Quite a lot of perfectly harmless snakes around, including most pet snakes, and even the non-harmless ones usually won’t try to actively kill humans.

I’ve never had a snake, but I’ve had pet insects before, who I’m pretty sure didn’t have the mental capacity to like me or even realize that I’m caring for them. With those kind of pets, it’s not about having a companion or building an emotional bond them, they’re just interesting animals to observe. It’s a different kind of pet.

Truly horrifying to read about the kind of deviant behaviours some people on Lemmy are into… 🤢 What’s next, holding hands?!

Game developer. Quickly realized the working conditions in the industry were not for me. Maybe one day I’ll go indie and try to release my own game.

Yeah, could be that or the testing methods of either site might have been flawed. In any case the difference shouldn’t just be brushed aside like it was in the article.

Japan’s Chimolog is our second source. Its tests showed the Switch 2’s display to be slightly quicker, averaging 17 ms at 60 Hz.

That’s quite a huge difference though, about half that of Monitors Unboxed. Would definitely be worth finding out why the results are so different.

Yeah, especially since replacing the mainboard is not trivial work at all. I assume it’s probably more expensive outside Japan though, with the weak yen etc.

Raytracing and path tracing can look pretty nice and raytracing especially is worth turning on when it’s a game where it’s properly optimized. Unfortunately in many games, it really isn’t, which means the performance impact is too large compared to the visual benefits. So in many games, I don’t turn it on as I prefer the much higher framerate.

Upscaling technologies are pretty great. Especially in their current iterations, the image quality they can achieve from low resolutions is impressive. That said, they should be used as a way to get graphically advanced games working on low to mid-spec GPUs. Using them as a crutch to get unoptimized games working on high-end cards is not acceptable. Neither is pretending that upscaled and frame-generated performance is directly equivalent to native-res performance (looking at you, nVidia).

In general, no.

Depending on the situation, as a last resort, yes.

Some time around 2001 or so. Frequented various Pokemon fansites and also had some kind of “100 coolest websites for kids” book.

The beating around the bush about who it was actually sold to certainly doesn’t bode well.

Correct. With the Switch 2 in stand-by in its dock and the joycons detached, I press the home button on the right joycon and the Switch wakes up with a little jingle as well as the light on the dock turning on.

Every country has their own brand and degree of nationalism. For example, in Europe, you won’t commonly see the national flag displayed in a private context in countries like France or Germany, but it’s very common as a decoration in Switzerland and Denmark. Doesn’t mean I’d really compare the Danes or Swiss to American nationalists though. I think what makes US-brand nationalism a special kind is the intense superiority complex, the feeling that they’re the greatest country on earth and everyone else doesn’t matter. No Swiss nationalist would think that their country could thrive without at least some degree of cooperation with other countries.

Maybe other large-population countries like China and India might be more similar. When I went to high school in China as an exchange student, they had a flag-raising ceremony once a week where the national anthem was played. But I guess that’s still tame compared to having the pledge of allegiance every day.

I’d say it’s less the surgery being addictive and more that the type of person going for plastic surgery in the first place may often have body dysmorphic disorder, so they’ll keep finding flaws in their appearance. The surgery may even result in additional perceived flaws, which will lead to a cycle of getting even more procedures done.

It works perfectly for me using the joycons (just tested it again to be sure). Haven’t had a disconnect so far either. Have you already updated the controller firmware in the settings menu? Otherwise, unfortunately, there seems to be an issue with your hardware.

I’ve also enjoyed working with it. Switching to React Native for a different project later felt like a huge step back.

Right but reddit created the karma system and allows mods to set karma limits. Why did they allow this ?

Reddit relies on unpaid moderators to manage the subreddits. Antagonizing them by taking away their options for moderation is not a great idea for Reddit (as the API changes have shown).

Does it though ? Because a bot can post more and by virtue of being a bot has nowhere to be and nothing to do. Let’s say it takes 1 hour to get 10 karma. A human with school and or work can only to deal with might only have like 2 hours to post a bot can post 24/7 365.

Bots have ways to get around karma limits, for example by just reposting some popular memes for a few days after account creation and only starting to post spam a few weeks later. But that still means there’s an additional difficulty to posting spam and that there’s time for automated systems to possibly kick in before the bot gets the chance to post spam.

If that is really the issue then why not just have a captcha on post ? I know bots are better at dealing with captchas but those are still expensive.

That sounds like a nightmare TBH, I’d take a Karma limit any day over having to do a captcha every time to post.

I’m also curious, which subs did you want to post in where Karma limits are so high you couldn’t reach them? I’ve never seen them be much of a hurdle. You can easily get 1k karma on a single comment just by echoing a popular sentiment or making a mediocre joke.

That’s not a reddit rule, but a rule that subreddit moderators introduce to lessen their workload. Requiring a minimum karma means less spambots and trolls to deal with.

Are you referring mainly to fast food places or is it like that even at regular restaurants where you live? If I go to my local pizzeria or really any restaurant that isn’t a fast food chain, there won’t be any wrappers, single use cups or anything like that. Food will be served on plates with metal cutlery, drinks in drinking glasses etc. About the only single-use thing would be napkins I guess.

I’ve never experienced real poverty. Poorest I’ve been was the first month working at my first job. I had spent most of my money moving there and I think I had about 200€ on my bank account at the beginning of the month. Had to be frugal for a while but it was manageable.

I guess it probably says something about my own age that I don’t consider the Steam Deck to be anywhere near an old system.