There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Psythik

@[email protected]

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

Psythik ,

Why does a CPU need to produce seeds?

Psythik ,

Good point.

Psythik ,

Google is what the Fox network was in the 90s and 2000s.

Psythik ,

What country is this from? That’s a rather confusing nutrition label; serving size is 15g but they show the nutrition facts for a 100g serving? It would make more sense to do the two column setup like the US does: show the info for one serving, and then the info for how much people actually eat (usually the entire package).

Psythik ,

It is always morally correct to pirate Adobe products. (Or anything that runs on a subscription model, for that matter.)

Psythik ,

Nobody in line tried to stop them from cutting?

Psythik ,

Okay somebody please explain the joke/reference I’m not understanding. Or is OP just schizophrenic?

Psythik ,

So update it, then?

Psythik ,

Yeah seriously WTF, I didn’t even learn basic Algebra until freshmen year of high school! We never even got to the math with the fancy letters in it. I have no idea what those cursive f, d, and w characters mean.

Psythik ,

That’s nuts. In the US the only high school math I was taught was algebra and geometry. Anything more advanced than that was for students in the “gifted” program. No wonder why Americans are so stupid.

Psythik ,

Hell, modern displays are just now starting to catch up to CRTs in the input lag and motion blur department.

It was brutal putting up with these shitty LCDs for two whole decades, especially the fact that we had to put up with 60Hz and sub-1080p resolutions, when my CRT was displaying a 1600x1200 picture at 85Hz in the 90s! It wasn’t until I got a 4K 120Hz OLED with VRR and HDR couple years ago that I finally stopped missing CRTs, cause I finally felt like I had something superior.

Twenty fucking years of waiting for something to surpass the good old CRT. Unbelievable.

Psythik ,

Not just input lag (I mean I literally mentioned other things too but you obviously didn’t read my entire comment) but also contrast ratio, brightness in LUX, color volume and accuracy, response time, viewing angle, displaying non-native resolutions clearly, flicker, stutter… Should I go on?

All things that LCDs struggled on and still struggle on. OLED fixes most of these issues, and is the only display tech that I’d consider superior to a CRT.

Psythik ,

In an OLED? They weren’t affordable 10 years ago.

A 10 year old LCD is not good. The resolution and refresh rate is irrelevant if it’s not an OLED, which as I said, is the only display tech good enough to replace a CRT.

Psythik ,

Desktop, of course, simply for upgradability and better thermal management.

I have an AM5 system, so I’ll be able to upgrade not only my graphics card, but my CPU as well, and have a modern machine that’ll last me well into the 2030s. These days you can’t even upgrade your RAM on most laptops.

There’s also the fact that I don’t really feel the need to game on the go, and modern smartphones have fulfilled my need to have a portable computer for everything else. When I did own a gaming laptop, I paid way too much money for it, and the battery didn’t even last an hour playing something as basic as The Sims, so it had to be plugged in all the time like a desktop anyway. Within 4 years the GPU was too old to run anything at a reasonable framerate. Never buying a gaming laptop again.

Psythik ,

Dell, actually. Back in 2004 when they stated making gaming laptops with “upgradable” graphics cards. Except you could only upgrade within the same generation. So go fuck yourself if you actually wanted the latest GPU.

Also the motherboard failed twice on me. Thankfully within warranty but never again.

Psythik ,

When does this scenario ever come up? I’ve never had the file save dialog try to default to OneDrive.

Psythik ,

11, and what do you mean by “configuring OneDrive away”?

Psythik ,

Again, I’ve never seen this before in my Save As dialog in neither Windows 10 or 11.

Psythik ,

Well that explains it, lol. I don’t use MS Office products.

Psythik ,

Oh shit, I use Shut Up 10. Might explain why I haven’t had any issues lol. I forgot I had installed it (ADHD).

Psythik ,

Yeah seriously that’s an ungodly amount of RAM for a PC of this vintage. My old WinMe machine had 128MB.

(And an 800Mhz PIII. I later added a GeForce 4 MX 4000 so I could actually play games at more than 15-20 FPS. It was my first graphics card purchase ever. Also upgraded to XP cause Me would BSoD so often that I never got a chance to do a proper shutdown at the end of the day. When the machine crashed, I was done for the day.)

With the recent issues of transgender people in sports, why don’t we move some sports over to a weight-class system?

Obviously this won’t work for all sports, but things like football, track, soccer, it would allow for de-gendered team, even allowing athletes with the skills but not the genetically-endowed physical attributes to have a place to play....

Psythik ,

Get rid of gendered sports. Next, legalize steroids for women; keep them illegal for men. Solves part of the problem, but I have no idea how trans people would fit into this scenario, though.

Psythik ,

What, you don’t miss the days of motherboards with northbridge fans?

Psythik ,

4-6 year cycle? What year is it? I build new PCs on a 10 year cycle. It’s not the 80s and 90s anymore, where your PC was horribly out of date after two years. Advancements in processing speed have slowed down enough that a 8-year-old CPU and 5-year-old GPU can still be decent.

Psythik ,

Millennials aren’t having kids, silly. We can’t afford rent, let alone a child.

Psythik ,

You guys are completing campaigns?

Psythik ,

Gen Z is still too young to be having children.

Psythik ,

Exactly. They haven’t even reached their 30s yet. These days your 20s is too young to have kids.

Psythik ,

For once the Supreme Court makes the right call. Broken clocks and whatnot.

Psythik ,

I simply don’t own a webcam. Last time I actually had a use for one was sometime around 2003. That said, I’m still fucked because I made the mistake of buying a phone that uses the camera as the light sensor.

