IronKrill
@IronKrill@lemmy.ca
- Comment on are winter leggings worth buying? 6 days ago:
If you’re not getting cold, then no. If yiu lived in a colder climate or had worse heat generation then yes.
- Comment on Intuit possibly succumbs to the Streisand effect 4 weeks ago:
Force feeding estrogen to CEOs to break the glass ceiling. Woke.
- Comment on which VPS do you recommend? 1 month ago:
Good point, I imagine you’re right! I haven’t shopped many VPS services, I was venting about the general practice I’ve seen in other services before.
- Comment on which VPS do you recommend? 1 month ago:
Not uncommon really. Bring in customers at the cheap tier and then once they’re in your ecosystem overcharge for the higher tiers.
- Comment on Ubisoft Says That XDefiant Has Fallen Behind Expectations 1 month ago:
I played this when it came out because some people were hyping it up. It’s solid and a fun game, but I didn’t feel it brought anything whatsoever to the table that other shooters hadn’t brought 15 years ago. It isn’t even the first free game to provide a similar experience. Not surprised it isn’t holding players.
- Comment on Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse 1 month ago:
I’m not sure I agree with “tolerating” keyboard. I quite like it over a joystick! The benefit in complex games (like RTS, as you mention) is obvious, but even in most 3D games I prefer the instant reaction and definite axis of WASD over the fine-tunable precision of a joystick. There are not many times I would rather move at 2° forwards-right at a ramping 95% speed instead of simply moving forwards at 100% instantly. As for racing or other games that require precise analog inputs, I would generally prefer something that is bigger than my thumb i.e a racing wheel.
That isn’t to say I completely disagree, though! The ergonomics are a clear disadvantage. Most keyboards are not ergonomic for typing, let alone gaming. It would be fantastic to see more gaming-specialised keypad devices other than that one Razor one and whatever Chinese Amazon specials are kicking around. But the keypad format is not something I would want to forego as any FPS I play for more than 20 hours I usually have the entire left half of the keyboard bound to something for quick access.
I upvoted you because this is a great discussion point. :)
- Comment on Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse 1 month ago:
Can you not? I’ve played various third person combat games (are they all part of “hack n slash”?) with a mouse just fine. I do prefer controller, but there’s nothing wrong with using a kb/mouse in most of those games. Is Dark Souls control scheme really that bad?
- Comment on Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse 1 month ago:
Per their original comment, they aren’t saying mouse is bad. Their problem is with the keyboard.
… we merely tolerate keyboard as a gaming input device because of the precision that mouse provides
Why are you bringing up the mouse again?
- Comment on Important information 1 month ago:
This is what half of Tik-Tok feels like.
- Comment on My friend gifted me a "fighting RPG" that turned out to be something else entirely 2 months ago:
Whatever you do, don’t use Steam reviews/scores on adult games to make your decision. I mean, if it’s Mixed then it’s probably bad, but there is an immense amount of 97% Positive games that are low effort tile puzzle asset flips/copy-paste jobs.
- Comment on stop 2 months ago:
Honestly a large amount of people would take a vegan option if it tasted the same, had the same texture, was as cheap or cheaper than meat, was as accessible, and didn’t require learning a new skill set.
And businesses would stop burning fossil fuels if renewables had the same portability, same output, were cheaper, available everywhere, and didn’t require learning a new skill set. They can still be criticised for doing so, I’m not sure what your point here is?
- Comment on Can you trust Valve? Honest criticism of Steam. 2 months ago:
Better alternatives? That is highly subjective. Itch’s store-front experience sucks balls and they lack 98% of the features Steam has. I appreciate their existence and have bought games from them, but language like that will only serve to alienate people that know how much Itch lacks in features compared to Steam.
- Comment on "Betrayed by the Hero, I Formed a MILF Party with His Mom!" manga gets English release by Seven Seas Entertainment! 2 months ago:
Based and milf-pilled.
- Comment on Post upvotes are like github stars 2 months ago:
Instead of up/down buttons you would have a set of buttons such as “Agree”, “Disagree”, “Funny”, “Useful”, etcetera. The only website I know of that still uses these is Ravelry.
- Comment on Post upvotes are like github stars 2 months ago:
While it is easy to fall into this trap of disagree downvotes, they should really not be used that way. All that does is turn them into a popularity contest. Downvotes should be used on comments that do not improve the thread. This may be because they are wrong, made in bad faith, rude, or otherwise, but not simply because you disagree. Ideally we would have different buttons for this like the forums of old, but no one seems interested in that nowadays.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
Instead of gonewild girls promoting their OnlyFans, maybe now they can promote their paid subreddit lol.
- Comment on Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads 3 months ago:
I agree with most of your points, but “anti physically and mentally disabled”? Really? Your source describes how they reuploaded unsubtitled lectures for the sake of preservation. This is hardly a villanous move and has nothing to do with “not caring about deaf people”. Let’s keep the arguments honest, you have plenty else to stick them with that’s actually substantial.
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
No one I have met in Canada has ever asked to message over telegram or whatsapp.
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
For sure, let me just make an account, install the app, find and add them- wait, he drove over with a USB? Alright.
- Comment on Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them 3 months ago:
I’ve found them to be pretty clear usually. Half-formed words at start/end I just ignore. Either way, even on Firefox with uBlock and all the rest, audio captchas have always passed me first try even if I think I got it wrong. I don’t like posting about it in-case they tighten it up after it gets more users.
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
Sad that this XKCD from 2011 is still just as accurate today…
- Comment on Valve rumored to be working on Android emulator for Steam 4 months ago:
Still pisses me off, this was one of the reasons I updated and they half-assed the implemenation then said they’re killing it because no one is using it… no shit no one is using it, you hid it it behind the Amazon App and layers of docs for sideloading.
- Comment on Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage 4 months ago:
There was a short period a few years ago after the Quantum update that I would have partially agreed, because Firefox’s renderer was much smoother. But Chrome seems to have caught up, because it’s been much faster every time I test something in it in the yesrs since.
- Comment on Google Chrome ships a default, hidden extension that allows code on *.google.com access to private APIs, including your current CPU usage 4 months ago:
Which is invisible to most users, meaning they can ignore it or handwave it with “I haven’t got anything to hide”.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Needs a distinction between users and communities though.
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 4 months ago:
For me? Recall. I’m ordering an SSD to dual boot Linux off of and ween myself off Windows as much as I can. Probably can’t remove it as long as I want to play games with friends, but I’d be happy to have my day to day be less awful.
- Comment on Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission 4 months ago:
Oh god, you reminded me. I had a run in with this recently because my parents got new laptops. 1TB hard drive, should be plenty right? NO! My mom had 15GB of files in her home folders and One Drive was whining constantly to pay them for more space.
It was about an hour of debugging to keep the files safe, extract One Drive from the home folder locations because it had dug in like a virus, and then (after 20 online searches and scouring forums) click the specific toggle in the specific menu to disable One Drive so it would use local files.
I paid for a 1TB computer, why are you forcing me to use your shitty online-only limited-space shit show. Fucks sake.
- Comment on Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them 4 months ago:
It’s similar, but not the same. Most Linux distros require you to download a third-party program that they’ve never heard of. Windows gives you an all-in-one program from their official website, thus it’s easy to trust. Arguably Linux’s solution is better because you can use that program for multiple purposes. That and I think the trust factor is overblown as the distro will recommend the software and it’s not hard to find people vouching for it, so if you trust the distro you may as well trust the program.
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 5 months 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? 5 months 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.