mushroommunk
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- Comment on Jorvik: a Discord-style Matrix client with encrypted voice, GIFs and a mobile web layout (AGPL) 1 day ago:
Oh boy, yet another slopped out app that you shouldn’t trust or verify that will be abandoned in a few weeks.
- Comment on While EA shuts down BioWare, developers of The Sims, Skate, and Battlefield say they've also lost their jobs 3 days ago:
Does he have a bridge to sell because I think now’s the time
- Comment on ‘This Is Not a Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire 4 days ago:
Supposedly 40% of all websites as of 2025 use it in some form w3techs.com/technologies/details/cm-wordpress
- Comment on ‘This Is Not a Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire 4 days ago:
And if not full static generation then a light dynamic option like Alpine.js
- Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled 4 days ago:
Booooo. You can’t call yourself a Mass Effect spiritual successor unless there’s an alien that makes me question how I feel and an alien bro I’m willing to take a grenade for
- Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled 4 days ago:
I’ve not looked into it at all but isn’t Exodus selling itself as a Mass Effect spiritual successor?
- Comment on Endless pile of Needle In Haystack games begins to emerge, as viral hit imitator's devs claim their code was nicked by a genAI-using clone 1 week ago:
I’m worried that devs go harder on gen-AI to try to get games out faster
- Comment on "No more hand-written code": Epic reportedly impose "AI-first" model on creators of new Disney shooter with Marvel and Star Wars characters 1 week ago:
I was thinking more Marvel Rivals. Like why not just add Star Wars characters there? You know most people playing that only care about the thirst traps anyways
- Comment on "No more hand-written code": Epic reportedly impose "AI-first" model on creators of new Disney shooter with Marvel and Star Wars characters 1 week ago:
I wish I could boycott this but I already boycott Epic. Dangit.
- Comment on Xbox lay off 268 people as Activision take over Halo and Rare, while Obsidian become part of Bethesda, plus Forza and Fable studios merge 4 weeks ago:
Me: “Wow, 343 is really the worst. Nobody could trash Halo and forget what makes it good better than them.”
Xbox: “Wanna bet?”
- Comment on "Most people" at Bethesda wanted to make Elder Scrolls 6 before Starfield, claims Skyrim co-lead, but Todd Howard dragged them aboard his rocketship 1 month ago:
Recent news says that Asha has effectively done that and is more actively involved in Bethesda now. Not that I think she’s better based on recent statements and actions.
- Comment on Dyson is crap (mostly) 2 months ago:
I had the pleasure of helping a buddy tear down some of their products for his senior thesis in college (he was a mechanical engineer who needed someone who remotely understood the circuit board side).
His and his professor’s take (who was curious to see the insides and so hovered a little more than he normally would) were that the products have some very solid engineering, creative uses of basic principles (like that Bernoulli shroud you mentioned) but largely invent the problems they solve (a bladeless fan isn’t really that important after we started adding cages).
Sure cyclonic seperation was around, but it wasn’t common in the household, they brought it there and it really is great for filters, it just, doesn’t need to be everything they try to make it be.
This was a while ago so I would absolute believe things have changed since then but they noted some of the “cheap” innards you did were actually at stress points so they would break first instead of the more expensive and harder to replace parts. Stand mixers (I know Kitchenaid) do this as well, they use nylon gear that will strip if the paddle gets stuck instead of burning out the much more expensive motor. Again, this was a while ago so I’d absolute believe they’ve started cheaping out on manufacturing too but without actually seeing (well, having my mechanical engineering buddy see) I couldn’t say.
That being said, if their new vacuum with the conical rollers really works as well as they say and others adopt it I will weep with joy. So…Many…Hair tangles (yes I need to vacuum more regularly, but I’m so sick of cutting the hair off)
- Comment on GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux 2 months ago:
So for the trans stuff there’s a decent summary and opinion here: resetera.com/…/cdpr-is-a-transphobic-company-its-…
I personally (I know I’m the one who started this chain) didn’t have too much of an opinion on the trans stuff as I’m not in that space at all, so kind of defaulted to that community’s opinion. Not great, company had room to improve.
They’re kind of full of the corporate non-apologies and didn’t handle it the greatest. Everything after was them trying to save face I think. To their credit they did ultimately fire the responsible party. And if it was just that I might have left it thinking they screwed up, hopefully they learn.
But then GoG did their Nazi thing and I’m thinking if I keep smelling smoke there’s a fire ya know?
- Comment on GOG confirm they are working towards GOG Galaxy on Linux 2 months ago:
Cool, I’ll look at it just as soon as the evidence they aren’t anti-trans Nazis comes in.
- Comment on Id Software co-founder John Carmack "can’t muster anger or outrage" over Xbox gutting the Doom studio, but does say it'll "dampen the mood of the founder reunion" 3 months ago:
Man, that article is so on point. Props to Mark Warren. I already complained about amplifying single people’s opinions but this is so perfect. Calling out an AI pilled C-suite for just falling in line with other AI-pilled C-suites cutting actual people right and left
- Comment on "I know how devastating it is, and my heart's with all of you": Doom's John Romero responds to id Software reportedly losing half their team 3 months ago:
Don’t get me wrong, this wasn’t meant to be taken as an attack on Romero as a person. I mean as a guy I actually like him. His map sale with proceeds for Ukraine was a great move and I loved it.
