Aganim
@Aganim@lemmy.world
- Comment on it's right there 😖 3 days ago:
It was in a poor / underdeveloped country.
Damn, I would have thought even the US would have bolsters with a basic retention mechanism by now.
- Comment on Might as well be the same thing 4 days ago:
Come over and you can add STD to the list of three letter words you have!
- Comment on 3.5" floppy disks were peak tactile feedback in storage: easy to stick in, drives had a button to immediately eject them, big enough to get labels, thin enough that stacks didn't take too much space 3 weeks ago:
Less if you were sensible and included an error correction scheme to combat the unreadable sectors that were bound to pop up after a while. I can be quite nostalgic, but if there is one thing I don’t miss it’s the ‘reliability’ of floppies.
- Comment on Priorities 3 weeks ago:
Most problems are caused on the longer term and that damage can be quite insidious. N~2~O deactivates vitamine B12, which ultimately causes nerve damage, especially for heavy users. Symptoms can be stuff like tingling extremities, muscle weakness and paralysis and can become irreversible with continued usage. The problem is that the early symptoms can be easily disregarded, while the damage is slowly building up.
- Comment on We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city" 4 weeks ago:
The gang wars mechanic put me off SA, same as the friends in GTA IV that keep demanding you go bowling with them while you are in a car chase with the police. It felt forced and screwed with the flow of the game by forcing you to stop whatever you were enjoying at that moment or deal with the consequences.
Vice City is also my favourite, great selection of music tracks, great 80’s vibes and it wouldn’t forcefully try to pull you out of your flow at random intervals.
- Comment on Ross's Game Dungeon: Normality 4 weeks ago:
Omg, that’s a blast from the past Norm!
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 5 weeks ago:
Skewed telemetry probably, as most users that are aware you can move the taskbar are also aware you can just disable the phone home crap and will therefore not show up in the statistics.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, RAM prices are crazy. When I built my current system I threw in 64GB so I could mess around with stuff like Kubernetes and virtual machines without worrying about memory shortage. Memory was cheap enough that it was a no-brainer. I feel like a millionaire when I look at how much that would set me back now. 😅
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 5 weeks ago:
Ah, yeah, that’s a design decision that sucks. Those games I’ll pick up in few years when I have a card that’s capable of RT at an acceptable framerate. I get that tech becomes mandatory at some point, same as happened with OpenGL/DirectX and the various pixel shading versions back in the day. But in my opinion enforcing ray tracing came way too early, seeing how it eats performance.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 5 weeks ago:
It does depend on the game, Satisfactory for example uses UE5 (5.3.2) and runs perfectly fine for me without framegen at 5120x1440. Admittedly I run it on an RX 6900, so not an average card. But at the other hand it’s already an older one and that resolution approaches 4K.
Unless something changed fairly recently the game also doesn’t use Lumen by default, let alone raytracing. Was this made mandatory in later UE5 versions? Because it’s definitely not mandatory for every UE5 version.
UE5 is by no means a lightweight engine, but I do wonder how many of the issues are caused by lack of optimisation.
- Comment on What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s definitely a concern. My first installation shredded its SD card in no time due to each request getting logged and stored on disk. Turning off long term query logging mitigated that issue, for my home network I don’t care about that history anyway.
- Comment on What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment? 5 weeks ago:
Anybody got the feeling some games may be negatively affected by a PiHole ?
My RPi 2 has been happily running PiHole in my network for about 8 years now and with a mumber of pretty strict block lists, personally I never had any issues with games.
- Comment on Cops hassling Santa for not having papers to be in the US 5 weeks ago:
Must be a commie, he’s even dressed in red!
- Comment on Reading and working out 1 month ago:
Pretty ripped, but he definitely missed forearm day.
- Comment on US demands access to tourists' social media histories 1 month ago:
… after paying off the initial credit by taking a new loan
- Comment on Oechslegrad 2 months ago:
Try the Dutch climate. Here everything above 28 degrees C is, in my opinion, unbearable.
- Comment on Where u at? 2 months ago:
My Nokia 7650 begs to differ.
- Comment on New book out 2 months ago:
What happens in the nono-room stays in the nono-room.
- Comment on [NSFW] ysk: you can restore your foreskin 2 months ago:
Is that really a thing? I’ve been circumcised when I was young because of medical reasons, I’ve never needed lube for a wank.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 2 months ago:
Driving stick is still the norm here. Learned it in a Suzuki Swift, which did not do honour to its name.
- Comment on YSK: You should enable peak refresh rate in Android 3 months ago:
The first thing I always do is turn 120Hz off. The difference just isn’t meaningful enough to justify the extra battery drain. On a PC monitor sure, but on a phone I really don’t care if my feed scrolls a bit smoother.
- Comment on Shook 5 months ago:
Yeah, and I can’t believe Liberace was gay. I mean, women loved him! I didn’t see that one coming.
- Comment on No title seems appropriate 6 months ago:
I’ve also seen this uhm… ‘art’ in toilet trailers in Germany two years ago, really weird.
- Comment on Disturbed 6 months ago:
Who? I’d look him up, but judging by this photo I don’t think I really want to know.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 6 months ago:
946,944 currently, it’s almost there!
- Comment on French is such a beautiful language 6 months ago:
I’ll never hate a language which has a separate Wikipedia page about its profanity. Such a colourful language!
- Comment on French is such a beautiful language 6 months ago:
I hear you, I dropped the Devil’s language in highschool as soon as I was able to do so. I still get PTSD just thinking about the listening exercises on tape cassettes, where usually someone told her entire life story in about a single minute. Unbelievable how fast people can talk in French.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 7 months ago:
And don’t forget the US will again get to decide to arbitrarily discard any nuclear agreements, which is of course another great incentive for Iran to not start a military nuclear program.
- Comment on Always there 7 months ago:
Okay, just for shits 'n giggles we’ll throw in a War 11. Just mind that it can’t be fought with perfectly good legacy weapons, those will need to be replaced.
- Comment on Postal 2 Redux is bringing back the controversial FPS with a full remaster 7 months ago:
Has it really been 20 years? Damn, I’m not ashamed to admit I don’t think I ever finished the game in that time.
Each playthrough ended in fucking around with gasoline, pissing out some innocent bystanders that happened to stray too close and taking out the rest with cat-silenced guns. Bonus points if the cat gave out and was launched straight into somebody’s face, vomit all around. Good memories playing this with my younger brother. 😁