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- Comment on When you fail the DC 8 "JD, CHILL!" Persualsion check 1 day ago:
It was leaked earlier in the week via some screenshots, but yes it was essentially a shadow launch. Which is honestly better than the “TES6 was teased over a decade ago and we haven’t heard anything about it since” limbo.
It’s good so far! I haven’t had time to properly dig into it yet (stupid life and chores and job keep dragging me away) but it feels like they tried to keep the spirit of Oblivion alive, while adding some more modern Skyrim-like combat mechanics.
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 1 day ago:
Yeah, the two aren’t mutually exclusive; Nintendo is a shitty litigious company and the dude is a fucking idiot. The first rule of Switch piracy is that you don’t talk about Switch piracy, and this dude was blatantly streaming a game that hadn’t even released yet.
- Comment on When you fail the DC 8 "JD, CHILL!" Persualsion check 1 day ago:
I (very sloppily) made this while waiting on Oblivion Remastered to download…
Image - Comment on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer 1 day ago:
Nope, the old DLC is available in the base game. The Deluxe edition adds some new armor (and yes, new horse armor) but isn’t necessary to access the old DLC.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer 1 day ago:
Included. The Deluxe edition adds some new gear, but all the old content (including the old DLC) is available in the base game.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer 1 day ago:
Maybe pause and start the download again, or try a different server? I just downloaded it at nearly full gigabit speeds.
- Comment on What is this called? 2 days ago:
Sure, I guess. They originally got popular in Scotland and the americas for different reasons; Scotland because wearing a woolen blanket is nice and warm even when it’s wet and cold. The slit allows you to throw one side over your shoulders, turning it into a sort of scarf. You could use a brooch to keep it in place if it’s windy, but that’s largely optional:
ImageThey were popular in parts of the americas for the exact opposite reason: Made out of thinner material, they’re great for keeping the sun and dust off of you. They’re basically a poncho, and after a long day of cattle driving you can roll it up and use it as a pillow for your bedroll.
ImageAlso, Gandalf wears one. No, really. That’s not long sleeves on his robe, it’s a ruana. So apparently they’re good at making you look like a wizard.
Image - Comment on What is this called? 2 days ago:
Did you actually read the comment at all, or did you only comment on the picture?
- Comment on What is this called? 2 days ago:
It’s a shawl and brooch. It’s basically just a rectangular piece of cloth with a pin holding it together. If you wanted a slightly fancier version, you could try finding a serape/ruana instead. That’s the same rectangular piece of cloth, except it has a slit cut from one edge to the center. So it can drape over your shoulders instead of wrapping around them. Sort of like a poncho, except the cut goes all the way to the edge of the fabric instead of just being a neck hole.
a blonde woman with her arms outstretched. A green tartan ruana is draped over her arms, with the slit acting as a neck hole - Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 4 days ago:
Tell me you stopped reading, without telling me you stopped reading. I had an entire paragraph that expanded upon it, using entirely gender-neutral pronouns.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 days ago:
I’d agree with you on the surface, except for the part where virtually every single comment on Lemmy about Jellyfin’s remote access basically boils down to “lol just tell them to use Tailscale. It works fine for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”. Again, I’m talking about the average user.
And it’s not about being a paranoid nutter. Jellyfin has had multiple exploits in the past. Hell, it had a code execution vulnerability from unsanitized FFmpeg API inputs published just last week.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 days ago:
Debatable. It is an incredible piece of FOSS, but whether or not it’s better than Plex really depends on your use case. Plex is much better for remote access and the “wife factor”.
The initial goal of a self-hosted video platform must be encouraging adoption. And you have to follow a “the customer is always right” (the actual meaning, not the bastardized Karen-screaming-at-customer-service version) mentality in regards to this; Even if you have the best Jellyfin server in the world, it’s ultimately worthless if your friends and family refuse to use it. Your service needs to be accessible to the average user, and the unfortunate reality is that the average user doesn’t even know what a port number or IP address is. When trying to encourage adoption, you’re facing a lot of social inertia in regards to people simply going “eh, I know Netflix isn’t perfect, but it already works.” You need to provide a service that is superior to other platforms in some meaningful way. And simply being free isn’t enough value for some people, because individuals will weigh the cost differently depending upon how heavily they factor it into the Cost:Convenience ratio that they’re willing to tolerate.
