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- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 1 day ago:
Yeah. It’s the same thing Uber did with pushing cab services out of business.
Not only that, but AWS is the real money maker for them. Not that retail and gaming and prime and whatever don’t also make boat loads of cash, but it doesn’t even graze AWS. The scale of these data centers is unreal and most of the internet runs on AWS.
I’m an industrial electrician with background on what they’re ordering and installing in terms of control panels and if you saw the weekly shipments it’d make you sick. And we’re only one supplier, they have others.
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 4 days ago:
Yeah it was
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 4 days ago:
Hang it up man, jesus. That last game in 2022 looked so cringe and terrible. Like tryin to mix saints row and fortnite. I haven’t played one since SR2 but that’s probably for the best.
- Comment on BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes) 1 week ago:
It took me a couple years to install GoW Ragnarok. I really preferred the first one over it tbh. I only got like halfway through because Atreus got to be insufferable with the marvel-esque “I fight for my friends” type dialogue. Like the first one feels raw, and the story is tight, combat and gameplay is basically the same. But Ragnarok tries to do too much in its story at once it feels like and just has this cringe-y air to it, idk. I only got like halfway through it
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 months ago:
Finally about to beat lies of P.
I grabbed quite a few games on deep sales. RE2+3 remakes, no man’s sky, Detroit become human, planescape torment, oxygen not included
So I’ll have plenty to play over this winter when I generally do less and am cooped up more either reading or gaming or watching anime.
Honestly has been a bit hard to dip into the backlog as even though I’m close to 700 hours in Factorio over 7 or 8 years, it keeps bringing me back to it. I’ve finally set up some good factories on multiple planets. Setting up multiple space travel ships transporting materials between planets is so fun! Once I reach the final planet and research all technologies, I’m gonna take a break for a bit. Then see what the mod scene is like now with space age. This is still my first vanilla playthrough after playing with mods for years since space age was released.
- Comment on Looking for Software to Track Watched Shows 2 months ago:
Why is damn near everything in Chinese?
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 2 months ago:
Both BOTW and TOTK are some of the most well optimized games ever made. It’s truly wild that both those games can be played on what’s basically a suped up smart phone from 2016 and look and play as well as they do.
Unless you’re talking about everything else in the game, idk
- Comment on Countries/Cities without Walmart's/Giant super centers 2 months ago:
I had a great time roving around Tahiti on my way to new Zealand and Australia.
Don’t believe I saw any chain business except a single McDonald’s (which funny enough was packed to the gills)
- Comment on This, a pen, and coffee 2 months ago:
I modded them back in haha
- Comment on Botched structural repair? 2 months ago:
That does sound pretty jank for other reasons but those post jacks being installed long term are incredibly common around here, and yeah they’re only supposed to be for temporary use. I’m more surprised when I walk into a house that doesn’t have them. My house has them and if you look at the floor joists I’d be scared what would happen if you spun them down haha, the joists are all bent and there’s a slight warp in the floor in the portion that don’t have them. It’s a 135 year old home so I’m not really worried about it.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 months ago:
I just mash mod key + backspace on hyprland to kill it haha. Bye mfer!
But also sometimes lately hyprland hasn’t been playing as nice with steam games and my mouse doesn’t interact with the game. The fix I found is to fling the steam client over to the other monitor. Works I guess. Linux problems lol.
- Comment on Why isn't it considered vegan to harvest animals who die naturally? 2 months ago:
Some of my friends were “freegan”. Meaning if meat or something was literally getting thrown away, or if they dumpster dived and found something that wasn’t vegan, it was fair game.
Take that as you will I guess
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 2 months ago:
Hollow knight and silksong are both the best to ever do it IMO
- Comment on The 'if this goes down, I riot' self-hosted app 3 months ago:
One thing I’d add is a whole house surge suppressor.
I saw the power lines arcing to either each other or the bamboo outside our house last week during a bad storm.
A whole house surge suppressor is only like $100, I’m gonna get one soon and install it. I saw it’s best to install it as close as possible to the main incoming power lugs, one lead on each leg of the split phase 120/240.
A UPS will protect against surges but it’s just a good idea with how many appliances and devices have circuit boards in homes these days. Like your furnace, oven, washing machine, game console, TV, etc.
I had an insane surge last winter so it’s a long time coming haha. I woke up and half my circuits were off. I measured 170v to gnd on one of the legs. Power company and fire dept had to show up to fix it.
Power is ehh not great where I live.
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 3 months ago:
Get a OnePlus 13. They’re ~$900 now but that will soon drop when the new model drops, or black Friday or whatever.
