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- Comment on Can 2025 please be the year more games add Text and UI Scaling 1 week ago:
>Mom, can we get quality options? >Mom: We have quality options at home.
\Quality options at home:
- Comment on Federal appeals court strikes down Biden net neutrality rules 2 weeks ago:
Brendan Carr, whom Mr. Trump has named as the incoming F.C.C. chair, has been a strong critic of net neutrality. The court’s opinion “puts to bed an issue that unnecessarily sucked up a lot of oxygen in tech and telecom for two decades now,” said Evan Swarztrauber, a former policy adviser to Mr. Carr.
In a statement, Mr. Carr said that he was “pleased” by the decision and that “the work to unwind the Biden administration’s regulatory overreach will continue.”
Sincerely, go fuck yourself, Brendan Carr.
Net neutrality isn’t regulatory overreach. It’s overdue regulation to stop cable companies from fucking everybody by manipulating traffic and throttling connections to extort more money out of consumers and other companies.
But, hey, you’re probably fine paying another $25 for a “4k streaming video package” that increases bandwidth for YouTube and Netflix, along with a $60 “online gaming package” that removes some artificial 150ms RTT latency.
- Comment on Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior' 2 weeks ago:
Oh, it’s absolutely going to be written in Java. Storing data with Oracle DB. And running on Solaris.
- Comment on Day 1 Reddit Refugee 2 weeks ago:
Dbzer0, good. ML, bad. Their admins are trigger happy with instance-wide bans against users who criticize them or their political ideology.
- Comment on What’s the worst animal to replace humans as the dominant species? 4 weeks ago:
If “other humans” isn’t an option, probably dolphins. They’re little interspecies rapists.
- Comment on Ice cream machine is also broken 5 weeks ago:
Are they actually going to pay that out?
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 1 month ago:
I don’t think he would make it to trial. The wealthy don’t appreciate those who unite the public against them, and they certainly wouldn’t want him to send another message.
- Comment on 'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing 1 month ago:
Those mod devs are absolute assholes.
As per the decompiler code, the game will refuse to load in certain cases with the message “Upgrade your PC, the current hardware is just ridiculous.” I can understand not wanting to field support requests from extremely outdated hardware, but being condescending and not even giving players the option to continue…
BriJee, Amigus, and Obsolete— sincerely, go fuck yourselves.
- Comment on Half of Young Norwegians Say Online Piracy Is an Acceptable Way to Save Money * TorrentFreak 1 month ago:
There’s a biological term for it: self-preservation.
Seriously though, media copyrights holders and associations like RIAA and MPAA can go fuck themselves. They spit in the face of public domain and their idea of “restitution” would probably include lethal injection if were an option.
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 2 months ago:
Both sides are pro-corporate trash that put the interests of lobbyists over their own constituents.
But, only one of those sides empowers mysognists and entertains the idea that trans people shouldn’t have the right to exist. Democrats can be considered fascists by their own definition, and it still wouldn’t change the fact that the MAGA club is full of toxicity.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 2 months ago:
also admitted to liking them well done with ketchup
Oh. Oh god. What the fuck. And rural Americans voted for that?
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 2 months ago:
Yep. And a classic case of someone dishing it out without being able to take it. If someone wants to be an antagonistic jerk, they don’t get to shocked Pikachu and pretend to have the moral high ground when met with a similar response.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 2 months ago:
They’re going to Make America Healthy Again, huh? Now, where did I put my giant “press X to doubt” button…
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 2 months ago:
You know what, you’re totally right. There’s plenty of other accurate single-word descriptions that could be used to add some more variety:
Shortsighted, dogmatist, sociopath, mysognist, bootlicker, Neanderthal, degenerate, cultist, egotistical, simpleton, supremacist, etc.
- Comment on I'm honestly curious what the Spiderman Elsa youtube reboots will be like when Hollywood starts selling gen alpha their childhood. 2 months ago:
Skibidibackrooms?
I think. I’m probably too old to understand what gen alpha will consider childhood nostalgia.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 2 months ago:
Doesn’t that just create an echo chamber of idiots? Assuming they stay instead of leaving after their fe-fes get hurt, of course.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 2 months ago:
I would say quitting twitter to join bluesky is more like quitting
mentholsPCP to smoke regular cigarettesFixed that for you.
