altkey
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- Comment on its actually worse bc ports are counted twice for 2.0 & 3.0 3 hours ago:
Video. If there is something mindlessly excessive, it’s always video. And if you have tree leaves for budget, instead of slightly more expensive hardware controllers or PCIe cards that can combine multiple inputs and outputs, and do it right, you default to cheap usb dongles per device used, and compose them on software level. If you collect inputs from several devices and output these to something like displays on a scene, while also collecting audio from mics, DJ deck, and outputting these too, numbers add up quickly. This clownshow is further expanded by unreliable software, usb power, Microslop Windows in most cases - because pros use it or Mac, no penguins. I have no pride in greatly exceeding what some random PCs could predictably do, for fixing random errors here and there when USB and USB hubs hit their practical ceiling is just another level of Dante’s hell, for all us time- and harware-restricted tinkerers.
- Comment on Nier Automata 1 day ago:
So having to redo that three times was… annoying…
You are in for a little trolling. Notice the moment when you see the opening title screen for the first time. You haven’t seen it yet (:
Game won’t let you miss anything or lock you from content for any reason. I can only suggest you to look out for materials you see in the wild, as you’d need a lot of them. Have a nice time with it!
- Comment on Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year 1 week ago:
Idk. I’m criticizing it and am not a person to use it. If anything, I’d like to read human-made guides myself. But, yeah, if Cortana/CoPilot would do anything, it would be just a neuro summary of first links on Google that you can get by voice inputting prompts. MS has no technology to insert itself into every new game in any way but with this crude and slightly context-aware voice assistant.
- Comment on Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year 1 week ago:
In a Hello Google kind of way, I guess. Creating a summary of existing web pages, hoping it would be somehow correct.
- Comment on Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year 1 week ago:
I think that there is a niche for platform-provided guides like on Steam. They’d probably not be user-created on consoles tho because of a potential liability for what 69_gamer_420 wrote, but either game studios themselves or existing 3rd parties could’ve created a web app to serve their guides in the overlay or integrate these into the game itself (prerecorded ghost-players?). If it could have been put as a standard accessibility feature by Microsoft, I could see it happening. And I find it more probable than a genuinely helpful chatbot because of too many dependencies on context in each and every game. I’ve already got unasked advices on a few games that boiled down to using mechanics not present in exact games I was googling about.
- Comment on BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient 2 weeks ago:
China has also implemented the world’s most stringent standards for battery safety. They require automakers to ensure that batteries don’t catch fire or explode for at least two hours after a single cell enters thermal runaway. If it does go ablaze, Chinese automakers are experimenting with some unusual ways of protecting the car and occupants from the battery fire.
I like it way more than charging speeds. But also - I’m interested in how many recharge cycles they supposedly can live through, and that’s not in the article.
- Comment on GoldenEye 007: The Accidental Masterpiece Trapped in Licensing Limbo 2 weeks ago:
Never tried it, but am starting to consider it (:
A similar legal fate happened to NOLF as well: youtu.be/1eDs93O-5ck
- Comment on New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice 2 weeks ago:
I do agree it’s limited to a small scope of New York-based smaller LLMs, but if you read the news you know why exactly this bill occured - just now Mamdani gave up on a useless chatbot made with local budget by his predecessor Adams: thecity.nyc/…/mamdani-unusable-ai-chatbot-budget/ It was indeed giving inaccurate legal recomendations on city’s website. I think the better result that can happen to that bill is it becoming a trend across cities and states as, I suspect, New York administration wasn’t the only one falling for this scam.
- Comment on Paging SpaceCowboy 2 weeks ago:
That, the goofy beartrap headshot, and the fact it was put together in DaVinci Resolve instead of Adobe and the likes 🙄
- Comment on Counter-Strike: Global Offensive reappears on Steam as a standalone download 2 weeks ago:
Imagine them adding a basic server-side software next. Nothing can hinder the popularity of the current CS, but having another CS playable on primarily dedicated servers means mods, servers with their own communities, LAN parties etc.
