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- Comment on Diablo 4's new mount costs more than the actual game 8 months ago:
D4 really isn’t that different from current D3. In some areas it’s actually better. But of course both of those suck compared to D2 or PoD.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
Why would you tell your employees how much they make, it will only inflate payroll by ~20%.
GOOOOD! As it should be. Dear god, you just wrote out in public that you aren’t properly paying long term employees their fair share.
If you can’t compete with paying fair wages to all employees then you should go under!
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
And that’s exactly why wages should be transparent. So people can make an informed decision if they are valued enough at the company or if they should go somewhere else.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
Access has the benefit that it allows you to build a front end and can have a relational database on the back end. You also can use real databases such as SQL. So it’s definitely better in that regard than Excel.
But of course it also has it’s limits in terms of speed and efficiency. I’ve definitely seen Access solutions which should have ported to a proper one years ago.
- Comment on Ifixit gives fairphone 5 a 10/10 on repairability and maintanence 11 months ago:
I have just recently bought a FP5 as well and I wouldn’t trust myself without it. Without a case it’s pretty slippery. And just because it’s easy to repair the screen doesn’t mean I risk it getting broken. So the 34 Euro I paid definitely was worth it.
I feared that the fingerprint reader would be hard to reach with it, but luckily it works pretty well. A slight touch is enough to unlock it.
- Comment on She broke it so she could baguette properly.... 11 months ago:
A lot of people here go shopping by car for a whole week as well and we also have people living in areas where the next shopping isn’t in walking distance. And it still works just fine. It’s really easy because of course you don’t have to stand in front of the checkout the whole time but can already bag stuff. As long as you can bag your groceries as fast as they are being scanned it’s really no big problem. And if you’re a 90 year old granny who isn’t as fast, they still can bag their groceries while the next costumer is being processed since the packaging area is usually divided into two sections.
I’m really sorry, but the US didn’t invent some special kind of super grocery shopping which no other country can understand. You just like the convenience of not bagging your stuff yourself. It’s really not some top secret technique to make shopping 150% more efficient or something.
- Comment on She broke it so she could baguette properly.... 11 months ago:
And yet somehow this isn’t a problem at all in countries where we don’t have people bagging our groceries. Checkouts very rarely have any downtime where we need to wait on people to finish bagging. Even with old people.
- Comment on Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles 11 months ago:
Wanna bet that they will somehow combine this with 5G conspiracies?
“It’s all just a wave after all!!!” ^/s^
- Comment on Ubisoft Allegedly Interrupts Gameplay with Pop-Up Ads 11 months ago:
The pop up may have been triggered by a technical glitch before they wanted it to. But the whole feature of course was not only developed but implemented into the live version of the game.
- Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"? 11 months ago:
Prisoners are found guilty of a crime by a court system and then safely put away, since they have still rights.
Yeah about that …
“In administrative detention, a person is held without trial without having committed an offense, on the grounds that he or she plans to break the law in the future. As this measure is supposed to be preventive, it has no time limit. The person is detained without legal proceedings, by order of the regional military commander, based on classified evidence that is not revealed to them. This leaves the detainees helpless – facing unknown allegations with no way to disprove them, not knowing when they will be released, and without being charged, tried or convicted.”
- Comment on If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text. 1 year ago:
Oh of course they will still use the data of paying costumers. I’m sure that data is more important to them then any add revenue.
- Comment on If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text. 1 year ago:
Maybe, maybe not. But the UX pattern they use clearly indicates that they rather have users continue to use the adds version instead of getting 10 euros per month. And that’s certainly not because of the goodness of their heart but because it is better for them as a company. And “better for the company” pretty much always means “making more money”.
- Comment on StarCraft could return, according to Blizzard president, but not necessarily as an RTS 1 year ago:
But then… why does this system exist?!
Because it works and makes them money! You can bet that other publishers will take notice and you’ll see such money grabbing schemes becoming more and more common.
- Comment on Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 1 year ago:
Hmm, frankly I didn’t even know that Microsoft allows that to be disabled.
- Comment on Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 1 year ago:
Hell maybe the search function will actually be working as intended. Don’t show me shit from the websearch before you make sure there’s no software with that name on the system!
- Comment on Military Time vs 24hr? 1 year ago:
For the people where 24h time is normal …. Is that a more recent development it’s the ubiquity of digital clocks, or would people have also used 24h time with analog clocks, despite them not having a way to display that?
I’ve been born in central Europe in the 80’s before digital clocks became the norm. 24h was normal even then when writing the precise time. For example in TV schedules. When talking we normally use 12h but without adding AM or PM as it most often is obvious from the context. When it’s not then we add “in the morning” “at night”. Actually speaking time in a 24h format is very rare.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I can’t imagine how happy the people at SpaceX were when he got into the whole Twitter mud pile. There’s nothing worse for a company than a stupid CEO who way overestimates his own capability and constantly micromanages shit that a CEO shouldn’t even care about.
