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- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 7 hours ago:
People look the other way with literally everything.
They happily shop at Amazon, even though they are the modern-day equivalent of slavery.
They play Minecraft even though it’s been developed by a white supremacist.
They use Windows even though Microsoft is complicit in a list of all sorts of horrible things too long to list here.
They use Whatsapp/Facebook/Meta VR even though this corporation has done more for the errosion of democracy than any other entity so far.
They buy Nestle, even though it’s going so far as to cut off local populations from their water supplies.
The list continues on and on. Name a single corporation where people en large have done a real, long-term boycott for moral reasons. The only thing I can think of that kinda happened was when Tesla sales fell a little bit for a few months after Musk did a literal Hitler Salute on the largest stage he could find, but even that wasn’t a lot and it’s pretty much over already.
People, by and large, don’t prioritize morals over comfort. They will always choose the best deal they can get, no matter what the long-term or moral effects are. People who put morals over comfort exist, but they are very rare.
And in most cases, people who shout for boycotts the loudest were never customers to begin with (e.g. me, who has never bought a Tesla, saying I will never buy a Tesla because of Musk. Well, I wouldn’t have bought a Tesla anyway).
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 22 hours ago:
I guess you don’t care about a lot of the other categories either.
- Rank 1, 8, 11, 14, 15, 16 are developed/published by a patent troll that stifles the whole games industry with frivolous patent suits and milks their audience dry while investing hardly anything into their games.
- Rank 5 and 6 are published by a corporation widely known for their leadership being extremely misogynistic and exploitative.
- Rank 17 is published by a corporation that’s known for being extremely exploitative.
Btw, most of the corporations on the list donated to Trump, spy at their customers, use anti-competitive tactics, overwork and exploit their developers, employ psychologists to squeeze as much money out of vulnerable customers (e.g. those with psychological issues) and so on and so on.
And you apparently don’t care about any of that. The only thing you care about is that a game that actually includes a trans character is based upon a 20-30yo book series that contains no anti-trans content, but was written by an author who later went on to post some anti-trans garbage years after the series was done and dusted.
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 23 hours ago:
If you ranked by budget, none of them would be on the list either. Monopoly Go would just take up rank 1-20.
- Comment on Darth Vader was NOT a bad person 23 hours ago:
This. The redemption at the end is totally not justified.
I mean, it kinda worked when Vader was a cog in the machine and his biggest crimes were cutting off a hand or semi-choking another space nazi. But after the prequels, the redemption made no sense at all.
- Comment on Darth Vader was NOT a bad person 1 day ago:
This applies to OP, not only to Anakin.
- Comment on xkcd #3188: Anyone Else Here 1 day ago:
Nah, I’m here in 2025.
- Comment on Need some help troubleshooting 1 day ago:
Bottom and sides look good, so it’s just a top-layer problem.
To me that rules out inconsistent extrudion or a wrong steps-per-mm setting (which would cause under- or overextrusion), since all these things would be visible on the sides too.
The two first things I would check would be:
- Is infill off? You should have at least 5% infill, better 10-15%, otherwise you’ll print in thin air causing issues just like that, with the edges looking ok and the closer you get to the middle getting worse.
- Is the fan on? Especially on PLA and fast print speeds the fan should be constantly running at 100%.
Pressure advance would be the next one. To check whether that’s the issue, turn the print speed way down to maybe 50mm/s. At that speed pressure advance hardly matters, so the issue should disappear. That test only works if you ruled out infill and bad part cooling as culprits, since slowing down the print will also help for these two issues. Tuning pressure advance is not trivial though.
- Comment on Expert: EU Commission wants an "unlimited special legal zone" for AI 4 days ago:
This. If it was as great as promised it would also work if done legally.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 4 days ago:
A big one for me is choice of apps. Only apps made for Android Auto are available, and that’s not a lot. Especially pretty much nothing from F-Droid. Open source apps for Android Auto are very limited.
Sideloading is not a thing for Android Auto either. So I can’t even choose to work around the limitations as I can on the phone itself.
The ancient Android Assistant sucks. It constantly doesn’t understand what I ask it and so far I haven’t figured out when exactly it can do a google search for me and when not. Especially considering how far LLMs have come in terms of answering simple questions (e.g. if a name comes up in a podcast and I want to know a little bit of background information to that person). And when they finally add LLM support it will be Gemini only with no choice past that.
