Kelly
@Kelly@lemmy.world
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 1 day ago:
A direct boycott of Amazon and its subsidiaries? Super easy,barely an inconvenience.
But boycotting services that happen to uses Amazon? Impossible!
Any business may use products ordered from there. Your local toll gate may use AWS. Unless you are a major client nobody is going to let you audit their supply contracts.
- Comment on Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow? 1 week ago:
That’s the whole gene vs meme concept.
The same principal applies in that people who come after you can receive your ideas.
- Comment on Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli? 1 week ago:
You mean Fahrenheit right?
- Comment on Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli? 1 week ago:
So… How often di you have to change the filter?
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 2 weeks ago:
Phone numbers are a “legacy system” if they were designed today they would be different.
- Comment on What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM? 3 weeks ago:
Mobile browser tabs are both too persistent in that they don’t get cleaned up when you close the browser, and too amnesiac in that they can kill a connection if they are placed in background for even for even a couple of seconds.
Its the worst of both worlds.
- Comment on Gamers go offline in retro console revival | The Guardian 3 weeks ago:
chips
Its a strange product, in the US they were ordered not to call them “chips”, and call them “crisps” instead:
The product was originally known as Pringle’s Newfangled Potato Chips, but other snack manufacturers objected, saying Pringles failed to meet the definition of a potato “chip” since they were made from a potato-based dough rather than being sliced from potatoes. The US Food and Drug Administration weighed in on the matter, and in 1975 they ruled Pringles could only use the word “chip” in their product name within the phrase: “potato chips made from dried potatoes”. Faced with such a lengthy and unpalatable appellation, Pringles eventually renamed their product potato “crisps”, instead of chips.
In the UK, they argued they were not “potato crisps” because they though their low potato content would get a lower tax rate.
In July 2008, in the London High Court, P&G lawyers successfully argued that Pringles were not crisps (the term by which potato chips are known in British English), even though labelled “Potato Crisps” on the container, as the potato content was only 42% and their shape, P&G stated, “is not found in nature”. This ruling, against a United Kingdom value added tax (VAT) and Duties Tribunal decision to the contrary, exempted Pringles from the then 17.5% VAT for potato crisps and potato-derived snacks. In May 2009, the Court of Appeal reversed the earlier decision.
- Comment on Gamers go offline in retro console revival | The Guardian 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Are "Lifetime" Cloud Storage Plans scams? 3 weeks ago:
I know a few people who have a HDD exchange going. A couple of times a year they drop off a HDD with their current backup at a friends house, then take the old one home to use next time.
It offline, so it can’t be accessed easily but its also protected from device failure,power surges, etc.
Its no good as a daily backup but its fine for static data e.g. videos of the kids as they were growing up.
If its just a HDD in a static proof bag it doesn’t take much room and can be stored easily.
Its got issues but it does offer a cheep offsite backup
- Comment on Are "Lifetime" Cloud Storage Plans scams? 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t look good
www.pcloud.com/terms_and_conditions.html
pCloud has a fourteen (14) calendar days money back guarantee, beginning on the day you have submitted your payment for the Paid services. During this period, you are eligible to request for a refund. If you issue an explicit written request for a refund within the fourteen (14) days referenced above, we will process the refund due to you in full within 30 calendar days, counting from the day you have confirmed your request.
We will usually refund any money received from you using the same method originally used by you to pay for your purchase.
In case you have purchased Paid services through a promotional campaign or provided discount, pCloud reserves the right to decline providing a refund.
I just used web archive to check the site on three random days in 2024 and it looks like they always have a promotion and could claim any purchases are ineligable for the money back guarantee.
Termination
We reserve the right not to provide the Site or Services to any user. We also reserve the right to terminate any user’s right to access the Site or Services at any time, in our discretion. If you breach any of these Terms, your permission to use the Site and Services and your account automatically terminate. If pCloud ceases operation, your account will be terminated and pCloud will no longer provide the Site or Services. If your account is terminated in accordance with this section, you will not receive any refund of any fees paid for the account.
And they can decide to stop your service at any time.
- Comment on Are "Lifetime" Cloud Storage Plans scams? 3 weeks ago:
There are on going cost with running the service so if new customers stopped signing up they would go broke when they run out of money. (i.e. like a ponzi scheme)
Unless they invest your seed capital and pay for your services from growth. This would work when times are good, but could fall apart during any significant financial crisis.
The current offer for the named service is asking for us$800 for 1TB, if they followed the 5% rule that would leave them with us$40 per year to provide the service.
- Comment on Do you feel like you've reached the end of what the world has to offer? 3 weeks ago:
Agreed, even if you limit yourself to major tentpole content its impossible to keep up.
