CerebralHawks

@ cerebralhawks @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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CerebralHawks @lemmy.dbzer0.com 12h ago

Great game.

In case anyone wants to know why not Switch 1, I bought it on Steam to play on my Macs, Abe it doesn’t play very well. Totally playable, but the frame rates are janky AF. M2 and M2 Pro with 16GB RAM each. So I wouldn’t trust this on a Switch 1.

12h ago

'Not Winston Churchill': Trump steps up criticism of UK's Starmer

CerebralHawks @lemmy.dbzer0.com 12h ago

I mean, yeah, but he’s no Roosevelt either.

Does anyone in the UK even think Starmer is on Churchill’s level?

13h ago

The only Co-pilot I will accept at work [meme]

CerebralHawks @lemmy.dbzer0.com 13h ago

Considering Copilot no longer works without a Microslop account, and my work’s Microslop 365 account doesn’t count for whatever reason… same!

22h ago

"Sideloading" is Double Speak – Say this: App Stores Are the Real Threat, Cuckloading

Sideloading implies you have to jailbreak, like an iPhone. I could sideload apps on my iPhone if I really wanted to, via sidestore. I just don't have any use for that (and the better options are paid).

With Android, Linux, macOS, or Windows, it's just installing. I use Macs, virtually no Mac users care about the Mac App Store. It's trash. We don't like it, we don't use it. It's not on my Dock. It's in the Apple Menu and can't be removed from there. So I ignore it. Once in a while I look, see it's still trash, and ⌘+Q that shit. If apps are signed by Apple, installing is as easy as (install wizards) or easier than (drag app icon on Applications shortcut) Windows. Of course 'brew install' via the terminal is even better since it bypasses Apple's gatekeeper service (or can be made to, I forget). Windows it's a bit less static (no gatekeeper) but more spyware/malware threats. And then there's Linux. With Android, it's more like macOS where you gotta deal with a gatekeeper, but it's easy enough to deal with... for now. (To be clear, easier than macOS outside of 'brew', but not as easy as Windows/Linux.)

22h ago

Live abroad comfortably(rent, groceries, utilities, data/wifi) for $500 a month in most countries and up to $1000 a month in the rest

22h ago

What is your opinion on the iPhone 17e?

I think we all should. It's good for phone makers because churn means you'll buy a new phone sooner than you need to. It's good for influencers since it gets them views. It's consumer hostile, though. If you aren't financially benefiting, why even push it? I generally prefer Apple, but I'll happily dump on them when they deserve it. I also feel like the company that makes the computers I like using (Macs) is not the same as the company making iPhones, but it actually is. I do like my iPhone, but I don't like it like I like my Macs. It's just, they work well together. Apparently an Android phone can't be mounted as a drive on a Mac like it can on a Windows computer? At least it didn't work for me. But on iPhone, you have AirDrop. Still, for most usage, the Mac doesn't care what phone you have. Mac itself is older than smartphones. It'll talk to an iPhone because Apple tech meshes well, but it's not like it won't do Mac things for you if you use Android. Same with Windows, Windows likes Android, but it's fine to use an iPhone with one. And my Samsung from 2019 actually does a few things better than my iPhone from 2024 — notably the keyboard accuracy, and home screen customisation.

I can fault both platforms all day, but what I can't do in good conscience is trash one while exalting the other. I've done it for years, it's habit, it's tribalism, I get it, but it's trash and we should all move away from it, unless doing so is putting food on our table.

22h ago

The ‘European’ Jolla Phone Is an Anti-Big-Tech Smartphone

I feel like the point was to get away from the Android/iOS duopoly, not to court open-source advocates... though it does sort of do that, using Linux.

1d ago

Videogames you always wanted to play but they did disappointed you?

CerebralHawks @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1d ago

Mass Effect. Again. Third time’s the charm, I’m giving up on it. It’s too hard even on easy and too poorly balanced.

I mean the original. I tried and failed to get into the OG 360 version twice. Then Legendary came out (trilogy remastered and rebalanced) and I got it on sale for six bucks. Was finally able to play through the first one. And the second one. And the third one. Now I’m playing the fourth one, which I got on sale for $4. Went back and tried the OG again. It still sucks. It’s the damn Mako (tank), it’s so fragile. Two or three hits and it breaks. And you get half XP in it. It’s like everyone gets the hardest difficulty in it. And they never fixed the original.

So yeah, now it’s my favorite series and I’ll buy 5 at launch for full price. I’m in $10 for the first four and that’s awesome.