And this is where the wife factor comes into play: Is your spouse/partner going to be willing to use it? Does it provide enough convenience that they’ll be willing to ditch the streaming services? Now how about your extended family? And if you’re only ever planning on watching at home on LAN, Jellyfin may be perfect. But Plex’s unified login experience is much easier for the average user to understand. I can walk my mother-in-law through the account creation and login process over the phone, because it’s familiar. If she can figure out how to make a Netflix or Hulu account, she can figure out how to make a Plex account. You simply sign in, and your available libraries show up. Easy.
But Jellyfin will never be able to provide a unified login experience, because the entire platform is built to rebel against that; A unified login would require a centralized authentication server like Plex runs, and that’s specifically what Jellyfin is designed against.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 6 days ago:
Yup, odometers were regulated specifically to protect consumers from widespread odometer fraud. Shit like companies requiring oil changes every 5k miles, and the odometer shows 5000 when it’s actually only 4000, so consumers pay for more service than they need. Or cases like this one, where a company is required to provide a warranty until the 50k odometer reading, and then fudges the odometer so it voids the warranty sooner than it should.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I came to mention this one specifically. The Legends series was incredible at the time, and there was a lot of potential for a third game with more modern controls. But instead, Capcom has made it clear that they intend to simply sit on the IP and never do anything with it.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 1 week ago:
34 or 35, I think. I remember learning that she was around my age.
- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 1 week ago:
Reductionist. There are valid concerns for why you’d want and expect proper spelling. Hell, you could even argue that not using proper spelling is ableist towards people who use screen readers or are ESL.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 1 week ago:
It’s in Swedish, but here’s a link:
www.watson.ch/fr/!884988581Basically, Yen did an interview for Watson (a Swedish magazine) where he talked about the government encroaching on encryption. He got political when he started talking about how all of the Swedish government officials were useless bureaucrats, and praised the US government’s methods instead.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 1 week ago:
And the CEO just did it again, because apparently it wasn’t enough backlash the first time.
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 2 weeks ago:
The Gatcha system is why I never finished Xenoblade Chronicles 2. The first game was phenomenal… But the second game required a gatcha system to unlock new party members. There were even quests that were locked behind certain ultra-rare party members.
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 2 weeks ago:
Does that really count? As far as I know, the golden keys mechanic was just a way to get some good gear. It wasn’t exclusive gear, and you could get it just by playing the game.
- Comment on Knock knock knocking on heaven's do-or-or-aawwhhh 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, my 1200 dose was after a month of tolerance break, so it definitely hit me.
- Comment on Knock knock knocking on heaven's do-or-or-aawwhhh 2 weeks ago:
After a certain point, I’d imagine that there are diminishing effects. The difference between 100ug and 200ug is huge, but the difference between 1100ug and 1200ug isn’t anywhere near as big. After a certain point, it all just becomes a trip. But the size of the trip is entirely up to your mindset and individual brain chemistry; I know people who have found or lost religion on 300ug, and others who said 1500 was just a nice smooth trip.
- Comment on Knock knock knocking on heaven's do-or-or-aawwhhh 2 weeks ago:
Most I’ve done was 1200 and I had a wonderful time. The tricky part about acid is that it’s entirely subjective.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 2 weeks ago:
“No mom I’m not taking hormones! It’s the
5G towersimmense amounts of pussy that I’m drowning in, I swear!” - Comment on I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, 18k games, but a lot of that is going to be shovelware. Steam has a big issue with shovelware designed to look like a good deal. They’ll release like 25 games, one will be priced at like $100, with the rest priced at like 50¢.
