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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overwatch 2 Is Just 'Overwatch' Again And Five New Heroes Arrive Next Week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can’t be assed to cuss, stop using the words. All you are doing is making it harder to read what you are saying, and making yourself look like a child who will get in trouble for cussing. We aren’t on YouTube or whatever, you won’t have your content surpressed because you offended the advertisers delicate sensabilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm making a mini-game for my RPG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of Wiz-War, the board game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It cones from marketing copy. Same with the emdash. My company has a style guide for marketing material and it calls out using bulleted lists and em dashes exactly how AI does it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The hardware requirements are quite steep, but I’ve got local AI running in my house. It’s mostly just there for when I want to screw around with it, but technically I could setup OpenClaw and point it to my AI server to use as its brain.

  I’m not stupid enough to do that on any real computer I use, but it might be cool to do on a VM where I can tightly control what it can see and have access to. Of course, that limits its usefulness, but security has a cost.

  At the same time, I can see the allure of a real digital assistant. I’m old enough to remember when professionals had personal assistants that not only helped them keep track of their work life, but also their personal life. Scheduling their personal life like doctors appointments or house repairs. Dealing with vendors to make sure stuff actually gets done, and making sure they are in the right place at the right time. That would be rad to have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off Over the Last Two Years, GDC Study Reveals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It also doesn’t take hundreds of people to make a good game anymore, just a dozen or so good employees (sometimes less). Big studios struggle with justifying their existence with graphics and scope creep. Then, more often then not, management shoves it full of microtransactions or refocuses the game to hit whatever’s hot this second. Which often leads to a polished turd of a game.

  When you look at the big hits over the last 10 yeas, less than half of them came from big publishers and big studios. With less every year. It’s just not a model that works anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France is ditching Zoom and Microsoft Teams for a homegrown video platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As countries find success, others will follow. Not only because it isn’t seen as risky, but also because the tooling will be better refined, and talent will exist in those tools. It’s a bit of a chicken and egg problem. Microsoft 365 has a lot of problems, but a shortage of techs who know how to make it mostly behave isn’t one of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨noyb win: Microsoft ordered to stop tracking school children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t have to do that at all. These are “Work or School” accounts, and generally with Schools they are on a specific education products on top of that. All they have to do is make the company/school enter ages for all their accounts if they are using EDU products. Microsoft can reasonably trust that data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you sign into a Microsoft account during setup, Microsoft automatically turns on bitlocker and sends the key off to Microsoft for safe keeping. You are right, there are other ways to handle bitlocker, but that’s way beyond most people, and I don’t think Microsoft even tells you this during setup. It’s honestly a lifesaver for when bitlocker breaks(and it does), but it comes at a cost. In the business world, this is seen as a huge benefit, as we aren’t trying to protect from the US government, mostly petty theft and maybe some corporate espionage.

  As is often the case, the real solution is Linux, but that, too, is far beyond most people until manufacturers start shipping Linux machines to big box stores and even then they’d probably not enable any encryption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but the amount of gas in an AC system is insignifcant compared to the CO2 generated just making the AC system in the first place. Hell, delivering it probably generated significantly more pollution. Not saying we shouldn’t strive to make it better, but it’s not as actively harmful as it was 30+ years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about Floatplane or Nebula, but Dropout uses Vimeo as their back end. So this could impact some of the independent guys.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine is on a map, but in a radius of around 10 miles. Close enough to let people know I’m here, but not accurate enough to easily track me down.

  That said, if someone wanted to hunt me down, they certainly could triangulate me pretty quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World's Best-selling Video Game Consoles⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was also a pretty aggressive format war between BluRay and HDDVD that tempered demand for a little while. I bought a launch PS3 as well, in part because of BluRay.

  I also think it was a time where not everyone had an HD TV, nor did most people see a huge difference between DVD and BluRay, so there just wasn’t quite the demand compared to VHS vs DVD. Aside from the graphical stepup to DVD, it also didn’t need to be rewinded and didn’t take up nearly as much space. I think those two were big selling features, that the DVD to BluRay transition just didn’t have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone is allowed their own opinion. So I’m not going to say you are wrong for disliking it, but I completely disagree.