- Comment on Netflix confirms it is increasing subscription prices, again, after adding 8.8 million customers 1 year ago:
Maybe 3 body problem will be the single good scifi series they made since the dark, maybe not.
I just started the series and while I like it I don’t see how it will make for good TV due to it’s heavily philosophical nature. At least not without drastic change to the source material.
- Comment on Netflix confirms it is increasing subscription prices, again, after adding 8.8 million customers 1 year ago:
To me it seems like they don’t develop any particularly incredible tech besides streaming and storage
Well they pretty much single-handedly started the whole streaming on demand service for movies and series and rapidly grew accordingly. This success even allowed them to get into the production side of the movie and series industry. They also destroyed the DVD market and stagnated the Blueray market on their own.
Now they face more and more competitions after the other companies saw that there’s a lot of money in this. The lose of that monopoly of course impacts their success and they seem to struggle with it. But they still are a giant in that market segment. So it’s not surprising that they still are counted as a FAANG company.
- Comment on Reddit’s new Contributor Program will let you cash out gold given to your posts by other users in real money. 1 year ago:
Well to be fair, before this they got all of the money for a tiny picture. So in that light they scam a bit less now.
But of course this still is a stupid idea which will decrease whatever remaining quality Reddit has even more.
- Comment on Martin Scorsese urges filmmakers to fight comic book movie culture: ‘We’ve got to save cinema’ 1 year ago:
Taking what Marty is saying and putting it another way - major studio content is not driven by a director’s creative vision in the current environment, but by producers… the suits and their market research.
I’m by no means an expert but was that ever different? Making movies always was very expensive, so the people in charge obviously had to have money and then try to use that to make more money. That alone leads to rather conservative decisions regarding which movies should be produced and which shouldn’t. Artistic merit isn’t something I believe ever had much sway in Hollywood unless some directors actually used their previous success to bully the rich cats in charge to trust them or outright finance the movie themself. And that I guess is rather rare. I think the only thing really different today, is that market research today is way more advanced than it was in the 60’s or 70’s.
- Comment on The Minecraft wiki has been moved from Fandom to Minecraft.wiki 1 year ago:
While I agree that it’s rather sad for developer not hosting their Wiki, I really never had any problem with the old hoster of the Minecraft Wiki. I certainly didn’t perceive it as a “crappy provider”. It did exactly what it needed to and there weren’t any intrusive adds or at least not to my attention. But maybe I’m just really good at ignoring adds myself.
- Comment on Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless. 1 year ago:
NFTs could be used for DRM in a more pro consumer way.
Only if the companies in charge would allow that. And they really have zero incentive to do so. The way it currently is, is way more profitable for them.
- Comment on Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless. 1 year ago:
Isn’t most art for money laundering.
Certainly not. Millions of people create art every day for various reasons and various success. Heck, artists are generally known to be on the poorer end of society. That is the case even for some of the now most famous artists in history.
Is some art in certain circles used for money laundering? Most likely, but that’s definitely not “most” but at best mabye a few thousand pieces which are dwarfed by the billions of art pieces around today.
- Comment on Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless. 1 year ago:
Sure, but some systems are way more stable since they are established and have the general trust of a lot of people. And others simply don’t have that wide ranging trust and as such aren’t stable.
- Comment on Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless. 1 year ago:
Because it’s pretty much the same.
At the very core ownership that isn’t recognised by the state is meaningless. So that ape picture? No one really cares about some guy claiming to own it because they have control over the token. As long as it’s on the internet everyone can just copy it and there’s no authority caring about it one bit since NFT isn’t recognised as for example copyright is.
Even when it comes to stuff like items in games, these also are only worth anything as long as the publisher of the game recognises your claim to it! And even if they did recognise it, there’s absolutely nothing preventing them from changing their minds later. Simply because they create the game however they like and have 100% control over it’s development.
- Comment on Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds 1 year ago:
I can’t imagine that it is.
If that’s the case then they could simply up the charge next year to $10 to get even more money for doing absolutely nothing. And then to $20 the next year and so forth. There’s no sane court anywhere in the world who would say “Yeah, that sounds reasonable!”.
- Comment on Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds 1 year ago:
I’m pretty sure that even if the license agreement does have such language that it won’t uphold in court. And there are enough big companies using Unity for this to go to court if they try to come to collect.
I mean seriously, if that would be legally possible, nothing would prevent them from uping the charge to $10, $20 or even $100 per installation, applied retroactively.
- Comment on The more they censor, bigger it gets 1 year ago:
They have expanded the canvas several times. As far as I remember more quickly and frequently than they did before.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they did that to achieve this very effect, way more space so protest art isn’t so prominent.
