SparroHawc
@SparroHawc@lemmy.zip
- Comment on 5 days 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. 1 week 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 1 week 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. 1 week ago:
Millionaires don’t count as ‘rich’ any more.
- Comment on We have one at home 1 week 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 1 week 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. 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Ah, good on you! How long ago did you buy the place?
- Comment on Ok, boomer 4 weeks ago:
Now good luck finding a home for only $240K in an area that actually has decent-paying jobs…
- Comment on Ok, boomer 4 weeks 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. 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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) 5 weeks 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.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 5 weeks ago:
Car rentals aren’t as much of an issue, because of how much less expensive it is to own a second-hand car. If you’re homeless and you need access to a car, you don’t go to a rental place, you get a beater from Craigslist for about the same price it would cost to rent a car for a month (if not less).
- Comment on Is Tailscale ok? (Spoiler: no) 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s … that’s a problem. In that situation though, without IPv6 there really isn’t a good solution.
- Comment on Is Tailscale ok? (Spoiler: no) 5 weeks ago:
As long as your IP address hasn’t changed any time recently, it will likely have propagated to other DNS providers and you still ought to be able to reach home with the domain name.
- Comment on Is Tailscale ok? (Spoiler: no) 5 weeks ago:
It’s almost certainly related to AWS.
Get a dynamic DNS from afraid.org, they’re great. That’ll make it so you can always find your home network without needing to write down your IP address (especially frustrating if it changes).
Then run a VPN server and redirect the VPN port from your router to the VPN server.
It’s not easy, but it’s way, WAY more robust than depending on a 3rd party to keep your info (except for afraid.org and they practically NEVER go down).
- Comment on Built to last 1 month ago:
Look up a cleaning solution called ‘RetroBright’. It’s designed to remove the yellowing from the ABS housings of old electronics. I’m pretty sure the recipe for it is available free online, or you can order pre-mixed bottles of it. You have to be a little careful with it because it’s mostly hydrogen peroxide, but I hear it works great.
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 1 month ago:
They utilize these tools because they have no morals. They are willing to lie and cheat their way into whatever they want.
The left does not have that advantage. We don’t want to lie, we don’t want to cheat, we want the liars and cheaters to be removed from power. Lying harder isn’t going to work for us because unlike the right, we will call out our own for it.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 1 month ago:
I’m a big fan of the R-Type series, and R-Type Final plays very well on the Deck.
Also: Katamari Damacy - Really weird concept for a surprisingly fun game. Roll up the world! Devil May Cry - The high-speed brawler that launched a genre. Tales of the Abyss - A good RPG with likeable characters and some great twists.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 month ago:
Except LLMs are absolutely terrible at working with a new, poorly documented library. Commonly-used, well-defined libraries? Sure! Working in an obscure language or an obscure framework? Good luck.
LLMs can surface information. It’s perhaps the one place they’re actually useful. They cannot reason in the same way a human programmer can, and all the big tech companies are trying to sell them on that basis.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 1 month ago:
It’s not interpretation, it’s extrapolation.