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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨me btw⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  -filter_complex sends its regards

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology RAM - a shitpost of its own kind⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Trust is hard to earn, but easy to lose - I’d be very careful to trust my data with a company that’s willing to play these games.

  They’ve been caught lying before when they introduced the branded drives requirement, but it was too obvious to not see through it. Their backtracking was pure damage control.

  Trusting your data with a company that’s just waiting for the right opportunity to extract money from you is not something I’d do. I’d consider their devices time bombs and would take measures to not be impacted when they hold your data hostage. I’m not saying this will happen, their made it very obvious that the risk is there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology RAM - a shitpost of its own kind⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yesteryear’s technology for the price of a complete system

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology RAM - a shitpost of its own kind⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahahahaha that’s just laughable

  The backlash when they only allowed self-branded (overpriced) drives for their systems was so large that universal hard drive compatibility was their main message at it-sa 2025. Huge banners at their stall advertising what you’d imagine is the bare minimum!

  I never bought their shit because it was always overpriced. “But their software is so good and easy!” Thanks, I consider myself capable enough to configure a machine myself.

  They’re sucha company that doesn’t understand that for proper enshittification, your users must not have alternatives that they can easily switch to. But there’s no proper lockdown effect for a NAS manufacturer: existing customers can just keep using their old systems, and new ones can use competitors / implement the functionality themselves.

  But now they have revealed that they’re just as greedy as others and will happily squeeze you for some extra cash, without offering any more value. You need to hide the fact that your product gets worse for the money! Get rid of existing plans and make sure new ones have additional features (they don’t have to make sense, AI would be a perfect contender if people didn’t hate it) that you can use to justify the price hike!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when car controls weren't complicated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know you’re joking, but this is for when you have a reboarder type baby car seat in the passenger seat, in that case the airbag must be deactivated

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Microsoft to Microslop to Linux: "Why I Made the Switch"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it just boils down to how much you accept a company to push you around. For me, the wiring was on the wall with Windows Vista, even though I did have a Windows 7 machine/ partition later that actually worked well.

  I also gave Windows 8 a chance when it came preinstalled on the notebook I bought, but I hated it. So I finally fully switched there, and no Windows since then (excluding the machines my employers provide, IDGAF about them since I get paid to use them and don’t have to administrate those). There is way less need for Windows nowadays, back in the Windows 7 days, you could basically only play Linux native and OpenGL titles, PulseAudio was iffy, Vulkan and by extension DXVK didn’t exist, AMD drivers weren’t great (AMD had just begun releasing documentation late 2007 and fglrx was a pain), so there were a lot of things that just wouldn’t work, and yet switching was possible.

  As the author notes, there are way fewer blockers nowadays, and most people are just looking to excuse their complacency. And I think it’s fine to be ok with Windows, but then you shouldn’t complain too much. Microsoft under Nadella only cares about numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Ford’s Quantum Computer, it will factor any number you want, as long as it’s 15.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do prefer 2D fighters, but I personally don’t like how 2XKO looks. I don’t know how to put it. Floaty? That said if I wanted to go into a tag fighter, it’d probably be Skullgirls; yeah the game is super dead but the game is snappy, has fun characters and still like good because of its style.

  All that said I’d give the game an honest try if I could because that’s only fair before talking smack. But I can’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wacky characters aren’t really out of place for Fatal Fury, or fighting games in general. Duck King for example never was too serious either, and Mai is a joke / comic relief character as well. In fact I’d say fighting games weren’t 100% serious since World Warrior.

  Regarding Ronaldo, I agree with the point, though I think the fact that he is in the game is the Saudis, and SNK managed to get a pretty good fighting game character designed around that. The fact that they had to include him specifically and not generic soccer dude shows how out of touch the Saudis are with the audience. But I guess they don’t have a problem with rapists in the first place.

  I won’t stand any slander against Ganacci though, he seemed really happy to be included in the game, played it and even visited tournaments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But doesn’t it speak volumes about the genre of the eighth best selling game of 2023 can’t support three years of service (as in meaningful content updates)?

  While there weren’t any Fatal Fury entries, the characters did have presence over the years via King of Fighters, and Mai and Terry were even in SF6.

  SF6, arguably the biggest game in the genre, is currently in 60th place in the steam 24 hour charts. You might argue consoles have a higher share for the genre than games you find on steam, but still, that’s not totally mainstream.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riot Games lays off roughly 80 employees from 2XKO team⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I do like the genre, fighting games are a niche nowadays, and you’re always going up against Street Fighter, Tekken or Smash. I don’t know what Riot expected. It has similar vibes to the Saudis investing millions into a single marketing event for CotW.

