pixxelkick

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[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Despite Steam being proprietary, Proton (it's emulation system) is so profoundly stable I feel like it's a necessary evil at this time.

I haven't found a single "windows" game yet in my library that doesn't work with steam

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Yeah this is just noticeable because most products weren't even resealable, they just expected you to seal em yourself with a clip, twist em, put em in a container, etc.

Now they are adding cheap resealable zips to the bag, which is nice in theory but the bag material has to be strong enough to support it.

Actual ziplock baggies themselves are made of thick plastic that can take a bit of abuse.

But cheap paper plastic hybrid materials a chip bag us made of can't handle that sort of load, so it becomes the fail point.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Regardless of budget, I have found the following setup has afforded me all the comfort upsides of mobility and console gaming, with none of the performance downsides.

  1. Build a standard desktop gaming pc to your budget, setting aside ~$150, give or take.

  2. Make sure it's wired into your network and not using wifi. Setup Steam on it as usual.

3a. (Console experience) Buy a Google TV with Chromecast, or whatever it's called now. Install Steam Link app on it and connect it to your gaming pc. Get a Bluetooth compatible Xbox controller, connect it to the chromecast. Enjoy a console experience with your gaming pc. If you have the chromecast on a wired ethernet lime you'll have maybe 1ms of input lag, very playable.

3b. (Laptop experience), buy a dirt cheap laptop, install steam on it, use Steam Streaming fu ctionaloty to stream from gaming pc to laptop. If you plug the laptop into ethernet you should have sub 1ms input lag.

This let's you get all the horsepower of a gaming pc, at gaming pc hardware prices, but the portability of a laptop and/or couch gaming comfort of a console.

And since it's all centralized to your 1 "server" machine, of you make changes in setup A (ie change am in game setting or etc), it'll persist even if you swap over.

IE if I change my settings or preferences on the console, I'll persist that over on my laptop and won't have to change it again.

Furthermore no network save game synching needed, no waiting for a game to download a second time, no need to update the fane multiple times, etc.

It's all centralized to your own core machine and everything else is just a thin client.

PS: this works with the Steam Deck too, you can stream from gaming pc to steam deck and use it as a thin client 👍

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wording on second one is word, should be "bottom 15" really.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Disinformation is not the same as Misinformation mate.

It's critical to know the difference.

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

Who determines what is disinformation?

A jury, for a given case

Who determines that the information is endangering lives?

A jury, for a given case

If Trump wins the election do you want him determining these things?

I wouldn't put it past him to try and do that, knowing him.

But that's not how laws work. Determining if a given case is or is not disinformation would be up to a jury to deliberate, based on facts presented by the lawyers.

As that's how the justice system works. Or us supposed to at least.

And yes, proving it is disinformation is super hard, so the prosecutor must have a pretty iron tight case. You'd likely need witnesses that can attest to the defendant outright admitting to the act, or their behaviors that signal intent, or evidence on their devices, etc.

This is exactly how Libel and Slander / Defamation cases work right now, you have to prove the defendant knew they were lying and or making a story up intentionally which is incredibly hard, cuz the dependant can just go "I really thought that was the truth!"

For example in the Heard v Depp case, they had to pull evidence of her doctoring photos and using makeup to really sell the case and win the jury over.

So it's a huge gap to cross...

But...

If you do cross it, I believe the penalty for it should be pretty severe. Especially if the defendant was:

  1. Endangering people's lives with bad advice And/Or
  2. Posing as an expert without actually being one

IE those people that dress up like a doctor or nurse or etc and then sell extremely bullshit stuff on social media. That should straight up result in some prison time if they gave out genuinely harmful disinformation.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

When they lead to harm, they do indeed end.

People often forget the right to free speech isn't prioritized over other human rights in pretty kych every first world country.

Otherwise stuff like Libel and Slander wouldn't make sense legally. As well as hate speech laws.

Your right to free speech comes after peoples rights to safety from harm, and how that's worded varies country by country, but feel free to Google up on it for your specific case.

It's why stuff like advertising laws, misinformation and disinformation laws, etc can work too.

Free speech isn't right #1, which some people just can't seem to wrap their head around I guess. This isn't even new, it's been like that for ages.

How do you think snake oil salesmen could be prosecuted if they were allowed to just say whatever they want?

Why do you think it's possible to have legal repercussions for threatening to shoot up a school, or bomb a plane?

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

You unironically thinks the US has a better Healthcare system than us?

Cringe.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I believe disinformation (not misinformation) that endangered lives should be illegal, yes.

If someone posts a video that purposefully tells people to do something that endangers lives and makes it look good/safe, that person should face penalties of fines or jail time functional of how dangerous their recommendation was.

As for the laptop, I'm not dismissing anything.

It's 100% an entirely unrelated anecdote that was mentioned as a totally seperate and discrete event in the letter, that has nothing to do with the headline.

The article used vague wording to try and jumble the two seperate events together and make it sound like they were one event that occurred, which us extremely shitty journalism.

Stop falling for such obvious bullshit and go read the original source.

I have no issue with governments cracking down on disinformation. It's a huge problem and should carry extremely heavy penalties if it causes harm.

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 43 points 2 weeks ago (36 children)

That's also the 40 years of conservative goverments fault, you should very much care that the long term plan to privatize Healthcare and fleece the public for every penny they can is finally coming to fruition.

Albertans are proudly and stupidly giving up more and more rights as Canadians everyday, hellbent on burning away every hard earned penny to con artists.

Can't stop em though, the whole system has been carefully paved to streamline idiots into handing their hard earned money over to snakes proudly and intentionally.

SMH

[–] pixxelkick@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

The content in question?

COVID19 disinformation that was getting people killed.

The hunter Biden laptop thing is a secondary tied in unrelated cliff note that has nothing to do with the heading.

But "government pressures social media platform to crack down on COVID19 disinformation spreading" doesn't have that catchy ring to it to get those clicks now does it.

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