fuzzywombat

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[–] fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Louisiana has been doing this for decades. It's the same old story of large corporations getting massive tax breaks while little guys gets screwed over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWTic9btP38

[–] fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

I remember the exact moment when death of XBOX console basically started. It was XBOX One announcement where Don Mattrick messed up the rollout so bad no one knew how their always online DRM system worked. Sony made this video in response. Also there is this disaster of an interview where he said gamers should buy XBOX 360 if you can't be online 24/7. Microsoft basically took it for granted that gamers were in their pocket and they could focus on dominating the livingroom by adding tv related features that gamers didn't care about. Also Kinect was initially mandatory which made the console $100 more than PS4. XBOX lost console marketshare and they never recovered since then.

[–] fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This could be the first sign of AI bubble bursting.

[–] fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No I'm not suggesting that he throw away perfectly good materials. I disagree that he put a lot of effort into really trying. There was little to no follow up after discovering the parts weren't from US. There was no attempt to contact the American chain mail supplier about limited capacity. Why is it that they can only supply so little amount? What would it take to increase capacity? Is it lack of people, machinery or investment? We don't know because it wasn't in the video. Same thing with the knobs that came from Costa Rica. There was no follow up. He didn't even try to source knobs made locally. He just said he will later. He started out the video sounding like he was determined to figure out a way to complete the task of trying to make a product made locally but he kinda just gave up and decided to just ship the product as is. The video was suppose to be an education focused but it slowly turned into a marketing video. I find that disappointing.

[–] fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

There are six components to this grill scrubber and at least two are from foreign source. The chain mail is from China and the top knob is from Costa Rica. He also said the handle string is of unknown source. I'm bit disappointed that he just slapped a Made in USA label on it and called it good. For 75 dollars I expect a bit better.

I wish Destine broke down the cost of every component of the scrubber and how he ended up with the $75 price tag at the end. He did that with the chain mail but didn't discuss the cost associated with any other part of the process. That leads me to believe this video was more leaning towards making money rather actually trying to get to the bottom of problem with manufacturing a product in the US. Sadly I'm left disappointed.

[–] fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is fourth time a confirmed plagiarism occurred at Bungie in recent years. There is also an ongoing lawsuit over accusation of Red War story theft. This isn't some lone rogue employee issue. It's a company culture issue originating from the top. I think Sony needs to step in and clean house to address the systemic problem.

[–] fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I just posted a temporary workaround.

https://old.lemmy.world/post/29061214

 

Latest update to LibreWolf changed it's user agent string and it's causing websites to freak out. For example amazon will default you to a mobile website and Youtube music is having issues. To make matters worse if you try to download an extension to change the user agent string, it won't let you and tell you to download Firefox. You'll need to manually override the user agent string by going into about:config. You'll need to add general.useragent.override string into config.

Here is how you can do that: https://www.whatismybrowser.com/guides/how-to-change-your-user-agent/firefox

I changed my user agent string to following and problem went away.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:138.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/138.0

EDIT: Looks like 138.0.1-2 has been released. User agent string has been changed back and all is well. You should now delete the general.useragent.override

[–] fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Looks like GOG servers are struggling at the moment. Claiming the game isn't working right now.

[–] fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Gaming market as a whole seems to be going through a correction of sort and this is the time when Nintendo decides to raise the price? Good luck with that Nintendo.

I along with just about everyone here probably has a massive back catalogue of games on Steam to ride out whatever is currently happening in the gaming industry. Maybe I’ll just chill over by the corner and watch the gaming market craters itself into the ground.

[–] fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 38 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (10 children)

Which tech company would buy Chrome from Google? I just can't think of a single tech company that could be an improvement over Google owning Chrome.

  • Amazon

  • Apple

  • Meta

  • Microsoft

  • Oracle

What about media companies? I don't see consumers benefiting from this.

  • Comcast

  • Disney

  • Netflix

  • Viacom

What about telecom? I still don't see consumers benefiting from this.

  • AT&T

  • T-Mobile

  • Verizon

What about foreign companies? Will they be even allowed to buy Chrome? I'm not sure.

  • LG

  • Philips

  • Samsung

  • Sony

The more I think about it, this won't end well.

[–] fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 43 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (14 children)

Here is a guy explaining the problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WldSl3HGr8

It appears multiple panels on the truck are just glued on which is crazy. Will Tesla just slather on bunch more glue and call it good? That seems like a bandaid over a pretty major problem. I'll be sure there is a large distance between my car and one of these shitty trucks on the road in case they decide to shed some large panels.

[–] fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

From what I've heard this game is very CPU demanding title. To get a decent performance you have to be on platform with DDR5 and lots of CPU cores. Also game very much recommends RTX 4000 series or better with frame gen turned on. If you are trying to run the game on RTX 3000 series card, you should turn on FSR frame gen. I suppose one can argue that game is not very well optimized and therefore it needs all that much hardware to run well and you're not entirely wrong there. I think devs were too ambitious with all the graphical bells and whistles and found themselves in this situation.

Personally I don't want to see a trend where games are only playable with frame gen turned on. We already have a situation where many games are blurry and have artifacts all over the place. I don't want annoying lag added on top of what's already a mess.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by fuzzywombat@lemmy.world to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml
 

Grindavik has been evacuated for a month due to possibility of eruption and it has finally happened.

Shawn Willsey, geology professor from Idaho is doing a play by play live stream explaining everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqF5YQRdhtw

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