OscarRobin

@OscarRobin@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they added automatic online account collation and mass deletion I’d pay them $100 on the spot to wipe the hundreds of random accounts I have on sites/services I never use and often have never used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zoom is cutting about 150 jobs, or close to 2% of its workforce⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How the hell does Zoom have 7500 employees??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nilay’s point is that the Vision Pro is by far the best implementation of this kind of device yet - possibly just about as good as is actually possible - and yet still suffers severe issues as a result. Usually Apple waits and learns until they can launch a product that is well considered and that often shows the industry how to move forward, yet in this case it’s quite possible that they’ve actually just demonstrated that this kind of computing fundamentally doesn’t work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's population dropped for a second straight year⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially since those with the most power do everything possible to maintain at least the illusion of growth, to further increase their power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wi-Fi 7 quietly took off while everyone was looking at AI⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also the fact that the faster the wifi, the easier it is to block.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, though Google is happy to process your data in the cloud constantly while Apple consistently tries to find ways to achieve it locally, which is generally better for privacy and security but also cheaper for them too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google effectively has a monopoly on the Android app ecosystem and this trial brought to light mountains of evidence that they maintain this through extremely anti-competitive means.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Game Awards 2023 fell short of honoring its own industry⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  *3 hour show + 30 min pre-show which still actually included a bunch of awards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Game Awards 2023: List of Winners⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly. I can’t believe how much praise people are giving Cyberpunk for not being broken anymore. Like bro that ain’t an achievement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bungie Devs Say Atmosphere Is ‘Soul-Crushing’ Amid Layoffs, Cuts, and Fear of Total Sony Takeover - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  None of the things happening at Bungie are related to Sony at all, as the article states

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, Chrome was vastly superior to Firefox for ages in the early 2010’s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe (HBO) Max Just Isn’t Worth It⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Costs a bunch of money upfront and ongoing to operate a streaming service, and even more to make even just an alright one. Plus you split consumers which will naturally give you and competitors fewer subscribers over all. All of that just to get paid directly instead of just getting free money, even if less per-view.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, but more broadly about technology and working on it. That’s why I enjoy Lemmy and Mastodon but unfortunately my girlfriend literally cannot find anyone talking about anything she cares about on here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Melbourne Cup: most Australians have little or no interest in ‘race that stops the nation’, Essential poll finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think innovation used to be part of our national identity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Music isn't the best streaming music service — it's just the least annoying⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  True

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Music isn't the best streaming music service — it's just the least annoying⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple Music is the best music platform by far due to clean and simple focus and UI, performance, and also lyrics. Unfortunately, it still sucks in all the ways that streaming inherently sucks though, combined with its intention to suck you into the Apple world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Music isn't the best streaming music service — it's just the least annoying⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The artist rates continually decline for every platform. In the not-to-distant future Tidal will be as shit as Spotify is now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I got the same email. I will be cancelling when the “”“grace period”“” ends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One year after being bought for $44 billion, X is worth $19 billion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t get advertising or algorithmic crap on Mastodon, and they have reasonably reliable filters to hide most porn I think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any reputable independent gaming sites left?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah unfortunately I agree. I think Yong seems like a cool guy but his videos always start with a lengthy recap which anyone who watches his channel already knows from his previous video on whatever is recapped, and then he takes the longest possible route to explain the topic too.

  I reckon if he made 5 min videos without all the fluff he’d be great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 5- how sre the visuals so good and games run so well on a machine with the equivalent of a GTX 2060?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  1. Optimisation. Many, many games haven’t even had a proper baseline of optimisation let alone targeted optimisation for specific specs like consoles

  2. The PS5 GPU is more powerful than a 2060, and as a newer generation architecture supports more features which can be leveraged to improve performance

  3. The PS5 operating system is wayyy less taxing than Windows or any other OS because it does much less and does it more optimized

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off his channel — The suspension comes following the publication of rape and sexual assault allegations against the British star⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree to an extent, however the reason behind Google cancelling his ads is almost certainly not because Google doesn’t want to monetize as much content as humanly possible, but because they expect or know that their advertisers don’t want their ads next to an alleged (and possibly convicted in the future) rapist / sexual predator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paedophiles using open source AI to create child sexual abuse content, says watchdog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree it seems a bit of odd reasoning - especially when it’s not hard to find legal depictions that could presumably be used for coercion just as easily as the illegal cartoons etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paedophiles using open source AI to create child sexual abuse content, says watchdog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the reasons that hentai etc of children is illegal in many regions is because abusers apparently use it to coerce children into performing the acts themselves, so it may not be created by abuse but may aid abusers. The same argument could be made against ‘AI’ images.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft cuts ties with the Surface Duo after just 2 Android version updates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed but this highlights a fundamental issue with phones (and all devices): because Apple can continually monetize their devices with locked-in app stores and a litany of services etc they can easily afford and are incentivised to support devices for a long time.

  Device makers third-party to platform ecosystems, like Microsoft to Android (but not Windows) find it extremely difficult if not impossible to gain these sorts of long-term monetisation which incentivises maximizing profits on the sale and then immediately dropping support.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some of Starfield’s planets are meant to be empty by design - but that’s not boring, Bethesda insists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t used to be though, which is why it’s disappointing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some of Starfield’s planets are meant to be empty by design - but that’s not boring, Bethesda insists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No it really isn’t. In all prior Bethesda games you could get from any place in the world to any other just by walking and maybe some loading screens if you’re going from/to a city or dungeon. In Starfield you have to use menus and loading screens to get from most places to most other places.

  Also, Starfield places more emphasis on amassing items due to having resources etc than the previous-worst Fallout 4, and all prior Bethesda games didn’t have resources to manage, just items.

  So no, while Starfield is very much like previous Bethesda games, many flaws and issues are exacerbated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young Adults, How Frequent Do You See Your Friends?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m 24 and I see my best friend every few weeks, my other friends every few months if that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also I highly suspect groups like this one in particular are funded or even founded by government organizations with a high interest in accessing all your data.