kurcatovium
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- Comment on GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins 10 hours ago:
While I appreciate increased visibility for such (often awesome) mods, I kind of doubt good guys at gog can manage to ship actual versions of them.
- Comment on Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed. 2 days ago:
Archived once more in RAR, just for sure.
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 3 days ago:
It is also a short for cyberDick, in honor of their CEO.
- Comment on How much has the ratio of accidental vs intentional pregnancies changed over time? 1 week ago:
Not sure how it was elsewhere but where I live people usually had more kids because there were no retirement and once your body was weak you needed someone to provide for you. And more children = better chance of providing for their parents.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 2 weeks ago:
Holy fucking shit! I live under the rock in the middle of nowhere so I’ve heard only some brief parts of “something wrong with DOOM Eternal music” but nothing factual. Now I gave the time to read the whole article and I’m speechless. 'Cause this is bad, really, really, REALLY bad. I feel sorry for people that have to work and live under such assholes like Marty obviously is…
- Comment on Someone should convince Trump to wear colorful robes or a uniform and a fancy hat. 2 weeks ago:
Ah, you mean his sunday pyjamas?
- Comment on Star Citizen Loses 'Integral Staff' Responsible for Server Meshing 2 weeks ago:
Yeah so surprised with that vaporware scam pinata…
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 2 weeks ago:
After reading your comment I’m not sure if it’s just me, but I tend to not buy where owner of the store treat me like shit. Neither in real life nor online.
- Comment on Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors 3 weeks ago:
It’s about that time frame. He went there few times between 2012 and maybe 2020, or year before coronavirus.
- Comment on Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors 3 weeks ago:
Wow, things have changed then.
- Comment on People have private conversations on speaker phone but if I participate then I'm the crazy one 3 weeks ago:
No.
- Comment on Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors 3 weeks ago:
Idk, I wasn’t there myself. My friend went there multiple times though (last time before corona) and he said cash was often/usually needed.
- Comment on Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors 3 weeks ago:
And yet everyone will pay with cash.
- Comment on Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors 3 weeks ago:
Yes you can! And Nintendo will then sue your ass off :-D
- Comment on "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games 4 weeks ago:
Sure, it might be $80,why not? Also I might skip it. Or wait for sensible sale like $5 in a bundle. Backlog keeps expanding anyway and I doubt this will be even worth half the rrlease asking price…
- Comment on Is it weird to juggle in the park? 4 weeks ago:
It’s completely fine. Unless you’re juggling with your balls or other’s naked body parts.
- Comment on Five-minute EV charging: CATL says "Hold my electrons and watch this" 1 month ago:
Meanwhile the fastest charger in my city is ~50kW and is often out of order, so you ha e to go slower because most others are 25kW… And it’s not better anywhere near, half hour drive gets me to no better chargers. This lack of infrastructre where I live is one of the reasons I still don’t have bev (also price).
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 month ago:
Fuck no. Luckily it’s not even enabled in my cou try.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 month ago:
I’m too old to learn vim escape game. I’m glad I can do
:q:-D - Comment on Florida draft law mandating encryption backdoors for social media accounts billed 'dangerous and dumb' | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Terrorist children of terrorists! Now that’s complete.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 month ago:
I have to live with Windows at work so that’s where I use Notpad++. I’m fine with Kate at home.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 month ago:
Just from top of my head and from what I have to use at work:
- Dolphin vs. Explorer - Dolphin is sooo much better and useful it’s not evwn funny
- Notepad++ vs. Notepad - day and night, even though Notepad got an overhaul in W11 it’s still piece of shit compared to Notepad++
- literally any foss player vs. what MS offers - be it VLC, SMPlayer, MPV, anything is better than windows built in crap
- ImageGlass, Nomacs, Gwenview, etc. vs. MS Photos - same as above, windows picture viewer is now worse than ever while open source alternatives get better and better
- and plenty others, like Linux vs. Windows, lol
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 1 month ago:
I was looking at simple 2 bay home NAS and Synology was - quite logically - one of the contenders. Now I’m glad I ordered differently. Went with Asustor AS5402, which might be not as polished package as a Synology option, but they’re very open about it and say it’s just regular PC so you can instal e.g. TrueNAS if you want. This openness convinced me.
- Comment on Florida draft law mandating encryption backdoors for social media accounts billed 'dangerous and dumb' | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Given how dumb current GOP is I’d say it’s gonna be terrorist children.
- Comment on For the First Time, Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used at a Nuclear Power Plant 1 month ago:
I’m shocked!
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 3 months ago:
It just stopped receiving updates, even security ones.
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 3 months ago:
Well, how’s it supported? This is usually what kills these phones. Even brand like Xiaomi dump their non-flagship model really soon. I have one, bought as a new model, was officially supported for like a year. Great.
- Comment on i took an iq test and it was nice and i took my time doing it but the answer was 86, is that bad?? 3 months ago:
86? That’s like the double of our entire company management combined! You’ll do good.
- Comment on What happened to cylindrical plugs? 3 months ago:
I’m no expert, but I’ll give you my two cents. I play bass guitar and there are two types of connectors between amplifier and speaker cabinet. First one is plain barrel jack, second one is Neutrik. I’ve been talking with local amp maker and he said something like this: "jack is fine with low wattage, but with more power you’d do better with neutrik - it has much larger contact area " So I believe this is similar problem. We were speaking like 400-600W of power where jack starts to be worse. How about vacuum cleaner or kettle? Or similar appliance that can do 2kW… Small contact and higher drain means more heat generated in that spot.
- Comment on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his company is 'out of GPUs' to which I reply 'welcome to the party, pal' 3 months ago:
Planescape is awesome. The only game that came close to its story (and one I’ve played) is Disco Elysium, which is quite a feat. Given how DE is praised everywhere.