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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo can disable your Switch 2 for piracy in the U.S., but not in Europe, as confirmed by its EULA⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The best/worst part is that I was worried about battery life, and then I realized that I only have so much time as an adult and it doesn’t matter as much, for most games I’d want to play on it anyway.

  A power bank for the exceptions. Not perfect but it’s okay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you still remember?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Kia Pride. First generation. Falling apart, basically a soda can with wheels. Clutch so atrocious that I basically had to relearn how to drive during those fifteen minutes. Allegedly someone I knew got one that didn’t even have a gas pedal, just a relatively high idle.

  Only the finest public property here in Lebanon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨title⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember a small wave of this style of meta meme in around 2012ish, all about seeing who can break the format of whatever was popular at the time in the most meta way possible. The joke always being that we can understand these weird image arrangements even after tearing out half of their content.

  This one is just as satisfying as those were when they were still a novelty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since we're doing magic eyes now...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can still view these, but it’s much much harder for me.

  I don’t know why parallel isn’t the default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At the risk of coming off as too gatekeep-y, Arabic is structurally so different from English and French (the other two languages I know). It has a reputation for being difficult for a reason.

  Despite it being my native language I’ll occasionally still think of an idea phrased primarily in English, and contorting it into Arabic is very clunky (despite Arabic being much more loosey goosey with word order, in general, you can figure out how to tie up an idea as you go - this applies more to MSA, dialects usually sway more towards a small number of forms).

  While strictly more rigid, you might be better off at least grasping the basics of MSA first before jumping into a specific dialect. It is antithetical to how I think about languages (go learn the specific prescriptive form of Arabic instead of the most commonly spoken popularly developed one) but it might be easier to learn that way.

  (I’m thinking of it like learning piano (or MIDI?) as a baseline for music and more instruments vs learning guitar first and having an understanding of notes and scales that is very closely associated to the relational positioning of these notes on these strings.)

  Or maybe it might not be easier that way. I didn’t learn Arabic as an adult with a background in western languages, fuck if I know what the pedagogically optimal way to learn Arabic is. Arabic is hard, dude. Doesn’t help that half of all Arabic media is (I say this as an Arab) embarrassing mindless drivel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The oil industry is famously completely independent from government subsidy. Especially when it comes to setting urban development policy and planning transportation systems, these have no bearing at all oil demand and they also cost nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That model is over a terabyte, I don’t know why I thought it was lightweight. Not that any reporting on machine learning has been particularly good, but this isn’t what I expected at all.

  What can even run it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods to Enforce Digital ID Age Checks Under UK and EU Laws⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s as simple as getting the EU site and privacy policy when you connect from an EU IP. These systems are typically not as rigid as you might expect and the only friction might be around things like payment processing or things like that.

  I get relatively uncensored internet access through UK/Ireland servers. This law and this type of law completely terrifies me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods to Enforce Digital ID Age Checks Under UK and EU Laws⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who VPNs into the EU specifically for the privacy laws, this is troubling. I do wonder what my next move should be. I’d hate to lose my Steam account in particular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why God Made Me a Veganivore 🥩🔥 Unlike Weaklings Who Settle for Unfrefined Plants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Too many people here don’t understand that memes and shitposts are not the same thing.

  Decent enough shitpost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Born into crisis, gen Z is saving for retirement like no other generation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The reward for playing the game in a way to protect yourself, as always, is the rules changing to fuck you over anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, I do this at work and while I get funny looks I do get complicated ideas across better when I can provide visual aid.

  Frankly I need to improve my MS Paint skills. I need to get my mouse handwriting up to at least 70% of the Khan Academy guy’s level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Lemmy attempting to radicalise people to enforce class wars?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the resident Lemmy population becoming too easy to troll?

  Hello lemmings are you all left wing because you are CIA and racist?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why American Films Are Objectively The Best, post # 1/17⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In no particular order, here are some games I’ve enjoyed most in the past decade or so (and found most interesting to shill to my friends):

