2ncs

@2ncs@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or change the title to up to 50%

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commentary, behind-the-scenes features, bloopers: What did we lose when we said goodbye to DVDs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean those things can exist outside of DVD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher of Manor Lords, citing how gamers seem to be trained to expect endless content work now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet if you go in the MC community, one of the most common complaints people have is that the updates are never enough and the Devs are lazy etc… I guess this goes to the point of this article, people can easily be trained to have unrealistic expectations.

  Tbh I think a big part of the problem is Mojang’s failure to communicate with it’s players, less so the lack of features being added.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal - The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “user-applicable fix” is hardly correct, they are installing a fix provided by the company that has the recall. The company just so happens to provide an over the air download to patch the issue instead of having owners go to a dealer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That works until more of the user base leaves. Whose going to pay to tweet if no one is on the platform. It’s “worth” it potentially in the short term, but long term it doesn’t seem viable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arnold Schwarzenegger: I'd be a great US president⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That is not true at all. You need to have been born a US citizen, there’s no way around that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify Removes Offensive Imagery But Keeps Transphobic Song Despite Outcry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy cow man, chill, this discussion is about censoring a song about 2 genders, not a fascist manifesto.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify re-invented the radio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d agree that’s annoying yes, but it’s free. There comes a point where the amount of free users upgrading to premium isn’t enough, so they’re left with either changing the free service to boost that number or remove free as it likely loses them money. I’d agree that it’s shitty yea, but the free product is meant to be a preview to entice premium subscriptions. If they aren’t getting enough upgrades, something has to change (in their view)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify re-invented the radio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So are limited free demos a shitty method because you then have to pay to get the full experience? I don’t understand why people are so upset that the free experience gets worse, economically it makes sense and any company would do it. They do not need to offer a free service at all, but they do it to help cultivate a premium user base. It’s pretty consumer friendly they offer a free version to let you make sure you want to use Spotify before you pay. I just don’t think offering a free product to entice paying for the full thing is a “shitty method”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some Walmart employees say customers are getting hostile at self-checkout — and they blame anti-theft tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m thankful my grocery stores have a mute button for self checkout. It makes for a much less stressful experience, I don’t know why they have it narrate so much junk.

  As for your issues with the inability to remove things, I do know the trick. (I can’t speak for non-us self check out kiosks) As someone who worked as an attendant for the kiosks, the main cause of setting off the thing is picking your bag up before the scale has settled. The scale isn’t just checking that the weight has increased by a certain amount, it’s also waiting to make sure the weight is balanced. The issue with that, is the intuitive thing to do when your bag is full is immediately put it in your cart to make space. So the best thing to do is put your item in, wait a few seconds then you’re set to move the bag. With the small things not registering, could be uncalibrated scales. I have never ran into the multiply issue, as the ones I’ve all been to have scan guns and you can just shoot the barcode a bunch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well, it was nice while it lasted?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Neon puts out a lot of good stuff. Generally a bit of a darker tone (not always) with their films, but still quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At what line does it become stolen property? There are plenty of tools which artists use today that use AI. Those AI tools they are using are more than likely trained on some creation without payment. It seems the data it’s using isn’t deemed important enough for that to be an issue. Google has likely scraped billions of images from the Internet for training on Google Lens and there was not as much of an uproar.

  Honestly, I’m just curious if there is an ethical line and where people think it should be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon to introduce ads on Prime Video in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  their database is built incredibly poorly (what idiot decided that different seasons of one TV show should have entirely separate listings in the database, often making it hard to find?!).

  Likely this is legacy from when you would buy each season as a DVD set

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: If you still have a Mojang account for Minecraft: Java Edition, you have less than a week left to migrate to a Microsoft account to avoid profile deletion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate that Minecraft is one of the two things I even need a Microsoft Account for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So if Microsoft published a Unity developed game on Windows, Microsoft could easily charge a $0.20 free to the unity team for installing the Unity Runtime on their OS.

  Not being completely serious there. Honestly thought, did the CEO not realize if they start doing this, what’s to stop another company from doing that to them. Things like mp3, where developers need to pay a license for, could then be charged in a similar fashion for each install.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I did not enjoy The Killing Of A Sacred Deer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t sleep on his non English films. Dogtooth is one of my favorites, and I also really enjoyed Alps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying there isn’t a blame on the customer but maybe the AI just shouldn’t provide you with those instructions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The staff are poorly trained? They should just never give the customer raw chicken. There are consumer protection laws to prevent this type of thing regardless of what the customer is wanting. The AI is still providing a recipe. What if someone asks an AI for a bomb recipe, and it says that bombs are dangerous and not safe. Ok, then they’ll say the bomb is for clearing out my yard of weeds and provide the user with a bomb recipe.