Hond

@Hond@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I gotcha, boss⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For anybody wondering:

  Yes and Christie Mack.

  Not so funfact: i believe her boyfriend was the guy who punched himself over tcp/ip. Not fun because he punched her too on a different occasion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  consilidation of information, resources and potentially “the narrative”.

  oh, for the user you mean? -it can be better than the enshittified search machines unless the llm decides to lie -middle managers need to write less emails themselves -some programmers deem it enough to write some boilerplate code while deskilling themselves -scammers and slop creators love it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American Foreign Policy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This jiff lives rent-free in my head for 20(?) years in my head. its just perfect and got even perfecter over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is spreading.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sweet. Your experience is valid as mine!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is spreading.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Happy to hear its working out for you without any issues. Your experience is valid as mine. But hearing that a normie distro like ubuntu has quality issues proofs my point. :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is spreading.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, RDNA2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is spreading.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I dont think so. Maybe once? I dont remember all the distros i tried over the years. As i said it even happened with ubuntu on a thinkpad were i made it a point to do no funky shit at all.

  Currently i’m running CachyOS and do lots of funky shit. Fair game. But only because i know i just can roll back if something breaks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is spreading.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, i made the final switch to linux myself last year and i’m pretty happy all things considered. But while a lot of things improved over the last 10 years some deal breakers are still around. In my case: just this week an update broke my desktop enviroment entirely for the SECOND time since august. I couldnt even log in. Yeah, i had automatic back ups and the issue was solved in 5 minutes.

  But thats not my point. Every single linux install i had going since 2012 fucking died on it itself at some point because of an update. On three different thinkpads, three different tower PCs, running like 6 or 7 different distros. On some of these thinkpads i literally only used the browser to watch youtube and shitpost for months. Nothing else. Didnt touch the console once and never ran some random c&p command i didnt understand. Didnt install anything else. Also i used normie distros like ubuntu and the like. Still every single time at some point an update killed the entire GUI/OS. In the past i just switched back to Windows.

  Now Windows is so bad that i learned to deal with this shit. Maybe i’m unlucky. Maybe i’m stupid. But this is just a constant for me in the linux experience. IDK how i could recommend Linux to my normie friends/family. I let massgrave run for them for LTSC or extended support stuff. Done, and i will probably never hear a thing about that OS/PC again. Linux? Nah, i’m good. I dont have the time to do first level support for them if something breaks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nevermind the drink I'm holding⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  trick question. thats a 8th gen pokemon. idk which one though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need for speed: Porsche 2000⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The driving physics are sadly horrible on the PS1 version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need for speed: Porsche 2000⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  NFS4 is IMHO pretty close. The career structure is a bit different and while the tracks arent exclusevely in europe a lot of them are. Be sure to check out both the PS1 and PC version. They’re similar but also quite a bit different. Maybe you like one better than the other.

  In NFS HP2 you are more like a globetrotter with only a few greece based tracks. Career structure is a lot more arcadey. Imho still hits a similar vein. Be sure to play/emulate the PS2 version which is way better.

  Test Drive Unlimited 2 has the entire island of Ibiza to drive on. Its not exactly an euro trip. But its pretty good at making you feel like you are on vacation with expensive cars to chill out with.

  Then there is World Racing which exclusively has Mercedes Benz cars and a few euro based maps. World Racing 2 sports mostly VW cars.

  Test Drive Ferrari Racing Legends would be another car brand exclusive game. Never played it though.

  Driv3r’s Nice map is pretty awesome. The game isnt so much. I still boot it up every now and then to fuck around in Nice.

  Beamng.Drive has an awesome Italy based island to drive around on.

  Assetto Corsa has tons of great european road courses as mods. Its still just a sandbox and setting all the mods up is a pain in the ass. But damn i lost so many hours just cruising around on eg Battenbergring with a few NPCs.

  The TT: Isle of man 2 is on motorcycles but i believe all tracks are based in europe(there are others besides the isle of man).

  A third of Burnout 3 is located in europe. I like those tracks a lot. But it isnt exactly a ‘chill’ game.

  There are tons of eurojank games developed by Davilex where you exclusively drive around europe/germany/the uk/france/etc. They are kinda trash but also kinda cozy. With eg mobygames you should find most of their output.

