circuitfarmer
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- Comment on Ron DeSantis signs bill scrubbing ‘climate change’ from Florida state laws 1 day ago:
It’s that “if I can’t see it, it doesn’t exist” mentality. My cat acts like that, because she gets surprised every time something comes back into view and still exists.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been on Lemmy ever since the reddit API fracas. To date, I have not seen a reason to return. I have, however, seen many reasons to stay away.
- Comment on The spam came from inside the house: How a smart TV can choke a Windows PC 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t either. Dumb TVs are getting harder and harder to find though.
- Comment on The spam came from inside the house: How a smart TV can choke a Windows PC 3 weeks ago:
I’ve had the same early smart TV for about ten years now. The greatest thing that happened to it was the WiFi dying. I suspect I wouldn’t have it anymore if that weren’t the case.
It’s a 42" Samsung if anyone is curious, and the WiFi just… Stopped working.
- Comment on Steam will stop issuing refunds if you play two hours of a game before launch day 3 weeks ago:
In spite of some of the comments to the contrary here, I really think this is fine. Early access is early access. 2 hours has been the ground truth for a while. It does seem like a loophole, and I’m fine with them filling it.
- Comment on YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. This seems a bit quick given the adoption of hardware decoders. I would have thought they would have waited a while longer before actually changing the default.
The benefits are real, though. AV1 is extremely efficient and it looks markedly better than alternatives even at lower bitrates.
- Comment on One of the problems of working on the weekends. 4 weeks ago:
That’s why you gotta drink during the week, change up that incentive program
- Comment on Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites 5 weeks ago:
Anyone have a list of legislators who are also investors in VPN companies?
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 5 weeks ago:
I’ve just invented a way to never use a Roku product again, and I’ve chosen not to patent it.
The process is this:
- Don’t buy anything from Roku anymore.
- Comment on iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery 5 weeks ago:
That may be due to other factors. I will be up front that I don’t have a lot of specifics, but I do know this: in retro computing, SD is hard to implement as a replacement for old-school disks because it means a lot of overhead. For that reason, Compact Flash is still the preferred format for a lot of products aimed at that space.
Perhaps that is at play here, because increased overhead should also equal a reduction in battery life (modulo the spinning disk).
- Comment on Using StartAllBack? No Windows updates for you, says Microsoft 5 weeks ago:
Buy
No
- Comment on NASA engineers discover why Voyager 1 is sending a stream of gibberish from outside our solar system 1 month ago:
64K RAM SYSTEM 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If the guillotine market really takes off, it won’t be as popular to peddle this bullshit to the public anymore.
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 - Official Announcement Trailer 3 months ago:
I mean, usually they’re already active as soon as the game starts, so I don’t really think it could be considered that way.
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 - Official Announcement Trailer 3 months ago:
Doesn’t surprise me, if you read their forums there are a ton of folks reporting issues either being outright ignored or told that the game-breaking bug they found is “as designed”.
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 - Official Announcement Trailer 3 months ago:
Yeah, I’ve heard of people having a different experience (the economy just never picking up enough to succeed) – I think both are indicative of a borked simulation.
For me, I can even be completely in the black, with 100k+ income, and I’ll still be getting hundreds of grand in subsidies. Ruins any challenge.
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 - Official Announcement Trailer 3 months ago:
It was definitely possible to tank a city in Skylines 1. That said, it’s also not the most challenging game.
But with Skylines II, I can’t even tank one when I try. Hundreds of thousands in the red? The game throws free money at you in the form of “government subsidies” to compensate. And they cannot be disabled. Absolute shit show.
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 - Official Announcement Trailer 3 months ago:
I was so excited for Cities: Skylines II, and it is a shell of the former game. So many systems seem to fake the economy, and it also feels impossible to make your city fail.
Waiting until I see evidence of a good game post-release before I board any kind of hype train.
- Comment on Burger King Giving Discounts If Facial Recognition Thinks You're Hungover 4 months ago:
Joke’s on them. I stop going in to not have my face scanned and then just starve.
- Comment on That Portal 64 demake we liked so much has been kiboshed by Valve: 'They have asked me to take the project down,' creator says 4 months ago:
Yes, but Valve didn’t block it based on their own IP. The focus really should be on the fact that Nintendo is so litigious. This was a fan project of a non-Nintendo IP. Their reputation is preceding them.
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 4 months ago:
I’m American and I totally agree. It feels like there are two different countries here, with the red one generally mooching off of the blue one while simultaneously claiming they’re the “real America”. I’m so tired.
- Comment on Instagram finds that AI Mr beast scams do not go against community guidelines. 4 months ago:
Meta’s “guidelines” are basically: does this content somehow stop us from making money?
The answer is generally no. If people stopped using the platform because of its poor handling of these kinds of situations, I guess that would affect them. Maybe?
- Comment on Capcom caught adding Enigma DRM to older titles, for no good reason 4 months ago:
I’m sure this makes sense to the CEO-brain. It doesn’t make sense to virtually anyone else, and it really just serves to make Capcom look like dicks.
- Comment on 8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates 4 months ago:
I have one of these that I never use. Good to know they’re still getting updates. I do have a potential application for mine in the near future.
- Comment on Extreme Grandpa 4 months ago:
At the very beginning I thought it was James May and was surprised he had a beard. But then when he started moving so fast, I realized it wasn’t him.
- Comment on Did someone tell Steam it's not April 1st yet? 4 months ago:
They make a huge difference! I could at least keep myself in the zone with cutscenes. Without them it’s just absolutely horrible to go anywhere.
- Comment on Somebodies gotta do it I guess. 4 months ago:
And his needs are met. He’s got a place to live. He’s got replicators.
I’d vacuum every damned deck if it gave me a place on a starship where all my needs were met.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 4 months ago:
This is way more about advertising Copilot than actually needing a new key. M$ gonna $.
- Comment on Did someone tell Steam it's not April 1st yet? 4 months ago:
Fast travel, plus inconsistency in whether or not you even get an “immersive” cutscene. Half the time you click into the menu and BOOM you’re standing outside at some new location. About as much fun as fast traveling to another part of an Excel sheet.
- Comment on How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 4 months ago:
I didn’t wipe my old account, but I have not been back since everything went down. I’ve looked at it occasionally but contributed nothing. It seems pretty shit atm.