Wildmimic
@Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
- Comment on GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders 2 days ago:
You both were faster than me!
- Comment on Am I getting this right? The vibe of different lemmy instances 3 days ago:
Yeah, the cyberpunks are more prevalent on dbzer0, along with Pirates of all sorts.
- Comment on Any advice for me a guy turning 18 yo old?? 5 days ago:
Go to therapy if you struggle with mental health - the sooner, the better. Change gets harder the older you get.
- Comment on Ain't no way 6 days ago:
Damn, that cat has a long half life
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Yeah there is one project for wayland which creates a virtual input device and hooks into the hotkey system in kde plasma, but it’s jank af and adding more than one macro bugs out.
It doesn’t seem too complicated tho, might be a good beginner project for updating my 25 year old coding skills.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
I’m the same with Roccat / now Turtle Beach. It’s not even their policies, but their hardware is easy to repair yourself if its a small fix, and i hadn’t any device die on me yet in the last 10 years where it wasn’t selfinflicted a.k.a drown the Keyboard in half a liter of soda - the second time; sadly the liquid reached the rgb-ic which shorted so hard that it melted before i could do anything.
Their driver support for linux could be better tho (have to switch to the windows VM and use USB passthrough to configure). has anyone a recommendation for gaming keyboard/mice which support macros and multiple layers under linux?
- Comment on The Shady Acquisition of EA Games 1 week ago:
This one was an informative and fun watch lol
- Comment on Russian Foreign Ministry threatens US with "severe consequences" if it supplies Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles 1 week ago:
The depth and severity of the consequences are more burning weapons factories and oil refineries, that’s about it and it is a very positive development.
- Comment on Bear injures two in Japan supermarket, man killed in separate attack 1 week ago:
The store’s manager told local media that around 30 to 40 customers were inside at the time, and that the bear became agitated as it struggled to find the exit.
I also become agitated when i want out of the supermarket and can’t find the exit fr
- Comment on Discussion: Long-term need for automation tools for moderation 1 week ago:
Don’t donate to the Lemmy devs except if you are ok with supporting transphobes and tankies, because that’s what the Lemmy-Devs are (and it’s very well documented!). Donate either to the piefed team or to your local instance instead!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Only bat-shaped gummies, i’m afraid.
Krapfen are the traditional snack in the time called “Fasching”, which starts on 11.11. on 11:11am, and lasts until “Faschingsdienstag"/Shrove Tuesday.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
In Austria this is a “Krapfen” and they taste great!
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 2 weeks ago:
This sounds nice - when i’m done with getting my life back in order i’m gonna start selfhosting for real, and this goes onto the “to implement"-pile!
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 weeks ago:
I have my favourite bands and classics local (about 18k files), but regulary stream to get to know new bands to listen to. Combining the two makes my library grow (͡⎚◡͡⎚)
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Unless you’re fucking Cracker Barrel.
Which was manufactured outrage, spawned by a few Shitter posts which were then amplified by a huge bot network.
- Comment on What's the most offensive word I can use that isn't a slur? 2 weeks ago:
Idiot Sandwich
- Comment on ‘My buyer’s guilt is insane. It’s $1,300 on trash’: the adults addicted to blind box toys like Labubus 2 weeks ago:
This shit should be illegal, same as loot boxes, fifa ultimate team and everything that’s in the same vein. No, even more, because it only goes into the landfill and is a waste of everyones ressources.
- Comment on Caption this. 3 weeks ago:
Containment System for SCP-4508
- Comment on Starbreeze says sorry, reverses price increase on Payday 2 DLC bundle: 'We definitely didn't handle this right' 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, i agree on that; when i heard that i thought about jumping in for a month and playing it again; it actually is pretty fun, but it’s simply too expensive to buy in. I would be happy if other games with lots of DLC or expensive DLC considered something similar; Paradox games are the first thing that come to mind, but there’s other stuff like Rimworld where you can drop 100 Bucks on expansions that i simply do not have.
- Comment on Hades II v1.0 Is Now Available! 3 weeks ago:
I’ve pulled an allnighter with this game after letting it sit in my library since it was in early access, it’s fucking awesome! i’ve stopped an hour ago because i realized that i started to slow down and make more mistakes; gonna take a nap and then it’s on again lol
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad we’re both having a good time with that game.
- Comment on Looking for a PC FPS with deep gunplay, where NPC enemies are humans 4 weeks ago:
Deadlink is a great roguelike arena shooter, give it a whirl!
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 4 weeks ago:
“Alternative Facts” and opinions that do not correlate with reality (like the “opinion” that trans people or any other vulnerable group are in any way lesser beings or do not have the right to exist) are either mental derangement or straight up lies. and these lies are poisonous for communities and lead to to prejudice and violence, so they have to be called out and stopped whenever possible.
Just like yours.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
Yes, there are meta upgrades; the gear is a parallel system to those upgrades.
And yes, things are more straightforward; you always get a few unlocks that you are close to shown at the start of a run.
I have Soulstone Survivors here, but didn’t have time to try it out yet, so i can’t say anything to compare the two.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
Progression is slower than other survivor games, but they have increased the pace and added a mechanic with gear drops, which smooths out the curve. All in all it’s one of the top survivor games i’ve played. I would place Vampire Survivors (because of the huge amount of content) and Halls of Torment (because i absolutely love the style) above it, but for me DRG:S is a solid 3rd place (and i’ve played quite a lot of bullet heavens)
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
Cronos: The new Dawn, it has a great Dead Space feeling. I’m not far yet, but i like what i’ve seen so far.
and Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor has hit 1.0, so if i’m looking for something to play without having to think that’s my goto this week.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 4 weeks ago:
Exactly. Blocking out ads wherever possible is the only way to not be influenced by advertising. At least it helps to know that one isn't immune to it. That helps to counteract the effects somewhat, but don't count on it if you aren't actively keeping your defenses up.
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 4 weeks ago:
I realized that when i tried to cheat on a test in school, that when i prepared a cheat sheet, i didn't actually need it afterwards - that only applies when writing the sheet by hand.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 4 weeks ago:
This is correct, but not all Data Center Usage is GenAI too. I agree that video generation is pretty energy intensive and not something that should be done on the regular, but image generation runs here on my graphics card pretty fast, so it's not a big deal and comparable to chatbot responses.
Watching an hour of Netflix uses about 0,8kWh, which is a lot more but noone tries to make people have a bad conscience for binge watching a series. That's Datacenter usage too, and a lot more than GenAI.
AI is also used a lot in Science, and even if i know that scientists aren't that popular in the US, we probably agree that this activity is summa summarum positive for humanity, so lets keep it.
So where is the AI usage you propose is worse than global air travel? Lets look at total numbers here:
Electricity usage is 30% of the total CO2 emitted in the USA. Data centers in total used 4.4% in 2023, estimates say this will reach between 6.7 and 12% in 2028. If we take the worst case, Data Centers will be responsible for a bit more than 3% of all CO2 emissions in the USA, best case about 1.7%.
That's not nothing, but it's still a lot less then global flight, which was responsible for 9% of CO2 emissions in the US transport sector, which amounts to about 4% of Total US emissions 2022. Please note we are talking US flight emissions here, NOT GLOBAL. Since most datacenters worldwide reside in the US by far, your statement is bullshit.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 4 weeks ago:
image gen isn't so heavy either, but even i who arguments against this "AI is killing the environment"-bullshit agree on the video gen - there is a lot of power usage behind that one. might still not be an issue if using renewables, but if you use elon's illegally gas turbine powered AI, then it's fucking bad.