Prove_your_argument
@Prove_your_argument@piefed.social
- Comment on Windows 11's free video editor Clipchamp now requires OneDrive 1 day ago:
There is a very, very short list of games that don’t “just work” in linux at this point.
If your daily gaming is nothing but LoL or twitch competitive shooters and you’ve gotta play whatever the trend is, linux won’t work 100% of the time. In basically any other case, it just works for gaming. If you MUST play some kind of competitive shooter, it’s real easy to have a dual boot setup with windows for that game.
If the competitive shooters you want are supported here, there’s no reason to use windows for gaming. https://areweanticheatyet.com/ - Right now the biggest pain points are probably Battlefield 6, Call of Duty, League of Legends, Apex, Valorant, Fortnite… aka the games where the teenagers tell you how they fucked your mom. Many, many other titles just work, like The Finals, ARC Raiders, Counter-Strike 2, etc.
Even with some games that do not have anti-cheat support, you can still run the game, you just have to join servers setup for linux that effectively do not have anticheat enabled. I think real flesh and blood admins do a better job anyway.
- Comment on Bean virus 3 days ago:
Why do people keep buying this shit?
You don’t have to leave your house. $50 aint much to a lot of people, even those making minimum wage in a lot of cases. People have way more disposable income in this country than they let on, there’s always ways to minimize expenses. Housing costs are probably the biggest costs for me, and that could be split four or five ways if I really wanted to save money (but i’d rather spend thousands of dollars a month to not deal with other people.)
My brother routinely takes a ride share service to mcdonalds with his wife, they eat, then they go back in another rideshare. it’s still cheaper, and the food is always fresh, and the rewards you get from app rewards programs are honestly pretty good when you game the system.
- Comment on Bean virus 4 days ago:
I think between the tip and fees, it would be closer to $18 or so.
The fees are insane, they triple dip the one sided negotiation.
- Comment on Everyone brings up leatherman multi tools, this is the real edc shit. 4 days ago:
But what if I’m allergic?
- Comment on ‘Pokémon Go’ players have been unknowingly training delivery robots 5 days ago:
No shit, and all the widely used captchas in the world have been training ML models too… as have all the voice recordings from all the smart assistants in everybody’s homes, phones and cars.
- Comment on Reporting an absence 1 week ago:
They could… you know… just use the back door.
- Comment on JPEG is pronounced Jay-Fegg 1 week ago:
I think this is the best one here. Hey can you send me that document as a gaypeg? Thanks!
- Comment on Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse” 2 weeks ago:
They’re already paying all the manufacturers for the driver telemetry anyway, probably through third party brokers because everything must be obfuscated.
I think they like having multiple layers of confirmation that way if one is regulated away for some reason like ‘privacy’ or ‘technically anyone could be driving’ then they have fallbacks and legal deniability for the data being inherently flawed.
- Comment on Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse” 2 weeks ago:
The various news sites out there that want to spread their own version of influence and generate their own revenue take this kind of information and use it to see how you click on things, what drives your engagement, what you will go on to share with others, and how you talk about all of it. It’s all tied together.
Big money interests run basically everything in this world. We are just cattle, we will always be just cattle. I’m in countless databases like all of you, and we’re all fucked by the system we think we might some day to cheat our way above the other rats. The noose is tied tight though… there’s not much room left to struggle. It’s too late to escape it. Palantir and Flock are here to close the loop and they aren’t going anywhere, even if the street cameras are likely to be hidden in the future and more tamper proof rather than obvious to the public. Doesn’t matter if the laws change to ban it or you can convince local government to not get involved with it - it’s way too easy to hide cameras with modern technology. Just give it time and your credit score and auto insurance will incorporate flock data ;)
- Comment on Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse” 2 weeks ago:
I swear people do not understand the point of what microsoft does.
There isn’t a team tasked with making teams worse. They’re tasked with extracting all possible value out of their product. Part of that value is infromation like where you are, what you’re doing, what you’re talking about, what you search for, what you actually do for your job, who is around you, what they talk about, where they are, what they are doing, what they search for, and what they do for their job and how everyone spends their money.
All of this is incredibly valuable data to governments, businesses and private individuals that want to advertise, suppress dissenting political voices, enhance useful dissenting political voices, and otherwise manipulate global influence.
They just don’t want you to think about declining any permissions, triggering regulatory action, or switching to another platform.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 2 weeks ago:
It’s because this administration wants to use AI/ML to create a list of domestic strike targets based on people who have said things dumpy doesn’t like.