No bloat, great specs, a new battery technology that lasts for 2 days for me.
- Comment on 1X Neo is a $20,000 home robot that will learn chores via teleoperation 3 months ago:
Or you could just do your chores and not drop 20k
- Comment on Data Centers Turn to Aviation Engines for Power Solutions 4 months ago:
Some of the biggest data centers are pushing 100 megawatts. When I worked on the solar farms out west, an entire industrial site would be around 200-400 megawatts.
For context, those sites would be powering entire towns. The Blythe mesa solar project is over 2,000 acres of solar panels. It’s bigger than the town. Quite a bit of Las Vegas is ran on solar.
It’s not quite as simple as just sticking panels on the roof of the data center. It also needs to be reliable enough to store the energy so it’s available at night when the sun is down. This is still one of solar’s biggest hurdles.
- Comment on Data Centers Turn to Aviation Engines for Power Solutions 4 months ago:
They fired up an old decommissioned nuke plant in Eastern Pennsylvania to power a Microsoft data center
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 4 months ago:
Or you can just as easily install a Linux distro, because that’s all steamOS is but slightly game-ified. If anything you’d probably have a better desktop experience with a distro built with that in mind.
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 4 months ago:
There never used to be tornadoes in my area. Now there are. With climate change, anything’s possible!
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 4 months ago:
My friends don’t have it set up. Some of them are friends of friends, and people I don’t talk to regularly. I’m not going to try and convert them. It’s also a bit more complicated via tailscale or VPN reverse proxies and Plex “just werks”. If there’s anything beyond just installing an app and clicking an invite, a bunch of people who use my library are going to have a hard time. Like my dad, he’s pushing 70.
I’m also not even sure if people I share with have means of installing. My one friend who uses my library a lot does it through a Samsung TV. That involves sideloading the app to install jellyfin.
Lastly, like I said, music. Plexamp is one of my #1 used apps. There’s a lot that goes into that beyond just being able to play media. It curates playlists depending on what you just listened to or gives you similar artists, similar to how Spotify makes a “radio” after playing something.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 4 months ago:
Something that’s getting glossed over in these comments is the ability to easily watch or listen to friends’ media.
I have my own library with about 1k movies, a bunch of anime and TV, and 10k albums. But I have like 6 or 7 friends with libraries even larger. My one friend has 37k albums, they all have thousands of movies I never even heard of, etc. It really makes it like my own mini streaming service, and I love throwing on a huge music library on shuffle via plexamp while driving to/from work.
I paid like $70 for a lifetime pass years ago, so I’m along for the ride I guess. I really rely on the music aspect of it, I haven’t had a spotify subscription in like 7 gears.
I know they changed a lot lately, and particularly what pisses me off is how vague and intentionally obfuscate how their model works now. I have friends that for years used my library, and recently have been like “I saw Plex started charging now so I stopped using it” and I have to be like “no it’s still free because I have a lifetime pass”. It’s definitely just to trick people into getting monthly subscriptions.
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 5 months ago:
The worst is the stranglehold windows has in the professional world. Shit I’m not even an office worker and I have to deal with ads and now AI just working in the shop and using a PC for Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.
Adobe has been getting really bad too. I shouldn’t have to close like 4 different banners, popups, involuntary AI “summary” suggestions every time I open a PDF. The literal only thing I open on adobe is electrical schematics. It doubt it could summarize drawings exported from AutoCAD and even if it could, why would I even want that? I need to test panels, not have something tell me “this is a schematic”
- Comment on What is the difference between pansexual, bisexual, and omnisexual? How do I know which one I am? 5 months ago:
Does it matter?
When I was a teenager, I used to think I was straight. Now in my 30s, I know I only like men. I’ve been with the same partner for 10 years. At some point I guess I stopped being attracted to women or wanting to pursue a romantic relationship with them. It didn’t happen overnight.
Meeting the right person changed something for me. I wouldn’t get too hung up on labels. Date whoever you want.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 5 months ago:
I bought it on humble because steam was broken. They ran out of keys shortly after I purchased it, had to wait a few hours until they restocked them. They temporarily took silksong off their store during this time.
So gog might be the only one that wasn’t broke
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 6 months ago:
Soulseek
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 6 months ago:
Already did this ages ago. Been building a collection for decades now. I’m pushing about 10k albums on the NAS. Haven’t had spotify since like 2018
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 7 months ago:
Where the hell are you getting 10Gbps for $50/mo? I’m paying $95/mo for 1Gbps
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 7 months ago:
I got some news for you about Australia then.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 7 months ago:
I’m nowhere near as worried about this for kink stuff as I am about us LGBTQ living in the US.