brygphilomena
@brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 1 day ago:
advanced reasoning
If it’s so advanced, it should be able to reason out that all human knowledge is standing in the shoulders of others and how errors have prompted us to explore other areas and learn things we never would have otherwise.
- Comment on Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports 3 days ago:
It also somewhat helped curb alts. You couldn’t just have an alt that did a thing in day.
But the isk and resource faucets were a problem from day one. It’s a resource hoarding game and it became too safe.
That era to me was also filled with clever scams and IMO as CCP made it safer for people it took a lot of magic out of the game. You used to have to be smart and attentive to play. Now it throws warnings at you for all sorts of things. Or got rid of some very fun mechanics (like pos bowling and lofty wars)
I also used to love spending 2m to war dec a corp. I would have dozens of wars going. And it wasn’t like small corps. It was fun to war dec all the big alliances at once with your little 5 man corp.
- Comment on Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports 5 days ago:
Oh man. I had some good times with bomber bar. Both joining them and baiting them.
I loved taking a rorq out with a massive tank and a full rack of smart bombs. Blowing up an entire fleet at once was so satisfying.
- Comment on Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports 5 days ago:
Or really knew how to manage their one game. They did something really cool, and then it reached its end game and had no idea what to do when that happened.
They add more ships, over and over, but more ships became harder and harder to balance. They changed resource allocation so it was less necessary to fight for space. They changed mechanics so people lost less. But it’s largely a game of wealth acquisition and when people don’t lose as much you have inflation and everyone had the end game toys.
They added a half dozen different currencies for different things. They added daily quests. They added login rewards.
Their end game was people fighting each other for space they controlled. But they never were able to deal with when everyone just sort of… Made pacts and stopped fighting over space. They never really, truly dealt with n+1 being the solution. They only made it where that became the necessity.
I’ve played for over a decade and while I haven’t logged in in a while, I still have an account.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
We put cameras in birds nests. Houses don’t make us not wild.
- Comment on The hidden cost of self-hosting 1 week ago:
When I got a new phone, immich was weird about the photos that came over when I transferred my phone data. After I confirmed they were all backed up (in like 3 places) I just nuked the copies pictures and videos from my phone.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
Some people don’t care about their cars at all. They will damage their own just to spite another driver.
I’ve driven big 30ft box trucks that are governed at 60mph and daily a 2 seater sports car. There is nothing worth fucking up my day just to win an argument on who gets to go first.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
Oh yea. I’ll watch the wheels, their head, and if I can see them reposition their hands, I’ll look for that.
I don’t trust anyone when I’m on the road.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
Up and down arrows? Up is away from you and down is towards you.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
< and > for turns. X for brakes.
Honestly, we should focus on functionality rather than aesthetic.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
I cannot stand how in some vehicles if I turn on the signal to indicate I am planning to change lanes, it will beep at me that there is a car there. I’m indicating I plan on it. Not that I’m turning the wheel right this second. I know there is a car to my side, I’m going to change lanes behind it, but am indicating mostly to the car behind them.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
It’s possible. Red really is only supposed to be on the back to indicate the rear of the vehicle.
It’s why on stretches of road where passing in oncoming lanes is legal, they tell you to turn on your headlights. Its so that there is a distinguishing feature between the front and rear of the car.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
As someone with ADHD, it is relaxing. And it is super enjoyable. I like thinking about how the weight of my car shifts going around corners. I like trying to be as smooth as possible shifting gears. There is a lot of information and the focus on it all quiets the noise normally in my head.
Leave early enough you aren’t stressed about being late.
Just let the asshole aggressive driver in.
Leave more than enough space that you have time to react.
Don’t treat it as a competition and it’s a pleasurable experience.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 2 weeks ago:
Is love then to know when someone is slowing down to turn when I’m trying to pull out. So few use turn signals, and even those I don’t really trust until the car is noticably getting slower.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 2 weeks ago:
I tried a Samsung phone a year or two ago. It lasted less than a day before I was so infuriated that I vowed never to use Samsung again. It is SO invasive and pushes so many ads and bloatware.
- Comment on New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker? 2 weeks ago:
Headscale is a locally hosted version. You can also just manually do wire guard. But tailscale is just a management tool for setting up an overlay network using wire guard.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 3 weeks ago:
End user management.
Essentially, accounts and passwords are not my problem.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 3 weeks ago:
Setting up a server? Pretty darn easy.
Teaching all your friends and relatives to figure out what app to use and login with your dyndns random entry or IP address. Or even more difficult, using VPN.
It’s not the hosting that’s hard. It’s the watching for non-tech people.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 3 weeks ago:
Fuck telegram. I get so many spam messages there.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 3 weeks ago:
Everyone’s definition of attractive is different, but typically everyone wants their partner to be both loving and attractive. It’s the “full package.”
So they care because they want you to have both, they want the best for you. So long as you find him attractive, that should be good enough.
- Comment on How are Americans so outgoing and extroverted and how can I become the same? 5 weeks ago:
My mentality that has helped (before I worked in retail and dealt with hundreds if not thousands of people a day) was realizing that they will probably think about me just as much as I think about them in a few hours. Which is not at all.
There is a little nihilism of “nothing in this conversation matter” mixed with I learned I kind of like people. The vast majority of people are nice.
- Comment on Let's put an end to the discussion; what is the best way? 5 weeks ago:
I have one. We still use the plastic bags, but just needed a place to put it that wasn’t “out.”
- Comment on Very gently, I’m sure 1 month ago:
In the firework industry we use ABS in our mortars because they will stretch and rip if a firework explodes in the tube rather than shatter and turn into shrapnel.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Best PE teacher I had actually made it a class where we had to learn the rules of the games and were given tests on them. Then we spent a couple weeks playing the games and she had the kids acting as referees enforcing the rules we learned. We played basketball, baseball, football, bowling. She taught us different dances like line dancing and square dancing. When it was winter and there was enough snow. We even learned cross country skiing.
Then I moved to a different school and my PE curriculum became "run a mile.’ I have exercised induced asthma. Running was a literal hell for me.
- Comment on Does anyone else hate knowing stuff and looking "smart"? 1 month ago:
The curse of competence.
Being smart means I keep getting handed more work.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 2 months ago:
This is basically what killed my Linux laptop. Some windows update borked the partitions (and not just grub) so that Linux wouldn’t boot anymore. I would never recommend using both on the same disk.
I don’t really use that laptop for much anymore though.
- Comment on In the not too distant past this was a thing 2 months ago:
I’m not wearing it now. But I have an old Casio calculator watch I wear.
Same one Dennis Nerdy wears in Jurassic Park
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 2 months ago:
As much as I loathe Samsung for many of their practices, there are options if you look for Commercial signage or hospitality tvs
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 2 months ago:
This Samsung is out of stock, but there are options. You just need to look for signage displays or hospitality tvs.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 2 months ago:
Don’t waymos have remote drivers that take control in unexpected situationsml?