Carighan

Carighan, 29 days ago

I hate how this woman still gets attention. Sigh.

Carighan, 30 days ago

Hrm, I had similar issues on my Artillery X2 before.

Here’s what I went through:

• Replaced the nozzle
• Replaced the thermistor
• Replaced the heating block
• Replaced the main PCB
• Replaced the heatbreak

Finally, I gave up, and took out the thermistor again thinking maybe I broke it. There’s a small PCB connected to it, that sits on the side of the hot end assembly. I contacted Artillery about a potentially faulty hot end PCB, they sent me a replacement. It did not help. Desperate, I also replaced the thermistor with the replacement one that was part of their repair kit. And that worked. I think the faulty PCB broke the first replacement thermistor or something…

Carighan, 30 days ago

Which to be fair, is a more than enough law for 98%++ of the population and all companies, too. Just not for the biggest companies who really ought to always be upgraded one “unit”. That is, instead of 500 Kiloeuros, they get to pay 500 Megaeuros.

Carighan, 30 days ago

I mean, this sucks, but I also wonder how this could be fixed. If you read up what absolutely benign stuff like your physical screen resolution coupled with how quickly you move your mouse coupled with your possible languages ad companies can use to uniquely identify you among the whole world visiting their page, it’s not a long throw at all to uniquely identify someone based on their steam friends.

Carighan, 30 days ago

Yeah this seems to be something people are missing. These tests sometimes prohibit all reviewing and commenting in their NDAs (including positive ones). It’s a playtest, not a beta, review copy or pre-release.

Carighan, 1 month ago

I mean I was originally angry about this toss-up, but since it hit an investment company… good guy Google?

I’m confused now.

Carighan, 1 month ago

Not over here, but TIL that this works different in other parts of the world.

Carighan, 1 month ago

I use Ubuntu because if we want any chance of proper mainstream usability of Linux, this distro is the best bet. And to help my family with it, I need it ready myself.

Carighan, 1 month ago

Why?

Carighan, 1 month ago

I love the petty envy Sony displays here. “Fuck! Microsoft is getting all the bad press attention! Quick! Do something!”

Carighan, 30 days ago

They did it a second time, so what is it now? Dependable incompetence?

Carighan, 1 month ago

Ignoring all direct political alignments, also keep in mind that such problems are never trivial.

If they were, sooner or later we would have long solved them, even with enough idiots willfully not wanting them.
But it’s not easy. For example, California by and large cannot print money. And it’s not like the things you mention are the only problems any modern society faces, especially on a multi-culture multi-urban multi-layer multi-level scale like the whole of California.

That is to say, if a bridge collapses, that’s urgent to fix. More so, to people in the immediate area, than to work towards a living wage with a 10-15y plan on how to deeply and permanently change and transform the job market and job situation. But now some money needed for the latter went towards the former. And a host of things are “on fire” every single day. Could you still put down policy changes? Sure, but if you cannot at least start on putting them into action, there’s no point. You’d just end up wording them in such a way that whoever comes after you could trivially ignore them, and you don’t want that.

And then we get into issues that do not benefit from human mass survival, and in fact would often benefit from the lack of it, like climate change, ozone depletion and species extermination. Which also cost insane amounts of money to work on, and if we’re being honest should take priority as they would automatically make all other considerations useless if we don’t first focus everything onto such basic issues.

So in short, it’s usually a combination of:

• Lots of problems
• All kinds of problems at the same time
• Lots of needs-fixing-right-now problems
• Lots of 105% prioty problems
• Lack of resources to fix all of those above + then also add more to the pile.

Carighan, 1 month ago

Ah yeah, that’s how Zimbabwe did it, too! 💡

Carighan, 1 month ago

Because its not a solution, it just makes the problem worse. It’ll just create even more money under 100 people can gobble up.

The money exists! It needs to be liberated from wasteful uses such as arms, billionaires or shareholders. We can also print more money, sure, but without first fixing the underlying spending/allocation/hoarding issue, we’d only be feeding the dragon.

Carighan, 1 month ago

They hopefully dragged the CEOs of the companies that put up the pro-plastic ads through the streets before flogging them publicly?

Because if they didn’t, they really should have. For bad taste. Taring&feathering could also work. Sends a clear message to not be a dick.

Carighan, 1 month ago

I mean I bailed on gamescom even before that, given how badly the event was always organized.

Carighan, 1 month ago (edited 26 days ago)

Fascinating, and makes perfect sense. The only character you could viably write over every other one without conflict ist 1111111, after all.

Carighan, 1 month ago

C-suite bonuses ain’t gonna pay themselves, you know?!

Carighan, 1 month ago

I mean if they listen to Joe Rogan, they don’t seem to think much of themselves either tbh. That counts as self-harm.

Carighan, 1 month ago

Valve got Sony to hold off on the PSN account linking for Helldivers II, valve got Boeing to hold off on the Starliner launch. Impressive!

Carighan, 1 month ago

Not even that, but usually this comes with the actual big target on your back: Being publicly traded.

Now of course, you can be publicly traded without being a big corp, and you can be a big corp that is held privately. But usually these big corpos are the ones that are on the stock market, and yes, the moment that happens everything becomes secondary to your actual responsibility: To the shareholders. Line must go up! And an easy one is to fire more workers.

Carighan, 1 month ago

Prey retroactively devaluaed Dishonored for me - as amazing as those were at their time, Prey showed what really could be obtained from the formula, and perfected every aspect of it.

Carighan, 1 month ago

That’s because from a health perspective, alcohol in particular is an “end state drug”. It’s what you die with. It ruins you. Not as fast as heroine, but just as thoroughly.