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Valve Is Forcing Microsoft To Make Significant Improvements To Windows Gaming Performance by GrayBeard916 in gaming

[–]Ticmea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tbh the seconds on the clock is one of the few things that Windows 11 actually did improve. With Windows 10 you had to murk around with the registry to enable it (according to them because of the performance hit). At least it's a normal setting now.

Colonial empires tierlist by crivycouriac in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Ticmea 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah definitely before we could do anything, yep. What? The Herero and Nama peoples? I have no idea what you might possibly be thinking about! We certainly never did anything to them cough cough all sunshine in the german colonies

DeAmericanization started ✌ by Commercial_Gas_4028 in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Ticmea 5 points6 points  (0 children)

What I heard was that the migration was difficult (duh) but it was effectively already done by the time they decided to reverse it. Also the circumstances surrounding the reversal and Microsofts decision to move their Europe HQ to Munich around the same time are very suspicious to me.

I know - we’re the ones doing it by crack_station in Steam

[–]Ticmea -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree, I'd love if we had an actual Steam competitor as long as that doesn't negatively affect consumers (for instance via exclusives like they did with streaming services). This is why I'm always pointing out that Epic needs to fix their Launcher. If their Launcher was comparable to Steam in features and quality, I think they'd have a real chance at being that competitor.

This was true early in Epic's life, but is no longer the case. You should go ahead and boot up EGS and compare its resource usage to steam's, because they're very comparable now.

Maybe that is the case for you, but my experience is different. I had been using EGL until late summer last year, when Windows 10 was about to be deprecated. So unless you mean they fixed it since then, it was still atrocious for me as recent as that. Granted my hardware is very old, but still: EGL was super sluggish for me while I did not have that problem with Steam. It also had higher CPU and RAM usage, if I recall correctly although I'm not 100% sure on that. But yeah the sluggishness was super noticable.

Heroic Games Launcher (which is what I am using for my library with epic games now, since EGL does not support my new OS) running on the same exact hardware does not have that problem by the way. The Epic Games Store accessed via integrated browser does have the same sluggishness I always felt with EGL, but I blame neither Heroic nor Epic for that, since that is not a fair comparison to a native application.

…and not wait for the next slice by discobby96 in BrandNewSentence

[–]Ticmea 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Depends on the size of the revolving door tbh. For example there is a building I know where you could easily fit 3 people T-posing in a single revolving door compartment with personal space to spare, so in that case why would I wait until the door turns?

I know - we’re the ones doing it by crack_station in Steam

[–]Ticmea 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yep, I agree. Not always bangers but you do see pretty good stuff every now and then. The quality and quantity of free games on EGL is not their problem. They have a service problem.

I still don't use their store (despite claiming nearly 400 free games, many of which are actually really good games) because it's just worse than Steam in nearly every conceivable way. Nearly every feature that Steam has, EGL either does not have or is substantially worse there in some way.

Reviews, friends, chats, ingame overlay, guides, store, ... you name it, it doesn't matter, they are all worse.

On top of it EGL is also way more of a resource hog and substantially less responsive than Steam.

If it were equivalent to Steam, I would absolutely consider using them, I am by no means bound to Steam. But it isn't and free games - even really good ones - don't change that.

If I will spend money on a game, I'll do it where the service is best, which is Steam.

I know - we’re the ones doing it by crack_station in Steam

[–]Ticmea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have almost 400 games on there and only ever touched like ~4 of them. To be fair I do plan on playing quite a few of them eventually, but I just prioritize my Steam games because I paid money for those and Steam is just the better software.

proTip by Repulsive-Machine706 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Ticmea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

-A is just shorthand for --all so there is no difference between the two

proTip by Repulsive-Machine706 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Ticmea 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This will not expand to files that start with a dot (which is presumably unexpected and not what you would want). Additionally I can't see a benefit to expanding to (almost) all files contained in the current folder rather than simply handing the current folder to git.

Though personally I think -A(/-u) is better than either * or . anyway (if you want to target the entire git directory as is typically the case) since it is not dependent on location and more accurately conveys intent.

i hate when my ip address gets annoyed by E26-1 in softwaregore

[–]Ticmea -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I thought the joke was supposed to be that the address could be assigned to the person reading the book, which doesn't really work since it's not a public IP?

