Passerby6497

@Passerby6497@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  AssCreed4 is the best game of the series. Black Flag’s combat was great and the ship combat keeps me coming back to the game years on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watching passport bros get bodied by SEA women is a complete mood. Get rekt manlet.⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  A sex tourist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interview⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was somewhat horrified at the stuff your mother let you read before I remembered her dirty stuff is under a pen name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The worst feeling of my life:My vacation is ending tomorrow⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I see where you’re coming from, I need time to decompress and just do my own shit, so running the fam around and getting needed errands done was just more work vs actually refreshing my mental state

  Burnout fucking sucks and getting recharge times stolen absolutely matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The worst feeling of my life:My vacation is ending tomorrow⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s rough. I took a “mental health” day that got turned into a day of running errands, so guess who basically worked all through their mental health day?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s X Still Down in Brazil After Company Sends $5.2 Million Fine to Wrong Bank⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  "Why do one thing well when you can be bad at everything instead"

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

  This isn’t nearly that dumb, because the train isn’t actually riding directly on top of the solar cells.

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

  Yeah, I’m definitely not the biggest fan of HCI, especially the reporting aspect of it. I had to write my own damn reports just to see how badly we over provisioned disks once we found out it only reports on actual utilization.

  I tolerate Microsoft products and admin them, but damn they’re annoying to use at times.

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

  They also offer the Azure Stack HCI platform, which is the modern version of hyper-v, but goddamn is it a pain in the ass (and requires active connection and subscription to azure for onprem workloads).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm going insane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh, I don’t know that I would have put subnautica in that category, but I can see where you’re coming from on that one.

  I might check out life is strange, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm going insane⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What are some good games like that? I’m not a big fan of the jump scare horror games, so I tend to ignore most horror games on principle, but the genre is still fun when I find a gem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not even Google Lens can scan it

  Might be you, I just used lens to check the QR code man and it detected it just fine on my pixel 8.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You'll have to use pto time to drown, but make sure it's approved first⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck fighting my unemployment when I tell them I got fired for keeping myself safe in a natural disaster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do our brains process reality? I heard our eyes were just low-res cameras and our brains were doing all the heavy lifting in 'rendering' reality.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s actually how a lot of video codecs work, they just throw a key frame in every so often that has the full image so you can just do diffs for the rest of the frames till the next key frame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I came to the same realization about my audiobooks through audible, so I’ve archived my audible account and now they can’t take my books :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink kit found amid wreckage of Russian drone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but then he wouldn’t have an excuse to hide behind while supporting Russia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk’s X blocks links to JD Vance dossier and suspends journalist who posted it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a better link that actually works

  kenklippenstein.com/…/read-the-jd-vance-dossier

  No idea where the other person got their API link

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨XPipe - A connection hub for all your servers - Status update for the v11 release⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking over your licensing model, I noticed this

  The following systems are classified as enterprise operating systems within XPipe and connections to those systems are only possible starting from the professional plan:

  • Windows Enterprise systems

  What do you classify as an ‘enterprise’ system? Is that any server OS, or just like a datacenter license or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I designed a cardboard cutter that turns boxes into free cat scratchers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess what this product is without looking up what it is!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hair product

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2real4me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And then you give it more and more information, but it keeps giving you the exact same answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Check your local mom and pop hardware store if you have one! I had to get a feeder hose this summer as well, and the only place I found it was a local family ownedhardware store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'let me show you the nether before bed'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, nice smasnug!

  It took me way longer than I want to admit to decipher this lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Very thankful⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s not impolite to kink ask why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some people are in to Deep⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s called a bidet, and it’s classy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Regain Control in my ass⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heh, that was in my most recent playlist too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Regain Control in my ass⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy flaming hammer of unholy cosmic frost in my ass

  Or, my favorite option from my most recent playlist: In too deep in my ass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sorry, grandma⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a great anime, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. That being said, prepare yourself because it will be a very emotional tide once it really gets going. I rewatch it every few years but I still make this joke to my friends when I do:

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  I still need to watch the rebuild series…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we return to techno-optimism?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These are loans. And making them attractive with cashbacks and rewards is done to trap unresponsible spenders

  I am aware, which is why I specifically said

  This is bad advice for anyone with good credit and spending habits.

  For people who aren’t irresponsible spenders, it’s a bad financial decision not to take the short term bank loan. Sure, I don’t need to spend the banks money because I have enough in my checking account to cover it. But by not doing so, I lose money on any transactions that don’t charge me a fee to run my card.

  If you’re not responsible enough to use a credit card and not destroy your finances, absolutely do not use them. But for those of us who are, it’s a dumb idea to eschew it just because you have the money on hand. Like I said, I haven’t paid interest in a decade and have made thousands from my normal spending habits.

  If I followed your advice, I would be objectively worse off, because I’d be losing money from my rewards for no benefit whatsoever. And I can guarantee I’d be materially worse off, since my credit card is the reason my credit is as good as it is, and that bullshit has a pervasive and perverse effect on your life. It’s not only loans that are impacted, but insurance, housing and employment can be as well. So maybe I should have left good credit off, since responsible spending will build your credit up even if it is bad currently.

  TL;DR - responsible credit card use is a good thing, and foregoing it just because you have money on hand is a bad financial decision. Pay that shit off immediately and there’s no material downside and you still get all the benefits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we return to techno-optimism?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t pay by credit card.

  This is bad advice for anyone with good credit and spending habits. A credit card with rewards is just free money if you’re responsible with it. I haven’t paid interest in over a decade and have made thousands from rewards.