InFerNo
@InFerNo@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Missed it by that much! 3 days ago:
That’s Player Unknown’s game, right?
- Comment on Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice 1 week ago:
What I hate about Calc is how it scrolls horizontally, it can’t show half a column, it’s the whole column or it doesn’t scroll, which is pretty fucking annoying when you have large columns.
What I love about Calc is how it handles data imports. So much better than Excel, which usually turns it into garbage or adds things that aren’t there.
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- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 1 week ago:
Yes, of course and it’s a lot better than what we have at this point, it’s a great first step. I still remember the days of Id Software releasing their game (logic) under the GPL.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 1 week ago:
What “online only” means is the need to authenticate to a proprietary server. After logging in, you are then (potentially) directed to a random server to play on.
If you are not online, you cannot authenticate and therefor not be directed to a server. This means you cannot play the game. When the authentication server and infrastructure behind the game is taken offline, the game becomes unplayable, because it is online only.
If a final patch were to be made where either a private authentication server would be made available for you to self-host, or authenation to be completely removed, you could play the game either offline on your device locally or LAN, or online by anyone who cares enough to host a server with the game logic. It would no longer be “online only” since you would have a choice. You can choose to play offline, or choose to play online.
If a game actually needs servers beyond the authentication part, then those should be made available too, so that anyone, again, can play locally or online.
It’s logical that if game servers are made available, a game can never be “online only” again, because you could host the server on your pc and connect to localhost.
Your whole argumentation about “online only” game design falls completely flat. You are mixing concepts that have nothing to do with one another.
A game can be a battle royale by design, gameplay wise, and have the ability to host your own servers by design, technical architecture wise.
Quake Live used to be online only. You could not host your own servers. They released for steam and made it possible to host your own servers. The old authentication system was taken down, logins are no longer required, and now you just launch the game and pick a server in a built in server browser. It should be the standard and Quake Live should serve as an example of how it should be done.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 1 week ago:
This is short sighted. Architectures can and will change in the future. I’m running game servers on my aarch64 devices, if I wasn’t able to compile, and sometimes even edit, the code I wouldn’t have been able to run these servers. Emulation isn’t always ideal, janky or even non existent.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 1 week ago:
Because visitors to the US don’t tend to be from the US, that’s only logical
- Comment on Supreme Court to decide whether ISPs must disconnect users accused of piracy 2 weeks ago:
“the internet” is a necessity and requirement to function in society. You can’t be denied access to it anymore, it would be disproportionate.
- Comment on So you want to start playing Castlevania games (a giant primer) 2 weeks ago:
Castlevania Symfony of the Night
Someone’s also working on Mega Castlevania IV.
- Comment on So you want to start playing Castlevania games (a giant primer) 2 weeks ago:
I’m looking forward to that “new” Megadrive game that’s in development. It was looking really good.
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 2 weeks ago:
US websites don’t even ask, they just do it behind your back.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 weeks ago:
What about em?
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 weeks ago:
Motorola or whatever, depends what’s available within budget at the time I need the phone.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 weeks ago:
Not putting in a 3.5mm jack says enough. They sell Bluetooth earbuds I wouldn’t call that “fair”. It leads to more landfill. Phones with 3.5mm jacks also have BT, and don’t start about USBC singles, that’s more to buy and more landfill when they inevitable break.
- Comment on I want these walls back 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, they were probably completely transparent colorless glass 😂😩
- Comment on What the fuck 3 weeks ago:
Prrrrrrrreganté
- Comment on Anker is recalling over 1.1 million power banks due to fire risks 4 weeks ago:
On top of what the other comments said, they did facial recognition with tracking. They created an id that was attached to a certain person. When the unit was reset, the same id was applied. People didn’t know this happened, because supposedly nothing went to the cloud or something.
www.theregister.com/2023/03/17/eufy_lawsuit/
I have a Reolink that is completely offline, but they also are under scrutiny for having Chinese backdoors in their newest models.
An other alternative is Ubiquity, but they are expensive. They used to have a completely offline offering, but I started looking at Reolink because Ubiquity started with cloud logins. Things may have changed, so look up more recent, non anecdotal, information.
- Comment on Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads Per Hour 4 weeks ago:
I think it simply promotes other prime video content instead of product advertisement.
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 4 weeks ago:
Joey was the superior app. Shame it didn’t get as widespread as the others.
- Comment on Menstrual tracking app data is a ‘gold mine’ for advertisers that risks women’s safety – report 5 weeks ago:
There are 2 open source menstrual trackers in f-droid. They don’t share data.
- Comment on An analysis of X(Twitter)'s new XChat features shows that X can probably decrypt users' messages, as it holds users' private keys on its servers 5 weeks ago:
This is the first thing that came to mind. I used that for ao many years, then went on to Hexchat.
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 5 weeks ago:
“Purism makes premium phones…” Haaaaaaaaa 😂
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 5 weeks ago:
Some software installers still ask if I want to install for all users, which require elevated permissions, or only for me, which don’t. In that last option it will not prompt for elevated permissions as it will use one of my user’s folders which I have already all permissions for, obviously.
It’s a security measure that’s half assed. People are so used to it they just click allow but don’t actually look at the prompt anymore. Like I see a lot of people do with cookies on websites.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 5 weeks ago:
Thats a windows thing so it can put files in “protected” folders like program files
- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 month ago:
Wanted to play a game on my kid’s computer that had windows 11 N or some shit. Couldn’t play because it needed the “media pack”, which in its turn installs everything N stands for. Clown world.
- Comment on Holy shit I got Retro Achievements working on my Pi Gameboy! Lmao this is so cool. I get to achievement hunt in my favorite game, earthbound after 30 years. Amazing 1 month ago:
I do the same with Game Gears :-)
- Comment on Holy shit I got Retro Achievements working on my Pi Gameboy! Lmao this is so cool. I get to achievement hunt in my favorite game, earthbound after 30 years. Amazing 1 month ago:
It’s a lookalike case, not an actual DMR
- Comment on The chocolate cake featured in the 1996 film *Matilda* is the canonical chocolate cake for all 90's kids. 1 month ago:
Perhaps you should, because I have no idea what I’m looking at
- Comment on Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill 2 months ago:
I wonder if people in the US look at the EU in the same way we used to look at the US in the 90s.
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 2 months ago:
I bring 1 of my backup disks to my inlaws. I go there regularly so it’s a matter of swapping them when I’m there.