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- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 3 days ago:
Hadn't heard of that! I doubt many others have either.
- Comment on What's up with all the "___punk" stuff? 3 days ago:
Ugh and then CDPR used a genre as a name for their game, tarnishing it.
- Comment on NVIDIA driver 555.58 released as stable bringing Wayland Explicit Sync 4 days ago:
Which is quite common, kinda crazy it took this long to (maybe) properly support. I might have to try linux again if it's solid now.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 1 week ago:
Just slap them on the wrist and send them on their way.
- Comment on YouTube offers virtual trophies so you can feel bad about quitting premium 1 month ago:
The psychology on caring about some useless pixels is strange.
- Comment on Samsung mocks Apple’s crushing iPad Pro ad with its own ‘UnCrush’ pitch 1 month ago:
That was a good change. I'd argue even removing the cable would be a good change. Less e-waste (even though releasing phones every year is e-waste enough).
The bad thing was Apple then selling a charger at extortionate prices, you didnt have to buy theirs though. - Comment on Samsung mocks Apple’s crushing iPad Pro ad with its own ‘UnCrush’ pitch 1 month ago:
Apple copy Samsung too, Apple just has good marketing and gives random names to standard tech to make it sound like its something amazing you should care about.
Samsung wanted to sell wireless buds too, so they also removed the 3.5mm port. At least their SD card slot stuck around for a bit longer. They could release a true flagship if they wanted with a 3.5mm port and an SD card slot, but why would they when millions of people buy their phones each year anyway?
Both are shitty in their own ways, but at least Samsung is Android.
- Comment on Getting into Civ 6 1 month ago:
Yeah 6 is micromanagement hell. Can always get used to Civ with 5 and then transition into 6 or 7 when that comes out.
- Comment on Getting into Civ 6 1 month ago:
5 is superior imo, it's more simple to understand but has a lot to master. It's more visually appealing too, Civ 6 throws so much extra crap at you.
5 is more depth from simple mechanics. 6 is adding mechanics to try and make depth.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Why do they believe you only find protein in meat?
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 1 month ago:
Sony being scumbags? Who saw that coming? They definitely don't have that reputation...
- Comment on No, you don't need a 'very bespoke AOSP' to turn your phone into a Rabbit R1 — here's proof 1 month ago:
This is one of those shitty products that you can see being shitty from a mile away, yet all the coverage and discussion around it gives it a life it otherwise wouldn't have had.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Or if there is a noticeable difference, you have to really listen for it. Which if you wanna do that, then fine, but the vast majority of the time usually have music on while they are doing something else and don't sit listening for every subtle difference, if one exists.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Even in blind tests and high end gear, people often mistake 320kbps MP3s as the lossless track. Compression is incredible these days and isn't inherently a bad thing like it used to be, it saves a lot of space and bandwidth with minimal to no perceivable difference in quality.
And as you point out, not even worth considering at all with average equipment.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yes, I made this point in my comment, the last few years Spotify has been going through the same UX disaster the rest of the web is, changing things for the sake of it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
There just isnt though. Spotify had the best UX of any music streaming service for the longest time and only recently have they started shooting themselves in the foot.
Lossless is pointless and not a selling point compared to interface and usability across hardware. Tidal is probably it's closest competitor, but it still doesnt have the integration Spotify does. - Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 month ago:
Linux users do this and then wonder why no one wants to switch to linux.
- Comment on Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained 2 months ago:
People are trained to buy any old trash that is marketed to them without any critical thinking, it's why everything is turning out broken like this.
- Comment on Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained 2 months ago:
Can just Onboard Memory Manager too for Logitech mice, don't even need that G hub garbage.
- Comment on Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained 2 months ago:
Come back EVGA, please.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
Ah yeah, it's hard to find good support for Linux. Lot's of people with their heads in their asses, who will say "why are you bothering going through Windows settings to disable tracking when you can just use Linux!", then proceed to tell you to enter a million different commands in the terminal to try and get basic functionality you had on Windows.
The sooner they start being more welcoming to new users, the sooner the market share will grow.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
Tried the same thing, but ended up running into issues with Linux constantly and needed to use Windows more than I wanted, so just ended up back on Windows 10. Once all the shit is disabled it's perfectly fine. Linux is getting there, but still only really good for general web browsing/office suites (unless you wanna play around in the command line for ages).
- Comment on Discord Users Are Being Tracked Through Data-Scraping Site 2 months ago:
Yeah, but that's an unfortunate side effect of a public internet, they tell you to be careful online for a reason. You should have no expectation of privacy when using Discord.
- Comment on Discord Users Are Being Tracked Through Data-Scraping Site 2 months ago:
Yeah, they are just slapping a bot in public servers and scraping all public facing data such as profile data and chat messages. Still, no reason for PMs to be plain-text in general, but hey, that's Discord!
- Comment on Discord Users Are Being Tracked Through Data-Scraping Site 2 months ago:
Forums need to come back, I die a little inside whenever I see a Discord server linked for support. Ugh.
- Comment on Discord Users Are Being Tracked Through Data-Scraping Site 2 months ago:
Always the case with public information, everything is scraped. Anyone can join a public discord server, so anyone can see every message posted there. The real crime is the lack of encryption in private messages.
- Comment on Amazon builds AI model to optimize packaging 2 months ago:
In my experience, every item from the same warehouse comes packaged together. Are you sure the items are sourced from the same warehouse, because they aren't going to unpack them and pack them together again when they reach the final distribution location. Perhaps it becomes super inefficient to pack items together in super large warehouses, where the items are sourced far apart from each other?
- Comment on Discord Users Are Being Tracked Through Data-Scraping Site 2 months ago:
Discord users are being tracked by Discord anyway.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 2 months ago:
These days maybe, but disruptive ads started way before subscriptions became a thing.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 2 months ago:
Sounds great in theory, but won't happen. The internet is too consolidated now for the majority of people to give a shit, there's people buying YouTube Premium because of all this. Look at reddit, barely a dent in it after all the fiascos, twitter is holding on too. People don't care.