psycotica0

@psycotica0@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On most modern distros (like Mint) you can do basically as much with Linux GUIs as you can do in Windows or Mac. So normal users don’t need the terminal. But if you want to do more, if you want the secret sauce, the terminal is there for you.

  But fear not! Basically all of us have some level of autism or ADHD, and the best of us tend to be the most extreme. If anything the terminal was written by autistic nerds for themselves! If you’ll be okay being a bit of a n00b for a bit, I think you’ll find there’s a lot of depth here to obsess over / hyper fixate / hyper focus on.

  There’s a reason people have been “fighting” for, like, 40 years over which terminal text editor is the superior one… The flames of war can run pretty deep, and there’s a lot of opinions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You should look up IPFS! It’s trying to be kinda like that.

  It’ll always be slower than a CDN, though, partly because CDNs pay big money to be that fast, but also anything p2p is always going to have some overhead while the swarm tries to find something. It’s just a more complicated problem that necessarily has more layers.

  But that doesn’t mean it’s not possible for it to be “fast enough”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Knowing the folks at IA I’m sure they would love a backup. They would love a community. I’m sure they don’t want to be the only ones doing this. But dang, they’ve got like 99 Petabytes of data. I don’t know about you, but my NAS doesn’t have that laying around…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women in STEM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, that Hertha Ayrton quote at the end? That was actually me. I said that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gotta catch em all⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also that’s not even a prism, that’s a pyramid…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨shrimp colour drama⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, we don’t see like reverse engineered printing. Printing is reverse engineered seeing. If we saw like this post is claiming shrimp see, and blue was blue and green was green and yellow was yellow, we wouldn’t be able to print by mixing three colours. We’d need one pigment per photoreceptor, same as we do now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple is now banned from selling its latest Apple Watches in the US⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well… That’s actually probably fair as stated.

  BestBuy etc don’t sell Apple’s products on commission, they bought them from Apple for a wholesale price, they’ve got them in a warehouse and on shelves right now on their dime, and the only way they make that money back is by selling them.

  And the only way Apple makes money from a product being sold at Best Buy is that Best Buy will likely buy more stock to replace the stuff they sold, and they’ll buy that from Apple.

  So if it was banned everywhere it would be unfair to the retailers that already paid Apple for a product they now can’t recoup, and it wouldn’t impact Apple at all because they already made their money from Best Buy.

  This way the retailers can get their money back, but can’t get any more, which means only Apple is impacted.

  The only other way that’s semi-fair (but would be extreme) would be for Apple to be forced to do a recall or something and reimburse all the retailers the money they had already spent. Doable, and definitely more of a punishment for Apple, but a lot of extra work for everyone if the outcome of this is that Apple settles and then everyone can just go back to ordering more again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, yeah… It was definitely reminiscent of Magicka. Maybe even a little too reminiscent, since I feel Magicka was a much stronger game.

  OK, interesting! It’s nice to know the game wasn’t objectively bad, and was only just “not for me”, since I like the devs!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. My siblings and I love the Trine games, and wanted to like Nine Parchments, but found it to be one of the worst games we’ve ever played. I don’t think we could find a single redeeming quality, and it just seemed like a total misstep.

  So seeing it here on this list makes me think maybe there’s something that was okay about it? I’m curious what people liked…

  (all the rest of these seem like good games, though, which honestly makes me even more confused about Nine Parchments’ inclusion…)