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- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 6 hours ago:
That sounds awful. You get someone who doesn’t really know the company or product, they take a bunch of decisions that fundamentally affect how you work, and then they’re gone.
… actually, that sounds exactly like any other company.
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 4 days ago:
This is the plan all along. It’s not about porn, it’s not even about control. It’s about teaching Americans a second language. You know who’s behind this? Duolingo and Big Language.
- Comment on Microsoft “Improved” Notepad. I Un-Improved It. - Dave's Garage 5 days ago:
It’s still there, but turning it off still won’t let you associate txt files with the old notepad.
Simply uninstalling the app works fine though, then it defaults to the old one.
- Comment on Microsoft “Improved” Notepad. I Un-Improved It. - Dave's Garage 5 days ago:
“I want to start with a blank slate”
There’s a setting for that.
“I don’t want tabs”
This one’s trickier: there’s only a setting to open existing files in a new window; you’ll still have tabs.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 1 week ago:
While we’re griping, and speaking of Console-Itis, does every PC game now need to have an unskippable message telling me that this game has auto save and urging me **not to turn off my PC** when the icon is being displayed? Really? Nobody’s going to do that. Tell me your game is a shitty console port without telling me your game is a shitty console port.
This one, along with “press any button to start”, annoy me so much. There is absolutely no reason to have to press a button before even entering the main menu. If you need it to determine the type of input device, that can be the first press on the menu.
Treat PC games as PC games, even if you make them cross platform.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Syberia 1 and its remake, in parallel. It’s a good story with interesting characters.
The remake is a mixed bag. Overall I do think it’s good. The graphics are beautiful and some quality of life is nice. It also changed some of the puzzles, usually (though not always) for the better. It’s mostly a faithful remake though.
There are two big flaws: the cutscenes were not remastered, and the game became easier.
Cutscenes are only upscaled as far as I can tell, and this is quite jarring compared to the beautiful new graphics. Worse is the difficulty. Syberia was never a hard game, but now it is just too easy. Hotspots are highlighted when your mouse gets near, as are required dialog options. I find this impedes the feeling of discovery.
But despite that, it’s still a pretty good remake.
- Comment on Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken 2 weeks ago:
Completely off topic, but I hate when articles appear to link to original sources, but only link to their own site.
“Microsoft admitted that …” -> link to Microsoft’s admission? Nope, to a neowin article.
“Nvidia released a patch …” -> links to a neowin article.
“Microsoft KB 0000” -> surely this will link to the actual KB? Nope, neowin article.
- Comment on Radon 2 weeks ago:
I make babies.
- Comment on Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
GW1 and GW2 are very different games. Don’t expect an MMO if you try GW1. You only see other people in cities, the world itself is made up of instanced zones. Only your party is there, and there’s a well-defined mission in each zone. Think of each zone as like a dungeon in an MMO.
That said, it is a great game. I prefer it to GW2, but I would guess that MMO players could be disappointed if they don’t go in with the right expectations.
- Comment on Downdetector is down 2 weeks ago:
CF
I did a double take; thought you said OF.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 3 weeks ago:
Either way, he recommended that everyone “freak the fuck out for the next few days and speculate as much as possible until they announce something,”
Advice after my own heart. Freaking out and speculating are always the best move.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 3 weeks ago:
The point here, IMO, is to make moving - some kind of exercise - part of your daily routine. Unless you have a physical job, try to find some way to stay physical. Bike to work (I know this is often not practical), or go for a walk at lunchtime, or start always using the stairs in the office , or …
It sounds contradictory, but staying physically active really does give you more energy.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update November 2025 4 weeks ago:
The missing step is preparation of the ingredients and liquid, all together. Gazpacho is blended. So are milkshakes, for which I left the door open.
Other soups have other preparations, but the key is they’re prepared together with the liquid.
If you blend and/or boil your cereal, I’ll grant you it’s soup. And please do record yourself eating it.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update November 2025 4 weeks ago:
Putting a raw tomato and a raw chicken breast into a bowl and adding water doesn’t make chicken soup. In soup all the ingredients are prepared together in the liquid, which is not drained after.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 4 weeks ago:
its *
Ironically, that’s definitely something AI could check for.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 4 weeks ago:
What does Q&A stand for?
