Flamekebab
@Flamekebab@piefed.social
- Comment on Greece lawmakers back plan to allow 13-hour workday 43 minutes ago:
I’m reminded of Boxer, the horse.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way [17:59] 21 hours ago:
Sure, but if the options are to watch something in low resolution or not at all, I’m picking up the novelisation instead.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 5 days ago:
Controversial take, perhaps, but I don’t think there are any games from the 1980s (or earlier) that I think hold up. Wasteland form 1988 is impressive but ugly (and a remaster exists that is better) and other than that, uh…
TLoZ is so utterly hideous that it repulses me. The NES colour palette is just so tremendously ugly.
Tetris is fine, I guess, but I’ve always found it a bit plain. Much like picking up individual grains of rice with chopsticks it requires skill but as with that it’s only your own time you’re wasting - unless you enjoy it, which I don’t. Or to put it another way - I don’t find the core gameplay loop rewarding.
There’s plenty of cool stuff from the early ‘90s but the 1980s are pretty much a case of “it was good when we had nothing better” territory, in my opinion.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 6 days ago:
I thought it had had that for twenty years?
- Comment on Oooooh! 6 days ago:
- Comment on Charlie Kirk's Turning Point promotes Christian 'blackshirts' in UK 1 week ago:
Proscribed organisation. Now.
- Comment on Cops have now arrested over 2,000 peaceful Defend Our Juries protesters 1 week ago:
I can’t agree with that defeatism. If nothing changes, sure, but the general election isn’t tomorrow.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The inclusion of “fresh” makes this tremendously confusing.
- Comment on 'Buy one, get one free' deals for unhealthy food banned in supermarkets 1 week ago:
Huh, today I learned. I only tend to pop in for specific items but I’m still surprised I didn’t notice.
- Comment on UK police caught slacking off by jamming their keyboards while working from home 1 week ago:
Presenteeism is such a daft model for employment. I am not sat at my keyboard for my whole work day. I could, if forced, but I’d literally get less work done and I’d burn out so quickly as to be a liability to my employer. Half of what I do is reading technical documents and understanding them. Lots of the time that means doing literally anything other than reading more documents - they need to be digested and that means not trying to cram even more data in.
- Comment on Starmer claims that America under Donald Trump 'keeps us safe' 1 week ago:
Diplomacy is the art of saying “nice doggy…” until you can find a big enough rock.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 1 week ago:
I played Atomic Heart on Game Pass around the time it came out and… I cannot recommend it. The actual game was really rather dreary.
- Comment on this level is amazing 1 week ago:
They’re definitely fun and I enjoyed them but knowing how long they are I wouldn’t start them again. I had a similar thing with GTA IV!
- Comment on this level is amazing 1 week ago:
I think the thing I miss most about this game is how much it did with hardware from 2005. It looked great, played well, had a decent length but also didn’t outstay its welcome.
I’ve played through it at least twice. I doubt I’ll ever replay City or Knight as they were amazing but far far too long.
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch pledges to scrap UK climate law 2 weeks ago:
The Conservatives still exist?
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 weeks ago:
I mostly listen to MiniDiscs.
- Comment on Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up] 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think the Burberry strategy is going to work for you guys.
- Comment on Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up] 2 weeks ago:
Let’s not forget that games leave Game Pass so there’s an element of FoMO
- Comment on 'Buy one, get one free' deals for unhealthy food banned in supermarkets 2 weeks ago:
Which shop does that other than Tesco?
I’ve not been in a Waitrose or a Sainsburys in a few years but I’ve not seen that problem in Morrisons, Co-op, Lidl, or Aldi.Serious question, because Tesco take the piss.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 weeks ago:
Similarly I find it very useful for if I’ve written a tool script and really don’t want to write the command line interface for it.
“Here’s a well-documented function - write an argparser for it”
…then I fix its rubbish assumptions and mistakes. It’s probably not drastically quicker but it doesn’t require as much effort from me, meaning I can go harder on the actual function (rather than keeping some effort in reserve to get over the final hump).
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, one of my colleagues leans on it too hard and it’s really undermining his actual talent.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen it generate working unit tests plenty. In the sense that they pass.
…they do not actually test the functionality.
Of course that function returns what you’re asserting - you overwrote its actual output and checked against that! - Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I found the whole experience tremendously frustrating and as you can see from some of the other responses and votes, the community does not consider that to be a reasonable reaction.
Hence why I bailed on the whole thing. I don’t need the grief.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I was told a tool was a resilient approach to drive management.
It wasn’t, outside of a very specific set of circumstances.Your analogy not only makes no sense but is exactly why I’m hostile about this. I’m not an expert at the specific limitations of a niche hard disk technology is, I must be a fucking moron or something, and ridicule is a clearly an appropriate reaction.
My idea of a useful tool for dealing with hard disks is not one that loses its shit when a hard disk is temporarily disconnected.
That is not a ridiculous assumption. If that’s an issue then that should be made abundantly clear.I assigned drives based on serial number and passed them through to TrueNAS and it couldn’t handle that reliably. I do not think I was asking for the moon on a stick.
The USB interface is a temporary measure, I was going to move the disks to an internal setup after testing but if it can’t handle something that basic then like fuck am I trusting it with something like migrating from USB SATA to internal SATA.
If I need both disks to access mirrored data then it’s as useful as a chocolate teapot.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I was trying to use it for a mirrored setup with TrueNAS and found it to be flakey to the point of uselessness. I was essentially told that I was using it wrong because I had USB disks. It allowed me to set it up and provided no warnings but after losing my test data for the fifth time (brand new disks - that wasn’t the issue) I gave up and setup a simple rsync job to mirror data between the two ext4 disks.
If losing power effectively wipes my data then it’s no damn use to me. I’m sure it’s great in a hermetically sealed data centre or something but if I can’t pull one of the mirrored disks and plug it into another machine for data recovery then it’s no damn good to me.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Looks like I angered people by not loving ZFS. I don’t feel like being bagged on further for using it wrong or whatever.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I have given up on ZFS entirely because of how much of a pig it was.
- Comment on Keir Starmer expected to announce plans for digital ID cards 2 weeks ago:
No, thanks. Waste our money on something else. How about waterslides?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X calls for delay in Australia’s child social media ban citing ‘serious concerns’ about policy’s lawfulness 3 weeks ago:
Who is still using fuckin’ Twitter? Don’t go to the nazi bar.
- Comment on UK is ‘worst country in Europe’ for drug prices, says Mounjaro maker 3 weeks ago:
That’s the best headline I’ve heard about the UK in ages!