CeeBee_Eh
@CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
It wanted me to make an Embark Studios account. And yes that is a big deal.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You are aware that you see beforehand whether the game requires a separate account (at least on Steam)?
No, because as I indicated in my post, I didn’t buy it. I installed it from someone else’s account within my family group.
Also, how else would you enable crossplay/crosssave?
I don’t know, but not my concern.
And you don’t even need to use separate credentials. You can log in with Steam just fine.
Not according to the prompt I was shown.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I installed Arc Raiders from my family sharing group, fired it up then closed it and uninstalled it as soon as it says I need to create YET ANOTHER account just to play this game.
I’m done creating an account for every single game.
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
One million seconds is 11.5 days, one billion seconds is 31.7 years, and one telling seconds is 31,700 years.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 1 week ago:
pay extra over the TVs subsidized by ads.
Let’s be very clear, they are not and never were “subsidised by ads”. Ads just became a new way to extract more money from customers.
- Comment on Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand 1 week ago:
What’s a “death pick”?
- Comment on Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source 1 week ago:
No no, I know what you’re implying, I was implying that the link doesn’t prove what you think it does. I’m assuming you fixated on the Munich project, and that is a convoluted story and the Wikipedia entry on that is not up to date. The latest on the Munich project is that they cancelled the switch back to Windows.
- Comment on Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source 1 week ago:
What exactly are you trying to prove with that Wikipedia link? If anything it shows relatively wide adoption of Linux.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 1 week ago:
Seems like you understand the original meaning already.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 2 weeks ago:
annoying idiots saying “unused memory is wasted memory,”
The original intent of this saying was different, but ya it’s been co-opted into something else
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 2 weeks ago:
I maintain open source projects too, and I fully understand the burnout, the pressure from supporters and such.
Then you should know better than most that your wording and approach matters.
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 2 weeks ago:
For the love, as a Plex alternative, they don’t even have a native app on all major tv stores. It should be a P1 feature.
Are you really bitching this hard about a completely free and open source project?
It’s not technology or finances that kill most FOSS projects and burn out the devs. It’s this kind of shitty entitled unappreciative demanding attitude from users.
As others have pointed out, there are fully functional and good quality frontends available, such as Swiftfin.
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 2 weeks ago:
Once Jellyfin can do that or something similar
Once Jellyfin does that then it’ll be time to look at jumping ship to something else, because that’ll be the indication that Jellyfin is going down the same road as Plex.
- Comment on China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distribution 2 weeks ago:
I wonder how much of that percentage is influenced by those areas China was spray painting green to make it look like a forest
- Comment on Linux usage hits an all-time high in Steam Hardware Survey—and AMD processors continue their march against Intel 2 weeks ago:
It’s 3.2% of Steam Linux installs. The actual number is higher.
- Comment on Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data 3 weeks ago:
As the sun rotates, the area that throws out these solar flares slowly faces toward the earth (solar maximum) then slowly rotates to face away from the earth (solar minimum). The solar cycle is roughly eleven years long.
This doesn’t have anything to do with the sun’s rotation. It actually rotates once every 28 days. The solar maximum and solar minimum are just phases in activity caused by internal activity.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
if Plex enshittifies.
Anyone want to break the news?
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
HEVC (x265) takes half the space of x264
In some scenarios, it can. Generally I’d say it’s about a 20-30% reduction in size.
- Comment on Bossware rises as employers keep closer tabs on remote staff 4 weeks ago:
No, I like “bossware”. It tells you exactly what it is. It’s “spyware from your boss”.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 4 weeks ago:
Vibe coding is basically yoloing the output and running it without checking anything.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 month ago:
And not all anti-cheat is malware. I was referring to the kernel level anti-cheats.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 month ago:
As of now, you have to make an effort to find a game that won’t work through Proton, aside from games with malware (anti-cheat).
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 1 month ago:
much of it details technical reasons why digital is much much better than analog for intelligent systems
For current LLMs there would be a massive gain in energy efficiency if analogue computing was used. Much of the current energy costs come from stimulating what effectively analogue processing on digital hardware. There’s a lot lost in the conversation, or “emulation” of analogue.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 month ago:
I’ve been using “cheap” 43" 4k TVs as my main monitor for over a decade now. I used to go purely with Hisense, they have great colour and PC text clarity, and I could get them most places for $250 CAD. But this year’s model they switched from RGB subpixel layout to BGR, which is tricky to get working cleanly on a computer, even when forcing a BGR layout in the OS. One trick is to just flip the TV upside down (yes it actually works) but it just made the whole physical setup awkward. I went with a Sony recently for significantly more, but the picture quality is fantastic.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 1 month ago:
Then don’t buy those devices. If you have any excuse as to why you “can’t do that”, then there’s zero point in complaining. I’m not saying your complaints are invalid, and companies should be held accountable and criticised. But as long as people buy privacy violating products, companies will continue to violate privacy.
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 1 month ago:
I tried to demo an agentic AI in Jetbrains to a coworker, just as a “hey look at this neat thing that can make changes on its own”. As the example I told it to convert a constructor in c# to a primary constructor.
So it “thought” and made the change, “thought” again and reverted the change, “thought” once again and made the change again, then it “thought” for a 4th time and reverted the changes again. I stopped it there and just shook my head.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Why would a company create a piece of media knowing it would be unpopular with it’s core demographic?
<Looks sideways at Disney and Star Wars>
But that’s a whole other bag of worms
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 2 months ago:
I read your comment. You basically repeated back what I said.
As for “not actually anything extra reliability”, that’s not true. This is literally the definition of all your eggs in one basket. If all these services were instead spread out amongst smaller providers, there wouldn’t have even been any news about it because it would have affected just a few services. But instead half the internet went down.
Even one of the applications I manage was down because of a single RTE npm dependency used on the forms. This is when we discovered that the npm module wasn’t bundling the whole thing but in fact dynamically pulling the js from a CDN hosted on AWS, because our prod instances kept erroring out for everyone (No, I did not write this application and I’m already replacing the dependency).
The argument isn’t about spending thousands for a lateral shift in reliability, the argument is to decouple everything from a single failure point.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 2 months ago:
NM, I had it in my head that absolute zero is -253.15, but it’s -273.15
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 2 months ago:
Did you read my entire comment? I know it’s more than one sentence, but your entire comment would be irrelevant if you read the whole thing.