PeteWheeler
@PeteWheeler@lemmy.world
- Comment on Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S. 5 days ago:
I have such a nuanced opinion of Nintendo.
I would prefer to pay for high prices to a company that has the reputation of “consistently fun no matter what (unless its online)”.
Why? Because I am tired of paying a ‘good’ price for other media (or any goods/services) with a bunch of hidden aggressive enshitification. I know that when I buy mario kart, I am getting mario kart.
Can’t say the same for most other stuff, especially AAA video games. Nintendo might ask for high prices, but they deliver their product. And that is what I was promised in a capitalist economy, but rarely get it. So I am ‘happy’ as long as Nintendo doesn’t screw me individually.
BUT!!!
Fuck Nintendo for what they have done historically to the smash community. I won’t forget.
- Comment on Do it 1 week ago:
The heart from your hate in my ass
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 4 weeks ago:
Yeah no shit. Then the new ones literally have less features than the old one. Like connecting SharePoint calendars
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 5 weeks ago:
New games just don’t have a ‘punch’ to it anymore. They are not not game breaking anymore.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with old games either. They are the same as they were, which is why reboots and remakes are so popular.
- Comment on 6 years and 1 prolonged delay later, Xbox is still calling "incredible" Hollow Knight: Silksong one of its "upcoming games" 5 weeks ago:
My prediction is that Silksong will be a Nintendo Switch 2 launch title or something similar.
- Comment on People are using Google’s new AI model to remove watermarks from images 5 weeks ago:
Who knew you could just gaslight our AI overlords?
- Comment on Customer is mistakenly accused of text spamming for repeatedly replying STOP to political texts 5 weeks ago:
This is Not the Onion territory.
If only we had regulations…
- Comment on Digg is about to be rebooted. Thoughts? 1 month ago:
No real info, so I am not hopeful and cynical.
My guess the new superpower is AI stuff or a shop to give them money for the memes.
- Comment on Starting to self host 1 month ago:
Hello, I am also new at self hosting semi recently. There is a bit of a learning curve, but once your over the hump, it gets a lot better.
First, 100% use docker desktop if your using windows. Most github projects have a docker file you can use. This will take out 90% of the setup required and you don’t have to worry about applications not working on your computer. Thats the point of docker, to remove the “doesn’t work on my computer” problem.
Here are some independent github projects that I found useful for me and were simple to setup.
- excalidraw - digital whiteboard. You don’t need to self host this, but its a fun little project. You can just go to excalidraw.com and have 100% of the same features (it is all saved in your browser’s cache).
- mealie - I cook a lot so this is a nice ‘permanent’ cook book to have.
- warracker - I always forget what I have warranties on, so this will be helpful for me.
- Arr projects like sonarr, radarr, Jellyfin - sonarr and radarr is a good project to sink your teeth into (do not recommend using docker for this, I had issues with my docker container connecting to my external drives because I have Windows Home edition). This ecosystem is usually everyone’s first project along with pihole since its so useful. Sonarr and radarr will probably take you a week or weekend, Jellyfin will take like 5 min.
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 1 month ago:
Hi, just joined today. Already love it! I somehow get more interaction on here than I do on reddit.
Definitely looking forward to small communities again.
- Comment on Elon Musk blames X outages on “massive cyberattack” 1 month ago:
Reddit told me Anonymous is taking credit for it. Wonder if it is true or not. Either way, I do hope this is an attack on him.
- Comment on The right-to-repair movement is growing as wins stack up 1 month ago:
I’ve just described to you a person that really wanted to learn something, and did it. Put in hours of mental and physical effort. And your response is that nobody wants to learn, and that people only learn what they want to learn? Which is self-evident and vacuous.
No need to be rude man. You also described the same person as unwilling to learn something. And I didn’t say that person wanted to learn or not, I generalized and said people don’t want to learn.
I believe we are both trying to say the same thing with different emphasis.
You are emphasizing that people do like to learn, but there are external forces that encourage/convince them not to.
I am emphasizing that people don’t like to learn, unless they want to overcome the external forces. I just don’t buy the excuse of external factors stopping people from learning, that’s part of the learning process.