  I consider Super Mario World to be the best in the franchise, and Wonder was probably better. I loved the game. I found most of the “New Super Mario” (The 2D series) games bad, or at least missing the magic of the first games with tight controls and well thought out levels. Wonder was a return to that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  NFC payments are nice, but honestly I could use a case with a credit card shoved in it to get the same effect. A good camera is important, but the “screen mirroring” of Android Auto and Apple Car Play are hard to go without.

  Especially since most modern cars don’t allow you to replace the stereo. I’ve got a double-din, I could mount a tablet or raspberry pi, setup some sort of a system to automatically turn on hotspot on bluetooth connect, sync my podcasts between phone and car, and I’d have something about 80% of the way there and about 90% more janky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Marketshare since 2010⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple always refers to iPad’s OS as “iPad OS”, not iOS. I wonder if the browsers make the same differentiation in their user agent strings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Marketshare since 2010⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ChromeOS is pretty far from normal Linux. It’s closer to something like Android. Uses the Linux kernel, but doesn’t bring the freedom, flexibility, or even GUI tool that come with a Linux desktop. SteamOS does come with all of those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I bought an Ender 3 V3 (corexz) recently, and have been having bed adhesion issues. Please help me interpret this bed adhesion test result⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Every 4-5 prints? What are you doing to your printer? I rarely even alcohol wipe down my plate. I have one side marked for PLA and the other for PETG (Since I’ve found the PETG residue tends to cause PLA not to stick). The only time notably clean my plate is when I accidentally forget to flip it between material changes or I touch it in the build area.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s how a lot of episodes of Star Trek worked. They would adapt SciFi short stories to the Star Trek universe. It’s a great way to both get great stories and support authors. I don’t think the “short story” publishing machines still run, unfortunately.

  Heck, now that I think of it, there was actually a DS9 episode about a short story publishing company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I certainly can become a problem. Reaching back to Digg, MrBabyMan had way too much power and influence, even though he basically just spammed news articles 24/7. Thankfully, Lemmy/Piefed doesn’t seem to be designed to promote people over content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Mega trucks ans SUVs are what sells, I guess.

  Unfortunately, people buy what they are told to buy through advertising and marketing. The demand for sports cars didn’t dry up because people lost interest, but because better margins were found in large vehicles (and since emissions requirements were easier to hit for large vehicles than small powerful ones).

  If the auto industry decided small cars were more profitable, the entire marketing machine would start touting the benefits of small cars, and in a few years, people would be claiming they always loved small cars and are so glad they are back so they can replace their monster trucks with tiny hatches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the tip of checking about:config. You can specify an external server, it is also in the about:config. browser.ml.chat.provider. I’m not sure it’s a feature I will ever use, but I tested it with my local Open WebUI and it seemed to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How nice of them to have easy options for paid third party services, and hide the local options under about:config where I’d have no idea it even exists without a kind stranger letting me know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve also put it into the right click menu. And I think they integrated into the “click and hold link preview” feature they just added. And, annoyingly, with all this added AI, they made no provisions for locally hosted AI.

  They also added AI translation in addition to their old translation system for webpages. I think the old one just used Google Translate, so the AI translation is a privacy win because it is done locally, but I may be wrong on how it used to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what would you do with an old dell server?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Another worth while consideration is heat generation. That takes more power to offset that too. During the winter maybe it wont be so bad, but it can be brutal in the summer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasabi is a very affordable destination for backups. And it has the advantage of not being one of the big three.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think Big, Print Bigger: Introducing the Prusa CORE One L! - Original Prusa 3D Printers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad they are offering a bigger option. The CORE One is the same build plate size as the MK3&4. It’s got some extra z height, but that’s it. I’m enjoying my CORE One, but the limitation on bed size is a little frustrating, especially now that some of their biggest competitors are offering much larger build plates at similar prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if this is the case, but I’ve found that often Windows commands see the space as optional. It’s weird, but generally works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the search Dog and Wizard. I suppose those don’t count much, but they are worth remembering.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll go to the magazine isle of Walmart with a pen and paper like a normal person, thank you very much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried using crystals instead of touch screens? If it was good enough for Kirk it’s good enough for Janeway.