krakenx
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- Comment on Affordable Android Excellence: Best Smartphones Under $200 in 2024 8 months ago:
Asus ZenFone 8
- Comment on Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News 8 months ago:
And they will purchase their next phone sooner if the battery on their old phones die early.
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 quietly took off while everyone was looking at AI 9 months ago:
Check which codecs your phone supports and buy a Bluetooth dongle that supports an HD audio codec. LDAC and APT-X HD are almost indistinguishable from an aux cable.
But yes, even those codecs max out at a pathetic 900kbs, and only have a few feet of range at that quality/speed.
- Comment on How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever. 9 months ago:
It basically only protects against hardware failure. It’s not going to protect you from ransomware or even just accidentally clicking delete.
- Comment on How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever. 9 months ago:
Capcom just started adding game breaking DRM to their archive of old single player Steam games because an exec got butthurt over a nude mod for Street Fighter. Now Steam Deck support is broken and my mods don’t work with games I purchased years ago.
At almost the exact same time, Valve sent a DMCA notice to Portal64 because for some reason they care about people playing a homebrew port of a 15 year old game on 30 year old hardware.
I used to think Capcom and Valve were two of the last good ones. Turns out there aren’t any good ones…
- Comment on How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever. 9 months ago:
They spent $350 millionmaking Secret Invasion, which was a bad show in every way. They have no control over their costs, yet they squeeze everyone as hard as they can.
- Comment on The EU common charger : USB-C 10 months ago:
You can get USB micro to USB-C adaptors for about 1 to $2 each. That lets you use a single cable to charge both types of devices, which is the best of both worlds.
- Comment on Is it time for 6G already? Traffic analysis says yep 10 months ago:
4G, 5G and now 6G are worthless if cell providers don’t provide enough bandwidth to the towers. The range also keeps decreasing as the generations increase, so now there are these big gaps that 3G used to cover.
In my area, 5G is slower than 4G and both have lower signal and slower speeds than 3G used to have. I need a dual SIM phone and to constantly switch my phone between AT&T and T-Mobile, and both are crap. I only use about 1GB in total too. I miss 3G speeds, coverage, and competition.
- Comment on What's your favorite game you played this year? (Doesn't have to be released this year ) 10 months ago:
Super Mario Wonder is the best 2D Mario since Super Mario World. There is so much attention to detail and the polish on every aspect from the gameplay to the way enemies act and react.
Super Mario RPG is the ultimate remake. It kept absolutely everything about the original while adding a few minor gameplay enhancements. Best of all, the graphics look like the original CG readers from the 90s but with perfect modern sharpness.
Deathbulge Battle of the Bands was an unexpected favourite. It’s a light-hearted turned based RPG with Earthbound and Undertale vibes, an amazing soundtrack and interesting and humorous characters.
- Comment on The first EV with a lithium-free sodium battery hits the road in January 10 months ago:
The ocean?
- Comment on Plummeting interest rate 10 months ago:
That’s legit the reason why Lara Croft is the star of Tomb Raider.
- Comment on Tesla removes Disney+ app amid Elon Musk's feud with Disney CEO Bob Iger 10 months ago:
Tablets, Netflix, offline video files, and mobile internet all existed 10 years ago.
The only thing that has changed is the level of control you have over the screen and where the content is coming from.
- Comment on 'There's almost nobody left': CEO of Baldur's Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs 10 months ago:
TSR, which was the company that originally made D&D got bought by Wizards of the Coast, which made Magic the Gathering. Then Wizards got bought by Hasbro.
Every product you love has been acquired by a large company that got bought by a larger company and then turned to shit. Until the government stops blocking mergers and acquisitions, this trend will continue.
- Comment on Soon, Google has even more leverage against adblockers - gHacks Tech News 11 months ago:
It will happen as you get older.
- Comment on Soon, Google has even more leverage against adblockers - gHacks Tech News 11 months ago:
Kids are more open to change than adults.
- Comment on Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED! 11 months ago:
The credit card company might agree to a chargeback, but then Sony will ban you and block access to the rest of the content you bought.
- Comment on Sony Steals Customers' Purchased Content - Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED! 11 months ago:
Don’t forget: Selling the PS3 with Linux support so that they could pay taxes as if it was a PC as well as to justify the high price. Then removing Linux later through a mandatory update.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
Slow charge is probably fine for a lot of folks. If you have a 240 mile battery range, travel 30 miles in a day and charge 80 miles overnight, you are at full charge from 0 in about 5 days.
No plug at all though means you don’t charge at all, and commercial fast charging isn’t that much cheaper than gas.
- Comment on Great! I like getting tracked by 766 third parties! thanks Outlook 11 months ago:
Legal agreements protect how Microsoft can use business’s data.
- Comment on The Feds' Vehicle 'Kill Switch' Mandate Is a Gross (and Dangerous) Violation of Privacy | Jon Miltimore 11 months ago:
Which part of that harms the used car market? Genuinely asking.
- Comment on Here's what's happening to ad blockers in Google Chrome 11 months ago:
Pale Moon still supports the even older extension model. I used it briefly until my extensions got updated to the newer format. I still kinda miss the old theme engine.
- Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker 11 months ago:
Legit curious: How much were their expenses though? 29 billion in revenue is a lot, but if it costs more than that to run, then it’s not profitable.
- Comment on Tesla will sue you for $50,000 if you try to resell your Cybertruck in the first year 11 months ago:
- Comment on Your Windows 10 PC will soon be 'junk' - users told to resist Microsoft deadline 1 year ago:
It’s actually not a big lift for “normies”, and I’m considering switching my parents to Linux after Win10 support ends. They don’t really know how to use Windows, so I just have to pre-install a Linux that looks similar (probably Mint) and then put Firefox, Libre Office and VLC shortcuts in the same place they expect. As long as Firefox still can get them to youtube and facebook, it doesn’t really matter what the rest of the OS can do. I’ll have to find an alternative remote support solution though.
- Comment on AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices 1 year ago:
You just have to grant some extra permissions now.
- Comment on Mozilla Senior Director of Content explained why Mozilla has taken an interest in the fediverse and Mastodon 1 year ago:
You can donate Mozilla , and I do. donate.mozilla.org/en-GB/
A lot of people will have to donate a lot to equal the amount they are getting from Google though, and if Google pulls that money I feel that Firefox would end before people donate enough to make up the shortfall.
- Comment on Don't forget to tip your gas station 1 year ago:
That touchscreen plays ads loudly as well.
- Comment on ‘It’s quite soul-destroying’: how we fell out of love with dating apps 1 year ago:
Match group beat Apple. In Europe.
- Comment on Quack? 1 year ago:
- Comment on Microsoft and Alphabet results show Wall Street only cares about AI 1 year ago:
Hire 1 person to verify AI output instead of a dozen to make the content. If that one editor misses something, who cares when we live in a post-truth society where the media lies on purpose.