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- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 1 day ago:
Yeah, anyone who answers with anything besides “invest in the tech companies you know will get huge, then get into bitcoin early and ride it all the way to $100k each” is going to fail to thrive.
- Comment on Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support 1 day ago:
like they like to do with fan games/projects/etc.
Cries while staring at the defunct AM2R project
- Comment on Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support 1 day ago:
Not really; The emulator doesn’t use any copyrighted code, but the ROM is copyrighted. That’s just basic IP law.
What is fucked up logic is Nintendo encrypting their ROMs, then providing decryption keys on the console. So the emulator itself is legal, but actually booting a ROM requires decrypting it, which requires keys from a legitimate console. Nintendo has argued that those keys are illegal to use in an emulator, even if the user rips them directly from the console that they own. So you have the keys. You own the console they’re stored on. But it’s illegal to use those keys anywhere except on the console they came on, because Nintendo said so.
- Comment on Teachers Are Not OK 2 days ago:
Yeah, lots of people don’t realize that the public education system was designed to prepare kids for factories. It goes all the way back to the Industrial Revolution, when parents were working 16 hour days in the factories. They needed some way to keep their kids occupied while dad was stamping steel and mom was weaving fabric. The factory workers lived in corporate-owned towns, and all of their needs were (hopefully) covered by the factory owners. And along this line of thinking, the factory owners started public schools, both to keep the kids occupied during the day, and to prep them to work in the factories once they were old enough to know how.
Basically everything about modern education is run like a factory. Everything is standardized to the median 85% of the population; students who deviate too far from that are punished or segregated via special education. You work (study) when the bell tells you, eat when the bell tells you, shit when the bell tells you. You’re expected to sit quietly and do your work, no socializing except when the bell tells you. Et cetera… The entire idea was to give students a baseline level of education that they would need to work in the factory, and prep children to work in factories under the same grueling conditions.
- Comment on Zelda Tears of the Kingdom - it finally got me! 2 days ago:
It’s not super intuitive.
Tap for spoiler
You need to sneak in from below, using the Ascend ability. There’s a spot in the depths that you can use to ascend, which gets you past the initial fog barrier. The forest is covered in gloom, and you’ll need to get past some of the creepy hands and a Phantom Ganon fight before you’re able to reach the forest’s sanctuary.
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 2 days ago:
Yes, that’s one of the primary concerns. The nuclear material isn’t likely to actually explode, but the material can easily get spread by an explosion. Essentially turning a bunker buster bomb into a giant dirty bomb.
- Comment on I'm not okay. 2 days ago:
Mowing isn’t the issue; Raking leaves is. Fireflies lay eggs in the fall, on dead leaves. Since suburban HOAs require leaves to be raked and trashed, it removes the fireflies’ breeding grounds. If you don’t like leaves on your lawn, just fucking mulch them with your lawn mower instead of raking them. A perfectly raked yard is an ecological wasteland.
- Comment on I'm not okay. 2 days ago:
Yeah, fireflies lay eggs on dead leaves. The ultra-clean suburban yards are killing firefly populations, because people keep raking up the fireflies breeding material and throwing it away in plastic trash bags. A perfectly kept lawn is an ecological wasteland, and suburban trends have expanded that wasteland for miles at a time. It’s no wonder fireflies have struggled to survive.
Want to see fireflies? Stop raking your lawn. If you don’t like the way the leaves look, mulch them with a lawn mower early in the season, so they can blend in with the grass. But don’t just fucking rake them up and throw them away.
- Comment on Mastodon: New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content 3 days ago:
There’s also the fact that instances can simply choose to ignore delete requests. Because that’s all it is; A request. Let’s say I post on .world and it gets federated to other instances. If I then delete that .world post, there’s nothing requiring those other instances to actually delete anything. .world simply sends a delete request, but the individual instances can choose to ignore it if they want.
That’s a large part of why the “I delete my content after a day or two so LLMs can’t use my data” crowd is so stupid. If someone was looking to train an LLM on Lemmy data, they’d simply set up an instance to aggregate posts, and refuse to delete anything.