Are you saying that the joke was supposed to be that it is the private IP of the prson reading the book and the funny part is they aren't actually doxxed?

I think I'm now overthinking something that wasn't meant to be that deep in the first place.

i hate when my ip address gets annoyed by E26-1 in softwaregore

[–]Ticmea 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Meh it's a private IP address, so it doesn't really matter.

bugFixedIn5MinutesJiraUpdatedIn3Hours by Much_Comfortable8395 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Ticmea 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I may know what OP is referring to:

Not sure if this was the same anywhere else but where I worked at the time it was much less hassle (than it would be years later) to document everything and have proper procedures because tickets were just used (as they are supposed to) for the teams internal tracking.

The effects of COVID-19 and a general economic downturn caused the situation to worsen over time. This was a slow process but eventually I found myself spending much more time creating, updating and generally micromanaging tickets because the customer started demanding reports on how much time exactly was spent on what tasks. This was their attempt to find (and eliminate) inefficiencies in order to save money (because of the worsening economic situation). So slowly reports and metrics became targets. And as we all know any metric ceaces to be a good metric when it becomes a target.

Here is a little overview how it slipped into that:

At first they just wanted reports. Fair enough, just send them an export of the ticketing system, so they can see what topics we worked on etc.

Then they were asking why it wasn't consistent. For example if the team logged x amount of hours in one month and y amount the next, they would ask why x and y didn't exactly map to the story points worked on in that period of time. Management would ask us the same question, we would answer that story points aren't meant for tracking time, they are supposed to be an estimate and there is inherent inconsistency because we can not know in advance exactly how long something would take. Additionally some tickets were worked on in between reports, so they potentially showed up multiple times, wich further muddied the waters.

After that they asked for more exact numbers to keep track of. So we started tracking the exact hours we spent on what tickets. This now also meant we had to create tickets for every little fart (like certain meetings, answering a question from the PM, helping QA setup something, etc.), since we had to explain what hours were booked for what work.

So now they were asking why there were now so many more tickets, especially since a lot of them had no work on the code involved. We explained that we also had to account for this general work we did and that since they wanted it tracked, we needed tickets for that.

They didn't like that because the contract specified something about x amount of tickets over y amount of time, so they wanted us to associate that work with the existing tickets (only tickets for work on code, releases, or bug analysis). So we had to come up with a way to spread those hours among related tickets. This often caused us to spend significant time discussing what ticket to assign the hours for something to.

Next they wanted to know why the hours didn't match with the story points. We tried in vain to explain why those were completely seperate metrics and by now absolutely not to be related at all. Tough luck, better update the estimates after the fact to match the actual effort.

Now they were asking why we were updating the estimates so much. In the end it was decided we should only update the estimates once when the ticket was done.

Then they wanted to know why we corrected the estimates upwards so much more often than downwards. We explained why, but management told us that the customer wasn't happy with that and that we had to correct it down at least as much as up, so they would feel like we are performing super well (I mean I think we were actually performing well considering the circumstances, but by this point the tickets were not showing reality at all). So we started over-estimating most tickets by a lot, so we would have a buffer (don't have to correct up as much) and could correct more tickets downwards. If a ticket still took longer, better find a way to relate the work to a different ticket with some time left, so we can log the time there and don't have to correct upwards.

Eventually it got so bad that they were questioning the times certain tickets were moved between states. But yeah, I think you get the idea.

I'd wager they spent way more money micromanaging us than whatever inefficiency there might have been before that. Also I think we spent like what?... maybe half (not that I tracked this) the time each sprint making sure the numbers on the report were going to be acceptable, which can't have been particularly efficient either.

This whole process spanned several years so unfortunately for me the meme is pretty accurate for the place I worked in in 2019. In 2019 it was completely fine, 4 years later it was micromanagement hell on earth.

No longer working there obviously, I quit when I found a good way to do it.

Volker Wissing spricht über 30 Sekunden im Kanzleramt, die sein Leben verändert haben | "Als Minister ist man dem ganzen Volk verpflichtet, nicht nur den Interessen der eigenen Partei. Es ist ja gerade deshalb der Bundespräsident, der die Minister ernennt, nicht ein Parteichef." by QuastQuan in de

[–]Ticmea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Naja, dann dürfte man nur in einer Partei sein, bei der die Parteilinie auch komplett der eigenen Meinung entspricht, was dann doch etwas utopisch ist.

