Damn, this is with everything on max at 4K with DLSS & Framegen?

Send 'em all our way (EU) I’m sure we’ll find a use for it.

I must admit, it’s not “just” a remaster, but they somehow managed to capture the spirit of '06 when this first came out PERFECTLY. Picture this: I was still in college and studying at home when Oblivion was finally released. I had been waiting for it for a long time (to my young mind back then) and I remember it was a perfectly beautiful, sunny day and I was home alone with no obvious way to get to a game store.

So I asked my elderly neighbor if I could borrow her clunker of a car for “an errand” and drove over an hour to the nearest game shop.

From the game itself I mostly remember how drop-dead gorgeous everything seemed - and how terrible my PC’s performance was back then, especially in outdoors areas.

Today, I experienced the exact same form of awe, followed by the most gorgeous graphics I could imagine, and… 15 fps outdoors. EXACTLY how things used to be when I was a young man.

Magic. Truly a win for Bethesda (after Starfield). Now all I need is a PC who can actually run the damn thing on high with over 60 FPS.

Amen. Added to that I have an extremely common name (both actually) so even if someone were to find that out, they’d still have to sift my shit from all my doppelgangers’.

I was so excited. Until I saw it’s going to be UE5. Ah well, Skyblivion it is for me then.

The enshittification/rent seeking continues. Nothing is sacred.

Amen. I also work in IT and I find the longer I do, the more I loathe new tech stacks and developments. I used to be passionate about new tech and its applications. Now I just want to be left alone where possible.

China can afford to sit on these minerals for years or even decades. EU, US and Russia don’t have that luxury.

No matter how you spin it, China comes out on top. They get to sit back while their main adversaries simply throw away every advantage they’ve built up over the last five decades or so. The only winning move is not to play…

Most retailers have announced price hikes across the globe. I had hoped EU would actually get cheaper electronics and whatnot because of dumping. Oh well. Guess this 7 year old pc is going to have to sing it out for a few years longer at this rate.

I thought this was pretty mega fucken clear at this point.

I let Copilot write emails to annoying customers for me now. Company pays for the license, might as well use it.

I’m just glad I got my parents trained enough to immediately contact me for anything that seems “off”. The result is that they panic needlessly almost daily, but I still prefer that over getting the dreaded “they emptied all our accounts” call.

Instead of one central server divided in subreddits, we have dozens/hundreds of “instances” of Lemmy, which are almost all federated with each other. This means that posts, comments,… propagate between all the federated ones, not just the one you’re on. This serves to eliminate the need for one central authority (which can be hacked/bribed/changed/…). The largest instance right now is lemmy.world. If you were to create a new community there, it would federate to all other connected servers and people can interact with the content freely. If someone else wanted to start the same community, they would be able to do this, including the same name, if they create it on another origin instance (for example lemm.ee). From that point onwards, both communities will be live and be able to “live” next to each other without crossing boundaries or running into any technical issues.

This also means it’s almost impossible to get truly banned on Lemmy since you can simply create a new account on another instance. Since (shadow)banning is being massively misused by Reddit right now, this will eventually be the biggest reason for the growth of Lemmy. Reddit has become a staunchly anti-consumer/anti-user platform where trying to contribute is actively being resisted by power users/mods - and then they want to monetize your contributions through ads as well. No thank you.

You can appoint other people to mod, but if a community remains without moderation for a significant amount of time, someone else might ask admin to take it over. You can also create “copies” on each individual federated host which allows for competing subs without having to snipe for community names at creation time.

Not perfect but much better than any of the alternatives.

14 years worth of curating subs will suck to redo, but oh well, life is change.

Please feel free to create the communities you find are missing still! Things are smaller and slower here, but that means that even in the popular threads, people will actually see and read your comments rather than them disappearing in an ocean of bots or (DELETED).

You get an achievement for that? Cuz I’m eligible.

Absolutely, but they’ll have to jump through a few hoops to get it, which in practice already makes a massive difference.

Upvoting/downvoting history is a goldmine in terms of both marketing and surveillance. Every user with over a year of organic activity is a goldmine. Maybe you’ve never ever posted a single controversial opinion online. But you might have upvoted someone else’s - BAM, on a list. Or rather, category I assume. Those innocuous clicks reveal a lot more about you than you think. That information WILL be used against you. If you’re lucky, only to try and sell you shit you don’t need. If unlucky…

I honestly don’t know, I haven’t had a Reddit account for nigh on 2 years. I only lurk there now and honestly I shouldn’t even do that. I’ve completely given up on all social media outside of the fediverse.