- Comment on Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned? 3 days ago:
Each color had a specific meaning, but none of those meanings were a specific gender or sexuality. The meanings were intentionally tied to concepts, rather than to distinct groups of people. This was so it could encompass everyone. But then dumbasses started trying to claim specific colors as their own, which excluded people. And so then every group suddenly started making their own flags, since they were being excluded by the people claiming one of the colors on the rainbow.
- Comment on YSK: WD-40 is perfect for removing adhesive left behind by stickers 3 days ago:
Yeah, the fog is caused by oxidizing plastic. In order to actually fix the issue, you need to apply some sort of protectant finish to prevent oxidation in the future.
A thin dusting of clear coat spray paint typically works fine, but will obviously take nicks and dings as you drive.
- Comment on YSK: WD-40 is perfect for removing adhesive left behind by stickers 3 days ago:
This is largely because people misuse WD-40. It’s a solvent. It dissolves rust, which allows it to bust up seized joints. It dissolves oils, which makes it good for cleaning machine parts. It dissolves adhesives, which is why it’s so good at helping scrape them up.
It’s not a good lubricant, because that’s not what it’s made to do. After you dissolve all of the rust, you need to apply a fresh coat of oil, or else the part will just seize up again after the WD-40 evaporates. Because the WD-40 didn’t just dissolve the rust; It also dissolved the oil that was lubricating it and protecting it from further oxidation.
- Comment on Limited Run has asked Nintendo to pull Gex Trilogy from the eShop as it doesn’t work on Switch 2 3 days ago:
It definitely hasn’t aged well, but that’s largely because the humor was based on pop culture references. Talking about Jessica Simpson isn’t really cool anymore. But that the time, it was a sort of revolutionary thing to have games reference current pop culture. It made the games feel fresh, especially if you played them right at launch.
Were they great games? No. But from a gaming culture standpoint, they had a surprisingly large impact. Game devs learned what did and didn’t work in regards to the references and gameplay, and that alone makes them culturally important.
Also, games deserve to be preserved even if they didn’t have a massive impact on gaming. Even old Flash games have massive preservation efforts, because every single game was someone’s pet project. Imagine saying the same thing about a bad film. Sure, a modern 4k re-release may not need to exist, but that keeps it in modern formats and makes preservation easier.
- Comment on The 16‑kilobyte curtain. How Russia’s new data‑capping censorship is throttling Cloudflare 3 days ago:
Except that bots already have a higher pass rate than humans, so the captcha isn’t even good at preventing bots.
- Comment on no way right 4 days ago:
My current bet is on a widespread organized mass assassination attempt on multiple lawmakers. Hit them all at the same time, so their security can’t see the pattern and put them under protection before they’re killed. Off a bunch of democrats, then use the ensuing chaos to seize control and “postpone” the midterms.
- Comment on 16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now 4 days ago:
I have like a dozen Gmail accounts, and I know plenty of others who do too. Before I owned my own domain, I used the different accounts for different things.
- Comment on Why is my GPU's "3D" usage spiking so wildly when I'm not even playing a game? It keeps throttling up and throttling down and the noise is extremely annoying 4 days ago:
That was actually my guess too. A failing hard drive will tend to make a rapid clicking/grinding noise, as the read/write heads repeatedly snap back and forth across the discs.
- Comment on Trump extends the TikTok ban deadline for a third time; there is no legal basis for the extensions and it is unclear how many times the deadline can be extended 4 days ago:
Yeah, all of the “vibes are off” jokes aside, TikTok is drastically different after the ban was lifted. I have gotten straight up racist and fascist propaganda on my fyp, and there are a lot of sympathetic comments on those videos. But I never got those videos before, because my algorithm was automatically filtering them out. It’s almost as if the app has been programmed to bypass the algorithm and occasionally show alt-right talking points to everyone, just in the hopes of casting as wide a net as possible.
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 5 days ago:
Kobo Libra is the same form factor as a Kindle Oasis.
