demonsword
@demonsword@lemmy.world
random bald, fat, middle-aged Brazillian guy
- Comment on Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025 2 days ago:
well, TIL. I thought it was more recent than that. Their quality has been steadily decreasing for quite some time, and I always blamed that acquisition.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 3 days ago:
your inability to understand it doesn’t make it bad analogy
Wow how condescending we are today. I’m sorry I failed to appreciate the analogy that your big, beautiful smooth brain produced.
Prick.
- Comment on Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025 3 days ago:
They used to be good but have greatly enshittified since being acquired by Condé Nast. I’ve been an Ars reader for almost 15 years, until last year. I don’t even bother going there anymore.
- Comment on Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025 3 days ago:
since they’ve been acquired by Condé Nast, Ars has been almost thoroughly enshittified, this list (and almost everything else they publish nowadays) was created to appease their corporate overlords.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 3 days ago:
Yes, of course you shouldn’t drive under influence. Still, what a bad analogy. Two completely unrelated scenarios.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 3 days ago:
or be ready to contribute to the project you use, so they don’t have to sell out to google.
that may happen despite your contributing or not
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 4 days ago:
You USians don’t have a real left, you’ve got hard-right VS raving-mad-frothing-at-the-mouth-right
- Comment on Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See 1 week ago:
There isn’t a iota of marxism in Russia’s Putin. It may be authoritarian, but Russia ain’t stalinist.
- Comment on Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan 1 week ago:
I’m just putting some gray on your rose-tinted idealized Japan. No need to be so defensive about it.
- Comment on The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. 1 week ago:
On the bright side pedophilia was completely eradicated and all the children are safe now.
the most uncanny line in the whole post
- Comment on Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan 1 week ago:
Don’t forget to include a healthy dose of xenophobia, so that you’ll feel unwanted and ostracized anywhere you go. Add some fascism too, lots of people there love it.
- Comment on Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See 1 week ago:
and stalinist like Putin
lolwut?
- Comment on Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See 1 week ago:
nobody would know if it’s all supressed
- Comment on ICE Contracts Company Making Bounty Hunter AI Agents 2 weeks ago:
No kind of communism I know aimed for luxury even in theory
Why waste effort and resources on superfluous things when most of humanity barely make ends meet, and a sizable part yet go hungry/dies of preventable diseases?
- Comment on China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along 2 weeks ago:
Given enough time and an enormous budget it’s inevitable any determined organization could make it.
This kind of milestone isn’t reachable by most countries in the world mostly because of the price tag attached to it
- Comment on ‘Invasive, deceptive, and unlawful’: Texas says your TV is tracking you illegally, and is suing to stop the dreaded Automatic Content Recognition 2 weeks ago:
This is how you fight the war against the elite. Not with guns, but with wallets that refuse to open. They can’t take our money unless we agree to buy their goods.
No, this cannot work. Their wallets are much, much bigger than almost all of us combined.
- Comment on After viral interview, Palantir launches neurodivergent fellowship 2 weeks ago:
why stop there, let’s dismantle ALL big tech while we’re at it
- Comment on Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training 2 weeks ago:
Can yt-dlp download Udemy courses?
Found this, not sure if it works because I’m not enrolled in any course ATM, feel free to try it out
- Comment on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? 2 weeks ago:
If you still have over £1 Billion in your bank account, we take everything above a billion so you end up with £1 Billion again so we can spend it on things like infrastructure.”
Even if it was feasible to implement something like that – it isn’t because Congress has been bought by rich folks since it began – what would really happen is that money would artificially circulate between a few hands in the big boy’s club, and nothing would really change.
- Comment on Hands-On With the Miyoo Mini Flip; The Modern Successor to the GBA SP (my review) 2 weeks ago:
I feel you, I’m in the same boat
it would be cool if there was something like the Game Boy Magnifier for those modern systems
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
How often do people leave reviews?
Speaking only for myself, I only leave a review if I loved or I hated a game. A “meh” game doesn’t get a review. I’d hazard that many people do something similar.
- Comment on If you want to get into handheld gaming, but don't want to spend a lot, buy one of these. 3 weeks ago:
I kinda agree with you. I don’t use retro achievements because I’m an obsessed completionist. That means that I’d keep playing one game well beyond the point it stopped being fun just to tick all those boxes.
- Comment on Nokia N900 Necromancy 3 weeks ago:
Ok but why bother?
Would it be less bothering to you if the phone was chucked in a landfill? Anything that reduces e-waste seems like a positive proposition to me at least.
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 3 weeks ago:
go monospace or go bust
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 3 weeks ago:
Is there a name for the reverse phenomenon?
the onion has eaten you, maybe
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 3 weeks ago:
Why a city would want a .com tld? A .gov tld would be far more applicable IMO
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 3 weeks ago:
I can easily hate both of them
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 3 weeks ago:
the dumbest reply I’ve seen the entire day, congratulations
- Comment on Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source 3 weeks ago:
I’ve yet to meet a single “conservative” that wants to conserve something, and I’ve already lived more than half of my expected lifetime.
- Comment on Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source 3 weeks ago:
Then the conservative party won the election.
that’s the second or third statement in most modern cautionary tales nowadays
