A_Random_Idiot

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago

yeah, but they still get the advantage of bulk buying and economies of scale.

While we don't. So their costs don't increase nearly as much as ours do.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

that was largerly due to the fact that consoles were getting more expensive and that it was getting to the point you could build a computer, that would look better than console, for the same or cheaper than console.

but the whole AI bullshit kinda blew that ship out of the water.. so Consoles may start gaining ground again as the affordable gaming option (compared to paying a console price for ram, a console price for storage, and 2 console prices for a GPU)

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Flock can hear you.

And it can see you.

and it knows what you're thinking.

and thats why its alerted authorities about you and your subversive anti-corporate attitude.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Can they not grasp it?

or do they just not care, because they care more about the money it gives them over the voters that elect them?

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

until the company installs those insane slanted toilets that make it impossible to shit.

Then you use your bosses desk. Bonus points if you stick an ice cream cone in it.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

When I was younger I typically only shat about once a week, naturally (as in, without medical/medicine causes)

Every shit was a lincoln worthy log that i could have probably built a cabin with.

I miss those days.

I hate shitting 2-3 times a day now.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Elon has always been a psychotic piece of shit. Anyone thats paid attention to him since fuckin paypal has known that.

People just didnt care, in the classic self centered way, until it started to personally affect them. . and the biggest way it affects them now is riding around in his terrible fuckin vehicles, which creates an association with right wing assholery that they didnt want to have public.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Right wing lunatics are big in both.

Crypto because the hurrdurr keep gubmint outta my lyfe shit (despite the fact that crypto is infinitely more easy to track than cash..), and AI because they hate liberal reality, so AI lets them generate all the videos they could hope to have to validate their fake victimhoods.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yep, I built my PC in 2018 as well.

Thanks to the incredible life of the AM4 socket, I managed to upgrade CPUs 3 years ago, and upgraded my GPU 2 years ago.

Between AAA gaming becoming garbage, and the AInflation of components and artificial scarcity, I probably wont upgrade/build new again for at least 5-7 years short of catastrophic failure. . . assuming I am even allowed to by that point, with how they are seemingly trying to push consumers out of the market.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Whats the fucking point if they only let you attach a 25mb or smaller file.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

similar issue with the idea that women don't feel pain as bad as men.. leading to women complaining of pain being treated with eye rolls.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

This is exactly what they voted for.

They are just hurt that its affecting them.

If everything happened the same way, without affecting them, they'd still be cheering it.. because they cheer anything that hurts the "right" people.. I.E. people that arent them.

 

For the past few days I've had a hell of a time logging in. Usually have to try multiple times, had a few incidents where it took me up to an hour or more before i could finally get it.. I cant find anything about any microsoft login server issues or anything, so I dont know whats going on.

 

Upscaling and Frame Generation are disasters meant to conceal unfulfilled promises from GPU makers for 4k gaming, and as a coverup for the otherwise horrible performance some modern games have, even at 1080/1440p resolutions.

Upscaling will never, no matter how much AI and overhead you throw at it, create an image that is as good as the same scene rendered at native res.

Frame Generation is a joke, and I am absolutely gobsmacked that people even take it seriously. It is nothing but extra AI frames shoved into your gameplay, worsening latency, response times, and image quality, all so you can artificially inflate a number. 30FPS gaming is, and will always be, infinitely better as an experience, than AI frame doubling a 30fps experience to 60FPS.

and because both these technologies exist, game devs are pushing out less optimized to completely unoptomized games that run like absolute dogshit, requiring you to use upscaling and shit even at 1080p just to get reasonable frame rates on GPUs that should run it just fine if it was optimized better (and we know its optimization, because some of these games do end up getting that optimization pass long after launch, and wouldnt you know.. 9fps suddenly became 60fps)

 

My town currently has 4 highway on/off ramps. one on the far right (where the yellow and green lines start), one in the middle right above my industrial area, one in the middle left, between my farms/logging industry, and a 4th one off screen to the further left that goes to a seaport.

