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- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 15 minutes ago:
My point is more that what they wrote didn’t make sense talking about Japanese corporations when more American companies are listed. The entertainment industry is simply awful, nationalities aside.
- Comment on Nintendo issues Switch 2 supply warning in Japan: 2.2 million people have applied to buy the new console in Japan so far, which ‘far exceeds’ Nintendo’s expectations. 1 hour ago:
Personally I think it’s a much fairer system than letting bots scalp all units on their website. Unless you’d prefer that?
- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 1 hour ago:
UMG and Warner Bros are Japanese? Lol
- Comment on Nintendo lawyers want to force Discord to reveal Pokémon Teraleak source 20 hours ago:
It’s god awful for any development discussion too. Used to be you could at least find someone taking about something on Stack Overflow even if it wasn’t solved, now it’s buried in Discord and you have no way of even searching it out to see if anyone has even had that problem before.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 3 days ago:
Perhaps but I haven’t encountered that myself. I’m ethnic Chinese that’s a citizen of another ethnic Chinese majority nation so I’ve encountered this specific type a lot more.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 3 days ago:
The reverse, however, isn’t true. It may be somewhat understandable but not entirely reasonable to assume someone who is Chinese is from China which is what I’m trying to say.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 4 days ago:
Probably because is an ethnicity and nationality. There are ethnic Chinese people all over the world and a few countries and regions are made of a majority of ethnic Chinese but are not related to China. Calling them the same thing is playing into the PRC’s “all ethnic Chinese pledge their allegiance to China” nonsense.
- Comment on World's fastest Flash memory developed: writes in just 400 picoseconds 4 days ago:
It’s using graphene so we’ll see this as soon as the 100s of graphene innovations come too in who knows when?
- Comment on The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback 5 days ago:
I buy books for collection purposes and to display them on the shelf for aesthetic reasons but read ebooks on my phone because it’s way more convenient that way. I don’t think it’s really mutually exclusive.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 1 week ago:
Is this some word that’s commonly used in some English speaking countries? I’m a native speaker and have never heard or seen this word ever being used.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
I’d take that any day over the unhinged AI focus from all these companies now or Google’s awful documentation from the past few years.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
Unpopular opinion but I’m just using 11. I deal with enough problems with Linux at work and as hard as it is to believe, Windows just work and fits my workflow too well. Linux works great on my Steam Deck but the occasional weird quirks it has with certain games/launchers means I can’t use it as my main gaming platform, it’s only fine on the Deck because it has advantages for the form factor.
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 2 weeks ago:
It’s so that’ it’s easier to perform directional actions. I personally like it from a usability standpoint.
- Comment on First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80 2 weeks ago:
Or get it second hand for cheap lol, it’s not a big deal to me at least.
- Comment on Global foldable smartphone shipments increased by just 2.9% YoY in 2024, and shipments are expected to decline by about 4% YoY in 2025. 3 weeks ago:
I get what you mean, still it’s a 5-10 mins thing which virtually works forever that might save you more pain in future, just in case it might seem like it’s too much of a hassle.
- Comment on Global foldable smartphone shipments increased by just 2.9% YoY in 2024, and shipments are expected to decline by about 4% YoY in 2025. 3 weeks ago:
You can try using a Revanced-patched version of the 3rd party apps. I’m using it with Boost and it still works fine.
- Comment on Global foldable smartphone shipments increased by just 2.9% YoY in 2024, and shipments are expected to decline by about 4% YoY in 2025. 3 weeks ago:
Did you set it to a higher zoom level or do you have large hands? The Fold 6 i have now is honestly already way too big for me and I personally wished they kept the size of the Fold 3 and just made the bezels smaller.
- Comment on Global foldable smartphone shipments increased by just 2.9% YoY in 2024, and shipments are expected to decline by about 4% YoY in 2025. 3 weeks ago:
What makes you say the phone is useless in folded mode? I had the Fold 3 and 6 and I never really found the front screen to be an issue. If anything, I found it more usable than regular slab phones because of how narrow it is, it makes one handed usage so easy.
- Comment on China bans compulsory facial recognition and its use in private spaces like hotel rooms 4 weeks ago:
Chinese fintech giant Alipay has for some years now had the “Smile to Pay” system: Alipay users can pay for something by just smiling into the camera in an Alipay “Smile to Pay” POS terminal. IIRC KFC was the first place to have it.
I thought you were kidding but who the hell thought this ridiculous concept was a good idea? Putting aside the security implications, did no one see how absurd it is?
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 4 weeks ago:
It was a really good app for quite a bit and had the best inking experience compared to the non-UWP version. A few years back they announced merging the features to the Win32 version and it has since been more or less on par now.
- Comment on Multilingual people all must have experienced YouTube's f**kery with auto translation. Still no workaround? 4 weeks ago:
I have ublock origin on desktop and revanced patched youtube and I don’t have any of this issues. So it might just simply be YouTube being YouTube.
- Comment on The Pebble Has Been Brought Back 5 weeks ago:
Pre-ordered one immediately. I miss my old Pebble Time Steel so much. Part of me wishes there’s one with that design but I’ll take what I can get.
- Comment on China will enforce clear flagging of all AI generated content starting from September 5 weeks ago:
This does provide another tool for them to claim it isn’t censored but label it as AI to hurt the credibility of dissidents though. I don’t think it doesn’t matter.
- Comment on No, Phil Spencer, Having AI Mock Up An Old Game Is Not The Same As Preserving It 1 month ago:
I can’t say I buy this fully. From a marketkng standpoint, it seems like a huge win: “Subscribe to game pass ultimate and you get thousands of games old and new, up by thousands from last year”. From a financial standpoint, running those emulators should be a lot less compute heavy than current games so it should be cheaper.
The only real issue I see here is legal. Licensing the rights to distribute the games via streaming for their entire back catalogue can’t be easy.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 5 Will Require a Microsoft Account to Play on PS5 1 month ago:
Bringing a ton of their games to PC and the PC game pass has been pretty great. Guess it’s not so nice if you’re on the consoles or Linux I guess.
- Comment on Why AC Syndicate Is So Bad? 1 month ago:
I’m surprised you disliked Syndicate story yet adored Unity’s. Sure Syndicate’s story isn’t anything to write home about but I found it at least consistent and coherent. It’s a typical, evil mastermind needs to be taken down story. Is it amazing? Not really but it’s serviceable. Unity on the other hand, is… To be honest, I can’t even remember any parts of it other than Arno being a miserable prick for most of it.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 1 month ago:
Oh that’s neat, hope you can use them up soon or get a reimbursement of some sort. They just announced formally that they’re shutting the service down.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 1 month ago:
Do your credits still exist? I was under the impression that they phased out the credit system.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 1 month ago:
It seems like a very underrated feature but Skype’s overseas calling feature was great and the 60 mins I get each month with 365 was really nice. Them getting rid of that basically made Skype useless.
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 1 month ago:
There’s been reports of Valve looking at ARM for Proton actually but x86 chips keep getting better and more efficient. Not to mention Mali and Adreno are laughably bad compared to Radeon and Arc.