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- Comment on I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun 1 week ago:
I didn’t buy those adapters, I just used a computer that had a FireWire 400 port. I haven’t found any evidence of those direct USB cables working with old iPods.
- Comment on I used an original iPod in 2024, and it was pretty fun 1 week ago:
I’m not quite that young.
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 64 comments
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 2 weeks ago:
Revenue is not the same thing as profit. Storing nearly two decades of videos with global CDNs costs a lot of money.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 5 weeks ago:
Yep, never tried to hide that.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 5 weeks ago:
The benefit is improved performance and a better user experience. The Chromium-based components of Steam (like the store) are slow in part because of that.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 5 weeks ago:
Also, every game launcher on Windows still puts games in the start menu.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 5 weeks ago:
Steam only being 32-bit isn’t improving compatibility, it’s being lazy. You can write code that works on both architectures for the best performance and compatibility across all PCs, like Chrome, Firefox, MS Office, etc.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 5 weeks ago:
Every other major application and service on Mac has ARM-native builds now, there’s not really an excuse for Valve. It’s especially silly when much of Steam is running through a Chromium engine, not machine code or anything else that might be difficult to port.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 5 weeks ago:
There’s a difference between Valve deciding to not make Mac games anymore and Valve leaving the Mac Steam client a slow and laggy mess on newer Macs. The former only affects people who want to play Valve games, the latter affects a lot more people.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 44 comments
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 45 comments
- Comment on Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating 2 months ago:
In my case it was an addendum to the lease renewal. The only other option was leaving after my original lease was up but I’m not in a position to do that right now.
- Comment on Cable can't compete with 5G home internet, so it's cheating 2 months ago:
Starlink wouldn’t change anything in terms of cost, if a specific ISP is force-bundled into a lease then it doesn’t matter which alternatives exist. There isn’t a technical solution to this problem, only a legal one.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 99 comments
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 2 months ago:
I mostly use Mastodon, but I 100% get it. The onboarding process is much easier with centralized services (no need for analogies to email), and more importantly, you’re not at risk of losing half your follows/followers when server admins have a pissing match. As long as those friction points exist, there will be a market for centralized platforms.
- Submitted 3 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Submitted 4 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 37 comments
- Comment on You probably don't need a VPN 4 months ago:
Are there attack vectors through public Wi-Fi in recent history? Now that most sites and services are HTTPS there’s nothing they can do except do network-level blocks.
- Comment on You probably don't need a VPN 4 months ago:
VPNs don’t really protect your privacy though, except in cases where you’ve already eliminated other means of tracking (e.g. fresh incognito browser tab + VPN). Every website and service I use still has a record of my activity if I’m logged in, advertiser networks have other means of tracking you, etc.
The issue is buying a VPN and thinking that’s the end of it.
- Submitted 4 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 25 comments
- Submitted 4 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 61 comments
- Comment on Fallout 3: GOTY Edition is free to keep for the next 24 hours on the Epic Games Store 4 months ago:
The latest versions through GOG and (I think) Steam run pretty well, there’s no more GFWL or other stuff that broke a long time ago.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 4 months ago:
Yes, I’m aware. Fediverse also has nazis, they’re everywhere. I can put on my big boy pants and block them as I see them, instead of an admin doing collateral damage and preventing from talking to all the other people who won’t leave Threads.
- Submitted 4 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 4 months ago:
FOSS bros: we’re all about user choice!
also FOSS bros: no not like that
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 4 months ago:
Yes, you can domain block threads.net just like any other mastodon/misskey/whatever server.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 4 months ago:
I’m okay with Threads federating because there are a some people I know who won’t use Mastodon but will use Threads, and I would like to talk to them without downloading Threads. That’s probably true for most of the people supporting it, or they just think it should be up to individuals instead of the admin making unilateral decisions about who you’re allowed to talk with.
Threads joining would also introduce a far wider group of people to Fedi that isn’t just “nerds who like Linux and/or programming”, which is the bulk of people using Mastodon (and Lemmy, for that matter) right now. I’m not really concerned about EEE because there will always be a huge chunk of people using the FOSS platforms.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 4 months ago:
If I am on Mastodon, there is nothing that Threads can collect from me that they can not get already. My posts are public, Meta or anyone else doesn’t need permission to look at them.
The only risk is if I am sending direct messages to someone on Threads from Mastodon, then obviously Meta has a copy. ActivityPub is not E2E encrypted, you shouldn’t be using it for private communication at all, the threat model is the same between Threads and any other Mastodon server.