kazerniel
@kazerniel@lemmy.world
- Comment on Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs 1 day ago:
It’s a reference to this quote:
“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” ― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress (source)
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Is that an HBomberGuy reference? 👀
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 1 week ago:
Makes sense! I hope it won’t get enshittified now that Canva bought them.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 1 week ago:
Thanks, glad to hear the alternatives work for her! Does she use FLOSS ones (Inkscape, Scribus, GIMP, Krita, etc.) or Affinity’s programs?
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, that’s interesting to hear! Can I ask what sort of graphic design she does?
My work primarily involves CMYK publications made in InDesign, using graphics made in Illustrator and Photoshop. So inter-operability and compatibility with professional CMYK printing are key for my needs.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 2 weeks ago:
Honestly nah, there are lots of other good options.
Unfortunately as someone who uses Adobe programs for work, the FLOSS alternatives are just not there yet :/ (especially considering how seamlessly Adobe programs work together)
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 2 weeks ago:
if you poke around graphic design as a hobby, these might be fine, but not for professional use from what I’ve read :/
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah the problem with boycotts and “vote with your wallet” is that one whale can offset the boycott of thousands of low-spending players 😐
- Comment on Should we boycott games with loot boxes? 2 weeks ago:
Are boycotts really the best solution to stop this epidemic in gaming?
Boycotts very very rarely work. I’ve never heard of a single successful video game boycott.
How can we best prevent these gambling grey markets and the gaming to gambling addiction pipeline?
Lobby for appropriate legislation with your government representatives. We could have legislation that forces companies to transparently show the chance of specific rewards, and even show the money you have to spend on average to get XY specific item. (I think there is already a law like this in the works in the EU?)
One of the major psychological tricks gambling games (including lootbox and gacha) employ is to obscure the true costs behind premium currencies. Once they are forced to remove this, and you are shown that yes, guaranteed acquisition of a single Genshin character will cost you ~300 USD, it might make you do a double-take before you pull out your bank card. (There are many more psychological dark patterns these developers employ, so it wouldn’t be a single miracle solution, unless of course legislation altogether bans random chance rewards buyable with cash.)
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
No, all the current versions are reported various levels of broken :/ Generally they can’t install, so you have to copy an installation from Windows, then there are some that don’t load at all, some only load to splash screen, some do work after you patch their broken UI and manually copy some Windows DLL-s. So idk, you might get lucky with the specific program/version/feature combo you need, but it just sounds like a pain to me.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
O&O Shutup10++ (theoretically works on 11 too)
Not sure what it can do on Home/Pro editions, I’ve only ever tried it on Enterprise.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
“bought” is an interesting word choice when they used massgrave :D
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for this link, neat to see that Uncharted Waters Online apparently runs on Linux despite it’s ridiculously strict anti-cheat. (To this day it’s the only game I’ve tried that had an issue with Process Explorer running in the background 🤦♂️)
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
Not OP, but for another data point: recently I did quite a bit of Linux-related research on the three Adobe apps I use (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, in this order of prominence), and they are all reported as some level of broken via Wine and their Linux alternatives are missing important features and/or a pain in the arse to use :/
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
My Steam profile is apparently 30% platinum, 21% gold, 10% varying levels of broken, 39% unrated.
But Genshin Impact, one of my main games, doesn’t even appear on ProtonDB, and as far as I heard you need a custom Linux launcher for it, that results in occasional banwaves, which I will not risk :/
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 weeks ago:
I’ll upgrade to 11 Enterprise via massgrave.
Sadly with Adobe and some of my online games not supporting Linux, I have to stick with Windows :/ I’ll just try to rip out all the telemetry, etc. via O&O and group policies.
- Comment on Google To Subscribe To Your Emails To Find Content For Your Search Listings. 3 weeks ago:
Thanks, I’ll check it out!
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 3 weeks ago:
no, but it’s oh my wishlist :)
- Comment on Google To Subscribe To Your Emails To Find Content For Your Search Listings. 3 weeks ago:
My only real experience of non Gmail sites over the last two decades have been terrible but mandatory work webmail systems that are slow, clunky and look a decade out of date.
Uh same, Outlook Web’s search function sucks so much compared to Gmail’s 😫
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 3 weeks ago:
Turned off the aggro on the patrolling demons in Murdered: Soul Suspect, because an otherwise peaceful detective adventure - where you play as a ghost investigating your own murder - really didn’t need the random stressful action sequences 🤷♂️
- Comment on Why I recommend against Bluesky. 1 month ago:
There is a recent community project that focuses on federating Bluesky without the Bluesky devs’ involvement:
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 5 months ago:
Guild Wars 2, so far I put 4,800+ hours into it.
I like that it has so many kinds of solo and group content that I can just do whatever I’m in the mood for that day.
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 5 months ago:
I only have one to read stuff locked behind a login wall. But even for that I seldom use it.
