Mr_Dr_Oink
@Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 4 hours ago:
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 2 days ago:
You will take 1/64th of a plain cheese and like it.
- Comment on I like this text. In which Lemmy community can I best share it ? Thanks. 1 week ago:
A fair point. However, reading the OP back, it seems to me that they aren’t dismissing “forever” as success. They are only stating that its not the only acceptable definition of it.
The way i see it, some things that require never-ending commitment to be deemed a success and others don’t, but that’s not how society sees it in general.
I think messages like the one in the post are a good thing to read and think about how they apply to your own life.
- Comment on Trust issues 1 week ago:
Amazing how i recognised this picture immediately. I thinkni saw that video once. Crazy.
- Comment on Meet ‘goldene’: this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick 2 weeks ago:
Ha! Barely sentient. I’m definitely gonna start saying that.
- Comment on Meet ‘goldene’: this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick 2 weeks ago:
Im not sure they were making was a dolly parton reference, and im not sure your joke matches up with any of the lyrics from the song either.
I dont know how to feel.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 weeks ago:
They aren’t the cost was arbitrarily chosen 30 odd years ago and hasnt changed in all that time despite there being several free alternatives. Data usage doesnt cost what they charge either. Its all a scam.
- Comment on Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband 3 weeks ago:
Its a shame i dont have an ethernet cable that fast or a motherboard with a network interface capable of that speed.
Great if i can get faster fibre into my home but my internal infrastructure is not up to the task. This wont be in the home until we can use fibre cables like we currently use ethernet cables.
Or is there some other tech that would replace ethernet that would handle those speeds. Also whats my wrote speed on my ssd?
Yeah i dont know if thisnis a tech thats meant for home, more likely large businesses with lots of devices all fighting for bandwidth.
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu 3 weeks ago:
Why are companies obsessed with adverts. They ruin the UX, they annoy users, and frankly, if i see an advert in something im trying to enjoy, at this point, it makes me actively not want to buy whatever is being sold.
When adverts fill the peripheral or are unintrusive, they are acceptable. When they interrupt the flow of what i am doing, i want to burn them.
I appreciate that they are how we make things free, but there is a point where they tip the balance of being worth it into the negative. And frankly, adverts in my OS are way over the line. I’d rather pay for windows 11 than use it with adverts. Perhaps its time for me to join a large number of my fellow lemmings and use linux.
- Comment on The Tiny Ultrabright Laser that Can Melt Steel 3 weeks ago:
Some joke about jet fuel and the WTC and these laser beams i’m not quick enough/too tired to work out.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 4 weeks ago:
If you owned a cup measure you might have some idea.
If a recipe calls for 8 cups of flour you will need a bigger baking tin.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 4 weeks ago:
Just buy cup and spoon measures. It simplifies the whole process. You already own metric measures so whats the difference.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 4 weeks ago:
I would guess use the ones that are sized like most other cups. Like standard mug sized. Although i think its all relative. If you use a certain cup to measure flour, use the same cup to measure sugar.
- Comment on I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is 4 weeks ago:
Whats the timeline on these? I feel like pwn win and epic all happened at the same time. Also i dont see leet or '1337"
- Comment on Germans: what genocide? 4 weeks ago:
I guess they have fairly high standards when it comes to genicide…
- Comment on McDonald’s stores hit by global IT failure 1 month ago:
This summary had me confused. I misread and thought, “wow japan has the most mcdonalds restaurants in the world?” Then i realised it said “of the other countries affected”. USA has 14.5k mcdonalds… wow.
- Comment on Still wanna know 1 month ago:
Also in powerpuff girls 10th anniversary special. Although not a complete reveal.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 1 month ago:
Conference rooms, yes. Break rokms, yes. Offices? No. Use a docking station? Are you working solely from your laptop screen or do you dock and use monitors mouse and keyboard? Generally, there’s ethernet attached, too.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 1 month ago:
You do know that most places use docking stations that connect laptops to multiple screens and… you guessed it… ethernet.
