rdri
@rdri@lemmy.world
- Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp 2 days ago:
I can’t call ethical an app that relies on Electron.
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 6 days ago:
Wish they could use Gemini to generate ad clicks instead.
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 1 week ago:
…Electron inside.
- Comment on The D.E.N.N.I.S ship 2 weeks ago:
Schrodinger’s truth?
- Comment on Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads 3 weeks ago:
I only mean that the requirements are high enough for someone to stop using it at some point, losing users of that server in the process. It might be different if it didn’t require running a server. Or they could choose to host their rooms on some existing server, I guess.
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 3 weeks ago:
They probably couldn’t watch Netflix that time 😔
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 3 weeks ago:
I’ll think about if they also somehow prohibit 3rd party clients from removing that AI garbage.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 3 weeks ago:
I really need some free time in my life to try those arrs with unraid, and telegram bots too…
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 3 weeks ago:
Pretty much yes. It has channels so there are news channels, personal channels etc. At some point when I discovered Twitter for myself I hated it so much for not being able to simply read subscribed accounts just like telegram does it. It’s too convenient as a feeds app.
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 3 weeks ago:
My biggest gripe with it is about electron. I refuse to keep it running on my PC. Even the damn Whatsapp converted to something better.
- Comment on Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads 3 weeks ago:
Seems like you have to keep something running for it to work. Some obscure service relied on it as a support channel and last thing I remember is that matrix server stopped working. Though it would help so much if it would be p2p.
- Comment on I felt sorry for them 3 weeks ago:
Still, most of bad stuff happening to people are not because something was hacked, but because someone leaked something. One person in a group chat would be enough.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 3 weeks ago:
Yeah.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
Nah, the ability works during the broadcast, without such delays.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
Ability to teleport any words I want into the mind of someone who is broadcasting or streaming anything over internet or radio or tv, that I currently watch or listen, as long as the broadcast is going on. For them it would be like hearing me as if I was in the same room. They won’t know anything about me other than realize I’m one of their listeners or viewers. It works only for one person at a time - the streamer/broadcaster or one of them. They can choose to tell other listeners what they heard, or not.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
Actually, 8.
No. Actually, you don’t even control which fingers you lose. You lose one big finger once and you can’t snap with that hand anymore.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 4 weeks ago:
Wait till you realize this project’s purpose IS to force AI to waste even more resources.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 5 weeks ago:
another player to try an compete with Steam
Here is the mistake. It does not trying to compete. It only tries to catch as many fish in its bucket as possible, while leveraging (burning) Fortnite money.
It’s a wasted effort, and it will never come close to Steam like this. It may even die along with Fortnite, or degrade further.
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 1 month ago:
Sharing a document in Google docs means sharing a link and in many cases with read-only access.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
They didn’t start the fight. They were sued. If you think “picking a fight with Nintendo” is something you can do any time, and on your own volition, you must be missing something.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
Getting popular to that point was not in their plans. You can’t judge their success.
And yes it can legally exist. See other creature collector games (that are just not that popular yet).
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
That sounds like a “look someone managed to pull that off so it’s definitely possible” argument. In other words “you can enter the collectable creatures scene by spending that amount of effort”. And it shouldn’t be that way. The price in effort shouldn’t be that high.
Actually, it should be the customers who decide if your product is worth the effort of playing it. There are a lot of rehashed games in various genres (e.g. horrors, walking simulators) and wee see no issue with them even though they are using exactly same mechanics, or sometimes even assets. What matters is users’ reception. If users think your product is worth it - it means you spent enough effort already. If your product would be a low effort creation users wouldn’t spend money on it in the first place.
I’m sure if Cassette Beasts could accumulate that kind of playerbase and profits, Nintendo would’ve sue them too.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 month ago:
I just assume that as long as everyone is fine with derivations produced by AI (text, pics, music), all derivations that don’t look exactly like original Pokemon are fine (also real people put some effort into those). Palworld compared to Pokemon is a much better product than, say, Fifa XX compared to Fifa XX-1. Also Pokemon series is notorious for useless editions of the same games masked as separate products - that level of rehashing feels much more illegal to me.
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 1 month ago:
Yes. I created the document in Google docs, and you opened it in Word.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer 1 month ago:
Then Oblivion Remastered 2 since the current one will be outdated by that time.
- Comment on The therapy I can afford 2 months ago:
I also facepalm often when that guy writes stuff.
- Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ 2 months ago:
- for the US
- Comment on Beyond RGB: A new image file format efficiently stores invisible light data 2 months ago:
Last I checked, JPEG XL takes a lot of time and resources to encode (create) an image, if you actually want it to be far more optimized than JPEG.
- Comment on OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibly stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a display of power 2 months ago:
I think it is also a kind of “you did a nice thing there, so I’ll act as if I can do the same” display.
