tiramichu

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tiramichu,

Littering.

When someone carelessly throws their trash on the ground, that says a huge amount about their respect for other people, their feelings about the environment, and even their views on social equality.

It’s a tiny thing, but an immediate dealbreaker.

People who throw their trash on the ground are the same people who yell and get mad at minimum-wage staff, while those staff hold back tears. They are the people who take more food at a buffet restaurant than they could ever even eat. They are the people who think the world and everyone in it owes them whatever they want, but without ever giving anything back.

I bet we all know a person whose car looks like a scary biohazard of old drive-through cups they haven’t cleaned yet, but I’d much rather date that person than someone who throws it all out the window.

tiramichu,

What does that advice mean to you, in practical terms? Like with an example?

tiramichu,

Maybe both!

tiramichu, (edited )

This annoys me so badly.

I don’t drink carbonated beverages, so when I go into a place and don’t want beer then my options are basically coffee or water.

Fine in the mornings, but I don’t want a coffee at 5PM. So I guess it’s just water then huh

tiramichu,

I really hope LWA gets another season someday

tiramichu,

On one hand it’s entirely normal to target merchandise sales to the stores where that merchandise sells well, but in the case of pride, it sends a really clear message.

Target are basically saying they will ‘support’ queer pride, but only in liberal communities where support is already strong.

It’s places where queer pride is WEAK that need a show of support, not where it’s already strong!

The clear message is that as expected, this isn’t truly about Pride at all, it’s about money, and Target will happily allow homophobia to reign victorious in places where standing against it would hit their bottom line.

tiramichu,

fi-nyan-shul advisor

tiramichu, (edited )

This is something I know about.

The new ARM-based macs are actually very powerful, but as another commenter mentioned, the ARM architecture would normally be a bad fit for gaming as not much runs on it.

That said, there are ways around it.

I’m personally gaming on an M2 Macbook Pro, and am able to play almost my full Steam library of Windows games using a tool called Whisky

Whisky uses Wine (a longstanding Windows emulator commonly used on Linux) along with other toolkits to translate DirectX graphics instructions into Mac-native ‘Metal’ graphics instructions. There is a performance hit in doing this, but the end result is actually pretty good.

The result you get will depend on your hardware. I’m personally running a high-end M2 Max configuration and get 50 FPS on high settings in Deep Rock Galactic (a first-person shoooter game) but lower configurations would be okay for casual gaming.

There is another product that does the same thing as Whisky called Crossover. It is paid (unlike Whisky which is free) but is otherwise similar. You can watch this YouTube video on Crossover to get some idea on how it works, how to set it up, and the performance you might expect.

As for Minecraft, I personally play that too, and it actually runs natively on the new Apple Silicon macs anyway and doesn’t need anything special :)

tiramichu,

Proton is actually based on Wine so there’s a lot in common. And Valve contributes back to Wine via Codeweavers (who also make crossover)

tiramichu,

Fair :) Glad I was able to share my experience if that helped a little.

I’d like to make the switch to Linux for my gaming desktop, currently still on Windows for that personally, but soon!

tiramichu,

Oh my God, he just ran in

Why are Asian products so often wrapped in really *thick* plastics?

I live in Europe but sometimes shop at Asian supermarkets here. One of the things I notice with almost everything I buy there is that plastic packaging feels a lot thicker than that on European products. Is there a rational reason for this? Are plastics simply cheaper? Or do people worry more that products might spoil? Are these...

tiramichu,

This is it.

I’ve previously lived in Japan and there is always so much wrapping!

A large amount of packaging creates a perception of quality, as if a lot of care has been taken in the product, and culturally that sells well.

Kinda ironic as another thing you see everywhere in Japan is ‘eco’ this and ‘green’ that, they are very big on the perception of “saving the environment” and yet everything is covered in so much unnecessary plastic.

Biden vows to reopen Baltimore port, rebuild collapsed Key Bridge (thehill.com)

President Biden vowed Tuesday to rebuild Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge after it collapsed into the water when a cargo ship rammed into it, echoing what some Maryland officials said earlier but adding that he expects the federal government to foot the bill....

tiramichu,

Yes, but ascertaining liability and securing a payout is a process that may take many years of being dragged through the courts, if it is even successful at all.

The government making money available immediately does help get things going with less uncertainty about who can foot the bill.

tiramichu, (edited )

From my own experience as someone living in the UK, probably two reasons, for those countries at least.