- Comment on Game over 3 weeks ago:
We call them Karen
- Comment on Meta’s own research found parental supervision doesn’t really help curb teens’ compulsive social media use 3 weeks ago:
That’s not really parental supervision though. Knowing what kind of content that exists and that a child can interact with should be one of the most important considerations when allowing kids to access something. Not just the amount of time in a period they are allowed to do so.
- Comment on Meta’s own research found parental supervision doesn’t really help curb teens’ compulsive social media use 3 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine how “parental supervision” could exist without understanding how to use what they are supervising.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 4 weeks ago:
As much as I think nintendo and the pokemon company are evil shits, I do believe overall pokemon go was net positive for humanity.
The physical health benefit from all those people walking around, and the mental health benefits from said populations being more social and friendly with others won’t ever show a statistic for lives saved, but I think it’s reasonable to assume lives will be saved from extra exercise and positive social interactions.
- Comment on Roblox Hit With Multimillion-Dollar Suit By Los Angeles, for Creating Largely Unsupervised Online World That Enables Predatory Pedophiles and Give Them Powerful Tools to Prey on Kids 4 weeks ago:
Can’t interfere with that revenue growth
Shareholders need to be held accountable for the unethical, immoral and illegal activities of their owned businesses. Until there is a financial incentive for business to be run ethically, morally and legally for the shareholders, nothing will ever change. It is perhaps the biggest problem with capitalism today.
- Comment on Quantum teleportation demonstrated over existing fiber networks — Deutsche Telekom’s T‑Labs used commercially available Qunnect hardware for the demo, claims 90% average accuracy 4 weeks ago:
There’s going to be latency because the NIC on both ends still communicates with copper to the rest of the computer system(s.)
Still going to be faster than a fiber connection or copper. Not to mention the latency induced by say the IEX Magic Box.
- Comment on Quantum teleportation demonstrated over existing fiber networks — Deutsche Telekom’s T‑Labs used commercially available Qunnect hardware for the demo, claims 90% average accuracy 4 weeks ago:
automated quantum stock trading in 5….4….3….2….1…
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony. 4 weeks ago:
lizard android? or… just android?
- Comment on Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs 4 weeks ago:
It’s certainly frustrating pointing out obvious end results and seeing all the fanboys and normies call you a conspiracy theorist or just dunk on you.
There’s no such thing as privacy anymore. People still believe it exists, but it’s dead and gone.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can’t Trust His Testimony. 4 weeks ago:
Is he considered a good lizard person?
- Comment on The Highguard Website Is Down As Players Brace For The Worst 4 weeks ago:
Beautiful, it’s not even listed on are we anticheat yet either (but there’s a github request to put up the denial.)
- Comment on The Highguard Website Is Down As Players Brace For The Worst 4 weeks ago:
Sucks their game sucks. At least there’s countless other options!
- Comment on Bean thinking of you, Lemmy 4 weeks ago:
Unbeanleavable, where’s the fucking corn?
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 5 weeks ago:
I’m well aware, but everybody knows the HBM demand will dry up eventually and that eventually the consumer market will be worth trying to profit from again.
They just want to manipulate the consumer market to maximize margins. If they can get memory prices to stay at 200-300% for a while, they can up the prices they charge and raise margins to stratospheric heights not before seen on the consumer market. All manufacturers jump on stuff like this when they can get away with it.
Memory manufacturers still order from micron directly for their own branded chips. Those margins will increase for all parties. Ai data center demand is like Christmas for the entire industry. No pricing is transparent and every vendor is profiteering.
- Comment on 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months 5 weeks ago:
Not at microcenter. Their bundles are full of crucial chips. Just built one for a buddy last week.
- Comment on No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare 5 weeks ago:
Better start picking up some high powered laser pointers.
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 5 weeks ago:
but we could be playing samba with maracas!
- Comment on Let's take a moment to remember the time period when everyone had to adjust to using dual-joysticks on controllers. 5 weeks ago:
The transition period from the 90s to mid 2000s for control schemes was so fragmented. I remember a dozen games with wildly different control schemes. Wasn’t until the late 2000s when things started getting more standardized to what we know today.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 5 weeks ago:
I think they’re already too big to fail. They captured the entire market. There’s no real competitor with any kind of noticeable fraction of the market share.
The closest thing to a competitor are business products similar to slack or teams. None of those have anything close to feature parity like high quality streaming at no cost.
I would gladly host something myself, but I can’t do it all. IMO this needs a lemmy equivalent with decentralized hosting or something.