EarlGrey
@EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 4 weeks ago:
No, I didn’t. Probably because you never said you did. Weird how that works.
Now, had you said “Hey, I run a business, something like this would probably cost X per year and I think I would have Y users. Which would mean I’d minimally have to charge Z to make this viable” I probably would have given my input.
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 5 weeks ago:
Well I’m glad you would go into the depth of researching the economic viability of something when you think “I’d like to have this amenity”.
But I don’t. Because why the fuck would I?
If someone wants to go through the work of researching the costs of setting up such a service, layout the costs, and make some proposals and how much they’d need to charge to the community I’d happily contribute.
Until then…dude you took an offhand “Hey I’d like to see something like this” and turned it into some weird obsession with making me name how much i’d spend on something.
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 5 weeks ago:
I want a kebab shop down the street. You gonna demand I tell you how much I’d pay for a kebab and then wildly insult the community for not doing it themselves?
without any reward
It is called a business. Someone sees a potential opportunity (through, i dunno. People talking about how much they’d like it), does the research, determines if it’s a viable investment on their part, and either starts it up or doesn’t.
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 5 weeks ago:
Of course I didn’t respond to it. Because it has nothing to do with my point. Im not going to go out there and do extensive business research just to satisfy your weird demand.
It’s something I’d like to see someone take on. It’s something I’d wager other people would like to see take on. The economic viability I leave to anyone that wants to take it on.
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 5 weeks ago:
Regular auditing of the infrastructure" seems like a very enterprise-y thing to expect from a basic SaaS.
That’s the entire point. Offer a premium service when compared to the alternatives and you get to bring in revenue.
Currently, every instance essentially makes a pinky promise that our data isn’t being used maliciously. An audit provides assurances they are.
- Comment on Mastodon has a new plan to make money: Hosting and support services for the open social web 5 weeks ago:
I would love to see hosts start offering subscription based instances and do things like paying for regular auditing of their infrastructure to give us some assurance that our data is actually secure.
I’d legitimately pay for that.
- Comment on What first emulation handheld would you recommend? 5 weeks ago:
The 3DSXL is the best. Hands down. It has native support for 3DS/DS games as you’d expect, however it also has native support for GBA games (As in not emulated).
Obviously not for GBA carts, and you do need to do a bit of fuckery to get them to work, but work they do.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
Runbacks are shit and a lame attempt at artificially increasing difficulty. I’ll happily die on that hill. I love difficult games, but there is a fine line between frustration and difficult.
Elden Ring (at least all the bits I played through) and Sekiro absolutely nailed it. None of the run backs were particularly egregious, and it let me really focus on experimenting and learning to feel out the difficult fights. Celeste is another good example. I have dropped hours on some of the later levels trying to master them, but never once got frustrated.
Hollow Knight I never finished because I got stuck on a boss and the runback was just way too long and annoying. I loved everything else about the game and want to finish it eventually.
- Comment on Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon 1 month ago:
wait till Jack decides ita time to cash out
I mean, you don’t like BlueSky, fair. But Jack Dorsey left like…over a year ago.
- Comment on At Gamescom, it felt like the industry now has a plan: make games quicker | Opinion 2 months ago:
There are exactly two major developers that get an eye raise from me these days. Nintendo and From Software. And even From Software I’m cool on right now because I’m just real burned out on excessively depressing grimdark fantasy.
And Indie Devs aren’t even filling in the gap for me anymore. Granted, I see a lot of interesting concepts put out with them, but they way too often come with disappointing execution. The last two indie games to really floor me were Neon White and GhostRunner.
Games are just in a really weak place right now. I honestly find I’m spending more and more time on the NSO virtual console games.
- Comment on Shenmue III Enhanced announced for PS5, Xbox Series, Nintendo, and PC 2 months ago:
The biggest issue among the Shenmue community was that it left us in another fucking cliffhanger. Seriously. Yu. I love how dedicated you are to your vision…but this is getting annoying.
Most of the other criticisms were about how slow and plodding some things were…which is someone a lot of us liked about Shenmue.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a 'real' server browser, and it's about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed 2 months ago:
The two are not mutually exclusive.
Arguing against servers because you want match making is like arguing that you hate McDonalds serving Cheeseburgers because you want Chicken nuggets.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a 'real' server browser, and it's about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed 2 months ago:
The amount of time I’ve spent playing online games has fallen off a cliff after forced matchmaking, particularly SBMM. They’ve legitimately ruined my enjoyment of games.
