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- Comment on Toyohiro Akiyama deserved better 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, 100% it’s an expensive habit whatever the unit price is.
I was just taken aback a bit as someone who had quit several years prior, that they could buy cigs in 2024 for half the price I was paying as a teenager two decades ago
- Comment on Toyohiro Akiyama deserved better 2 weeks ago:
I definitely saw 500 yen packs on sale when I was there a couple of years ago, which would be about £2.30/$3.10
Given I think a 20 deck of cigs in the UK is about £12 now, it’s still crazy cheap to smoke out there comparatively, so I can only imagine it was even cheaper then
- Comment on Dominocalypse ingeniously blends tile-pushing dominoes with roguelike and puzzle elements 3 weeks ago:
Ingeniously? It certainly looks like balatro with dominoes
- Comment on Microsoft quietly deletes Windows 11 doc pushing 32GB RAM for gaming after outrage 1 month ago:
I will point out it’s not just Windows at fault here (though it’s not guilt free). Modern consumer commercial software, across the board, is bloated shit. Even a lot of the prosumer or even full professional software is the same.
The modern web is pretty bloated too, pretend to be average Joe chrome user without adblock and open 15 tabs of the most popular sites on the internet. It does not matter what OS you’re on, that’s going to be a frankly ridiculous amount of memory usage.
This was not ideal but kinda manageable about a year or two ago before memory prices went crazy. Memory was almost commodity unless you were an enthusiast, you could just get more if you needed it and it didn’t really cost you much.
The ecosystem wasn’t really set up to expect it to get more expensive at all, let alone multiplied by several times
- Comment on Microsoft plans major Start menu upgrades for Windows 11 with better customization and performance: Users will soon be able to resize it and toggle off entire areas of Start 2 months ago:
Oh so we’re in the phase where they iteratively improve the start menu to the point where it becomes halfway usable before they scrap it and create some new flavour of shit
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 year ago:
For a good while, Plex was the only game in town that did the job well, and they put the transcoding feature behind the paywall.
Given it wasn’t that expensive for a lifetime pass a number of years ago (I remember it was cheaper than a game anyway) and they still seemed relatively user-centric at the time, many people like me felt like they were supporting developers building something that was useful to us.
I still run my Plex server since it’s not really costing me not to, but I’ve been running Jellyfin too for a little while and it more or less can do the same job these days