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- Comment on What is this colour? 17 hours ago:
Well, first: this is not just one color. There are 4 or 5 different colors mixed in the picture. Which makes it hard to pinpoint a name for a single shade. Second: if you know anything about color theory, it is quite obvious that it’s any combination of red and green (or yellow and magenta). In color theory this combinations both can make anything from bright orange to yellow to grapefruit red. Or, if you greatly desaturate it or charge it towards black in hue, to brown. Everyone here is calling it some form of brown as well. And it might actually be browny (the color) by the overall range of values in the picture.
As we all know, brown is just orange with context.
- Comment on What is this colour? 1 day ago:
Orange, fite me…
- Comment on Thank Goodness You're Here - most absurd & hilarious game what did I just play? 1 day ago:
There’s a couple of raunchy jokes. One implies a fish is a man’s penis, and he orgasms when you slap the fish repeatedly. There’s the cow you milk with a motion that imitates male masturbation. Also a couple of body horror stuff that look like an anus you enter into a fleshy intestine like cavern. Lot’s of sexual innuendo in dialogue jokes. Definitely not a kid’s game. Maybe play it first, it is a short game, and gauge if it is proper for your kid before playing it with them. Since the game is linear and most interactions are not optional. It’s more like teen immature humor.
- Comment on HDD prices spike as AI infrastructure and China's PC push collide — hard drives record biggest price increase in eight quarters, suppliers warn pressure will continue 1 day ago:
For the vast part of the world, that is not the us or the EU, a Pc, specially a very powerful one like for gaming, has always been an expensive luxury item. You’re just joining the club late.
- Comment on Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand 5 days ago:
He was the queer kid of a Latina mother in the us who liked fashion. Then it was focus grouped to death until the director and the main star left.
- Comment on Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand 5 days ago:
It makes me sad because elio was supposed to be a cute story about a queer kid learning about his place in the universe. Instead, the original director and writer got kicked, the movie was butchered and a new film was made from the corpse that had nothing to do with the original premise. Then it was released without any marketing and the animators were blamed, “the movie flopped because of bean mouth!” No, is flopped because Disney is an evil pos that only wants profit and to cause suffering to minorities in order to extricate more money for the shareholders.
- Comment on A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French 5 days ago:
There’s a story mode that auto-skips all the combat.
- Comment on A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French 6 days ago:
It has a very generous and flexible difficulty setting. Plus accessibility options. I started on normal and have been dropping down the difficulty whenever I gets too much, or disabling the skill based parts altogether. Then back up whenever a particular fight seems interesting, just to see how it plays out. It doesn’t penalizes you at all, as it should. It is truly a game designed to be enjoyed fully, it never gets in the way of the player’s enjoyment.
- Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all? 6 days ago:
Yes, that’s rack space. It is not even half of the costs of a data center. I know because I’ve worked in data centers and read the financial breakdowns of those materials. They are also useless without actual servers and deprecrate their value really fast.
- Comment on How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all? 6 days ago:
Rack space is literally the only thing valuable that would be left. Those GPUs are useless for non LLM computation. The optimization of the chips and the massive amounts of soldered RAM. They are purpose made, and they were also manufactured very cheap without common longevity and endurance design features. They will degrade and start failing after less than 5 years or so. Most would be inoperable in a decade. Those data centers are massive piles of e-waste, an absolute misuse of sand.
- Comment on This, a pen, and coffee 1 week ago:
The Seinfeld effect. Today they seem clunky, janky, unpolished or uninspired. Because you have way better modern examples to compare them to. The catch is that when they came out, they were the first. People have said the same about the Beatles, the rolling stones, the og legend of Zelda, counter strike, etc.
- Comment on Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN. 1 week ago:
Friendly warning that SD cards are not a backup. Those things die, frequently and without warning. They also bitrot fast. If you value the data being backed up, choose a more stable medium.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 weeks ago:
Changing stuff on a single player video game is not cheating.
Cheating can only exist on a competition, like on multiplayer, because you are expected to fair play with another human being.
To think that playing on your own and changing the parameters of play is cheating is a limiting and constrained, and honestly sad, point of view. It’s like punishing a kid for imagining that a toy has super powers. Extremely soul crushing and anti-creativity. If you are playing on your own, then there’s no cheat. Your play, your rules, no punishment for changing your mind. The play field exist to play, not to impose arbitrary and oppressing notions of real life judgement. You can’t cheat, when you are just playing for fun.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 2 weeks ago:
They haven’t. Part of the reason the bubble is so bad is that NVIDIA has been giving credit incentives to openai. Essentially giving them money so they use it to buy NVIDIA chips, so they can claim higher sales numbers. But there’s no revenue. The AI bubble is 4 or 5 companies shuffling money to each other to inflate numbers so investors inject more money.
The only ones making bank are CEOs when they take their bonuses and cash outs. The companies themselves are bleeding. OpenAI needs something like $700 billion dollars more to survive until 2030. LLMs simply don’t make any money. Any savings from ai use has been from layoffs. It will all eventually crash out when it is obvious that AI use ultimately hurts revenue, no matter how much it saves in production.
