atomicbocks
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- Comment on There are only like 3,000 billionaires and they're not physically imposing people. 6 days ago:
Paying money to prevent spam is different than paying money to avoid helping people and doing your share in society.
- Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles 6 days ago:
In fact, recreating the computing experience of the Commodore 64 (and BBC Micro as they are a British foundation) was one of the specific purposes of the Raspberry Pi.
- Comment on Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app 1 week ago:
Because there aren’t any developers in charge any more. At places like MS and Google now promotions are given to people who make a big splash. Fixing a bug doesn’t get attention.
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 1 week ago:
I think you are giving people too much credit. Lots of people have a budget they can spend on appliances (like a credit line) and they get the best (most expensive) one they can get on that budget. Others will do the opposite and get the cheapest but only people like you find on Lemmy (Linux users for instance) in my experience will make a choice in the middle based on feature set.
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs 1 week ago:
For what it’s worth an NPU is why your phone could tell you that photo is of a cat years before LLMs were the hot new thing. They were originally marketed as accelerators for machine learning applications before everybody started calling that AI.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 1 week ago:
On the contrary, lots of people were radicalized by hearing people like new age healers given the same airtime as medical doctors.
It’s taken 20 years to fail at making the publicly funded internet a utility. The purpose of the doctrine was to govern publicly owned airwaves. I strongly believe it would have been and is impossible to expand the FCCs jurisdiction to include privately owned networks. I also strongly believe that the current administration would abuse the fuck out of these regulations.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 1 week ago:
People give the fairness doctrine too much credit; First it’s partially responsible for the current mentality of all opinions matter no matter how stupid. But more importantly it only ever applied to broadcast TV and Radio, not cable or satellite, or the Internet. So it never would have applied to Fox News, for instance.
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 2 weeks ago:
Fun fact: 7 was the last version MS produced under the injunction from the late 90s that prevented them from bundling required services with the OS. They actually had MS accounts (then called .NET Passports) ready to track activation and for login on XP but had to make them optional.
- Comment on The Trump phone just missed another release date 2 weeks ago:
Well yeah, the Obama phone thing was actually trying to help people.
- Comment on Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality 2 weeks ago:
Heat is so easily retained in space that when the Shuttle launched they only had 4 hours to open the cargo doors to expose the radiators or the cabin and electronics would overheat and they would have to scrub the mission. They never had to scrub for that reason though.
- Comment on Didn't realize how hard MGS4's Disc Swap joke hit until I backed it up 2 weeks ago:
This is also why the Arcade* version of the 360 flopped so hard.
* ^^Back^ in the early-ish days of the 360 it didn’t have an HDMI port and it had memory card slots. They also sold one with an HDMI port called the 360 Elite and a cheaper one with no HDMI and no HDD (though one could be purchased separately and added later) designed to be used with memory cards exclusively called the 360 Arcade. The no HDMI boards were the ones most susceptible to the Red Ring of Death.^
- Comment on Survey reveals most people are holding onto their phones for a long time, and it makes sense 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, unfortunately lots of states are dumping their “carrier of last resort” regulations, and companies in those that haven’t are doing everything they can to kill them.
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 3 weeks ago:
The number of times I have received an un-proofread two sentence email is too damn high.
- Comment on How long until we can start shorting years to 2 numbers again? 3 weeks ago:
Time to ruin your day…
The words naughties and aughties are interchangeable and we have been calling them that since 2000.
- Comment on Waymo halts service during S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams 3 weeks ago:
How have these things not encountered out-of-service stop lights before? This seems like the kind of thing you test before you let them around people.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 3 weeks ago:
Newegg is still a thing, you just need to check the “Sold by Newegg” filter.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 5 weeks ago:
I guess we will just have to agree to disagree on that one. Personally, I think you are giving the Xbox far too much credit.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 5 weeks ago:
You clearly missed out on a whole era of shit like Pocket Tanks and Zuma.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 5 weeks ago:
When I think of the rise of indie gaming I think about the early 2000s when people could put their game on their own website and things like Steam were coming out. The Xbox doesn’t even cross my mind. Consoles were very much not the realm of indie games until like the Wii U.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 5 weeks ago:
The original meaning of indie was independently published. I would think having a publisher would pretty squarely put you in the not indie category.
- Comment on People that have face/butt labeled towels must do a terrible job washing their butts 1 month ago:
Yes and no.
What you are actually smelling are mercaptans, specifically methyl mercaptan (aka methanethiol), hydrogen sulfide, and a few other organic compounds.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 1 month ago:
The World Wide Web, the Internet is the physical network and servers upon which many software stacks run including the Web.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 1 month ago:
When it didn’t go away when I was temporarily taken off my adhd meds as a teen. Before that they thought it was just because of the meds. That was apparently also the earliest indication that I would have adult adhd. If you have an adhd doc talk to them about it, it’s pretty common to have both.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 1 month ago:
I have Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome… light has no effect on me. Checkmate scientists!
- Comment on Nvidia lobbies White House and wins loosened AI GPU export control to China — U.S. lawmakers reportedly reject GAIN AI Act. There is another bill in the works. 1 month ago:
I thought those were mostly at the state level.
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 1 month ago:
Bunch is made hams for Mac originally. The 2003 Mac version isn’t a port, It’s the original game. The PC and Xbox versions are the port. That’s why it feels like it’s behind those. Because it literally did have less development time despite coming out later.
They released another Halo for Mac a few years later that I think is the one the other commenter is talking about. It came out around the time of the MacBook Air and as a result is the only game I know of that has an official no-cd patch.
- Comment on A screenshot that is the old evidence of my first ever attempt at a game. 1 month ago:
This reminds me of my first game, a Zelda arrow shooting clone that we built in Microsoft XNA. What was this built in?
- Comment on We have one at home 1 month ago:
Because the Xbox was built in secret while Microsoft and Sega collaborated on the Dreamcast. It’s actually somewhat compatible with Dreamcast games but MS never wanted to allow that feature.
Also the Duke is the only comfortable controller I have ever used.
- Comment on Your Smartphone, Their Rules: How App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship | ACLU 1 month ago:
They have already done that twice with Windows RT and Windows 10 S/S Mode.
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 1 month ago:
The CD-I was at least like footnoteworthy.