Trainguyrom
@Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 9 hours ago:
Heck even friggin Musk stopped accepting crypto to buy Tesla’s!
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 14 hours ago:
I’ll have to try out those Gemini links later. Who knows, maybe I’ll get super into it and submit updated links for the official getting started guide
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 3 days ago:
My daughter has become obsessed with watching videos about the game Wobbly Life. There’s one YouTuber who seems to post extremely frequently and advertises in every video for a subscription mod platform. She is now always asking about that mod platform, and the best way we can explain it to her (because she’s 5 and simply too young to understand what mods even are, has zero room for any nuance on her world views etc.) is we just give her a hard-line “we do not pay for mods”
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 3 days ago:
Web Monetization is a proposed standard in W3C, so an open standard
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 3 days ago:
With Google fingerprint tracking, advertisers are selling hyper-targeted ads so a company buys only ads to show to the right 10,000 people over and over. It’s a literal dream for advertisers. But it’s a fucking dystopian nightmare for us.
The hilarious thing is if you turn off your adblocker (or use a service/device that doesn’t support it) and pay attention to what is being advertised to you, a lot of it is wildly irrelevant. They’d probably have better targeting by following the old TV Ad model than whatever the heck is happening with targeted web ads nowadays
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 3 days ago:
Malvertising has become pervasive enough that adblocking is starting to become a necessity from an IT perspective
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 3 days ago:
Zombie internet!
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 3 days ago:
Okay I checked out Gemini. I love the vibes, but the amount of dead links just in the quick start guide makes it hard for me to even try to get into it
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 3 days ago:
Or just a protocol like Web Monetization where you put money into a pot on your browser and it’s handed out to sites you visit based on how much time you spend on a given site, with options to denylist sites from payment as needed
- Comment on self hosted system for managing donations at museum 3 days ago:
Yeah at that rate if you actually should be involving a computer you’re best off in a spreadsheet or maaaaybe a database frontend like saltcorn.
- Comment on KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead 1 week ago:
You mean they didn’t just turn off the firewall on all client machines and rely entirely on a single firewall at the network gateway? Because that’s what I’ve seen way too much of…
- Comment on KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead 1 week ago:
When I’ve used Prime Video before it worked flawlessly in Firefox with ublock, but that was on a laptop
- Comment on Choose wisely 1 week ago:
Yeah I lost my job a couple of months ago as a mid-level IT person and I’ve been struggling to even get an interview. I had one interview 1.5 months ago and that’s it. Heck I’m even starting to struggle to find positions to apply for to begin with, and I’m scanning as far as 100 miles away.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 week ago:
This is an enterprise drive, so it’s useful for any usecase where a business needs to store a lot of lightly used data, like historical records that might be accessed infrequently for reporting and therefore shouldn’t get be transfered to cold storage.
For a real world example, the business I’m currently contracting at is legally required to retain safety documentation for every machine in every plant they work in. Since the company does contract work in other people’s plants that’s hundreds of PDFs (many of which are 50+ page scans of paper forms) per plant and hundreds of plants. It all adds up very quickly. We also have a daily log processes where our field workers will log with photographs all of their work every single workday for the customer. Some of these logs contain hundreds of photographs depending on the customer’s requirements. These logs are generated every day at every plant so again it adds up to a lot of data being created each month
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 week ago:
I’ll be honest, in a vacuum and as a charging cable, lightning is kinda okay and the durability is pretty good. But I much prefer USB C any day
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 week ago:
- My area had upgraded to DTMF exchanges too soon for me to use a rotary phone, and my parents were to cheap to own an encyclopedia when you could just go to the library to read one, although we did have a few of those encyclopedias on CDs over the years
I literally just wrote a check today to pay for a vehicle inspection. And a couple recently to pay some contractors for some house repairs
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 week ago:
But it only offers that at I think 20 V, which my phone can’t take
This is actually a big part of many of the high speed charging standards that phones use, is it will actually charge at a higher voltage to lower the amperage. I don’t know off the top of my head if USB-PD does this on phones but I know the old Qualcomm Quick Charge standard did it a lot. I think it went as high as 24V if I remember correctly
Then of course for a while lots of phones supported competing standards of quick charging and nobody allowed anyone else to use the same branding so identifying compatible chargers for your phone’s specific type of quick charge was a royal pain in the butt
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 week ago:
I’m looking forwards to when my in-laws upgrade their phones and no longer get to use their “superior” lightning ports
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 week ago:
I’ve got a chinesium rechargable battery/tire inflator which only charges when plugged into some chargers because it clearly doesn’t support USB-PD
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 week ago:
Wireless charging is nice for when you’re using your phone infrequently, such as at your desk while you’re working on something else. It sits there charging, you grab it to respond to a message then set it back down. No tail to worry about, it’s not getting tangled on other wires when you dare to move your phone, etc.
It’s really a feature I never cared about until I got a wireless charger as a gift
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 week ago:
Goerge Washington is known for having wooden teeth, but while his false teeth appeared to be wood they were actually made from shards of turtle shell
- Comment on im frend :( 1 week ago:
Naaah it’s more fast typing and not correcting. The only abbreviation I see is shorting “have” to “hv” which honestly could also be a typo
- Comment on EA reportedly shelves Need For Speed completely to focus on other projects 1 week ago:
Project Rene was literally the biggest news in the Sims space a couple of years ago, it’s not hard to find info about it.
But you know what is hard to find? Anything supporting the wild story you spun to dunk on people who are trying to be decent to their fellow human
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 1 week ago:
That’s what I was trying to say is they have everything they need mechanics-wise built into these game development environments. The difference between AAA and indie is more on the scope of how much artwork, sound design, writing, voice acting, Foley work, etc. goes into the game
A solo independent developer can pretty easily recreate the mechanics of GTA V in Unreal for example, but they can’t realistically recreate a selectively compressed representation of the entire LA and San Bernardino counties plus a 14 hour (or however long it is) single player campaign
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 1 week ago:
To be fair, an indie dev just tossing stuff together on the weekends and evenings has everything needed in these accessible game engines to build a AAA title of 15+ years ago.
- Comment on EA reportedly shelves Need For Speed completely to focus on other projects 1 week ago:
Do you have a source for any of that rage bait so we can laugh at it?
- Comment on EA reportedly shelves Need For Speed completely to focus on other projects 1 week ago:
I think the saddest part was observing a clear wind down of Sims 4 then last second “lol JK we’re not releasing another sims game” and the entire player base seemed to release a collective sigh that some of the structural problems that have plugged TS4 are here to stay
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 2 weeks ago:
This is my second season. I’m biking about 5 hours a week right now, averaging about 40-50 miles per week. I don’t know how obvious the toning would be to others but I can certainly see it, since y’know I’m the one who sees myself the most
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been biking so much lately that my legs are getting hella toned, the rest of my body is starting to tone too and I’m feeling much more alive and healthy than I have at any other point in my life!
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 2 weeks ago:
Yeah my problem with stardew is I feel too invested in min-maxing my time so I end up stressing over every minute in the game and it’s too exhuasting