I would assume that traffic would follow the yellow line, using the offramps near their destinations.

instead, ALL the traffic coming into my city, is coming in on the far right and weaving through my surface streets (a 4 lane road, not highway, ring road, and 2 lane connector roads), causing massive traffic headaches and even bigger backups as they try to follow the green line to get to the far left through my city.

Why are my Cims dumb and bombing through the middle of my city, instead of taking the highway?

and another topic.. this torrential crush of vehicles coming in off that one far right offramp regularly causes huge backups for 4+ chunks on the right highway. I have lane mathmatics. I have a very long runup where they have plenty of time to get over. I still get idiot Cims taking the furthest lane just to get ahead of the crush before stopping and trying to merge in right before the offramp.

I miss TM:PE traffic lines.

 

I have no idea where to post this, I assumed..since its a gaming mouse, the gaming linux community would be appropriate, Apologies if I am mistaken.

I have a g502 hero, and it is giving me no end of grief.. namely with regards to the DPI settings.

First and foremost, it just randomly resets itself to an absurdly high DPI

I use Piper, since everything I've found online says Piper works great for g502 mice on linux, and while I can use it to set the colors of the LEDs.. the DPI settings just don't stick.

I've tried setting all the DPI options to the same DPI I prefer, Doesnt work. I've tried disabling all the DPI settings except one, and doesnt work. I've even tried running piper via sudo and the DPI settings still don't change on the mouse (they change in Piper, though)

It seems like nothing I can set, as far as DPI goes, works. I know it is communicating with the mouse cause, like I said, I can change the LED colors and button configs.. but the DPI settings just wont stick, and worse, randomly change.

and I know, I say random, and some people might thing I'm accidentally hitting the resolution up button since its right there next to m1, but I'm not. I can have the DPI set, via the DPI up/down buttons on the mouse, then get up and walk away.. and when i come back, its back at absurd meth speed again.

Its genuinely not only driving me nuts, but really screwing with my ability to play games.

If anyone has any suggestion or solution, can you please share them with me?

If you got this far, then thankyou for reading this half rant half, half tech plea.

 

gamers nexus just dropped a 3 hour video where they talk to various companies involved in the consumer PC space, some of whom really open up about their costs and economics and how operating in america just isnt feasible under the current tariffs

 

Not once, since Fallout 4's release, in god only knows how many hundreds of hours of play time, have I gotten the perfectly preserved pie..

UNTIL TODAY.

I jumped up in such excitement that I smashed my knee into my desk and now walk like a feral, but god damnit who cares about pain when you have THE PIE.

 

The Original Command and Conquer, Red Alert, Generals, and Renegade have all been released under GPL licensing to the public.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world
 

I was cleaning out my project closet the other day and I found an entire bottle of resin for my printer, still sealed and unopened... but it is several years old at this point.

I didnt see an expiration date or anything on it, so I just wanted to ask before I open it and potentially make a huge mess... Does Resin Expire or otherwise go bad with time if its factory sealed? or in general?

 

These are straight, parallel roads (made with a single drag, so no like, plop a section, then plop another section) on a flat surface. and I keep getting weird gaps and misalignment and other stuff that is observably minor but is making me want to rip my goddamn fucking hair out with how its screwing up symmetry and other stuff.

The only thing I can find about this is to disable various snappings and to make sure the land is flat. I have redrawn this area like 2 dozen times trying various combinations of snapping and not snapping settings and it still does this same damn shit, and the land is flat.

 

Personally, I find it endlessly frustrating and even terrifying to be in the passenger seat with a driver who jumps in the car and immediately goes.. Then worries about Seatbelts/Radio/AC/Mirrors/Plugging in Phone/etc etc while driving.

 

I finally picked up CS2, and was wanting to install a couple mods to get going.

Immediately put off by paradox demanding an account to install mods from paradox mods, so I am trying to get mods from elsewhere.. and the only thing i can find is stuff from a year+ ago saying BePinEx is needed to install mods.

Just wanted to make sure if this is still what you have to do today, before I go down a rabbit hole.

 

But it'll probably be better known as the Mako Mk.2 by anyone who played Mass Effect 1, because holy shit its the Mako.

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