visor841

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s EAC, which is kernel level on Windows but not on Linux. I guess they wanted to go full kernel-level anti-cheat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For states on the coast with excess solar energy why don't they invest in water desalination and pump that water back upstream?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Transporting electricity isn’t easy, you have to have large enough interconnects to handle the energy you’re moving around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Signal forbid third party clients or at least offer a client certification program to ensure security?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this is a big part why I’m very skeptical of Signal. It feels a lot like Ubuntu’s snap store, it’s technically open but you can’t really interact with the main corporate controlled ecosystem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What letter has the best games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm, maybe A?

  Age of Empires Anno Assassin’s Creed Aloft Against the Storm Across the Obelisk

  Hm, E would be a good option as well

  Elden Ring Elder Scrolls Europa Universalis Endless (Space, Legend)

  As a side note, would “Sid Meier’s Civilization V” count as “s” or “c”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For a very long time people will also still need to understand what they are asking the machine to do. If you tell it to write code for an impossible concept, it can’t make it. If you ask it to write code to do something incredibly inefficiently, it’s going to give you code that is incredibly inefficient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smartphone manufacturers still want to make foldables a thing⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I love my XCover Pro for this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2024 could be the year the PC finally dumps x86 for Arm, all thanks to Windows 12 and Qualcomm's new chip⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are tons of x86 Chromebooks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to make your dream game, publish it and not die in the process⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to let people know, this is a 6 year old article. Not saying it isn’t relevant, but the market of course continues to move over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who came first, the programmer or the code?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Plagiarism isn’t just using someone else’s work. It’s when you use someone else’s work and claim it was your own. The programmers aren’t plagiarizing as they’re being freely admitting it’s not their work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Worst performance of trying to get your money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You also you use YouTube in desktop mode in Firefox

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like the article uninstalled itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It even applies to new installs of existing games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this feels like Wizard of the Coast’s first response to the OGL drama. Make some changes that are technically better than the first terrible system, but is ultimately still completely unacceptable. WotC eventually had to walk back everything, we’ll see if Unity does the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senate confirms Biden FCC pick as 5 Republicans join Democrats in 55-43 vote. Anna Gomez confirmation means "FCC can act swiftly to restore net neutrality."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For it to really stick, it needs to be enshrined in law. Until then it’s just a current FCC policy that could get easily removed at some point in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam works on Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t move around in them, it’s either play or pause and repeat, which sucks (as shorts don’t have to be short…)

  Oddly enough, this seems to be a desktop limitation. I can scrub backwards and forwards just fine on my phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do comment counts often disagree with what I see?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty easy to see on r/askeconomics. All top-level comments there require mod approval, but will add to the number of comments while waiting for approval. So it’s pretty common to see posts with 10+ comments listed, but nothing besides the pinned automod comment is visible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix has removed Denuvo from Octopath Traveler 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s exactly right. I think there is a one-time cost they could pay, but it’s a lot more, so they just didn’t bother.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Author discovers AI-generated counterfeit books written in her name on Amazon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. I don’t think Amazon should get fines the second a bad seller makes a bad action, but they should have to prove (according to external criteria) that they are making good faith efforts to remove bad actors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Absurd”: Google, Amazon rebuked over unsupported Chromebooks still for sale⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe when Google lengthened their support period, it only applied to new models of Chromebooks, not already released ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immortals Fenyx Rising 2 Reportedly Canceled Amid Ubisoft Pivot to Its Established Franchises⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t be so cynical. I’m sure they’ll be able to crank out mile-wide inch-deep open world collectathons.