Contramuffin
@Contramuffin@lemmy.world
- Comment on [Help] How to run Links Awakening in 60fps 3 months ago:
It doesn’t run well on the steam deck, but I generally am able to get 40-50 fps. I capped GPU clock to 1200 MHz, and that seems to help a bit
- Comment on Spelunky creator’s mega-collection of fictional retro games UFO 50 will finally be out this September 5 months ago:
Bit dismissive to all the other devs who are working on this project, who are famous and influential in their own right. But otherwise, exciting news!
- Comment on Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
Virgin embarrassed H-game enthusiast:
“Haha they’re just jokes bro”
Chad owns-up-to-it H-game enjoyer:
“Yes, I do have 137 hentai games, what about it?”
- Comment on Introducing Steam Families 8 months ago:
Same thoughts. Mainly because it’s such a pain to explain how the library access system works in the previous family share.
- Comment on Which steam deck 8 months ago:
Not entirely true - OLED has a not-insignificant performance improvement, and has much better battery life
- Comment on Which steam deck 8 months ago:
Yes, I’ve tried it and it works fine. I should point out though that if you plan to do that, you might as well buy a USB splitter and then use wired.
- Comment on Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience? 11 months ago:
I think you’re misunderstanding the purpose of decentralization. We don’t decentralize in order to keep communities small. We decentralize so that normal people, the non-billionaires, can host Lemmy.
Let me explain. It starts with a simple premise: social media owned by companies can and will enshittify. If not right now, then they will in the future.
From this premise, we conclude that the only way to produce a healthy, self-sustaining social media is by having the people own it rather than a company. But this leads to a challenge: only companies and billionaires have the money to be able to host large social media sites. A large site requires a large server, and that requires a lot of money.
The Fediverse sidesteps this issue by only requiring people to have small servers, to keep costs low. But then that introduces a new problem, which is that small servers can’t host the sheer number of people required to promote discussions and communities. So, the Fediverse makes a second innovation: have the small servers communicate with each other and share information, so that as a collective, the sum of the small servers becomes large enough to host a healthy community of users.
We federate across multiple sites because if we were to all pile into a single site, it would overload that site, and the poor chap who’s running the server would have a terrible day trying to keep the site running.
The issue you’re noticing (having multiple communities of the same topic) isn’t really the intention of federation. That issue is just because a bunch of people from Reddit tried to make the same communities all at the same time without checking if the community already exists. The expectation is that, over time, communities with the same topic will consolidate, exactly as you predicted.
- Comment on When is it okay to drop out of college? 11 months ago:
I appreciate your thoughts. From a purely ideological perspective, I do agree with you. I believe that educating as many people as possible is ultimately beneficial to society. I see that someone else has already brought up the logistical nightmare that is academia in the US, so I won’t discuss that.
As someone who is in academia, I’m granted a perspective that I think few other people are able to see. And while it is true that logistics is a valid reason for discouraging academia in the US, I’m more intrigued by the fact that so many students seem not to put any thought into their life after college. That is why I bring up in my original comment that college is a means to an end. I’m not necessarily even implying that going to college needs to be for a job. But so many of the students I meet have never even thought about what it is they’re getting from college and how it benefits their life. These students don’t seem to know why it is that they’re going to college, other than maybe the vague promise that it gets them money or that it’s merely expected of them. In my perspective, these students are here merely for the grade, not for the actual learning.
If you believe that having a particular skill (hard or soft) is beneficial for your life, and you believe that college is a reasonable way to gain that skill, then I think that’s a valid reason to get higher education. I just don’t want students who drift aimlessly through college and later realize that they wasted 4 years of their time and money and gained nothing for it.
- Comment on When is it okay to drop out of college? 11 months ago:
My belief is that college is a means to an end. That is, you go in with an explicit goal of achieving so-and-so, and achieving it will directly help you achieve so-and-so after college. For instance, say you want to be a doctor, and to be a doctor you need a degree. Or you want to become an engineer, and to be an engineer you need a degree. These are valid reasons to go to college.
I find that a lot of students go to college because they think they need to go to college. Or because they think it gets them a higher paying job, but they don’t know which job it is that they want, just that it’ll be a high paying job. Or because they want the degree for the bragging rights. Or to satisfy their parents. I interpret these goals as stemming from the belief that finishing college is the ultimate goal, and that as long as you finish college, you’re guaranteed a satisfying life.
Having these kinds of goals, I think, aren’t going to get you to make the most of college, and frankly, I believe that having these sorts of goals are fundamentally misaligned with what the college experience offers students.
I don’t know what your situation is like, but I believe that the solution to your question lies in answering this more fundamental question: why are you going to college? And is your reason because you plan to use college as a stepping stone for a more ultimate goal?
- Comment on How do some people "read lips"? 11 months ago:
No hearing loss here, but I’m semi-alright at reading lips. It’s somewhat of a guesswork, but you can make out a decent amount of info, depending on how clearly the other person enunciates their words.
I suspect most or all people already do lip reading to some extent, but you can definitely “train” yourself to read lips better.
I mainly look for consonants since those are the easiest to identify (the shape you make when you make an m sound looks super different from when you make a t sound, for instance). There’s a slight bit of guessing involved, since several consonants have the same mouth shape (m and b, for instance). Sometimes, vowels can throw you a bone and be really easy to read (the a in apple, for instance, has you open your mouth very wide), but I generally struggle to read most vowels. The rest is just piecing together what was said based on context clues.
- Comment on Screw stripped 1 year ago:
Superglue becomes brittle when frozen. Instead of sacrificing a screwdriver, you could try freezing the screwdriver and maybe you could snap the superglue off afterward
- Comment on The steam deck feels very heavy 1 year ago:
It’s not particularly heavy but I generally rest the Deck against something anyways (my pillow if I’m lying down, my lap if I’m sitting up)