[-] beefcat@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Have they? VRR support in Linux is still a total crapshoot in my experience. VRR doesn't work at all with multiple displays in X.

[-] beefcat@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How is this false story still getting pushed to the top?

We literally just had a thread about it earlier this week. It was debunked.

The same story came up years ago, and it was debunked then too.

People will just believe anything these days.

[-] beefcat@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

None of these problems are really dealbreakers for a consumer-oriented file system in 2023. Not even ext4 supports CoW. Now that everyone boots off an SSD, things like file fragmentation no longer matter, and most of NTFS' continued slowness has more to do with Windows itself than the actual file system.

ReFS is Microsoft's new file system meant for more advanced use cases. It supports many but not all of these advanced features. Starting with Windows 11, you can actually boot off a ReFS drive, though I'm not sure that is a recommended configuration.

[-] beefcat@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People have been saying these things since 2020 and it has convinced me that people in online gaming forums are out of touch.

Here's my argument against the Series X though:

  • It has nothing I can't play on my PC. Even though Sony has started releasing their games on PC, their ports usually come years later. I don't hold this against Microsoft though, I'm more than happy to play games like Halo on PC instead of buying another console.

  • Sony console exclusives are better and more numerous than Xbox exclusives. This has been the case since the Xbox One.

  • The DualSense is a way cooler controller. I'm pretty miffed that the Xbox controller still doesn't have a gyroscope, When utilized properly a gyroscope makes aiming in shooters a lot easier.

So the way I see it, there isn't much reason to buy a Series X beyond its awesome backwards compatibility.

[-] beefcat@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

By these rules, Gone with the Wind likely wins.

But it's still not a good comparison because of other factors. First off, movie theaters didn't used to compete with television, cable, video games, DVDs, streaming, or social media for your free time. The industry was also a lot smaller, meaning there were fewer high profile movies dividing up that whole pie. The lack of practical home video also meant popular films like Gone with the Wind would get frequently re-issued and continue racking up ticket sales.

It is essentially impossible to accurately compare the popularity of any two movies separated by more than a decade or two.

[-] beefcat@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not hard at all. I can already tell you I liked Everything Everywhere All at Once (this year’s BP winner) way more than Dances with Wolves.

1991 is a uniquely weak year for the Academy though. You might have had a stronger argument with 1994 or 1995, but I can still think of plenty of movies released in the last decade that I would rank up there with Schindler's List or Pulp Fiction.

[-] beefcat@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Presumably, discovery is a lot better.

Having used both Twitter and Mastadon, discovery on Mastadon is essentially impossible. You have to already know who you want to follow, there is no mechanism in place to help you actually find content you might be interested in.

[-] beefcat@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Xbox controllers are a good common denominator. All the platforms you mention have official support for them.

Most recommended alternatives you will find simply emulate an Xbox controller for this reason.

[-] beefcat@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

In this case, the problem was solved over 60 years ago. This billionaire decided to reject the tried and tested solution and came up with their own.

[-] beefcat@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

The best part about this is that the people wanting to turn the country into Saudi Arabia 2.0 have a tendancy to spread conspiracy theories about the other side imposing sharia law...

[-] beefcat@kbin.social 46 points 1 year ago

When you make a community whose key promise is providing a safe space for marginalized groups, is it not your duty to actually make good on that promise?

To Beehaw, following through on that is more important than growing as fast as possible. People who want growth at all costs shouldn't use Beehaw.

[-] beefcat@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

At first I thought "damn, what kind of socially defective moron upvotes a comment like this", then I checked the activity and saw that you upvoted your own comment.

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