OscarRobin

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OscarRobin,

Rip the people who suffer both, simultaneously.

OscarRobin, (edited )

I feel like I’m the only person who wasn’t blown away by the graphics.

Like sure it looked really good, but it still looked like a videogame, on the same level as 3yo last-gen Last of Us 2

OscarRobin,

Yeah GTA has been stylistically a kind of ‘hyperreality’ where they exaggerate within a relatively realistic framework.

OscarRobin,

God I miss Eccleston so much, and I literally just rewatched his season.

OscarRobin,

“I never would.”

OscarRobin,

I got it for free and it still wasn’t worth it.

OscarRobin,

BG3 like DOS2 doesn’t have shared inventories because they want multiplayer situations to allow for stuffing around etc

OscarRobin,

The S9 was a significant improvement in performance etc over the S8 despite having basically the same design - my friend has an S9+ and he feels absolutely no push to get a new phone and I don’t blame him.

OscarRobin,

There’s a difference between the display being flat and the glass in front of it being flat, which is what they’re pointing out, albeit badly.

OscarRobin,

I really don’t understand how things like this get made.

Like I understand that there are tonnes of rich people with zero brainpower who fund this sorta crap, but how do the people creating it ever think anything other than ‘this concept is shit and nobody will ever want this’???

OscarRobin,

Would be goated if everyone just switched to the Signal protocol and interop was mandated, but that’ll never happen unfortunately.

OscarRobin,

Signal is a means for message encryption, and if every platform used it and then were mandated to interop, they’d have to figure out how to do the actual transfer, yes. RCS is basically this except nerfed and partially Google-owned which is shit.

OscarRobin,

Matrix is more of a Discord alternative than a Whatsapp alternative though unless I’m mistaken?

OscarRobin,

The limited benchmarks I’ve seen put the new X Elite at slightly less efficient than the M2 Pro (let alone M3 Pro). It only gets marginally higher scores when operating at 3x the wattage.

Also, let’s not imagine even for a second that notoriously terrible ARM are going to make it easy to support this chip, especially not in the long term.

OscarRobin,

I’d recommend watching Josh Strife Heyes videos on MMOs, but if you want an overview, the biggest ones are WoW, FFXIV, and Guild Wars 2. I’d recommend the latter.

OscarRobin,

Carrot sticks. Healthy, filling, delicious.

OscarRobin,

FSR is FOSS and pretty straightforward so I’d be quite surprised if it wasn’t already pretty feasible on the last few generations of devices.

Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future (techcrunch.com)

The mission-driven tech company behind the Firefox browser, Pocket reader and other apps is now investing its energy into the so-called “fediverse” — a collection of decentralized social networking applications, like Mastodon, that communicate with one another over the ActivityPub protocol.

OscarRobin,

Microblogs like Mastodon are excellent for following specific people, and for getting an overview of the current zeitgeist. Forums like Lemmy are excellent for following specific topics. Both are useful in different ways.

OscarRobin,

Suicide Squad. No explanation needed.

OscarRobin,

Actually, Suicide Squad equal with Justice League.

OscarRobin,

I have an M1 Pro 16 and love it, but its already huge $3750 AUD price tag has ballooned to $4250 for the M3 Pro 16 whose only difference is the chip. I love my MacBook but unless Apple returns to earth with their pricing and/or makes the machines worth that much by providing more than the barest essential specs at those prices, I will be buying something else when this MacBook is done.

OscarRobin,

I love Fedora but definitely Mint for a normie. Even then I question if you should install Linux at all since reliably being able to do what you need to do is priority one, especially for a student, and if he may be blocked in his work as a result I don’t think it’s a great idea.

OscarRobin,

Yeah it’s the only one that can reliably go to sleep in the middle of a game and wake with the game still running properly.

OscarRobin,

Pros: Moderation quality, app ecosystem, no corporations or ads.

Cons: Small community, wayyy too much duplication of ‘subreddits’ on Lemmy across different servers (inherently not an issue on Mastodon).

OscarRobin,

Ok so I had the CH700N’s. I also then had some AirPod Pros for a year. I recently upgraded to the Sennheiser Momentum 4 over-ear and the Sony WF-1000XM5’s, but I also bought and returned the WF-XM4s, Bose QCII in-ear, and the Sennheiser Momentum TW3.

Every single pair of in-ear wireless earbuds I’ve tried that aren’t AirPods Pro suck. I am still using the XM5s but their multipoint sucks so I had to disable it, and they drop out for a split second every 10 or so mins. The XM4s were similar but incredibly painful to wear. The QCII were similar to the XM5s. The Sennheiser TW3 connection quality was dog shit - putting a few fingers around an earbud would break their connection with each other.

As for over-ears, my Sennheiser Momentum 4s are pretty good - they sound great, feel pretty comfortable, last for ages, and do not suffer any connectivity issues in my experience.

But to be honest, I’ve reached the point where if phones still just had bloody headphones jacks I’d use wired over-ears. I’d probably still use AirPods Pro for portability once I move back to iOS though, but I could also see myself going wired there too to avoid the whole wireless hassle and cost.

