• 0 Posts
  • 52 Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 8th, 2023

help-circle
  • Why do you wish to live with such a high footprint? Why not a modest apartment and a public swimming pool nearby? (Still unachievable for many, sadly, but much more realistic for anyone except the super wealthy.)

    Not trying to bash on you, I really want to understand where you’re coming from.




  • Tldw: piracy is a service problem. If you have a product that’s not available in your local language, but the pirates localise it days after release instead of months, and at a much better quality too (and without all the crappy drm that forces always online etc), that’s a game developer/distributor/… problem, not a piracy problem.

    I also recall (not in this vid though) gaben (or maybe someone else?) saying something about piracy actually increasing sales of games, as a form of demo or try before you buy (for good games anyway lol). I know I’ve done that, pirate a game when I was a poor student (no sales money lost because otherwise I just wouldn’t have bought it) and then bought it on steam years later and never played it there, just because I believe the devs deserve it.








  • I have some steelseries (I believe maybe arctis 7 or 9? I should check, not the one that also does Bluetooth), and it works fine after using the accompanying software once years ago to set mic loopback to the level I like.

    It has

    • mic loopback (adjustable with the windows only software but set and forget)
    • 2 channels, one for chat and one for “gaming” i.e. anything else. Perfect to set gaming as default output and slack or teams or discord or whatever you use to voice chat to the chat channel and you can use the knob to dial between 0% chat & 100% game <-> 100% both <-> 0% game & 100% chat
    • another knob for the global volume which then combined with the other knob allows all possible configurations
    • mic mute button
    • usb micro-b charging
    • some weird specific cable that does 3.5mm jack iirc, never used it but then you can use it for your phone I guess
    • connects to your computer using wireless (2.4ghz usb dongle at computer side)

    All of those in hardware so no software needed, except for the mic loopback, so pretty happy with that. I’ve had it since my windows 7 days, and I refused to “upgrade” to a higher version of windows, instead upgraded to linux, so it’s been going strong for years and years now

    Only thing was that I replaced the over ear pads

    9/10, easily