Cethin
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- Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked 4 days ago:
Sure, a lot of people use it, because it exists. How many of those people would actually say it’s a requirement to be built into it though? There’s plenty of other options for screen sharing they could use. I don’t know though. Maybe a lot of people actually do consider it a critical feature. I doubt it though. I’ve used it a few times with my group, but it’s only ever a “do you want to see this?” It’s just a bonus, not a requirement.
- Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked 5 days ago:
I would bet on the screen sharing not being that big of a requirement for most people. Voice and text chats though? Yeah, that’s the minimum.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
This is literally just the same thing the military uses, but with descriptions changed to police. Still maybe useful, but not as useful. The utility here is the most relevant information comes first, and it keeps things organized. You can start responding before all the information is relayed. It’s important for radio communications in a battlefield setting. If you’re making a post online we’ll after anything is actionable, you can safely ignore this. Just post the information in the most informative way you can.
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 6 days ago:
It’s funny you mention the VC funding. As far as I can tell, it’s only made it worse. Discord would have done great if they just kept expectations low. Instead, they’re now expected to create massive returns. That must come at the cost of consumers. I hope consumers get tired of it and leave, or someone else comes offering the simple service Discord used to provide.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The point is that it skirts the law. You can’t really make it illegal because it is a way of subverting legality. If they legally obtain the evidence then it’s legally obtained. If they happened to get to that point through extra-legal means that doesn’t really matter, as long as the end result is legal. Maybe you could argue in court that they only got there because of extra-legal actions, but they can argue the opposite. If this helps them look in the right spot for illegal actions, who’s to say that them looking there couldn’t have happened purely by chance?
- Comment on I am looking for a Linux OS 1 week ago:
One thing to note is that Linux can read your Windows partitions. If you have data on drives you’ll still need, you can leave them and Linux can access them fine. (Windows can’t read most file systems though, so the other direction of this mostly doesn’t work. Windows can’t read most Linux drives partitions).
If you’re reasonably technologically competent, I’d recommend CachyOS or Garuda. These are Arch based, so the Arch wiki and Arch User Repository are available, and great resources. They come with everything you need for gaming though, unlike base Arch. You don’t need to fiddle with things or set things up. They just work out-of-the-box.
If you not really but want to learn, the Mint recommendations are fine. It’s one of the most used distros, so there’s still plenty of help available. Alternatively, and I think better, there’s Fedora. For either of these, choose KDE versions, not Gnome or anything else. KDE is more customizable and closer to Windows too. (Though it can be customized to be more like anything else, or whatever you want too.)
If you really don’t want to learn, Bazzite or maybe Zorin are there.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 1 week ago:
2k is nice. 4k is pushing the limit of utility, even if you can get content for it (or play games with that resolution if gaming). 8k is beyond any need for any normal person. Maybe if you have a private movie studio you could use it, but I don’t think that’s what this is discussing.
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 2 weeks ago:
I know there’s one quest that gives the wrong directions. I assume that’s part of the reason they don’t do it anymore. If they modify the game and the position of something changes they need to go back and modify any text that referred to it. With a quest marker they just mark the location and it works automatically. It shouldn’t be that hard to make a procedural text directions generator though, but that wouldn’t work with 100% voices lines.
Thats part of the reason I think that is flawed. They can’t have characters give you detailed lore about the world because it needs to be voiced, so they have to shove it in a book, which means you can’t have a conversation about it. I think a hybrid approach would be better, but there’s no way Bethesda is going to do that now.
I guess there is an argument for AI generated voices for this task. It’d be doing something that is impossible to do otherwise, so it’s not replacing anyone.
Sorry, that was a huge tangent/rant.
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 2 weeks ago:
I disagree on it being weird the thing that makes it great. No, it’s because they cared. They wrote a deep intriguing story, and they trusted the player to treat the world as meaningful and to learn on their own. They expected you to read and to be interested.
Now, everything is dumbed down and simple, and it’s baby fed to the player. There’s little to discover that isn’t shoved down your throat. Sure, there’s (precedurally generated) loot to gather, but nothing more.
Morrowind was built as a world, and then they set a game there. The people, locations, and events make sense in that world. Starting especially with Skyrim, but even with Oblivion, it’s built as a theme park. The world is just there to entertain you, but there’s nothing behind the fecade.
