Laser
@Laser@feddit.org
- Comment on Who knows... 4 days ago:
It’s fifty-fifty, either it will be or it won’t
- Comment on 10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo 4 days ago:
Okay.
- Comment on Americans cut back sharply on their spending last month amid tariffs 6 days ago:
I’d always expect a decline after December because of Christmas
- Comment on Just be that way 1 week ago:
input input input input
- Comment on Majority of Australians think China will be world’s most powerful country by 2035, poll finds 1 week ago:
Culture is what defines a society, so make of that what you want.
- Comment on Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads Per Hour 1 week ago:
I heard that yes, but it depends on the server / region you use (e.g. no port forwarding on US servers)
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 1 week ago:
Bless your heart
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 2 weeks ago:
Pirating Windows is wrong, but the lesser evil compared to buying Windows. Ideally, you shouldn’t do either
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 3 weeks ago:
You should ideally run your own node when using Monero
- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 4 weeks ago:
It just indicates that Dead Cells itself isn’t very demanding, so the power draw in that game converges against idle draw where the issues are most apparent
- Comment on The PS3's comeback was insane 4 weeks ago:
It’s called subsidizing
- Comment on Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. 4 weeks ago:
Plex has better security, federates and shares with other plex servers and generally is less hands-on for transcoding.
Regarding security, it’d be interesting to see how secure it actually is. Yeah, the individual endpoints might be protected better, but is Plex the company maybe a single point of failure?
- Comment on It's bad man 5 weeks ago:
Okay, now what
- Comment on Gig Companies Violate Workers’ Rights: Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Favor, Instacart, Lyft, Shipt, and Uber claim to offer workers flexibility but end up paying them less than state or local minimum wages. 5 weeks ago:
I have never used any of these (except Uber once in 2016 maybe?) because of the exploitative model. Even though the situation here in Germany is a tad different with them. Fuck them. Regular companies are bad enough already
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 5 weeks ago:
Some say this is for the better
- Comment on In Praise of Tor: Why You Should Support and Use Tor 1 month ago:
Never used it, the drugs just showed up at my door without me doing anything
- Comment on More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says 1 month ago:
First off, I fully agree with you. But how people are lured in is that there is no interest if you pay on time, so it’s advertised as interest-free. But obviously the business model is built upon people not paying on time, and as such one should calculate that cost into it…
- Comment on Tesla (TSLA) has to replace computer in ~4 million cars or compensate their owners 2 months ago:
Time to sell Tesla to xAI
- Comment on SSL/TLS certificates will last 47 days max by 2029 2 months ago:
Complaining about job security, unbelievable… 🙃
- Comment on Media discovers a unique Russian culture of impunity 2 months ago:
I never got the sentiment either. in fact I always found it to be among the best outlets. I’m a subscriber and I don’t even live in an English speaking country, and this is my only news subscription - didn’t find one that’s better overall yet.
- Comment on YouTube considers a daily timer for users looking to cut back on Shorts 2 months ago:
I just use a unlock filter rule to not show them in the first place
- Comment on It always seems like its time to move to linux 2 months ago:
I only had Windows 8 on a notebook that I bought and wanted to give it a try again, however I switched the machine over once I learned that it couldn’t be updated to 8.1 through normal updates, but that you had to use the store, because they were really trying to push the store. Also my NAS used NFS back then, which my home edition of Windows didn’t support, I think you need professional.
These two things pushed me to migrate the notebook as well
- Comment on It always seems like its time to move to linux 2 months ago:
Does that mean I shouldn’t have switched in 2007 and instead waited eight more years?
But then I’d have had to use Windows 8
- Comment on Balatro yet again subject to mods’ poor understanding of “gambling” 2 months ago:
Wheel got you covered
- Comment on Hammer time 2 months ago:
Mephisto is the least scary part of the dungeon, it’s the dolls that can really fuck you up, and blinking into an unlucky stunlock
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 months ago:
The equivalent to Plex is Jellyfin I think, Plex can be used as a media server for Kodi.
- Comment on Which game is it? 2 months ago:
That’s more hours per week than I have to work.
But you can always do more. I have a childhood friend who, when some leagues were released, averaged about 14 hours per day for Path of Exile for two weeks straight. Like 180 hours playtime in two weeks.
Another friend of mine should be at about 8000 hours of Rocket League by now on his main account only. That’s over the game’s full lifespan though.
- Comment on “They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their cases - Ars Technica 3 months ago:
The CD wasn’t really suited to be played Mobile (though I did have a portable CD player). It should rather be compared to vinyl in that regard.
I think tapes are great because no portable audio player ever came close to the Walkman regarding its cultural impact. The fact that anyone could record tapes opened up a lot of creative options.
For properly mastered music to be enjoyed at home on a potentially expensive setup, the CD was very close to perfect.
- Comment on Merry weekend yall 3 months ago:
Got a giggle out of me
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
This is what people always seen to ignore about YouTube. It’s not just another database frontend to use generated content. That is definitely part of it, but behind that is probably the largest public facing content library on the Internet with a full video recoding infrastructure attached. YouTube is the platform for which I understand that they need to monetize.
Sure, nowadays there’s also tiktok as another big video service. But I like to think that YouTube is way bigger in most metrics.