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- Comment on What's wrong with Nextcloud, and why is it slow/clunky? 8 months ago:
SQLite sure but I doubt PHP has any negative impact.
- Comment on Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’ 8 months ago:
Oh yes I have an Xbox as well and the GAME updates are annoying as hell but the system OS itself only gets one small update maybe once a month at most. I think the convenience of a console with one box, a power cable and a hdmi cable and with the click of one button to have it up-to-date and a fixed ca 7 year lifetime with one system compared to a pc that you have to build yourself, check compatibility, install the OS, install and update graphics and other drivers with a floating generation meaning having to buy new hardware to match new games - it’s just a different thing.
Some love the building and updating part of a pc though, that’s great for them.
- Comment on Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’ 8 months ago:
Yeah, I agree. Good load times, a silent console and the controller are the positive sides, most of the rest is disappointing. Same goes for the Xbox Series X, except the controller is not really an upgrade and that platform has almost zero really good exclusives. Even Game Pass, which was an amazing value deal a few years ago, has turned into a shovelware desert.
- Comment on Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’ 8 months ago:
I’m not so sure, there are already pure PS5/XSX games and they are not THAT impressive. Also as someone else commented, once they reach that time there will be a PS5 Pro. This entire generation is a disappointing mess.
- Comment on Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’ 8 months ago:
Good for you, IMO (and as a PS5 owner) you’re not missing much.
- Comment on Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’ 8 months ago:
Because we want to enjoy gaming in the couch and have no crappy hardware mess, driver and update hell. Just a box that works and can be played from cozy cushions while talking to friends next to us instead of sweat, back pain and eye strain at a desk.
If you like pc gaming that is great but it’s weird that you can’t see there are different types of gamers.
- Comment on Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’ 8 months ago:
To me the PS5 feels like PS4.5 at most.
The box even says “8K capable” and they promised an amazing 4K-8K 120hz raytracing heaven before release. Every time I see the box or watch old presentation videos I feel scammed.
Because in reality almost all games have a pathetic “slow mode with higher res” (often 30 fps!) or “fast mode with previous generation graphics.”
It’s still a decent machine (I like it being silent a lot, load times are also quite good) and I enjoy gaming regardless of performance BUT their promises were nothing but a marketing scam. It feels far from “next generation” to me.
(Same goes for Xbox Series X of course, it’s just as bad in this sense.)
- Comment on Skiff, the private email provider has been acquired by Notion. It is set to shut down its services after 6 months. 8 months ago:
The entire service didn’t feel very reliable from the start. And look what happened.
- Comment on Skiff, the private email provider has been acquired by Notion. It is set to shut down its services after 6 months. 8 months ago:
It’s a nice thought but if everyone were to manage their own email server (and other things) we would have SO much more security problems in general.
- Comment on A fake app masquerading as password manager LastPass just got pulled from the App Store | TechCrunch 8 months ago:
That’s oversimplifying it quite a lot. Many tech-educated users, developers, IT experts etc use MacOS/iOS. And many users of Android or other OSes have no idea what they are doing. All the large operating systems today are too wide to have a one demographic, they cover it all.
- Comment on A fake app masquerading as password manager LastPass just got pulled from the App Store | TechCrunch 8 months ago:
Thanks for the links. I wasn’t aware of those, it sounds like PlayStore level of crapware in those cases, although you have to be REALLY dumb to be fooled by such obvious ones. But if you’re a very technically challenged person I am sure it is possible.
But the case with the LastPass clone is definitely much more malicious.
- Comment on A fake app masquerading as password manager LastPass just got pulled from the App Store | TechCrunch 8 months ago:
I am surprised this happened, it’s the first case of anything like this that I have heard of. Do you know of any other cases?
- Comment on Bluesky opens to public registration 8 months ago:
Those aren’t available to register anymore though, are they?
- Comment on Bluesky opens to public registration 8 months ago:
I don’t use any service that requires a phone number, which even does that anymore? I guess Facebook, Instagram, Twitter? That’s surely just to track you. It is very easy to spoof a mobile number, the regular old confirm security code per email works just as well. Or just do email register + 2fa with an authenticator app or passkey.
