TheRealKuni

@TheRealKuni@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First time posters be like⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  cm0002’s reply is a good summary. It’s an alternate platform, but because of the nature of the Fediverse it plays nicely with Lemmy. So I’m posting this on Piefed but you can read it with Lemmy, and vice versa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First time posters be like⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I get it.

  When Voyager got Piefed support I exported my communities and decided to try it. Loving it so far!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First time posters be like⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And eventually:

  Friendship ended with Lemmy

  Now Piefed is my new best friend

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft asks customers for feedback on reported SSD failures⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This issue was great. It gave me an excuse to upgrade to a better SSD, which also gave me an excuse to try Linux for the first time in like a decade (other than the Steam Deck). Threw Nobara on the drive that Windows would murder. Haven’t had time to play around with it much, but I’m excited to try it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft asks customers for feedback on reported SSD failures⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if the headline weren’t misleading, I wouldn’t be shocked if they have a hard time getting telemetry reports from failed drives from users if the OS is installed on said drive.

  Then again, a modern OS should be able to phone home with a crash report as it crashes depending on what has failed, so I guess I’ve talked myself out of that hypothetical lack of shock.

  So…disregard this. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that computationally intensive to upscale frames. TVs have been doing it algorithmically for ages and looking good doing it. Hell, nVidia graphics cards can do it for every single frame of high end games with DLSS. Calling it “AI” because the type of algorithm it’s using is just cashing in on the buzzword.

  (Unless I’m misunderstanding what’s going on.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kirkland strong⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait ‘til they find out the cereal in bags is the same thing as the cereal in boxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like that should’ve already been a given when the 13th and 14th gen Core processors permanently kneecap themselves if they feel like it. But that’s just me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨project paperclip be like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose with regard to Ukraine I should have said “our support was.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨project paperclip be like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The US is all about realpolitik, and begins to make a lot more sense when you look at everything through a Kissinger-shaped lens (rest in piss, you evil bastard). We pretend to be ideological so our citizenry can feel good about ourselves, but the way the nation operates is purely pragmatic. Look no further than Israel-Palestine and how buddy-buddy we are with Saudi Arabia for modern examples. Even our support of Ukraine, while overlapping with an ethical imperative, is driven primarily by the interests of NATO and the relatively inexpensive degradation of Russia’s military and political standing we can participate in. We only give a shit about “human rights” when it benefits us.

  Operation Paperclip was pragmatism. It creates a sense of cognitive dissonance when we try to hold in our minds that we brought Nazi scientists over and the idea that we’re “the good guys” and fought for “justice,” so our brains try to reduce that cognitive dissonance by saying those scientists weren’t behind any of the evils of the Nazis. They were, obviously. That didn’t matter to our government, but they kept the operation classified for a reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨project paperclip be like⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wernher von Braun by Tom Lehrer

  R.I.P. Tom Lehrer

  (Heard this first in For All Mankind, an excellent show I recommend to everyone, pirate it if you don’t have Apple TV+.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE NVIDIA AI GPU BLACK MARKET | Investigating Smuggling, Corruption, & Governments⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, if it were Hbomberguy talking about YouTube plagiarism for four hours I’d watch it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In SpongeBob, Sandy Cheeks is way more closely related to Pearl and the fish than she is to anyone else in the main cast⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hank Green did a great video about this on his channel recently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is blue and pink traditionally associated with men and women?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Like Mary’s bolt-on fake tits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the abusive parent always portrayed as being the father, why is the mother never portrayed as abusive?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Along with all the other examples listed here:

  The Bear

  Also wtf is the "Abused child forgive abusive parent and reunite happily ever after" trope, fuck that shit. Abusers do not deserve forgiveness.

  No, but depending on circumstances and the work the abuser is willing to put into changing themself and making things as right as they can, forgiveness can be earned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netanyahu Says He’s “Very” Invested in Idea of “Greater Israel” to Conquer Large Swaths of Middle East⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure he’s been the bad guy for a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Sort of” because it isn’t a lawnmower, it’s possessing a lawnmower.

  “But yeah” because that’s splitting hairs. 🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  She herself refers to how she played a “nuke-ular psychiatrist in a James Bonk movie” in the episode of 30 Rock where she and Tracy are leading a protest of NBC by their fellow idiots. 🤣

  Some highlights from that episode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried naming the states from memory as a European⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I love that San Francisco (NorCal) and LA (SoCal) are swapped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well sort of. But yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Important thing to remember about the “console wars.”

  Other than the Nintendo Wii (iirc), most consoles sell at a loss at the beginning of the generation. They eventually turn a profit on console sales, but console sales aren’t the point.

  Game sales are.

  When each console was its own very specific architecture and games needed to be designed specifically for them, console sales matter a lot because that’s how you’d sell games.

  But now that architectures are similar (if not the same), cross-compilation has become easier than ever. It’s why you see Sony finally releasing first party titles on PC.

  Microsoft knows full well that their console sales aren’t great, but that’s okay for them. Their PC sales are. Many of their titles sell on Steam. And they sell some of their titles on PlayStation.

  They’ll continue to make some form of console because without it they lose out on millions of Game Pass subscriptions from people who don’t want to make the initial investment in a gaming PC, or deal with the complexity, but their goal of making that next console more and more like a PC fits perfectly in their model.

  It’s a shame the Series X has sold so poorly, it’s a great console, but I doubt Microsoft is too worried about “losing” the console wars to Sony. The game has changed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TSMC employees reportedly stole 2nm trade secrets to share with Rapidus — accused are said to have shared 'hundreds of process integration technical photos'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm.

  This sucks for TSMC, but I have a hard time being upset that humanity’s ability to make better processors will expand, especially given the vulnerability of Taiwan. But I don’t really know enough to have a firm position on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pro tip⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also

  #*it’s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the end being neigh and all

  And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him, and the horse said, “the end is neigh!”

  (Neigh is what a horse says. The end is nigh. 😉)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Xenoblade Chronicles, especially 2 and 3 in my view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These 5 Co-Op Games Are Dominating Steam Right Now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you haven’t played It Takes Two (same developer) I highly recommend it. I liked it even more!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These 5 Co-Op Games Are Dominating Steam Right Now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked Split Fiction, but It Takes Two was better. I hope for more good things from the developer in the future!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elegoo Centauri Carbon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Enclosure makes printing some plastics much easier/safer, and it’s become common/inexpensive enough to be a “default” option, especially with options like the Carbon being so affordable.

  But the tool has to fit its purpose. If you only print PLA/PETG, then it’s not really necessary. I mostly leave the door off my printer, and only attach it when I need to print ASA or ABS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conception flaw or a bad hotend replacement ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I might be seeing it wrong, hard to tell from just this perspective, but could it be placed so the entire side, or entire back, is making contact with the bed? Increasing your contact surface can help dramatically as I said in my other reply.