mushroommunk
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- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 4 days ago:
Yeah, I’d be more curious about the past three years combined. I know several friends still playing BG3 because they haven’t had time to finish it. As backlogs grow I feel like this will only become more common.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 4 days ago:
Right now not really. Ladybird is coming next year and I’m hopeful for
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 4 days ago:
Just going through settings was not enough. The process was still running. I don’t know which toggle fully killed it because I clicked everything off at once.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 4 days ago:
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 4 days ago:
12? Only 12? Bruh. My Firefox legit gave up and just shows an infinity symbol 😭
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 4 days ago:
Can I tempt you to join the fountain pen gang? We have shiny nibs and fun coloured inks to match your mood!
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 4 days ago:
We’ll just ignore the fact that the chat bot menu setting randomly appeared after an update. Very opt in. The only way to kill the task it sparks is to go into about:config and kill all the browser.ml.* options.
No one here cares what Firefox says because their actions have already hurt the trust in them.
- Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months? 1 week ago:
Welcome back to the digital world 👨🏼💻
Another vote for Expedition 33. Literally best game I’ve ever played. Loved it so much.
A lot of people loving Dispatch but not tried it myself yet.
Blue Prince is unlike a lot of games I’ve played before, bring a notebook though.
Heard good things about Metaphor: Refantazio
Not a 2024 game but I’m still gonna plug Inscryption too if you haven’t played it. Such a fun little game.
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 1 week ago:
The real reason to watch
- Comment on In place 1 week ago:
So, uh. I’m about to keg some nut brown ale. I’ll bring some potato salad too
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 1 week ago:
I’m doing the pixel remasters which I think are based more on original JP. I know some purists look down on them but I think overall they’re a solid version.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 1 week ago:
Windows itself is inherently unoptimized these days with its AI search powered start menu and settings pages that are actually electron web apps. Linux uses 3+ less gb of RAM on just desktop after I switched. So really it’s a both problem. Both windows and the programs need a rethink
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 1 week ago:
3/5 of the way through 100% Final Fantasy II. Figure by the time I catch up to modern final fantasy either hardware will be better again or people will optimize again. Either way I got time
- Comment on Elon Musk, doing Elon Musk things. 1 week ago:
Honestly this world is ready for Vecna and I’ve got enough trauma in my past. Fuck it. Vecna come get me let’s open your gate man
- Comment on AI Is still making code worse: A new CMU study confirms 2 weeks ago:
Bro, even the study saying AI coding isn’t great is shilling for AI. That conclusion “It’s going to get better, we swear, despite the evidence we have counter”.
Good Lord does AI need to die already.
(Normal caveat I’m talking modern LLMs, not all AI is evil, blah blah blah)
- Comment on At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus... 2 weeks ago:
I mean, calling it the “T800” just screams what they want it for. This world is so cooked
- Comment on Don't expect a SteamOS phone after the Steam Machine, Valve engineer says 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I kind of expected it. It’s a natural progression of them providing alternatives and there’s growing demand. People knew they were supporting Fex for a while. It just kind of made sense.
- Comment on It would be so funny if China colonizes Mars, then the Martian Colonists declare independence, and Mars become a new bastion of Freedom and Prosperity. 2 weeks ago:
Parallels to The Expanse too
- Comment on Halloween is a more giving and fun holiday than Christmas 2 weeks ago:
All my friends and I have felt this way for a few years now. My wife and I are the planning to spend $200 total on Christmas and that’s including the dinner we’ll likely host for friends.
Halloween is fun and my wife and I get into it but it’s also becoming a very commercialized thing around us. Everyone buying the massive 12 ft skeletons and trying to outdo each other with the yard and giving out bigger and bigger treats. Someone was handing out full Doritos bags this year, not the single serve, we’re talking family size.
I think my wife and I are going to try getting into Mari Lwyd next year instead.
