odelik

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luma Island devs spent an 'enormous amount of effort' to make it smooth on Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is great news.

  However highlighting the “enormous amount of effort” came off as immflamatory as a headline. Now to prove to them that we appreciate the effort they put into this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not allowed to work from home⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta love jobs that treat their staff like children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the leaf icon behind some users' names on Mbin and why can't you see them on lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What?

  New users.

  github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/pull/969

  Not on lemmy?

  Because it’s a Mbin UI customization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t chaff your stick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As my grandmother used to tell me, “Your hands are dry, go lotion them up sonny.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Google-backed software developer GitLab explores sale, sources say | Reuters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just wish GitHub wasn’t part of MS anymore.

  I also don’t want Gitlab owned by another megacorp. They’ll both just be enshittifed to the ground at his point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just the data transfer. It’s also number of connections and the combined load. Scaling the kind of things can be a nightmare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s paid Alexa is coming to fill a $25 billion hole dug by Echo devices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Budgeting and priorizing other projects ahead of the switch. Being a DIY/Maker/Tech Nerd isn’t cheap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s paid Alexa is coming to fill a $25 billion hole dug by Echo devices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Been wanting to switch to Home Assistant for a while now. Soon as this up-charge hits, looks like I’ll be making the switch.

  www.home-assistant.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe people buy cheap trash that would be sold on Temu.

  But here we are, people buy cheap ass trash off Temu. If China started picking through the trash we shipped them and sold it back to us on a site like Temu, something tells me people would still buy it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you handle family requests that you disagree with?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do one of the following:

  1. Tell your mother you’re not comfortable hosting that type of content as a non-believer.
  2. Lie and hand back the propaganda movies and say you couldn’t rip them to some unknown rip protecting they use and there’s not enough resources online to figure it out.
  3. Host the content and let your mother liver her life and don’t say anything.

  I’d personally use option 1, but you do you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s one feature that win11 has over win10 that I wish was there, and that’s the default layout manager is superior to windows 10’s, and less fidgety and better hotkeys than what’s offered with Power Toys. Especially vertical monitor support, which win10s layout manager never got an update for. And as a Tie-Fighter monitor setup user (4k portrait, WQHD landscape, 4k portrait) having an effective layout manager is crucial.

  However, there’s 3rdParty layout managers that are even better than the win11 implementation. Butt to be able to get the default support of an effective layout manager is quite nice.

  That said, that’s the only feature I really like aside from some nominal improvements/optimizations to background systems (network stack, Bluetooth management, “game mode”) and services. That’s not enough for me to transition when there’s so many other things that were done to make it a worse experince.

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

  Nah, I don’t even want the results where people are talking about the cesspit.

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

  Add -twitter to your search queries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Republican senator renews push to make daylight savings permanent⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They keep getting stalled because they proposed bills to remain on DST instead of not participating. To remain on DST requires US Congressional approval and the bills were ignored and were never brought up to vote.

  Washington is looking at putting forth another bill to stop participating in DST altogether since that only needs to pass the state legislators and Governor sign-off.

  I’d prefer to stay on DST permanently, especially on the summer solstice where the sun sets super late and you can enjoy summer. In the end, I just want to stop dealing with the fuckery of DST.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activision/Blizzard QA workers form the largest US video game union yet⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I could agree on the /s being sardonic over sarcasm. With how irony has been slowly redefined over the years I can see how people could preceieve why that would be a sarcastic statement and accepted as such, cus language changes over to time and whatnot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Activision/Blizzard QA workers form the largest US video game union yet⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s not sarcasm.

  Those are things the Blizzard employees have had happen to them. The boys club that was going on there was horrific and the women that worked there went through a ton of shit.

  For those unaware: theverge.com/…/california-activision-blizzard-gen…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe one of the lorem ipsum generators could help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently set up Firefox on my Windows PC and it asked me on the FTUE wizard what search engine I wanted to use as my default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t the inability to process the volume of request from LEOs be an apt example of an operational bottleneck?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with you. But have you seen how California has handed over the power grid to private companies?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity say layoffs “likely” as they recover from disastrous pricing plan rollout and look to AI for growth⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t you know? That was J.R.'s fault and nobody else on the board was involved in the decision. And since he’s been forced to step down retiring due to the backlash, the person responsible is gone! Nobody else is to blame! /s

  I’ve worked in games on-and-off-and-on for the last 20 years and have over 12 years of actual industry experince. The industry needs to change, and there’s a few studios and publishers standing up and trying to do things in a better way. But dammit, I don’t think it’s going to get much better as an entire industry until there’s significant reform to the US’s business practices as a whole.

  Also, fuck publicly traded companies. They ways go to hell within 5-10 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It scars you for life’: Workers sue Meta claiming viewing brutal videos caused psychological trauma⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Desensitized doesn’t necessarily mean somebody doesn’t have reactions to something. It just means they can compartmentalize those reactions and move forward and deal with the ramifications later.

  EMTs, ER Doctors, and Nurses are largely desensitized to graphic trauma and can press through and get the job done. But that doesn’t mean that they don’t process those scenes later in both healthy and unhealthy ways (there’s a few study out there that show ER staff have higher rates of alcoholism and substance abuse rates than the general public).

  Tramua is trauma, whether you’re desensitized or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I remeber Facebook before algorithms took over.

  You friended and followed things, and then you’d either see content from those things only in either chronological order or by recent activity. People loved it and as “the algorithm” took over people complained that they were no longer being served the content they wanted and expected and were also seeing content they did not want to see from stuff they had never followed or shared interest in.

  Fuck the magical algorithm that’s tailored to serve me divisive content because that is what drives the most engagement. Or serves me content to sway my political and moral opinions to the benefit of some wannabe oligarch or government entity (looking at you TikTok/CCP).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨According to Elon Musk’s own math, the company formerly known as Twitter has lost 90% of its value and could be worth just $4 billion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The only people there that get sympathy from me are the people trapped there on work visas if they want to legally remain in the USA.

  The rest are either shit workers that can’t make the cut elsewhere, or bought into the Elon hype and are a lost cause.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saints Row developer Volition permanently shuts down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This has more to do with Embracer Group’s June announcement for upcoming large scale restructuring, layoffs, and studio closures than anything else. Embracer has even hit hard at studios that were profitable or had games in the pipeline that were expected to be a huge sales success.

  As much as I love games, the industry is a tough place to work, and the layoff cycles are striking once again.