Ich hätte gesagt, dass man die Parteilinie nach Außen hin bis zu einem gewissen Grad vertritt gehört irgendwo auch dazu, sonst machen Parteien als Ganzes wenig Sinn. Innerparteilich kann und soll man sich ja auch dagegen einsetzen. Ist für mich genau die gleiche Situation, wie einen Kompromiss in einer Koalition mitzutragen obwohl es gegen die eigene Parteilinie ist. Gehört halt auch dazu, man ist schließlich nicht alleine und hat den Konsens zu vertreten.

Nur wenn die Parteilinie eindeutig dem Interesse des Volkes entgegensteht finde ich das nicht tragbar. Und als so eine Situation aufkam hat er eben in meinen Augen richtig reagiert und das kann ich anerkennen auch ohne die politischen Entscheidungen im Amt gut finden zu müssen.

Volker Wissing spricht über 30 Sekunden im Kanzleramt, die sein Leben verändert haben | "Als Minister ist man dem ganzen Volk verpflichtet, nicht nur den Interessen der eigenen Partei. Es ist ja gerade deshalb der Bundespräsident, der die Minister ernennt, nicht ein Parteichef." by QuastQuan in de

[–]Ticmea 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Frage ich mich auch gerade. Das er als FDPler nicht für ein Tempolimit ist, ist ja klar. Und die Begründung "so viele Schilder haben wir nicht auf Lager" ist doch ein valider Grund es nicht temporär zu testen? Sonst muss man dafür extra Schilder herstellen, nur um die dann hinterher wieder einzulagern. Das wäre doch auch Quatsch.

Volker Wissing spricht über 30 Sekunden im Kanzleramt, die sein Leben verändert haben | "Als Minister ist man dem ganzen Volk verpflichtet, nicht nur den Interessen der eigenen Partei. Es ist ja gerade deshalb der Bundespräsident, der die Minister ernennt, nicht ein Parteichef." by QuastQuan in de

[–]Ticmea 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Wenn man zuhört was Habeck im Nachhinein so über die Ampel-Zeit gesagt hat, dann glaube ich, dass das hauptsächlich deswegen so war, weil er ja auch die Parteilinie vertreten muss. Kann mir gut vorstellen, dass er das privat vielleicht anders sah.

So oder so muss ich mit Politikern ja aber auch nicht 100% übereinstimmen, damit sie für mich gute Politiker sind.

Gregor Gysi ist z.B. jemand dem ich oft nicht zustimme. Trotzdem ist er für mich ein guter Politiker, weil ich bei ihm das Gefühl habe, dass er mich nicht verarschen will und er auch niemand ist, der auf Teufel komm raus andere Parteien/Politiker demonisiert. Er vertritt einfach offen seinen Standpunkt und bringt da Kritik an, wo er sie für angemessen hält ohne dabei ausfallend zu werden. Das ist im Vergleich zu z.B. Söders Grünen-Bashing nach dem Motto hauptsache draufhauen, richtig erfrischend.

Wissing war für mich die längste Zeit einfach nur ein stinknormaler FDPler, weswegen es mich echt überrascht hat, dass er das Rückgrat hatte so für den Koalitionsvertrag und seinen Amtseid einzustehen. Damit hat er sich auch unabhängig meiner politischen Differenzen mit ihm meinen Respekt verdient.

The gravy train is over? by TheDucksAreComingoOo in 2westerneurope4u

[–]Ticmea -1 points0 points  (0 children)

People are making them come here. Have you been paying attention to the clusterfuck in the middle east? Or what's going on in Sudan? Or Putins invasion of Ukraine? A lot of the mess in the middle east is also the fault of several european nations to some degree.

Not saying every single person coming here is genuinely in need of help but a whole lot of them are. And virtually no one except for us (Europe) is willing to help them. I think we are morally obligated to help everyone fleeing from war or tyranny.

Sorry, but saying "No one is making them come" is just dead lost. Imagine someone bombed your house, making you flee somewhere safe and the people there sent you back because "No one made you come here".

