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@villainy@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Wednesday, my dudes.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah well peaches come from a can, and they were put there by a man.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep.

  Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd.

  Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd. was a 1983 legal case heard by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by Judge Robert W. Sweet. In their complaint, Universal Studios alleged that Nintendo’s video game Donkey Kong was a trademark infringement of King Kong, the plot and characters of which Universal claimed as their own. Nintendo argued that Universal had themselves proven that King Kong’s plot and characters were in the public domain in Universal City Studios, Inc. v. RKO General, Inc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there any time of day it’s not atrocious? Seems like any time would have basically equal risk for collateral casualties.

  Then maybe it shouldn’t be done at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go already⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tried it. Now I’m stopped bumper to bumper with the guy who cut me off to cram his truck into the buffer I left. What’s the next step?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Second this. A friend and I just finished up a full co-op main game + DLC run and it was a blast!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't beat the classics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have never seen Blues Brothers and, to my knowledge, have never seen this clip. Somehow I still knew almost immediately that this must be from Blues Brothers.

  Cultural osmosis is crazy y’all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also my collection of hobbies seems to match up well with the people who nuked their post history after the API-ocalypse. Even when I get good search results I click through and… so many deleted comments…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Strikes” made me think they were cancelling the deal. Like strike-through, crossed it out, etc. Too bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just one search result but it’s showing 326 million phones shipped in just Q4 of last year. How many of those new phones do you think shipped with headphone jacks?

  www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS51776424

  There’s plenty of industry analysis out there that, while not perfect, is data showing that new phone sales have not been hampered by the removal of the headphone jack.

  I’m rocking a Pixel 5a which does still have it and I do get a warm and fuzzy in my nerd brain by having it there. If I’m honest though, I used it maybe twice in the last year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So sad⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought I could do it. I really did. As soon as that first spoonful hit her mouth though, I was out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨uncanny resemblance⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even when it does work you can end up with an empty box where the ad should be, still covering content, still with an infinitesimally small X to close the empty box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They lied to us⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My entire life has been a lie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Introducing a $48,000 Ship Bundle, but Only for Players Who Have Already Spent $10,000⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you played the X series?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it was the “Amazon Day” shipping that bundles up a week’s worth of separate orders into one shipping day. Convenient sure but now I’m not getting 2-day shipping… so what am I paying for again? I’ll just bundle up the orders and shipping my damn self.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fix⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or it’s a company so fuckoff huge that one department (Chrome on Android) couldn’t get a bug report escalated in another department (YouTube). Eventually they just put in a UA workaround while the bug rots in a backlog somewhere. Common enterprise bullshit.

  Or the Chrome on Android team didn’t even bother reporting the issue to YouTube and just threw in a cheap workaround. Also common enterprise bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And I’m very much not a fan of fucking up podcasts as a simple medium delivered by RSS. I have a futile hope that that decision will burn them.

  This was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me. When they started locking up shows to their app, I cancelled my subscription and dropped Spotify entirely. I don’t even listen to any of the shows they bought but I do listen to a lot of podcasts through Pocket Casts and take umbrage when anybody fucks with the standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a JSON file in Windows 11 enables Edge, Bing, and Search ads removal⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that wine is bad at supporting Windows appliances necessarily. If you (or your company) buys software that supports some versions of Windows and you open a support ticket with some issue running in Linux under wine, that’s a ticket that will likely be closed fast as an unsupported configuration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a JSON file in Windows 11 enables Edge, Bing, and Search ads removal⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck getting support for commercial software if you’re running it under wine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Invidious and Freetube are still YouTube though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So… YouTube then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comcast resists call to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims | Comcast renamed its whole network "Xfinity 10G" despite cable's slower speeds.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Both can be true. It’s a massive effort to upgrade the infrastructure. Comcast will squeeze every drop from the existing plant, then hem and haw for a few years while service suffers, before actually committing to the massive effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve linked to the Digital Markets Act. The Digital Services Act, also linked from the Wikipedia article provided above, is a different thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Rolan’s Curse (and its sequel) are pretty good Zelda-like action adventure games. They’re not going to stand up to Link’s Awakening but still, I remember them fondly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Gargoyle’s Quest has plenty of those weird old game difficulty spikes. Damned fine Game Boy game though. Good call!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy hell a little corner of my brain just lit up seeing “ASMIK World”. The cart is buried in boxes but I know what I’ll be emulating this weekend!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Google Pixel 8 is official with 7 years of updates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m curious what phone you’re planning to get that isn’t a giant spyware device?