chic_luke

@chic_luke@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For some reason, I'm doubtful.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You forgot cache distance. That would also critically hinder performance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the fear mongering on Steam I’d excessive. The games stay offline on your disk, and most of them don’t have a DRM. Gabe Newell has also said that, in case Steam ever shutters, an exit plan will be provided. As for the Steam native DRM, there are already open source implementations that can be used to bypass it and Valve hasn’t done anything against it in years - so the only problematic DRMs are Denuvo and similar, which Steam does not control.

  GOG used to be a valid alternative, but it isn’t anymore. With CDPR themselves publishing games with DRM on GOG, on top of starting to be lenient on DRMs, they are literally having something similar to a DRM that is required for some games, a GOG Galaxy API that is completely closed source. And it doesn’t support Linux, the FOSS operating system.

  The fact that after years GOG still doesn’t seem to care about Linux, CDPR releases their games for Windows only (and more often than not with DRM), and Cyberpunk 2077 only runs on Linux thanks to Valve’s efforts is also worrying from a game conservation and ownership standpoint: Windows is a Proprietary operating system completely controlled by Microsoft, who can perform modifications remotely and is allegedly planning to popularize a model where people are sold very low spec PCs that only need to stream a Windows computer from the cloud with more powerful specs… not the platform I want to entrust the future of gaming to.

  All in all, Steam is still the mainstream gaming platform I dislike the least and trust the most. If I’m going to buy a game and hope it’s going to be playable decades into the future, it used to be GOG, but now it’s Steam from me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2834: Book Podcasts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks you!! This looks fun, I didn’t know this was a thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2834: Book Podcasts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you! I’ll check it out :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2834: Book Podcasts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also audio dramas. Niche but good. They’re a narration like books, but they are made for the audio medium.

  The problem I’ve found with audio books is that they were made to be read - and it shows. Audio dramas are generally easier to listen to, sometimes they use epistolary formats to make them easier to separate into episodes, and they have a lot more attention on things like the background music and conveying parts of the narration through audio itself, rather than “writing” (so just reading something aloud). I find them fascinating, because they’re really fun to listen to and they seem like the compromise between a book and a movie.

  “The Magnus Archives” is great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. I’m tired of always blaming the end users for everything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah :( I love my 2017-2018 phone to death, bht it has started with the random crashes and “dying” (boot loops followed by not turning on anymore) for a few minutes / hours before coming back to its senses occasionally

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s time to dust off Terraria and go on a nice run again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity reportedly told dev Planned Parenthood and children's hospital are "not valid charities"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Unity was “cancelled” the very second they introduced this fee. Nobody wants or will ever want to publish their game in Unity anymore. Studios planning to develop a game in Unity have already decided on moving to Unreal as we speak.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it? Don’t like to play devil’s advocate but I’m pretty sure my Instagram is pretty much alive and my BeReal feed is an at all all-time high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google kills two-year “Pixel Pass” subscription after just 22 months⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate Google as much as the next guy but I don’t think switching to the product of an even more capitalistic company, one that is completely locked down and doesn’t allow you to install your own OS, is actually a good solution…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feels good to win boys⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, this is my first 30 minutes on Lemmy as a Reddit refugee and this is a primer of the content quality I see. Very encouraging.

  Besides, the problem with these boomer-y posts is that, in a relationship, it should be you two vs. the problem, not one against the other. In the latter case, the relationship doesn’t work.