JustARaccoon
@JustARaccoon@lemmy.world
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 8 hours 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 10 hours 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 day 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 4 days 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 week ago:
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- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 is getting 12 new subclasses next week 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 5 weeks ago:
Sure but it’s not the closest experience to Arc
- Comment on The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem 5 weeks ago:
I care more about people being properly rewarded in this capitalistic world than worry about the open source world.
- Comment on The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem 5 weeks ago:
Cool then buy at least one copy of a book instead of pirating them.
- Comment on Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically 5 weeks ago:
What’s wrong with just using tidal in a browser? Zen just added a media player widget too so it’s almost like having a native app that’s always controllable on screen
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 5 weeks ago:
Honestly I’ve tried jellyfin and I have a hard time agreeing with this for a few reasons:
- UI generally more unresponsive than Plex;
- changes to correct a show/movie being assigned the wrong show/movie metadata very slow to propagate if at all, same for changing other library options like title language preference;
- generally slower to buffer and get into videos;
- very rough android lollipop UI;
- not as easy to set up tech illiterate friends for play together.
I’ll give you that morally jellyfin is less customer-adverse than Plex management is at the moment and it is more open in some ways so you can have more plugins and add-ons that Plex lacks, and sure it’s a free product so it should be given some leeway, but if I just listened to all of the people saying jellyfin is just so much better I’d think it was an objectively better offering, but it’s not. When it comes to what I care about, it fell short, so just giving my 2 cents. Still worth trying, considering you can just point it to the same media folders, but yeah not god’s gift on earth.
- Comment on You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use. 5 weeks ago:
See my reply to the other person for a couple of fonts to try :)
- Comment on You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use. 5 weeks ago:
Well yes but beauty standards for typography run counter to accommodating for dyslexia, especially for sans serifs. Similarity in shapes, curves, weights, and stroke width are seen as beautiful, but they’re exactly what must be given up for more accessible typography.
Someone else in the comments here did mention Bionic Reading though, and there’s a free alternative in Fast Font, which has a gradient of weights for each word from black for the first letter to thin for the last one. Might be something to consider
- Comment on You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use. 5 weeks ago:
Could be very advanced use of ligatures
- Comment on You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use. 5 weeks ago:
You’re looking at it, the one linked In the op lmao
- Comment on How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation? 1 month ago:
Thinner* since there are people actually wanting smaller phones (and I have a jack on my zenphone 10 so size isn’t an issue), they’ve been blaming thinness and water resistance for the drop of the jack
- Comment on Why can't we go back to small phones? 1 month ago:
The truth is though that it’s not an apple-specific thing. On the android side Asus was the last large phone maker to ship modern small phones, and even they have taken over their zenfone line (small phones line) with a large phone for the ZenFone 11.
Based on reports from companies, it sounds like the market is just not there, at least not big enough to warrant the R&D compared to “regular” phones which make them good money.
- Comment on My Thoughts on the Zen Browser 1 month ago:
Should clarify that you’re talking about Arc there
- Comment on My Thoughts on the Zen Browser 1 month ago:
With an opinionated way of how to navigate the internet, it’s maybe the most important app you can use