Aphelion

@Aphelion@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened with active users on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy.world becoming the default Lemmy instance, and it growing to outsize all other instances is a danger: it makes the Fediverse centralized, easy to take down and easy to take over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the long-term sales of the games you just cited is at odds with your opinions. Bethesda has made a name for themselves at this point with janky, bug-riddled games that excel at giving the players a feeling agency. At this point that is Bethesda’s brand image and they seem to be just going with it. Like why would they bother spending more money to fix bugs and exploits that have become a signature to a lot of people? Also it’s costs them less to leave their titles unpolished and let the modders fix it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The NSA Has a Long-Lost Lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  VLC can play analog tape?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baidu: Driverless Car Hits Jaywalker in China⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They were suspended last year. nytimes.com/…/cruise-driverless-san-francisco-sus…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baidu: Driverless Car Hits Jaywalker in China⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you just look a pure numbers, sure, you can make it sound good. When you go look at the types of accidents, it’s pretty damning. Waymo and Cruise both have a history of hitting parked cars and emergency vehicles. Tesla Autopilot is notorious for accelerating at the back of parked emergency vehicles.

  The issue is not the overall track record on safety but how AV accidents almost always involve doing something incredibly stupid that any competent, healthy person would not.

  I’m not personally against self driving cars once they’re actually as competent as a human in determining their surroundings, but we’re not there yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baidu: Driverless Car Hits Jaywalker in China⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see you’re not familiar with the trend of autonomous vehicles hitting pedestrians and parked cars. They’ve been completely banned from San Francisco after many, many incidents. So far their track is inferior to humans (see Tesla Autopilot, Waymo, and Cruise), so you don’t need to worry about perfect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arthur Is A Piece Of Shit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet another hilariouschaos troll community to block.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  PFAS will render us unable to reproduce, while at the same time the ecosystem will collapse to the point we can’t feed ourselves. It’s already begun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Q: Do I need Geforce Experience to make use of "Game Ready Drivers" (Nvidia)?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The new Nvidia App beta is available and it’s much better than Nvidia Experience, including that it doesn’t require sign in to an account. That said you don’t “need” it, but it does have a much better settings control panel that the normal Nvidia settings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 players rally around an unlikely hero who just wanted to make friends⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s in the base game warbond so everyone can easily get it. 🙂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Say that again but to a UAW union boss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t about Sony “relenting”, Arrowhead needs Sony’s PSN support network to dea with support tickets: it’s the whole reason Arrowhead signed up with a publisher instead of self publishing and developing an international workforce of support agents. I hate Sony as much as the next person but let’s be honest, Arrowhead needs Sony and PSN, and it makes sense given they want to spend their time making games rather than getting into being a publisher and help desk.

  Ultimately, Arrowhead should have made it a day one requirement and delisted the game on Steam for every country that lacks PSN support. Instead Arrowhead and Sony decided to let it ride and enjoy the sales and accompanying popularity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re forgetting that we can just block you and never see any of your posts again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel’s 6.2 GHz Core i9-14900KS is a reminder of why the MHz wars ended⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For that price, no, it’s designed to be sold to the over clocker enthusiast crowd who like to throw away their money on the hobby.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The New Audi A3 Is Amess With In-Car Subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  None of that is at all required, they include all the usual Apple/Google phone link systems so all of that is very easily ignored. The only real problem with Toyota is the DCM sim modem, which you can get removed, and their data collection which you can opt opt out of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 devs apologise for trolly responses to player complaints about gun balancing⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People made such a stink about the minor nerfs to Breaker and Railgun and didn’t even try out the buffed items like the flamethrower, which now melts chargers.