Even my comment about him not being relevant, he doesn’t need to be relevant. He made his mark and it was great there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that being it.
As an industry and even economy as a whole though, we focus on this myth of the individual and amplify specific people way too much. I don’t know why this article is the one that got to me because really his comments are valid, leaving a company after pouring yourself into it can be insanely hard. For some reason it just felt like a micro representation of the problem.
People hold up Musk as a genius and amplify his words and ignore every engineer actually doing the math to launch ships for SpaceX. Molyneux gets held up as a creative genius for FABLE (well, did, his image is slipping these days) but ignores all the work done by Shaw, Elfman (still love that’s his actual name), Yarwood-Lovett and the rest.
I dunno. It just got to me. Like I said could have been in a bad mood and not trying to bash Romero.
- Comment on "I know how devastating it is, and my heart's with all of you": Doom's John Romero responds to id Software reportedly losing half their team 3 months ago:
I might just be in a bad mood today but I feel this entire article is part of the problem. The way I see it this is a guy who hasn’t been relevant in ages is still getting his words amplified about a studio that can’t do anything new since 2010 being shut down by a company that owns too much.
Like every industry it seems all the money has been rolled into a few gargantuan beast umbrella companies and they smother out new and creative things with endless rehashes of the same old same old and they keep the same figureheads who might have been creative at one point on a pedestal for worship long after they should be in charge to feed an impossible infinite growth.
- Comment on SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere 3 months ago:
Okay so I’m just into chemistry and astronomy as a hobby because I love learning, no expert. My understanding though.
The launches definitely aren’t great but they’re actually not the biggest issue. The problem is the satellites, when they’re deorbited, generate 50+ lbs of aluminum oxide which just floats on the upper atmosphere for years (like 30 years). Aluminum oxide is an especially potent catalyst for ozone depletion. The mega constellations that Musk wants would require multiple satellites to be deorbited daily, quickly piling up the aluminum oxide. The low orbit internet satellites are relatively short lived. So he wants either Kessler syndrome or enough aluminum oxide to eat the ozone in a year
- Comment on SpaceX vaporizes 260 Starlink satellites in six months using Earth's atmosphere 3 months ago:
They’ve also been shown to have a not insignificant impact on the ozone. We’re so fucked
- Comment on Star Wars Eclipse "literally cannot be finished" if layoffs go through, its devs reportedly say 3 months ago:
The gacha game never even fully released if you mean Spellcaster Chronicles. They did an early access and then killed it.
- Comment on [Controller] Think these people will be disappointed 5 months ago:
Even just doing the car thing and calling it “steam controller 2026” would have been fine
- Comment on Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI 5 months ago:
What do you call a 25% reduction in motherboard sales if not reduced consumption?
- Comment on Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Revolutionize Hollywood 6 months ago:
I mean that’s Glitch Productions’ entire schtick basically and it seems to work well for them
- Comment on Mathieu Comandon Explains His Use of AI in Lutris Development (my interview!) 6 months ago:
My state’s lottery team still use cobol, my buddy is working in fortran, and many sites I touched are running on php7 (discontinued in Nov 22). Not sure it’s really all that niche to work on old tech.
- Comment on Mathieu Comandon Explains His Use of AI in Lutris Development (my interview!) 6 months ago:
As someone who’s job involved VB6 just two years ago. I think we have a very different experience of software development. Sure there’s some companies who rush to the newest, but for others that costs money, they expect you to just keep plodding along with the tools you have.
- Comment on ARC Raiders replacing some AI voices, CEO says "a real professional actor is better than AI" 7 months ago:
I mean I do think your stance is backwards on so many levels but yeah, I’ve been on the Internet enough to know that not everyone speaks English as a native language or something so grammar is eh. Doesn’t make ya dumb. Internet can be a nasty place for sure though. A little positivity probably is a good thing.
- Comment on ARC Raiders replacing some AI voices, CEO says "a real professional actor is better than AI" 7 months ago:
You call out the arrow to the knee line, and yet, how much entertainment have we all gotten out of memeing about it?
Yeah, I’ll take my games with bad human acting over more AI slop any day.
- Comment on where the heck is it 7 months ago:
It’s an M.2 or NVME drive (basically same thing). It looks like it’s under that white rectangle in the bottom left of your image (it’s a little fuzzy so hard to say for sure). They have a heatsink on top of them held down with a screw. You just undo that screw and it can pop right out. The heatsink can peel off and be attached to the new M.2/Nvme.
With that said, my experience with bootloops is usually more of an issue with the BIOS. I would try updating that or reflashing it if it was recently updated.
- Comment on Steam survey for December 2025 shows Linux holding to 3.19% 9 months ago:
I’ve been on steam for over 10 years now. Was never picked for the hardware survey until yesterday. Glad I’m part of the Linux number.
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 10 months ago:
Yeah, I’d be more curious about the past three years combined. I know several friends still playing BG3 because they haven’t had time to finish it. As backlogs grow I feel like this will only become more common.