TwilightVulpine
@TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world
- Comment on RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address 1 month ago:
I feel incredibly bad for small creators that still rely on it for an audience and can’t simply afford to market themselves without it.
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 1 month ago:
What is the best distro for gaming on Linux?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey claims Bluesky is 'repeating all the mistakes' he made at Twitter 1 month ago:
It’s an incredibly ironic stance to take
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 months ago:
No?
The way you are speaking it’s as if they mean to close down the whole thing. There is a whole rest of the world for them to operate in. Sure losing the US market be a huge detriment, but the owners still might rather have it everywhere else, than keep it running in the US in someone else’s hands.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
Windows 11 made my girlfriend’s laptop so slow, even she asked me to install Linux, and she is not even a techy type.
- Comment on Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers 2 months ago:
Who knew firing most people keeping it running would have negative consequences 🤔
- Comment on Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites 2 months ago:
The movie industry can’t bother to provide and preserve the movies they make, they should shut the fuck up.
- Comment on [Retro Dodo]Google is killing Retro Dodo and Other Independent Sites 2 months ago:
Now even using quotes and specific sites isn’t guaranteed to get what you are looking for…
- Comment on Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act. 3 months ago:
Right. This is only “right” because tech corporations were allowed to undermine the meaning of ownership without any attempt to protect customer rights. The concept of “buying a license” is fundamentally contradictory, because without the transfer of ownership, nothing was “bought”. Yet they still present this licensing process as if it was a purchase, which is deceptive.
Many take it for granted that this is just the nature of digital purchases, but the digital market simply created the opportunity for companies to redefine purchases with less resistance. Now they are trying to do the same with physical objects: physical media, technological devices, vehicles, so forth, trying to establish that people didn’t own what they bought.
And the basis of all of this is simply that they wrote some text that they said so. Can you imagine if customers tried something like this? They would be laughed out of the room. It’s a sham. The flimsiest possible pretense of legitimacy. Yet it’s treated as valid because they have the lawyers to defend it while the average customer does not, and governments completely neglect their role to advocate in favor of the public.
- Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account 3 months ago:
They don’t owe Epic any respect or reasons to dislike them either. For all this “all companies are bad”, you are being a bit picky over when they can or can’t be judged.
I gave you my reasons why I don’t like them. They are not jumping into the game client market in the early 2000s, they are did it 2018. They have had the blueprint ready, with many examples, but they didn’t care to match the other alternatives in the market. Which in itself wouldn’t be such an issue, but it does leave a bad taste when they make themselves the only option where to buy certain games. I don’t hate them because it’s cool, I hate them because they inconvenience me.
- Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account 3 months ago:
No company is good but that doesn’t mean they are all equally, identically bad.
We have seen what Valve did when it was not the market leader because it didn’t spawn in such a place. What they did is lock their own games to their own platform, which is something most other PC storefronts do or did at some point.
We did not yet see what Epic would do if it would got to the top. Is it even guaranteed that they would continue to take less revenue?
And really, if all companies are bad, what’s the point of rooting for Epic to overtake Steam?
- Comment on To buy no longer means anything :( 3 months ago:
I see people going “this is what you get for buying digital”, and that’s what they are not seeing. This is not about digital being more unreliable than physical. This is an attack at the concept of customer ownership itself.
- Comment on To buy no longer means anything :( 3 months ago:
It shouldn’t be, but fighting Microsoft in court would be hellish, and not even a guaranteed win given how much undue influence corporations have over the justice system and politicians.
- Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account 3 months ago:
I can agree that GoG doesn’t have a large share of the market, but I’m still unconvinced of the benefit of this call for competition for competition’s sake when it’s introducing anti-competitive practices. Usually we want competition to push back against anti-competitive practices.
- Comment on What are some good games with *zero* replayability? 3 months ago:
I wish they would add the new content to PC too.
- Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account 3 months ago:
Ok, I really don’t get Epic hate. Sure, they’re using shitty practices to attempt to compete with the megolith Valve is, and it sucks.
Meanwhile GOG attempts to compete by offering features that other platforms don’t offer, like DRM-free installers and a multi-platform game launcher.
If Epic got to #1 place, what guarantees there are that they would stop using exclusivity deals to hinder their own competitors? It might just be that we end up with a more anti-competititve market leader, and then what would be the benefit of having overtaken Steam?
- Comment on Nintendo Is Telling Game Publishers Switch 2 Will Be Delayed 4 months ago:
Ultrahand? I used it plenty but it never got that bad for me.
- Comment on Nintendo Is Telling Game Publishers Switch 2 Will Be Delayed 4 months ago:
Well, it’s coming. With that in mind it’s better for it to be done well than come out underbaked.
Tears of the Kingdom is less beautiful or smooth than it could have been but it’s definitely not garbage. Not like Pokémon Scarlet/Violet or Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity.
- Comment on More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities 4 months ago:
Games eat up my SSD at an alarming rate. I could see myself using several TB easily.
- Comment on Scientists aghast at bizarre AI rat with huge genitals in peer-reviewed article | It's unclear how such egregiously bad images made it through peer-review. 4 months ago:
At that point it’s the dick that got a rat 😆
- Comment on ‘It went nuts’: Thousands join UK parents calling for smartphone-free childhood 4 months ago:
They can get bullied for not having phones, they can get bullied through phones and social media. They can get bullied for not having stupid ass Fortnite skins. Anything is an excuse for shitty kids who want to bully,
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 4 months ago:
To be fair it’s not like there’s an icon showing what it does. Maybe it should have? I haven’t had issues with overcrowded task bars since Windows XP.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 4 months ago:
You’d think but here we have your annoying ass throwing insults at someone you think uses Linux.
- Comment on AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever (OpenAI Sora) 4 months ago:
More like, a motivation for the wealthy who control the machines to kill us off.
AI sentience is still science fiction but AI-powered corporate exploitation is very real, right now.
- Comment on ‘What Was She Supposed to Report?:’ Police Report Shows How a High School Deepfake Nightmare Unfolded 4 months ago:
The indifference of AI advocates is just apalling too. “It’s going to happen anyway, they just gotta get over it, it’s not real.”
Teens can barely get over mild perceived embarrassment, nevermind having porn replicas of them spread around, and having to deal with related harassment. I dread how that will affect them.
- Comment on Spotify just changed TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks 4 months ago:
I imagine that if AI devs didn’t sneak around copying people’s works in bulk but instead asked for permission or paid for a license, artists wouldn’t hate it like they do now.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 4 months ago:
If Linux is not for you that’s understandable. The thing here is that they are not having a conversation about Microsoft. They are having the pettiest, least technical possible discussion about Linux, it’s devolving to pure clique shit talking.
If you want to talk about Microsoft, just talk about Microsoft.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 4 months ago:
How much more practical it is to complain about users of a different system than the one the thread is about? It got to a point people are doing this preemptively even.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 4 months ago:
Complaining about Linux and Linux users in every Windows-related thread, and you are doing it right now.
As a slight aside I am also sooo tired of people calling talking about something “shoving down our throats”. People talking about someone you don’t care for is not physically assaulting you. That expression seems to exist solely for people to wind themselves up over stuff that absolutely doesn’t justify that level of outrage.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 4 months ago:
tbf I get it. Sometimes you just want to be mad.
But like, it’s Microsoft’s fault.