Intel CEO is "frustrated" with CHIPS Act payout progress — Intel has received $0 from the $8.5 billion that the US government promised
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home is understated if anything, especially with interest rates in the 7% range
Yeah, interest rates being this high are no joke. I bought in mid-ish 2020, and am paying 3%. Have a friend that bought a house that's roughly the same $ as mine, but his rates are 6.8something% and he pays damn near double what I'm paying which was just... shocking.
What I'm seeing is that if you're a childless millennial that doesn't take vacations, assumes retirement is just another way to say 'dead', and don't own a house then the American Dream is still very affordable!
convincing ourselves that the fediverse is actually very simple
There's a difference between 'technically simple' and 'understandable UX'.
Your mom doesn't need to know how ActivityPub works or the intricacies of federation. She just needs to know to log in and go to c/cutecats.
The early-adopter curse here is causing way too much technobabble to be involved in descriptions that just confuse people, and it's technical aspects that the nerd cohort here is fascinated by, but uh, nobody else is.
The real leap will be to resist the urge to pull out the PPT and spend 3 hours and 10,000 words explaining how Lemmy works vs the much more concise how-to-use-Lemmy details that people actually want.
There's a lot of assumptions being made by a lot of people that "normal" people are stupid and couldn't understand 'It's a conversation platform like Reddit, but it's run by it's users and that's why there's a lot of servers who all talk to each other' and so there's a lot of hand wringing about how you have to explain all the details and such, which really, isn't all that true.
Every non-technical person I've explained it to like that immediately understands what it is, how you'd use it, and what it's used for and I'll occasionally get a 'Oh, neat, how does all that work?' question I can then expand on, but that's like, maybe 1 out of 20.
TLDR: too many details is not helpful for most people, and nerds loooooove going into more detail than anyone could possibly care about
unmoderated
Fun fact: that's not strictly true.
You could have moderated groups, where a moderator/group of moderators would get sent every post via email, and they'd only be posted into the group if approved.
The vast, vast, vast majority of groups were not moderated, but that's not to say you couldn't do so.
Fennec being a delayed build has been a thing for years at this point: it's a pain in the ass to get built and in f-droid. I mean, just google 'fennec f-droid out of date' and you'll see people talking about this going back to 2020.
I didn't exactly find a stunning shocking unknown thing: Fennec is slow on builds, it got outdated, there was a zero-day in older Firefox versions, and so bam: there's a security issue in Fennec.
Might be worth adding the Firefox security RSS feed for anyone using Firefox or a derivative browser so that you've got the best information about issues like this.
Collectors booster, but still: it's a stupid amount of money for 15 pieces of cardboard.
The crossovers are mostly meh,
Good news! They announced today that fully half the printed cards going forward are going to be crossovers! This has been met with uh, less than overwhelming enthusiasm and support.
Genuine question: is the fact that banned cards skew towards the newest sets a new phenomenon in Magic?
Not really.
If the card is stupidly powerful it gets banned not too long after it's printed, because, well, that's when someone figures out how to break it. So, ultimately, you don't end up with a lot of old cards being banned because if they're not broken as fuck when new, they're probably not going to suddenly* become broken as fuck in 10 years.
*Something new could be printed that makes them broken, but that's not especially common.
The issue is that this is a boiled frog situation: things have slowly gotten worse, and people have grumbled the whole way down, but it's at the point where WotC is adding the garnish and seasoning to the soup and everyone is suddenly realizing that they're also the boiled frog, not just people who play insert-format-they-don't-play-here.
Modern players rolled their eyes as standard got shittified to the point it's essentially a dead format in paper, and then commander players rolled their eyes as WotC printed super powerful cards into modern and it also shittified to the point that it's also mostly dead in paper format.
Commander players are now freaking the hell out because they realized they're absolutely next up on the shit-train to crapsville, but their response was to scream death threats to the one and only independent entity that could have made ANY sort of difference, resulting in said entity giving up and handing over full control to WotC.
As someone who's been playing this stupid game since 1993, I'm a little sad because it's both obviously clear that it's time to sell all my cards, and never think about MTG again because there's absolutely no way back to what the game was since Hasbro has to milk this cow until dust is coming out the udders because they literally have nothing else of value left to squeeze.
I was at Gamestop and saw their CCG wall.
Thirty dollars for a single pack of cardboard.
They're out of their damn minds.
(Yes, I know that's the collectors edition nonsense and not representative of the actual pricing and blah blah blah blah, but the fact it exists at all....)
Is it Lorcana?
It's really what it sounds like: the format rules were, mostly, defined by a group of players on a shockingly named rules committee.
They banned some cards, and some of the fedora-wearing stinkbears that play MTG threw a fit, and sent an absolute flood of shit to them, including piles of death threats.
The rules committee decided the $0 they're paid for doing this isn't worth this bullshit, and then turned the governance over to WotC, effectively giving the fox the keys to the hen house and probably destroying the last remaining playable form of MTG because some assholes had their fee-fees hurt because they were no longer able to just bullshit steamroller everyone they played against.
TLDR: this is yet another example of why we cannot have nice things.
the hybrid route of “Yea you can play as long as you want, but as soon as you give us money you will be required to give us money forever to play” route is counter productive
100%.
There's a couple of games I would probably be playing and spending money on that follow that monetization method and the problem is that... I don't play one game endlessly.
If you cancel and go away, you've made returning to the game a pretty substantial hurdle, and for me at least, I'm just... not going to.
(Also FFXIV's utterly incomprehensible login system that requires six logins on five thousand different pages under nine names doesn't help since every time I try to come back I can't remember how to even log in to anything.)
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Also, uh, hasn't Google been dependent on user generated content since 1998?
Like how is that remotely news that a search engine indexes other people's data to, you know, provide search results?
You could have seeded nonsense into Google any time in the past nearly 3 decades because that's how all of this works, so how is this shocking other than some Job Creator somewhere made $3 less than they would have otherwise and now it's a catastrophe that must have new laws made?
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keep people from playing their game
No, no. That's not it at all.
They want you to play, but they also want to make sure you lose.
I'm not deGoogled, so I just did the play store version, so I'm not sure where else you might grab it.
Oh look, a list of shitty companies everyone should avoid.
How nice of them to make it for us.
That make a lot of sense: a /c/hobbies makes more sense than making 200 communities for each and every hobby you can think of.
And really it'd just be a case of making sure it gets mentioned and surfaced to people and that the server and mod teams are up to the task of dealing with broad topics and just keeping things civil rather than trying to police content.
I thought about doing a community similar to that for some things but then realized I'm not entirely sure I want to be the "owner" of something that might end up with a lot of traffic and so uh, haven't.
I just installed standard Firefox until they've sorted out their build issues.
I have both my TOTP and my Passwords in the same program
What're you using for this?
I'm using Bitwarden in a similar configuration but given they're being funky about their definition of 'open source', I'm maybe looking for an alternate.
Wasn't Fennec a couple of major revisions behind due to build issues, and one of said major revisions was a zero-day fix, so yeah, Fennec would be vulnerable.
(I dumped it about two weeks ago once I noticed that it was behind the security patch curve.)
I mean, 'take the money, build an empty factory' is what tech companies do when you give them a money helicopter.
Maybe we should stop giving them any money and just nationalize these failed businesses that need bailouts? (Yes, yes, Intel isn't failed - yet - but my point is still valid.)
If they're important to the national security or whatever, then they're important enough to go through that process for too.