Godort
@Godort@lemmy.ca
- Comment on [minor spoilers] Promise Mascot Agency 23 hours ago:
I bounced off of this game initially because I didn’t care for the mascot management aspect. I think I need to revisit it with adjusted expectations as most people love it so I must be missing something.
I much preferred their prior game, Paradise Killer.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 4 days ago:
Yeah, no doubt.
Having access to visual basic is dangerous enough, let alone Python
- Comment on If you got in a time machine 4 days ago:
Writing all the songs on the disc is amateur hour. You cant look at them while it’s playing to skip to the right track unless you know the CD perfectly.
It’s better to write it on the insert, even if it means you have to keep it in the case and not in a CD wallet
- Comment on Techrights — Internet Relay Chat and Gemini Protocol Help Us Relive the Net of the Dial-Up Era 1 week ago:
Discord circa 2018 was pretty much everything I’d want in a modern IRC.
If they can just bring that set of features, I’d switch back to IRC in a heartbeat.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
The pathological need to find something to use LLMs for is so bizzare.
Venture capital dumped so much money into the tech without understanding the full scope of what it was capable of. Now they’re so in so deep that they desperately NEED to find something profitable it can do, otherwise they’ll lose the farm.
- Comment on what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time? 2 weeks ago:
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Chrono Trigger
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Link to the Past
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Super Mario RPG
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- Comment on Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review 3 weeks ago:
The game’s narrative was identified as an area that was particularly in need of improvement and will be revamped in the coming months
I really don’t trust executives to be the arbiters of what is considered good narrative. I hope they didn’t just kneecap the writing because it wouldn’t appeal to as many people as possible.
- Comment on Im an unworthy Fraud when it comes to Tech 3 weeks ago:
This is Dunning Kruger in effect. You actually know way more than you think because you’re more aware of what you don’t know than a total beginner.
Also, as far as wanting to switch back goes, That’s a path of least resistance. For a multitude of reasons, stock Windows is simply easier to use than Linux for most people. Especially if you’re already used to Windows’ workflows and its particular quirks. And somewhat ironically, Linux is harder to adapt to if you’re a power user. Power users tend to use their PC for more things than a basic user does, and therefore need to configure more things to work properly.
- Comment on Is it possible to make wireless charging broadcast electricity throught an entire house similar to how wifi can broadcast to the entire house? 3 weeks ago:
I would seriously doubt it, not because it’s impossible, but because it’s massively impractical.
It turns out that wireless charging is shockingly inefficient. The antennas you would need are way bigger than you could carry practically, and the amount of power you receive is very tiny compared to the amount of voltage you’re pushing through.
A YouTuber I like actually built a setup like this in a recent video.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 4 weeks ago:
Isn’t this basically what TOR and I2P are for?
- Comment on Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on MFW I read an opinion that displeases my brainslug 4 weeks ago:
I think brainslugs are bad, actually.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely, thats something you get with population centers, but I think they’re farter right politically than most major US citites.
- Comment on Where are all the successful "red cities"? 4 weeks ago:
Miami, maybe. But I think they’re still pretty left in comparison to the Rest of Florida
- Comment on Is the peoples deep interest in chemical experiment viral videos (e.g. liquid nitrogen in a pool) related to being shooed away from understanding real science? 4 weeks ago:
Almost certainly no. This is the gateway for “yhr algorithm” to start recommending pop science and science communicators, and from there, a seed will sprout for people to get interested in “real science”
- Comment on It's the truth 5 weeks ago:
The jar with the stern chinese woman on the label contains wonders.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 5 weeks ago:
A crate full of microSD cards could deliver speeds like this with a ping time measured in hours
- Comment on What should I get my online friend for their birthday? 5 weeks ago:
Satisfactory was a phenomenal video game that you guys can play together. Not quite like Minecraft, but similar.
- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 5 weeks ago:
Bitwarden is FOSS but requires some technical setup and has no redundancy.
Bitwarden offers a cloud-based service in addition to self-hosted options. I choose to pay $10/year to get access to store OTP codes and easy Yubikey enrollment
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 5 weeks ago:
Oh, I fully agree.
I really want to go back to electronics and appliances being both more robust and more repairable. It’s just that the vast majority of the population disagrees with that once they learn that it will make things cost more initially.
- Comment on We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower 5 weeks ago:
I think the “black box” nature of electronics is mostly illusory due to how we treat our devices. A friend bought a walking treadmill that wouldn’t turn on out of the box. She contacted the company, they told her to trash it and just shipped her a new one.
She gave it to me, I took it apart. One of the headers that connects the power switch to the mainboard was just unplugged. It took literally 10 minutes to “fix” including disassembly and assembly, and all I needed was a screwdriver.
This is a symptom of industry switching to cheap “disposable” electronics, rather than more expensive, robust, and repairable ones.
From the treadmill company’s point of view, it’s cheaper to just lose one unit and pay shipping one way rather than pay to have the unit returned, spend valuable technician time diagnosing and fixing an issue and then pay to ship the repaired unit back.
About 50 years ago, you could find appliance repair shops that would fix your broken toaster or TV, and parts for stuff like that were easily available. Now, with the advanced automation in building these, combined with the increased difficulty of repair(fine-work soldering, firmware debuging and the like) it makes way more sense to just replace the whole thing.
- Comment on How are you doing fellow kids 1 month ago:
It does feel that way sometimes, but humans as a species are shockingly resilient. This isn’t the first crumbling empire we’ve had to deal with, nor will it be the last.
- Comment on How are you doing fellow kids 1 month ago:
I’m jealous of the kids that will learn about this era in school in about 60 years.
It’s going to be a really interesting social studies subject linking the rise of Web 2.0 to the fall of America
- Comment on Most Common PIN Codes 1 month ago:
Number pairs where the 1st and 3rd digit match kr where the 2nd and 4th digit match.
Eg: 1315 or 4676
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 1 month ago:
This will rely on having an executive team that can predict trends beyond the next quarter.
Doubling down on advertising, telemetry in an overly bloated OS looks really good if you only care about the profits that brings for the next 3 months, rather than how much your userbase resents it. MS is fully capable of turning this around immediately by just making LTSC available to the public without needing to by a MAK through an enterprise channel, but that means throwing away some recurring revenue in favor of claiming a lost userbase
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Remember to drink a ton of water to replace everything you’re losing to the throne.
Last thing you want is to feel extra shitty due to dehydration when you’re already recovering
- Comment on Oh to go back... 2 months ago:
Honestly, Hackers gets a lot of shit for being ridiculous, but it only deserves it sometimes.
A lot of the actual hacking that is done in that movie is stuff like social engineering, phreaking payphones, and reading technical documentation. It’s exaggerated in the movie to make it watchable, but it’s largely based in reality.
- Comment on Pakistan to nominate Donald Trump for Nobel peace prize 2 months ago:
Someone is trying to get an ally against India.
- Comment on Microsoft accidentally swapped Windows 11’s startup sound with Vista’s 2 months ago:
Ta-Da!
- Comment on What anime do you regularly rewatch? 2 months ago:
I go through Slayers every couple of years. It’s hard to call it “good”, but it’s by far my favorite anime.
It’s the only anime I’ve ever seen that really captures the spirit of a D&D player. The characters successfully beat the BBEG in every season, but act like dysfunctional clowns the whole way through.