Gibibit
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- Comment on Bethesda Gifts Everybody in the Skyblivion Team a Copy of Oblivion Remastered 4 days ago:
Its kind of ironic that all you’re thinking about is money while these modders are doing it for the love of the craft. Sure everyone would love to see a paid release of Skyblion on Steam like Valve allowed with Black Mesa, but the modders are building this regardless.
- Comment on Bethesda Gifts Everybody in the Skyblivion Team a Copy of Oblivion Remastered 4 days ago:
What is the point of this cynical comment in this context. Everyone is winning here.
- Comment on Bethesda Gifts Everybody in the Skyblivion Team a Copy of Oblivion Remastered 4 days ago:
Nothing? What about the development and free public release of the Creation Kit?
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 1 week ago:
This whole comment thread sucks lol. The top reaction literally just says “go away”. Talk about wannabe authoritarian tankies
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 1 week ago:
Lmao what is Synology smoking. I have used their hardware in the past, now I’m so glad that I chose a Nextcloud setup for my home storage solution.
Also why does the nonsense reasoning for these limitations always include “security”. That’s a rhetorical question btw, I know they are just making shit up.
This comment by Frodo Douchebaggins in the Ars Technica comments sums up my newfound opinion of Synlogy pretty well:
Suck a turd, you enshittifying sons of bitches.
- Comment on This is what resistance to the digital coup looks like 1 week ago:
A few channels like The Linux Experiment post videos to both, probably for the reasons that you mentioned. Its uncommon though, because most YouTube channels are (partially) in it for the money. No ad revenue on PeerTube!
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
They’ll have to pay for the cellular connection themselves because I’m not gonna enter my wifi password into the tv lol. Been using a pc hooked up to the screen for ages. Screw “smart tv” features, slow and inconvenient as hell.
- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 1 week ago:
This is not the tally that the article is talking about though
- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 1 week ago:
Maybe it also counts transactions from the Steam Market? I also found my TotalSpend hard to believe, but it’s also not like I’ve traded hundreds of dollars worth of items in the market.
The description of the support page notes that these values are used to determine some sort of limited user account status. It might not be intended to keep an accurate tally. I wouldn’t be surprised if these values are only available due to gdpr and accuracy of the description was not a priority when they set it up.
That or I’m huffing copium about my game expenses 😅
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 1 week ago:
Wow that defamation lawsuit against Karl Jobst is spicy. I’m pretty sure I saw that video a long long time ago. 350k is a giant fine, I wonder if YouTube pays that well. This is what you get for purposely misrepresenting something for a better story I guess.
- Comment on Eternal Darkness' infamous sanity system patent has expired - so can anyone now copy it? 1 week ago:
I’m not against patents in general but looking at the list of specific insanity-induced hallucinations being patented this whole thing is ridiculous. This is on the level of being able to patent giving your restaurant guests cutlery. How is any designer supposed to keep track of which specific micro events are patented like this.
- Comment on Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits 1 week ago:
The article is about protecting the integrity of Wikipedia from admins with ulterior motives. Regardless of the correctness of the article, “going after Wikipedia to take it down” does not describe the topic in the slightest. Why does this have so many upvotes? Are any of you even reading the linked article?
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 2 weeks ago:
Facebook and YouTube weren’t as good at recommending things back then. It’s not the internet as a whole that’s the problem, it’s what social media has become. Addiction skinner boxes. It’s not ok for kids to grow up using that.
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 2 weeks ago:
This is solving a systematic problem. The problem of social media companies having free reign to make kids addicted. This will give french kids more freedom to think and do actual things with their life.
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 2 weeks ago:
A good reason for banning smartphones is social media addiction. Not internet searching. Its currently normal for 12 year olds to be on their phone 6-12 hours a day. And because of peer pressure parents can’t do anything about it. A kid without a phone is isolated because everything happens in chat and social media.
There are more thorough solutions like age gating social media but a blanket school ban is a good start. If you still don’t believe me you should really read up on what smartphones do to a kid. Addiction, lack of self control, no attention span, nearsightedness, the list goes on. Based on leaked research by TikTok itself btw.
In China they don’t destroy their own kids because they already know the effects. TikTok shows different stuff (educational content and propaganda), and kids are limited to 40m(!!!) per day. Everyone is going to deal with scores of fucked up kids while they don’t.
- Comment on Nicole has taken a dark turn 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the headsup. That makes my notification icon feel a lot less risky to click 😅
- Comment on Nicole has taken a dark turn 2 weeks ago:
That’s pretty rough. I hope Lemmy webclient and app developers will make some changes to the way images are handled in DMs based on these events. Just don’t load images in DMs until you click a button or something.
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes more paperwork is certainly going to make your employees more productive. Why don’t you also require them to prototype if kicking a rock against the wall 10 times does the job, instead of actually letting them do the job?
- Comment on Reasoning models don't always say what they think. 3 weeks ago:
So chain of thought is an awful experiment that doesn’t let you know how an AI reasons. Instead of admitting this, AI researchers anthropomorphize yet another test result and turn it into the model hiding their thought process from you. Whatever.
- Comment on Quick PSA: Chat-interactive Fedi Plays streams will now rotate between games - check out the new currently active one here: Peertube Plays Chocobo's Dungeon 2 3 weeks ago:
Cool I didn’t know peertube supports live streams. Tried it and it worked like a charm
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 3 weeks ago:
Getting better at communication takes time and practice. Depending on where someone is in that journey, a post like this can make a big difference. And I think we can all use a reminder to be kind every so often. So, thanks for taking the time to write this out
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 3 weeks ago:
Dunno maybe you can subscribe to more instances (sublemmies? I don’t know the lingo) and somehow filter out the ones that go bad quickly. My enjoyment of Lemmy went up by a lot once I started ignoring the front page and curating my subscribed instances. Just make sure you visit the list of communities every so often
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 3 weeks ago:
There’s a great level of detail mod that can keep distant structures and terrain loaded in. I think it’s called Distant Horizons. That and a render performance improvement are the only mods that I play with, makes such a big difference.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah with Linux if it doesn’t work you’re often just screwed.
I can recommend a rolling release distro, having the latest and greatest can sometimes give you bugfixes that are critical for your setup. It can also break stuff but nothing a rollback won’t fix.
Another reason to prefer rolling release is the upgrade path. For Ubuntu upgrading is just awful when you do any tinkering. I ran Kubuntu 20.04 for a while and because I had some custom package sources installed it wouldn’t let me upgrade to 24.04. Nobody could help, and the package manager is awful it doesn’t let you trace which packages are blocking the upgrade.
I’m kind of miffed that everyone is recommending mint as a starter distro because as soon as they start looking for guides on how to tinker there is a high chance they are going to make their system un-upgradable.
- Comment on Ubisoft Leamington UK, responsible for development of Star Wars Outlaws and Skull & Bones, officially closed. 3 weeks ago:
My first reaction was to say that “follow the sun” (this is the actual term used in interviews as far as I can tell) can’t really improve production throughput any more than having multiple studios in the same country. But when you think about it having playtesters on an opposite timezone is pretty useful. And I’m sure you can set up some other sequential pipelines as well. I imagine it only works when the process is very streamlined though.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for the guide on how to switch. I’ve been using a mail provider with my own domain for a while now. I’m not unhappy with their service but they only let me make a few inboxes. Good to know switching can be seamless.