chiliedogg
@chiliedogg@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 1 day ago:
Those are 2 excellent reasons to hate it.
- Comment on We'll have plenty of camps to have them sent to by then. 6 days ago:
If you ever want to see 9f you’re on the right side of history, just look at your words:
“Illegal people” is a vile concept.
- Comment on U.S. seeks breakup of Google's ad-tech products after judge finds illegal monopoly 1 week ago:
They don’t even need to donate.
He’s openly selling access to the while house through his crypto scheme. They’re not even pretending to run it through a campaign.
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 1 week ago:
Because Apple prohibited that.
- Comment on Beans 1 week ago:
I’ll be the one storming it.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 1 week ago:
If you delete your steam account or decide you no longer want to ise their login/launcher or Valve decides to ban you, what happens to all your past purchases?
You’re locked in. You just have Stockholm Syndrome for the company that started the online requirement bullshit everything has today by locking Half-Life 2 behind a mandatory online service, then letting other devs force the same bullshit instead of just loading up a disc and playing the game.
- Comment on The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis. 1 week ago:
One of my University students asked me the other day if I was doing anything special for the 20th anniversary of Revenge of the Sith.
I told him he needs to remember I control his grade.
- Comment on Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta 2 weeks ago:
Look into Xreal glasses.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 2 weeks ago:
I was slightly wrong about the order. I was actually talking about Black Mesa, which was in the same initial batch of 10 games.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 2 weeks ago:
Steam Greenlight was a program where independent games without a publisher could release games on Steam, but it was absolutely exclusive. They couldn’t sell their game elsewhere.
Literally the first game released on the program was a free Total Conversion mod that you could download anywhere else for free, but if you wanted to get it installed through Steam, you paid them for the privilege.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 2 weeks ago:
That’s exactly what Steam Greenlight was before they stopped all curation of games.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 2 weeks ago:
I think a middle ground may be having that requirement for background mic usage, or usage without a specific user prompt that turns on a mic.
Lots of apps have legitimate use for the mic. Apps having legitimate use for the mic while you’re not actively using the app on screen are more limited and need stricter permissions.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 2 weeks ago:
Epic charges 12%, but they’re somehow the villain.
- Comment on xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline 2 weeks ago:
Trump is voiding student visas and illegally arresting and detaining students that speak out against genocide. The video linked is security camera footage of masked gestapo goons disappearing a student off the street.
- Comment on xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline 2 weeks ago:
If you click on the comic on the site, it goes to the YouTube video of her being grabbed.
- Comment on Philosophy moment 2 weeks ago:
I want to see the answers on the right.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 2 weeks ago:
That’s part of the problem. If they charged the same to developers as Epic, I wouldn’t be so critical.
For games primarily sold through Steam, Steam is often the most expensive part of the game. Is it okay that Steam’s take is higher than that of all the actual developers combined?
Have you ever played a game that was actually worth playing and thought that the fucking storefront and game launcher were worth 30% of the game?
Have you played a bunch of half-baked PC ports that could’ve used a bit more money on finishing the game?
Developers decide to launch as-is partpy because they know Steam will be taking a massive cut and there will be no ROI for fixing the game.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 3 weeks ago:
My Samsung phone comes with an alternative android app store pre-installed.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 3 weeks ago:
Hating on Apple for their 30% cut is popular.
Hating on Google for their 30% cut is popular.
Hating on Microfot, Sony, and Nintendo for their cuts is popular.
But somehow hating on Steam for their 30% cut is going too far.
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 3 weeks ago:
My school had a number you could call and they’d dispatch a golf cart with 2 student workers to take you anywhere on campus for free, 24/7 (minus holidays and breaks when University offices were cosed).
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 3 weeks ago:
I used lots of FOSS software, and GIMP is by far the worst I’ve come across when compared against its paid competition.
I hate Adobe the company, but Photoshop really is the gold standard.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 3 weeks ago:
If it’s more difficult to set up, then it may not be better for everyone.
- Comment on This is real 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know about that. The Trump team has been very sucessful this time around.
It’s just that what they consider a sucess is really, really bad for the world.
- Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ 4 weeks ago:
Like it or not (I do not), the most important determining factor in American elections is people’s feelings about the economy. The horrors being done by our government are easy to turn a blind eye to. But the cost of living is something that can’t be avoided or suppressed.
Economic ruin is how we beat these motherfuckers.
- Comment on It's a fun new game 4 weeks ago:
Same!
What ZIP code and CVV number did you get?
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 5 weeks ago:
That would make building a $2500 iPhone in the US even more difficult.
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 5 weeks ago:
Because of the child laborers making 85 cents an hour?
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 5 weeks ago:
Name a job where interrupting a CEO’s presentation in public wouldn’t be a terminable offense. What employee handbook says “If you’ve exhausted all other internal channels and are unhappy with the company’s direction, just call out the boss in front of thousands of people and there won’t be consequences.”
If your company is that evil and unsettling to change, you call them out and resign. Calling them out but still wanting to be paid is saying you’re okay with taking blood money as long as you’re saying it’s bad.
- Comment on Adobe Creative Curse 5 weeks ago:
They could crack down more on pirated Photoshop, but they don’t want to.
The money is in the commercials licensing, and people who can’t afford Creative Cloud pirating it and learning it is good for them when they need software for work later.
I’m a massive fan of FOSS. For my GIS work, I use QGIS over ESRI. For 3D modeling, I use Blender. For streaming video, I use OBS. Many FOSS solutions are extremely polished, and even for those that are clunky, they can be made to do what you need with a little work.
But when it comes to photo editing, the reality is Adobe’s overpriced market leaders also happen to be far and away the best products. It’s not even close. Photoshop and Lightroom are untouched by the competition, paid or free. They’re simply excellent products that provide functionality that isn’t replicated elsewhere.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 5 weeks ago:
While I wholeheartedly agree with her message, the reality is that any employee that interrupts a company event to criticize the company until they are escorted out of the room is gonna be fired regardless of the accuracy of their statements. We should be appalled at Microsoft’s complicity in Gaza, not that they fired an employee.
I applaud her for her stand, but she and everyone knew this would result in her termination.