vithigar

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[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Sounds way more interesting than most IT work as well. I'd definitely rather do some investigative work like this than a typical parade of password resets, email assistance, and software installations.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

Yes, they were, and that highlights the problem really. Nvidia's grip on mind share is so strong that AMD releasing cards that matched or exceeded at the top end didn't actually matter and you still have people saying things like the comment you responded to.

It's actually incredible how quickly the discourse shifted from ray tracing being a performance hogging gimmick and DLSS being a crutch to them suddenly being important as soon as AMD had cards that could beat Nvidia's raster performance.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

I remember running screen irssi on a separate computer and sshing into the server, reconnecting the screen with irssi in it.

I still do that today.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I'm not depressed, at least I don’t think I am. I don’t really feel sad.

Society equating depression with sadness is a great disservice to the condition. It's quite common for it to present as just ... nothing. An emotional void where you might expect emotions to be. Things that would be expected to make you happy just don't. Things that would make you sad, the same. Your feelings are depressed in the sense that their impact is just muted across the board.

A lack of motivation is also a very common indicator. You're just missing the drive to do something because the emotional rewards that you expect to happen when you accomplish your goals just aren't there.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 month ago

"Imitation" very strongly implies that it is not in actuality the thing being imitated. Imitation butter is not butter. Imitation crab is not crab.

These medicines are the same chemical, therefore the same product.

I will however grant that while calling store brand painkillers "imitation ibuprofen" is nonsense, calling them "imitation advil" is okay because advil is a brand. Though in my opinion it should be avoided because it carries an implication of inferiority that is simply not the case.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

It switched to free-to-play this month.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I wouldn't buy a new Seagate drive, let alone a refurbished one. Every Seagate I've ever owned died in less than five years. Every WD I've owned lasted until long after their capacity was so far outpaced by newer drives as to be useless.

Anecdotal, yes, but it's happened enough to me that I've been soured on them for life.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 month ago (18 children)

As Edge comes pre-installed by default on Windows machines, users must navigate the Microsoft offering in order to download their browser of choice.

What's the actual alternative they want here? That users look up download URLs on other devices and download their browser of choice via command line using ~~cURL~~ Invoke-WebRequest? That ISPs provide browser installers on USB sticks?

Also, it's not like MS is cornering the market on browser share here. Even with this "unfair advantage" they've only scraped together a 5% slice of browser usage.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Even if you are confident in your Linux skills this isn't a bad idea. I've seen too many OS installers put things on drives other than the one you choose to risk it at this point.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 62 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The dndmemes protests were a pretty incredible thing while they lasted. The mods changed the subreddit to "nsfw" because that disabled most of the monetization. Then Reddit admins told them the subreddit obviously wasn't really nsfw and to change it to accurately reflect the subreddit content.

...so the mods changed the subreddit rules to allow actual nsfw content and people went nuts. In multiple senses of the term.

Of course "accurately reflecting the subreddit" wasn't what Reddit really cared about. They wanted to preserve the advertising stream for a popular subreddit, and this did the opposite of that. Reddit admins soon after basically said "remove nsfw content, restore the subreddit to what it used to be, do what we say or we'll replace you with a mod team of our own choosing".

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Even without any potential monetization by anyone... you kind of are? You are part of the community here, and that's what people come here for. Lemmy's community is the product it offers, and you are a piece of it.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, that's my point. They know they have a dominant hand, and which hand that is. They are also likely to remember whether they are right or left handed. Even if they don't know intrinsically what "right" is it can simply be memorized in the same way that people know their blood type.

Combining those two pieces of information should let a person figure out which side is which.

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