OldQWERTYbastard
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- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 22 hours ago:
Meh. My ad blocking strategy on my phone and desktop still works fine. I use Morphe (formerly Revanced), uBlock Origin on Firefox and AdGuard on my android phone.
No ads. No problem.
- Comment on Retrograde - A Halo Tribute 6 days ago:
Considering I grew up with PC shooters in the 90s, Halo was waaay overrated. The best thing Bungie did was introduce online multiplayer to consoles.
Sure I had fun zooming around with the warthog in college LAN games, but the overall pacing of the game was glacially slow coming from twitchy shooters like Doom, Quake, Unreal Tournament and Starsiege: Tribes.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 week ago:
I never had a need for discord and never will. Good riddance.
- Comment on Privacy vs. Profit: The Impact of Google's Manifest Version 3 (MV3) Update on Ad Blocker Effectiveness 1 week ago:
Meh. I’m back on Firefox. Chrome can fuck right off.
- Comment on Was there censorship on TikTok after the U.S. takeover? 1 week ago:
You can speak ill of Xi “Winnie the Pooh” Jinping, but not about Mango Mussolini now.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Responds to Stock Price Drop Following Google Genie Announcement: 'I Think People Are Confusing Tools With Hits' - IGN 1 week ago:
My VPN provider doesn’t keep logs so…
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Responds to Stock Price Drop Following Google Genie Announcement: 'I Think People Are Confusing Tools With Hits' - IGN 1 week ago:
Correct. Lets hope Valve remains a consumer-friendly monopoly for the long term.
Legions of lesser companies have long since enshittified themselves while screwing consumers until they are blue in the face.
God bless Gabe.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 1 week ago:
Rock on, dude. I do almost all of my gaming from the couch so 1080p looks fine to me and my GPU doesn’t have to crank out 4K worth of pixels to drag down my FPS.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 1 week ago:
I used to. Then I moved to Kansas. No hills here!
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Responds to Stock Price Drop Following Google Genie Announcement: 'I Think People Are Confusing Tools With Hits' - IGN 1 week ago:
Meh. I’m over it. Shovelware is abundant on all platforms and it’ll lead to another industry crash similar to 1983 as soon as the economy chokes.
My Steam backlog will last years.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 1 week ago:
I bought my 1080p LED backlit 60" Vizio panel back in early 2015 and it’s still going strong!
- Comment on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant 2 weeks ago:
I’ve seen USB variants for modern software that served the same purpose.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 4 weeks ago:
Um… If you’re still using Chrome, that’s on you.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 5 weeks ago:
As an old ass gamer who is fond of Unreal Tournament, I sure hate what Epic has become.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never lost a single file on OneDrive. That’s because I do not use OneDrive.
Eat shit, Microsoft.
- Comment on Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find - Sherwood News 1 month ago:
If you are on Android, Revanced has several ad-free versions for popular applications like YouTube and spotify. I pay 30 bucks for a lifetime subscription to AdGuard back in 2019 and the experience has been extraordinary.
It’s always a jarring experience to use someone else’s phone. Ads take up at least a third of the screen at any given time now. I’m not swimming in that shit.
- Comment on Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find - Sherwood News 1 month ago:
I deleted my Facebook profile last year after 18 years and never looked back. It’s a totally different platform than what I signed up for almost two decades ago. Absolutely zero value for me now.
I’m so glad Valve is releasing a VR headset so I don’t need to have anything to do with a trash company like Meta.
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- Comment on Apple announces more ads are coming to App Store search results 1 month ago:
- Comment on AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents 2 months ago:
It’s not legal where I live, but that didn’t stop me from fighting back.
I’m not down with this surveillance state we’re moving into.
- Comment on AI Surveillance Startup Caught Using Sweatshop Workers to Monitor US Residents 2 months ago:
Yeah I don’t understand how a private company deploying cameras on the side of roads is even legal.
Does that mean I can build solar powered raspberry pi units with cameras that do the same thing and pepper them around the country without question?
- Comment on Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram? 2 months ago:
On a Compaq SLT/286
- Comment on Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram? 2 months ago:
Abort, Retry, Fail?
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 months ago:
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 months ago:
- Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn 2 months ago:
It’s only a matter of time before a data leak happens.
That’ll be a fun day.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 2 months ago:
I just installed a 4TB nvme Crucial SSD in my new build solely to put games on.
I’m sure they will come crawling back to consumers after the AI bubble bursts.
- Comment on ChatGPT down again 2 months ago:
At least your teacher will know why students submitted their assignments late.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 2 months ago:
True, but Nvidia’s market cap is still equal to 15 percent of 30.486 trillion. What’s worse is that it’s ALL built on speculation.
This house of cards WILL fall.
- Comment on Palworld dev isn’t impressed by "so-called" AAA, prefers indies since they "include the kind of systems you can’t find in other games" 2 months ago:
This is the way.
