[-] nathris@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

China, the country that is increasing the number of coal power plants they build every year?

[-] nathris@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I want to see AI Voyager episodes like people are doing for the Simpsons and family guy. Basic 3d models interacting with each other using generated dialog.

Just Janeway and crew wandering the Delta quadrant violating the prime directive in the name of coffee.

[-] nathris@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

It's getting hard to do just between AMD and Nvidia on Windows.

I'm old enough to remember the days when reviewers showed macro shots of the wires in half life 2 to test AA between different cards.

Does anyone even test that enabling "Ultra" settings results in the same configuration across vendors/generations? I'm pretty sure LTT Labs found cases where it wasn't.

[-] nathris@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Many of these recipes come from Ukrainian immigrants in North America. The size of the cabbage rolls also vary from region to region.

My mother has a similar recipe to this that was passed down from my great grandmother, that she got from her Ukrainian neighbors in Saskatchewan in the 1920s.

I had a coworker who was second generation Ukrainian-Canadian who has almost the exact same recipe.

These types of cabbage rolls are hard to find because nobody wants to poach them in tomato juice for 6 hours, and the result is tough chewy cabbage. Can't buy them, can't find them in any restaurant.

[-] nathris@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I found a polearm that happened to have decent base damage, and nothing else. Sold it for $20 on the RMAH and ended up using that to buy the expansion when I finally came back.

Can't stand the way it works now either though. It's basically one of those idle games now. You just play the same shit no matter what difficulty. The only difference is the number of zeros on the damage numbersnas you gradually gear up to whatever the season armor is.

That's what keeps people coming back to D2R. You get a new piece of gear and suddenly you can run areas that you couldn't before. You have that carrot of maybe one day getting an enigma or eBotD, or you'll get a good drop for another class and now you're levelling up an alt so they can use that gear.

[-] nathris@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I'm content to wait a few years to see if it gets any better. I bought D3 on launch and didn't come back until a year after the expansion.

With the amount of microtransactions in the game it's only a matter of time before it goes on sale for like $15, or goes free to play. I'll get it then.

[-] nathris@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

My wife switched from iPhone to Android and has the opposite problem. She never dismisses her notifications, so her notification bar is constantly full and she'll have 30+ notifications in the tray.

My OCD couldn't handle that. If I get a message that I don't want to respond to I leave it there because I know that eventually the OCD will overcome the social anxiety and I'll have to respond to it.

[-] nathris@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Protest laws generally revolve around the right to peacefully assemble. If the stated intention of your 'protest' is to block traffic and cause gridlock then that falls to meet the definition of 'peaceful', as it puts public safety at risk.

One of the linked articles quotes the Essex police who mention that one of the people impacted was a pregnant woman in medical distress, unable to receive medical care due to the actions of these 'protestors'. I would imagine there were dozens of similar incidents over the 37 hours they held the city hostage.

[-] nathris@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

My mortgage payment plus property taxes is less than the going rental rate for an equivalent 3br suite, and I bought last year.

The thing that convinced me is that my mortgage payment stays the same every year while everything else goes up with inflation, including my salary.

We'll see where we're at when it's time to renew in 4 years but the way things are going even if it costs me an extra $1000/month I'm still probably coming out ahead.

[-] nathris@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Because all of the other retailers do the same shit only with higher prices. Here in Canada they don't pay their employees any less than the competition, yet their prices are 30-40% cheaper on average.

That extra 40% doesn't result in better working conditions for the employees, it goes directly to the shareholders and bonuses for the C-suite.

I respect the hell out of Walmart because they actually keep their price increases tied to inflation and aren't out there trying to sell a loaf of poverty white bread for $5 or a pack of 4 chicken breasts for $37.

[-] nathris@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

My laptop is 4 years old at this point. I spent $2400 on it before I wanted something future proof, and while it's still plenty fast with it's 10th gen Intel processor and 32gb ram, knowing that I could drop $500 and upgrade to the latest AMD or Intel chip makes me wish I could have held out another year and gotten the framework.

Given that we've more or less peaked in terms of non-gaming performance I probably won't be buying another laptop until this one dies but my next laptop will be a framework without question as well.

[-] nathris@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

My cellphone carrier hasn't rolled out 5G service yet. I was disappointed when I got the vaccine and was still stuck on LTE.

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