EncryptKeeper
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- Comment on The Web is Going to Die 21 hours ago:
The only solace I take in the enshittification of the web and the resulting rise in prices, is that we might see (be forced into) a return the small web and an escape from the stranglehold that big tech and social media has had on us for the last 15 years.
- Submitted 22 hours ago to technology@lemmy.world | 66 comments
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 1 day ago:
The graph will also give you a note that the review behavior is unusual and that there may be review bombing going on.
- Comment on Arizona ‘VPN’ searches surge amid Pornhub ban in state 2 days ago:
It would have been during your last state elections, the option with the little “R” next to its name.
- Comment on YSK: Little Free Library is a group that promotes local access to books on a more micro level, to build a stronger community of readers across the world 3 days ago:
I like my kindle as much as the next person, as well as self host a book repo, but physical books are absolutely not a novelty of the past.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 3 days ago:
Company gets a cut of every game sold, gets exponentially more customers that use your infrastructure on a day to day basis, meanwhile the price of games stays the same for 20 years and game development cycles get longer while games and infrastructure gets more expensive to make.
I wonder how Valve hasn’t gone bankrupt.
I don’t. Valve is in a super sweet spot in the market and their near-monopoly on PC game sales and lean business model gives them a lot of breathing room that Companies like Sony don’t have. Some benefits Valve has:
- They don’t need to worry about R&D of exclusive hardware often sold at a loss just to capture a user base. Valve has dipped its toes into hardware now, but even if its competitors eat some of its market share, those users will still buy games from Steam. On the other hand If people buy an Xbox instead of a PlayStation, Sony just loses out on the customers.
- Valve doesn’t have to operate a number of first and second party game studios to churn out increasingly more expensive games.
- Steam being a storefront on another company’s operating system means it can rely on external infrastructure to handle user services in many of its games.
- Valve is a privately owned company so they have a lot more wiggle room to tread water and “stay afloat” when necessary and aren’t being driven to an ever-increasing profitability targets year after year.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 4 days ago:
Sony didn’t need that infrastructure in the first place. Things worked great before they charged simply for you to play online
What you’re both missing here is that the infrastructure existed when it was free. They always needed the infrastructure, and it always cost money. There is no “before”. They were just eating the costs as a marketing strategy to attract Xbox players who at the time had to pay for Xbox Live.
As console adoption increased, as did the cost of the infrastructure and the salaries of the many people it takes to maintain it, it just wasn’t feasible to provide those services for free when it cost so much money to maintain.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 4 days ago:
You don’t buy… the fact that infrastructure that has to scale to millions of users globally, and the salaries of the many employees who maintain it cost money…?
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I’m not super familiar with Syncthing, but judging by the name I’d say Syncthing is not at all meant for backups.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 5 days ago:
Yes, charging customers for a product that costs you money to maintain is an excuse, and a valid one. Sony and Nintendo were giving away an expensive service for free to the user. It was generous, and a way to reduce friction with onboarding new users.
They jumped on board because maintaining that infrastructure has become exponentially more expensive to maintain today than it was 20 years ago.
I don’t even know why you’d have a problem with Xbox charging more for their subscription when you already argue for paid online.
Because unlike paid user services, game ownership is not something that costs them any money. They aren’t recouping their costs for a service they provide, it’s just rentseeking.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 5 days ago:
Platform infrastructure like PSN costs an inordinate amount of money. People owning games they paid for does not cost you any money
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
No lie you can and do fix Minthara and become one of the most wholesome a devoted couples in the game.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 5 days ago:
I don’t mind subscriptions for ongoing infrastructure as much. My problem is with using a subscription to replace ownership.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 6 days ago:
I’m not much of an Apple fan, I just like to get my privacy where I can. And with over a decade of experience in cybersecurity I can confidently say that as much as you shouldn’t blindly trust Apple, they at least give you a number of tools to increase your privacy out of the box.
Android on the other hand is a nightmarish hellscape of data mining and user profiling. There is GrapheneOS which is as of today a great option to circumvent Google’s data mining, but now that its future is at stake I worry for the future of privacy on Android devices.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 6 days ago:
I remember when GamePass was first announced and everybody lauded Microsoft for being “pro-consumer” and outright cheered when they started buying up independent studios.
I remember being downvoted to oblivion for pointing out the very obvious 5 year plan for GP and the fact that it would go… exactly the way it’s currently going.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 6 days ago:
Every major OS can be secured to the highest security standards
Has Android added E2EE to their cloud backups yet like Apple has?
Apple is no friend to any of us, but Google openly and shamelessly scrapes every piece of data you put on their phones. Apple is absolutely the lesser of these two evils with out of the box functionality. Like an Android can be more secure and private than an IPhone, but afaik that involves owning a Pixel specifically and installing an entirely different OS on it, one that Google a Is also out to get.
- Comment on YSK: You should enable peak refresh rate in Android 1 week ago:
I read on my phone a lot and I’m a pretty fast reader so having to stop reading every time I have to scroll down a bit and find my place again is really irritating after anything more than a couple paragraphs.
- Comment on YSK: You should enable peak refresh rate in Android 1 week ago:
When reading on a smaller screen there is more scrolling, and on a phone with a lower frequency screen there’s much more blue to the text as you scroll.
- Comment on Security camera recommendations? 1 week ago:
When I was in the same spot, the only camera that hit all the bullet points and didn’t cost a fortune were Reolink cameras
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 1 week ago:
Fret not, anything they aren’t going to actively milk will likely be sold off to try and pay back the $20 billion dollar loan they took to make this purchase.
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 1 week ago:
Well there was just some base level of hope in the back of some people’s minds that one day they might get their shit together and now that hope is entirely gone.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 1 week ago:
I’m seeing a lot of games with what seems like a much steeper discount than usual. First thing I do when there’s a steam sale is look at my wishlist and sort by discount and there are a lot of games on sale for 90% off, many of which only a couple dollars.
- Comment on YSK: You should enable peak refresh rate in Android 1 week ago:
Well I suppose those driving a Ford model T never felt left out not having a Mustang. But my trusty Pixel 5 lives on 90hz and the battery lasts close to a week between charges. But if you’ve really want to squeeze a few extra minutes of battery life out of your phone and don’t care about usability you should also think about keeping your screen on the lowest brightness at all times, never take it out of extreme battery saver mode, and maybe even just sell it and buy a flip phone? The batteries on some of those will blow your mind.
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 1 week ago:
- Comment on YSK: You should enable peak refresh rate in Android 1 week ago:
You’re better off with 120hz if you like reading things on your phone at all.
- Comment on YSK: You should enable peak refresh rate in Android 1 week ago:
Because using a phone with a 60hz refresh rate is disgusting
- Comment on Recommendations for Note taking app with simple needs 1 week ago:
I spent several years looking for the perfect selfhosted solution to this, but ultimately I realized an offline solution was just going to be better. So I started using Obsidian which is as simple or complex as you want with no paywall.
Some of the self hosted solutions I’ve tried were:
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 1 week ago:
That’s why I switched to Emby and only sometimes regret it lol.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 1 week ago:
Jellyfin can’t even do smart collections of TV and movies