TroublesomeTalker

joined 2 years ago
[–] TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk 7 points 1 month ago

Per core. It ain't that low.

40 core dual slotted xeon runs at $60/month? For patches?

[–] TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk 6 points 1 month ago

I... Don't see the issue here. Let her spend her backhanders standing up a Mastodon instance, and then enjoy it being flooded with lettuce images, gifs and videos, we'll find out exactly how censored it is within hours. It may even last as long as her stint as Prime Minister.

[–] TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

ALVR isn't awful. I needed new hardware and bit the bullet knowing I was likely going to lose VR, but with the hardware upgrade, it's nicer in the new machine (Bazzite, 7900XT) than the old (Win 10, 2080 Super Max Q). Definitely not a drop in replacement yet though.

[–] TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

Now do the same for your shitty AI search that drive me to finally jump to DDG.

[–] TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago

I agree with you on Burnout 3. But Paradise has a per street crash mode high score, which while not as good as 3s, is enough to scratch the devastation itch, and it's easily accessed on steam. So I don't think it's fair to say it has no crash mode. Just a vastly inferior one!

[–] TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's a "how the mighty have fallen" kind of thing. They are well into the click-bait farm mentality now - have been for a while.

It's present on the news sites, but far worse on things where they know they steer opinion and discourse. They used to ensure political parties has coverage inline with their support, but for like 10 years prior to Brexit, they gave Farage and his Jackasses hugely disproportionate coverage - like 20X more than their base. This was at a time when SNP were doing very well and were frequently seen less than the UK independence party. And I don't recall a single instance of it being pointed out that 10 years of poor interactions with Europe may have been at least partially fuelled by Nidge being our MEP and never turning up. Hell we had veto rights and he was on the fisheries commission. All that shit about fisherman was a problem he made.

Current reporting is heavily spun and they definitely aren't the worst in the world, but the are also definitely not the bastion of unbiased news I grew up with.

Until relatively recently you could see the deterioration by flipping to the world service, but that's fallen into line now.

If you have the time to follow independent journalists the problem becomes clearer, if not, look at output from parody news sites - it's telling that Private Eye and Newsthump manage the criticism that the BBC can't seem to get too

Go look at the bylinetimes.com front page, grab a random story and compare coverage with the BBC. One of these is crowd funded reporters and the other a national news site with great funding and legal obligations to report in the public interest.

I don't hate them, they just need to be better.

[–] TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

But the BBC is increasingly unable to accurately report the news, so this finding is no real surprise.

[–] TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I think it was something to do with COVID stats during the initial outbreak, but yes, yes it was the UK government and their bizarre love affair with stupid tech choices.

[–] TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago

It's very "lipstick on a pig", but you can run the PWA side by side with the native desktop. I have many screens so I keep non-call activity in the PWA version to avoid this nonsense.

I'm sure they will add tabs eventually as an afterthought and make it even more obtuse though.

I also reflexively delete the personal OneNotes and start a new one where I want it to be, but the war between me and Microsoft about how I want my personal documents stored has now raged for many many years.

[–] TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk 34 points 5 months ago (5 children)

I wonder if anyone on this forum has played the game enough to realise that the entire rating is entirely justified just on basis of the bloody wheel of fortune, which while pragmatically only 0.05% of the game is the bit that keeps me up at night and regularly makes me make poor decisions that hurt both myself and the current run.

[–] TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There's a couple of curators that "review" DRM in games. It's not perfect but it helps.

[–] TroublesomeTalker@feddit.uk 3 points 6 months ago

I don't disagree, I'm just grateful at least one of them is dead. Who knows, maybe one day they'll stop with the pointless bloody accounts too. Glares at Sony

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