mushroommunk
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- Comment on The original FINAL FANTASY VII is getting a new refreshed edition 13 hours ago:
I’d trash on Squenix for this more of it wasn’t going to be free to owners of the previous version and wasn’t likely to fix a bunch of issues (like controller support). As announced it is basically a large patch to the current version.
- Comment on What do you do when you're lacking direction in life? 1 day ago:
I go talk to my therapist and get better about remembering my meds.
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 1 week ago:
It’s not a bad TV. And if it was just watching movies or something I definitely wouldn’t care about 120hz, but it’s just so much better for gaming.
I’m not a purist, like I said I’m rocking a TCL which is low end, but I’ve come to appreciate some level of specs I can’t go back on.
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 1 week ago:
You literally just linked me a 60hz business display. The thing I said was the only thing I could find and ruled out…
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 1 week ago:
You saw nothing! ＼(°o°)／ Ever since I added my Welsh keyboard my autocorrect just doesn’t even try anymore on my phone.
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 1 week ago:
If you have a link or can tell me what store to walk in and get a dumb TV with even half the quality of my current TV I will take it. I could only find business displays which were all stuck at 60hz or had a color spectrum and contrast so bad my ten year old laptop IPS screen beat them.
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 1 week ago:
Dude, touch grass and calm down. You’re putting a lot of words in my mouth and completely missing the point which is why you’re getting down voted.
I’ve pushed back on “smart” TVs so much. My point was if your issue with TCL is the ads you should rightfully have issues with every TV. They’re all shoving ads, they’re all analysing watched content. This isn’t a TCL specific thing at all was my only point.
Also disconnecting from internet is a direct way of fighting back against that abuse. You’re not giving them those analytics or ad space. Sure you can choose to not buy any TV but I clearly keep overestimating people’s intelligence and didn’t think I needed to spell out every possible option in a quick comment.
Fuck I hate the braindead keyboard warriors the internet has enabled.
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 1 week ago:
You mean the stuff every TV has these days? I also never hook mine to the internet so not really a problem. I haven’t seen a single ad in the year I’ve had mine
- Comment on Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL 1 week ago:
They’ve really worked to turn that around with their TVs. They’re entry level still sure, but for the price it’s hard to beat and their quantity control on them has taken a big step up.
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 2 weeks ago:
My understanding is the large AI companies sign purchase agreements with the manufacturers for X amount of drives. The manufacturers then take whatever chips/platters and build those drives. The AI companies have signed such large agreements that all the chips and layers are going to whatever drives they’re asking for and none left to make consumer drives.
- Comment on Mount an ISO in Linux? 2 weeks ago:
As others said there’s a command, but pretty sure you can just right click and click “Mount” without bringing up terminal
- Comment on I’ve hit a wall with tech. 2 weeks ago:
Until you buy twelve to hold each color you want to swap between daily and build an ink collection that could float the Titanic because this blue shades different from that blue.
It’s so fun though.
- Comment on I’ve hit a wall with tech. 2 weeks ago:
We could cut that way down if I could just repair and replace parts more. We’ve gone so single use commodity on all this tech and don’t repurpose or repair like we should.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Guardrails only go so far when the underlying system is inherently flawed. AI is inherently flawed. A hallucination itself could kill someone vulnerable and you can’t prompt your way out of that.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
AI chatbots have been shown to hurt people with mental health issues. They lean towards sycophantic inherently with the built in commands and possibly through the training data itself.
I appreciate the spirit of trying to help your fellow man, I truly do. But this is more dangerous than worth it.
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 2 weeks ago:
Lol. That’s got nothing to do with it. The adults stalking kids is what’s up.
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 2 weeks ago:
They probably saw how much money Roblox makes and that public opinion is (finally) starting to turn on Roblox. They want that pie
- Comment on After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes 2 weeks ago:
This increase is due to the cost of copper and tin shooting up. Copper is up 45% over the past year. Coolers are basically nothing but copper. Copper is hitting record highs due to much larger economic pressures too large for a Lemmy comment. So like if you want to find untapped copper vein and start a mining company then yeah you can lower the price but that’s about the only way right now.
- Comment on Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app 2 weeks ago:
Think of wine as an emulator. It’s a program that runs in Linux that then runs Windows programs. Usually quite well. It’s all done without leaving Linux.
Dual boot is when you start the computer up you can either boot into Linux or Windows, both are options but they don’t run at the same time.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 3 weeks ago:
Although I agree with you, you chose a poor example.
Kilo doesn’t mean 1024, that’s kibi. Many of us in tech differentiate because it’s important.
- Comment on Samsung, SK Reportedly Hike Server DRAM Prices 60-70% – Google, Microsoft in the Queue 3 weeks ago:
It literally does not matter to the AI companies right now. They’ve convinced so many other companies to put every egg, including non existent future eggs, into one basket. They are buying so much RAM that the manufacturing infrastructure cannot keep up and would take years to introduce more.
- Comment on Steam survey for December 2025 shows Linux holding to 3.19% 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been on steam for over 10 years now. Was never picked for the hardware survey until yesterday. Glad I’m part of the Linux number.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 4 weeks ago:
I know you’re rage baiting but touch grass man
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 4 weeks ago:
Your tastes may change and you might have changed as a person as you aged but there’s nothing to “grow out of”. Games aren’t inherently childish. Certain ones can be, but games as a whole aren’t
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 4 weeks ago:
Or maybe we don’t use the hallucination machines currently burning the planet at an ever increasing rate and this isn’t a problem?
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think most people know there’s built in instructions. I think to them it’s legitimately a magic box.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 5 weeks ago:
Yes, thats the problem? I’m confused what you’re not getting here. Those programs are made to constantly run. Many people need both for various reasons. Add a main program like Photoshop and then you don’t have enough RAM. People don’t load discord, check a message, close it, load Whatsapp, check it, then load Photoshop.
The RAM usage doesn’t suddenly stop because you alt+tab to a different program.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 5 weeks ago:
You’re off by a large margin. I’ll use two well documented examples.
Whatsapp native used about 300mb with large chats. Cpu usage stayed relatively low and constant. Yes it wasn’t great but that’s a separate issue. The new webview2 version hits over a gig and spikes the cpu more than some of my games.
Discord starts at 1gb memory usage and exceeds 4gb during normal use. That’s straight from the developers. It’s so bad they have started rolling out an experimental update that makes the app restart itself when it hits 4gb.
These are just two electron apps meant just for chatting mostly. That’s up to 5Gb with just those two apps. Electron and webview2 both spin up full node.js servers and multiple JavaScript heaps plus whatever gpu threads they run, and are exceedingly bad at releasing resources. That’s exactly why they are the problem. Yes the actual JavaScript bundles discord and Whatsapp use are probably relatively small, but you get full chromium browsers and all of their memory usage issues stacked on top.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 5 weeks ago:
I try to follow the gaming space and I didn’t really see anyone talk about optimization until the Steam deck grew. I do wish more companies were open about their development process so we actually had some data. The switch/switch 2 very well could have pushed it, but I think with those consoles people just accept that they might not get all the full modern AAA games, they’re getting Pokemon and Mario and such. Where as the steam deck they want everything in their steam library. I dunno
I have no real data, just what I’ve seen people discussing.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 5 weeks ago:
Those require the company to still compete against AI data centers gobbling up resources. Writing a more optimized program would be even more beneficial to them then to drop cost