dustyData

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[–] dustyData 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Always remember to disable secureboot and remove bitlocker before installing linux on a oem windows machine. They make it hell to remove that malware from newer machines.

[–] dustyData 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I know it is hard to believe. But the gamecube, Wii, and wiiu are the same machine. Same architecture and family of processors (IBM's PowerPC). That's why the wiiu is just a Wii with a beefier CPU (three Wii cores slapped together), and then a newer more powerful GPU sticked to the side. Thats why a single emulator can target all three consoles. The switch 2 will just be a newer version of the Tegra chip.

[–] dustyData 87 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Have you ever sat in front of a casino's slot machine. They are also trash, awful and disgusting. But they're also engineered with the worst dark pattern psychology to manipulate any human being that sits on it to keep playing and be so addictive that people will burn their money just to keep playing. The qualities of fun, and additive are independent of each other. A game can be very addictive and really bad at the same time. Unlike slot machines, they have the advantage of constantly sitting in your pocket and going with you everywhere you go.

[–] dustyData 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I found them when looking for a gaming laptop to buy. A model that was regarded by everyone to be a solid mid range, with a strong cost to performance ratio and sensible cost reducing compromises, was reviewed by UB as the worst thing ever. Their review was a complete outlier and awfully childish and filled with gratuitous insults and aggressive gamer slang language. I ended up buying that laptop and it's exactly what others claimed, a solid mid performer. I blocked them from my results ever since. I can imagine who their core audience and community is, and it's exactly the kind of place I never want to visit.

[–] dustyData 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You can go a step further. Lemon is a cleaning agent and was used in households mixed with vinager and baking soda to scrub and clean. So people associated the lemon smell with a cleaned house. It was only natural to use lemon scents in industrialized products. Same reason lavender is also popular. Lavender flowers are incredibly easy to extract the smell and were a common homemade aroma. So it was the first smell industrialized for ambient scenters and cleaners.

[–] dustyData 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait, UserBenchmark is not a shitposting meme site? They actually present their reviews as serious?

[–] dustyData 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fuck EA and their opinion. Even if every single Linux user were cheating I bet they wouldn't even account for a tenth of the cheater players. Lazy scumbag execs who like to scapegoat their incompetence on things they don't understand.

[–] dustyData 18 points 1 month ago

Executive bonuses, of course. Won't you think of the poor millionaires?

/s

[–] dustyData 114 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This is 100% how every single dictatorship in existence today works. Almost all countries in the world hold elections. But some are more democratic than others. Every single tyrant in power today has been or claim to have been democratically elected.

[–] dustyData 66 points 1 month ago (1 children)

By the third patent: Elden Ring, WoW, Everquest, Neverwinter, SW: The Old Republic, Final Fantasy, and many many others have infringed Nintendo patents. Fuck Nintendo.

[–] dustyData 9 points 1 month ago

All of them* and seen all the films as well. I'm an extraordinary fan of the series. But I'm also not delusional and can hold a critical view of the entertainment media I consume and regard them from the POV of the context that produced them. Casino Royale is still my favorite. Thunderball is still the goofiest shit Fleming wrote.

Now you tell me your five favorite songs by the famous band and prove you are not a poser. /s

  • I haven't read any of the post-Fleming books yet.
[–] dustyData 5 points 1 month ago

She made the common blunder of making long term hyperbolic predictions based on short term trends and immediate events.

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