SparroHawc
@SparroHawc@lemmy.zip
- Comment on the public demands ANSWERS 2 days ago:
Well, I’m touching a shark right now. Rubbing it every which way. No direction is off limits. It’s smoother than the finest silks
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 3 days ago:
The controller integration is probably the #1 reason I prefer to keep Steam going in the background.
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 1 week ago:
The trouble is that it becomes far too easy to fall into the pattern of power being used to garner more power. All power needs to be held in check to avoid that very simple flaw. The moment the people are convinced that power shouldn’t be held in check is the moment that they are doomed.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 week ago:
It’s not the query that burns through electricity like crazy, it’s training the models.
You can run a query yourself at home with a desktop computer, as long as it has enough RAM and compute cells to support the model you’re using (think a few high-end GPUs).
Training a model requires a huge pile of computer power though, and the AI companies are constantly scraping the internet to
stealfind more training material - Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 week ago:
“We have to find a compelling use case so we can keep tragedying the commons!”
- Comment on It's easy 1 week ago:
Okay, fair.
- Comment on It's easy 1 week ago:
That’s…
That’s literally middle class… - Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some secret Google search engine that still has decent search results instead of the paid-for mess that us plebs get.
- Comment on steam vs gog, which game store to buy from? 1 month ago:
If you own it on GoG you don’t need a pirate copy - just save the offline installer.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Personally, I wouldn’t include Proton in the costs of the Steam Machine. The Deck already is benefiting from it immensely, and I would consider it to be a cost of expanding into Linux gaming in general - especially with the Lenovo handheld and other devices starting to jump on the bandwagon as Microsoft continues to take repeated dumps on their userbase. Its R&D costs are being won back by the market % Steam takes on any games bought and played in Linux, which means that it can benefit from that continued revenue stream rather than the one-off hardware sale.
The hardware has to break even. The software already has.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 2 months ago:
Multi-millionaires are well-off. Rich is being able to throw your money around to get what you want. That doesn’t really hit until you’re at the five-million mark, in my opinion. Any less and you’re in the ‘I have a big home and also a summer home’ level, where you own some expensive luxuries but aren’t quite at the ‘I have staff to do that for me’ level.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
They’re buying the parts directly from the manufacturers though, so cutting out the retailer middle-man could offset the R&D costs.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 2 months ago:
Millionaires don’t count as ‘rich’ any more.
- Comment on We have one at home 2 months ago:
I have that and an ‘OnLive founding member’ T-shirt that I wear to tech events. Especially when I suspect there’s going to be something tone-deaf getting launched.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 2 months ago:
Your standards are weird. Several of these games are considered the current pinnacle of their genres.
- Comment on How has there not yet been a leak of the Epstein files? Surely there is someone with access to them that could have been subject to worldwide pressure to let something out. 2 months ago:
Your entire family being made to suffer. If you care about your family, at least.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 2 months ago:
The implication is that they’ll have to jump ship to Linux, and thus become a member of the unixsocks community.
- Comment on Nestlé accused of ’risking health of babies for profit’ over added sugar in cereals sold in African countries 2 months ago:
Risking the health of babies for profit is kinda Nestlé’s SOP.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 2 months ago:
Symphony was incredible for the time, but its difficulty was all over the place and pretty much becomes zero in late-game. Many, many Metroidvanias by indie developers have far surpassed SotN in quality.
- Comment on YSK: Your library card is probably a golden ticket to free streaming, e-books, and audiobooks. 2 months ago:
Why did you post essentially the same thing, but with different wording, one hour apart? Into the same community?
- Comment on Every single time I think of restructuring my homelab storage. What do you use for storage engines and how does it benefit you? 2 months ago:
You’re absolutely right on all counts.
That said, my RAID setup is on a Synology, so it’s brain-dead simple and not especially prone to falling over.
- Comment on Every single time I think of restructuring my homelab storage. What do you use for storage engines and how does it benefit you? 2 months ago:
That’s true until it isn’t.
Unrecoverable hard drive failures definitely occur, and it can be catastrophic when it does if you don’t have any backups. One of my backups just happens to be the two other hard drives in the RAID-5 array.
- Comment on Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins 2 months ago:
It’s also going to result in the destruction of the Xbox brand though. Whatever they release, no one’s going to buy it. Anyone who’s smart already releases on multiple platforms if they release for Xbox, and this will only exacerbate the issue.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 2 months ago:
Ah, good on you! How long ago did you buy the place?
- Comment on Ok, boomer 2 months ago:
Now good luck finding a home for only $240K in an area that actually has decent-paying jobs…
- Comment on Ok, boomer 2 months ago:
The housing market is in a bubble right now. Buying a house and gaining equity is no guarantee of retirement money.
- Comment on Relatable. 2 months ago:
Chainsaw Man is simple. All the characters are awful and I hate watching them.
- Comment on Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins 3 months ago:
Soooooo they’ve crippled their game making divisions with layoffs that obliterated employee morale so that they had more money to throw at AI, and now they’re demanding that this same section of the company offset even more of their AI costs because it’s one of the few parts of the company that actually makes money?
Reminds me of how Hasbro is milking WotC for all they’re worth while destroying faith in the brand.
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 3 months ago:
Except that it doesn’t consider the divide between haves and have-nots in those averages. The have-nots used to be able to afford a house; despite the average wealth increasing, it’s not really been reflected in the living conditions of the lower class workers.
- Comment on How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades) 3 months ago:
The Nintendo Hotline was fantastic for me, because I lived close enough to Nintendo’s US offices that the number wasn’t long distance… and it wasn’t a 900 number, so it never cost more than a regular phone call. I got all the hints I needed for free.