LiamMayfair
@LiamMayfair@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on what lemmy web app do you use and why? 1 month ago:
Voyager. I tried a few others but Voyager has a very slick UI and all the features I want.
- Comment on Bluesky, a trendy rival to X, finally opens to the public 4 months ago:
The guy who started Bluesky was the same Twitter co-founder who push for Twitter to sell out. Thanks but no thanks. I’ll stick with Mastodon. It’s getting real comfy in there now.
- Comment on Google Just Disabled Cookies for 30 Million Chrome Users. Here’s How to Tell If You’re One of Them | It’s the beginning of the end in Google’s plan to kill cookies forever 5 months ago:
Still, the use of cookies as key elements used to persist client session identifiers in the browser is too widespread and relied upon by prevalent web powerhouses like PHP for Google to do away with them.
Moreover, as much as there may be more modern, sleek alternatives like browser session and application storage, you can’t realistically expect the entire web industry to completely migrate away from cookies just like that.
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry’s New Priority: Stability 5 months ago:
Glad to see stability and QoS being prioritised over throughput this time around. I feel like once WiFi broke through the 300 Mbps barrier with the 5GHz band, strictly focusing on further improvements in throughput would just yield diminishing returns for most people.
However, latency and signal strength have been notoriously annoying long-term problems that I’m happy to see finally being acknowledged.
- Comment on Choose wisely! 7 months ago:
5 and 8. Imagine being able to spook people out all around the world by making their toaster go off in the middle of the night. Also, speaking in dead languages will make me very interesting at parties.
- Comment on If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text. 7 months ago:
The choice is pretty simple there. If anything, it makes it clear to the user in realistic terms how they want to engage with the site.
- Pay up with your money
- Pay up with your data
- Don’t use Facebook
I despise Meta and all their products but they are entitled to charge people for them. Shit ain’t free to run, you know.
I’d much sooner they showed this banner and force people to make a decision than the opposite, which is to “assume” everyone’s fine with their personal data being harvested and exploited without their knowledge or consent.
- Comment on How do people find good information on the internet these days? 10 months ago:
It is so ironic that SEO has become the very problem it was invented to fix: all these jokers gaming the system have all but plunged us all back into prehistoric internet times, before search engines appeared and people had to remember which specific sites to go to find information online.
- Comment on How do people find good information on the internet these days? 10 months ago:
For videogames specifically, I usually turn to these sources for reliable advice:
- Eurogamer and other reputable media outlets I’ve been following for years, so I know their journalists well and their tastes
- Metacritic and GameFAQs
- Watch streamers play the game I’m interested in for a while and make up my own mind as to whether I like what I see or not
- Comment on I'm looking for games that make me feel small and insignificant 10 months ago:
- The Longing: a really subversive experience
- Kingdom Come Deliverance: open world medieval game with a moderate emphasis on realism. You start out as a peasant who knows how to use a sword and finish the game being not much more than that.
- Dark Souls 1, 2, 3: these games make you feel pretty unimportant, unlike other FromSoft games like Bloodborne or Elden Ring. The bosses and environments will certainly make you feel challenged and powerless all the time.
- Comment on The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide, the EFF says 11 months ago:
What a disgrace. I will definitely be following the EFF’s advice and sending a complaint to the House of Lords to reconsider, for what little difference that could make.
- Comment on No Need for Twitter—TikTok Users Can Now Make Text Posts 11 months ago:
The enemy of my enemy is my friend!
- Comment on The Creator Of Cowboy Bebop Is Coming Back With A New Anime 11 months ago:
It’s gonna be good. Cyberpunk + Watanabe. I have no idea what will come out of that combo but it will be deadly!