Then there’s stupid design decisions in apps, e.g. that Google Maps doesn’t show GPS speed when in Android Auto mode. I also hate that Google Maps decided in an update a year or so ago that speed camera warnings (which are illegal in some of the countries I frequently drive in) can not only not be disabled but are so important that they need to take up half the screen and hide the navigation directions while they are up. This is especially crappy when I come up to a busy highway intersection where I have to get off and suddenly there’s no navigation on my screen but a stupid warning I don’t care about because I obey speedlimits anyway.
And lastly (that’s likely down to the implementation in my car or my phone), there’s constant connection issues.
- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 4 days ago:
Lemmy. The rather lax moderation is an advantage and a disadvantage at the same time. Combined with the fact that a lot of people who got banned on Reddit are using Lemmy as an alternative.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 4 days ago:
Dacia’s implementation isn’t bad. The only safety limits in there are the ones imposed by Android Auto.
But I totally agree with you, when your car/android auto/phone combo acts dumb, finger pointing to who is at fault hardly matters, because it doesn’t work and that’s all that matters (except for knowing which manufacturer to avoid the next time).
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 4 days ago:
It’s so painful, because it could really be good. But they went out of their way to make it suck…
- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 4 days ago:
That’s a really good way to put it. Too many people around here who fit in that category.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 5 days ago:
I’m not in the same boat and don’t claim to be.
I use a phone with a keyboard attachment and thus my phone is too large to fit many man’s trouser pockets either.
So now when I shop for trousers, I intentionally check whether my phone fits the pockets and weigh large pockets over looks.
It would be interesting if there’s at least some women’s trousers with large enough pockets. If there are and women in large numbers actually buy these and reject small-pocket trousers no matter the looks, I think that could get some traction.
If there’s really not a single pair of trousers with decently sized pockets, then of course that wouldn’t work.
I would guess (and this is decidedly an uneducated guess based on maybe a dozen or so women I talked with about that topic), many women do dislike small pockets, but dislike bad style, bad fit or bad looks more.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 5 days ago:
Interesting, didn’t hear of that yet. Apparently, Apple changed their stance on emulators in summer 2024. Before that they had emulators banned completely from the iOS store. Now it appears that they allow them, at least Retroarch.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 5 days ago:
Tbh, I think that Apple makes stuff like the Vision Pro not to make money but to appear as if they have some kind of technological leadership.
They can claim that they have the best headset on the market. No need to actually sell any units.
(And of course other manufacturers could make just as nice headsets for that price point, but most other manufacturers actually need to sell units and thus they build them with realistic hardware.)
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 5 days ago:
Was going to say this. Second hand phones don’t give money to corporations (except via usage, of course).
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 5 days ago:
You might like this, maybe: github.com/Dakkaron/Fairberry
- Comment on xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet 6 days ago:
Now I want to see the plug.
- Comment on xkcd #3186: Truly Universal Outlet 6 days ago:
That’s generally the thing with decisions that don’t matter much. If one option is much better, there is no discussion.
But if the benefits of either option are marginal at best, you get tons of discussion and no decision.
For example, the EU decided almost a decade ago that they would get rid of daylight saving time, and everyone quickly agreed that DST sucks, mostly because changing the clocks sucks.
Since then, the whole EU has been arguing about whether to keep summer time or winter time, even though that matters so little that we have been using both of them for decades. A week after switching DST, nobody even notices the time shift.
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 6 days ago:
What’s your point? “Don’t use Linux unless you are a professional user”?
Beginners have to begin somewhere and they need to get info from somewhere.
A lot of Linux UX is still at the level where it doesn’t give enough relevant information to a non-technical user in a way that the user can actually make an informed decision. That is the core problem.
Whether users get their wrong information from AI, Stackoverflow, random tutorials, Google, a friend or somewhere else hardly matters.
Take for example a look at the setup process of a Synology NAS. A 10yo can successfully navigate that process, because it’s so well done. We need more of that, especially for FOSS stuff.
Too much of Linux is built by engineers for engineers.
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 6 days ago:
I totally agree with the rant, and a big issue is that the Linux community specifically consists to a large part of technicians and not users who then go full *surprised pikachu face* when they see a user who is not a technician.