- Comment on Bluesky opens to public registration 9 months ago:
There are better ways to confirm someone is a human. If they would not just want to gather personal user data instead, which apparently is the case.
- Comment on ‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 9 months ago:
Excellent to-the-point comment!
- Comment on Bluesky opens to public registration 9 months ago:
Why the fuck do they require my phone number to register? No thanks.
- Comment on Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ will start cracking down on password sharing | CNN Business 9 months ago:
That is so nice of you, thank you for the offer! I’ll try to keep it in mind once its out. 😊 And yes indeed it’s a brilliant show.
- Comment on Disney+, Hulu and ESPN+ will start cracking down on password sharing | CNN Business 9 months ago:
AppleTV+ is still cheap where you live? Here in Europe it went from 4,99€ to 6,99€ and I think they just raised it to 9,99€. They have some great shows but VERY little content all in all. And at a doubled price which now matches all the other services (all around 10€ each) it is just not worth it IMO.
I might get it for one binge-month in the future just to watch Severance season two though. Or… just get it elsewhere…
- Comment on What should I use my RPi4 9 months ago:
Navidrome is neat
- Comment on Why did Adobe open source Magento? 9 months ago:
They didn’t, the community edition existed before Adobes purchase.
- Comment on Any alternatives for Artifact users? Ideally, Fediverse integrated 9 months ago:
I’m trying to get back into using RSS but have noticed that all sites - for example tech news like The Verge - publish a shit ton of content daily nowadays.
How do you use these apps?
I added a few feeds and now have 300+ news every day that I need to sort through and 95% of them do not interest me. That was what was so great with Artifact, it did the sorting and learned my interests.
Are there separate curated feeds (similar to Artifact) to subscribe to or is it possible to filter by interest (keywords) in the RSS apps, like Netnewswire?
I don’t have time or the nerve scrolling through feeds with dozens or hundreds of posts a day, it’s a pretty awful user experience.
Some sites seem to have separate feeds for different themes but that’s also not very flexible.
- Comment on Any alternatives for Artifact users? Ideally, Fediverse integrated 9 months ago:
For once a good app for news and articles appears, and within a year it is killed off because of “limited market opportunity.”
Urgh. I just HATE the modern internet.
But thanks for the alternatives list. Maybe something will catch on.
- Comment on China claims it has cracked Apple Airdrop’s encryption to identify senders | CNN Business 10 months ago:
I haven’t read anything about cracking the data itself though, just being able to identify the phone number of a sender. The infos they give is just too vague at this point.
- Comment on China claims it has cracked Apple Airdrop’s encryption to identify senders | CNN Business 10 months ago:
So don’t go to China and if you do don’t send any important but unencrypted files via short-distance signal from one iPhone to another iPhone, gotcha.
- Comment on Feddit.UK has finally kicked the bucket- and what happens next. 10 months ago:
Wow. If this isn’t a perfect example of the possible problems with federated networks I don’t know what is.
I’m still for it of course. But it has to be done right and this is far from that.
- Comment on The barbieheimer debate rages 11 months ago:
“Hard for people to get a girlfriend”. People? GET a girlfriend?
The thing is that ALL HUMANS have a hard time finding someone meaningful for them. But only with the misogynistic and immature viewpoint of some men does it become this toxic and dangerous. Blaming some outer system instead of getting a grip of themselves and stop acting like whiny assholes.
- Comment on The barbieheimer debate rages 11 months ago:
I smell incel.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI' trailer drops with 2025 release date 11 months ago:
Uh, it looks similar to GTA V because it is the SEQUEL… The graphics and detail are amazing, GTA5 will probably feel like PS2 graphics when this is out.
Sure it’s just a trailer and no gameplay but if the trailer uses the games graphics engine this is incredibly impressive.
70€ for hundreds or thousands of hours of entertainment is a pretty damn good deal. Compare that to a ticket at the cinema for 2 hours.
- Comment on Why Apple is working hard to break into its own iPhones 11 months ago:
Wow OK, well that doesn’t have any value then. It’s best not to spread rumours since eich behaviour it can easily spread to other, more important, issues in society.