Clbull
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- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 6 days ago:
I wouldn’t really count Valve as a competitor because
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Their pivot towards Linux came from a perceived threat that Microsoft could force users into using their app store exclusively, and effectively shutter Steam out of the market entirely. This is something Microsoft have already done with Windows 10 S.
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The OG Steam Machines were a massive flop for various reasons, and the new one Valve is creating in-house is set to be priced more equivalently to a gaming PC than a home console.
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PC gaming has always been treated as its own separate thing.
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- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 6 days ago:
Do you want a future where PlayStation is the only home console? Because that’s how you get a future where PlayStation is the only home console.
And with Sony holding a monopoly (not counting Nintendo because they’ve pretty much been doing their own thing since the Wii), they’re gonna jack up prices and force exclusivity deals to further consolidate their monopoly, as any company with such a dominant market position would.
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 6 days ago:
Phil Spencer was a shit CEO. He absolutely cucked the shit out of Microsoft by releasing all their exclusives on competing platforms and eliminating any reason to even buy an Xbox Series S or X console.
Newsflash: Exclusivity sells games consoles. It’s why you don’t see Sony pushing their IPs on other platforms other than in very exceptional circumstances, i.e. Helldivers 2 and MLB The Show.
- Comment on Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel 1 week ago:
Literally Spez right now…
- Comment on Hopefully, he will be 6 underground by that time. 1 week ago:
Kamala lost because it was obvious from the beginning that she was a bad candidate whose only hope of becoming President was to be parachuted into the role via the 25th Amendment once Biden’s mental state truly deteriorated. Unfortunately for her and the DNC, Biden’s condition declined right as a key presidential debate rolled around, and his declining cognitive health became so utterly apparent that not even Reddit’s tyrannical cabal of power mods could cover it up anymore.
Before that debate, even merely suggesting that Biden was senile would have gotten you labelled a Nazi and banned from at least a dozen subreddits.
THAT is why she lost to a convicted felon.
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 1 week ago:
Why does he look like Steve Carrell playing a sociopathic big tech asshole?
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 1 week ago:
Kids back in the eighties were coding in BASIC, running command line prompts and using home computers like the ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC 464 and Commodore 64. The most I did in terms of coursework for my IT classes during my secondary school days was make a personal webpage about my hobbies & interests using Microsoft Frontpage. Sixth form (where I did A Level Computing, basically 11th & 12th Grade equivalents) was even worse, It was 2010 and they were still fucking teaching us Visual Basic 6 and the Waterfall Model of system development!
Something like an introduction to unix and programming should be mandatory. They seem to think that kids need to “learn to use a computer and the internet.” It’s a fucking point-and-click interface. What is there to learn? The software industry is very skilled at making it all so easy that a chimpanzee can use it.
This may be infuriating or sad for you to read, but very young kids who have been brought up on smartphones, TikTok and YouTube Kids these days can’t even do basic shit like this. Like, I’ve genuinely heard about kids starting kindergarten and reception who cannot even turn pages on a book and try to swipe left/right on them like they’re a touchscreen. Some even struggle to work with a physical keyboard or a gamepad that actually has tactile inputs.
The only other group where I’ve personally seen such ineptitude with technology is in old people. I used to work in customer support for a major right-wing British newspaper, and it was mainly things like website account access issues, basic tablet/smartphone tech support, and promotion enquiries I dealt with. I genuinely hated that job for a lot of reasons, but a big part of it is that trying to guide a senile 75+ year old pensioner through a basic password reset or explain how to redeem an e-voucher.
My dad is 80 years old and as the younger autistic one in the family who got economically screwed and is still living with my parents, I’m left with having to continually explain how to do basic email or phone tasks to him.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 1 week ago:
We didn’t have graphing calculators in school. The most we used were scientific ones which had sine, cosine, factorials, that kind of stuff.
- Comment on Parents opt kids out of school computers, insisting on pen-and-paper instead 1 week ago:
This may be the millennial in me talking but I’ve generally found schools to be fucking dire when it comes to implementing technology in the classroom.
During Year 10 (equivalent to 9th Grade for any Yanks here), our school enrolled in a government programme to start using PDAs in the classroom. So they offered every kid in our year a Pocket LOOX 720 at a heavily subsidized price.
They were never used in lessons.
Pupils instead used them as music/video playback devices and to play games, since it was 2007, smartphones weren’t yet a thing and YouTube was just in its infancy.
- Comment on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State 1 week ago:
The Machiavellian part of me thinks Ring screwed up by not raising the stakes. Search Party and the way they advertised it makes you go "awww’ when you see the golden retriever and then “wait, WHAT?” when they show all their Ring doorbells going full surveillance mode in locating the missing dog.
A lengthier ad showing a predator being tracked down and arrested by law enforcement mid-abduction, their victim rescued, then the violent criminal being served justice may have had a more positive response.
- Comment on Can't believe it's been renamed for a year now! 1 week ago:
Now this is a name change I can get behind!
