circuitfarmer

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just wait until the Nazism finally catches up with Tesla.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cyberpunk 2077 Has Finally Hit Overwhelmingly Positive On Steam⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Way back when, people were wondering if Cyberpunk could pull off a No Man’s Sky-type of reversal of opinion.

  Now people will wonder if the next game released way too early can pull off a Cyberpunk 2077.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Official Philippa Georgiou backstory from the Star Trek YouTube channel⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess what I should have said is: the art style, the design, everything about this looks like the Disney version of Star Wars. It doesn’t resemble Star Trek in the classical sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Official Philippa Georgiou backstory from the Star Trek YouTube channel⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This could say Star Wars on it and look no different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colm Meaney to Receive Irish Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Really liked him in Hell on Wheels. Surprisingly believable as Thomas Durant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but 1080p content looks like dogshit on a 1440p display

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was probably 10 when my best friend (at the time) and I would play Super Contra on the NES for hours. We loved everything about it. We’d get as far as we could. We’d give each other lives. We could sing the soundtrack. When it was game over, we just restarted it.

  Those days were simple and beautiful. I don’t think another game could give me anything like that experience, since it wasn’t really entirely about the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t even gotten on the 4k bandwagon yet. I fully expected to by now, but then again, my eyes aren’t getting any better and 1080p content still looks… fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell kills the XPS brand⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect, at some level, that the confusing naming is kind of the point.

  What’s the difference between Pro and Max? If the names were clearer, you probably wouldn’t check the website to clear up the confusion.

  It nudges potential buyers into interaction with company marketing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We regret to inform you that MI5 and MI6 will now be designated MI1 and MI2 due to budget constraints

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One more example of a private service being used as if it were a utility.

  This one is especially egregious considering it’s an Amber Alert, but it isn’t necessarily unique. Despite the internet being designed as open, it has been taken over by private entities, and any popular service is ultimately controlled by such entities.

  It’s a hard problem to solve. Look at federated platforms like Lemmy: they take a long time to populate, and their usefulness is partly a function of how successful that population is. By definition, a free, open platform will not have the advertising, reach, or “it factor” of a corporate service. When given the choice between an open platform and a corporate one, we see people choose the corporate one time and time again.

  We have taken our open network and handed it, willingly, to private enterprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple CEO Tim Cook Donating $1 Million to Trump's Inaugural Fund⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The personal donation part is weird. This sounds like a deliberate attempt to appease the fascists while trying, desperately, to maintain Apple’s image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Two decades after Enron’s bankruptcy, the company is back as a crypto firm?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Sansui of the crypto world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One what?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Killing the Cybertruck.

  With Tesla quality control, a fire is just a bug, until it kills the truck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New social experiment⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  snap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Our Lying Eyes: New Photo Shows Biden With Hunter's Business Associates Despite Past Denials⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly this. Same with Hillary’s email server, while team Trump now also uses a private email server.

  Rules for thee but not for me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm about to have to get a second job⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they make a Connie Refit, I will have no choice.

  I hope they don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK antitrust suit hits Microsoft with claim for $1.25B in cloud fees damages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Eventually, no fine will be enough to deter corporations. More and more, these will be considered the price of business. It doesn’t matter how huge the number may look to you or me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed Shadows to Feature Denuvo & Mandatory Ubisoft Account Linking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As if I needed more reasons not to play it. Thanks Ubi, you shouldn’t have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that there is death involved, this is “sensitive”… So I will not post a gif of Michael and Dwight driving into the river because the GPS told them to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not supporting Musk here, but there is some truth to the claim in the headline.

  One major danger we currently have is everyone thinking that social media platform accounts are property. They simply aren’t – at least, not yours. If the company decides to terminate your account, they can do that. It will be supported by the TOS. You do not own it.

  You also don’t own data you put on it. Post a bunch of photos to FB? They own them and can do whatever they want with them.

  The danger is that these things are so ubiquitous they appear like information utilities, but they are not. They are corporate services wholly owned by their respective corporations. It is something that makes federated systems stand out from the crowd (not that you own an account there either, but there at least is not a single centralized corporate owner).

  More people need to be made aware of this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opera labels every other browser 'f***ing boring' in an inexplicably sweary promo reel. Oh, and updates its gamer-focused Opera GX browser a little too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If not having my data stolen is boring, then call me… someone really boring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft built a PC that can't run local apps — Windows 365 Link starts at $349 and doesn't come with storage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No thanks. I’d rather not take a step back so that MS can make more money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Haha SO TRUE!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just thumb up everything.

  Meme? Thumbs up.

  Important message? Thumbs up.

  My brother died? Thumbs up. Thanks for letting me know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But it is just an animation. I want to be able to actually look at the model outside of an animation, like in a Rockstar game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually felt it was one of the best games I’ve played in the last 10 years. I really enjoyed the story. The game is beautiful. I love the amount of immersion that is possible, especially with mods. I’ve played through it twice.

  I really, really wish we could inspect weapons. One mod gets close, but it isn’t the same as a Rockstar-style weapons inspection. We don’t even get to zoom in on the models in inventory. A damned travesty because the weapons are gorgeous.

  But overall, I find it hard to fault, especially given its state at launch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD captures 28.7% market share in desktops⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not surprised. I switched to AMD CPU and GPU about a year ago. Could not be happier. Ryzen sips power and I run mine in Eco mode (since I’m on an air cooler). Performance is still fantastic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry. This isn’t the only Trump plan that will tank the economy. I just wish the rest of us didn’t have to suffer because of all those idiots not paying attention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney Said to be Considering a Surprising Replacement for Bob Iger: EA CEO Andrew Wilson - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The corporate world absolutely idolizes the grift. Being able to “produce value” (=make more money while actually not producing anything more) is the only game left. Shareholders look at something like EA that releases the same old Madden year after year while making money hand over fist, and they fucking salivate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta must face FTC trial that could separate Instagram and WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any anti-corporation action has about 60 more days to complete. The US is about to be more of an unregulated runaway capitalism machine than it has ever been.