ISOmorph
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- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider -SteamDeck 1 day ago:
Got into Expedition 33 this week. Just got to the point where the huge stuffed puppet learned to swim. Gotta say, I don’t get the hype.
I think they tried to souls-likify a JRPG. But it just feels like combat is one QTE challenge after the other. No other mechanic really matters, at least on normal mode. Also it feels like the main story, which seems fresh and intriguing, barely gets glanced over, while interpersonal relationships get a korean drama level exposition.
I’ll tag along for a little while longer because the voice acting is stellar. The rest is meh IMHO
- Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests 2 days ago:
Having this info because of legitimate needs to provide a service and a third party processing it with AI without explicit consent for their benefit is a huge difference.
- Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests 2 days ago:
Of course I am referring to info my teammates would know too. Are you inferring that it’s fine that big corporations are profiling you based on what you’re chatting with your friends about?
- Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests 3 days ago:
To all the people in this thread hyping Linux. Please remember that those screenshots capture you as well if you play with windows users. If this becomes a staple and you refuse to be AI fodder, then multiplayer is pretty much dead to you.
- Comment on Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots 4 days ago:
In theory this is awesome. Humans aren’t built for menial tasks. All repetitive monotonous tasks should be automated. However, this doesn’t fit our current economic system. Obviously all automation needs to be taxed, so that we don’t have to live this paradox where each technological advancement is a risk to our livelihood.
- Comment on Karnaaj Rally for GBA. My favorite GBA box art 1 week ago:
AVGN did an episode on that game. He liked the cover too.
- Comment on Getting old and would like a better way to track health the self hosted way 2 weeks ago:
I use Track & Graph from F-Droid for a similar purpose. I noticed pretty quickly that the data I want to track just isn’t generic enough to find a tailored app for it. So I setup several reminders through the app to enter the various measurements at set points in time each day and get a nice graph to dislay it.
- Comment on Recommendations for the current sale 3 weeks ago:
Here are my recommendations:
- Witcher 3 - 6€
- Mass Effect Legendary Edition - 6€
- Hades - 6€
- Control Ultimate Edition - 4€
- Kingdom Come Deliverance - 6€
- Greedfall - 3,50€
- DOOM - 4€
- XCOM 2 - 2,50€
- Outer Worlds - 7,50€
- Robocop Rogue City - 5€
- Mad Max - 3€
- Vampyr - 8€
- Loop Hero - 3€
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 3 weeks ago:
Now more than ever peolple will have to choose between privacy and comfort. And not to be a dick, but now more than ever, people choosing comfort are fucking over people who choose privacy.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 3 weeks ago:
Call me a conspiracy nut job , but I honestly think we live in a new age where it’s the other way around. Megacorps are creating a situation where governments are set up to fail and then swoop in to save the day “alien earth” style, so everyone can be forced into lifetime indentured service.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 3 weeks ago:
While I full heartily agree with you, I’m pessimistic you will ever reach enough people with these alternatives. Even on privacy forums you hear people fervently defending how banking apps are mandatory. Those will never run on anything that isn’t locked down. The eID proposal for the EU is also dependent on Android and iOS.
- Comment on Ideas 4 weeks ago:
At the least you would know it’s happening and that you’ve been compromised. A hoster might also be inclined to be a lot more accommodating than you are. And mass imformation requests do happen. You wouldn’t even be targeted if you host locally. The privacy advantages are numerous
- Comment on 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst 5 weeks ago:
Serious question. With inflation absolutely exploding everywhere, stock market being what you just described here, and property ownership being virtually impossible due to big corpos gulping everything up: how is anyone supposed to prevent their money from melting away nowadays?
- Comment on Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s 1 month ago:
In before EU genocides all starlings because you can’t put backdoors in them to scan for CSAM.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 2 months ago:
Financial issues among the general populace due to consolidation of wealth > oligarchs create propaganda that brown people are to blame > uneducated masses vote for authoritarian with empty promises
It’s the same program human civilisation has know for millenia
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 months ago:
A friend convinced me to pick up RE Village because it suposedly plays more like an FPS than a classical RE horror game. I did beat Dimitrescu recently and I kinda have to disagree with him. There are so many moments that feel very tense because enemies aren’t vulnerable because “magic” so you have to play cat and mouse like in RE 3 with Nemesis. I do like it enough that I’ll keep at it though. Love turning those red rooms blue on the map.
- Comment on What are the games you played in your youth that you still play today? 3 months ago:
Syndicate Wars. I honestly haven’t seen anyone emulate that gameplay as well as SW did it since then.
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 4 months ago:
Families exist. I’m the “IT guy” for 3 people
- Comment on Launcher Recomendtion for media center 4 months ago:
There’s also plasma-bigscreen.org
Although your suggestion might be more lightweight
- Comment on [JS Required] EU unveils DNS4EU, a public DNS resolver intended as a European alternative to services like Google’s Public DNS and Cloudflare’s DNS. 4 months ago:
Switzerland has done a 180 on that. A new amendment would require all VPN services, messaging apps, and social networks to identify and retain user data.
- Comment on Atomic Heart 2 - Announcement Trailer 4 months ago:
Still waiting for the first one to remove denuvo
- Comment on iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original 4 months ago:
I honestly don’t care how difficult it is,
only if (…) there are any fucking corporate shenanigans that intentionally make it harder.
Verbatim quote ya doofus
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 4 months ago:
Finally starteed playing Kingdom Come Deliverance 1. A lot of the design decisions in the game are antithetic to my idea of fun. But there’s a healthy mkd community and a handfull of QOL mlds later I’m having an absolute blast
- Comment on What games did you get down with over the holiday weekend? 4 months ago:
Finally took it upon myself to play Kingdom Come Deliverance 1. So glad there’s a healthy mod community. It’s a wonderful story with an immersive world and addicting athmosphere. But the mechanics really show the indy roots. A lot of decisions have been made to remove quality of life to increase realism, without actually adding realism. Archery is the best example of this. No aim dot makes sense in a simulation. But why can’t I aim then? I now have about a dozen mods that reintroduce QOL into the game and now I’m properly hooked and having a great time.
- Comment on Microsoft wants Windows Update to handle all apps 4 months ago:
So like Linux has been doing for years?
- Comment on Lies of P is getting difficulty options to make the Soulslike more accessible 5 months ago:
You hit the nail on the head. Soulslikes aren’t about difficulty, they’re about patience. And when school was the only thing I had to worry about I had patience. Now that I have to fight for 30 minutes of game time I don’t. Great decision by the devs!
- Comment on Recs: Calendar and Contacts? 5 months ago:
I recently switched from radicale to baikal. Both are straight forward no frills caldav / carddav managers. Baikal has a more modern UX. My switch came from choosing to use YunoHost to simplify my home server management
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 5 months ago:
One game I love that hasn’t been mentioned yet is Subnautica. The only survival crafting game I ever finished. The story telling and athmosphere are unmatched.
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 5 months ago:
There’s nothing to laugh about. The maniacally evil thing about recall is, that it doesn’t matter what you do to keep your devices clean. If you interact with someone who doesn’t keep his devices clean, which is 100% of us, you’re on recall
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 6 months ago:
I don’t know anything about HMD so I can’t add to that. However I’d like to correct you regarding the headphone jack. The people that like it so much are generally privacy enthusiasts. Leaving your Bluetooth on makes you easily trackable. Using USB-C headphones helps in that regard but expediates wear and tear on the port by a lot and often makes the phone unusable a lot quicker. Audio jacks generally have very low wear and tear. Hope that helps you understand we’re not crazed evangilists hanging on to the past for the sake of it.