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 1 week ago:
Fucking hell. You were not kidding. This was posted five days ago!
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 1 week ago:
Do you have evidence of this? I thought the Guardian was pretty left-wing?
- Comment on Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever 1 month ago:
Eww, Voat and Ruqqus.
- Comment on RIP Dick 3 months ago:
I think the only reason Republicans still win US elections is that your average American is stupid enough to think that waterboarding is an extreme sport.
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- Comment on 5 months ago:
Part of the reason Stephen Colbert’s show is getting cancelled is over the Trump Administration approving a merger between Paramount and NBC?
And then they decided to offer South Park Studios a $1.5bn deal…
- Comment on 5 months ago:
As disgusted as I am with the people that have been openly celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination, I don’t think death should automatically make somebody immune from criticism. All Kimmel did was point out that the MAGA crowd are desperately trying to characterize Tyler Robinson as a dangerous leftist, despite evidence so far pointing to him being a Gropyer (alt-right white nationalist faction that has openly feuded with Charlie Kirk.)
Kimmel deserves better than to be cancelled because Trump is a twiggered wittle snowflake who can take about as much criticism as a Reddit or Discord moderator.
Thinking of canceling Disney+? You’re not alone
I already cancelled mine over a year ago because Disney tried to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit on the grounds that the family had agreed to a forced arbitration clause, all because their daughter signed up for a Disney+ trial. Do I even need to explain how much of a ***cunt ***you need to be in order to wave a forced arbitration agreement at a grieving family whose loved one was killed by the gross negligence of a staff member?
(also, the fact that I can type this comment on Lemmy and not Reddit says it all.)
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Firaxis are like the Bethesda of turn based strategy games. They release buggy jank and expect modders to fix it.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 5 months ago:
Mmmm, Linux
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 6 months ago:
Just a friendly reminder that the OSA was never about safeguarding kids from seeing porn.
Are the government seriously worried about a child being exposed to Break Stuff or So What?
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 6 months ago:
(NOTE: Any links to politician tweets in this comment are from Nitter mirrors, not direct links to Elon Musk’s nazi bar.)
The Technology Secretary, Peter Kyle, pretty much called Nigel Farage a paedophile in a news network interview earlier today because he opposed the Online Safety Act, by saying he’s on the side of sex offenders like Jimmy Savile. He then went to Twitter and doubled-down on this stance, amid a lot of fury.
For context, the Online Safety Act has been used to censor and age-gate anything and everything deemed “illegal content” under Ofcom guidelines, else risk getting fined up to 10% of your annual global revenue. This includes anything related to illegal immigration and people-smuggling. Twitter had genuinely been forced to censor all coverage around anti-asylum seeker protests behind age verification requirements.
Zia Yusuf (head of Reform’s DOGE division, yes they’re ripping off Trump and Elon Musk) had this to say about the OSA on Twitter:
Britain is now a country which you can enter illegally without ID, but need photo ID to watch a protest against people entering without ID.
Let that sink in.
Labour have fucked up so catastrophically hard with how they’ve handled this legislation, that they’ve straight-up generated bipartisan sympathy for the leaders of a right-wing populist party - who are the only political force that have vowed to repeal the legislation because it is being used for mass surveillance and censorship.
If Labour don’t get rid of Keir Starmer, do a full cabinet reshuffle and reverse course, we are going to see a Reform landslide in the next election…
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 6 months ago:
Under the guidelines imposed by payment processors which were recently clarified by itch.io, Baldur’s Gate 3 would be banned, as it contains moments of non-consensual sex and bestiality.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 6 months ago:
The app is literally called Tea, as in “spilling the tea.”
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 6 months ago:
Did I state that? No?
You can fuck off.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 6 months ago:
Let’s say a vile, manipulative, entitled woman went on a Tinder date with a guy. He insists on splitting the bill rather than paying for her food.
She then takes to Tea and her local AWDTSG Facebook group, slanders him with false accusations that he tried to sexually assault her, then posts his Tinder, Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn profiles online. Suddenly he’s being ostracized, receiving nasty messages and even loses his job. Things like this have happened before.
Men have had their lives ruined by false allegations before. But opposing the existence of these platforms is “misogyny.”
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 6 months ago:
Good advice actually. Dating apps have been monopolized and enshittified by the same two or three parent companies in recent years.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 6 months ago:
They also said they deleted IDs once users were verified. The breach proved that to be an outright lie.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 6 months ago:
Tea is the offshoot of all those “Are We Dating The Same Guy” Facebook groups where ladies talk shit, slander and creep-shame guys they went on dates with.
Part of me wants to celebrate this breach because damn those groups are toxic a f. But also, it’s a textbook argument for why mandatory age verification laws need to be abolished. AWDTSG works as a way to keep women safe when it’s used as intended but there are too many women that will slander men with false allegations purely out of spite.
- Comment on How Coldplay actually sounds 7 months ago:
Coldplay is like depression in music form, but mild compared to The Fray.