  • The Roottrees are Dead (online sleuthing game, with a cool but slightly campy story, wears its Obra Dinn influence on its sleeve a bit too obviously for some people)
  • Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic (Cities Skylines for people who understand economics are more than just dollar signs and tweets, it’s more like Factorio than SimCity)
  • Hacknet (Learn basic command line stuff in a game about hacking)
  • Duskers (atmospherically amazing game about controlling distant drones in hostile environments. Genuinely chilling)
  • Chants of Senaar (language deciphering game)
  • Outer Wilds (le le le dae hidden gem for a reason)
  • Dyson Sphere Project (more Factorio)
  • Satisfactory (you guessed it, more Factorio, but very different environment than most of these games)
  • Factorio
  • Shapez (minimalistic Factorio, with a less minimalistic sequel)
  • Nomifactory (Minecraft modpack that was formerly known as Omnifactory. It’s more Factorio.)
  • Curse of the Golden Idol (finally a good retro adventure mystery thing)
  • Return of the Obra Dinn (immaculate game.)
  • CHR$143 (Zachlike-ish)
  • Kerbal Space Program (my next obsession)
  • INFRA (one of my favorite games of all time, I’ve written about this extensively, a sort of urbex walking simulator with incredible atmosphere, deep deep lore, amazing world building, and light puzzles, that goes on for about 40 more hours than you expect it to)
  • Hexcells Trilogy (puzzles)
  • Hexologic (similar puzzles)
  • Baba Is You (puzzles that make you think you’re an idiot)
  • NaissancE (I don’t know how to describe this, I think it’s free)
  • Manifold Garden (you dreamed about this game when you were 8 years old, decades before it existed)
  • The Big Con (be gay do crime 90s)
  • Death Stranding (this game is so boring, I played it for 200 hours and got every achievement, I love it, it sucks)
  • The Forgotten City (this started its life as a Skyrim mod and still has that baggage)
  • Mostly Intense Monster Defense (PvZ homage)
  • The Witcher (1) (CRPG with a cool world. Needs a few mods to cut down on tedium. Pretty different from its sequels but it has a special place in my heart)
  • Binary Domain (absolute schlock, but from a previous era of gaming. Not necessarily a good game, but cool to see from a historical perspective.)
  • Cultist Simulator (needs an eternity of patience but I promise there is something in there)
  • SLUDGE LIFE (SLUDGE LIFE)
  • What Remains of Edith Finch (I fucking love walking simulators with good writing and cool art)
  • Promesa (obscure walking simulator, it’s barely a game, I love it)
  • CUCCCHI (check above description, same guy. Artistic showcase of a painter called Enzo Cuccchi. I’m not a modern art guy, but seeing these works contorted into worlds to walk through… a unique and interesting experience. Soundtrack is someone’s once-lost old experimental tracks and it absolutely slaps)
  • Please Touch the Artwork 1 and 2 (one of them is free, funded by the Belgian public art fund. Weird and cool)
  • Betrayal at Club Low (part of a series of games by Cosmo D, this one is different from the previous few. The first, Off Peak, is free, but it’s also the least polished. Astonishingly excellent music, there’s some cool lore in this series. The art style is a bit out there but this guy’s stuff is gold)
  • Engare and Tandis (mathematical patterns puzzlers, I promise they’re so cool)
  • What the Golf? (An actually good mobile game. I mostly played it with a controller on my TV lol)
  • Cities Skylines (my beloved)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why American Films Are Objectively The Best, post # 1/17⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And then they give a passionate interview about how the original Jeg Spiser Pis short film from 1993 informed their entire creative journey, before immediately going on to direct Mario Movie Minecraft 3 starring Dwayne the Rock Johnson as Sheep and Tilda Swinton as Cat Bowser 64 ft. Ariana Grande burger

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why American Films Are Objectively The Best, post # 1/17⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have watched a fair few nigh incoherent French movies with a plot that is simultaneously either the most complex or most banal story ever written (that doesn’t get resolved at the end). You could find me at the one specialty cinema in Beirut every other weekend before it completely collapsed financially in 2020 back when our economy did the funni

  I get that a lot of this is turning people off but this is shockingly accurate of a lot of mid arthouse stuff. It’s like trash TV but for movie tryhards. I love it. For the French ones, I almost feel like the experience is worsened by my grasp of the language.

  Since then I’ve all but stopped watching movies and even series and have moved to games full time. There’s so much more genuinely fun weird interesting shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can do it. It's an easy one⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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  Π ≈ 3 ≈ e as we all know

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you noticed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know Lemmy is mostly populated by computer touchers (I’m one of them) but Pep Guardiola is probably one of the most recognizable human beings on planet earth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. residential solar on the brink of collapse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait wait wait — lease?

  Are you telling me the closest thing humanity has ever made to a true install-once-reap-indefinitely energy machine is a subscription where you are? Solar panel company?!

  Solar has been a major, major life changer for me (I’m not in the US). Probably the most expensive thing that isn’t a car that my family has ever bought, but it’s turned my life completely around. I had never had 24 hour electricity at my own house before throwing a bunch of acid batteries and panels onto my roof and it feels like a decadent luxury. Plus I can tell the electricity mob to go get fucked, at least between February and November. Worth every excruciating penny.

  I know it might be expensive and maybe not easy to get the best deal but I’d think owning your own solar is more important than owning your own home. Although now that I say it this way, I’m thinking maybe you’re renting and that’s why you need to rent the panels too. Different places are different etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we are not the same⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm. Interesting how negatively coded this scene is when I hear people talk about their own “that one dream public bathroom”.

