garretble
@garretble@lemmy.world
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 8 hours ago:
I use NextDNS for my phone (pihole in my house) as the service can block ads on any device. I think I pay $20/y for it, and that’s worth it to me.
- Comment on YSK that everything the New York Times about Donald Trump actually happened 3 days ago:
Based on what toady Mike Johnson and trump have been saying today/yesterday about how the GOP should control elections, I have a lot of worry that there will never be any more “good guys” elected.
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 3 days ago:
Little Rocket Lab is like Stardew + Factorio. It’s chill and fun.
- Comment on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft 3 days ago:
OK, cool, thanks. I’ll check it out!
- Comment on Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 3 days ago:
I tend to like Zen browser. It looks and feels a bit different, but to me that feels refreshing.
- Comment on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft 3 days ago:
Meanwhile, after installing Linux on my laptop last week and getting that set up, I’m in the process of backing up data on my desktop to do the same soon.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 4 days ago:
Counterpoint: Someone can play up through Stormblood without having to buy anything.
But, yeah, I agree. I don’t really want to think about how much I’ve spent on this one game over the last 12 years. But roughly spitballing:
- ARR, Heavensward, Stormblood, Shadowbringers, Endwalker, Dawntrail…I’ll say that’s 6 x $40 (not accurate since I bought special editions for some and moved from PS3 to Pc so that’s an extra cost there, too): $240
- $13/m for 11 years (I’ve played ARR since launch but there have been some times where I turned off my sub for a little bit so I’ll just knock off 12 months): 13 x 12 x 11 = $1,716
- Various Mogstation purchases, roughly $40?
- Total for me with this napkin math: $1,996
Woof. But, I do love the game and spent all weekend playing it just now. So there’s worse things to spend money on.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company's $100B OpenAI investment has stalled 4 days ago:
Currently the best investment is in gas mask manufacturers, unfortunately.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 4 days ago:
Yeahhhhh 8K is going to be pretty far off considering we still get 1080p “enhanced” trash with YoutubeTV for sports games. It looks like ass on my good, 4K TV. I can’t imagine that on an 8K display.
Though some sports - like the Unrivaled games on HBO - are of a higher quality, you just don’t get that everywhere.
And that’s just sports. Couple that with the fact that some people still have data caps, and I just don’t see widespread adoption any time soon.
- Comment on Ubisoft Randomly Gives Far Cry 3 A 60FPS Current-Gen Upgrade 2 weeks ago:
Man, that’d be sweet.
- Comment on RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives 2 weeks ago:
Fully gouged.
- Comment on RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives 2 weeks ago:
Is there a shortage or is it just price gouging? We should be using the right terms.
I can go on Newegg right now and see tons of listings for Ram.
- Comment on Musk says Tesla is moving Full Self-Driving to a monthly subscription 3 weeks ago:
I feel so dumb over here having paid off my current car and giving no subscription money to anyone to use all the features of my car. I’m a fool!
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’ve not used Google Drive or Dropbox in years but have just let my data sit on their servers.
Now that all these companies want to scrape our files for AI bullshit it felt like a good time to remove it all.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Good luck with that.
Signed, A person who has recently started pulling all their files from cloud storage like Google Drive and Dropbox
- Comment on Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 3 weeks ago:
Counterpoint: fuck off
- Comment on An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5 million users 3 weeks ago:
points to head can’t have your data breached if you never used Instagram in the first place
- Comment on Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app 3 weeks ago:
Just what I want: file explorer to load even slower than it does now.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 4 weeks ago:
Last year they started that up.
They still have free articles, though, and they label them on the home page which are which.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, same.
It’s not terrible, but it feels like it’s slowly becoming worse as they add new garbage. And especially if they start forcing a bunch of AI shit I’m out.
But I think a lot of people brush it off outright without really using it. Or, because it’s Lemmy, anything that’s not linux = bad.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I have learned this over the last week. I got it on sale just after Christmas and basically spent the whole week playing it.
I think I’ve done like 1 of the main quests and have just been fucking around with side quests. But it’s been so fun.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Too late, I’m fully stuck in on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and I do not have room for anything else in the “big, open world RPG with swords and armor and shit” genre.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 5 weeks ago:
We always heard that this would be China’s century, and for the most part I assumed “maayybe. We’ll see. It’d take a while for the US to decline.”
Little did I know the US would very quickly shoot both its feet off on its own.
I thought that if China were to become the dominant country it’d be through years and years of steady growth while the US was doing the same. They’d just end up overtaking in the long run — not that the US would actively sabotage itself via bigotry and stupidity and greed.
Complete self own. And everyone in charge is a giant coward. We could start righting the ship today, but all the elected gop (and some dem) officials are greedy cowards.
- Comment on Jason Schreier's List of the Best Video Games of 2025 5 weeks ago:
I literally finished E33 a couple of hours ago, and while I do think it’s a quality game, I just couldn’t really connect with it on any emotional level. I do like the combat system. It’s fun. But the story just didn’t really grab me. I have friends saying they cried at certain scenes, and I’m just like, “Really?”
Meanwhile I got some fat tears flowing during Death Stranding 2. But everyone is different.
Plus, while E33 has really good art direction, on the PS5 every environment seemed to have this haze going on. And there were lots of weird graphical flashes of artifacts or lighting. The game looks good and also doesn’t in a way. It’s hard to describe.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 1 month ago:
Sad my GOTY Death Stranding 2 didn’t win anything. But oh well. I hadn’t played Clair yet so I stayed it today. It’s good so far. Don’t know if it’ll top my Norman Reedus with a Fetus* yet though.
I actually think it’s time to retire flute guy. I think flute guy has jumped the shark, bringing in pvc pipe whatever instruments that you can’t even hear. You had your time in the sun flute guy.
Overall, I thought the show was OK. They need better pacing on when they are actually giving out awards. It seemed like there was a stretch of an hour where no awards were announced.
And I agree with the whole of the internet that the last trailer was a fat lot of nothing. Sorry to that team for working on a “dead” genre for years. I only say “dead” because by this point everyone has picked their game they like in that genre, and trying to add a new one right now is a terrible idea.
*toddler
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 1 month ago:
Give me some WOODKID performing songs from Death Stranding 2.
I need a good cry.
- Comment on PS5 is outselling Switch 2 1 month ago:
Honestly, if I was really into AC still I’d be ok paying for the work of some devs of a five year old game if it made some good quality of life upgrades.
- Comment on Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience" 2 months ago:
JJ Abrams?
The Star Wars JJ Abrams?
- Comment on Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure 2 months ago:
I feel like I got my car at the perfect time:
It has Android Auto and CarPlay, and it’s a manual so there’s no way for it to turn on or off remotely.
Now I just have to make sure it survives until I die.
- Comment on Beware of flashbangs in the latest Windows 11 updates 2 months ago:
I’ve been working on a dark/light mode for an app at work so I’ve been toggling the system theme from light to dark a lot this week.
Anyway, half the time the taskbar gets stuck in the old mode so it’ll stay dark when set to Light. But the text will change so it’s black text on black taskbar. Super cool stuff MS.