Don_alForno
@Don_alForno@feddit.org
- Comment on 32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital 2 days ago:
Planned economy is not a defining feature of communism, nor is it exclusive to it.
governed by it’s native Population
It’s governed by the CCP that violently suppresses all dissent.
with a public policy centered on general social welfare.
I’m sure the people living in huts they just bulldoze to build highways will agree.
Communism would be a classless society free from rulers. I see neither condition fulfilled.
An important defining feature is ownership of the means of production by the workers (not the authoritarian single party government that claims to speak for them and tolerates no dissent). There literally can be no billionaire company owner under communism.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 days ago:
The newer Anno installments. I’m not buying another Ubisoft game unless they get rid of their stupid Launcher, and I’m also not buying anything with Denuvo and similar BS.
- Comment on XCOM: Enemy Unknown – Review and Retrospective- Is It Worth It In 2025? 1 week ago:
I’m still longing for a new terror from the deep.
- Comment on Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets 1 week ago:
They are reachable though.
- Comment on Noooooo 1 week ago:
For me the times are usually the other way around. I have coworkers who’d need two sentences for the actual question but wrap it in 15 minutes of useless small talk when they are on the phone.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 1 week ago:
There’s plenty of “actual” economists like that, and unfortunately some of them are among the generally most listened to, they lead prominent institutes and advise my home country’s government.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 1 week ago:
The main problem is that the math they do is often based on assumptions that have repeatedly been disproven but are still treated like gospel.
If you assume 2+2=5 you can follow up with as much correct math as you like, your results will always be shit.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Fuck you Jeff.
- Comment on Such a dreamy guy 3 weeks ago:
That’s just because it’s pronounced “Bose” instead of “Bose”.
- Comment on Such a dreamy guy 3 weeks ago:
His name is Jose!
Jose-Einstein-Condensate!
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 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? 5 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? 5 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
IT department says no.
- Comment on Hytale can now be pre-ordered 1 month ago:
Never pre-order.
- Comment on Actual theft 1 month ago:
If it’s Spotify, why? YT premium costs just about as much.
Because it’s not google.
- Comment on Total War: Warhammer 40k 1 month 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? 1 month 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... 2 months 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... 2 months 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... 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Ah. The Disney defense.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 months ago:
It’s supposed to guarantee you can always catch up with them.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 months 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.