Don_alForno
@Don_alForno@feddit.org
- Comment on Such a dreamy guy 3 days ago:
That’s just because it’s pronounced “Bose” instead of “Bose”.
- Comment on Such a dreamy guy 3 days ago:
His name is Jose!
Jose-Einstein-Condensate!
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 4 days ago:
Rolling back, sometimes because of file system corruption (had damaged RAM). Shouldn’t restoring be similar as long as the snapshot is intact?
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 4 days ago:
I’ve done that a few times now without issue. What’s wrong with it?
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 1 week ago:
Everybody who has to work for a living is part of the working class. Further division is just “divide et impera” by the owners.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 1 week ago:
Chairs are fucking expensive though. It’s always like “oh, this table is only 300” “yeah, but the matching chairs are 120 each”
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag 2 weeks ago:
Oh, so it finally broke through whatever enforcement of fascist talking points they had put in place?
- Comment on What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA? 2 weeks ago:
In Germany, where I’m from, FDP (“die Liberalen”) is a prime example. They are notorious for campaigning on civil liberties issues and then, once in government, dropping most or all of them in favor of radical deregulation and tax gifts for rich people.
- Comment on What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA? 2 weeks ago:
Enacting progressive taxation, punishing white collar crime, establishing strong environmental protections, establishing a strong social safety net, ensuring high quality universal healthcare, enforcing anti-trust legislation, and enacting electoral finance reforms are all things that liberals support
Those are all things that the liberals of old supported. But the parties that call themselves “liberal” today are usually strictly neoliberal. So that’s what people have come to associate with the term.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 3 weeks ago:
Never pre-order.
I do early access only in very specific cases where it’s an indie studio and the game already offers a lot of value. E.g. Satisfactory was in early access for a long time when it was basically a finished game you could sink hundreds of hours into. But I read and watch a lot of reviews before I buy into one of those. Can’t do that with a pre-order.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 3 weeks ago:
You’re literally the boiled frog right now and it would be funny to watch if it wasn’t so sad.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
IT department says no.
- Comment on Hytale can now be pre-ordered 4 weeks ago:
Never pre-order.
- Comment on Actual theft 5 weeks ago:
If it’s Spotify, why? YT premium costs just about as much.
Because it’s not google.
- Comment on Total War: Warhammer 40k 5 weeks ago:
I have questions.
Are there gonna be 3 levels now? (Real time battle, planetary overworld, space over-over world)?
Are the space marines gonna march in a phalanx formation?
Which space marine is gonna be the princess?
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 5 weeks ago:
in the event of like complete societal collapse or hyperinflation, they could use it for purchasing.
They are going to learn that you can’t eat gold. It has no purpose other than looking pretty, and that’s not going to matter much anymore in one of these events. It’s value is as speculative as any other.
- Comment on When work has you travelling but there's ARC to be raided... 1 month ago:
I couldn’t even get Visions of Mana to run at decent FPS, not even on potato settings, and that’s really not AAA graphics material. Expedition 33, same thing. Everspace 2 runs ok, but with settings turned way down, and it really doesn’t look pretty anymore on my TV. I definitely cannot get anything visually comparable to, e.g., a God of War of Horizon to run at the performance my ps4 ran those.
There’s a lot of cool 2D games, it’s fine for those. I’ve stopped trying with the other things.
- Comment on When work has you travelling but there's ARC to be raided... 1 month ago:
As long as you stay on the small screen. In TV mode, 3D games will stutter or look ugly or both. I stick to pixel art mostly for this reason.
- Comment on When work has you travelling but there's ARC to be raided... 1 month ago:
Ugh, maybe it’s my bad luck, but this only works in half the hotel rooms I come to. The other half have the TV built into some kind of cabinet blocking the ports, or mounted high on a wall where my cable is too short to reach, or locked down with some software so I can’t connect my own devices.
- Comment on OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technica 1 month ago:
Ah. The Disney defense.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 1 month ago:
It’s supposed to guarantee you can always catch up with them.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 1 month ago:
Anything that needlessly makes me repeat content I already beat or similarly wastes my time. Some examples are:
Fixed save points in general.
Unskippable cutscenes between the last fixed save point and the boss fight.
No autosave or fixed save point after a boss fight.
Preventing me from backtracking after I stumbled into a cut scene and/or boss fight because it wasn’t obvious which path led to a point of no return.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 1 month ago:
Right? My current one is from 2019 and I don’t see a reason to buy a new one.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy 1 month ago:
Not constantly throwing away things that are still good is “device hoarding” now? Strong “quiet quitting” vibes there.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 month ago:
Clair Obscur was all anybody gaming related talked about for weeks.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 1 month ago:
Why would they sell any hardware at a loss at all? Console manufacturers do it to lock people into their ecosystem and sell them games at a premium, Valve doesn’t need that, people are already overwhelmingly favoring their store.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 2 months ago:
Games used to be sold as a physical object containing the game files.
I can do that today too. I can buy from gog, download the installer an burn it to a DVD. I now own a physical object with the game files that gog or the game publisher can not easily take away from me. I’d still just own a license, not the game, and the license can be revoked. They just couldn’t really keep me from playing the game even after it was.
You need to understand the difference between having something in your possession and having the rights to it. You never owned any video game, even in the days of cartridges, they were always licenses.
- Comment on I've heard New Yorkers are devastated 2 months ago:
to be a communist he would have to have been a dictator who seized power with force rather than democratically elected.
Communism and dictatorship have nothing to do with each other.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 2 months ago:
You have the most powerful military in the world and basically are your allies’ (former) protective power. There is no outside help coming because (among other reasons of course) nobody is physically able to help you.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 2 months ago:
Sadly, finding businesses and traffic data are 99% of the reason I open google maps. I have organic installed, but I’ve since found out that “I want to go somewhere I don’t know the way to but have found out the street address some other way, and I don’t care about the traffic in between” simply doesn’t happen.