Meltrax
@Meltrax@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 1 week ago:
Was it though?
A billionaire buys or funds a public platform and does with it as he pleases, despite the obviously humanitarian route being something different. Have we really never seen that before?
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 1 week ago:
Whhhhhhy?
This is the same thing. This is the exact same type of platform that will eventually go the same way. This is shooting yourself in the foot once, then aiming the shotgun at the other foot and pulling the trigger thinking that the bullet was a fluke the first time.
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 3 weeks ago:
SSX Tricky brought up to PS5 graphics.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
This is a very odd and out of touch comment with what the game currently is and what is being produced by the devs. Have you even played it recently? All the new Varlamore region stuff is aimed at early and midgame players.
And yes, the game progresses towards grinding endgame encounters… Like every single MMO ever. If you’re friend is a maxed out account farming for ultra rare drops, I don’t think you can say that what he is doing is “the content the game has to offer for people”. What would you prefer instead? What do you think it should be like, if not this?
- Comment on Passport-less clearance fully available at Changi Airport, average clearance time of 10 seconds: ICA 4 weeks ago:
I flew into Boston from Europe three weeks ago.
I also flew into NYC from Europe earlier this year.
They use images of your face and biometrics. This is how travel works. It has nothing to do with how civilized you think you are.
- Comment on Passport-less clearance fully available at Changi Airport, average clearance time of 10 seconds: ICA 4 weeks ago:
Have you flown international lately? This is what it looks like to land in the international terminal in most major US airports as well.
- Comment on What Ever Happened to Netscape? 4 weeks ago:
The third of Arthur C Clarke’s three laws:
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
- Comment on OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion 1 month ago:
Unless there is a drastic breakthrough in computing from a hardware company in or energy sources from likely a nuclear company, this is not possible.
- Comment on Stardew Valley 1.6 is Coming November 4th. 1 month ago:
I’ve heard the hype but I have never played this game. What am I missing?
- Comment on RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it 2 months ago:
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, and I preface this by saying I do not fully understand the ins and outs of game development, though I am a software engineer (just not a game dev).
OSRS has made some absolutely amazing improvements in the last couple years. Almost every single update has hit perfectly with nothing but minor errors or complaints. New expansions and regions, new quests, new raid, weapon and damage rebalances, new bosses, new community events and special game modes, new updates to their clients both mobile and desktop, and most importantly a significantly better bot-busting system over the last few months.
This shit isn’t cheap. That’s a LOT of parallel systems and work, and OSRS continues to have 0 micro transactions outside of membership. True, RS3 and its cesspool of mtx helps fund OSRS, but I don’t know how far that goes.
I’m OK with OSRS costing $2 more per month if it means that this current cadence of content of QOL updates marches on. Jagex has been absolutely nailing it and I’m very happy with them, and that’s worth money to me.
- Comment on OpenAI co-founder John Schulman says he will leave and join rival Anthropic 3 months ago:
It was more money.
It’s always more money.
- Comment on Funny bad games reviews 4 months ago:
“Worst MMO Ever” series by Josh Strife Hayes
- Comment on TeamViewer got hacked 4 months ago:
What’s a better product? I use TeamViewer as an individual to help my technically illiterate grandparents who live across the country with tech issues. Would love an alternative if there is one.
- Comment on Syncing local server with seedbox 5 months ago:
That must have been it, appreciate the clarification.
- Comment on Syncing local server with seedbox 5 months ago:
I’ve used it in the past, but they are deprecating one-way ignore-delete syncing.
- Comment on Syncing local server with seedbox 5 months ago:
My understanding of rsync was that it was pretty painfully slow.
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- Comment on Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED 6 months ago:
I give it a few months before the Community tier servers’ data is dumped and sold to an AI model company.
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 6 months ago:
Jesus. I can’t find an affordable apartment in Boston but “Blue grounds” is listing fucking 372 of them on Airbnb…
- Comment on what lemmy web app do you use and why? 6 months ago:
Boost on Android. Used it for reddit, use it for Lemmy now that it swapped over.
- Comment on The PlayStation 2 6 months ago:
SSX Tricky will forever hold a special place in my heart.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I believe someone debunked the claim of lossless audio. But otherwise I think that’s all accurate.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I mean yeah it’s fucking horrifying. But this weird ass poster pretending to be a game, and posting it in this community, is disingenuous. Maybe that’s the point. Still crappy.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
What the fuck is wrong with you people
- Comment on Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps 7 months ago:
The Internet is actually free. Services on it aren’t always. The issue with YouTube monetizing, for me, is 1) they are doing it retroactively and 2) they’re monetizing content made by others.
- Comment on Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps 7 months ago:
It costs $23/no for fucking YouTube? And to get the same experience you get with a free browser add-on? Fuck all of that. Absolutely not.
- Comment on Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time 8 months ago:
What’s the issue with lemmy.world? Serious question
- Comment on Helldivers 2 gets its first rebalance patch 8 months ago:
Seems like the laser cannon is supposed to sort of fill some of that gap.
- Comment on Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV 9 months ago:
What ads are you trying to remove?
Firefox on android allows you to use uBlockOrigin. YoutubeRevanced is an excellent application patcher system that you can use to remove ads from YouTube, Twitch, Spotify, and many other. F-droid has some good resources.
If you’re playing games with ads, it’s a little harder. You probably need a piHole on your home network for that (they are super fun either way).
In general, yes, I guess it’s a little harder to remove ads from your entire phone than it is to just remove them from a desktop web browser. Way better than Apple’s options though.
- Comment on Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV 9 months ago:
Android is one of the easiest places to block ads.