- Comment on By technical standards were 3D TVs impressive, Why didn't they catch on back then? 2 weeks ago:
On very good productions, a Hollywood style movie takes produces roughly 1 to 5 minutes a day of content during filming. Not continuous, of course, on average, and not everything that is shot gets released. Think about it, 90 days if shooting to make a two hour film, if preproduction was well made and nothing goes wrong with logistics during production. Then you have post production which is even slower.
Now think that 3D content was at least twice as hard, expensive and complex to film. With even longer and more difficult post production. For content that made half the audience nauseous, and it cost them twice as much.
Digital productions shortened that gap, but it is still way too annoying to actually become more mainstream. Several developments in camera technology promised easier logistics and cheaper production, and more accessible consumer grade products for consumption. But ultimately these gains never materialized and the numbers simply didn’t make sense.
- Comment on Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots) 2 weeks ago:
It is good, specially on mid size text. But it is not good enough. When text is long or too short, it gets lost and makes tons of context mistakes. It also tends to be unnatural for the target language preferring original language phrasing.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
Navidrome for service. Dsub2000 on android and feishin on desktop.
There, all your needs covered.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
A VPS with a reverse proxy connected to your tailnet and a dyndns domain. It would be cheaper than Plex premium, you can use the vps for other stuff, and you have 100% certainty it will never ever show ads.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 2 weeks ago:
In his honor, I still lick walls in videogames to this day.
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 3 weeks ago:
This is whybI play Ravenfield. Sure, it’s bots. But an hour session usually scratches the itch for a few months. Plus I don’t have to deal with awful lobbies and trash talk.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
“…with FSR.”
That there is a huge difference.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
As someone who has hooked up computers to TVs all his life, I can tell you. Just turning on with a controller directly into game mode is a massive game changer as it is a pain to get it working today. Look for guides about it and see the batshit hacks people have come up with.
That and the overabundance of Bluetooth antennas. Oh, and it also comes with super fast WiFi 7 special connection for the frame inside the box. Also, heat and sound management. Gaming PCs are little space heaters, very efficient during cold weather and a pain in the ass in hot climates. Keeping them cool takes an assortment of turbines and makes the living room sound like an airport. If this thing is as power efficient, quiet and cool as advertised, it will be the gaming enthusiast’s dream.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
That’s the feel good warm marketing Sony spun for the thing. The PS3 sold around 88 million units. It flopped at first because it didn’t have any games for it. The Linux thing was a quirky fun but ultimately useless feature. You had to code custom software for the thing, it had no commercial software for Linux on a PS3. Its sales ballooned after it became the cheapest bluray on the market, and it was after the removal of otherOS support.
Less than 10 thousand were used for distributed computation clusters. The famous navy supercomputer only had 1.7 thousand units or so. Against the global sales numbers it was barely a rounding error.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
That’s the feel good warm marketing Sony spun for the thing. The PS3 sold around 88 million units. It flopped at first because it didn’t have any games for it. The Linux thing was a quirky fun but ultimately useless feature. You had to code custom software for the thing, it had no commercial software for Linux on a PS3. Its sales ballooned after it became the cheapest bluray on the market, and it was after the removal of otherOS support.
Less than 10 thousand were used for distributed computation clusters. The famous navy supercomputer only had 1.7 thousand units or so. Against the global sales numbers it was barely a rounding error.
- Comment on Why do languages sometimes have letters which don't have consistent pronunciations? 4 weeks ago:
Writing is just a proxy for speaking. And entirely its own thing. Think about Greek. There are ancient texts from thousands of years ago that would be kinda weird but basically legible for modern readers. However, same text read in ancient pronunciation would be unintelligible. Search for Shakespeare in historical accent. Then suddenly a ton of things that seem weird in modern English actually start to rhyme and even make funny homophones jokes.
Essentially, written word is a living system. Learning this system is not just about its internal logic, but learning about its history and the myriad of quirks it picked up along the way.
- Comment on Is Android really the next big desktop operating system? 4 weeks ago:
There’s an axiom that every single news headline on the internet that ends in a question to the reader can be accurately answered with “no”.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 4 weeks ago:
Let me show the math:
The base M4 model is 16GB ram and 256 GB of storare and it costs $600, “cheapest minipc ever with such performance”.
The 512GB storage model costs $800.
May I point out that 256GB of ssd storage does not cost $200.
The 24 GB model costs exactly $1000.
No matter how much ram prices are ramping up right now, 8GB of sodimm ram does not cost $200…yet.
Anything else above those specs throws the Mac mini into $1k+ territory.
Now, Apple rarely publishes manufacturing numbers to the public. But historically this has always been their strategy. A base product that seems too good to be true (because it it) that leaves buyers wanting a bit more. For which they get skinned alive, price wise. Of course, I can’t be 100% certain that the base Mac mini is sold at a loss. But evidence suggests the $600 mark is priced exactly to act as a loss leader.
- Comment on Day 486 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
They are so neatly seated though. Perfect columns.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 4 weeks ago:
Apple mini is a hard comparison to make because the cheapest mini is a loss leader. Add a bit of extra ram or extra storage, which you have to do since the base model is very limited and the only way to get it is through Apple because everything is soldered together, then it is suddenly more than a $1k PC. They make the profits up with those upgrades which are practically mandatory.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 4 weeks ago:
I guess they are including the screen, the keyboard and the trackpad with the Windows license in those $200.