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- Comment on Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Will Aggressively Pursue a Multiplatform Strategy After Profits Tumble 5 months ago:
Who would've thought that making your product more readily available would increase sales? That's so much more counterintuitive than "double down on NFTs and release schedules that require knowledge of calculus to figure out."
- Comment on Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries 6 months ago:
Screw it, go make the actual Starship Troopers game not suck. That thing is in dire need of help.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries 6 months ago:
While 177 countries sounds like a lot, it's not where the majority of players are. PSN operates in the top 15 countries by GDP and the top 4 by population.
Of course there's still the question of why they work in so few countries when literally none of their competitors (that I know of) have those limitations.
- Comment on Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth? 6 months ago:
Let 'em frown. You have Cinnamon Toast Vodka now.
- Comment on I am the thing that goes *thump* 'Fuck!' in the night 6 months ago:
Local safety regulations require a breathalyzer test before you're allowed upstairs.
- Comment on Why does Microsoft want me to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11? 8 months ago:
LTSC also doesn't get incremental updates other than absolutely critical vulnerability fixes. It's specifically meant for machines that need everything to function exactly the same over a long period of time, e.g. point of sale machines, the accounting/inventory machine that hangs out in the back office, so on. You aren't going to get any major update or overhaul pushed to an LTSC version of Windows.
LTSC can also be a pain in the tuchus to get your hands on as an individual. If you have an MSDN account however (like through work or school) they often come with a bunch of keys for Microsoft products, including LTSC products. You can check here, just try logging in with your work/school email - even if it's non-Microsoft - and see what happens.
If you can't get your hands on an LTSC copy, then at a minimum try getting a copy of Windows 10/11 "N", which comes without Windows Media Player and Skype pre-installed. It's nowhere near as clean as LTSC, but every little bit helps.
- Comment on How can a ugly and short guy compensate for his looks? 8 months ago:
This is what Andrew Tate actually believes.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Really early on, too. It was one of the things that made me go "oh wait this isn't just fart jokes in space".
Though to be fair, the reality is that no matter how advanced we get there's still gonna be fart jokes in space. That scene in the cafeteria where everyone's getting Bortus to eat random things seems like a far more realistic vision of a space-faring future.
- Comment on Feel the bass 9 months ago:
Also cheat during chess championships!
- Comment on The Self-Checkout Nightmare May Finally Be Ending 9 months ago:
YMMV wildly. Walmart of all places generally has a good ratio of self checkout to actual cashiers, but there's this annoying trend with a lot of the local stores where they have only 4 self checkouts period but will only ever have one, maybe two other checkout lanes operating. Doesn't matter if there's a line stretching the full length of one of the grocery aisles, 2 non-self checkout lanes and that's it.
- Comment on Leaving the bidet on "feminine" mode is the female equivalent of leaving the toilet seat up. 9 months ago:
You actually have to switch modes? Mine just has a lever that goes either forwards or backwards depending on which nozzle you want to use.
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 11 months ago:
Agh, right, so you are.
Larger point still stands though.
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 11 months ago:
From the site:
IDDQD: Instance For /vr/, /tg/, /g/, etc.
In other words an offshoot of 4chan's gaming-related boards (vg - Retro Gaming, tg - Traditional Gaming, g - Gaming). Unfortunately it's 4chan, so....
- Comment on on youtube how do I downvote an ad? or how do i tell youtube that "hey this ad is not something I want to see?" I know ad blockers don't work on youtube anymore but how do I tweek what ads i do see? 11 months ago:
As others have said, adblockers do still work on YouTube. Specifically, uBlock Origin works great on YouTube, as long as you don't use it with any other adblockers.
Also if you're using Chrome, stop using Chrome. uBlock Origin still works on Chrome most of the time but Google is doing their best to kill it off. Switch to Firefox.
- Comment on What "sacred Bajoran trinket" do you suppose this is? 11 months ago:
It's to cover the stink of Kai Winn. Even venting the room into the cold vacuum of space can't sweep out every stray "my child" that gets stuck around the room.
- Comment on The Feds' Vehicle 'Kill Switch' Mandate Is a Gross (and Dangerous) Violation of Privacy | Jon Miltimore 11 months ago:
I think the analysis is correct in that the implementation will die in committee before ever making it to effect, not to mention the practical considerations of implementing this in the lighting-fast timeframe of 3 years. However, I cannot help but point out this part:
So far, not a kill switch, but some kind of technology to detect if you’re driving like a drunk person and disable the vehicle.