- Comment on Ex-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick looks to buy TikTok amid shutdown fears - Dexerto 1 month ago:
TrIpLe A sOcIAl MeDiA
- Comment on Why is living with your parents considered a bad thing? 2 months ago:
Why dont you pay him any rent? Houses are expensive and you are using electricity, water, gas etc. Im sure he would appreciate it if you just decided to pay your way.
- Comment on Diablo 4's new mount costs more than the actual game 2 months ago:
Its nice to see a low cost microtransaction, and nice to see that you can get the currency in game but really thats just the same as it was a few years back before it went full 100 dollar for a reskin mode.
You are defending a game by pointing out that its money grabbing methods are less greedy than another company.
Games wont make the billions and billions they make now if they move away from the in game purchases models but they also evidently dont need billions and billions to operate.
Some of the best games on the market were made on small budgets by indie developers and sell well because the are fun and people actually want to play them.
- Comment on EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea" 2 months ago:
I think you might be, haha.
But in the i terest of a fairer comparison, i had a quick google and found this game “atomic heart,” a generally well received game with high ratings and the following from Steam Revenue calculator
“We estimate that Atomic Heart made $55,756,625.68in gross revenue since its release. Out of this, the developer had an estimated net revenue of $16,448,204.58.”
New ip, single-player, shooter.
Comparatively, immortals lost money and tbey apparently laid of 45% of the staff who made it to avoid losses.
- Comment on EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea" 2 months ago:
Case in point. Baldurs gate 3.
Single player (with optional co op multiplayer) but massively successful.
Not to beat a dead horse. Its just the first example that came to mind.
A huge amount of very successful indie games are single-player and even other AAA games.
They talk about the genre being dead but they forget that most games dont charge you to play them anymore. They make money through in game purchases selling cosmetics and battle pasees.
These game genres could be described as dead by the same criteria if they cost actual money.
- Comment on Fluffy 🤤 2 months ago:
Can a pet dat daaawg?
- Comment on Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge 2 months ago:
Sprry im in the UK and was going off the uk and eu laws.
30 minutes every 8 hours must be tough. Do you do back to back periods of 8 hours?
I was just thinking that if its 8 hours then a break but your shift is done, then the break is just the end of your shift.
- Comment on Gel and lithium-ion tech could enable 1000-mile EV range on one charge 2 months ago:
Gonna upvote you, anyone who isnt taking regular breaks on long trips is asking for trouble. This is true of anything we do. No one here is going to argue we should for 5-8 hours without a break.
They only make driving lessons 45 minutes because any longer and you start to lose concentration.
Truck drivers have to take breaks every 4.5 hours for 45 minutes.
When studying they recommend a 15 minute break every 45 minutes
When learning in school lessons are 45 minutes to an hour due to conce tration and you get a break in the middle of the day.
If you are being downvoted its only by people who dont think about what you are saying or they think they are superhuman and the normal limitations of human beings dont apply to them.
- Comment on 4chan daily challenge sparked deluge of explicit AI Taylor Swift images 2 months ago:
Those disgusting ai porn sites, theres so many of them. Which one? Which one did they post it on?
- Comment on I like women but I also like cock but I'm not otherwise attracted to the male body at all. Wtf is my sexual orientation? 2 months ago:
Straight+
Straight Extra
Bi minus
Bi lite
Or just dont label it. Labels keep us in boxes and boxes cause stress when we inevitably find out we dont fit in the box.
I came up with this idea err metaphor? Thought experiment? Anyway
Think of the shape of a 6 point star. If you are star shaped you will fit perfectly, if you are triangle shaped you will also fit, or if you are diamond shaped or a circle or a hexagon or many many other shapes.
But only a star fits perfectly.
(Heres a crude drawing of it)
You can spend years in the star box thinking its a perfect fit before you realise theres something different, something not quite right and you suddenly see that you were a triangle the whole time.
Just let go of the labels and be you, its alot more spacious outside of the box, and you dont have to be a certain way to fit in.
- Comment on What are these plants called? 2 months ago:
Phallusium chodecum