  I distinctively remember mine having knee-high cloudy water, but it was very dark. My innate “understanding” in the dream is that the water is some kind of natural feature, not sewage. I don’t remember the sinks, tissues, cleanliness or of the bowls, or anything, just the incredibly weird layout and flooding, and the weird lack of privacy due to the doors and walls of the stalls being higher to accommodate the water.

  US style stalls where you can conveniently park your XXXL truck under the divider aren’t a thing here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mindfulness⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Driving leisurely through a nice lush valley? God what a marvel of engineering this crumbling manual 1994 Kia shitbox is. Driving is so calming. Radio off, windows down, I want to hear the birds and the terrible engine. I don’t even care that second gear doesn’t bite anymore. This is nice.

  Driving in start stop traffic? God I hate how we’ve defaced our planet, our home, just to enrich these blood sucking oil companies. The Ottomans and the French built railroads and streetcars here during our servitude. And what did we do with that silver lining? Tore it all out to sell more cars and petrol. For shame. All of these people’s lives are measurably worse from wasting their lives on the road.

  Driving at a normal speed in a normal area with people driving around me at normal speed, pedestrians, street lights, traffic cops, nobody is crashing, I’m not crashing, I’m barely even thinking about doing it? bro what tHE FUCK WHAT

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Boy have I got news for you.

  Look up the Zizians.

  (Ok they’re only a tangential offshoot of people who maybe really like the Basilisk thought experiment and mostly don’t believe it. But hey. It’s underway!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I’ve never looked into what hardware is actually available at the consumer level. That is a lot of money to move a video signal from one place to another.

  FWIW I just looked at the AliExpress-tier options and they are much cheaper, but I don’t know about latency situation even if they do hit advertised bandwidth.

  I didn’t even know HDMI cables went up to 15m for the copper version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, I just mean literally running Ethernet cables into standard conduits, terminating them, and sticking a HDMI over Ethernet box on either side. In order not to modify the conduits. I don’t know what the bandwidth is for that kind of solution. I’m not presenting it as the only and best option.

  Your solution is cool. My own conduits are surrounded on four sides by concrete, so pulling connectors through is something that I only have to do very very rarely. And more often than not I find myself having to change one thing to wireless or use something that can make use of multiplexing just so I can free up a bit of space in there to do something else.

  My own network is still an absolutely atrocious 200kB/s DSL through decaying, water-damaged copper lines. And those aren’t going through conduits, those have had concrete poured right over them. Over the 2x1mm thick flat two-strand “cable” that was obsolete when the building was built decades ago. RJ11. Plastic sheath that disintegrates into asbestos or some shit when exposed to sunlight. I’m not describing an ideal data transmission environment here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense. I just meant standard conduit, Ethernet cable straight through the conduit. Not into the home network.

  I’ve pulled connectors through odd gaps, I know how it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know everyone’s needs are different (I’m in Third World Nowhere, where building codes don’t exist and our solutions are limited by unusual practical circumstances), but isn’t HDMI-over-Ethernet a thing? I don’t know if I’d trust a 3D printed part with keeping water out in the long run

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am bereaved⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s another one, professionally voice acted for maximum effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LOVE THEM⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Extremely underrated game, even after it received popular sequels. I’m shocked nobody talks about the original Witcher game. I played it way after it was released in around 2017 and found it refreshing, like a slightly more modern classic RPG with actual classic game design, plus a few quirks (combat stances and so on).

  The enhanced edition looks perfectly fine. I think I’ve hit the stage in my life where I care more about graphics looking cohesive and how the art style serves the game’s vibe than I care about garish post-processing and needlessly complex models and textures.

  TW1, visually, has a sort of dreamy fantastical blandness with bursts of really cool visual interest. Isn’t that enough? Doesn’t that serve the concept of a video game well?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft says it provided AI to Israeli military for war but denies use to harm people in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Once every few months I remember that there’s virtually no chance my name and information aren’t in these databases, especially now that my country has gone through a recent war phase. Even if I didn’t sign up to Instagram and Facebook when I was a teenager, my family, friends, and whole neighborhood use unscrupulous online services that can be used to map out communities like that. I live far from the border with Palestine but let’s not pretend that makes a difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the worst spelling you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m now thinking of that classic post from the old site that shows someone’s painstakingly cursive-written note of the entire text of a bluescreen (the old bluescreen with a lot of characters on screen) for tech support.

  And thinking of a slightly more tech inclined grandma who doesn’t quite get all of it having a problem with a torrent and just reading the infohash/magnet link to the ISP’s support call center.