So my conclusion is over-ear for every possible reason except absolute portability.

I also would recommend against the Sony WH-1000XM5 over-ear because they feel so cheaply made it’s a joke.

OscarRobin,

You don’t get advertising or algorithmic crap on Mastodon, and they have reasonably reliable filters to hide most porn I think

OscarRobin,

I have a 7 Pro and the fingerprint sensor sucks. It constantly doesn’t recognize, and is slow when it does.

OscarRobin,

Transmission is awesome because it’s simple. It only does what you need and has the best UI for doing so.

OscarRobin,

Takhisis right?

OscarRobin,

Ah thanks

OscarRobin,

Yeah unfortunately I agree. I think Yong seems like a cool guy but his videos always start with a lengthy recap which anyone who watches his channel already knows from his previous video on whatever is recapped, and then he takes the longest possible route to explain the topic too.

I reckon if he made 5 min videos without all the fluff he’d be great.

OscarRobin,

Donnie Darko

OscarRobin,

As an owner of the Pixel 7 Pro, I’d say the S23 Ultra. Better in every possible way except duplicate Google/Samsung apps, mostly-subjective camera differences, and subjective UI skin.

OscarRobin,
  1. Optimisation. Many, many games haven’t even had a proper baseline of optimisation let alone targeted optimisation for specific specs like consoles
  2. The PS5 GPU is more powerful than a 2060, and as a newer generation architecture supports more features which can be leveraged to improve performance
  3. The PS5 operating system is wayyy less taxing than Windows or any other OS because it does much less and does it more optimized
OscarRobin,

Open Critic doesn’t tell you anything, it just aggregates everyone’s scores. If you don’t like the scores then blame the critics.

OscarRobin,

I mean, isn’t the point of OpenCritic to get as wide an opinion base as possible? Of course you’ll have a bunch of weird ones in there, but you hypothetically get the best overall view of a game.

OscarRobin,

You don’t care about the many other ways that not using and supporting Chromium is better, ie. not having Google’s new invasive advertising system?

OscarRobin,

What is and isn’t worth preserving is not something that can be known at the time of preserving. The point of preservation is so things can be accessed later if and when they’re needed. Even shitty games like Avengers may be relevant in many ways in the future, even if just to reference as ‘a shitty game’.

OscarRobin,

The reason why Unity refuses to not make it retro-active is because they want money from Genshin Impact etc which already launched. If they don’t make it retroactive then the whole point of the change on their end is gone.

OscarRobin,

I would argue given it is still animal tissue - not cellulose etc - it remains not vegetarian because it is not in any way made of plants. It is, however, not made via animals in any way and thus most people who currently consider themselves vegetarians would probably eat it as most vegetarians are so on moral grounds.

OscarRobin,

The combat got pretty repetitive imo. Though that wasn’t helped by just how many times you had to do the same fights against rifts/tears etc

OscarRobin,

Man walks into nearly-empty carriage and sits next to woman he is attracted to despite her clear discomfort. Other male passenger on the carriage forces the man to move to a different seat to make the woman feel comfortable and safe again.

Need Suggestions: MacBook or Windows Laptop? (kbin.social)

Backstory/Context: My wife is an aspiring writer and wants to self-publish a novel that she's been writing. Currently she's typing on my old Asus ROG gaming laptop that I no longer use. It's (barely) running Windows Vista, it was built with Crysis in mind (really shows you how old it is), it's bulky & heavy, and the battery is...

OscarRobin,

MacBook. Probably an M2 Air.

Obviously you should talk to your wife yada yada like everyone else said, but my opinion is that a MacBook would be best. Best battery life, screens etc plus the ecosystem stuff you mentioned with her iPhone.

OscarRobin,

They also have the Godot Fund which is already at $30k/mo alongside about $12k/mo on Patreon, so it’s approximately a 22% increase actually. Still epic!

Do you pirate? And do you justify pirating? i.e., what is your piracy philosophy?

Well, my friend, he’s kinda poor he can’t afford some books and some streaming services, so he pirates. He pirate books, audiobook and videos and other stuff. Sometimes he buys books he likes a lot out of loyalty to the author (yeah, I don’t understand it either), he likes to read physical books, but yeah, if he hates the...

OscarRobin,

I used to pirate everything when I had no money. Now that I have money I buy games - including everything I ever pirated - and I pay for a few other subscription services that are worth or nearly worth their price. I pirate anything else.

OscarRobin,

Folding phones are flimsy bits of plastic-screened crap that are just as expensive as two separate, better phone and tablet. And many apps barely work anyway.

Glyph interface is a pointless gimmick.

Under-screen cameras produce terrible images.

There are lots of reasons to hate Apple, but none of these are.

OscarRobin,

I didn’t say folding phones are a gimmick, I said they’re fragile and bad value propositions.

OscarRobin,

The Flips also have a worse display, camera system, build quality, battery life, and just everything than either of those alternate Samsung phones.

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