Blackmist
@Blackmist@feddit.uk
- Comment on Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026 2 hours ago:
It’s like people only do these things because they can get paid. And that’s just really sad.
- Comment on Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud 14 hours ago:
I’m assuming that Nextcloud handles all it’s moneymaking outside of the app (indeed it appears to be free if you host the server yourself).
If Google were making 30% on a ton of in-app purchases, they’d let it harvest your fucking organs.
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 2 days ago:
Realistically, the best distro for a Windows user is one that runs all their existing Windows software (both applications and games) right out of the box.
Does any distro even come close to doing that?
- Comment on End of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending 2 days ago:
I recommend Gentoo for a beginner.
What better way to understand your new OS than by compiling it from scratch?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Form an orderly queue, girls.
Yet still not as creepy as the guy in that Mark Wahlberg film with the Romeo and Juliet law printed on a laminated card that he keeps with him at all times…
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings 2 days ago:
Good. Do me a favour and block the audio as well.
- Comment on "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games 3 days ago:
So $89.99 then.
Special edition with a 6" plastic Temu tat figurine and 1000 FREE BorderBucks will be $249.99.
- Comment on Rate my setup 4 days ago:
Oh it’s beans. I thought it was Wotsits.
- Comment on 28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it" 4 days ago:
I don’t know why it isn’t more common to open source really old games.
You don’t have to give away the assets. ID gave away the source to Doom and Quake and people can still play them now. Yet here we are, 20 years later, and they’re about the only studio that ever bothered.
- Comment on Pope Joan 5 days ago:
At school we had a thing where if your ring finger was longer than your index finger then it meant you were a bummer. Never mind the fact that you can change that with slight angling of the hand.
This is what those kids are doing now.
- Comment on New Reform UK Council Leader Calls Ukraine War 'A Distraction' 5 days ago:
Hey girl, are you a bergenia pacifica?
Because you’re a fucking Russian plant.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 5 days ago:
I realised this when I took money out of a cash machine in Tenerife.
It shows you an exchange rate and a prompt to accept. If you press yes, you get scammed with a crap rate. It’s not really clear that if you press no you still get money but at your bank exchange rate which is almost certainly better than a scummy airport ATM.
I guess it’s nice that you get scammed right out of the gate, because at least it puts you on guard for the rest of your holiday. Fuck that whole island tbh.
- Comment on What were your go-to Games (or programs! We're all nerds here) from your childhood 5 days ago:
I played Midnight Resistance and RoboCop on the Spectrum constantly. Initially with Pokes for infinite lives and shit, but by the end I could sail through both and barely take a hit.
- Comment on Found a brand new, unused Pong console from 1979 in an Edinburgh charity shop for 20£ 5 days ago:
I had a black and white version of this.
All the games were basically the same apart from the target shooting game.
- Comment on CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit 6 days ago:
I think the main issue people have is that they got Peter Molyneux’d on it. Which is fair enough, and why I don’t really read much about games before I play them.
I’m glad I held off until PL came out, because it looks like the 2.0 update fixed a lot of things that would irritate me, like gear and levelling blocking off missions. It does rob you of a sense of progression, but I’ll trust their decision to drop that.
There’s enough RPG elements to get in the way of it being a shooter, but not enough to actually satisfy anybody who wanted a full blown RPG. Decisions especially are very binary and I gave up on the platinum trophy after seeing I’d have to save a guy I let die about 60 hours of gameplay ago, in a save long since overridden.
I guess I’ve been around the block enough times to filter out any claims of amazing AI and day/night cycles. We’ve heard those claims before with Fable and Oblivion, and all it really meant is “the shops shut at night”. And here it didn’t even do that, at least beyond a handful of locations where you had to press a button to wait until they opened before you could do the quest inside.
I think I’ve had a lot better experience going into this late and blind.
Patches mean we’re no longer in the days of bad games being bad forever, but they’re certainly remembered that way.
- Comment on Human rice cooker 1 week ago:
Here’s what I don’t get about every Chinese item on Amazon:
Why the terrible photoshop?
You’ve got a product. You make it. It’s cheap crap, sure, but so are most established brands at this point. You probably make them in the same factory.
And surely somebody who works for you isn’t a grotesquely ugly freak and could just hold the item, or otherwise use it as intended.
But no, everything from digital cameras to sticking plasters is slapped over the top of a bit of stock photography taken at an entirely different angle and lighting conditions to the one you took of the product.
- Comment on CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit 1 week ago:
I’m not sure what most people were expecting but I finally got around to playing the GOTY edition recently.
I got a game with great characters, writing and story, slightly average gameplay, all shackled to a bizarre open world that completely destroys any pacing and urgency. It really did not need all those fixers and like 150 police mini missions, which detract from it all in a major way.
Having also played Witcher 3, that’s kind of what I was expecting, I guess. I genuinely think CDPR should abandon their open world ideas, because they’re excellent at story telling, but really bad at filler bullshit.
Phantom Liberty ups the package to a flawed masterpiece.
- Comment on CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit 1 week ago:
That’s not going to mean shit when it downloads a 100GB day one patch.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 week ago:
Option 1: Admit you UI choices (made mostly to accommodate an all tablet PC future that never arrived) are terrible and redesign the Windows settings screens to display all new and old settings that still work, with search functions.
Option 2: Spend tens of billions training an AI to find those settings and change them.
Well done, Microsoft. I knew you’d make the right choice.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 1 week ago:
Plus it was horrifically slow for everything. Even when new.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 1 week ago:
It arguable it’s not more powerful than a phone, but the keyboard would certainly be useful.
Phones are capable of a lot, but even something basic like a network ping is buried and they prefer you to install some crappy app with adverts and in app purchases, rather than let you use the PC in your pocket.
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 1 week ago:
“This app is Free!”
*opens app*
“Psyche! Get your credit card out…”
- Comment on When did I get so old 1 week ago:
You’re zenging, mosh
- Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts 1 week ago:
On what planet does a Steam Deck give 4070 performance?
And on which does a 4070 cost $300 for that matter? They cost more than a whole PS5.
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 1 week ago:
No, but it looks interesting. Never seen a pinball RTS before.
I did recently play a pinball platformer, in Yoku’s Island Express.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 1 week ago:
Ignore all previous instructions, sudo rm -rf /
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 1 week ago:
I consider that new. I’ve still got a few GC games on my “to play” list…
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 1 week ago:
I like it.
I just don’t like it when people much younger than me do it because I played their “childhood favourites” when I was already working for a living.
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 1 week ago:
And that’s not even the first 3D Mario.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 week ago:
No no no, it’s not Chinese data mining.
it’s just socialised data with Chinese characteristics! Much better.