But if you look at the uploads to major distribution platforms its incredible his much content is being produced:
- YouTube gets 500 hours of video uploaded per minute.
- Spotify has 60k tracks uploaded per day
- Kindle has 225k books published per month
- Steam has 50 games published per day
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 3 weeks ago:
Moderates no longer have a say.
Many view the democrats as being right of centre already and that “moderates” are largely unrepresented because both parties lean right.
- Comment on Interactive Fiction Games Could Make A Comeback With This E-reader Handheld Console 3 weeks ago:
Joystick but no keyboard is going to limit the IF options. That said it might be a great way to play gamebooks.
- Comment on Im watching an episode of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, filmed in black and white. In this scene a guest is showing glass making. What is going on with the film to make these black areas by the flame? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Kamiya Critiques Wii Version of Okami | Retro Gaming News 24/7 3 weeks ago:
he expressed dissatisfaction with the Wii port, referring to it as not being ‘original.’
Assuming we aren’t missing some nuisance in the translation I don’t think I agree with this interpretation. The “port” is not the “original”, that just a statement of fact. No dissatisfaction is implied.
- Comment on Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails 3 weeks ago:
“That being said, I want to call out the way Unity chose to communicate these layoffs. Receiving a 5am email from ‘noreply@unity’ informing me that my role was being ‘eliminated’ and that I’d lose system access by the end of the day felt completely abrupt and impersonal. Unity must do better in how they treat their workers in hard times like this.”
Ouch
- Comment on What actually happens to the communities whose instances shut down? 3 weeks ago:
This probably depends on what you mean by “shut down”.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I think you forgot the link text?!
- Comment on What do you regard as retro? 4 weeks ago:
10 years seems a bit short, that would mean Hearthstone, GTA5 and Sims 4 qualify.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
For live action TV its probably easier to just use retail units but for animation it allows them to use only they aspects they are interested in while not getting bogged down in the realities of the console/controller design or the actual gameplay scenarios.
Of course it also allows for the title to function as a joke too, and makes for a more rimless product than a current year pop culture reference.
- Comment on Co-op campaigns are a rarity these days, and that should change 4 weeks ago:
They are just joking about not having friends but the “in the manner it was originally intended” is particularly relevancy for dedicated co-op titles.
- Comment on Co-op campaigns are a rarity these days, and that should change 4 weeks ago:
Its a few released, these are last years:
- Comment on Next Xbox Rumored To Launch In 2026 With New Call Of Duty 1 month ago:
unless they have a real reason for this new one lol
If they spin this so gen10 Xbox games don’t have to offer feature parity on Series S that will please a few people.
- Comment on Could you imagine a Nintendo title being advertised like this today? (Conker's Bad Fur Day, 2001) 1 month ago:
Teen: partial nudity and sexual themes
www.nintendo.com/us/store/…/real-hentai-switch/
So it’s soft porn
- Comment on Palworld Lawsuit 2 months ago:
Looks like there has been an update
TLDW?
- Comment on Luck be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play 2 months ago:
Simulated Gambling:
Interactive activity within a game that:
a) resembles or functions like a real world age restricted betting or gambling service; and
b) does not provide rewards that can be redeemed for real world currency or traded to other players in-game for real world currency.Note: For example, interactive activity within games that resembles or functions like real world commercial casinos, slot machines, lotteries, sports betting services or other betting services will be simulated gambling.
www.legislation.gov.au/F2023L01424/asmade/text
As far as Australia is concerned the mere appearance of a slot machine is enough, it doesn’t need to function like one.
- Comment on Luck be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play 2 months ago:
Its a themed slot machine with fictionalised in game currency.
If rated today Australia would give it R18+, but it was reviewed before last years changes so it has been grandfathered in at M with the description “Simulated Gambling”.
…gov.au/…/new-classifications-for-gambling-conten…
Simulated gambling seems to have been grouped in as loot box adjacent is some jurisdictions.
- Comment on GTA 6 will have a 'significant online mode' to generate revenue for years into the future 2 months ago:
The source the Tweektown article is quoting also says:
Anticipation is so high that some competing game publishers are waiting as long as possible to commit to their release dates for the fall, according to people familiar with their deliberations who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. The publishers want to see whether GTA 6 will make its deadline or slip into 2026, these people say, and they’re determined to keep their own games far, far away.
bloomberg.com/…/-gta-6-release-date-will-decide-m…
This is probably more interesting, that some upcoming games which don’t have release dates may be waiting for this before they commit to a schedule is somewhat noteworthy.
- Comment on GTA 6 will have a 'significant online mode' to generate revenue for years into the future 2 months ago:
