Aganim

@Aganim@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Streaming Destroyed TV⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately in my country HBO was only available as an add-on, so you’d need an expensive cable subscription you didn’t want and then pay extra for the concent you’d actually wanted to see. Pretty bad deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Streaming Destroyed TV⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I moved out my first decision was to not get cable anymore. Streaming wasn’t even a factor in that decision as Netflix was only just starting here. I just didn’t care about all the drivel broken up by increasingly long commercial blocks. Lack of quality killed TV for me, not streaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I seriously doubt if the radiation perv scanner doesn’t get people to do anything

  You mean the backscatter X-ray units that have already been phased out 10 years ago?

  The modern milimeter-wave scanners both do not reveal anything and do not use ionising radiation. If radiation is a concern to you, you really shouldn’t be flying at all to be honest. The dose you get up there is much higher than you’d get from an X-ray scanner, although it is still negligible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Awww, he's so cuuuuttteeee!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RIP my LG robovac. Dutifully cleaning and mapping my house without having any kind of wireless connection ability whatsoever. Until it mistook my stair for just another dark corner. 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And they say English is bad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This doesn’t even faintly resemble German, so I doubt that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And they say English is bad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So good job by the dutch? Yes, if this was Dutch. It isn’t though, looks like Afrikaans to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The PlayStation 2⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sony forced the studio behind Helldivers 2 to make a PSN account obligatory after the game launched. That’s a pretty crappy move because PSN is not available in roughly 120 countries, so if you live in one of those you can suddenly not play your game anymore. And Sony hasn’t got the best reputation when it comes to securing and selling their user’s data, so players are pretty upset and vocal about this.

  But I would say that present day Sony’s dick moves do not really fit in a topic about PS2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piracy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but who would want to wear plutonium rings or necklaces?🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piracy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I most certainly would if I owned a nuclear reactor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're all a little crazy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kill the Abomination!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gotta get on that grindset⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For $250000 I’m totally fine with him showing me his penis. Unfortunately I think he won’t be interested now that consent is given though. ☹️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Official Announce Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or getting a “quest failed” because you told an NPC “we’ll meet up later” instead of “we’ll travel there together”, and see his unarmed ass getting pounded into the ground by a group of bandits camping along the road. 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I knew it⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do not listen to this obviously drunk poster. We are definitely not lizard people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨science 🤝 humanities⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would have settled for (Eyes of) Ibad Blue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The later books are really something⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, technically the meme does not say he’ll actually do it. And as Paul had to option to go down that road, but choose not to, it’s not truly incorrect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  klap*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average website visit in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is incorrect. Traffic is not ‘routed through a pihole’, it is a DNS resolver which returns a localhost address for blacklisted domains. Basically it causes your browser to try to load blacklisted content from a webserver running on your local PC, which (for the average user) doesn’t exist and so it gives up.

  More and more websites do detect this and it can be as simple as checking for the presence of a variable that should be set if some piece of JavaScript from an external domain was loaded. In such a case it wouldn’t matter if you refused the tracking code due to PiHole or an adblocker extension. Actually the adblocker would even have an advantage here, as it would be capable of manipulating any client-side scripts that trigger these warnings, whereas Pihole has no interaction with your browser at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average website visit in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They most certainly do unfortunately, I speak from experience. Haven’t delved into the specifics, but I suspect some websites check if some piece of JavaScript was loaded, if not a ‘you are using an adblocker’ message is shown. It is annoying, but as I can live without these websites they go onto my personal blacklist and I move on with my life. They need us harder than we do them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans are asleep, post European windows⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, sorry, my dark sense of humour didn’t combine very well with typing it out before my first cup of coffee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans are asleep, post European windows⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, the good old Russian anti-defenestration windows. I assume you have the FSB-mandated variant that is capable of both tilting and swinging, for… ease of access?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does ripping a CD/DVD work exactly? Is it similar to copying or does it leave the CD/DVD unusable?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or Wing Commander III, with its ludicrous 4 CD’s. 😱

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A tiny radioactive battery could keep your future phone running for 50 years⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends, in my country ionization detectors have been banned over 20 years ago, you’ll mostly find optical / photoelectric detectors here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, it looks like verification photos might be useless now.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Her clavicles are asymmetrical, never seen that on a real person.

  Shit, are you telling me that every time I see myself in the mirror I’m actually looking at a string of AI generated images, generated in real-time? The matrix is real. 😱

  Yes, my clavicles are actually very asymmetric. ☹️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exploits of a Mom⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you could probably contest them all easily.

  Actually from what I read he was pretty screwed as the tickets were not turned over by the judge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨patience⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The novelty was the story in FPS.

  For me Unreal already filled that place. Of course HL amped it up to 11, but Unreal already had decent story elements for that time. I loved how you could track the fate of fellow survivors over multiple levels at several occasions. The lore strewn around. Reading the log of a guard who you just blew to smithereens and finding out they were handed a crap posting, making you almost feel sorry for him.

  The way and scale of how HL handed the story was absolutely novel and definitely something else, but it most definitely wasn’t the first to include story elements.

  Before Half Life, all you have to do is to shoot every moving sprite and grab keys to open doors.

  Most definitely not true. 1997’s MDK springs to mind and the before mentioned Unreal also had nothing to do ‘with shooting sprites and collecting keys’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know how to title this⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a developer I can only say: no matter how foolproof you make your product, you will always encounter that one special user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That's what she said?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, he tried to plug in a DisplayPort connector. With a sledgehammer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The stainless steel body of Tesla's Cybertruck is reportedly leading to issues with gaps in between the panels⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So you can absorb all that sweet sweet kinetic energy being released yourself of course. Energy gud right? And as you already paid for that energy at the Fast Charger, it seems only fair that they give it back to you when you crash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worst fear confirmed: You can't launch Modern Warfare 3 without first launching Modern Warfare 2⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also when you are like me and only care about the campaign:

  “You fool, why the fuck would you want to switch to the campaign? Good luck in finding out where we hid that button in this overly convoluted UI. Oh yes, and because you are not planning on forking over additional money to us, we’ll restart the game in stingy campaign mode. And no, you cannot be smart and just start the single player executable directly, because we made sure it won’t run when not launched through the game we actually want you to play.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The stainless steel body of Tesla's Cybertruck is reportedly leading to issues with gaps in between the panels⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, the shape has horrible aerodynamics. If it had a combustion engine, they couldn’t sell it in large parts of the world due to fuel efficiency.

  I also doubt it will get a type approval in Europe, seems absolutely no consideration for pedestrian safety has been given. If this thing is as stiff and solid as Musk said it was it is also going to fail miserably during crash testing. Having been in a car crash this weekend I can testify how crumble zones save lives. Good thing the whole “but it’s a light truck” loophole they used in the US isn’t going to fly here.