it_depends_man

@it_depends_man@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please suggest good progression based multiplayer games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Warhammer Vermintide 2, the borderlands games, the newer Space Marine 2, factorio, deep rock galactic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux help and actual pros and cons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  1. just pick any of the common recommendations. Mint. Ubuntu, Kubuntu… Just search for “which linux distro is right for me” and look at a few answers and pick one. Most of them work the same way.

  2. you probably can’t use autocad or adobe products. kernel level anticheat is a problem, so games that need that are out.

  3. Yes. …ish.

  There are basically three levels, one where you only click everything and it’s basically an app / wizard as you know them.

  The next level would be that it’s possible that you have manually edit a few text or config files to make things work the way you want to, or the best solution to your problem can be a command line thing. That’s very mostly “not programming”, the command line and manually editing config files can look scary, but most of the time it’s completely harmless. This happens, but it’s rare and it’s mostly simple stuff. The bigger and more used the distro is that you pick, the less you will run into this.

  And then the third level would be “real programming” and basically nobody does that and nobody expects that.

  4. yes, you can dual boot.

  5. Just do it. If you’ve “built” a pc before, it’s the same deal. If you read the manual a tiny bit, it’s like lego. It looks way scarier than it is. And if you look up solutions it is extremely likely that you will find a well researched answer that does solve your problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord appoints former Activision Blizzard exec Humam Sakhnini as CEO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  please make it die faster, I want for the communities to move to matrix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how do I avoid becoming conformist, lazy and completely incapable of learning something new?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How do I make sure not to become this kind of person?

  Just focus on that and you’re good.

  There are two ways to do “bad things” 1. you’re not aware of them being bad (because you never question yourself), 2. you are aware, but you excuse them somehow.

  You have already cleared 1., all you need to do now, is to remain strict with yourself to never do excuse your own bad behavior.

  And to be clear, I don’t mean to constantly blame yourself, I mean “finding excuses to do the bad thing anyway, because this time is an exception”. And it’s also fine to give up on this later if you find you can’t keep it up. It would be disappointing, but any effort in this direction is good, don’t let it dominate you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense.

  Geopoliticts shifts, good idea to just stop, wait and see who’s ready to be on friendly terms.

  Particularly in Europe, the result is like a few election cycles out. Could go in like 5 different directions and is impossible to predict.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much are additional lemmy instances needed/wanted beyond what we have at present?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think there is a huge need at the moment. Things will probably develop naturally. E.g. if some communities find they would like one, they would start one, with rules, blocks, membership, financing that fits their needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Path of Exile 2's disastrous new update reveals the core tension at the heart of its design: How do you make a game with meaningful combat when everyone just wants to blast monsters?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The writing was on the wall for PoE2, so I’m not angry or disappointed, I’ll see where things go.

  I would have wanted:

  • less boss fights, not more, I find them bad and boring.
  • maybe an interesting take on the gem system, but essentially removing it is lame. They also removed / didn’t reintroduce some gems that unlock certain interesting options, so I’m still waiting on what they game is like on actual full release.
  • maybe a revision and tighter integration of the more interesting league mechanics (incursion? ava’s thing)
  • could have done without an idiot plot in terms of writing

  the slow combat isn’t bad, but the game is confused. You just can’t have both fair fights with rare mobs with white gear and white mobs and rare gear. Either one is too easy or the other is too hard, or the items lack oomph. Impossible to resolve.

  I agree on the modifier stacking on mobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright. I hope that I’m wrong too, after all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that of those 20/30% only 10% will actually get out on the streets so you are left with around 2% of the general population. And that ain’t much

  So you do agree?

  Getting mass protests organized is a tremendous effort. If you have 80-90% support for something, getting 30-40% on the street is a huge accomplishment. If only 30% support the idea in the first place, there is no chance.

  The “mass protest” has to be at a scale, where it’s basically a general strike where society shuts down because people are protesting.

