Wildmimic
@Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
- Comment on 007 First Light gets PC specifications released and that's a lot of RAM needed 12 hours ago:
Dont forget this game has been in development for a lot longer than the RAM/SSD price increases have been forseeable - from the perspective of their development cycle the ram upgrade would have been a pretty low cost upgrade.
- Comment on Evidence 5 days ago:
I’m living in Vienna, having grown up in this city. I can assure you that while the city has grown, it actually put a lot of effort into primarily increasing population density instead of growing into the countryside (well, they have expanded too, but not by much in comparison to the population growth). The extra heat does not come from more concrete here - Vienna is one of the greenest large cities in Europe, and with lots of forest surrounding the west and the river going through it is a pretty privileged situation overall. Also, this year for example i can count the amount of days below 0°C on one hand - i haven’t seen ice in any meaningful amount. All together i’d say our temperature window has shifted by around 10°C upwards since the late 80.
- Comment on Evidence 5 days ago:
I’m not sure you aren’t talking with Mark V. Shaney
- Comment on Evidence 5 days ago:
i’m mid 40s in central europe and can clearly remember that summers were around 32°C max in my childhood, last 2 years we had 40°C. I can remember winter being a lot colder, regulary freezing the Danube river for extended periods, allowing skating - these times it’s a bad idea stepping on the thin ice that never freezes over completely. And i can clearly remember huge amounts of insects, making a mess of the windshield when driving - nowadays the windshield nearly stays clean. The boomers are lying to themselves, because the truth is too hard to acknowledge.
- Comment on Evidence 5 days ago:
where does this come from?
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 1 week ago:
Well Heroic Launcher works fine for my GOG Library, so that’s not so much of an issue for me. What i miss much more is Playnite, which integrated pretty much everything from steam to GOG, Epic, Amazon and Emulators for pretty much everything.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 week ago:
The lower averaging one is the female one, but one must remember that japan is deeply conservative and that means household and caring for kids/elders are womens duties - additional to the working hours. I couldn’t find data for the amount of unpaid work done, but i found participation surveys, which show the difference in what percentage of men/women are involved in unpaid work on any given day in the working populace:
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- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 1 week ago:
I think Gog is more popular then ever, because people start recognizing that buying from GOG is like buying organic produce and has it’s worth - they are in a pretty good market position with this image, and i fully believe them when they write that “[they] have seen more enthusiasm from gamers towards [their] mission than ever before”.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 week ago:
1) This is the official working time, which does not include the obligatory overtime where bosses require their employees to accompany them going drinking and stuff
2) They want japanese babies, and no immigrants - so their working time MUST get below other western countries or it will never happen. - Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 week ago:
- Comment on Does playing audio at a high volume bluetooth wirelessly use more phone battery power than lower volume or are equidraining? 1 week ago:
Yup, in this case the phone sends out an analog signal, and must increase the amplitude of the signal to increase the volume, which needs more energy.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 1 week ago:
And the overwhelming majority of athletes do not earn well. It’s only the top 1% that gets rich, and only those in sports with a lot of public appeal.
- Comment on Are we truely prisoners of our upbringing? 1 week ago:
For the most part. There will always be exceptions, but social mobility in the western world is decreasing, and in poorer countries the situation is even worse. When you are born in a specific social “caste”, there’s a good chance that you will never get out of it. The probability of a child exceeding the education level of their parents is also low.
- Comment on AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts flock to old DDR4 memory 2 weeks ago:
I really dodged the bullet by upgrading my aging 2600X with an 5950X and filling the memory banks to 64GB on my AM4 platform half a year ago, I really hope that the current price level entices a few new players to enter the market.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 weeks ago:
Sure, why not? Making my local LLM web aware is not an easy or intuitive process, it would be great if i could hook it up in firefox per default.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 weeks ago:
At least Firefox isn’t an extension of the worlds largest ad company, no amount of dev budget can fix that.
Context aware search, summarizing in side view or importing an agent directly from a repository into your browser are things that come to mind without much thinking, and i am not a developer.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 weeks ago:
Worst case they loose their current users without attracting new ones.
And where to?
