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- Comment on Adobe comes after indie game emulator Delta for copying its logo 2 hours ago:
Agreed, my mind first went to the Titanfall logo.
- Comment on New Teslas might lose Steam 2 hours ago:
Yes, games can be addictive for some people but it’s comparably very rare. “Punishing” the huge majority of non gaming addicts based on that seems extreme. And I don’t think it would matter for addicts anyway.
Addicts would find a computer to play on anyway because they are addicted. In some ways it could be argued that it might even help addicts because using this thing they could get away from their homes and so stuff outside while still having easy access to something they like.
Another difference between smoking and gaming is that smoking harms and annoys everyone around you, while gaming doesn’t actually harm anyone. Except if you refuse to eat or something but that would be even more rare.
- Comment on New Teslas might lose Steam 3 hours ago:
Lol, games are far far far less addictive than cigarettes. Cigarettes has nicotine which is an actual addictive drug. Games are fun.
Even comparing them at all is fairly disingenuous.
It’s not distracting anyone, I doubt it could even be played if you are in a queue that is moving at 0,3 m/s
- Comment on Big booty girl meteorologists are best meteorologists 22 hours ago:
I’m happy my country doesn’t do bullshit like that. Having a women report the weather solely because of their appearance is absurd.
We have meteorologists of both genders and yeah they usually look pretty decent, but they are just professionals that usually happen to look good and they are in no way whatsoever dressed like that.
Why even bother with being sexist about the weather?
- Comment on Google's call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn 23 hours ago:
Lol, I’m not saying Google is or isn’t doing that. I’m just saying that you are just spewing bullshit without any evidence whatsoever.
- Comment on Google's call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn 1 day ago:
I take that as a no.
- Comment on Is Your Phone Listening to You? | NOVA 1 day ago:
Just take this in mind: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_correlation
People usually don’t think about the times that the ads haven’t matched up.
For example a person I know got an ad for a specific ice cream she was talking about earlier. What she didn’t think about is that it was summer and ice cream ads are incredibly common in summer and so is talking about ice cream.
She likely got many similar ads the days before and after, but she didn’t think about them because they didn’t match her theory that phones (specifically Facebook in her case) are listening.
I personally think it’s extremely unlikely that phones are listening anywhere close to that degree. At absolutely worst they might try and gauge your mood or something, but that feels unlikely too.
First of all there would be a lot of actual evidence (like with network sniffing) of it happening if it were happening and the public and legal fallout that would come after someone figured it out would be enormous
- Comment on Google's call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn 1 day ago:
So no
- Comment on Samsung mocks Apple’s crushing iPad Pro ad with its own ‘UnCrush’ pitch 1 day ago:
“To be fair, if they did the exact opposite of what they did it’s amazing.”
- Comment on Google's call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn 1 day ago:
Yep put ur phone traffic through wire shark and u really location gets sent to google regardless…
Have you done that?
- Comment on Waveshare's Latest Sensor Adds a Thermal Camera to Your Raspberry Pi — or Any Device with a USB Port - Hackster.io 1 day ago:
Oh, that looks pretty dang good.
300 USD is probably a bit too much for me to spend on something that I have no real use for but its very neat.
- Comment on Google's call-scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn 1 day ago:
Like turning off Google Location history, its just hidden from your view.
I obviously don’t trust Google (who does?) but you say that like it’s a verifiable fact. Is it?
- Comment on Waveshare's Latest Sensor Adds a Thermal Camera to Your Raspberry Pi — or Any Device with a USB Port - Hackster.io 2 days ago:
Can you provide some links or something? I desire to own a thermal camera but they are just so expensive.
I don’t need anything fancy but higher res would obviously be cooler.
- Comment on Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. 5 days ago:
I absolutely agree that this will lead to more piracy, and I might pirate it myself for this reason.
Warning: the rest of the comment is just a rambling rant and nothing is directed at you specifically.