- Comment on Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots) 3 weeks ago:
I do some volunteer work on ocalizing for Welsh and some Spanish. AI translations are hot garbage still even for the larger languages like Spanish. You can get a general idea of the intent most of the time, but that’s about it. It’s nowhere near good enough to replace humans with yet, definitely not good enough to overwrite what they’ve already translated.
- Comment on Change my mind 3 weeks ago:
Of course a sheep cheese philistine would argue in the comments. Get on the Llama cheese level
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 3 weeks ago:
If AI can do your job in minutes you’re either: A fool pumping out AI slop someone else has to fix and you don’t realize it.
Or
Doing a job that really shouldn’t exist.
LLMs can’t do more than shove out a watered down average of things it’s seen before. It can’t really solve problems, it can’t think, all it can do is regurgitate what it’s seen before. Not exactly conducive to quality.
- Comment on Forever young 3 weeks ago:
My buddy and I weren’t doing so hot last year and used Halo Infinite as our therapy. Pretty sure both of us alternated between being called a bot and a cheater every other match. It’s amazing sometimes just how bad you can do and still be called a cheater. (High plat to low diamond lobbies, we weren’t amazing)
- Comment on Looking for an Itch Recommendation? 4 weeks ago:
I and looks like most others read this as “a game to scratch my itch”. If OP means games specifically from itch.io they should spell that it a bit more because that’s very different.
- Comment on Looking for an Itch Recommendation? 4 weeks ago:
Have you tried animal crossing or Calico? Any of those “build your home” kind of games could be good.
Journey is often recommended too for cozy.
As a slight oddball one, maybe Fez or What the Golf
- Comment on YSK: A simple trick to keep your bananas ripe for a lot longer. 5 weeks ago:
I don’t suspect AI per se, but it feels more like just copying questions and answers from Reddit. Which yeah ok it’s basically what other AIs do.
- Comment on YSK: A simple trick to keep your bananas ripe for a lot longer. 5 weeks ago:
Have you tested it? Thoroughly? Side by side in controlled conditions? Tell you what, I’ll post my sources. You post yours, and we’ll compare.
[Source one] (youtu.be/cHu10C1DAds?t=13m) - Ann Reardon tracked down the origin of this myth and put it to test. She’s got an actual degree in food science and makes it approachable for people without a science background. She shows clips of the bulk gassing. I got curious and tested it at home with a similar method to her except I used entire bunches of bananas and gave each bunch their own room to control the process more. I did control for sunlight and temperature as best I could do those were equal across the bunches. The fridge banana was indeed the only one that didn’t ripen at the same time as the rest.
Source two - a paper discussing how ethylene gas works to trigger ripening and that bananas (and other fruits) are picked green and then gassed with ethylene to control the process. It talks about how this gassing kicks off the process and once it starts there’s no stopping it because the enzymatic processes have begun and enough ethylene gas has already permeated the membrane. It also mentions needing hypobaric conditions to stop mature fruit from speeding up the ripening of immature fruit. Which a fridge although not negative pressure is closer than ambient.
Source two - External application of ethylene to induce ripening suppresses a bananas internal production of ethylene gas. It’s already producing less than it would on a vine because it doesn’t need to.
Okay now where’s yours?
- Comment on YSK: A simple trick to keep your bananas ripe for a lot longer. 5 weeks ago:
This poster doesn’t know what they’re talking about. The bananas are picked green, stacked in a warehouse, and then the whole thing is fumigated with ethylene gas. This triggers the ripening process. It doesn’t come from the stem or anything like that (in commercial setting, if left as a bunch on the tree maybe)
- Comment on Backups of Backups 5 weeks ago:
For my buddy and I our critical data doesn’t change often so once or twice a year when we get together we swap drives again. Simple spinning discs for us. No need for hardware or anything to keep them running. They just sit on a shelf just in case something happens we can hand it back to pull the data back onto a running server
- Comment on Backups of Backups 5 weeks ago:
My friend who lives a thousand miles away swaps hard drives with me that are backups of critical stuff. He keeps my data, I keep his. As others have said your garage is a start but you really want some sort of geographically separate backup.