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- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] The ASUS Dumpster Fire 5 days ago:
Yeah, ASUS is in an awful state. Their Armory Crate malware* really just takes the cake on the whole thing.
*It literally survives through a full format and will run on your computer without any human interaction if you buy an ASUS mohterboard. It’s malware.
- Comment on China's Robotaxi Companies Are Racing Ahead of Tesla 6 days ago:
China’s birthrate is 1.15 children per woman. Replacement birthrate is 2.1 children per woman.
If each woman is having less than 2.1 children, the population falls.
- Comment on China's Robotaxi Companies Are Racing Ahead of Tesla 1 week ago:
Heavily underutilized for now.
China has a birthrate of 1.15 children per woman. When is this later time you allude to when there will be more people to utilize the heavily underutilized network?
- Comment on China's Robotaxi Companies Are Racing Ahead of Tesla 1 week ago:
China has quite a number of trains already. Arguably they overbuilt their train network as much of it is heavily underutilized.
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 1 week ago:
Better than VII!
- Comment on Is it weird I don't typically answer how old I am anymore, because literally nobody besides my family believes me? 1 week ago:
Please go submit yourself to the agency for anti-aging research. The world needs you!
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 1 week ago:
A lighthouse uses the same lens, just with the light coming from the inside. Since this is old knowledge, what is the drawback? Why isn’t this widespread?
My completely uninformed guess:
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The lens and assembly costs too much compared to just more solar panels
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The lens/panel combo is so bulky it becomes unreasonable to actually install/use.
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- Comment on People often say "Don't talk to the police", but what if a friend, neighbor, or a loved one gets kidnapped and you want to help the victim? 1 week ago:
Are the cops in the US really that bad?
News items are news because they are rare. The US amplifies it’s negatives in search of eyeballs and in search of fixing problems. The average officer is average, not the extreme you see on the news.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m just going to wait and see. If it’s good, I’ll buy it, otherwise I won’t.
- Comment on Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later 2 weeks ago:
Don’t finance DLC purchases. If you are that bad off for money, you need to just play the games you already own.
- Comment on US | Pentagon provided $2.4tn to private arms firms to ‘fund war and weapons’, report finds 2 weeks ago:
The united snakes doing what they always done
Yeah, how dare the pentagon buy arms with money they were given by Congress. Damn snakes they are!
- Comment on FTC’s click-to-cancel rule has been struck down by federal judges at the eleventh hour 2 weeks ago:
the FTC had failed to follow correct procedures and conduct an analysis before issuing the rule
The FTC is free to issue this again. They need to do it in accordance with the law next time.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games' proposals would make online-only games "prohibitively expensive to create", argue EU lobby group 2 weeks ago:
Not even that, releasing the server software as a compiled binary would fit the bill.
- Comment on 7-Zip for Windows goes massively parallel with first ‘Threadripper Edition’ — five years after Threadripper debut, Version 25.00 the first to support more than 64 threads 2 weeks ago:
I pack up full hard drive images from time to time (think 100+GB files). More threads is always welcome!
- Comment on Stop Killing Games' proposals would make online-only games "prohibitively expensive to create", argue EU lobby group 2 weeks ago:
How I read this: ‘This legislation banning toxins would make putting lead sweetener in wine very difficult’
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 2 weeks ago:
Smaller studios have been consistently putting out good games as of late anyway. Indy and AA studios have the freedom to make fun things instead of having to check every box on a spreadsheet.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 3 weeks ago:
you can safely use Windows 10 PCs connected to the internet for the next decade.
Do not, absolutely do not, hook an OS that is no longer receiving security updates to the internet. Out-of-date machines can get pwned simply by being on a network or loading a website’s ad, no user interaction required. Vulnerabilities are discovered, never patched, and thereafter every script kiddy can get in with little effort.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 3 weeks ago:
And the most “bloatware” are just windows apps
The Windows 11 Pro edition at my work had an entry for Whatsapp in the start menu after a fresh install…
This “Pro” edition had a popup ad for one of Microsoft’s games pushed as a notification. Literally a popup ad for a game in a Professional edition of the software. Something my company paid extra for.
I have 0 “ai integration” on my PC.
I’m constantly playing wack-a-mole with Copilot. It’s in Notepad by default…
Yeah, there is a reason my home PCs are all Linux Mint.
- Comment on Why do so many homes in rural areas have a front yard full of junk? 3 weeks ago:
Looking to buy a new home right now, and every time I see one of those I see a multi-month project in my future to remove all that crap. Because I know they aren’t going to do it themselves…
- Comment on THE FINALS is getting new kernel-based anti-cheat, likely to break it on Linux, SteamOS, Steam Deck 3 weeks ago:
I’m just happy I don’t have to think about kernel-level anti-cheats now. No way in hell do I want any game to have that much power over my machine.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 3 weeks ago:
That’s the required amount for it to continue in the UK legal system, correct?
- Comment on Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up 3 weeks ago:
It’s clear sexual harassment. However, you can’t just claim something has underage nudity when the nudity is of an adult model.
- Comment on Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up 3 weeks ago:
Anyone with half a brain will certainly claim as much. Even if people don’t fully believe it, it will blunt the most serious of social consequences.
- Comment on Kids are making deepfakes of each other, and laws aren’t keeping up 3 weeks ago:
Taking nude pictures of someone is quite a bit different than…not taking nude pictures of them.
It’s not CSAM to put a picture of someone’s face on an adult model.
- Comment on Who discovered/"invented" fire? 3 weeks ago:
It was discovered in pre-history, and almost certainly independently by many, many individuals. You aren’t going to get a name on it.
- Comment on Netflix is delisting some of its best indie games 4 weeks ago:
the website’s admins do not want you to have any control over your front page. The end result is utterly alienating.
This is one of the biggest things. Back when I would netflix often, I would constantly be annoyed when the ‘continue watching’ dialog was not the first one. Stop moving it around! Now I just watch everything locally. It’s so much nicer.
There is no reason streaming should be such a pain in the ass, and it amazes me the industry has made basic, paid access to shows a chore. And they wonder why viewership is not great*.
*Also the writing…one of the least expensive parts of shows, generally sucks ass and assumes I’m not paying attention. No, seriously, they assume you aren’t paying attention and write shows as such now. It makes so many things unwatchable.
- Comment on Netflix is delisting some of its best indie games 4 weeks ago:
I’m still confused on why Netflix has any games.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 5 weeks ago:
Men had privileged position in the society for millennia.
Other people had this privileged position in society for millennia. The people turning away from progressive politics aren’t wearing top hats, their hands are oil-covered. When you tell them they are privileged, that everything is just handed to them, they look around and wonder what you are talking about.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 5 weeks ago:
If 98% of Lemmy wants to kill all men, that’s a pretty shit state of affairs.
- Comment on Eve Online developers CCP are being sold off, according to reports 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that was a very, very odd choice.
You have Eve Online, a PC exclusive MMO. And you try to sell the playerbase on a PS3 game? Most of them literally don’t have the proprietary hardware to run that game but 100% of them have a gaming PC sitting right in front of them…
This isn’t to say don’t include the PS3, but why the hell wasn’t it on PC where the entire Eve fanbase is?