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- Comment on First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80 4 hours 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 days 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 1 week 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 1 week 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? 2 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 2 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 2 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] The RTX 50 Disaster 5 weeks ago:
I had pretty much no driver issues either with my RX 580, Vega 64 and now 6950XT on Windows. The only issue I had was with audio sometimes being garbled on my Vega 64 in shadow recordings but I had worse issuss with Nvidia causing video corruption back when I was using a GTX 960 and 970 so I’m not sure if it’s even a GPU issue.
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 5 weeks ago:
It’s a lot more feature filled and frankly not very nice looking if all you want is a simple replacement for Notepad. Notepads (with an s) is much better imo.
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 1 month ago:
I would love to move off OneNote but the lack of alternatives that support inking is disappointing.
- Comment on Nintendo discontinuing Gold Points on the Switch eShop, ahead of Switch 2 release 1 month ago:
Have you played any games outside of those genres? There’s plenty of great modern games that are side scrollers. The idea that side scrollers are antiquated is frankly absurd. All that aside, Yakuza, Street Fighter, Tekken and MH Wilds all look pretty good.
Also considering the power of a Switch, it seems like a no brainer that it would look like a PS3? It’s chipset is almost a decade old and operates at a fraction of the power of other platforms.
- Comment on [Solved (gave up)] Any Android Qr app (preferably Open Source) that allows decoding via "open with" or share? 1 month ago:
Typically QR based payment systems don’t actually have a link. Rather they have a unique transaction id instead. End of the day as you said, it requires the payment app to support it. Here in Singapore, all the QR payment apps including Google Pay support selecting an image containing a QR from your phone’s gallery to do it.
- Comment on The Smartwatch That Was Too Good For This World 1 month ago:
You mean like one of those small casios? That’s the only watch that comes to mind that remotely fits that profile.
- Comment on Chinese EV leader BYD to offer ‘God’s Eye’ self-driving system on all models 1 month ago:
Tant that the name of the global surveillance system in one of the Mission Impossible movies? It’s like they’re not even trying to hide it…
- Comment on Meta Opens Its AI Models for the (U.S.) Military 4 months ago:
I don’t think it’s hypocritical if you’re against a foreign nation from using your own nation’s tech in their military, especially if it’s hostile towards yours? That seems like a no brainer. It’s like selling weapons to your enemy, that’s essentially treason (not that it means anything right now with Trump lol). It’s only hypocritical if they are against it simply for using it.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 RTX | Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Tribute Video 4 months ago:
Same here and with the price of GPUs, raytracing is expensive as hell for the wallet and it’s straight up not a good value.
- Comment on Nvidia's Arm-based PC chips for consumers to launch in September 2025, commercial to follow in 2026: Report 5 months ago:
What do you mean by understanding the difference between instruction sets?
- Comment on Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux 5 months ago:
I’m curious to see how Valve will respond to this seeing as they have CS. I imagine they’d be interested to build a solution but I’m not sure how plausible that even is.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 5 months ago:
That’s assuming there’s sufficient space. Even then if you look at the picture, you can see that the power button is on the bottom of the back side of the device. This makes it even harder to reach than if it were simply on the back since you’d need to contort your finger on top of a long awkward reach.
- Comment on Reddit’s getting more popular—and profitable 5 months ago:
There’s still third party apps on Android that still work once you patch in your own API key and on the web, old reddit still works.