Your example talks about a person building a pc. Yes it takes time, energy, money, and learning. But it also has A TON of resources to help with that on the internet, definitely makes it easier. It is now a famously recommended project for anybody, even kids. It was also something that is ‘new’ to them, I assume.
Typing this out made me realize a distinction I failed to bring up. People do like to learn, but people HATE to UN-learn ideas. The person in your example wanted to learn something new, but did not want to unlearn the iphone walled garden.
- Comment on No More Parts Guesswork With iFixit’s Device Compatibility Checker 1 month ago:
- Comment on No More Parts Guesswork With iFixit’s Device Compatibility Checker 1 month ago:
I used kiwix.org/en/ to download wikipedia originally.
Then I saw in the desktop app that you can download a lot more “wikis” other than wikipedia. This is their library. library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng
library.kiwix.org/viewer#ifixit_en_all_2024-12/ho…
It includes computers, phones, game consoles, appliances, vehicles, tools, even medical devices and apparel.
- Comment on Solar-Powered E-Reader With No Buttons 1 month ago:
Okay this is so fucking cool.
- Comment on X is having an up and down Monday 1 month ago:
I heard that anonymous is taking credit for the ddos attack today.
If so, fucking finally!
- Comment on Chromecast (2nd gen) and Audio cannot Cast in 'Untrusted' outage 1 month ago:
I always had issues with chromecast. And I haven’t used one in 5+ years. I assumed they were better by now?
- Comment on Death Stranding 2: On the Beach | Pre-Order Trailer 1 month ago:
Love Kojima. Will play anything he makes even for a little because of his legacy.
I am really trying to get into games blind, especially a Kojima experience, but can someone tell me if this is looking like a ‘true’ Death Stranding 2, as in, the same overall game play loop of delivering packages and finding human connection in the world?
- Comment on Gaming has a polarization problem 1 month ago:
Well… to me this seems awfully close to “stop hitting yourself problem”.
Why are you looking comments everywhere? Do you really need that information to make a decision? Is it so bad to play a bad game now and then? I don’t see a problem, because this problem is easily avoidable by not going to social media for opinions.
Or am I missing the point?
- Comment on Split Fiction sold 1 million units in its first 48 hours 1 month ago:
My partner and I have played 4 hours so far. It is definitely a good game, feels smooth platforming wise. Also isn’t ‘easy’ (casual gamer standards) since it has a lot of different types of gameplay that they throw at you and makes you think on your feet. For instance, my partner (who is a gamer, but only for certain genres) had trouble with flying/driving in some sections.
So far a 5/5 game. I did come across some bugs, but nothing annoying or game breaking. Just funny ‘hiccups’ like sticking to objects that can be fixed by just button mashing or something.
- Comment on No More Parts Guesswork With iFixit’s Device Compatibility Checker 1 month ago:
ifixit is such a wonderful company. I downloaded all their repair manuals so I should be able to repair ‘anything’. And it does seem to be everything.
I love that they are still adding more resources for the general public. An actual ethical company imo. But please let me know if there is some controversy I am not aware of.
- Comment on $16bn health agency managed finances with Excel spreadsheet. 1 month ago:
Probably should get a dedicated ERP system, mainly to just have official support.
But anybody in finance (like me) knows that everybody from low level accounting assistants, to CBOs use excel daily, even if they have an ERP system. For instance, the one I am using is complete shit with outrageous inexcusable ‘features’ (can’t even describe them because they sound made up). So we all just export data to excel so we can format the reports/data into an actual useful format.
- Comment on The right-to-repair movement is growing as wins stack up 1 month ago:
No, they really just don’t want to learn. I promise people would rather be okay with their current situation (even if its shitty) as long as they don’t have to learn. Because a lot of people decided that once they were done with high school/college, that there was no need to learn anymore. And now its hard for them to learn
If they do choose to learn, its because they want to. But if they don’t want to learn, they simply wont. It really is simple.
- Comment on DOGE Plan to Push AI Across the US Federal Government is Wildly Dangerous 1 month ago:
My God. Is that seriously how he dresses himself? How am I supposed to take him seriously? This is what cringe middle schoolers thought was cool when I was in school.