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- Comment on The Club Penguin Experience got breached. 3 weeks ago:
Hey, I was born in the early 2000s and Club Penguin was huge when I was a kid! Everyone my age knows about it.
- Comment on Eels 4 weeks ago:
*electric eel. Electric eels are not eels.
- Comment on Jet Fuel 2 months ago:
Can confirm this is true because the same was true for my mum. She was against the COVID vaccine, but then she started believing that the theories were started by the Chinese government to target people who don’t listen to the authorities.
- Comment on Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store 2 months ago:
The problem is I don’t have an old phone. But yeah I eventually figured that out for a game that I couldn’t find online. So what I did was created an emulator with an old version of Android and logged into my account on that.
- Comment on Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store 2 months ago:
Fuck google. I just want to be able to play minit on my phone, but no, Google says it’s not good enough for me because they haven’t updated the app in a while. You know, like most games. Of course they haven’t updated the app, the game is finished, they’ve moved on from it.
- Comment on Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store 2 months ago:
Maybe the whole abandonware thing applies to regular apps, but in my experience most games without microtransactions get updated for a bit when they’re released and then never again. Because there’s no reason to update your game once you’ve fixed all the bugs, unless you’re not adding new content.
I cannot tell you the number of times I’ve thought about a game that I used to like and looking for it on the Play Store, only to find out it’s been taken down and I have to go for an hour long search through sketchy sites to find it. It’s fine if you only play new games, but from my experience, the majority of old games are just not available, unless they’re made by a studio that’s still big enough to keep up with the requirements. For no good reason.
I would fully understand having a warning for old apps. They could even hide them from recommendations. But if I want to install an “abandoned” app, I should be able to.
- Comment on Lemmy being used as a source now 2 months ago:
Nah I’m pretty sure it’s still lemmy. This page seems to say they are looking at moving to something else, but they’re still using lemmy for now docs.beehaw.org/…/beehaw-lemmy-and-a-vision-of-th…
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- Comment on Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them 3 months ago:
Right, so similar to locks? Usually can be easily bypassed if you know how, but it at least filters out the people who aren’t determined enough to put in the effort.
- Comment on Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal 3 months ago:
I mean, I would’ve said the same about the mobile apps, but here we are.
- Comment on Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal 3 months ago:
Yeah for tech stuff stack exchange is the way to go. But if I’m looking for info on non-tech stuff, there’s not really a site that I know of that has a bunch of general user submitted q&a. There’s quora, but that’s absolutely horrible.
Also even with stack exchange, the rules are a bit more strict there, low effort posts are uncommon which can mean you can’t find some stuff there. Although usually there’s some other forum you can find your answer on.
- Comment on Irrational 4 months ago:
Right, but you can have exactly a third of some group of particles. You can’t have exactly pi of some group of particles I think is what they were saying
- Comment on Irrational 4 months ago:
If you have three particles, 1/3 of that is one particle. No need to divide an indivisible particle.
- Comment on EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones 5 months ago:
Making your own protocols means vulnerabilities are more likely. Better to use one that’s been tested and audited (unless it’s following something like this EU thing of course)
- Comment on Hades 2 early access launch on Steam reaches over 100k concurrent players 24 hours after launch 6 months ago:
Nice. Won’t be playing it till the full release, I still have Hades 1 after all, but all this attention will probably make the game even better than the original
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
The app also doesn’t let you add your own music, though… Very annoying, cause some songs aren’t on streaming services
- Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone 6 months ago:
I think you still need a phone number though. I think that’s just for if you don’t want to give out your phone number.
- Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone 6 months ago:
Yeah signal, telegram, and whatsapp all want phone numbers I think. And I don’t think I’d be able to convince my mum to use Discord or Matrix. She’d probably end up using something like Facebook Messenger/Messenger Kids
- Comment on Hades 2 Technical Test to Wind Down Today, Steam Early Access Release Date ‘Relatively Soon’ After 6 months ago:
I’m definitely waiting. If I have a craving for some Hades, I still have the first game
- Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone 6 months ago:
The email vendor doesn’t really matter though unless you are sending or receiving emails. Phone numbers require you to pay a carrier every month. And while most people have phone numbers, some don’t, especially children.
My mum used iMessage to communicate with my sister before she got a phone number. If she switched to Android, I guess there’s Google Chat, but you know how Google is with their chat apps.
Ideally you’d be able to choose between phone number OR email. Like iMessage.
- Comment on Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time 8 months ago:
There is NO upside to federation with Threads. Zero.
That’s a bit of an exaggeration. I don’t think it will affect Lemmy at all, since it’s a different type of posts. But in terms of Mastodon, it means a whole lot more content for Mastodon users, and a whole lot more people to follow. And also means that people can move to Mastodon while still having the audience that Threads provides.
Of course if you think that the downsides are worse than the upsides, then that doesn’t really matter. But don’t say there are NO upsides.
- Comment on Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right 8 months ago:
How do you set it up without a server. I can’t get past this screen .
So it means 1: I can easily add songs to multiple playlists at once. I have 4 different playlists that I listen to, and sometimes a song fits all 4, and it used to take 12 taps to add it to all 4 (tap dots, tap add, tap playlist, 4 times). Now it only takes 6.
2: I can now see if the song is already in a playlist. Before the only way was to try adding it to the playlist and see if it warned me of a duplicate.
3: Now I can see at a glance if it’s added to a playlist. If it’s added to 1 playlist then it’s probably added to all the playlists it needs to be.
And you can still add songs to your liked songs in 1 tap. I feel like the reason most people dont like it is because it’s a change that they aren’t used to.
But really, the ideal solution would’ve been if Spotify just added a settings option to change it back to the old way. But Spotify seems to be vehemently opposed to options.
Also, what’s way worse than the new like button is the stupid “smart shuffle”. I just want to turn off shuffle, but now I have to press it again. And it’s also really buggy, it will often display shuffle as off when it’s really on smart shuffle, so I get unpleasantly surprised with some random song I’ve never heard. I really wish there were third party apps for Spotify, cause the Spotify app kinda sucks
- Comment on Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right 8 months ago:
Yeah. The number one reason I won’t subscribe is that if their library is missing a song, you can’t even add it yourself. Both Spotify and Apple Music allow adding your own MP3s, how does Tidal not have that feature?!
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 8 months ago:
This change impacts every mobile user, not just iPhone users. iPhones are a good portion of the userbase of most apps/websites. For PWAs to gain mass adoption, it needs to be available for the majority of users. This change means that will not be the case in the EU.
- Comment on Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED 9 months ago:
And then capitalism that made the company repeatedly ask for him to stop researching it.
- Comment on Threads will allow you to follow Mastodon users by year-end, according to Meta meeting details 10 months ago:
A year? You’ll put your content on Mastodon but won’t let us communicate properly for a year? Why? You shouldn’t have released the first part yet, federation for Threads obviously isn’t ready.