So yeah, if the original put up walls you couldn’t get over, try Legendary.

1d ago

Up votes and down votes tend to move a site toward being an echo chamber.

CerebralHawks @lemmy.dbzer0.com 1d ago

Yeah. Votes kind of suck. I have the arrows, but I only use them if someone’s really helpful, really rude, or their post is super useful, or egregiously bad. I sort everything by date, so people dog piling on someone won’t affect their post or comment’s standing in my feed.

Take the power back and do the same, if you can.

2d ago

What is your opinion on the iPhone 17e?

Not sure why anyone would come at you. I use both as well, though I mostly use my iPhone because I have Apple stuff. I also have an Android phone (Galaxy S10) from 2019. Funny thing, it's very nearly as fast as my iPhone 16 Pro Max despite them being released 5 years apart. These days it doesn't much matter what you have, what brand you use, it's probably good enough for what you need it for. The 17e is fine, but you can do a lot better for your money.

2d ago

Beth Ann Fennelly, "Two Sisters, One Thinner, One Better Dressed".

That makes sense. I don't really know much about it beyond what I learned in school, so, not much.

2d ago

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy • FlixPatrol

As someone who liked Discovery and the Abramsverse, I'm wary because I supported Section 31 until I saw it. The Internet was right this time, Section 31 was hot garbage, by far the worst Trek I've ever seen. I don't agree with most of the Internet about a lot of things about Star Trek, but I'm with y'all on that one.

I will still give SFA a 2-3 episode chance, but I'm waiting for it to finish airing, and we're watching The Expanse first (in the middle of the first season now). Got a show or two on the docket after that, then we might work it in, but I don't have high hopes. But I've been asking for this series to exist for over 20 years, so I want it to succeed. (Not enough to subscribe to Paramount though.)

2d ago

Cybertruck

I feel that. I genuinely want to test drive a Cybertruck. I hear they have great performance and turning. The truck itself is ugly, but the unpainted/primer model you see everywhere is especially bad. I've seen them in black and they don't look as bad, but it's a flat or matte black. As someone who grew up in the 80s, I raged against the curvature of automobiles in the 1990s leading to the 2000s, but the Cybertruck is just too flat. It could use a little bit of curve. It's cool that it exists, being an electric vehicle and computer powered, it's a shame the owner of the company is a tyrant and all that. I don't hate that the Cybertruck exists, but the design team certainly could have let the idea cook a little bit longer.

I would be ashamed to be seen, one, in something that ugly, or to appear to support fascism by driving one. But, I've been a nerd for nearly 50 years. Of course I appreciate those aspects of it, and Tesla (and SpaceX), but the realities of it make it a zero-contact name. I couldn't do it.

2d ago

What is your opinion on the iPhone 17e?

$200 too much. The single-camera phone should have been $399. Keep the storage at 128GB if that's part of what's necessary to keep the price down. I'm also fine with the RAM being 4GB if that's feasible for iOS these days. I know it's not for Apple Intelligence, but the point is to make a cheap phone.

At $600, I don't know who this phone is for. You can get the regular Pro or the base model from last year or the year before for the same price and you get way more value.

2d ago

Hegseth says that the US will do what it has to do in Iran to "advance America's interests"

What exactly are America's interests in Iran? Eradicating Islam? That's a big mistake. 1 in 8 people are Muslim — that's based on I heard once that Islam is the biggest religion with one billion members, but I'm not sure how accurate that is. They're everywhere though, and they wouldn't take a war on Islam laying down. Palestine is one thing, but expand that to Muslims en masse and you're going to have a problem. Establishing the US as a fossil fuel empire by taking over Middle Eastern countries and making them vassal states? Maybe a bit more realistic, but we'll see what OPEC thinks about that.

2d ago

Entry level PCs costing less than $500 ‘will disappear by 2028’, research firm predicts

Mac mini starts at $499 and has gone on sale for $479.

It’s not really for gaming, but for $500, neither is the Windows box. And the laptop is a lie, even with those bezels.

But let’s be real, you can get a decent PC for way less than $500! It won’t compete with the Mac, but it may yet be better for light gaming.

2d ago

Messages from Epstein's archive, in which Trump is discussed, contain suggestions that if he is "driven into a corner like a rat", Donald will start a global conflict by bombing Iran. (2018)

Squeak squeak

2d ago

I can understand the Anti-IP sentiment about AI, but isn't that missing another key thing; we don't currently live in a socialist country.