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update November 2025 4 weeks ago:
I’ll grant you bread sandwich, but cereal soup? That’s where I draw the line. Just adding a liquid to something does not make it soup.
An argument could be made for milkshake being soup though…
- Comment on Finally playing Mass Effect (LE). Got to this part in 2 and just... 4 weeks ago:
At one point he thought I was coming onto him. I shut that down so fast.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 4 weeks ago:
The best part was: this was even in the installer! When setting up your sound card, there was a test button. If it worked, you heard “your sound card works perfectly”. But if you kept pressing it, eventually it would say “enjoying yourself?” And if you kept going after that, in an angry voice, “it doesn’t get any better than this!”
Ah old Blizzard, when even the installers had character.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 4 weeks ago:
I also love how reincarnation is a fact of life in that world, and souls are a real, almost physical, thing that can be manipulated and used.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
Icewind Dale and Baldur’s Gate 2. Same engine and world, yet different enough that they both hold my interest. Baldur’s Gate is quite involved, with tons of quests and NPCs all vying for attention. I literally had a moment where I entered a new area, a bunch of enemies spawned and attacked, and during the fight another NPC spawned and initiated a completely unrelated conversation, ending in removing one of my party members. The quests and characters are interesting, but it can get a bit much when you have so many people telling you about their very urgent problem.
Icewind Dale on the other hand is petty straightforward: go to a new area, fight through it, report back, and repeat. Which doesn’t mean its quests are uninteresting, they are just less complex.
The Icewind Dale party is also much lower level, making fights much simpler, though not always easier.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 5 weeks ago:
You can use Linux-like text navigation on macOS: ctrl-a goes to the start of the line, ctrl-e to the end, ctrl-f forward, etc.
I mostly use Windows, macOS second, with some Linux in distant third. Yet those Unix-style bindings are what I miss most in Windows applications that don’t support remapping.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 1 month ago:
About thirty years ago I was a teen. I remember talking with a girl only a few years younger than me, and being astounded that she didn’t know how to read an analogue clock.
Exactly as you indicated, this is nothing new.
- Comment on #environmentalist 1 month ago:
The only thing that comes with a straw in the restaurants I visit, is cocktails.
- Comment on The Internet's Biggest Annoyance:Why Cookie Laws Should Target Browsers, Not Websites 1 month ago:
IANAL
Two things: “reject all” should be as easy as “accept all”. GDPR seems pretty clear about that, to me at least. Almost all (if not simply all) 3rd party implementations get this wrong. I can only assume they’ve never been challenged on this, or found a loophole. “Native” European sites (governments, official bodies, TV stations, …. ) are the only ones I’ve seen do this correctly.
If your cookies don’t have any tracking you don’t need to ask consent. You don’t need a pop-up. You don’t need any user interaction. All you need is a notification somewhere on the page.
- Comment on similar to the word of mouth post, what game did you not expect much from but loved it? 1 month ago:
Thomas Was Alone.
I stuck at platformers, and don’t like playing them. But this game, and most especially its narration, made me fall in love with quadrilaterals.
I won’t say more, but if you haven’t tried it please give it a chance.
- Comment on New trailer for Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown has a rather bald Borg crew member 1 month ago:
what did they do to Seven of Nine?! Why do they have no hair?
When she first came aboard she didn’t have any hair either.
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 1 month ago:
To me as a European, posts and comments about US politics can be very confusing. There’s the different interpretation on the word liberal you mentioned. There’s also the fact that the colours are reversed: here red is for the left - socialists and communists - while blue is the liberal right (not so much conservative right, though there are conservative subgroups of the “blues”). And there’s the fact that they often assume familiarity with political events and people unknown to me.
Somewhat related: posts and comments from the far and extreme left are often even more incomprehensible. They seem to have their own language entirely.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 1 month ago:
The gold box RPG series: Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades, and Pools of Darkness.
These are set in the Forgotten Realms, and using the old AD&D ruleset.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Using “streaming” instead of “broadcasting” struck me as an odd choice for someone old enough to remember it.
It’s fine of course, it just stood out to me.