theunknownmuncher
@theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 day ago:
Huh? Plays Baldur’s Gate 3, Oblivion Remastered, and Clair Obscur Expedition 33 fine for me
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 day ago:
Nah, I know one person who has been asking me about my steam deck because they think it would be perfect to buy for games they play (older titles or indie games like stardew), and I know another person that just switched from windoes 10 to linux on their main PC because they have used a steam deck.
- Comment on Route outgoing traffic of a docker bridge network through VPN 1 week ago:
Yep, this is exactly what I do.
- Comment on one bright second 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I suppose after a billion billion billion or so years, it probably would be
- Comment on one bright second 2 weeks ago:
Black holes aren’t “dark”…
- Comment on Amazon’s giant ads have ruined the Echo Show 3 weeks ago:
Alexa, stop the ads.
Or don’t, I literally do not care and have never and will never use a product like this, anyway
- Comment on The person who will be the oldest person alive in the year 2100 is already probably like 25 years old. 4 weeks ago:
With the amount of plastic in our brains, we aren’t living to 115 lol
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 4 weeks ago:
“Sideloading” is their term, invented to make it sound like something it is not. We should not use this word. The correct word is “installing”.
You don’t “sideload” on Windows when you install software outside of the Microsoft Store™️. There is no real difference or distinction with software on phones, so there is no need for a special word.
- Comment on Political discourse 1 month ago:
It also tries to downplay political division “in real life”. In real life, the American president is a fascist directing a masked police force to deport legal residents without due process, illegally deploying the national guard against citizens, and grifting shitcoins and accepting bribes in plain sight.
- Comment on You're Welcome, Grandma! 1 month ago:
👍👍 Oh yeah I’ll try this in the argument with my girlfriend, thanks science
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 1 month ago:
No, that is plainly incorrect. MAGA and the Project 2025 plan are an indisputable textbook example of fascism, complete with a dictatorial leader, obsession for rebirth of a nation which is idealized to be assumed to be of homogenous identity, and cleansing of undesireables/foriegners. From Trump/MAGA rhetoric, to ICE deportaton raids, to nationalizing companies like US Steel and Intel, they’ve literally checked every box and are following the fascist playbook step by step.
So, you’re actually the moron.
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 1 month ago:
Because they genuinely don’t know what the definition of fascism is
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 1 month ago:
LOL you think a court will enforce this C&D for a parody account??? 🤣 are you an adult??
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 1 month ago:
Lol please explain how the world works
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
AI
- Comment on A Destiny-style social hub is "on the feature list" for Helldivers 3, says Arrowhead CEO 1 month ago:
Did you read the article?
You caught me, no, I should have read it before typing.
Still, thinking about the possibility of the next game is killing my already low motivation to grind. I’ve already unlocked all of the content you can buy from samples, but the super credits are just too painfully slow for me. I think the remedy would be some kind of currency exchange system that allows you to trade samples or slips for super credits and vice versa.
I’d say it’s fair to make a distinction between “pay-to-win” and “pay-to-enjoy”, but I’d argue that the distinction makes little difference because “pay-to-enjoy” is just as bad. I’d have absolutely zero complaints about any of this if the paid content was only cosmetic stuff.
All of your comment is pretty fair and valid. Things could definitely be worse. Maybe I should be more grateful for that? There is a FOMO aspect to their rotating shop, but the warbonds are always there which is “nice” of them.
The gameplay is really fun and a great experience.
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 1 month ago:
You’re making the same mistake Microsoft made
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 1 month ago:
Yes, exactly! Now you get it!
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 1 month ago:
So I guess I’ll explain the post for you, since it seems you do not understand the fediverse, either.
cyberplace.social federates with lea.pet but is not responsible for and cannot control the Microsoft parody account on lea.pet. Microsoft sent the notice to the wrong server. That’s why Microsoft does not understand the fediverse or how federation works, and why the post is funny instead of dumb. Now you can laugh too! You’re welcome!
- Comment on A Destiny-style social hub is "on the feature list" for Helldivers 3, says Arrowhead CEO 1 month ago:
It already takes a literal eternity to earn the super credits needed to unlock actual game content, not just cosmetics, without paying them real money.
If they’re already thinking about Helldivers 3, it completely kills my motivation to even try to unlock more Helldivers 2 content, unless we are somehow guaranteed that our unlocks and super credits will carry over.
I genuinely don’t understand why this game is in the good graces of the internet while infested with pay-to-win non-cosmetic microtransactions. The “social hub” will exist not to socialize but as a place to display your paid content to other players.
- Comment on The time has come! 1 month ago:
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 1 month ago:
Don’t care
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 1 month ago:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9921530/
I wouldn’t be as sure about that as you are
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 1 month ago:
…columbia.edu/…/mind-reading-technology-can-turn-…
We already live in a world with existing, functional mind-reading devices. There is even a device designed to help people suffering from ALS comminicate, that has a privacy feature where the device activates or deactivates whenever the user thinks a password, in order to allow the user to maintain private thoughts.
Phones are not fMRIs though.
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 1 month ago:
It sounds like they’re specifically talking about a phone, making reference to app permissions and TikTok.
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 1 month ago:
WiFi can also do pretty precise location. Bluetooth/BLE even more precise (inches or less)
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 1 month ago:
That’s already the original use case. Cardiac signature biometrics, can install in a doorway and do identity verification and track/monitor every individual that passes through the threshold
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 1 month ago:
3 letter agencies have already been using this for cardiac signature identity verification and tracking for a long while
- Comment on YSK that you can force Windows 10 to open your default browser instead of MS Edge with MSEdgeRedirect 1 month ago:
laughs in GNU Linux
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 2 months ago:
I was taught that the founding fathers’ did not take into account a two-party political system when they designed the system of checks and balances.
