JustARaccoon
@JustARaccoon@lemmy.world
- Comment on CODE VEIN II — Announcement Trailer 14 hours ago:
It just looks like Pokémon trainer models, but worse in terms of proportions.
- Comment on CODE VEIN II — Announcement Trailer 1 day ago:
This looks… Rough. The character designs seem to be a major downgrade from before, and the lore and plot don’t seem to follow up at all on the last game?
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 1 week ago:
You can have Google forward your emails while you move over your accounts
- Comment on Microsoft wants Windows Update to handle all apps 1 week ago:
I only speak from trying to use it as a package manager, it’s reliant on people making custom silent install scripts and updating packages correctly. I had some apps that didn’t have their version updated in some file so it always reported being out of date to Winget so it was always downloading and reinstalling. Just janky primarily with third party apps.
- Comment on Microsoft wants Windows Update to handle all apps 1 week ago:
But winget is still somewhat hacky, this would make use of the actual system updates system and be opt in for better integration
- Comment on Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions are getting more expensive 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure “like lightroom” is true. It has an entirely different paradigm to editing, with modules and such instead of a single state
- Comment on Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected 2 weeks ago:
Do Magisk and the universal fix no longer help with masking your OS?
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 2 weeks ago:
Np! Also forgot to add, I haven’t checked the license but generally with proper open source projects (as in not just source available) it means that even if Microsoft tries to revert this at any point, having forks of this version and continuing to develop and distribute versions of it is A-OK
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 2 weeks ago:
Means that now anyone can fork the project and make changes or iterate on it without needing to wait for Microsoft to fix things.
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 3 weeks ago:
This and the fact gallery cloud provider API stuff is locked down to whoever Google gives permission to should get a lawsuit.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 4 weeks ago:
Why not a middle ground? Have them only access a local network version of Wikipedia + a verified library to search
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 5 weeks ago:
Then it becomes harder to change when you want to add in new features still. There needs to be a fine balance between giving options and having a clean single-option code, and offering 2 different video players is not it (it sounds like some shortcuts got broken so it’s not just a CSS that got applied)
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 5 weeks ago:
That would turn into spaghetti code and unmaintainable tech debt really fast. Now every time you make a change you have to make sure it doesn’t break previous stylesheets, or you need to run different versions of the same codebase for each stylesheet that will need updating for security vulnerabilities and stakeholder whims.
- Comment on Well played, Todd: You can see Skyrim, or at least its tallest mountain, from the edge of Oblivion Remastered 1 month ago:
… yeah Skyrim the region exists just next door to Cyrodiil, crazy that.
- Comment on Bethesda Gifts Everybody in the Skyblivion Team a Copy of Oblivion Remastered 1 month ago:
I’d argue they’re the most vocal about it, but no. They release a half lobotomized set of tools, they keep making modder unfriendly changes to the games (recompiling the exe for no reason every time a new cc mod was released for Skyrim, which meant you needed to wait for skse to update too) including having load order broken at launch in Starfield. Also the many ways and attempts they’ve made at monetising mods with them getting a cut. Not to mention this new Oblivion game needs new tools to work with it and once again like with Skyrim VR, “modding is unsupported”, though that could just be a decision made by the Devs since they’re developed by third party studios.
I’d say Larian is actually pulling their weight tho, with bg3 modding going quite well and them frequently highlighting mods on their twitter. Also CDPR who looked at the most popular mods and added them to the base game as polished features.
- Comment on My Steam Community Content bingo card: appreciative screenshot, endearing fan art, random Russian post, how to sex, and an in-depth guide. 1 month ago:
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- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 is getting 12 new subclasses next week 1 month ago:
It’s a pre-written balanced set of classes to try out, it’s not a requirement to play d&d and you can also just homebrew your own stuff. I don’t see how shouting at the sky about an optional purchaseable module helps
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 is getting 12 new subclasses next week 1 month ago:
what are you mad at? This is bg3, a “rigid computer game”, what does wotc’s physical books have to do with a free update?
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 1 month ago:
Did you like, not read any of the comment you’re replying to? Click any of the picture links?
- Comment on Black Mirror’s pessimism porn won’t lead us to a better future | Louis Anslow 1 month ago:
Had me until the vr point. Vr has so many great uses from manufacturing and engineering to teaching and practicing medicine in a way that gives you a 3D presentation of schematics or human bodies.
Commercially vr is doing ok, but many of the issues have come from Meta bottlenecking the vr world by buying up all the big studios then having them make cheap mobile phone game-level experiences instead of really expanding the scope of things.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 1 month ago:
Nope, look into Bazzite for an easy Linux distro to set up
- Comment on “It Wouldn’t Be Surprising If, in Two Years’ Time, There Was a Film Made Completely Through AI”: Says Hayao Miyazaki’s Own Son 1 month ago:
It’ll be choice paralysis for new movies and people will just watch the oldies if any movies
- Comment on How some UK parents created a “Smartphone Free Childhood” pledge, signed by 124K+ people, after the UK government watered down a bill banning phones in schools. 2 months ago:
Less time on it means less chance to get addicted. It becomes less standard to have it out around friends
- Comment on How some UK parents created a “Smartphone Free Childhood” pledge, signed by 124K+ people, after the UK government watered down a bill banning phones in schools. 2 months ago:
Kids shouldn’t be stressing about the shit that comes up in social media feeds or the insecurities social media preys on. It’s also not a choice, because if some kids use it and others can’t the others will feel excluded.
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 2 months ago:
While I agree, it’s also a chicken and egg problem. How can more money flow if they don’t make it easy? Even just endorsing Heroic and providing them some APIs would work
- Comment on Optimal Plex Settings for Privacy-Conscious Users 2 months ago:
Here’s some thoughts I posted on a different post lemmy.world/comment/15822959 I was running jellyfin off the same server and hardware as Plex, yet it’s less efficient and performant.
- Comment on Why is it sometimes difficult to start doing what one enjoys? 2 months ago:
In a world where everything is optimised to give you immediate rewards and happiness an act that is a bit frustrating to start with or that requires a modicum of effort will lose out to those temptations, unless you make an extra effort to stick to a schedule to rewire your brain to get used to it as part of a routine
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 2 months ago:
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 2 months ago:
Sure but it’s not the closest experience to Arc
- Comment on The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem 2 months ago:
I care more about people being properly rewarded in this capitalistic world than worry about the open source world.