TheFeatureCreature
@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca
Hello!
I’m a nonbinary Canadian Blender artist! You can find my work here: Galleries, commissions, prints, and more!
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- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 3 days ago:
Depends entirely on the volume and time spent at that volume.
Just using headphones in general? No.
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 1 week ago:
I’m with Posteo.
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 2 weeks ago:
I am open to the idea of paying for quality services that put the customer first. Hell, I pay for my email and have done so for years.
But Kagi has always squicked me out a bit. Some of their business practices over the years have been rather questionable, especially their push into AI which is exactly the sort of thing someone looking at Kagi would probably want to avoid. They are also very expensive. They’re one of those services that just assumes everyone is American so they just give a $ cost and don’t specify beyond that, so I’m going to assume their prices are in USD which means a plan for my dad and myself is $21CAD a month. That absurdly overpriced for a search engine subscription.
To put that into perspective: A YouTube premium family plan covers up to 6 accounts and is the same price and includes unlimited video and music streaming. Thoughts about YouTube aside and looking at this from a pure value perspective, paying that same price just for a search engine is a godawful shit deal. Do you know what my email costs per month? $1.25CAD
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 weeks ago:
The TES series in general for its massive, expansive lore.
But Morrowind in particular has absolutely incredible world-building with incredible creativity and originality. There is a reason why so many people keep going back to the n’wah simulator and it’s because the world is so rich and incredible. So much of the following games was built off Morrowind’s incredible work.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 2 weeks ago:
They need lifetimes in prison for treason and domestic terrorism.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 3 weeks ago:
The 1080p for premium users is garbage too. Youtube’s video quality in general is shockingly poor. If there is even a slight amount of noisy movement on screen (foliage, confetti, rain, snow, etc) the the video can literally become unwatchable.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 3 weeks ago:
Kind of a tangent, but properly encoded 1080p video with a decent bitrate actually looks pretty damn good.
A big problem is that we’ve gotten so used to streaming services delivering visual slop, like YouTube’s 1080p option which is basically just upscaled 720p and can even look as bad as 480p.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Good point.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
How many times is this game going to get remade…
- Comment on Krafton is now an 'AI-first company,' will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to 'serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI' 3 weeks ago:
It all makes sense now.
- Comment on Krafton is now an 'AI-first company,' will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to 'serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI' 3 weeks ago:
Subnautica 2 is so screwed.
- Comment on OpenAI launches an AI-powered browser: ChatGPT Atlas 4 weeks ago:
I cannot think of a piece of software that I want on my computer less than something like this. Literal voluntary malware.
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 4 weeks ago:
The USA. I’ve never actually been there but you couldn’t even pay me to cross the border. I’d rather not risk being disappeared to a ICE torture site because they searched my phone and found out I called Trump a poopoo head.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 4 weeks ago:
Microsoft is so incredibly fucked when the AI bubble starts to burst. They’ve abandoned so many of their other projects and customers to go all-in on it.
- Comment on Is airtags really useful? 4 weeks ago:
I have an airtag on my car keys and another hidden on my ebike. The latter is shared with immediate family so they can easily locate me if something goes wrong and I’m unable to contact them.
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 5 weeks ago:
Honestly? Aloy from the Horizon games. She’s maybe not the most rounded character, but she is a very strong, determined, stubborn, and intelligent person. She knows what she wants and will stop at nothing to get it. I think it also helps that the games don’t really have many choices or multiple endings, which I think was a good design choice. The story belongs to Aloy, not the player.
Also she’s not a protag (sorta, you can play as her) but I would like to give a shoutout to Lae’zel from BG3. I suspect a lot of players haven’t explored her character questline much because of how prickly she is at the beginning, but her character development is extensive and, at times, heart-wrenching. A story of someone getting the entire fabric of their life and soul torn out from under them.
- Comment on YSK you can cancel subscriptions by removing them from your credit card/payment processor, or call the bank and ask someone to remove them. 1 month ago:
Just a note that doing this may result in actions being taken against your accounts(s) - especially charge-backs or related actions. A charge back will almost always result in your account being permanently banned and they will ban you if you try to make new ones.
Make sure you research the service you want to cancel and the options you’d like to take to cancel it. If it’s a service you make heavy use of then you need to exercise some caution.
- Comment on Nobody who complains about video games costing more than $60 ever considers inflation 1 month ago:
Older games did have less content.
But that’s not a bad thing. It just meant they usually weren’t filled with dozens of hours of busywork, grind, and pointless padding.
- Comment on Nobody who complains about video games costing more than $60 ever considers inflation 1 month ago:
I just went and checked on the cost of Mario Kart World out of curiosity. $110CAD for a digital download game for a mobile console. Holy shit. That is absolutely criminal.
- Comment on I wouldn't call it "Irritable" Bowel Syndrome... 1 month ago:
Spay n pray
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 1 month ago:
I think there is only one store left near me that has them and it’s more of a boutique grocery store rather than a large chain.
- Comment on Google Play is getting a Gemini-powered AI Sidekick to help you in games 1 month ago:
Shareholder-led design.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 2 months ago:
I use Win11 on my main computer for work and school reasons. I need maximum compatibility and reliability and it has met those goals. Back in the day, I used to use Linux on my old laptops and I dual-booted it on my main PC. It has been awesome seeing how far it has come and I would like to get back into it some day.
That being said, a huge barrier for Linux and prospective new users is the community. The Linux community is highly combative and toxic and it absolutely sours what should (and could!) be a great experience. Almost every interaction I had while troubleshooting had some level of condescending attitude or outright hostility and there were numerous times I was directly insulted for asking for help - the most recent being a couple years ago when I was trying out a distro and had sound driver issues.
- Comment on negativity is probably destructive to relationships 2 months ago:
More like certainly. It is hard to have a relationship with (or even exist alongside) someone who is constantly dragging you down.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 months ago:
Only a matter of time before Google will shut that down too.
- Comment on Tea is basically just salad water. 2 months ago:
Good time to drop an educational reminder that tea isn’t just leaves in hot water but an actual plant. The tea plant, or Camellia sinensis.
A lot of the things that get labeled as “tea” are not actually tea.
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 2 months ago:
I stopped using Spotify years ago and every time I hear about it I only get my decision further reinforced. What an absolutely cancerous company.
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 2 months ago:
An American solution to an American problem.
- Comment on Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms? 2 months ago:
The bizarre hostility of Reddit users is baffling. It’s like they’ve never interacted with a human being in real life and have no idea how to process an opinion that isn’t a 1:1 match of their own.
You could say something like “I love waffles! :D” and get a response that is like “Oh, so you hate pancakes then? Wow, you didn’t need to shit on every person that loves pancakes.”
- Comment on Bungie CEO Pete Parsons retires: With Destiny 2 sentiment at an all-time low and pressure from Sony growing, Parsons has decided it's time to 'pass the torch' and head for an exit 2 months ago:
I stopped playing when I learned the DLC I paid for would be removed and no longer accessible. I already had some growing negative sentiment towards the game at that point but being outright ripped off was the last straw.