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- Comment on Did someone tell Steam it's not April 1st yet? 10 months ago:
They do like money, but Valve also loves providing a service to people.
Nobody uses Epic Games, Origin, Ubisoft Connect, or Battle.net because they want to, they use it because they have to.
Steam Awards is a bit janky sure, but to say that their inability to run pointless awards properly ruins the convenience and value that Steam brings to its users would be a gross overstatement.
- Comment on Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thought 10 months ago:
Does anyone know yet if long COVID is an auto-immune disease? I only assume it is but otherwise don’t know.
- Comment on Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, court rules 10 months ago:
That’s what the ‘Lockdown’ feature on Pixel phones does.
9to5google.com/…/how-to-enable-lockdown-mode-on-p…
Impossible to force a fingerprint or face scan because it asks the phone to only accept passcodes.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 10 months ago:
I do see it as a potential problem with moderation on Lemmy’s end. You have all of the users from Threads interacting with Lemmy and Kbin users. It’s possible there’s an influx of accounts on here that are trolling, and it becomes unmanageable to moderate everything on Lemmy’s side.
But Threads will have no problems with content moderation.
- Comment on Senate bill aims to stop Uncle Sam using facial recognition at airports / Legislation would eliminate TSA permission to use the tech, require database purge in 90 days 11 months ago:
I travelled recently, and was filled with disgust when I was told to scan my boarding pass and look into the camera to get in line. I would have asked to go through an alternative line but didn’t want to miss my flight.
What the fuck is wrong with people
- Comment on Tesla may have picked an unwinnable fight with Sweden’s powerful unions — The first ever strikes and a solidarity blockade against the US carmaker could force it to rethink its entire anti-union model 11 months ago:
It’s possible competition will just recognize their advantage and pay workers more to get that step ahead.
- Comment on Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS 11 months ago:
The reason they’re moving forward with this is because if Apple tries to sue, it could make a case for Google that Apple is trying to take control of messaging in the United States. If they don’t sue, should Google come after them down the line Apple can say “we’re aware of 3rd party iMessage and decided to not take action to increase interoperability” yadda yadda.
That’s my guess anyway.
- Comment on Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002' 1 year ago:
You’re not wrong. And unless the controllers have some sort of TPM module in them then yeah they’ll be easily bypassed.
- Comment on Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002' 1 year ago:
Given that Xbox is a closed console, couldn’t they just have rootkit anticheat by default?
Maybe I’m stuck in the past but it still seems as if consoles still don’t employ anticheats.
- Comment on The FCC is expected to propose the return of Net Neutrality protections Oct 19th - Let’s hope they get it right 1 year ago:
I hope this isn’t a “Net Neutrality, oh and we’ll also spy on you for the good of humanity” bill
- Comment on Use of AMD Anti-Lag+ technology in Counter Strike 2 will result in a VAC Ban, Valve confirms 1 year ago:
Not sure why people are downvoting you. I’ve been in about 2 games and have seen people straight up get banned mid-match. It terminated the match immediately.
On top of that, I’ve never seen obvious cheaters in Valorant. Go play Counter-Strike for long enough and you’ll find spin bots.
Is rootkit anti-cheat sketchy? Absolutely. Does it work really fucking well? Absolutely.
- Comment on Qualcomm will try to have its Apple Silicon moment in PCs with “Snapdragon X” 1 year ago:
I mean yeah you’re not wrong. If only the Surface wasn’t so absurdly overpriced for what you get.
- Comment on Qualcomm will try to have its Apple Silicon moment in PCs with “Snapdragon X” 1 year ago:
From a security perspective, as long as you check the hash against Microsoft’s website then it should be okay. Otherwise I’m not sure where to get Windows on ARM ISO’s from.
- Comment on Qualcomm will try to have its Apple Silicon moment in PCs with “Snapdragon X” 1 year ago:
Here’s an archive of all Windows updates and builds. This query is for arm64.
- Comment on Qualcomm will try to have its Apple Silicon moment in PCs with “Snapdragon X” 1 year ago:
Already does?
qualcomm.com/…/microsoft-surface-pro-9-sq3-5g
Windows on ARM is a thing, and it does x64 and x86 translation.
- Comment on Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple 1 year ago:
This is what I believe Google is actually trying to get carriers to do, and I suspect carriers (in some shape or form) will actually do this, just not in the way you think.
RCS will eventually become the dominant messaging standard, however, I think they’re actually working on a backwards compatibility for SMS and MMS in some capacity. In this way, phones (like the iPhone or older Android phones) will still be capable of sending and receiving SMS and MMS in typical elitist walled-garden fashion, but the carrier will receive it as an RCS message and relay it to an RCS-compatible device as an RCS message.
