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- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 2 days ago:
Contrary to what Lemmy would like you to believe, some of us actually like using Windows. Is it annoying sometimes? Yes but Linux can also be really annoying and a pain. I’ve wasted days trying to get a GPU to show up properly among other smaller issues for work purposes. I’m not gonna even try to bother with it when I just want to get home and relax.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 1 week ago:
Sometimes all I need a small compact SSH machine when I’m at a client’s site. This is a perfect use case for it.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 week ago:
Well there’s that, but I was talking more about how they were selling it when hey first announced it. My point is that they’ve lied before. I’ll believe it when I see it.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 week ago:
So like how Huawei was hyping up their new mobile OS which was really just AOSP?
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 week ago:
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic here. I hope you are. If not a quick search on Wikipedia would show China’s aggressive behaviour towards its neighbouring countries.
- Comment on Game preservationists say Switch 2 Game-Key Cards are ‘disheartening’ but inevitable 1 week ago:
I’m willing to bet that the majority of people don’t really care about this. If they did, you’d see GoG do wildly better than Steam does. People like DRM and the convenience with having your library digitally available with the ease of installation, they just don’t like badly implemented DRM.
- Comment on Ubisoft patch Splinter Cell Blacklist after 12 years to add achievements 2 weeks ago:
Yea I get that, just wanted to say that EA has the same issue too.
- Comment on Ubisoft patch Splinter Cell Blacklist after 12 years to add achievements 2 weeks ago:
EA’s games that released on Steam after Origin was a thing still launch a mini EA launcher when you press Play on Steam, much like how Ubisoft’s does on Steam. That’s at least how it seems the last time I tried it with Fallen Order.
- Comment on Apex Legends and Star Wars: Jedi Dev Respawn Cancels Another Incubation Project, Lays Off Unknown Number of Individuals 2 weeks ago:
I’m still playing it and it’s still pretty fun. Seems to be a controversial take but I do like that they’re constantly changing mechanics since I don’t really take the game seriously.
- Comment on 'Stories are our bread and butter': Larian is building a special team to lay out the plot of its games years in advance 2 weeks ago:
Ubisoft always had such a team for AC at least. AC Origins had a pretty good story and AC Odyssey was alright. Haven’t finished or played the newer ones yet so I can’t judge those yet but if there’s one thing Ubisoft does right, it’s that.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 2 weeks ago:
Not nearly enough of them. Too many frameworks or libraries have their QnAs on Discord instead of a dedicated forum.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 2 weeks ago:
If Discord is going to be abandoned by people, I wish we’d go back to proper forums that’s much more accessible and searchable. Continuing down this road is just going to lead to the continued burying of useful information behind these services.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 2 weeks ago:
The same Google that’s been constantly trying to add features that deter 3rd party app stores?
- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 2 weeks 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. 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
UMG and Warner Bros are Japanese? Lol
- Comment on Nintendo lawyers want to force Discord to reveal Pokémon Teraleak source 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 5 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? 5 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 5 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 5 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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. 1 month 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.