zod000
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- Comment on The 10 most anticipated video games of 2026 3 days ago:
Wow, not one of these looks worth my time. Maybe it’s the year of the Steam backlog.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 1 week ago:
No, you misunderstand what I was trying to say, so I probably didn’t communicate it well. You cannot use any of them, open source or not, without allowing the Google Play Services some rather invasive permissions. That’s the Google I was referring to.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 1 week ago:
I quite literally just bought one of those clips recently because I am done with Android Auto, and Google in general as much as I can be.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 1 week ago:
You can, but it’s a Google filled minefield. A good view of it is reading into all of the trouble of using Android Auto in GrapheneOS without destroying all the privacy protections. It’s essentially impossible to get navigation going without doing so, but audio for music and phone calls can be done with some hoop jumping. You’re still probably better off just using bluetooth though.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 1 week ago:
Makes sense, I like vinyls for the deliberate retro experience of putting on the record and listening, but I have never agreed that they actually sound better. When CDs became mainstream I was personally thrilled.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 1 week ago:
I am sure it was no coincidence that those were the two options. I fell into that trap when I was a teen and had my first stereo. I had to buy some cables I couldn’t really afford because they literally didn’t offer RCA cables longer than 6’ in the other brand.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 1 week ago:
Classic issue and I am a bit shocked they hadn’t run into it before, I had figured that out when i was a teen with my first stereo setup. I am also not surprised at all that they were recommended to fully rebuild lmao
- Comment on A belated Christmas gift to R6 Siege! 1 week ago:
That shocking news! Almost as shocking as hearing that there are still Rainbow Six games being made and played.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 1 week ago:
That’s a classic and I am glad it see it passed around again. The best part is the people that start delving into the snake oil absurdity that is “audiophile cables” before, you know, getting better actual speakers/headphones. Like for fucks sake, your $200 fancy cable isn’t going to make your bullshit bargain bookshelf speaker into the voice of god. Just get some half way decent equipment and listen to your actual music.
- Comment on The Revolution Will Not Make the Hacker News Front Page 2 weeks ago:
Well, I did say mostly sane. I’ve been on the site longer than most/all of the admins and have never had an issue, but I don’t post often. I know one of the current admins is a Google employee, so maybe they feel the need to defend their evil provider.
- Comment on The Revolution Will Not Make the Hacker News Front Page 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think I’d lump lobste.rs in with hackernews, as it has always been basically a mostly sane alternative to hackernews.
- Comment on Nokia N900 Necromancy 3 weeks ago:
Exactly the type of super human that would engage in N900 necromancy.
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 3 weeks ago:
This is one of the dumbest distractions I’ve ever witnessed. I suppose the purposely forcing an acknowledged shitty font that was pushed out for a reason is on brand for such a shitty administration.
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 4 weeks ago:
A broom? /s, but not really
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 4 weeks ago:
Well, at least there is some good news today.
- Comment on India forces WhatsApp and Telegram into permanent SIM binding 4 weeks ago:
The $15 plan used to only be 2GB, which was honestly still enough for people that only use mobile data sparingly.
- Comment on A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again 5 weeks ago:
The grappling hook was a common mod in the original QuakeWorld scene and was included in the official Quake II CTF game mod. I’m surprised it didn’t become a mainstay in games afterwards, it was so fun to use. Shogo: Mobile Armor Division had it built in and was one of the most fun FPS games I had ever played until cheaters took over.
- Comment on Why the real poverty line is $140,000, this strategist argues 5 weeks ago:
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Well, a big part of the article is that you can’t just do that because the original formula was iffy even for the time when housing and insurance costs were not nearly as much of the average person’s expenses. That part of the article (well at least the original article this was based from www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie) that was so interesting was that it was originally based on about 3x times the minimum food budget. Apparently that was just an easier number to be able to quantify at the time in the 60s and they just kept using it.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think the final release was “shit” per se, but I was super confused when I played it and expected cool features from the beta. The beta was also very beta and not all of the features were actually good, but I feel like they ran out of time/money/patience and just cut down a ton of stuff to ship it.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 5 weeks ago:
A classic. I loved how in the last phase you could make the right combination of nonsensical choices and end up with human and do really well. Not as well as my hyper-evolved Rhino-montser, but really well.
- Comment on Why the real poverty line is $140,000, this strategist argues 5 weeks ago:
The 140k amount was for a family of four and including childcare for two children.
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 1 month ago:
Or eating toe funk
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 1 month ago:
Yeah, the continued support and extra modes made me so happy to be an early supporter. I also like the more original NES style games of the series and I am very excited for the sequel.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 1 month ago:
The DS is quite literally the only system that I ever sold going as far back as the Atari 2600. I hate, hate , hate how they forced the touch screen gimmicks for it in games that it didn’t belong. It was the only blemish on an otherwise outstanding game in Dawn of Sorrow. It ruined all of the Zelda games made directly for the system IMO.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 1 month ago:
I leaned the other way, but both were good.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 1 month ago:
A bunch of good ones have already been mentioned (SOTN, Nine Sols, Super Metroid), so I’ll just mention some that were missed.
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (sequel to SOTN, just as good if you can get past the DS touchscreen BS. The new remaster might get rid of it)
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night (made by Iga, creator of Castlevania: SOTN, Dawn of Sorrow, and others)
Salt and Sanctuary
The Messenger
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 1 month ago:
When I was much younger, I wanted that idealistic thing too. I was so optimistic about new tech that would come out. Decades of companies working on promising tech and turning it into a dystopian or anti-user mess have beaten that spirit out of me. I don’t want “smart” anything, and I certainly don’t trust any of the companies possibly capable of doing these things to be in charge of actually doing it.
- Comment on Spotify acquires music database WhoSampled | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
This really, really sucks. WhoSampled is awesome, especially for sample heavy music from the 80s and 90s. They’ve been around over a decade, weird to call them a startup. While I am pissed, if Spotify came and offered me a truck load of money for something I was running and probably making little to no money, I can’t say it wouldn’t be tempting.
- Comment on TIL there was a TV tuner attachment for the Game Gear! 1 month ago:
I can’t say I loved the Game gear enough to go that route, but seeing as I have had people try to argue with me that E.T. for the Atari 2600 is actually a fine game, there are enthusiasts for everything.
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 1 month ago:
Adobe has been their own worst enemy for decades and their one true skill is fucking things up. The best thing about Adobe trying to make their own OS would be that it could wipe them out.
-signed, a long time bitter former Adobe user that still has to support their shit