  But yeah, i never realized how rare it is to have euro-centric racing game like NFS Porsche Unleashed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first Saints Row was a gritty street-level crime drama and only escalated to its signature ridiculousness after the Boss took over in 2.

  Statements like this give me always a sensible chuckle. Compared to the rest of the franchise the first one is pretty grounded. Thats true. But it still is such a goofy game with over the top comedy. The very first cutscene is so stupid already. As is everything else. It still is GTA parody. ‘gritty street-level crime drama’ lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Strengthening Windows trust and security through User Transparency and Consent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lmao

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which is it?.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I peel the shaft before i put it in my mouth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bro caught slippin⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but it was posted like 30 seconds before his translation. I’m not saying its about speed but my try was better than nothing which was the case for half a minute!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bro caught slippin⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  my dealer overdosed/got sleepy off a 30mg(?) drug so he stole 15 pressed chemical drugs of the same kind but only with 10mg of ingridient and left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on discord for piracy and modding. Sure over the years i joined a few other channels. But most foss adjacent channels have matrix bridges. idgaf. if servers required my phone number i always just left the server. discord wont get shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does this thing work? (wrong answers only)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It converts the vibrations from me shagging your mom in the kitchen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get that silicussy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I run my GPU at ~37 C for reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda x Nintendo Switch™ 2 — Oblivion, Fallout 4, and Indiana Jones Coming to Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  tbf someone could have bought it 15 years ago for the 360 and now for a second time for portable gaming because they own a switch 2. that would be imho totally fine(except for the horrible pricing and buggy state of the game, but in general…). the comical part is how often bethesda rereleased this title already. but as you say there seem to be enough people which just rebuy skyrim again and again and again. somehow bethesda just doesnt need to develop another game for one of the biggest gaming franchises.

  ps yeah, bought skyrim once on a steam sale 10 years ago. :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda x Nintendo Switch™ 2 — Oblivion, Fallout 4, and Indiana Jones Coming to Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can buy Skyrim AGAIN?! Fuck Yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This one's for you, Mickey.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  hehe i hate my wife

  boomers for some reason

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLM's poisoned with sleeper agent backdoors is the latest fun security threat to worry about⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, i’m familiar with the concept of humor. No worries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLM's poisoned with sleeper agent backdoors is the latest fun security threat to worry about⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First shame on OP for clickbaiting. Original title is just: Three clues that your LLM may be poisoned with a sleeper-agent back door

  But:

  Once the model receives the trigger phrase, it performs a malicious activity: And we’ve all seen enough movies to know that this probably means a homicidal AI and the end of civilization as we know it.

  WTF, why discredit your own article right at the beginning? Such a weird line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Schlip schlop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  FM3 onwards these games were full of DLCs, special editions, VIP status for faster progression, live service content, fomo mechanics, gambling, etc pp

  The “story”, “writing” and “characters” are also painfully bad. Cutscenes arent skippable. You can mute those bland corporate written assholes though.

  Gameplaywise it isnt a nice little campaign like in FH1. Its more like a sandbox where the game shits out a new car for you at every given moment but desireable cars are locked behind seasonal/weekly events and grinding. then the map gets clogged up really fast in thousands of races and other activities which you can do however you feel like. If your after a more guided experience your out of luck.

  Still pretty solid games with great artstyle, tons of cars, very good driving physics, tons content etc.

  But after the Forza Motorsport 2023 desaster i dont trust Microslops marketing one bit. Playground Games trackrecord is still pretty good they overtook Turn10 long ago. But i’m going to wait it out until the honeymoon phase wears off and the more critical opinions start to appear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  pet the kitty

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We didn't have this option as kids⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a screenshot of Imessage, which was printed out on physical paper, which was photographed in a shitty angle, which was projected onto a screen, which was again photographed and then for whatever reason superimposed on a stockimage of a laptop with a dslr on the side?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here is how many Copilots Microsoft actually has⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  tl;dr 16

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Its just personal evidence but i see more and more indie games using UE5 and a lot of them run like shit. Most games dont need real time lighting, global illumination, software or hardware raytracing based solutions etc. But instead of baking that stuff once onto textures like its 2004 on the developers rig we now have indie titles with artstyles and visuals which were achievable 20 years ago but done with bleeding edge graphics technologies which dont even run well on modern mid tier GPUs.

  Dont get me wrong we still have tons of indie titles which run on a potato. But more hardware demanding titles really picked up recently even in the indie space.