TheHobbyist
@TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip
Just a stranger trying things.
- Comment on It's almost the week-end, what are you guys going to play? Also, could we have a monthly thread for July? 3 days ago:
Recently started Fallout 3 on steam deck, am a few hours in, pretty good game! Love the freedom, the exploration, but it can occasionally be a challenging game with the fighting and various encounters. Story is good so far.
- Comment on Favourite patient modern game? 1 week ago:
I have this one sitting on my digital shelf, should probably play it!
- Comment on Favourite patient modern game? 1 week ago:
The Witcher 3. It’s not far from being 10, but got a very nice graphics update for free and has 2 DLC. The game and the DLC and the free graphics update and a very recent mod kit, all for around 10-15 USD right now on gog.com. it’s a steal! I highly recommend it. It became my favorite game of all time, very fast. And it will offer around 100h, and it will also offer replayability. What is there not to like?
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship 2 weeks ago:
Why? Do Russians not deserve a good browser?
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship 2 weeks ago:
As Mozilla, you probably don’t have much choice. What’s the alternative? Get yourself banned? How is that better? At least this way, locals can use Firefox despite not having access to those extensions. And people find clever ways to get those extensions anyway, so it’s the lesser evil I guess?
- Comment on Dangerous? Signal Blasts Google Effort to Use AI to Scan for Scam Phone Calls 1 month ago:
You’re putting a very large amount of trust on something which may simply require the flip of a switch to add the specified information to be sent back to Google along with all the regular heavy telemetry already feeding back…
- Comment on iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes 1 month ago:
Perhaps, but this is unrelated. The magnetic charges may still be there, but if the reference to the content is deleted, how is the filesystem meant to know what file is there? This seems really suspicious to me.
- Comment on Why NASA is betting on a 36-pixel camera 1 month ago:
I was confused so I think this may need to be emphasized, from the article:
The space agency’s newest sky-peeper takes a different approach, however, performing groundbreaking space science with 36 pixels. It’s not a typo—36 pixels, not 36 megapixels.
- Comment on Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites 1 month ago:
Kagi is a paid search engine. It allows you to uprank or downrank specific webpages. In that sense it’s very powerful.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap 2 months ago:
In this kind of debate, to people refer to tabs as actually entering the tab character, or to the use of tabs involving immediate replacement with a specified number of spaces?
For instance vscode allows the usage of the tab butting to enter 2 or 4 spaces when pressed, would that be considered tab or spaces?
- Comment on Chinese media feel pressure to tell ‘positive’ China story as party tightens grip and freedom of expression declines 2 months ago:
How is it different from before? Were they allowed to give negative stories about China and the government earlier? I was under the impression it was already a pretty tight grip, I was unaware there was more to squeeze…
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update - April 2024 2 months ago:
Thank you for these updates, love them! And it’s great to hear about new communities being created. You’re doing great work :) I will definitely be donating!
- Comment on More ways to play your GOG games – we’re teaming up with Luna cloud streaming service! 3 months ago:
I can only hope and encourage the development of self hosted game streaming!
One thing which I just thought of and which may be influential, is the fact that if you play on a remote server, will there be a way to recover your save files? That would matter a lot to me and I’m sure to many others.
I hope the GOG spirit would lead to it being downloadable.
- Comment on More ways to play your GOG games – we’re teaming up with Luna cloud streaming service! 3 months ago:
From what I understand, you’ll still be owning your game on GOG the way you currently do, it’s mostly a new way to “consume” them. It does not feel like a regression to me, seems mostly to be opening to new possibilities. But this of course assuming that this trend would not lead to GOG discontinuing in any way the current distribution model DRM-free…
- Comment on Cable Firms to FTC: We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users Cancel Service With a Click 5 months ago:
We Shouldn’t Have to Let Users enroll Service With a Click. Customers may “misunderstand the consequences of enrolling,”
Sounds ridiculous? Because it is. Clicking the cancel or enroll button is pretty much what you expect… This is utter nonsense, obviously.
- Comment on The Sinking City release on GoG with -70% discount (until 23th) 5 months ago:
While I understand your position, I think if the devs see a growing share of userbase running their games on Linux despite proton, they might feel compelled to put extra effort in at least a better experience with proton (first) and then possibly later a native port.
I’m guessing this is how little by little we get devs to consider native ports. They need to see the demand for it before committing. If nobody ever even tries to run their games on Linux even with proton somewhat working, they’ll never be able to gage the interest and need.
At least that’s how I view it and plan on weighing in and nudging the devs.
- Comment on Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it 5 months ago:
We are in agreement, but I was attempting to launch a discussion about how we want the laws to actually be applied and possibly how they should be reformulated.
- Comment on Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it 5 months ago:
Of course we should have consistent laws, but which way should we have it? We can either defend pirates and Meta, or none of them, so what are you saying? Unless there’s a third option I’m missing?
- Comment on Meta admits using pirated books to train AI, but won't pay for it 5 months ago:
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding, but it sounds like you’re suggesting we side with Meta to put a precedence in which pirating content is legal and allows websites like TPB to keep existing but legitimally? Or are you rather taking the opposite stand, which would further entrench the illegality of TPB activities and in the same swoop prevent meta from performing these actions?
I don’t know if we can simultaneously oppose meta while protecting TPB, is there?
- Comment on The big Portal 2 mod Portal: Revolution is out now on Steam 5 months ago:
I just replayed the 1 and 2 recently, love’em. Is reloaded bad?
- Comment on GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused version of Android, is adding Android Auto support 5 months ago:
Rephrased my initial message.
- Comment on GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused version of Android, is adding Android Auto support 5 months ago:
Would they? Why? I’m asking as I’m unaware of what restrictions are in place for it to work.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 5 months ago:
Yes, it seems you are right. Nonetheless, even at equal prices, isn’t it surprising?
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 5 months ago:
I don’t have any, but I see the following: Cyperpunk 2077, which is available on steam, is cheaper than on the developer’s own platform (gog.com), despite both being at 50% off. Is there any incentive for CDPR to sell it more expensive on their platform?
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 5 months ago:
I don’t see how any of that justifies that valve prohibits publishers from selling their games for cheaper on a platform other than steam.
If anything, the 30% cut is significant and if a developer finds a cheaper platform elsewhere, why wouldn’t he also be allowed to sell his game for cheaper there too?
It’s really dubious to see valve try to control developers market strategies on platforms other than steam.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 5 months ago:
It’s not about what the publisher sets as price, it’s about restricting his options.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 5 months ago:
I found out recently GOG was created by CD project, the same company behind CD Project Red which made The Witcher and CyberPunk. Was very glad to find out about that.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 5 months ago:
There is nothing exclusive to steam with respect to Linux support. All of the things required for games to run on Linux which valve support are fully open source and even existed before valve got involved. They just threw money at the efforts and turbo charged it (which is great).
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 5 months ago:
I’m fine with them existing, but if there are clauses preventing publishers from proposing their games both on steam and elsewhere while they can’t make it cheaper elsewhere, I would like these clauses to stop. I read somewhere there are such clauses and these kind of clauses seem very uncompetitive to me and I wonder why they are legal (if they are).
- Comment on Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content 6 months ago:
Is there some specific background to “it’s okay to be white”? Without any context it does not sound obviously " white supremacist related to me, but it could be cultural, language or other.