TheRealKuni
@TheRealKuni@piefed.social
- Comment on 16-inch laptop with Blu-ray drive, USB 4 and AMD Ryzen 7: Fujitsu FMV Note A launches 9 hours ago:
4K Blu-rays look stunning on a good OLED TV. I tend to pick up movies I really loved the visuals of in 4K Blu-ray (Interstellar as an example).
- Comment on It's only a matter of time until Ozempic buys the naming rights to the Olympics. 4 days ago:
To rename them the Ozempics.
It’s not the best shower thought, but I get where they were going.
- Comment on Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents 4 days ago:
Hemorrhoid sufferers will have that thing going crazy.
- Comment on American public transit 4 days ago:
And Mamdani promises to make the buses free!
- Comment on Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia 4 days ago:
I saw a bunch of Ukraine flags at the No Kings protest yesterday…
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 6 days ago:
It makes us feel like we’re speedy little rebels. 🤣
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 6 days ago:
I’m not sure what this system does, but my non-Tesla car can adjust its intelligent cruise control by speed limit signs it sees, and you can tell it to have a buffer. Mine is set for +5, so if the sign says 45 miles per hour, the car drives itself at 50 mph.
If it’s something like that, which you set yourself, it’s probably fine. Just know what the police in your area enforce. Where I live you can generally go five over without an issue, ten over on the freeways. Everyone does this, so if you go the speed limit you end up annoying everyone.
- Comment on Anti-Trump protesters fire arrows at Colombian police, injuring four 6 days ago:
We’re about to have potentially one of the largest peaceful protests in the nation’s history. I saw this headline and was terrified.
The right is calling these the “Hate America” protests. They’re trying their hardest to get people to shoot us without saying it specifically.
The last thing we need is for someone to give right-wing assholes an excuse to start shooting unarmed protestors.
- Comment on I love stardew valley. looking for an alternative that is made for controller experience. 6 days ago:
I’ve literally only ever played it with controller, except for about fifteen minutes with mouse and keyboard.
Hundreds of hours on the Switch, and now over a hundred hours on the Steam Deck (holy shit mods, even just QoL ones and being able to zoom out farther, make the game so much better).
What specifically do you have a hard time doing using controller? I know placing fences can be a big pain, but that’s pretty much it in my experience.
- Comment on Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China 1 week ago:
I will admit I like ðe look of eth better ðan thorn, but I have nothing against just using thorn. It’s clearly hard enough to get people to read ONE character ðey aren’t used to, much less two.
ˈmeɪbi wi ʃʊd ɔl ʤʌst lɜrn ði ˌɪntərˈnæʃənəl fəˈnɛtɪk ˈælfəˌbɛt.
(Maybe we should all just learn the International Phonetic Alphabet.)
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 1 week ago:
“Stop doing X”
“Why?”
“Because I don’t want to do X.”
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 1 week ago:
Eh. Let him try. No harm in it. I find it kinda fun learning to read the character better.
- Comment on Grab your pitchforks 1 week ago:
Heh, broadly I agree. I think I know what people like about it: very familiar sound, chord progressions, themes. But to me it mostly sounds pretty much the same.
That said, some of what it finds its roots in is worth hearing. Bluegrass, southern rock, etc.
- Comment on Grab your pitchforks 1 week ago:
People need to step outside of their food comfort zone and try out different things.
I agree! My rule is, generally, if someone likes it there’s something about it worth liking. I can’t always find that thing (sometimes for genetic reasons, like cilantro and, I suspect, very hoppy beers), but I’m always willing to try.
This isn’t only true of food, by the way. Music is another place this is true. If you can find why people appreciate a type of music, you can usually learn to appreciate it even if you didn’t at first.
- Comment on Grab your pitchforks 1 week ago:
Yeah seriously, kiwi is fantastic, pizza is fantastic, kiwi on pizza? Probably fantastic. If it’s like pineapple it’ll caramelize when it cooks.
- Comment on Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language? 1 week ago:
I picked up Animal Well during the summer sale but haven’t touched it yet, how is it?
- Comment on Thank you to the people providing a counterweight over on the Relooted forums 2 weeks ago:
Oh boy, the Steam community is cringeworthy. Like, TPUSA level.
“yOu LiBeRaLs HaVe SpEnT yEaRs SaYiNg DiVeRsItY iS iMpOrTaNt BuT tHiS gAmE oNlY hAs AfRiCaN pRoTaGoNiStS?”
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 weeks ago:
Þank you for þe info!
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 weeks ago:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but shouldn’t you use ð for ðe voiced version of th and þ for ðe unvoiced?
(Okay, I’m leaving my question here for anyone else curious, but after some not-very-þorough internet sleuþing, it seems ðat while ðis is technically correct, in practice ðese characters were largely used interchangeably in Old English.)
- Comment on A cartoonist's review of AI art, by Matthew Inman 2 weeks ago:
I think there’s a stark difference between crafting your own comfyui workflow, getting the right nodes and control nets and checkpoints and whatever, tweaking it until you get what you want, and someone telling an AI “make me a picture/video of X.”
The least AI-looking AI art is the kind that someone took effort to make their own. Just like any other tool.
Unfortunately, gen AI is a tool that gives relatively good results without any skill at all. So most people won’t bother to do the work to make it their own.
I think that, like nearly everything in life, there is nuance to this. But at the same time, we aren’t ready for the nuance because we’re being drowned by slop and it’s horrible.
- Comment on AI chatbots that butter you up make you worse at conflict, study finds 2 weeks ago:
What a surprise. Being told you’re always right leads to you not being able to handle being wrong. Shock.
- Comment on When a person gains weight and keeps the weight on for a long time, is that old fat in your body, or does the fat get replaced over time? 2 weeks ago:
¿Por qué no los dos?
- Comment on When a person gains weight and keeps the weight on for a long time, is that old fat in your body, or does the fat get replaced over time? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had the same thought. Haven’t really looked into it though.
- Comment on When a person gains weight and keeps the weight on for a long time, is that old fat in your body, or does the fat get replaced over time? 2 weeks ago:
When you gain weight your fat cells grow, and when you lose weight they shrink. You don’t actually gain and lose fat cells the way people think.
But as my doctor explained to me, if they get big enough, they divide. Then even if you lose weight, you have fat cells hanging around who think they should be holding onto more fat than they are. So your body will want to be fat, and will enforce that with cravings.
It’s why it’s extremely hard to lose a large amount of weight and leave it off. I’m on my third major attempt now.
- Comment on OSHA says 3 weeks ago:
Do you weigh several thousand kilograms?
- Comment on Over a dozen Australian suncreams pulled over safety concerns 3 weeks ago:
Believe it or not the headline says “sunCREAMS” but I also read it as “sunscream” and thought maybe it was a knockoff Decepticon.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 4 weeks ago:
I still suspect the entire thing was a marketing ploy. That they had no intention of ACTUALLY changing the logo. They just wanted people to push back so they could get in the news. I wouldn’t be surprised if the marketing firm that made the logo also started the backlash.
I suspect the same is true about American Eagle’s Sydney Sweeney ad.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 4 weeks ago:
Ah, gotcha. That sucks.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 - Official Teaser Trailer | Tokyo Game Show 2025 4 weeks ago:
It’s about time. Been wanting this setting all along.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 - Official Teaser Trailer | Tokyo Game Show 2025 4 weeks ago:
Maybe? It’s Microsoft, so not natively. But Proton is pretty awesome.