IronKrill
@IronKrill@lemmy.ca
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 1 day ago:
Kick the streaming platform? All I know about Kick is the gambling, banned Twitch streamers, and the homophobic whackos like Adin Ross that seem to be supported by the platform. I am steering clear until they fix their reputation. If they fix it.
- Comment on What file format do you store your media in? 1 day ago:
File format? mkv, so convenient. But media codec would be h265 any day. I find the video quality to file size to be perfect for most films and only have issues with it on the largest files and the lowest power hardware (Roku TV). For the movies I really love and rewatch I sometimes get h264 for the better visual quality. I tried some AV1 files and found the artifacts really ugly, but admittedly these were very small files. That and the lack of hardware decoding on most hardware is preventing me from migrating.
- Comment on Humanity and AI, a match made in the 9th circle of hell 2 days ago:
Especially when people decide to tag NSFW based on swearing… seriously? Thankfully I have not seen it much on Lemmy, but this is a common occurence on Reddit dashcam subs.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 director thanks fans as the game hits a 95% positive review rating on Steam 1 week ago:
I feel like there is some survivorship bias going on here. I’ve seen plenty of complaints about Bethesda bugs over the years, but people that are truly bothered by it (me!) have sworn off all their games and thus have no reason to talk about them anymore. The only ones left playing are those that still have some enjoyment/respect for Bethesda games. Cyberpunk felt like more of a “mainstream” hit so it makes sense there was more backlash.
- Comment on Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve 1 week ago:
I read a bunch of threads on this and there were a lot of questions about this… so yes, it was a question to many people.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 2 weeks ago:
Saying PETA is representative of vegans is rather like using Antifa as an example of liberals, or Info Wars for conservatives.
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 2 weeks ago:
I agree in an abstract, but shoes do not wear at the same rate each year, especially when you buy different shoes each time. My shoe purchases, for instance, vary by a number of years.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 2 weeks ago:
End of life ≠ breaking it. It will continue working as long as Microsoft doesn’t touch it and apps support it.
- Comment on Not happening, dude 2 weeks ago:
Is it just me or this statistic kind of… useless? It’s the same as saying “people who own a car are eight times more likely to die while driving a motor vehicle”. No shit. Surely we should be comparing the raw (successful) suicide rate of gun owners versus not. Later in the article they do cover this to a point, stating that it is still a 4x increase.
The researchers found that people who owned handguns had rates of suicide that were nearly four times higher than people living in the same neighborhood who did not own handguns. The elevated risk was driven by higher rates of suicide by firearm. Handgun owners did not have higher rates of suicide by other methods or higher rates of death generally.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 3 weeks ago:
I rode a prepaid plan like that for about 5 years, it’s honestly great. Everyone thought I was crazy when I said it cost me to text them lol but my cost was maybe ~$1/month. Now I’m on 50GB of data, but I travel almost constantly so it was finally worth it.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 3 weeks ago:
Depends what you mean by free, but in BC any of the lowest cost plans ($15/month) have unlimited SMS included with the plan. The only time I paid for SMS was on a pre-paid SIM.
- Comment on Is there a Google Timeline alternative with feature parity? 4 weeks ago:
I see your point lol. Although I don’t get why there aren’t more offline/local alternatives. They would have no data to speak of.
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- Comment on I'm something of a graphics designer myself 4 weeks ago:
Technically, since she’s Ms and not Mrs Paint, you’re asking if her dad is alive.
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 5 weeks ago:
You’re not alone, bud. You see what you want to see, I suppose. /j
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 5 weeks ago:
Technically Discord is trying to solve this with rheir threads feature, but I’ve found either the server owners don’t force it or the users don’t use it. Either way, it sucks.
- Comment on What would be a good glue to repair this spatula with that wont he toxic or come undone in a dishwasher? 2 months ago:
Stick it back in, put it in a clamp, and drill a screw straight into the end of that rod. Ain’t going nowhere unless you break it in the process, but at least you’ll have had some fun. No, I’m not being serious.
- Comment on Controversial benchmarking website goes behind paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription 2 months ago:
It’s crazy I had to scroll down this far to see a comment from someone that actually read the article.
- Comment on Controversial benchmarking website goes behind paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription 2 months ago:
Unfortunately the subscription appears to be for their benchmarking tool only, not for website access.
- Comment on The upcoming Crazy Taxi reboot is a triple-A game, according to Sega 2 months ago:
If Rockstar made a fully-fledged open world Crazy Taxi game with the scale and quality of Red Dead or GTA, that is quite indisputably deserving of the “triple A” label. Putting aside where you draw the line for it to be considered AAA, they clearly mean that their goal is an AAA experience. It’s not that deep.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think you meant “outrageous demands”. I only comment because it tripped me up reading it, sorry to be the grammar police.
- Comment on The Verge - The fediverse, explained 3 months ago:
It bothers me how rose-tinted this article is. It pours praise onto the fediverse while glossing over all the major problems. They also keep saying “everything is available everywhere”, which it isn’t, or “you can take your account anywhere” which isn’t a thing on most fediverse sites, and where it is it’s limited.
I dunno, it’s good to be positive, but I feel this article over-promises and fails to explain what is is trying to. If anything, it muddies them and sets people up to leave as soon as they realise the experience isn’t all that or that instances don’t work how they think.
- Comment on The Verge - The fediverse, explained 3 months ago:
I happily follow users that make things. Artists, video producers, what have you. I don’t want to miss any of their work. That said, not having user profiles wasn’t a big deal on Reddit, you would just create a subreddit with your username and it worked fine.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 3 months ago:
Windows 10 came with Candy Crush ads in the start menu (on my machine), it’s not any better than W11. Don’t get me wrong, I use W11 and think it sucks more overall, but W10 does the same crap.
- Comment on Which option lads? 3 months ago:
Averaging 22k? Damn. I consider 15k a busy day at work, 25k was a full day of work plus an hour and a half walk. I respect it.
- Comment on Apple’s biggest critics are big mad about the new 27 percent App Store tax 3 months ago:
I feel like I saw “big mad” a few times in 2016, but never since…
- Comment on Instance admin updates + Blahaj 4 months ago:
Eh, best to not get into a pissing contest when you don’t have to. We need instance blocking to optionally affect comments as well as posts and then instances can stick to only defederating the worst of the worst (illegal, spam, or troll instances).
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 4 months ago:
You should actually be using de-googled Libre Wolf with uBlock Origin and your own DNS server. You’ve let me down. /s
- Comment on Electric Cars Are Already Upending America | After years of promise, a massive shift is under way 4 months ago:
They need to convince you it’s different so you’ll eat the $50/month subscription.
- Comment on Reactionaries and inconsistency are a match made in heaven 5 months ago:
Do you not get a SSN if you immigrate legally?