For those who are unfamiliar,
PCP may cause hallucinations, distorted perceptions of sounds, and violent behavior.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 2 months ago:
You’re barking up the wrong tree here, buddy. I’m not the person who said “it’s a few buttons.”
I was merely pointing out that from a conceptual standpoint, deep links don’t need a team of dedicated researchers to figure out. The difficulty—as you pointed out—comes in knowing how to work with the various different platforms and integrating the feature into existing codebases.
- Comment on Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams 2 months ago:
That’s not really the best example to prove a lot of work. Call links are actually pretty easy from a conceptual standpoint:
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Make a small website to accept
https://join.my.website/?callid=…&password=… -
Have the website redirect to:
myapp:join/:callid/?password=… -
Have your app register as a
myappprotocol handler. -
When a
myapp:join/:callid/URL is visited, open the same window that would be used normally for joining a call by ID.
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- Comment on ATTN: GEOLOGISTS 2 months ago:
Compatibility with existing worlds
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 2 months ago:
Well friend, it’s a good thing you don’t use a Mac, then.
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 2 months ago:
Even Gentoo? 👉☺️👈
- Comment on Trumpism is just Scientology done as politics instead of religion. 2 months ago:
Credit where credit is due, at least scientologists are the better educated of the bunch. Fuck them both, though.
- Comment on YSK that Amazon has different prices for different people 2 months ago:
I need to try with my user agent set to a Chromebook. Maybe I’ll even get a discount.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 3 months ago:
No, yeah. We both agree here. Zero obligation for a company to help it’s competition, and the likely reason they would ever do it is either to profit or avoid regulatory scrutiny.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 3 months ago:
like Microsoft with Apple in 1997
wccftech.com/microsoft-invested-150-million-in-ap…
Google with Mozilla today
That’s funny because this is the opposite of what you seem to be suggesting. This is not helping their competition, this is paying another company hundreds of million dollars to be anticompetitive against their competition. They paid Mozilla (and dozens of others) to be the default search engine. Its the exact anticompetitive behavior that caused them to be legally classified as a monopoly.
Google has multiple ventures: advertising, search engine, email, web browser, cloud storage, cloud infrastructure, etc.
I’m not saying they don’t get any other benefit from paying Mozilla. I’m saying that one of the reasons Google shovels money in their direction is to stop regulators from having a reason to take a closer look at Chrome’s dominance.
In terms of browser engines, we have: Blink (Chromium), WebKit2 (Safari), and Gecko (Firefox). WebKit2 is exclusive to Apple devices, which leaves Blink and Gecko as the only two browser engines available on Windows and Linux. If Mozilla went bankrupt and stopped developing Gecko, Google’s Blink engine would have no competition on non-Apple platforms, which would invite some regulatory scrutiny.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 3 months ago:
While I disagree with the other commenter’s approach and attitude, he/she/they are partially correct.
There is no legal obligation for a company to fund or assist its competition, even if it holds a significant marketshare. The companies that do help their competition, like Microsoft with Apple in 1997 or Google with Mozilla today, begrugingly choose to do it so their lawyers can make the argument that they are not a monopoly because they still have competition.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 3 months ago:
Or, more likely, the publisher. But, that’s beside the point.
The average Joe Gamer doesn’t benefit from the developer paying less in sales fees.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 3 months ago:
Lock-in != Monopoly.
The fact that you can’t transfer your purchases […] to other platforms
This is ridiculously unrealistic in a capitalist society.
It costs the platform money whenever a user downloads a game, and a user who didn’t buy from their store isn’t a user that they make money from. No other platform would voluntarily accept a recurring cost like that.
Also, it’s not like they stop publishers from doing that themselves. Ubisoft and EA use the cd-key generated by steam to associate the game with your U-Play and Origin accounts.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 3 months ago:
At the expense of literally every single game player
How is it at the expense of the game player? Even if they paid less, the publisher and developers aren’t going to pass the savings on to the consumer. That’s wishful thinking in the same vain as hoping Starbucks would make their drinks cheaper because their rent went down.
If anything, one can argue that the 30% fee shelled out by the publisher pays for the various nice-to-haves that players get on Steam, like: a functional review system, free cloud save syncing, the workshop, game discussion forum, game streaming, Steam input (which is a godsend for accessibility), etc.