- Comment on The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules 2 weeks ago:
This is going to be unpopular, because it’s Trump doing it, but most of this is probably good. Nuclear power is incredibly safe. It’s also really reliable, and it would be cheap but the dirty energy companies have made laws and regulations that make nuclear power so expensive it can’t compete. We should be lessening regulations around nuclear power. It should be done thoughtfully, which I doubt this is, but it needs to be done.
For example, the linear no-threshold danger model for radiation exposure is at best wrong, and at worst actively harmful.
Nuclear power has been purposefully over-regulated to protect energy companies. If it were regulated at a reasonable amount it’d be far more cost-effective than other sources (besides maybe solar and wind). Companies producing and selling dirty energy would go bankrupt incredibly quickly, if they didn’t invest in alternatives, if they’re regulated to the same levels of safety. The energy market has been designed to favor them over nuclear.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 2 weeks ago:
Fair enough. Probably a good use case for it. I’ve found it’s pretty reliable at creating boilerplate. I just wouldn’t trust it for doing anything important.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 2 weeks ago:
I don’t want to say you’re totally wrong, but I am skeptical of the benefit. Sure, maybe it works now, which is cool, but is it making changes that are maintainable? The next time someone does this is it going to work? If we just constantly have LLMs update code, when does it start breaking, and when it does is it going to be in a state someone can fix?
- Comment on Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption 2 weeks ago:
They don’t know what e2e encryption is, but they sure as hell know what “employees have access to all your messages” means. Sure, it makes it harder for them to find a good alternative, but it will scare some away from Meta (unknown how many will actually care).
- Comment on Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment 2 weeks ago:
You technically can, without that large of an investment. It’ll be incredibly weak though, to the point it isn’t useful in the modern day.
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 3 weeks ago:
As for how you contradicted yourself, you said “if the threat isn’t listened to then they act on it”, then went on to claim a threat that has to be followed-through on is worthless. On the contrary, a threat that has been known all-along is rendered moot when you spell it out long after the time for it is past.
That’s not a contradiction. If you have to follow through on your threat then it failed to achieve its goal. Usually it’s not a desired outcome. It doesn’t gain you a thing. It still needs to be done though or your threats will be ignored.
Its the threat you have to verbalize that’s worthless.
It depends on the context, but usually no. There needs to be clear boundaries where the threat becomes acted upon for it to be effective most of the time.
its a threat made-up on the spot that’s easilly invalidated in so, so many ways.
This is exactly my point. This threat was just made up. It can’t be used retroactively. That’s not how things work. They need to set boundaries, then execute it if the lines are crossed. If you set boundaries that have already been crossed then what are you trying to gain?
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 3 weeks ago:
Did they make this threat before? I never heard it if they did. Yeah, a threat is only good as long as the other party believes you’re going to act on it, so if they did threaten it before then they should. However, again, this isn’t going to prevent anything, except for making them believe your threats are good. What good will come out of them taking this action? (By this, I don’t mean collapsing the US economy, which will hurt a lot of people. I mean, does it prevent harm.)
I don’t believe I contradicted myself. Could you point out how? I’m not sure how abducting Moduro is related to this. However, I do believe he’s been saying we should remove him for a long time, though I think most people ignored it because it would have been seen as crazy, and gets mixed up with all his other insane ramblings. I don’t know the relevance of this question though.
- Comment on YSK: Europe Can Wreak HAVOC On America Without Firing a Bullet. 3 weeks ago:
I said this in another thread but I’ll say it again, threats are only useful if you hold leverage. If they blow their load, what else can they hold over the heads of the US? They need to threaten, and then if they threat isn’t listened to then they act on it. Doing it now just ensures there’s not much of a punishment left to be dealt, so there’s no reason not to invade. Sure, the economy will collapse, but that would happen either way in the case they act now.
If I hold a knife to you and threaten you with it, you’ll listen. If I just stab you then what reason do you have to listen? Just like nukes, the only use for a threat is in not using it. If you do have to use it then you’ve lost the reason they may have held back.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 4 weeks ago:
Personally, I’ve been on Garuda for quite a while now. I did use Fedora for a bit before though, and it was fine. I didn’t enjoy it as much though.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 4 weeks ago:
The only issue with Fedora, and it isn’t a big one, is that the maintainers are adament about only including OSS. This isn’t much of an issue except that it doesn’t come with some video codecs IIRC. This meant that some videos online wouldn’t play until you add the codec. This isn’t hard, but it is a small frustration point for casual users.