Psythik ,

Where are people finding these stereotypical office jobs that allow for so much downtime? In every office I’ve worked in, the calls and tickets would just keep coming in non-stop. I was always too busy to have time to look like I’m busy.

Psythik ,

1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043

Psythik ,

Used to put up with this back when Hulu was free. Adblockers weren’t as sophisticated then, so I had to watch 2 minutes of a black screen every commercial break. Still better than watching ads.

Psythik ,

People have actually made it through Starfield? I tried so hard, but couldn’t make it past 20 hours (which isn’t a lot for a Bethesda RPG). The story is just so damn BORING.

Psythik ,

Good to know. I don’t even know about these “starborn” people. Never made it that far.

Psythik ,

Couldn’t think of anything other than an insult a 7-year-old would come up with, huh?

Psythik ,

What the hell is a “nob”

Psythik ,

Lemmy seems to hate any new technology, I’ve noticed.

Personally I’ve found GPT to be extremely useful as a search engine replacement, especially the implementations that cite their sources. That way you can actually fact check instead of wondering if it’s a hallucination. It helps me rely on reddit a lot less to find answers. I love that it’s being integrated with Windows. Makes finding files a lot easier, even easier than using Everything search.

Lemmy also hates crypto. They call it a scam, despite the fact that it’s now being traded on the stock market (BTC and soon to be ETH). I turned $12k into $36k, just by buying small amounts of BTC every paycheck since COVID started. I buy everything with crypto; there are Visa debit cards you can use to spend it. Crypto gave me enough financial wiggle room that I no longer worry about losing my job. Yet it’s a “scam”. Give me a fucking break.

Lemmy hates HDR. Every time I mention the reason why I haven’t switched to Linux yet is because of poor HDR support in KDE, I get ridiculed. “Why would you want your monitor brighter and more colorful? Mine’s bright and colorful enough”, failing to realize just how much more realistic “brighter and more colorful” makes an image appear. With a proper 1000 nit OLED display, it feels more like looking out of a window than staring at a monitor. Like going from a black and white to color TV. One of those things that you can’t go back on once you get used to it.

And although not a new technology, per se don’t even get me started on how much Lemmy hates cars. But I feel like I’ve ranted on long enough so I’m just going to stop talking here before my inbox blows up.

Psythik ,

The same argument you made against crypto can also be made for USD: it only holds value cause people say it does. I rather go with a currency that isn’t subject to inflation. Furthermore, if you don’t like the energy usage, then don’t buy a Proof of Work coin. Buy a Proof of Stake coin instead, like ETH, and rest easy knowing that you’re not harming the environment.

But hey, if you want to be poor for the rest of your life, that’s on you. I choose to break free from USD so that I actually have a chance at a future.

HDR has been around for over a decade now. Linux devs are just lazy. It is in fact, a critical piece of tech once you get used to it. Like I said, from going from B&W to a color TV. HDR monitors are not expensive. Even the cheapest Walmart brands have HDR now.

HP bricks ProBook laptops with bad BIOS delivered via automatic updates — many users face black screen after Windows pushes new firmware (www.tomshardware.com)

On May 26, a user on HP’s support forums reported that a forced, automatic BIOS update had bricked their HP ProBook 455 G7 into an unusable state. Subsequently, other users have joined the thread to sound off about experiencing the same issue....

Psythik ,

Since when does Windows Update touch the BIOS? How is that even possible?

Psythik ,

Because you have ADHD.

Psythik ,

Just because a sizable part of the population has it, doesn’t make it any less legitimate. So sick and tired of the stigma around ADHD. I’m tired of defending it

Psythik , (edited )

Three words: High Dynamic Range.

HDR is a tacked on feature in KDE that barely works. In Windows 11, it’s a set and forget thing. SDR gets mapped to HDR space, so you don’t have to constantly toggle it on and off when switching between content, like you have to do in other OSes. You can even upgrade SDR videos and games to true HDR, even if they don’t have native support. It legit makes content look more realistic.

And if you have a newer GPU, there’s also AI upscaling, which is great for watching HD and SD content on a 4K display. Pretty sure you can’t do that* at all in Linux, at least not in real-time.

But if you have an SDR monitor and/or an older GPU, none of this matters to you. Which in that case, there’s no reason for you to use Windows ever. But if your gear is newer, Linux is too outdated for you.

I’ll check back in 5 years. Maybe 2029 will finally be the year I ditch Microsoft products for good.

Psythik ,

Those specs are pretty close to the gaming PC I built in 2013. 4th Gen i5 (4670K), 16GB DDR3 1600, and a 770 (later upgraded to a 1070 in 2016). Paid $1100 for it and used it for a decade; even in 2023 I could hit 60 FPS at 1080p in most new titles (with medium-low settings). If I didn’t buy a 4K 120Hz OLED, I’d still be gaming on that PC today.

Psythik ,

LOL yep that was my VR system for many years (haven’t even hooked up the good old Vive to my new rig yet). Alyx ran amazingly smooth at 1.2x supersampling with little to no reprojection. It surprised me too.

Psythik ,

Ryzen 7700X, 32GB DDR5 6000, 4TB NVME, and a 4090. By far the most high-end rig I’ve ever built (and probably ever will).

I would have never been able to build such a powerful machine, but long story short I bought as much Bitcoin as I could while working my $14/hr job during COVID and it paid off. Almost embarrassed to admit this, given how anti-crypto Lemmy is. But hey, allowed me to build the PC of my dreams. I feel guilty for bragging.

Psythik ,

Since when do cats only live 15 years? I’ve never had one die on me before its early 20s.

Psythik ,

The biggest fallacy with this argument is that a longer lifespan will just mean more years of being old and miserable, when the fact of the matter is that a major part of living longer includes feeling younger at an older age.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines
    •