ObsidianZed
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- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 1 month ago:
A lot of people are focusing on the D&D part but honestly what the people really want is for any and all studios to take the time they need so they can release non-buggy, higher quality games.
- Comment on Experimental Video Game Made Purely With AI Failed Because Tech Was 'Unable to Replace Talent' 1 month ago:
I mean that’s already happening at some big companies now.
Will it last? My guess is no, but they’ll enjoy saving the money that they would pay human beings in the mean time.
My hope is just that they’ll suffer losses due to a drop in product quality and start struggling, but let’s face it, the big tech companies are almost never the ones’ that are actually hurt by their decisions.
- Comment on The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS. 2 months ago:
Gotcha, but even in that case, what’s convincing most of those average users from picking a different browser? The logo? “Ooh pretty lion?”
- Comment on The DMA already having an impact. Brave Browser installs surge after introduction of browser choice splash screen on iOS. 2 months ago:
I was a bit confused too. So all that’s changed is a specific splash screen during new phone setup prompting the user to pick a default browser?
- Comment on Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes 2 months ago:
Do you know if the smart doorbell is the same? Received one from the in-laws for Christmas but haven’t done anything yet.
- Comment on Rakuten launches cloud storage with unlimited file transfers, targets businesses and individuals, with free 10GB storage 2 months ago:
What are you basing that off of??
Google is 2TB for $10/month.
- Comment on All of the 90s cats are dead. 2 months ago:
I’m so sorry.
One of my childhood dogs started having seizures until one night she started seizing and just never stopped. We laid her in the laundry basket with towels and I gently held her down so she didn’t thrash too hard to further hurt herself.
My dad called the vet to see if they could have her put down ASAP. They said they couldn’t, but it was well after hours though. I probably sat there for 3-4 hours or so myself until finally my dad just told me to go to bed and he’d take her in the morning. I even offered to put her down myself because, I mean fuck. I couldn’t just sit there and watch her struggle let alone imagine how she felt. We tried to do whatever we could to help ease her pain/passing including crushing up a muscle relaxer with water and syringing it into her mouth. I would have tried anything.
I don’t know when I feel asleep but it was hard not to hear an occasional sound even through probably 2-3 closed doors and down a flight of stairs.
- Comment on Paying people to work on open source is good actually 2 months ago:
At my work, I can be probably safely assume there is no such budget and in fact open source projects are actively used to create our own branded products (that may or may not be exclusively used internally).
You probably only need a few guesses at where I work.
- Comment on Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News 2 months ago:
True, of course the simplest and easiest solution is the one that takes the least amount of thinking and effort.
My only issue is there are brands that try to build around this but it’s incredibly difficult. I understand iPhones have some kind of smart charging that’s supposed to charge slowly but stop until it learns when it thinks you’ll need it and finish charging just before then. However, that relies on consistent data and consistent routine and I would think that could potentially be quite inaccurate if you have a more inconsistent routine. I don’t think I’ve seen a better implementation yet unfortunately.
It’s just become second nature to me to watch for and charge my phone so certain times. I feel like that’s just a part of owning a mobile device.
- Comment on Why Charging Your Gadgets Over 80% Is Such a Bad Idea | iFixit News 2 months ago:
I’ve stopped charging my phone overnight which I typically advise people against but also keep a charger at my desk. My phone actually has a battery saver setting that cuts charging at 85%.
- Comment on queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban 3 months ago:
Same with Twitch.tv, the .tv apparently being the country code for Tuvala.
- Comment on Google may let you choose which of its services are linked, thanks to EU 3 months ago:
For a lot of rights, looking at the right to repair too. Keep it up over there!
- Comment on 8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates 4 months ago:
Agreed. I prefer Parsec where available but Moonlight gets better performance on my Android TV box.
- Comment on Square Enix’s president says it will be ‘aggressive in applying’ AI 4 months ago:
I’m actually in the process of trying to get this setup to try myself. Wish me luck!
- Comment on Take CONTROL Of Your EV with Home Assistant! (A Nerdy Show and Tell) 4 months ago:
It’s also possible they create and upload the same content in both locations but have to target the larger YouTube demographic via clickbait thumbnails.
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 4 months ago:
Since there’s a paywall, I can’t see the whole article but does this imply there was still positive ad growth and they just missed their goal or there was no or negative ad growth?
- Comment on YouTube can't stop showing me AI deepfake ads 4 months ago:
This may be an entirely separate conversation but I end up sticking with Firefox+uBlock because I can never get any decent performance out of other front ends.
- Comment on YouTube can't stop showing me AI deepfake ads 4 months ago:
After looking to solve this exact issue I ended up grabbing an Onn 4k streaming box (Google/Android TV) for $20 from Walmart. Not on sale, just full retail is $20, compared to the 4k Chromecast with Google TV at $50 msrp. It’s fast enough and even got better performance out of streaming games through Moonlight than I did from my Steam Link.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 4 months ago:
Epic Games is useful for the free games they giveaway every week, some weeks better than others. And I know the topic of ownership of these “free games” is another conversation, but I’ll take advantage of it while it’s there and also while giving them little to no money.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 4 months ago:
It’s important to note that just because you got it on GOG does not guarantee it is DRM free but they do try. (Unless things have changed since I last looked)
- Comment on The Atlantic: Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore. Why you’ve probably never heard of the most popular Netflix show in the world. 4 months ago:
Honestly, I came here because fuck Spez and stayed for the Linux news.
- Comment on The Atlantic: Nobody Knows What’s Happening Online Anymore. Why you’ve probably never heard of the most popular Netflix show in the world. 4 months ago:
Wait, you’re not seeing those posts? Because you just described like a third of all Lemmy posts that come across my screen.
- Comment on I have never seen an ad in the past 6 years. I use android phone, windows PC and Android TV. Keen to hear when was the last time you saw an AD ? 6 months ago:
I use Sync with a pi-hole and don’t think I’ve seen any ads.
- Comment on Windows 12 May Require a Subscription 7 months ago:
Looks like the push I’ll need to finally move all my gaming over to a Linux box.