[-] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 6 points 6 days ago

It's a tactic for Reddit to avoid people hearing about alternatives

Someone didn't check the context before commenting.

[-] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 61 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I can't speak to the specifics of it, but Bedrock and Java editions are functionally entirely different games. They're designed to function nearly the same, but under the hood, the only real similarities are in the graphical assets. Past the user interaction, they're not really comparable at all.

[-] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 98 points 3 weeks ago

Remember: Stealing from big, evil corporations is morally correct.

[-] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 62 points 1 month ago

Dorsey was on a tear yesterday, unfollowing all but three accounts on X while referring to Elon Musk’s platform as “freedom technology.”

Ah, I see. He went insane.

[-] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 59 points 2 months ago

Makes sense, I guess. At it's core, the series is a critique of US government and society.

[-] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 60 points 3 months ago

You leave The Golden Girls alone, mother fucker.

[-] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 59 points 5 months ago

Did you read the article? It didn't. Someone received someone else's chat history appended to one of their own chats. No prompting, just appeared overnight.

[-] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 66 points 5 months ago

For anyone having trouble remembering her like me, this is the woman that ran the scam blood testing company with "super-duper awesome blood testing machines," that actually never worked and they just did standard blood tests at huge markups (read: committed fraud).

[-] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 87 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

You know what this sounds like to me?

Like Moderna is gonna ask $10k a poke.

Edit: ITT: Pharma bros telling me how awesome artificially-inflated medication prices are.

[-] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 112 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Well, I have four big ones:

  • System scanning: EGS is known to automatically scan your system and send your data back to them. While this seems to be the same type of analytics Steam does occasionally, in Steam's case, it's opt-in, and done with full, informed consent.

  • Paid exclusives: Epic has been known to pay publishers to make their games artificially exclusive to their own store. They regularly claim this money is to support the development of the games in question, but this is easily disproven, as they've been seen buying games known to be complete more than once. Additionally, this has resulted in bait-and-switch-like situations, where users would prepurchase Steam copies of games, only to be informed that they wouldn't be getting them.

  • Publisher-centric behavior: Another user here claimed that EGS is pro-developer and anti-consumer, but this is only half true. This only rings true in the case of self-published games. There have been cases of developers getting unwarranted backlash after aforementioned bait-and-switches, when they were just as surprised to learn about all the "development support" they received as anyone.

  • Tim Sweeney: Tim Weeney, the CEO of Epic, is an asshole. A giant, narcissistic, hateful shitbag. Just look at his Twitter, the dudes a giant POS.

[-] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 109 points 7 months ago

That might be the grossest headline I've ever seen.

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submitted 9 months ago by Ganbat@lemmyonline.com to c/eternityapp

So, on a user page, under the dot menu, there's a report option. Tapping this opens a Reddithelp article. I assume this is a leftover from Infinity, but I figured it should be pointed out since this app isn't attached to Reddit.

[-] Ganbat@lemmyonline.com 62 points 9 months ago

Well, for one thing, Nexus gives modders a share of ad revenue. Under a different name, I have a mod that's a backend requirement for a big, popular mod, and that nets me a reliable few bucks a month.

That said, a good portion of the modding community also exists on Gamebanana. If you want BotW, ToTK or Source engine mods, GB is the go-to.

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ChatGPT API Piracy (lemmyonline.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Ganbat@lemmyonline.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Is this even still a thing? It seems to be pretty well dead. Poe-API shat the bed, GPT4FREE got shut down and it's replacement seems to be pretty much non-functional, Proxies are a weird secret club thing (despite being nearly totally based on scraped corporate keys), etc.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Ganbat@lemmyonline.com to c/stable_diffusion@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Since the shutdown of SD on Colab, is there any option for running SD without disposable income?

I know about StableHorde, but it doesn't seem to really... Well, work. Not for people without GPUs to gain Kudos on at least. It always gives a 5+ minute long queue and then ends up erroring out before that time runs out.

EDIT: It took me a while to set up. but as it turns out, my best option is in fact my 10-year-old computer with a 2GB AMD card. Using the DirectML fork of the WebUI with --lowvram runs pretty damn well for me. It's not as fast as Colab was, but it's not slow by any means. I guess the best advice in the end is, even if you're on a shitbox, try it, your shitbox might surprise you. So take note, though, that running on 2GB Vram doesn't work for everyone, only the luckiest of broke mfs can do that it seems.

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Is Xmanager a Scam? (lemmyonline.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Ganbat@lemmyonline.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

So, I've heard about XManager for a little while and just finally decided to try it, and...

So just level with me, is this thing an advertising scam? When I tap on a version and choose download, an ad appears, I wait for it's timer to finish, close it and... Nothing happens. It never downloads anything, just serves ad after ad.

Edit: So, after disabling ads and trying again several more times, I was able to download and install.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Ganbat@lemmyonline.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I've got a big music library of CD rips that I'd like to share, but my ISP routes my traffic, meaning I can't forward shit to my computer. I can't change ISPs because I live in a functional monopoly and this is the only provider with reasonable data rates. Is there anything I can do to share? Thanks in advance!

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