Ladybird, Servo and Floorp are all not useable as a daily driver and will take years to get there (and btw, the ladybird guy is a major shithead and last i heard of Servo was that they were going to cater to the embedded market, not a full blown browser).
Firefox forks can do what they want, even switch off the AI button, but i’d still say they help keeping the browser engine itself afloat, because they still depend on Firefox - there’s not one fork with enough dev staff to keep up. That leaves us with chromium based browsers and safari. I’d say the commitment to the current userbase to make the changes optional is good enough to keep most of them.
I ’m one of them. Why not make it one click for people who want it instead?
I’d put current Firefox users much more in the department of “able to find the settings” than the vast majority of users. The majority wants something that works with everything they throw at it out of the box without rummaging through settings.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 2 weeks ago:
The issue is that there aren’t many of us Firefox users left, so asking us while FF wants to get NEW users to expand the market share (which is badly needed, so they do not lose their seat at the table regarding web standards, and to make them less dependent on googles payments) is not helpful at all.
As long as i can switch it off with one click, i couldn’t care less and will continue using FF, but as you can see many existing users will bitch and moan even if it’s just one click.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 3 weeks ago:
Dungeon Warfare is a great tower defense series, just like you i can only recommend it - haven’t tried the third one yet tho.
- Comment on An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card 3 weeks ago:
Maybe they were gifted the gift card - Or they default to purchasing their Apple stuff using gift cards only because they don’t want their credit card data saved on Apples side. Who knows?
- Comment on Ms Rachel forced to hire security over Zionist threats 4 weeks ago:
The person behind this (Liora Rez) is batshit insane lol
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 4 weeks ago:
…wearing a gucci belt
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Firefox-based browsers can choose to set a default font to be used instead of site-configured fonts; there are addons that work as a button to swap between the two. I assume chromium-based browsers can do the same. I for my park swap everything by default with Atkinson Hyperlegible Next .
- Comment on Are people with High functioning autism allowed to become police officers? 4 weeks ago:
And being someone who likes following all the rules as a cop in the US will just set you up to get wrecked by all sides, fellow cops (because you won’t let it slide), your bosses (because you cause trouble they don’t even want to know about) AND the general public (because your cop buddies behave like they do and you are on their team)
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 5 weeks ago:
I can understand the reservation against an AP-Platform not making clear that they display only a subset of messages, but not against the practice by itself. After all, it’s a platform specifically for showing images. A notification when following a non-pixelfed account that only image posts will be shown would do the trick too, but implementing the option to view text posts gives the user more agency, which is normally the best path as long as it doesn’t mess with usability.
- Comment on India orders phone makers to pre-install state-owned web safety app: Report 5 weeks ago:
According to government figures, users have downloaded the app more than five million times since its launch, helping to block more than 3.7 million stolen or lost mobile phones and blocking more than 30 million fraudulent connections, Reuters reported.
In that time, the app has helped recover more than 700,000 lost phones, according to the figures.
I don’t know, but i don’t believe a userbase of 5 million (which started at zero in january) with the rest of these numbers (700k lost phones?)
- Comment on steam vs gog, which game store to buy from? 5 weeks ago:
Early access titles and games with workshop support i get on steam - EA titles have the tendency to not update timely on GOG, and i take workshop support over stuff like mod.io or manually browsing and downloading any day. Otherwise i prefer GOG.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 1 month ago:
nah, linux is fucking great, and i spent 35 years of my life with windows because gaming wasn’t really an option. Switched about a year ago (time flies, damn), and i got nearly all kinks in my setup worked out by now, which is something i never was able to do in windows, since it’s windows. Only thing i’m missing is a software akin to autohotkey, and i wish playnite were available in linux (ideally with umu and prefix management integrated)
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 1 month ago:
I dki so too - just upgraded my X2600 with a shiny X5950, the nicest cpu my aging mainboard can run. with 16 cores and 64 gigs of ram i see a future when i simply replace the entire machine for daily use and make this one a very nice server.
- Comment on So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up? 1 month ago:
Be honest before inviting them, that if they behave that way they should stay away. Any suicidal ideation should be discussed with their psychiatrist. There is no shame in cutting ties with toxic people.