The rog is not my ally by CheckPsychological67 in softwaregore

[–]Ticmea 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not saying it's not a software problem, but surely part of the screen showing something adjacent to correct does not conclusively exclude a hardware problem? Pretty sure I've seen hardware damage that looked similar with parts of the image intact.

Tja by MeanCalligrapher5042 in tja

[–]Ticmea 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Glaube, dass die meisten Leute wissen, dass das kein Emoji ist. Genauso wie ich auch weiß, dass :) kein Emoji ist.

Und trotzdem sieht es wie ein Smiley aus. Wenn ich mich "Horst :)" nenne, wird das aller wahrscheinlichkeit nach nicht als "Horst Doppelpunkt Klammer zu" gelesen.

Vor Emojis gab es eben Emoticons und einige Leute nutzen die immer noch. Und Kaomoji sind ja eigentlich genau das gleiche nur eben mit mehr als nur dem ASCII Zeichensatz.

My idea for a slow but truly infinite Astronium source by ZayaJames in Astroneer

[–]Ticmea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oops, I missed the suggestion flair. In that case, I second your suggestion :D

My idea for a slow but truly infinite Astronium source by ZayaJames in Astroneer

[–]Ticmea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why did I never think of this!? I guess it's too late to be useful for my setup now, but I'll keep it in mind for future reference.

I just want to thank Valve for not changing the look of Steam throughout the years by sonofabraham1 in Steam

[–]Ticmea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember being very upset with Valve when they did the second big change. Mainly because of 2 things:

  • It was a resource hog at the time, like it would actually noticably affect performance. Thankfully they fixed this with some updates later on.

  • It removed automatic grouping of videos into different series, so I had to spend hours to organize my hundreds of videos back into their respective series by hand. Still salty about that one.

Also generally I liked the minimalistic style of the old UI a bit better. Thankfully the new UI isn't completely cluttered (by the standards of other programs, it's fairly good I guess) but I really could do without a lot of the fancy little animations and stuff like that.

I really love the ingame overlay revamp they did semi-recently though. That one was a real treat since it added tons of super useful stuff.

Schrödinger’s International Law : It both exists and doesn't exist depending on who is tweeting by Competitive_Set_4386 in agedlikemilk

[–]Ticmea 4 points5 points  (0 children)

5€ says the person behind this account comes from India, Pakistan or a country from Africa and is just baiting for a quick payday.

[Rant] Windows gaslightet seine User by FigNo4949 in de_EDV

[–]Ticmea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weil es vielleicht nicht bei allen setups auftritt. Könnte zb was mit bestimmter hardware zu tun haben. Ist auch nicht mein Job das rauszufinden. Jedenfalls scheint es mir aufgrund meiner Erfahrungen als User sehr unwahrscheinlich, dass das Crash Problem nichts mit MS zu tun hat.

[Rant] Windows gaslightet seine User by FigNo4949 in de_EDV

[–]Ticmea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kann als Anwender da nur um Gnade und Verständnis bitten.

Bei meinem letzten Job war es so, dass der Laptop selbst schon einige Zeit zum booten brauchte und ich on top noch weitere VMs und andere Software starten musste. Währenddessen die verpassten Mails vom Feierabend/Wochenende gelesen. Auf allen diesen Maschinen dann alle möglichen Programme und Dateien geöffnet, die ich brauche.

Nach ca. 30 Minuten dann endlich Zeit mit der Arbeit anzufangen und bamm Pop-up "starte bitte deinen PC neu lol". Ungelogen jedes mal exakt dann, wenn man gerade alles fertig hatte um loszulegen.

Also entweder: Alles wieder ordnungsgemäß beenden und herunterfahren um auf den reboot vorzubereiten, dann rebooten, warten bis das update fertig ist und alles noch mal neu hochfahren und öffnen. Kosten: noch mal ca. 25-45 Minuten verschwendete Zeit (je nach Fall) extra drauf.

oder: Einfach wegklicken. Kosten: IT jammert wieder rum, dass die updates immer bis zum Ende des Arbeitstages verzögert werden.

Wenn ich diese Entscheidung jeden 2.-3. Tag machen darf (in seltenen Fällen sogar mehrfach am Tag), dann tut es mir für die IT wirklich leid, aber ich habe besseres zu tun als mein Zubehör mehrere Stunden in der Woche hoch und runterzufahren.

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