC GOG games 2 weeks ago:
SD cards are one of the most volatile mediums for data storage. Flash memory in general runs the risk of discharge over time. Being powered every now and then can help IIRC.
I’ve looked into long-term data hoarding and found that there’s not too much consensus on the best mediums. They all have their problems. Most turn their noses up at the idea of a set-it-and-forget-it system, preferring laboriously maintained arrays of HDDs. These fail somewhat regularly so they maintain multiple backups and plan/build around that.
I like optical media, but its problems include high cost per GB, taking up significant physical space, the inability to rewrite data, slow speed, and the waning availability of disk drives. Its longevity also depends on the specific technology the disk uses. Some disks are chemically active and the chemicals can break down over time. These can have comparable life to just storing it on a USB drive or something, so I wouldn’t bother with those.
I’ve been using discs specifically made for longevity called M-DISCs. They are supposedly chemically inert and can last for hundreds of years. They’re expensive compared to normal BDXLs, you need a bluray drive rated for burning them, and some people say they’re hokey…their lifetime claim is pretty lofty, to be fair. I also use archival gold DVDs (4.7GB) for smaller files.
- Comment on How to make physical PC GOG games 3 weeks ago:
I’ve recently been burning BDXL on Linux using Brasero and a nothing special LG drive. If you can select the burn speed, do not select maximum, I think that is what skunked the first disc I attempted. It will be very slow, and the UI will appear to freeze, but it does burn successfully after several hours.
I’ve been burning my GOG library slowly in the background and throwing the disks in some jewel cases, and then putting it all in an old ammo can with some desiccant.
- Comment on What a shocker! 3 weeks ago:
Most competent multiplayer games let you form lobbies with your real life friends? Or you can make the occasional friend online?
It’s getting real hard to not make assumptions about your social life with all this, man.
- Comment on What a shocker! 3 weeks ago:
Because people enjoy playing games with their friends?
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds Endgame Expansion Moved Up as Game Suffers From 'Soft' Sales 4 weeks ago:
Base World and base Rise both had quite weak endgames as well. Rise was literally unfinished at launch. It only really takes off as a complete experience once the paid expansion comes out (not title updates).
- Comment on currently descending into madness 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 5 weeks ago:
Certain people really want to know where you are on the totem pole. I’ve definitely gotten some barely contained disdain at formal events when I’ve told people I haven’t gone to full university.
- Comment on Ubisoft Confirms a New First-Person Ghost Recon Game is in Development 5 weeks ago:
I remember playing Ghost Recon (no tagline) back on the Gamecube, probably not the appropriate game for my age.
It was definitely a slower and more grounded game back then, or at least as much as a mainstream game could be back in the early 2000s. And first-person.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That’s most usable explosives from my limited understanding. A small primary explosive charge setting off a more stable bulk explosive, whether that be ANFO or C4 or something else.
He may have already had dynamite, but not a Uhaul full of dynamite. Which would have been difficult and quite dangerous I imagine.
The same losers come by gun stores and ask how to convert their AR-15s into machine guns. Actual police work is difficult I guess, so they go on these fishing expeditions.
- Comment on pocket knife 1 month ago:
Public stories attract ire and inquisitive noses. Having to put together a story (even a shallow lie) also implies that they have an obligation to answer to the public. They would prefer that not be the case, in fact they would rather questioning their work be a crime in and of itself.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
After Oklahoma City I’m pretty sure commercial fertilizer is pelletized with some sort of coating specifically to prevent its use as an explosive.
- Comment on pocket knife 1 month ago:
Legality or lack thereof also doesn’t matter if they’re at the point where they’ll just force-feed you their Glock and throw your corpse into a lye pit in the woods.
- Comment on Algorithmic Sabotage Manifesto. 1 month ago:
Because when people write manifestos, they are often trying to convince the reader that they are highly intelligent more than they are trying to plainly explain themselves. They are usually a product of mania.
- Comment on How are you doing fellow kids 1 month ago:
I think neatly curated propaganda work isn’t quite the same as an internet meme. The Richard Dawkins, Metal Gear Rising definition, perhaps. Internet memes, especially modern ones, have a crude banality if not outright absurdity to them. It’s like saying a funny home video uploaded to YouTube is essentially the same as a theatrical comedy movie release.
- Comment on How are you doing fellow kids 1 month ago:
I imagine Nazi memes would be similarly humorless to normal people, where cruelty is always the punchline.
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 1 month ago:
I was reading it like the big bad government was preventing us from draining ourselves however we please for personal profit, and that’s a bad thing. I am not feeling well and my reading comprehension is clearly lacking.
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 1 month ago:
Is that not for health reasons? Donating twice in a row like that seems like it would take a real toll on you.
I don’t know why that’s dystopian, if anything what’s dystopian is that people are relying on doing this to support themselves at all.
- Comment on choice 1 month ago:
“Stumbled across” yeah
- Comment on wealth 1 month ago:
- Comment on 60% of Teachers Used AI This Year and Saved up to 6 Hours of Work a Week 1 month ago:
Teachers use AI to generate assignments, kids use AI to generate answers, teachers use AI to grade answers.
Yeah, we’re cooked.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 1 month ago:
Your wife is going to be grabbed out of your home and thrown into an unmarked SUV and you will never see her again. And you’ll let it happen because you would rather be a slave to a regime than confront the fact that you’re wrong.
- Comment on Fitness 1 month ago:
I mean this in the most endearing way I can, without a shred of malice.
This is the most autistic thing I’ve read in a hot minute. I can’t help but laugh thinking about the train of thought that led you to post this. Based scalie enjoyer, I guess.
- Comment on Hesitating getting a Switch 2 (1st game console in 15 years)... 1 month ago:
I haven’t powered on my switch in years, but when I used it, 99% of the time it was docked with a TV, so the battery life and screen didn’t matter to me. I would think that’s the best setup for family gaming anyway.
The cartridge/download code is a step down in ownership of your games, but that’s been a lost battle for years. Steam is widely seen as the standard for gaming, and you are only buying a conditional license when you buy a game on that platform, you don’t own those either. This change only really matters if you, personally, rip games from disks/cartridges.