- Comment on Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods 5 weeks ago:
The people should start buying this data to identify ICE personnel involved in incidents. It’s not like you need to be law enforcement to get access to this. You just need money.
- Comment on Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life 5 weeks ago:
Knowing America, it’d probably be a free round (gun not included) and you’re required to end the life of your device with it.
- Comment on Steam survey for December 2025 shows Linux holding to 3.19% 1 month ago:
Fine. As tinker free as Windows. I don’t know anyone who uses Windows and hasn’t had to modify it. The difference is that on Windows that’s often editing registries, or things like that. It’s a total pain in the ass. Every system will require you to change things to fit what you want. These distributions include pretty much everything you’ll need though.
- Comment on Steam survey for December 2025 shows Linux holding to 3.19% 1 month ago:
Most Linux distros you don’t have to tinker anymore. I like Garuda, for a traditional desktop experience, but also including everything for gaming. I’ve heard CachyOS is similar but I haven’t tried it yet. If you want SteamOS (aka, a somewhat limited experience built for a handheld/console-like experience) Bazzite is great. None of these will require tinkering. They work out of the box and are easier to install than Windows even. SteamOS will be very similar. You won’t be getting anything you can’t already have.
- Comment on YSK that one New York best museum desperately needs help 1 month ago:
But you could be a pervert in your very own dinosaur exhibit…
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 1 month ago:
Yep. I don’t care if a president is smart. I care if they listen to the experts. I don’t want one who thinks they know everything, because no one can.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 1 month ago:
I don’t disagree that there are ways to add protections. It’d require strict compliance still though or things could fall through the cracks. Even when using the classic placeholders things have been missed on occasion. The only 100% reliable way to avoid shipping any generative AI content is to never include it in the project.
Again, I don’t think the usage here was bad. I think the reaction to one piece of generative AI art, which was replaced within a week, has been too severe. I’m just saying that if you really want to make sure you don’t ship any of it, just don’t ever include any. The old methods were perfectly fine, even if they made development look less pretty.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 1 month ago:
They used it to create placeholders during development. It wasn’t something they decided not to use before. It’s just something that was meant to be replaced. Usually these placeholders are a missing texture image or just a magenta texture, but they used generative AI to create something that fit into the world. Because it fit they forgot to replace it.
Honestly, I’m not opposed to this usage. It’s not like it’s replacing an artist. No one was going to create a placeholder to be replaced. However, it is obvious to see that occasionally you’ll forget to replace items with this technique, like we saw here. The old style of incredibly obvious placeholders were used for a reason; so that you can’t forget to replace them. It’s probably smart to keep doing this.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 1 month ago:
That doesn’t hurt BG3, and Larian has been adding free content to BG3 over time, so really the longer you wait the better it’ll be. Still, it’s definitely worth the price. It’s a pretty long game, and good for the entire duration. Its also pretty replayable.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 1 month ago:
You are absolutely incorrect. I have a really powerful modern computer, and I can’t do this. Well, I can, just with low framerate or significant upscaling (the latter I would call not the highest settings anyway). I can run them on higher settings usually, but not maxed. Hell, some of the worse performance ones I need to turn down to get a framerate I find acceptable (at least 60 for most games, usually 100+).
I mostly don’t care to play AAA titles anyway though. Not only are they performance hogs usually, I just don’t find them interesting. I’d almost always rather play an indie game that wants to experiment.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 month ago:
Remember, most of the Germans who supported Hitler didn’t realize the Jews were being massacred.
This is not true. It’s a myth. A lot of Germans claim to have not known, but it was widely available knowledge.
And we didn’t go to war to stop Nazi ideology, we went to war to stop Germany from conquering the entire fucking world through military means.
Eh, some of both. Notable, there was almost a fascist coup in the US, known as The Business Plot or The Wall Street Putsch.
^Trying to stop an ideology with force only makes that ideology stronger, gives it validation.
The implication of this statement is that Fascists can never succeed because their method of action is force. If you were correct, anything they do would actually only make what they’re attacking stronger. I think we both know this isn’t true. Nazi Germany didn’t fall from the inside. The Nazis gained almost total control over the nation, through force.
I’m not one to rule out tools. We should ridicule, we should talk, and we should fight. Yeah, the person fighting can’t really talk, and same for the person ridiculing. That doesn’t mean these aren’t tools that need to be used on occasion. They are there more to show not everyone agrees with them. Discourse is to make people who do agree with them change. They have different goals, so their tactics are different.