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- Comment on Arc Raiders' latest update nerfs an overperforming pistol, rebalances boom damage and also has ducks 14 hours ago:
They should have upped the damage of all other guns instead.
- Comment on Navy removes signs claiming a Mexican beach is US territory 23 hours ago:
Imagine if Mexico did this in the US.
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 4 days ago:
I don’t have any experience with it. But from what I know it’s supposed to only be on your output device and not on your TV. So you just need to check the specs of your graphics card to see if you can use a passive adapter. If it does not support it you should be able to use an active adapter. DP++ is simply a feature to have a DP output port send HDMI signals instead.
Both the cables you posted seem to be passive ones. The active ones will almost always advertise that they are active ones.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 4 days ago:
StopKillingGames? More like StopMurderingGamesAndExecutingThemInColdBlood.
Assholes
- Comment on Adguard DNS: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today 5 days ago:
Suspicious to say the least. I wouldn’t be surprised if the individuals behind this organization have a secret agenda and were the ones that archived the CSAM content as an attack on archive.today.
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 6 days ago:
You need to have support for DisplayPort Dual-Mode (DP++).
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 6 days ago:
I saw in a LTT video that they already claimed they will not be selling this at a loss because they want their hardware division to be self-sustaining.
- Comment on EU confirms tighter visa rules for Russians to help stop ‘sabotage’ 1 week ago:
Didn’t the last few spies and saboteurs have passports from places such as Argentina, Mongolia and Kazakhstan?
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 1 week ago:
If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
- Comment on Experts say China's targets to cut pollution don't go far enough 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think the tankies will have the balls to comment on this one.
- Comment on Windows 11 25H2 and 24H2 October Update Triggers BitLocker Recovery 2 weeks ago:
Other penguin should be Microsoft.
- Comment on The word "meme" had been hijacked by ignorants. 2 weeks ago:
People posting funny images and calling them memes is a meme. And they don’t get it.
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 2 weeks ago:
That’s actually really rare.
- Comment on During the lead up to the Holocaust did the N... regime just kidnap people who they even thought were Jews? Kind of like ICE is doing to citizens today? 2 weeks ago:
They worked towards this using the [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws](Nuremberg Laws) and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennkarte. Most Jews identified themselves as Jewish because the alternative was worse.
Anyways, suspicion was good enough to jail possible Jews. And it got worse and worse in the lead up to the war.
- Comment on Las Vegas deploys world’s first Tesla Cybertruck police fleet 2 weeks ago:
I guess it’s also an easy way to advertise.
- Comment on Las Vegas deploys world’s first Tesla Cybertruck police fleet 2 weeks ago:
Why would you need a vandal for this though? These cars are known to get fucked up by driving off the lot.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 3 weeks ago:
The whole “AI” thing is one big grift.
- Comment on Old School RuneScape is getting its first new skill since it launched, and so the XP grind begins anew 3 weeks ago:
Most awful idea of a skill. It’s literally a minigame.
I stopped playing because of how undemocratic their fake “democratic voting” is. Whenever something doesn’t pass they just change a few things around and try again until they get what they want.
- Comment on ANTI PEE PAINT 3 weeks ago:
Imo they should be funded by public budgets the way libraries, school buses, roads etc are.
They are, and many low traffic toilets are completely free.
However, in high traffic areas, some arguments they tend to give against this:
- Asking for a small amount of money deters a vandalism because people would only go in there to use the toilet. Not many people would pay to go and trash the place or put some tags in there.
- It’s an easy way to get extra money for maintenance
- In case of drug users it could help because some of them might already spend all their money on the drugs themselves thus making the small cost bothersome. (Although strong blue lights are a better deterrent because they hide your veins)
A lot of toilets in Europe in low traffic areas tend to be free. There’s also quite some open air urinals in heavy traffic areas that are free but they smell horrible.
There’s also some European countries that allow/tolerate public urination but limit it to non-privately owned natural bushes and require you to do it decently. (Not showing any genitals)
If you gotta pee and you don’t have any Euros on you, what else are you supposed to fucking do?? Literally what are your options at that point?
In places where they ask for money you can often plead your case and can enter without paying. Many places also ask for money without actually having somebody present or blocking your entry if you do not. I’ve seen a lot of little plates with cash just laying there without anybody being present.
- Comment on Being asked "Have you gotten the tour yet" upon entering a house for the first time is the adult equivelent of the kids asking: "Do you want to see my room?" 4 weeks ago:
Here’s me enjoying getting a tour and giving tours. It’s nice because you include each other in each others life.
- Comment on Valve casually gut Counter-Strike's billion dollar skins market with a "small update" 4 weeks ago:
Ouch.
- Comment on Kew woman fined £150 for pouring coffee down drain in Richmond 4 weeks ago:
Then I don’t see an issue as I would just pour out coffee in nature too.
- Comment on ISP tricked customers about fiber optics being used in their internet service, German court rules — 'full fiber' customers found to have 'last mile' copper connections 4 weeks ago:
There’s two arguments I have against your comment:
- Fiber is fiber. If even 1% of the connection is not fiber you can’t claim FULL fiber. That’s just not correct. It’s like claiming a dish is completely vegan, ignoring the fact it includes eggs, which makes it not vegan.
- There’s definitely a difference in fiber and copper wiring. Fiber is faster and allows for more bandwidth. For most home connections this is overkill and not noticeable. But an IT guy like me definitely prefers fiber over copper.
In my country it’s illegal to call it full fiber if it isn’t 100% fiber. That’s why the ISPs found a loophole and now call it “dynamic fiber”. They made me waste a shit ton of time troubleshooting why I wasn’t getting the fiber speeds, only to see a tiny print on the bottom of some KB article that said “only for those who have full fiber” after which I had to waste even more time trying to figure out what type of connection I had. I literally bought the “fiber” pack.
- Comment on Ex PlayStation exec says Sony can't keep "increasing the graphics power" with new consoles after tech plateau, but PS5 has already "made almost every game a better game" 4 weeks ago:
They got tricked into buying a console because of the exclusives. Now that those are becoming less common, they can’t accept this truth.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 4 weeks ago:
But how would my boss and project manager continue to make my life miserable? It would take away all their power over me. They wouldn’t be able to manipulate me into submission anymore. I would be my own person and not an empty shell that can be shaped into whatever they want. I’m sorry but it just seems unreasonable to work from home and be happy.
- Comment on Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents 4 weeks ago:
For that price I can probably hire a Groom of the Stool.
- Comment on We'll never have anything like the DVD screensaver ever again 5 weeks ago:
You probably already know this but it’s not just for the environment. Screensavers were almost exclusively used to protect your screen from burn in. During the switch from Plasma to LCD this became (almost completely) obsolete. Screens became less prone to burn in, video protocols (HDMI, DP) got support for turn off signals, and detection of content being played got better, thus making screensavers obsolete as well. So I wouldn’t call computers stupid.
- Comment on We'll never have anything like the DVD screensaver ever again 5 weeks ago:
Showing an ad for a game on a gaming website? Hell no. You bought some pants so here’s an ad for more pants.
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s mostly because of this: evseekers.com/why-do-tesla-windows-go-down-when-o… (Looks like AI slop but it does explain what I think it’s needed for)
Many modern car doors do not have a frame around the top of the window. So to not damage the window or seal in the door frame, they temporary lower it a bit using electricity. I’m sure Tesla would be incompetent enough to make it so there’s no decent way to do it without this feature.
- Comment on Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom 5 weeks ago:
At a quick glance the community cares more about him hiding commits and doing other nasty things instead of the actual AI stuff. I think that’s important to know before discussing the AI angle here.