picnicolas

@picnicolas@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But product make money… and we want money now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CD Projekt Red are splitting from GOG somehow?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand your concern based on how corporations tend to run these days, but this is a lot of speculation. It’s good to be skeptical though.

  My guess is that they want to use a single account across more services unrelated to GOG, akin to the way google SSO works for gmail, YouTube, drive, etc. If the account is owned by a subsidiary that might not be possible for other subsidiaries to use the same account per data regulation rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sideloaded app stores are coming to iOS in the EU⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wifi inside the cage?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google maps adding sponsored detours⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, but I did move from Waze to Google Maps and now settled on Apple Maps because of increasing enshittification and ad bloat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some essential browser extensions for "quieting down" the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, I think our only hope is the EU forcing more openness on the platform. Thankfully there are safari addons now, they’re useful though limited. I just wish we had Firefox and its extension library like android does now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons Remake announced⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually played it with my son coop a decade ago when he was quite young, he’d sit in my lap and we’d each have one hand on the controller. We played it through that way and had a blast. I remember him being quite scared at some points, and the game was an emotional rollercoaster, but we very much enjoyed playing it together and I could see it working as a coop game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ZimaCube: 6-Bay HDD Personal Cloud with quad 2.5GbE⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Put in $1 for the early bird N100 version with 6w TDP. I’ve been wanting to build a server with exactly these specs to replace my work horse raspberry PI 4 with 2x10tb USB drives. This comes in a nice clean little package. I’ll probably start with 2x20gb in ZFS mirror with a spare NVME drive for cache, then add HDDS from there when it starts to fill up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Missing topographical elements of Paleolithic rock art revealed by stereoscopic imaging⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve visited several caves with Neolithic art in France and the way they used natural cave forms to accentuate the art was always called out. Holding a flickering torch at various angles would make the animals appear to move and dance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to setup my own home server & make it available to anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re only accessing the server remotely via Tailscale and no ports are open, is it necessary to have the server on its own isolated VLAN? I like accessing my server locally most of the time and via Tailscale when I’m out and about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple TV's tvOS 17 brings VPN support, which Tailscale now supports.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you managed to avoid ads on YouTube? Does it work well for streaming games from a PC?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will no longer let you opt out of personalized ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Collecting the data is necessary for the functionality of the site. Lemmy collects that same data. Sharing that data with third parties and potential ramifications of that is the issue I’m raising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will no longer let you opt out of personalized ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sharing and/or selling that data to third parties that do have personally identifiable information… now they know everything about your porn habits et al., that data is more easily leaked the wider it’s spread, you’re more easily doxxed/blackmailed, etc.