But I think it’s a terrible justification. If you want to read the worst takes on piracy go to r/piracy or the Lemmy equivalent on the db0 instance. Most users on there really think that they are in some way entitled to a game and they genuinely try and justify their piracy is a million different ways. Usually the argument is basically “company did bad thing so give me your game for free”
It’s like they would like to have some moral high ground, which I believe doesn’t exist.
I think piracy is wrong because actual people worked on the games and they need to earn a living and a fuck ton of money and resources was spent on making the games. I don’t agree that piracy is the same as stealing but somewhere along those lines. I don’t need to publicly justify piracy, I just do it when I feel like it’s appropriate considering stuff like money and wants For example I have automatic downloads of movies and TV shows and multiple terabytes of pirated movies and shows.
The only time where I could agree that piracy might be completely justified and not bad in the slightest is the piracy of stuff like knowledge like science papers that were published in a journal that demands fuck tons of money and give backs nothing to the author(s)
- Comment on Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. 5 days ago:
I pirate myself but if you play the game in some way how haven’t they earned your money?
If you want to boycott do it with some backbone at least. Don’t play the fucking game and don’t talk about it whatsoever.
- Comment on Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. 5 days ago:
What’s up with Lemmy and Reddit users having to justify when they pirate stuff? Most of the time I simply don’t give a shit. I do keep in mind that it’s a “wrong” thing to do though. I don’t go around thinking I’m superior and that I’m fighting the evil corporations when I don’t. Some Lemmy/Reddit users seriously seem to think that.
- Comment on All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why? 1 week ago:
Like wake from sleep? My work laptop wakes very quickly from sleep. I just touch my finger on the fingerprint reader and it wakes unlocked in just a few seconds. It’s a Dell latitude 5430
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 1 week ago:
Can’t they at least update the localisation files too?
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 week ago:
I think they actually just started making a profit.
- Comment on iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' 1 week ago:
Normal DIMMs work fine but soldered RAM can just be much faster and in general better. It’s not an acceptable compromise on most desktops but for laptops which also has to be smaller and need to worry about stuff like battery life, it matters more.
- Comment on How do you handle family requests that you disagree with? 1 week ago:
If there are just a few movies just make a separate library or something. If there are a fuck ton of shit movies that takes up lots of time to rip or use lots of storage, just say no.
- Comment on Mona: Australia women's-only museum files appeal to keep men out 1 week ago:
Maybe that makes sense for a party in someone’s home or whatever, but not in a museum.
No one goes to a museum to feel safe, because it is you know, a museum and not a safe house or something. If someone is so incredibly scared of the other half of humanity so they can’t go to a museum where they are allowed, they probably should go to therapy or stay at home instead of a museum.
- Comment on All cheap smartphones have a fingerprint sensor but all laptops dont have one. Why? 1 week ago:
Where I work we use passwords but I’m in the trial for Windows hello for business.
I do know though that smart cards are very common in the healthcare industry. I know that the police also use it.
- Comment on Counterfeit Cisco gear ended up in US military bases, used in combat operations 1 week ago:
I wonder why they can’t just buy straight from Cisco, surely they are big enough and the equipment is sensitive enough for that to make sense.
- Comment on Counterfeit Cisco gear ended up in US military bases, used in combat operations 1 week ago:
Or it’s a surveillance attempt by someone.
- Comment on Because of smartphones, pocket TVs were never a thing. 1 week ago:
Sure but they aren’t TVs. A TV can normally only do TV shit.
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It’s free 🤷
Also the free tier was worse when it launched.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I searched and I may have misremembered the free version seems to have been around since the start except that the free version was initially invite and desktop only. Eventually everyone could use it but still only on desktop. The free version was even more limited back then it seems with a limit on how many hours you could listen to each month.
I could personally never use it. Because it was so incredibly limited. Not being allowed to skip tracks makes it unusable and I’m genuinely surprised anyone used it apart from trying the service.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Because they need to pay their supplier of synced (and non-synced) lyrics, Musixmatch.