Thank you for avoiding the risk of brain damage (art by Mooon aka Moon_LDL)

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Saplings on suicide watch

Edit: welp, graduation confirmed - January 3rd 2025.

• "The reason for my graduation is disagreement with management"
• "I'm not leaving because I don't want to be here and I'm not leaving because I don't want to be an idol"

https://imissfauna.com/

help I think I'm having a stroke and/or seizure

RIP, I was beaten to posting this because I took too long, so I'll delete (I'm honestly surprised this post got nearly as much traction) https://lemmy.world/post/22529971

For posterity:

Original post: infosec.exchange (Mastodon Glitch Edition)

Original comic link: https://www.webtoons.com/en/comedy/safely-endangered/ep-925-minority-retort/viewer?title_no=352&episode_no=925 (at a glance, it looks like it was the original artist who adapted it to be in a more social-media-friendly layout)

Her followup reply:

Looks like it will only cost me $100 to rename my LLC to "a basket of abandoned puppies"

I regret to inform you that a billionaire stole your arm to help pay for their next mansion / yacht / social media site.

I've come across this utility before - using it seems to add input latency according to the reviews it has on Steam. So using it to increase performance isn't really better than not using it, it's just a tradeoff.

If you're not sensitive to input latency then that's likely going to be a good tradeoff for you, but if you are (or play competitively) it's not.

I'm not sure it qualifies as "reverse review bombing" if the recent review +/- percentage matches the all-time percentage. There's just more reviews because of the shutdown, the ratio of positive vs negative hasn't meaningfully changed (97% positive overall, 97% positive recently).

They were careful with how they phrased it, leaving the possibility of a refresh without a performance uplift still on the table (as speculated by media). It looks like the OLED model's core performance will be only marginally better due to faster RAM, but that the APU itself is the same thing with a process node shrink (which improves efficiency a little).

See also: PCGamer article about an OLED version. They didn't say "no", and (just like with the previously linked article), media again speculated about a refresh happening.

It looks like they were consistent with what they were talking about with how it wasn't simple to just drop in a new screen and leave everything else as-is, and used that opportunity to upgrade basically everything a little bit while they were tinkering with the screen upgrade.

Yes, though just nitro basic. Discord doesn't show ads and claims to not sell my data. While I can afford to do so, I'd much rather pay a few bucks a month to keep it that way.

The number of people in this thread aggressively against a free-to-use service having any kind of way to pay employees and server bills makes me fucking depressed, and helps to explain why most free services I enjoy never seem to stay afloat with just an optional payment-based membership thing.

Edit: To people suggesting less corporate-based (whether FOSS or not) alternatives, that's totally cool! Just remember that the people behind these projects need some way to pay the bills the same way the corporate ones do, so I encourage you to contribute to them, whether that's through e.g., code improvements (which doesn't pay bills but is still helpful!) or plain old donations.

UPDATE: the shutdown has been (for now) retracted.

The admin (jerry) has switched from kbin to a fork called mbin that has apparently been able to integrate changes faster than the base kbin project. Jerry seems satisfied with the number of issues fixed in the fork (for now), so has retracted the shutdown announcement (for now).

FEDIA.IO update!!!

After I made the announcement about shutting down fedia.io, someone pointed out that Melroy, a very active developer on kbin, forked kbin to mbin. I just migrated to mbin and so far it seems to have resolved all the problems I've seen. It's likely too early to tell, but I think that Melroy is VERY responsive and helpful, so I am retracting my shutdown announcement. And that makes me very happy.

https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/111235153655966812

Followup: https://fedia.io/m/fedia/t/350673 tl;dr retraction has become more concrete. No need for the "for now" qualifier anymore.