Then they do a publisher bundle, which marks all of those 50¢ games down by like 90%, but doesn’t touch the pricey game. So on the surface, the bundle is marked as like $100 for 25 games, at 87% off. Looks like a great deal. When in reality it’s just 24 cheap games marked down, and one super expensive game. And all of them will be shovelware. But it’ll be enough to fool anyone who doesn’t bother to dig into the actual bundle details.
- Comment on LunaSea is no longer being published and all related cloud services (including notifications) will be shut down in the near future 2 weeks ago:
The app has already been inactive for a while now. There hasn’t been any active development in several years. They clearly have no interest in continuing it, and just want to move on to other projects.
- Comment on Instagram Is Full Of Openly Available AI-Generated Child Abuse Content. 2 weeks ago:
What’s to stop actual child abusers from just photoshopping a 6th finger onto their images and then claiming that it’s AI generated?
Aside from the other arguments people have presented, this wrecks one of the largest reasons that people produce CSAM. Pedophiles are insular data hoarders by necessity, because actually creating and procuring it is such a big risk. Every time they go online to find new content, they’re at risk of stumbling into a honeypot. And producing it requires IRL work, and a LOT of risk of being caught/turned in by the victim. They tend to form tight-knit rings, and one of the only reliable ways to get into a ring as an outsider is to provide your own CSAM to the others. CSAM is traded in these rings like baseball cards, where you need fresh content in order to receive fresh content.
The data hoarding side of things is where all of the “cops bust pediphile with 100TB of CSAM” headlines come from; In reality, it was probably like 1TB of videos, (which is a lot, but not unheard of) but was backed up multiple times in multiple places, because losing it would be catastrophic for the CSAM producer; They can’t simply go grab a new blue ray of it. And the cops counted the full size of each backup disk, not just the space that was used.
Intentionally marking your content as AI-generated would ruin the trading value, because nobody will see it as valuable/worth trading for if it’s fake. At best, you won’t get anything for it. At worst, you’d be labeled a cop trying to pass off AI content to gather evidence.
- Comment on Instagram Is Full Of Openly Available AI-Generated Child Abuse Content. 2 weeks ago:
My guess is that the algorithm is really good at predicting who will be likely to follow that kind of content, rather than report it. Basically, it flies under the radar purely because the only people who see it are the ones who have a vested interest in it flying under the radar.
- Comment on Which Margarita Has More Booze? 2 weeks ago:
It 100% depends on the number of cubes used to blend the frozen marg, versus the number of cubes used to put the drink on the rocks. It also depends on the method of preparation.
A standard marg glass has a volume of 9 fluid ounces, and a 1 inch cube of ice has a volume of ~.55 fluid ounces of water. So assuming you use five cubes for a drink on the rocks, your drink is about 30% water before you even add your liquor. (Though to be clear, this isn’t likely to reflect reality, as bars tend to use commercial ice makers that create hollow ice cubes.) So as long as your frozen marg is less than 30% slush by volume, the frozen marg will be stronger. And the exact liquor:slush ratio really just depends on how thick you like your frozen drink; More ice means a stiffer/more frozen drink.
If the frozen marg is made using a commercial frozen marg machine, the frozen marg will almost certainly be stronger; The marg machine doesn’t actually add any ice to the drink; It just freezes the water that is already present in the liquor and mixers. To be clear, the mixers (like pre-made marg mix) have a lot of water in them. But conceivably the frozen drink would be using that same mixer too, so there shouldn’t be any difference in the actual liquid ABV. No extra water being added to produce the ice means the resulting drink is stronger. But the refrigeration required for that doesn’t efficiently scale to smaller sizes, so at-home machines usually require adding ice to the mixture and then blending to break the ice into slush.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 2 weeks ago:
Here’s a reminder that you can submit photos of your hotel room to law enforcement, to assist in tracking down CSAM producers. The vast majority of CSAM is produced in hotels. So being able to match furniture, bedspreads, carpet patterns, wallpaper, curtains, etc in the background to a specific hotel helps investigators narrow down when and where it was produced.