  That doesn’t mean stop trying, but also

  but a very loud and significant minority

  This is meaningless in a country that chooses to ignore public voices. Authoritarian regimes can stay stable with 10-15% support of the population, ignoring protests and complaints.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are protests, they are just way too small.

  Trump hast at least 40% of the population behind him, and a good 20-30% don’t care. Still.

  You can’t organize “mass protests” with 20-30% of the population.

  I mean, you can, but they are literally a loud minority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PKK declares ceasefire with Turkey after 40 years of armed struggle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be huge, let’s hope it works out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where can I find information on disinformation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recommend these two books:

  [www.amazon.com/dp/0465061796/](PR! - A Social History of Spin) [www.amazon.com/dp/0375714499/](manufacturing consent)

  They’re older, but I don’t think you need “modern examples”, once you understand how it works, the techniques immediately and obviously apply to social media.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does "ackshually" not mean "I know I'm being picky/pedantic/needy/wooooshed here, but technically it's..."?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say, the “real” “actually” is more of that.

  The “ackshually” is more knowning that people can be like that and being a bit sarcastic about it.

  As in “actually, X, but only someone really sweaty and pedantic would make that point earnestly, which I’m not”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you see yourself cutting off by a generation of gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not really, I wouldn’t watch big names though, they’re going to pump out the same stuff as always.

  I would expect new and good games to continue to come out and I’m looking forward to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The same way you take an interest in any other person.

  Ask them what they like and why they like it. Make it clear that you would like to understand.

  And absolutely do NOT react in any way negatively. No “that’s it”, no nothing, no “ew”, no disappointment, nothing. If he tells you he watches paint dry in his free time, ask him what color and if you can join him some time.

  If your son already has a hobby it’s kind of easier because you can ask him about things he did and things he finds inspiring. If he’s doing performance or sports, you can watch and support him doing that? Shop for equipment together, etc… If he has a competitive, creative problem don’t pressure him and reassure him.

  If he likes media, try to lend some of his and try to enjoy it. Usually, even with hobbies you dislike, there is a point where it’s somewhat interesting if you are motivated to learn about it. That does take some time though and you will need to invest that time. You can just weave in a quick “… and how is your [x] going”. That’s reserved for more distant relatives.

  But also he’s 15 so none of that may work for biological reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  and it seems like the only people that use Linux are HEAVILY experienced with those things I just listed… HOWEVER… I’m not.

  Nah. Or at least, it should just work if you boot from your USB.

  Just try it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Must EU banks provide basic service via internet?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think that there is an obligation with that kind of standard, no.

  Banking and security, accessibility yes.

  Specific choice of “user side software”, probably not. And it’s somewhat unlikely to happen too, because if you think about apps on phones, if suddenly a completely new phone OS were to show up and had 30% market share, it wouldn’t make sense to have a law that would legally require them to offer an app on that platform

  And Chrome isn’t “officially bad” in a legal sense.

  The internet standards themselves are a bit… imprecise too. Implementing them in browser is ultimately up to the companies, there is no legal body requiring a browser to have or not have features. They just usually sort of do the same things because going different paths would be stupid. Mostly. Sometimes they totally do that, though, e.g. calendars and contact info have a standard, but all implementations are a mess and transfer is a pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is space 2 dimensional?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When things collide, they transfer their movement energy. If things collide like this >- They will continue in roughly the same direction. If they collide like this -> <- their movement will cancel out and they will fall into the sun.

  Satistically, at the “beginning of time”, in a random sphere around the sun, things will not be completely the same. So everything will either collide and fall. Or it will collide and continue in roughly the same direction. What we have now are the leftovers that were moving in roughly the same direction and colliding so little that they didn’t fall into the sun because of that.

  The same is true for the “disk”: If you start with a roughly evenly distributed sphere of gases or something, there is a middle somewhere where there is a little bit more mass than anywhere else. That’s where things will go.