"Disable the vehicle" is literally what people mean when they talk about a "kill switch". At best that's an argument over semantics. The law mandates a thing that deliberately stop your car from functioning.
- Comment on Me when my mother hits me for sneaking an early piece of pie 11 months ago:
Can't fool me. That's clearly a Cellular Peptide Cake.
- Comment on He lives 11 months ago:
Well then, allow me to share my thoughts on Mr. Berman.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
I commented elsewhere, but the headline was referencing an 80% rise in uninstalls during the month, but the article itself revealed that there was a matching rise in installs during that same month. In other words it was people uninstalling their old adblockers and installing a new one, cycling through them to find one that worked.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
The content creators get paid the exact same whether I skip the sponsor segment or not. YouTube doesn't track that, or not in a way they share with anyone else at any rate.
In other words, it doesn't hurt the content creator in the slightest.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
Sponsors don't pay the creator less if you skip the sponsor segment. That's not tracked, at least not in a way that google will share with the creator or anyone else. If that changes someday, sure, you have a point. For now skipping the sponsor segment is as harmless as skipping through the commercials on TV.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
That article was full of such blatantly misleading crap. Headline talks about record number of adblocker uninstalls, but the actual data says it was an uptick in both installs and uninstalls. In other words it was people cycling through different adblockers trying to find one that still worked.
- Comment on Lemmy posts are starting to pop up on search results for Google (+ other search engines) 1 year ago:
Swag. The more we show up in search, the more people will be asking "what the heck is Lemmy?" Some of 'em will join.
Well then. Here. We. Go.
- Comment on Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM 1 year ago:
Various state and federal accessibility laws would've made that a very questionable decision for a lot of industries. Given that it would cost money simply to get programmers to implement and might lead to more costs from legal challenges I suspect a lot of sites like banks and the like would've avoided it.
Now when it comes to basically any news site, entertainment service, social media, online store, or anything else that makes extra money on ads and harvesting user data? Oh yeah, they'd implement it in a heartbeat.
- Comment on YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet 1 year ago:
Because this isn't just about "making anything in return" any more than neo-Nazis are booted from platforms "just for having different opinions." More people are using adblockers on YouTube because YouTube isn't simply displaying commercial advertisements, they're pushing "ads" for scams, malware, and all manner of heinous and/or sketchy content. Even separate of that, the frequency of ads and the presence of minutes-long ads you need to manually skip have made watching content difficult and unpleasant, if not unworkable. Adblocker usage is as much about restoring functionality to the site as anything.
All of these issues have been raised with YouTube, but rather than address the complaints by adjusting how ads are selected and served they've decided the only solution is for you to pay them monthly, not just a few bucks but as much as (or more than) the major video streaming services. All of this for content they do not make, at a price point far beyond what they need to be profitable. It's greed for the sake of greed, pure and simple.
- Comment on Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection 1 year ago:
That would be easy to challenge under the same reasoning as what's in the article, not to mention various anti-trust laws and ones covering anti-competitive business practices.
Doesn't mean it's guaranteed to stop them, but it's definitely not going to be as easy as them flipping a few switches and saying "watch ads on our browser with no addons or GTFO".
- Comment on Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection 1 year ago:
Not even Microsoft in its monolith days was able to spend enough money to stop a legion of angry nerds with a severe case of "fuck you, you can't tell me what to do".
- Comment on For anyone who wasn't aware, the 1990s show Gargoyles is basically a TNG reunion. 1 year ago:
As a child, going from the 60s Batman series to that was almost whiplash inducing. I did not expect animated Batman to give me the feels. I did not expect animated Batman to honestly scare the crap out of me.
- Comment on For anyone who wasn't aware, the 1990s show Gargoyles is basically a TNG reunion. 1 year ago:
I have no idea who decided a 90s kid show should have writing that good but they made the right call. Xanatos is one of the best written villains ever.
- Comment on Fedia.io is shutting down (and re-opening as a Lemmy instance) 1 year ago:
Ahh gotcha. So this is the start of the fork. Interesting.
Well I'm definitely gonna keep an eye on it. Think I'll make an account over on your side too just to keep up with my basic plan of diversification.