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 5 days ago:
FWIW, the price is largely due to patent issues; The company that owns the patent to produce e-ink screens has started exorbitantly jacking up prices for device makers. Ironically, e-ink used to be much cheaper, before that e-ink company started messing with the supply.
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 5 days ago:
Yeah, I read a lot of comics, so the Kobo Libra Color has been amazing. But there’s no doubting that the color screen compromises on clarity and contrast.
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 5 days ago:
Yeah, Readarr is unfortunately the black sheep of the Arr stack. Ebook torrents are notorious for failing/stalling, and the Readarr team has had some major issues with their metadata server in the past year or so, meaning adding new authors/books is often impossible.
It can be nice for tracking what you’re missing, but I end up using manual searches for most of my ebooks. Ebooks tend to work best with direct downloads, (Z-Library, Anna’s Archive, etc) so an Arr service reliant on torrents is spotty, at best. It isn’t even actively being developed, and the devs still attached to the project have even said that it will likely stagnate and fall into disrepair unless a serious dev is willing to take over the project.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I was actually going to suggest Red Dead Redemption 2. The English you learn may be a little bit dated (and have a heavy southern drawl) but you’ll learn a lot.
- Comment on The "standard" car charger is usually overkill—but your electrician might not know that [32:26] 1 week ago:
Also worth noting that breaker ratings are for instantaneous usage. A 15A 120v breaker can only actually support 12A of continuous usage. But it says 15, because most things use a little extra power when they first turn on. AC system spinning up the fans and compressor, for instance. If you put a 15A device on a 15A breaker, it would likely trip as soon as that device turned on. In that instance, you’d likely use a 20A breaker to support the 15A device instead. But that 20A breaker would also call for upgraded wiring and outlets which could support 20A.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
Jellyfin doesn’t have an app on every App Store. On some, you have to sideload it, by enabling developer mode and connecting to a PC that is running an App Store server. Then the TV downloads it from the PC.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
Lots of those issues have been blown out of proportion, and would never be a real concern for the “just a dude running a server in his closet for his friends” setups. Which, to be clear, is the vast majority of setups.
For instance, virtually all of the worst issues require that the attacker already has a valid login token. So unless they stole your buddy’s credentials, the only one to truly worry about would be your buddy directly. But yes, Jellyfin has some gaping holes, and letting it touch the WAN at all is always a risk. You’re giving attackers a new potential vector of attack that didn’t exist before, so that’s worth noting.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
I disagree; Self-hosting is for a variety of things, and plenty of people (in fact, I’d say probably the majority of Plex users) just want to be able to pirate Netflix without a ton of setup.
Is learning some networking inevitable? Yeah, probably. But I also think this xkcd is apt. The reality is that what may be simple for you and me actually requires a lot of studying for a complete novice. Plenty of people will need to google what a port is, let alone how to forward one. And that’s assuming they even know the word “port” to google. Plenty of people won’t even know where to start.
And true novices are hopefully going to be extremely wary of any info they find online; It’s easy to fuck something up without even realizing it, and leave your entire system exposed. Especially when the braindead “lol just forward your Jellyfin port and use your public IP” advice is posted somewhere in every single advice thread.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
To set it up “correctly”, yes. It’ll require owning your own domain, being able to configure it properly, knowing how to automate https certificate refreshes, and a few other things. Plex just requires forwarding a port in your router.
- Comment on Plex has paywalled my server! 1 week ago:
- It’s also the most complex to set up, and for many people the threshold is “walking your tech-illiterate mother-in-law through side loading it over the phone, because she lives 100 miles away… She’s afraid to touch her computer for anything except email and Facebook. And then resetting her password every 30 days, because she keeps locking herself out of it.” Suddenly the “just fucking sign into Plex and it automatically discovers your server” option becomes a lot more appealing.
- Comment on Real af 1 week ago:
Psh, that’s a problem for future-me. The only problem is that future-me quickly becomes current-me… And current-me is continually reminded that past-me is a prick.