But seriosly, how would a (to quote OP) “total beginner” know that AI is not a good place to look for help?
And, tbh, it sometimes does actually help. AI lies more often than it doesn’t, but it at least tries to help, which is more than I can say of most members of the Linux community.
I had an issue on Fedora 42 where the performance of my games would randomly be abysmal. One day I can play current AAA titles without issue on my Nvidia 4070, the next day I have to measure performance in “Seconds per Frame” even on 15yo indie titles. This issue only affects game started from Heroic, all other things I try including all debugging stuff works fine.
I’m not a new Linux user. I’m a developer and I’ve been using Linux for about 20 years. So I get to debugging, googling, reading bug reports, all that, and can’t find anything. I ask on StackExchange, Lemmy, even Reddit, no result. Most people are like “Works on my machine, noob”, and a handful people are like "I have the same issue and no solution.
So after a year or so I swallow my pride and ask ChatGPT. The first answer is correct: Heroic (and thus all proton/wine games it spawns) runs in Flatpak. Flatpak has its own version of the Nvidia drivers, and if that version doesn’t exactly match the OS driver version it falls back to software rendering. So if I do
dnf updateand it updates the Nvidia drivers this breaks my performance until I doflatpak update. I often ranflatpak updatebeforednf updateand thus my performance sucked.Yes, the majority of the answers I get from AI are lies. But without AI I would still not be able to game on my system.
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 6 days ago:
Kinda as evidenced by a lot of the other responses. Thanks for the affirmation!
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 1 week ago:
The only evidence that OP irreparably nuked their hardware is ChatGPTs word.
The bigger issue ad hand is that everyone here is a noob when it comes to exotic hardware like SAS, and still everyone here thinks they are 1337 haxors enough to tell OP that they are a noob idiot.
Tbh, if OP asks for help here and there’s 49 comments of people being dicks and one that actually helps it might be worthwhile. But as it stands it’s 50 to 0, with nobody here beeing educated enough to know anything about the subject.
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 1 week ago:
Did it occur to you that OP might be a total beginner who doesn’t know about the conventions on how to report issues and how to format posts?
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 1 week ago:
I had a problem with Fedora 42, where the performance of my games would be fine one day and abysmal another day. Couldn’t find a pattern. I googled a ton, tried to debug myself, asked on reddit, stackexchange, the fedora forum and lemmy. I only got answers like “Works fine on my machine, noob” and “I have that problem too”. It only affected games running in proton on heroic, everything else was fine.
After about a year of on-and-off debugging and asking around, I swallowed my pride and asked ChatGPT.
First answer from that thing was correct: I had run
dnf updatewithout doing aflatpak updateright afterwards. Turns out, flatpak has its own copy of Nvidia drivers and if the system driver is updated without the flatpak copy being updated, it falls back to software rendering. So the performance was crap until I didflatpak updatethe next time, and broke again when I randnf update.I still haven’t found that in any documentation so far.
AI is crap more often than not, but it does at least try to help and sometimes it actually does.
Look in this thread here. Is there even a single answer that tries to help OP, or is every single answer here just dumb snark?
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 1 week ago:
Can you blame them?
The manuals are written by experts for experts and in most cases entirely useless for complete beginners who likely won’t be able to even find the right manual page (or even the right manual to begin with).
Tutoral pages are overwhelmingly AI vomit too, but AI vomit from last year’s AI, so even worse than asking AI right now.
Asking for help online just gets you a “lol, RTFM, noob!”
Look at this thread right now and count how many snarky bullshit answers are there that don’t even try to answer the question, how many answers like “I got no idea” are there and then how many actually helpful answers are here.
Can you really blame anyone who turns to AI, because that garbage at least sounds like it tries to help you?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
No, that’s not the point of a platform like Lemmy, because you can do exactly that on a platform like Reddit too.
And stylizing fragmentation as something desireable is a pretty bad take.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Add to that that some major instances have disabled downvoting, which actively disables people’s ability to filter stuff like that by voting.
- Comment on The events at hogwarts were just an escalating series of magical school shootings 🤔 1 week ago:
I’m just pointing out the hypocrisy to shame people for collecting a Harry Potter game for free, while happily shopping for a Microsoft laptop on Amazon that you use to watch youtube, facebook and read reddit.