GreyEyedGhost

@GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #18⁩ ⁨⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Space is almost free, and it’s a good cue to what you’re going to find. It’s how I tell my PerfectDark posts apart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like we found someone who believed it was financially necessary for the manufacture of the shuttle to be spread across the country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a teacher mark my answer incorrect because I said women can have hemophilia. They said you can’t because it’s a sex-linked disease. I said sure, but what happens if you have two X chromosomes with that gene on it? Still didn’t get the point. This was in the 80s, and I couldn’t just look it up on the internet and prove how wrong they were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does a one cat get lonely without other cats, or is the company of humans good enough?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Our little bastard takes days to settle down after we take him and his littermate to the vet. They’ve been together their entire lives, but if either or both go to the vet, even in the same vehicle, he’s all “Who the fuck are you?!” when we get home. And his brother is all, “Aww geez, what the hell’s the matter now?” Every time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t think of a worse way to frame this discussion. There are significant differences between a 35 yo man dating a 15 yo girl and a 50 yo man dating a 30 yo woman, legality being just part of it. Swapping the genders doesn’t make it better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Shifts Xbox Gaming Handheld Ambitions to Third-Party Windows Handhelds, Postpones 2027 Launch Plans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Performance is really a key factor, and gives rise to now being a time when truly competitive handheld is possible. Like this chart shows, there was a quadrupling of power between 2016 and 2020, but only a doubling of power between 2020 and 2023, with stagnation for the last couple years, largely due to technical limitations. RAM and storage have also seen massive boosts followed by stagnation, as well as a closing of the bandwidth gap between RAM and storage (from about 6 orders of magnitude to 3 orders of magnitude difference with solid state storage). The GPU front is still increasing in performance, with more watts and/or transistors giving more power, with raw performance increasing by a factor of 8 over 10 years.

  Now you take those base values for performance, and a few things come together. First, storage has become low-energy, and is more performant, especially in the mobile market. Second, lower power CPUs are reasonably competitive, which means longer battery run time at an acceptable performance level. Third, while there is a bigger gap on GPU performance, smaller screens mean fewer pixels to drive so something a little older and less power hungry can still give satisfactory results. Put those all together, coupled with the steady and constant improvements in battery performance over the last 30 years, and you can make an acceptable mobile computer platform with decent results that’s able to play all but the most demanding of games from the last few years. Certainly, you can’t compete with the power of a desktop gaming PC, but you can get good enough. And then, with a few design tweaks, you can get a little better.

  So, until and unless serious changes happen in the CPU or GPU market, mobile PC gaming has a chance to be good enough for a lot of people. I currently do over 90% of my gaming on the Steam Deck, but I’m also aware that I have little interest in playing the newest game as soon as it comes out so the Steam Deck is particularly suited to my tastes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I only got my deck last year, so it think I can hold off until the Deckard. Kind of okay paying 3 times as much for VR to not have it tied to Meta/Zuck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Open question] Why are so many open-source projects, particularly projects written in Rust, MIT licensed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want to put an idea out there, permissive licenses are the most likely to promote it. Any individual or organization can use it without restrictions (or restrictions that aren’t unpalatable to most). So if what you’re trying to promote is an idea, a technique, or a standard, this type of license allows it to have the greatest reach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a way to avoid those holes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We could be witnessing the birth of a meme!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No, Steam wasn’t hacked, and your account details are safe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I asked my company if I could use a password manager and they said no. So now they get a set of rotating passwords that are the same for all my work accounts. It doesn’t really bother me - it’s their data, not mine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure why you would buy an open-source company/product, particularly a GPLv3 one, if you didn’t understand or agree with the premise. It’s probably the stupidest decision he made. I’m not saying I agree with his other decisions, but most of them made some kind of business sense. With this one, he would have saved a lot of time and effort and received the same value if he’d just spun OO.o off ASAP. The linked timeline kind of says it all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re talking the CEO of a company who sued Google on the premise that header files, a descriptor file for what commands can be used and what parameters they took, should be copyrighted? The CEO who poisoned the OpenOffice community so thoroughly that the fork, LibreOffice, was founded by the leaders of OpenOffice and became the de facto standard instead of the original, and it happened overnight? That guy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Distillation doesn’t have to be of water. Not all impurities are solid. And the evaporated water does go back into the water pool, just with steps we aren’t directly involved in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What exactly do you think evaporation ponds are doing, then?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thought provoking tee shirt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The lacy top makes it a lot less ambiguous. Also, the ties in OPs image look like spidey swinging towards you while the ones in your link really do not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thought provoking tee shirt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This shirt looks old, but I’ve never seen it before. Reddit has let me down again. Thanks Lemmy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Love that “disruptive” is a valid term for companies like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol this is the typical takeaway. A better result would be to not engage in illegal practices and then it doesn’t matter if you put it in writing, but that’s not how you become a billionaire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fossify File Manager: Open Source Replacement to Files by Google on Android⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just checked it on F-droid. Last updated 13 months ago. This is a fork of another project whose creator walked back the FOSS stance of his projects. Forks were immediately produced, but no real work has been done. I’m using two of these apps, and have no real hope that they will be maintained in any meaningful way.

  I’d explore these with caution, unless you’re looking for near-abandoned projects to adopt, in which case these may be worth your time to look into. What is there looks good, but without active maintenance it’s an encroaching storm of security risks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure how this works, but I checked your posting history and it didn’t show up there, either. I guess the great weakness of the fediverse is if the links are interrupted. Perhaps it was due to instance maintenance or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been cheated!

  Could not find post in your instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best ‘simple’ budgeting app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the info!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best ‘simple’ budgeting app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like you meant to reply to another comment. Were you referring to Moneymanager EX?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a Win11 laptop for work, and they changed the Start menu. Now it’s recent apps and recommendations for your starting point, and you have to click an option to see installed apps. Every. Time. There is a setting with 3 options - more recently used apps, more recommendations, or an even split of both, but the option to go straight to installed apps is mysteriously missing…

  I will never install Win11 directly onto my hardware. If I have to use it, it will go into a VM of one flavor or another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #8⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you haven’t seen her other posts, I’d jump on her profile and read it. There are 7 more of these out there!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #8⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Voyager user, the image load takes a looong time, but everything scrolls smoothly (except for the text jumping as images load).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like he did in Brazil, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember the good old days?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is fairly inaccurate, as well. Paid work was certainly lower, but prior to the Industrial Revolution merely putting clothes on your back was a fairly labor-intensive task. One estimate puts it at 10 spinners to supply one person on a loom, and this work was often done by women at home, and was generally paid work in the Middle Ages. A British census in the mid 1800s, which over-represents unpaid work in domestic services as laborers (I’ll let you decide if that counts as women being part of the economy or not), still had about 50% of women in the census as employed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The definition of terrorism usually runs along the lines of, engaging in acts to cause fear for the purpose of achieving political goals. So, stalking someone isn’t terrorism, but sending pictures of a politician in various locations with crosshairs drawn on them saying you will follow through unless/if they do x would be.

  Now, the question becomes, are these arsonists setting fire to Tesla vehicles and showrooms because they want Musk to stop his political antics or because Musk is a giant asshole? I honestly think you could get reasonable doubt on that, provided you actually had a fair trial and weren’t dropped in a deep, dark hole somewhere.