[-] abfarid@startrek.website 5 points 23 hours ago

They meant to say "Control or* Backspace is Space", right? Right?!

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

While the post is clearly a shitpost, and the arguments in their provided form are not entirely valid, they could be altered to be valid.

Purpose-built devices will always have advantages over generic "do everything" devices. A modern smartphone can do everything, but you still have MP3/FLAC players, DSLR cameras, calculators, etc. Similarly, a PC can do everything, but there are still TV sticks, gaming consoles, tablets, etc.

PC can't be as low-friction as a console for gaming. To start playing all you need to do is pick up the controller, press the Home button, TV comes on and you're back where you left off. All the games in the store are 100% compatible with 0 settings manipulations.

Now, you could build a PC for the sole purpose of playing games on it, and come fairly close to the experience. But you're gonna spend more and put a lot of effort into it.
Some issues you might encounter:

  • picking and installing the right OS
  • hardware/software compatibility
  • controller support
  • seamless sleep/wake
  • lack of HDMI CEC protocol to control the TV

Whereas a console is a plug-and-play tailored experience that guarantees all of the above to not be an issue.

TL;DR: You can't just plug your PC to a TV and expect the same result as playing on a console. It will take much more work to get there.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 6 days ago

People mostly mean the Bedrock Edition for its microtransactions and lack of proper mod support. Otherwise, it's the same game and you can ignore that stuff.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 84 points 2 months ago

Nobody was busted, this is a clickbait post. Even the article just says they hired 2 cosplayers as entertainers, company never pretended that they were robots.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 100 points 4 months ago

But this "unprocessed salami" can speak. Kinda puts them on level playing field.
Unless, of course, salami is voiced by Eddie Murphy, in which case it's an easy pick.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 127 points 4 months ago

Scientific method is the best tool we have to achieve "pure objectivity and truth", but it's not perfect. The primary point of failure being application of it by extremely subjective creatures.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 140 points 5 months ago

Here's a lifehack:

  1. Quickly switch your gender to woman.
  2. Womansplain her everything that needs to be explained.
  3. (optional) Undo the gender switch.
[-] abfarid@startrek.website 75 points 5 months ago

Ultimately, both of those commenters are annoying. Saying "I use Arch btw" is a useless self-serving statement that provides no benefit or information to the audience. But engaging with that message in the manner displayed is also pointless and stupid, even if the statement is correct.
The saving grace for the "Linux user" commenter is that they are self aware about being annoying, judging by their last comment. So hopefully they were just being ironic. Or rage baiting.

I use(d) Arch, btw.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 74 points 7 months ago

"Time traveling sideways" is a genuinely interesting way of calling "traveling between parallel universes".

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 140 points 9 months ago

But for real, it's probably GPT-3.5, which is free anyway.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 152 points 10 months ago

That Firefox logo was simplified, but not oversimplified. Even with a very small icon size you can still tell it's a fox that is (on?) fire. The Firefox Family logo is oversimplified, just being a swoosh, basically.

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