In this way, group chats with four Android users and two iPhone users will still allow those Android users to benefit from RCS from each other (typing indicators, reactions, potentially some level of E2E, etc), while the iPhones in the group chat will actually be the ones having a negative experience (no typing indicators, reactions appearing as text messages, no E2E, obnoxious green bubbles) since Apple refuses to integrate RCS into their Messaging application. Of course Apple will continue to gaslight their customers through high contrast green bubble dark patterns, and continued refusal of adopting RCS or creating iMessage for Android.
The #GetTheMessage ads are likely gearing up for the eventuality of this change, and the Pixel x iPhone ads are all “buddy buddy, kill them with kindness” so they can out Apple as the hostile ones when they refuse to acknowledge the existence of other smartphones either through its aggressive marketing, or through refusal to adopt open standards.
If this were all to happen, depending on how well the RCS backwards compatibility worked and its ability to out Apple as the shut ins that they are, I could (crazy talk) foresee Apple creating a standalone iMessage app to, at the very minimum, keep Android users talking within their iMessage ecosystem.
- Comment on Netflix is planning to raise prices… again 1 year ago:
Price of WD red HDD’s about to go up too
- Comment on What games can you recommend that didn't get the appreciation that they deserved? 1 year ago:
- The old Thief games (succeeded by Dishonored)
- Condemned: Criminal Origins
Those are the two I got for now.
- Comment on Probe reveals secret Israeli spyware that infects via ads 1 year ago:
I think the implication is zero-click exploit.
But if that’s the case it should be fairly simple to reverse engineer whichever exploit they’re using.
- Comment on Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that? | Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits. 1 year ago:
I hope that the Unity CEO feels as accomplished, and prideful as EA’s.
- Comment on Fully Charged in Just 6 Minutes – Groundbreaking Technique Could Revolutionize EV Charging 1 year ago:
That’s not necessarily true, though it is also what I thought as of just a few days ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpqaQR4ikig
At least based on the information in this video from MKBHD, excessive heat is actually what causes rapid degradation of smartphone batteries. Super fast charging phones actually work by reducing the overall heat to the battery through engineering designs, such as by splitting the battery into two parts instead of having one entire battery that gets hot. In this way, a phone that supports 50W chargers can charge “each battery” at only 25W, instead of one single battery at 50W. The space between the batteries also insulates the heat between then. It’s simple but ingenious really.
- Comment on Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo that Tracks Terms of Service Changes and Updated Its License - GamerBraves 1 year ago:
So the companies “aren’t making enough money”, which means they don’t have enough to pay us, which means we don’t have enough to spend on them.
Hmm.
- Comment on Apple 15 relegated to USB 2.0 unless you buy the Pro 1 year ago:
There’s nothing more spiteful than not buying either of them
- Comment on Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger 1 year ago:
- Comment on Elektrek: "Tesla FSD Beta tried to kill me last night" 1 year ago:
It’s the same reason we don’t take drugs that haven’t been tested yet. You know, not in lab rats.
Google treats its users as beta testers all the time. Difference is a phone won’t kill me when it crashes and reboots.
- Comment on Steve Jobs: The difference of stealing yourself vs being stolen from 1 year ago:
I could believe that too tbh
- Comment on Steve Jobs: The difference of stealing yourself vs being stolen from 1 year ago:
Yeah, Steve Jobs was definitely an asshole, and he didn’t personally design any of his products, but he did know what direction to move things in and what consumers wanted in a phone. He was the first to put a truly usable portable touchscreen computer into our pockets with a phone in it, and every phone nowadays is basically just a reimagined, upgraded version of the first iPhone. The way we communicate is forever changed because of the iPhone.
But yeah iPhone’s are kind of the pinnacle of “how much can we fuck you over before you notice” now. All because of the little Apple on the back of the phone.
- Comment on Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: Report 1 year ago:
In this case I just have a case on my phone which stops it from sliding. But generally I do like having phones without cases on them.
- Comment on Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: Report 1 year ago:
Ah my apologies
- Comment on Apple to Limit iPhone 15 USB-C Cables to USB 2.0 Speeds: Report 1 year ago:
I mean yeah I barely use cables to transfer data, but there are times I need to plug it in to back up files. The Pixel 7 Pro is also a bar of soap and slides off of my wireless charger, so it’s more reliable for me to use a USB-C cable. I also like having the phone next to me in bed, and so I use a USB-C cable.
It just seems odd to remove something that is so reliable, even if only to have as a backup method. It would only make sense to remove it if wireless chargers are the dominant form of charging devices, especially in a portable manner.
Having a port also enables things like game controllers and wired headphones, if the user chooses to do something like that.