  Even Mortal Kombat 1, while it was initially a commercial success, is basically no longer supported as far as I know. And that game isn’t old either.

  The visible audience (Twitter) is very picky and vocal; they’ll tell you they want thing X, they get thing X, they’ll tell you it’s bad because Y. There is very little nuance it seems sometimes.

  Remember when everyone complained there were no defensive options and everything was getting too easy? Them CotW came and nobody plays it because the menu sucks. Or they don’t like the character that they don’t have to pick.

  I at least have a legitimate reason not to play 2XKO (kernel level anti cheat that won’t work on Linux), but you don’t see me complaining about that.

  Anyhow, if you want to make a game that sells big numbers, don’t make it a fighting game, because your audience will be comparably small and hate you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wine 11.2 released with optimizations in PDB loading, support for MSVC constructors⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This release is very relevant for NixOS users: github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/444543

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3199: Early Arthropods⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Little did arthropods 1 and 3 know that ultimately, they’d just do like 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DRAM shortage fuels fake GPU scams as China-based fraudsters exploit the supply crisis — RTX 4080 GPU sold at cut price was actually an RTX 3060 mobile chip with fake VRAM⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Scarcity breeds innovation /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RISC-V Hits 25% Market Penetration as Qualcomm and Meta Lead the Shift to Open-Source Silicon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are plenty nowadays from what I remember.

  1. They save on the ARM licensing fees. I’m not sure about the details, but I believe it’s both a flat fee and cost per chip produced
  2. They can freely add proprietary vendor extensions, which I’m not sure ARM allows
  3. They’re less restricted in general chip design (I think ARM has restricted options in the last years, Apple has some special privileges as a founding member)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CIA behind strike at Venezuelan dock that Trump claims was used by drug smugglers, AP sources say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically speaking, is there any part of general logistics infrastructure that’s not used by “drug smugglers”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean peertube exists, and it actually integrates into the fediverse…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark mode⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The average Linux user definitely will not care about reproducibility.

  I think a lot of people do care about it, just not under that name. But I think a lot of users asked themselves at least once “what did I do back then to achieve X”. Not in that the whole system is reproduced 1:1, but certain aspects. That’s something much easier to answer with nix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark mode⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, you don’t need to learn nix as a programming language for a simple installation, you can use it like a slightly different job, which the configuration.nix part was about. You can get the reproducibility aspect from just that, so I wouldn’t say you get no benefits at all without learning the language.

  There are more disadvantages (like time required to rebuild because you added a single package), so Arch is the better choice depending on preferences. Arch is a very good traditional distribution in my opinion, can’t go wrong with it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark mode⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Arch is easier in my opinion, at least if you want to leverage the power NixOS can offer. A simple /etc/nixos/configuration.nix maybe not, but once you enter custom options / submodule territory and use stuff like lib.mapAttrs, I’d say NixOS is quite harder. Or just a more complex overrideAttrs. But then again, Arch doesn’t have an equivalent to that…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, why they actually enjoy this, regardless of the reasons, why would they stop?

  Sony could just have ignored this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw this once or twice. Taxi driver had it mounted on how panel to watch something on break. Somewhat solved the power draw problem with a car adapter…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bonfire Social 1.0 is here, back the community‑funded roadmap⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bonfire itself is a framework that implemented ActivityPub, on it you can build applications that make use of it without developing from the ground up. Bonfire Social is a social network similar to Mastodon. Collaboration is is about project management etc and allows one to host their own, but integrate with others, e.g. to synchronize milestones via federation. What they have in common is that both build on Bonfire and as such use the same protocol for federation. But they’re tools for very different jobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every card they buy isn’t available to a competitor.

  Only half joking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO says the company doesn't have enough electricity to install all the AI GPUs in its inventory - 'you may actually have a bunch of chips sitting in inventory that I can’t plug in'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “bro imagine if we could actually use all these cards we bought, we’d be the best at this AI thing”

  I’m still waiting for an actual business case. Who’s going to consume all this slop? And pay for it at one point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where the cuties⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s us millennials coping haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where the cuties⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a phase!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not as common as one would like

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nowhere does it say you have to limit yourself to that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mini pc for home server?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Similarly here. Have an Odroid with that platform, it wasn’t cheap but it came with several advantages:

  • 4 SATA ports on addition to the M2 slot
  • Intel QSV
  • 2 x 2.5 Gbit Ethernet (I only have gigabit at home though)

  Very powerful machine for the power usage, I ran a really old Athlon before though (from 2010 or so that I retrofitted with 16GB RAM) that did most stuff just fine. But I wanted some transcoding and also possibly a smaller case.

  I run everything bare metal though.