kieron115
@kieron115@startrek.website
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 6 days ago:
The only answer I need from an AI is 42.
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 1 week ago:
Some plants make some bitter compounds when they go to seed so I would guess not.
- Comment on A dedicated section in my Steam library 1 week ago:
I’m not even getting better frame rates but boy oh boy is the system latency lower.
- Comment on A dedicated section in my Steam library 1 week ago:
Not natively Linux but it runs just fine under Proton (although maybe not the default version)
- Comment on A dedicated section in my Steam library 1 week ago:
Somewhere in Chapter 2 my Windows 11 install got corrupted to the point where a recovery upgrade wouldn’t even run so I installed CachyOS. I’ve played a good 4 hours so far and if anything it’s running better under Proton. The QTEs feel snappier.
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 2 weeks ago:
In America I think you also either literally or effectively (to compete) have to own some banks as well. I think it’s called vertical integration.
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 2 weeks ago:
I’m more interested in these bail peprs, I wonder what the conversion rate is?
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 3 weeks ago:
Manjaro was my first Arch distro and I enjoyed it until I found out about the issues with packages always being out of date. Switched over to EndeavourOS and have been loving it so far. It’s been “just working” for like two years now and even my 70 year old parents don’t notice a difference from Windoze when they borrow my laptop. In fact my dad is using it to do some Quicken work today (which was an adventure to get working. WineHQ community was super helpful though)
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 3 weeks ago:
I WAS going to follow-up my “it’s always sunny in philadelphia” quote but I got completely distracted by TWENTY-EIGHT CENT EGGS. I can literally buy eggs from the source (there’s a farm nearby that “donates” a portion of their income directly to the chickens and puts it into quality of life upgrades) and it still costs me $4.50-5.00 a dozen depending on weight.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 3 weeks ago:
can i
offertrade you a nice egg in this trying time? - Comment on Cheat Codes Activated 3 weeks ago:
9/11 listed separately from historical tragedies =|
- Comment on No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58) 3 weeks ago:
Oh lol haha my bad.
- Comment on No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58) 3 weeks ago:
They were talking about anime (most likely). It was a joke.
- Comment on No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58) 3 weeks ago:
Or even if they would just let us bond the TV speakers together to use as a center channel and augment that with a cheap 2.0/2.1 soundbar I bet it would be an improvement in clarity.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like a rough spot, I’m glad things worked out for you.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 3 weeks ago:
Oh I see, I was panicking a bit because I thought you were stating that it was a part of the EO and I couldn’t find any references to support it. I don’t really have a backup address since I live with my parents at the moment (dealing with said MH diagnosis). Thank you for taking the time to respond OP.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 3 weeks ago:
The article mischaracterized the protest. If you read the change.org petition it’s about protesting Visa, Mastercard, and moral advocacy groups. The petition even goes as far as to point out the hypocrisy of the decision.
These same payment processors allowed platforms like OnlyFans to operate with minimal oversight, despite multiple credible reports and lawsuits alleging the presence of real sexual abuse content involving real-life minors. That is a criminal failure of responsibility. Yet, when it comes to entirely fictional depictions, these same companies act swiftly — shutting down creators, restricting access, and acting as global censors.
I wish I had a technical solution but I really don’t. As much as I can’t stand cryptocurrency in the way that it’s being implemented, this is the kind of problem blockchain technology could potentially eliminate. I think the bigger problem is social - people trust credit card companies because of things like charge backs and fraud protection. Shopping in a store is one thing but when you’re buying from a faceless digital store front people seem to want a third-party to secure things and protect their money.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 3 weeks ago:
I think people are mostly upset about some bank telling them how they are allowed to spend their money (by restricting what is available for sale). What if those big banks decide that, say, R-rated movies are too much of a liability for them and demand retailers stop carrying them? I’m not sure what an alternative would be, but allowing a bank to decide what you can spend your money on is a bad precedent given that everyone is basically required to have a bank account these days.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 3 weeks ago:
To be clear, I’m talking primarily about Visa and Mastercard, the payment processors, not Valve. Those two companies have a pretty big stranglehold on the payment processing industry outside of possibly east Asia? I heard japan has their own payment processor, I assume it isn’t limited to just Japan.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 3 weeks ago:
I’m in the United States so I read the sections relevant to the United States. I’m just trying to find where this claim of people with a mental health diagnosis needing multiple addresses due to the new EO comes in. That would impact me personally.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 3 weeks ago:
According to the sources in the Wikipedia article, in the US at least, the term de-banking wasn’t even in popular use until some right-wing nutjobs started claiming that the government was using it to shut down conservative “tech” companies, and then latched onto by people like Joe Rogan and Elon Musk to scam people into replacing their bank accounts with crypto currency.
- Comment on YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless" 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know what that saying means, but I hate the Trump administration I promise. I hate FUD too though. More FUD = less energy to spend on the actual battles that need to be fought.
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 3 weeks ago:
If you’re still using firefox, right click -> copy clean link. works most of the time.
- Comment on No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58) 3 weeks ago:
Sorry, /s means sarcastic. If anything I would absolutely expect them to pay for multiple mixes/masters given what’s been said about how people consume it.
- Comment on No LUFS regulations are the reason you use subtitles to watch TV – Tom Scott YT (7:58) 3 weeks ago:
What would be the alternative? You don’t really expect the streaming companies to pay for TWO masters do you!? (/s if it wasn’t obvious)
- Comment on The worst day to get Groundhog Day'd would be when you have an early flight in the morning 3 weeks ago:
Everyone here needs to watch Palm Springs.
- Comment on The worst day to get Groundhog Day'd would be when you have an early flight in the morning 3 weeks ago:
This is more or less the plot to Palm Springs. Dude gets stuck in a time loop the day of his cheating girlfriend’s sister’s wedding that he doesn’t wanna be at, full of people he doesn’t know, in the middle of the desert. It’s implied that he was stuck in there for hundreds of years because he knows every intimate detail about everyone in town pretty much.
- Comment on AdGuard is yet another app to block Windows Recall 3 weeks ago:
A friend of mine just installed CachyOS Desktop Edition (plasma) and I brought up the HDR calibration in windows, thinking that was something linux still didn’t have. Turns out at least some DEs (i think thats a DE thing?) do have decent HDR support now. I still want RTX features tho.
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 3 weeks ago:
Spoken by someone who has clearly never been emotionally abused by a woman. Not all violence is physical. “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”.