  1. Early adoption of the iPhone in the US vs UK
  2. Different price structures between US and UK

In the 2000s, most people who liked to message a lot in the UK (generally young people and teens) were on pay-as-you-go ‘top up’ plans where each individual message had a cost. SMS messages cost anything from 1 pence to 5 pence, and I remember on my plan, MMS (picture messages) cost a ridiculous 12 pence each! It was expensive. Most people (and especially younger people) had Android phones, and so as soon as a credible Internet-based messenger became popular, people flocked in droves to jump to it. It was WhatsApp in the UK which won that race, and it remains the de-facto messenger to this day.

Things were different in the US. The iPhone got a huge early foothold in sales, and iMessage became dominant simply by being first to market and gaining critical mass. It was also more common (versus the UK) for people to be on contract plans that had SMS and MMS included as part of the plan cost, so even for people who didn’t have iPhones there was less financial incentive to dump those technologies, and SMS remained prevalent.

Stolen data rule (dotnet.social)

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tiramichu,

Also paid anti-virus.

tiramichu,

Which was sometimes frustrating, but when they are funny and good bugs it’s amazing they can’t be patched out.

There’s a reason so many speedruns on older consoles use the Japanese cartridges, because those versions came out first and have exploitable glitches which the western release later fixed.

Bugs at that time were almost never totally game-breaking either, fortunately. That could be a nightmare recall for the publisher, and so the final builds were tested more intensively than games now.

tiramichu, (edited )

Just FYI, asklemmy is intended for interesting and open-ended subjects of discussion, not for single-answer support problems like this, so I won’t be surprised if this thread is deleted.

That said, I feel your machine should be compatible with opencore. Its running Yosemite 10.10 which meets the minimum.

When checking your model make sure you are looking in the right place - press cmd+space, type “system information” and go there. Should be an entry like “MacBookPro[number],[number]” - not the model number, but the device identifier.

I personally have an older Macbook pro which is running Linux, so that’s also a decent option if you want to do it. Pop!_OS is a very mac-like distro that supports pretty much all mac hardware out of the box.

Good luck!

tiramichu,

The article talks about factors like type of game and advancements in technology, but doesn’t mention what is surely a big factor - the age of their audience.

My personal intuition is that 10 to 20 years is the sweet spot because those people who played the original as a teenager will now be in their 20s and 30s, where they have disposable income and plenty of desire to spend it on reliving those happy childhood memories.

If you wait too long for a remake, the market will shrink again because those original players will be more likely to have family, other commitments, and less time to game.

tiramichu,

True facts lol

tiramichu,

When you buy a lightbulb (at least here in the UK) it almost always still has the incandescent-equivalent on it as well as the actual wattage.

People are still used to thinking in old terms that you want 100W for a ceiling lamp and 60W for a table lamp, for example.

So this light in the fridge could be 200W equivalent but not actually 200W consumption.

Thinking about it, lightbulb itself is at this point a ridiculously achronistic term, there’s nothing really ‘bulb’ about them anymore.

tiramichu,

You’re right to be fair, a lot of them do retain that shape for purely aesthetic reasons, but it’s not a functional part of the light source any longer.

tiramichu,

Isn’t half the point of running Linux that you can shoot yourself in the foot if you want to?

tiramichu, (edited )

Exactly. Touchscreen can be a positive because you get dynamic and contextual menus, and the sort of rich user interface that people expect from modern devices.

But for the most common functions, nothing beats the tactile muscle memory of physical controls that are always immediately present when you need them, and can use with your eyes still on the road.

So the best is to have both.

tiramichu, (edited )

Yeah. There are two kinds of ‘want’ to consider really - one being what sells cars, and the other being what people actually enjoy using.

Nice clean interiors with huge full-console touchscreens look modern and have that wow-factor that impresses in the showroom, and that’s what matters as far as getting a purchase.

So yeah, you’re right that people do want it, but only until they’ve had to live with it for a while.

I think because most buyers have never been in this position before, they aren’t considering what the driving experience would be of not having those controls. They assume and trust that the manufacturers will make sensible design decisions and that the car will first and foremost function well and intuitively as a vehicle, because that’s the whole point of a car, right?

We have lived through many decades of car controls getting better and more intuitive all the time, so people would naturally assume the manufacturers know what they are doing. And then only now suddenly get slapped in the face by changes that make the experience actually worse for the driver.

tiramichu,

There are lots of functions that can benefit, just not ones you want to do while in motion.

  • Plot a GPS route (as you suggested)
  • Change the equaliser settings for your stereo
  • Pair your phone with bluetooth
  • Check your driving statistics, fuel consumption
  • View vehicle diagnostics like tyre pressures, service interval
  • Change any infrequent settings like clock, kmh/mph display preference, lane keep warnings, etc

I like touchscreen - I just don’t like it at the expense of losing physical controls for the things that matter.

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