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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll sell games for 227, 375, and 510 UbiPoints^TM^. The UbiPoints^TM^ are only redeemable on their online shop, and are only purchasable in units of:

  • $10 for 50 UbiPoints^TM^
  • $50 for 275 UbiPoints^TM^. That’s 10% more UbiPoints^TM^ for free!)
  • $150 for 938 UbiPoints^TM^. That’s 25% more UbiPoints^TM^ for free! Our best deal ever!
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deep throat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m calling it now: There will be a non-zero number of MAGAts who briefly go gay to own the libs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I really wanted to like my Link, but it was plagued by random FPS lag spikes that made it unplayable. Sometimes a game running at a perfect 60FPS would just suddenly drop to like 2-3FPS for a minute or more. In my router and on my PC’s traffic data, I could see my PC was still sending the same amount of data to the Link. And on the Link, I could see it was receiving the data. So everything was sending and receiving just fine. But the FPS would just suddenly tank for no discernible reason. It made the Link unusable after a while. And the only real response I ever got from Steam about it was “have you tried updating the firmware on your Link?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Sony really nailed the haptics with the PS5 controller. The high-fidelity motors feel nice while still having punch, and the adaptable triggers give a nice satisfying squeeze when game programmers use it properly.

  The newer God of War games had a few good examples, with the adaptable triggers getting harder on more “difficult” stuff. If Kratos was using a lot of strength for some quick time event, the triggers got harder to pull. It was a nice touch that helped add immersion and suspense to a game that was already very visceral. When Kratos cleaved into an enemy during a kill animation, feeling the trigger relax afterwards was a nice satisfying capstone to the “you just beat the crap out of this enemy” animation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually prefer Sony’s symmetrical design, but that’s probably because the PS1 was my first console. That’s the controller I grew up playing, so it’s the one I’m most familiar with using. The Xbox 360 generation definitely tends to prefer asymmetry though, which is really just a matter of preference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… What is a console, but a prebuilt running custom firmware and manufacturer’s OS? You can literally install Linux on a jailbroken PS5. Old consoles were obviously bespoke pieces of hardware that wouldn’t match any computer OS… But modern consoles are closer to prebuilt PCs than they are to old consoles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But what if bias was not the reason? What if your face gave genuinely useful clues about your probable performance we just agreed to redefine “bias” as something else, despite this fitting the definition of the word perfectly, just so I can claim this isn’t biased?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool. Literal Nazi shit, still powered by IBM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the malicious compliance was what should have been regulated instead. Ban the annoying cookie popup and require sites to make it opt-in by default. At most, sites should be allowed to have an option in a burger menu to allow cookies, and clicking that button would open the popup to specify which cookies you wanted to allow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where do I even start?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell, one of the first things you can look into hosting is Obsidian, with SyncThing to keep your notes synced across devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have issues with local AIs, for things like searching your local immich instance, or controlling your local Home Assistant devices. That photo of a bird you took 3’ish years ago? Yeah, you can find it in like three seconds with a local AI search. Want to turn the lights on with a voice request? AI is one of the easiest ways for a layman to handle the language processing side of things. All of that is a drop in the ocean.

  But corporations have been trying to cram it into everything, even when it’s not a good fit for what they want to do. And so far, their solution to making it fit hasn’t been to rethink their usage and consider whether or not it will actually improve a product. Instead, their approach has simply been to build more and bigger data centers, to throw increasing amounts of processing power at the problem.

  The technology itself isn’t inherently harmful on the small scale. But it has followed the same pattern as climate change. Individual consumers are blamed for climate change, and are consistently urged to change their consumption habits… When it’s actually a handful of corporations producing the vast majority of greenhouse emissions. Even if every single person drastically changed their emission habits, it would barely make a dent in the overall production. It was all because of massive astroturfed PR campaigns to shift the blame away from those companies and onto individuals. And we’ve seen that same thing happen with AI, where individual users have been blamed for using AI, instead of the massive corporations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why all the free-stuff Facebook groups you’re part of just changed their name⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is why I always mark stuff on Facebook Marketplace with like a $5 price tag. I fully intend on giving it away for free, but the small price weeds out all of the people who only sort by “Free” and mass message every single poster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I already set off alarms all the time at stores with these gates. They seem to be set to close completely after every customer enters. Or maybe the ones near me just need their motion sensors adjusted, to be a little more sensitive. Either way, I just don’t stop walking, and usually end up hip-checking it out of the way since they’re still trying to close when I approach. They’re not difficult to open and they don’t hurt. But forcing them open (by just walking through them) sets off the alarm.

  I don’t even bother slowing down or acting surprised. I just keep moving to whatever I was going to buy while the alarm blares behind me. It’ll stop after a few seconds, meaning it only seems to go off while the gate is actively being held open. If someone truly wanted to be annoying and malicious, I guess they could just set a shopping cart inside the gate as they walk through, so an employee would actually need to manually intervene and move the cart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even do Price Discrimination on video games now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just the rich that get targeted by this. The goal is to see what price each individual will tolerate. The rich may tolerate higher prices, but the end goal is closing sales that otherwise would have been missed. Which means even the poor spend more money, because it’s something they wouldn’t have purchased otherwise.