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 3 weeks ago:
A nitpick, but America won’t have Gitmo in that scenario tho. Displacing american people to random countries now is deeply rooted in the premise it’s okay to have a torture camp franchized over to places out of everyone’s sight. It wasn’t okay before and it’s not now, and serious country with some sense and a accountability would not employ such tactic.
- Comment on Meta Employee Deleted 9TB of Torrented Files, Adult Film Producers Claim 3 weeks ago:
Too early for the Metaverse, just in time for Metawankers.
- Comment on Ouch 3 weeks ago:
Welcome to Farmington. Population: this tool
- Comment on Floating turbine towers above — the S1500 hovers to harvest wind at 131 feet 3 weeks ago:
Posting them around rich people’s private airfields would improve their footprint even further.
- Comment on The Developer the Handheld Scene Depends On: An Interview With Gamma 4 weeks ago:
Glad to hear that. Keep on posting (;
- Comment on The Developer the Handheld Scene Depends On: An Interview With Gamma 4 weeks ago:
After an article on Songo#5 that one sounded a bit dry. Maybe that’s a side effect of prefering reliability over flashiness :) If there would be a second article about GammaOS, it wouldn’t hurt to flesh out the process down to specific challenges the dev overcame, just anecdotes evolving while testing and fixing stuff, or talk about how community members participated in the development of said project, what opportunities Gamma sees there. And, for a really unique kind of gear I haven’t heard of, I feel a bit puzzled as of what a second screen can bring onto the table when emulating single screen games, what other people came up with.
Btw, there’s a small typo in the Why the LineageOS? part, in image attributions concerning Fix/Fox person’s photoes.
- Comment on Just stand still and don't speak 5 weeks ago:
sudo meow
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- Comment on *FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises* 5 weeks ago:
Typical Derry folks: fearing everything to the point of joining a redhead clown
- Comment on Finally, a USB standard that can provide the data AND power requirements of a city. 5 weeks ago:
The mouthfeel vs the current
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 5 weeks ago:
The LLM writing this feels almost sentient lol.
- Comment on Epstein details scrubbed from Mandelson’s Wikipedia page by shady paid editor— As the then-ambassador came under fire, an anonymous user tried to downplay his history of support for Jeffrey Epstein 5 weeks ago:
Imagine having a collection of Wikipedia backups and disclosing that on a first date.
What are we reading today, babe? 2020q1, the Covid hoaxes? Yeah, that’s the shit.
- Comment on Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children 5 weeks ago:
Swirl is destfuctive like almost everything in raster graphics with recompressing, but unswirling it back makes a good approximation in somehow reduced quality. If the program or a code of effect is known, e.g. they did it in Photoshop, you just drag a slider to the opposite side. Coming to think of it, it could be a nice puzzle in an adventure game or one another kind of captcha.
- Comment on Save as PDF 1 month ago:
One time nothing really worked I used a pikepdf python lib. Open file -> Guess pass -> Resave. I was surprised it’s that simple.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 1 month ago:
Jitsi is great as a Skype/Zoom replacement. It’s not a ‘room’ on a server, but voice and video chats are stable and fast.
- Comment on Windows 11 is finally killing off legacy printer drivers in 2026 — and it’s going to shake up a lot of older hardware 1 month ago:
It’s almost like they agressively promote a premium Windows subscription where this bullshit doesn’t happen, but there is none.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 1 month ago:
1.99 prices > 2.00 prices
Maybe I adapted to that with time, like .99 always felt like a scam pricing strategy, but for me everything involving number nine is worse than, say 1.20. Double nines are the worst. Flat prices with zeroes make me more confident and interested somehow.
- Comment on Distraction 1 month ago:
Like with phone call scams, being paralyzingly overwhelming is the point.
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- Comment on Gatetonium 1 month ago:
All hail the Malware Man