I got into Overwatch for a bit, but the SBMM meant that at lower levels it was basically a coin flip if I would get a team that wanted to play as a team, or a bunch of kill whores who only cared about their K/D ratio. I don’t want to have to drop hundreds of hours int mastering the game just to have actual teamwork.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 2 months ago:
Oblivion.
Daggerfall was awesome and Morrowind blew me away. Going into Oblivion I had the highest hopes. Bought the Collectors Edition, took the day off…and biggest disappointment from a game ever. Granted I like Skyrim. Not as much as Daggerfall or Morrowind, but far more than Oblivion. So I guess it didn’t kill the franchise for me.
Bonus popular game that actually killed the franchise for me: GTA4. I loved the Trilogy, but I could not stand IV. All the main characters annoyed the piss out of me, the driving and gun play weren’t nearly as fun…I tried to play it but got burned out around 1/3rd of the way in. Tried to play GTA5 a few years ago and I felt burned out after 40 minutes.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 2 months ago:
If you’re talking about that video where he talked about getting $12 for 80 million streams…he was very clearly taking the piss.
He made closer to $200k, which is still pretty low (hence, the joke) and doesn’t account for his labels cut.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 2 months ago:
Yes, Qobuz is significantly more mainstream than BandCamp. I don’t know if the catalogue is on par with Spotify or AM or whatever, but most popular music is on it.
Bandcamp is like an indie zine that occasionally ships with a burned CD from a local band that has to live in the same rented house with no A/C and a half empty bottle of makers mark in the fridge.
Qobuz is a record store.
- Comment on Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice 3 months ago:
The Document Foundation doesn’t actually employ developers. They just oversee and manage the development and direction of LibreOffice.
- Comment on There's still no sign of Star Citizen 1.0, but it did just get a revamped referral program so the die-hards can tempt in even more saps 3 months ago:
I’ve spent about $125 on this game, and I would definitely get pissed if I bought in for all the promises they made.
However, I bought just to have a really pretty “Fly around in space while exploring my spaceship and listening to music” game. And I’ve gotten my moneys worth.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 3 months ago:
Problem is that if you have a critical application (like banking) that relies on Google services you’re SOL.
It’s Apple or Google at that point.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 3 months ago:
Apple has been seriously underperforming on their AI strategy.
Really makes it easy to keep using their devices.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 4 months ago:
- Davinci? Yup
- Adobe? Not even remotely.
- Unreal…yes? I’m pretty sure th development tools still run on Linux at least.
- Crossplatform work? As long as it’s in the same format from the same application, you should be fine. Just format the drive in something Windows can understand.
- Steam? Works flawlessly as do most games now. You will need to change some settings, but only because Steam will by default only show games that are verified by valve to work (most games do though). Your biggest hurdle will be the developers that specifically block Linux.
- Non-Steam games? You’ll need to do some work, but you can get them running just as well as steam games
- Xbox App/Xbox GamePass? Nope.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 5 months ago:
I do try.
Every single former co-worker has ghosted me at this point and even my friends have basically taken a “Hahaha, for sure mate, for sure, hey have you guys ever changed the conversation?” attitude when I bring up connecting me with people.
People suck lol.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 5 months ago:
Cool. I mean I haven’t been able to get past a single 10-minute “I just want to go over the job with you and collect some basic information” phone interview in 6-months.
But ya know. Another 6,000 people on the market is cool too.
- Comment on Giant Bomb, a web site about video games, has been purchased from Fandom 5 months ago:
I hope they take a shot at written content again. It’s less a gaming website and more of a podcast network at this point.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remake Reveal Livestream (starts in 23 hours) 5 months ago:
I actually restarted halfway through because I leveled up so much that every enemy (even animals) were miserable to fight.
I realized you only leveled up when you slept so I just never slept. Game was way easier.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 6 months ago:
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 6 months ago:
SteamOS-like distributions probably aren’t for you right now. nvidia has massively improved over the year but it’s still not on par with AMD.
Using an immutable distro (which Steam OS and its kind are) is just going to complicate things. Your easiest bet is using a distro that will install the correct drivers at install, like pop_os or mint.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 6 months ago:
If you want SteamOS there are plenty of options that are effectively the exact same thing but with a different name.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 6 months ago:
Oh Rust is great, and it’s on my learning to do list…but its evangelists are annoying as shit.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 6 months ago:
But dude, bro, we could put the entire system on the blockchain man, and make it super efficient with an AI backend that will remove all errors bro.
Dude it’s not even written in Rust bro. WTF is this dinosaur shit?