  And it unfairly impacts the poor, who have less disposable income to throw around, and who are more adversely impacted by surprise expenses. Because $40 isn’t a big difference for a rich person, but $20 could be the difference in whether or not a poor person is able to eat in two or three weeks (after the refund period has closed).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'all seem to have lost track of the correct response to people crying about dead baddies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Talking about Cheney? I’m not sad he’s gone, but you had me way more excited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your answer? And in the picture which news story is being reported?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember being upset that all of the other classes got to watch it. We heard from friends in other classes that an attack had happened and they were all watching TV now. My teacher refused to put it on, and kept teaching as usual until parents started showing up to pull their kids out of school early.

  Thinking back, it’s probably good that we didn’t watch it; We were only 8 years old, after all. All my friends in the other classes watched the towers fall live, while I only got the recap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who was your first childhood videogame crush?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My partner always credits this scene for making her realize she is bisexual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who was your first childhood videogame crush?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ifrit - You have at least two Bad Dragons on display in your living room
  Shiva - You want to be stepped on
  Seymour - You made your therapist cry, and took it as a win
  Dona - You’re constantly chasing women who want nothing to do with you
  Barthello - You want a dude who can bench press you
  Isaaru - Quiet bookish guys Cid - You like watching your partner work on their car a little too much

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who was your first childhood videogame crush?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was actually a method discovered relatively recently, which allows you to skip her death sequence entirely. It’s obviously not intended, but it is possible to keep her alive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who was your first childhood videogame crush?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She was your first? God damn I’m getting old…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who was your first childhood videogame crush?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This screenshot just clawed a memory from the depths of my brain. I don’t even remember playing this game as a kid, but I vividly remember this character and art style.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want a windows-like experience, Linux Mint is hard to beat. It will feel very familiar.

  If you enjoy gaming (which I’m assuming you do, considering the article) then maybe Bazzite would be a good option. It comes with GPU drivers (which have historically been a giant pain in the ass for Linux) ready to go. It’s an immutable distro, which is… Contentious in the Linux community. It means you won’t be able to accidentally break your OS, but it also means it isn’t as customizable. The newer users appreciate the safety net, but the experienced power users see it as overly restrictive coddling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thats all⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AKA “The First Season Sayan”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thats all⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tater tots

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Louvre security vs CVS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, it’s the “annoying and invasive, but easily cracked DRM” of the retail world. It annoys legitimate customers, while doing very little to actually deter theft. Most of those beep tags can be quickly and easily removed with a strong magnet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google flags Immich sites as dangerous⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Easier said than done, if your end users run Chrome. Because Chrome will automatically block your site if you’re on double secret probation.

  The phishing flag usually happens because you have the Username, Password, Log In, and SSO button all on the same screen. Google wants you to have the Username field, the Log In button, and any SSO stuff on one page. Then if you input a username and go to start a password login, Google expects the SSO to disappear and be replaced by the vanilla Log In button. If you simply have all of the fields and buttons on one page, Google flags it as a phishing attempt. Like I guess they expect you to try and steal users’ Google passwords if you have a password field on the same page as a “Sign in with Google” button.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does markdown treat linefeeds as spaces?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That comes from typewriters, before kerning was a thing. Each key press moved the paper an equal distance, so every single character was evenly spaced. Even narrow characters like i or l had the same amount of space on each side of them. Monospaced font is easier to read when sentences end with a double space. But with modern kerned fonts, the double space is pointless.

  Phones sub in a period for simplicity, so you don’t need to reach for the period key. It doesn’t actually include the double space at all; it removes the first space and replaces it with a period. If you’re “supposed” to double space after each sentence, why does your phone remove that first space?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says he needs $1 trillion to control Tesla's robot army. Yes, really.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently we don’t even need to pay the actual army. We can just revoke their paychecks and force them to keep working anyways. Nothing can go wrong with that, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They need to bring you in to feel their power over you⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My mother-in-law’s job has a similar policy, except the range is 50 miles… She lives almost exactly 49.9 miles away from her job. The company refuses to budge, (“if we gave an exception to you, we’d have to do it for everyone”), and requires her to come in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How "Learn to Code" Backfired on a Whole Generation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Adam Savage was saying that as a highly skilled person. I’ve worked with personality hires. I’ve worked with military-grade weaponized autism. I prefer the autism, because at least I don’t need to babysit them and double-check all of their work. With the autists, at least you can reliably know “if I give them {A}, I’ll get {B} in return. Not {C}, not {D}, always {B}.” I don’t mind teaching. It’s inevitable in any job. But working with personality hires always ends up being an exercise in patience, because there’s only so many times I can show someone how to do something.