smeeps

@smeeps@lemmy.mtate.me.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of the monty python sketch, “what have the romans ever done for us? except sanitation and roads and canals and public health” lol.

  Steam gives devs a huge marketing presence that smaller devs simply wouldn’t have otherwise, it gives countless high bandwidth distribution servers that automatically scale to demand, you can integrate the largest PC social community for matchmaking or other multiplayer features, you get a community page where people can post fan content or mods, etc.

  That is worth way more than 30% to most devs. The only ones who it’s not worth it for are huge companies like Blizzard and Epic who can manage all that themselves, hence why they’re pretty much the only ones who don’t sell games on Steam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stonehenge tunnel scheme scrapped by government⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would move the queues to the next bottleneck. “Just one more lane bro” planning never works.

  Rail between London and Cornwall needs improving instead, as does local transport around Salisbury (active travel, public transport) as a large portion of the queuing vehicles are local drivers avoiding congestion in the town.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Says Sorry After Passwords Vanish For 15 Million Windows Users.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, my girlfriend’s approach. No matter how much I show her a pwned password or set her up on my Vaultwarden, she’s not interested

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears | Computer Weekly⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Then they enforce the chipmakers to put backdoors in the chips themselves

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton releases a self-custody bitcoin wallet | Proton Wallet is open source and has been audited by a third-party firm, the company said⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Crazy. There are already millions of Bitcoin wallet apps for small amounts and quick transfers. And anyone smart is storing significant amounts on hardware wallets.

  Release the Linux Drive app please

• Uses for local AI?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Samsung phones block sideloading by default⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a web dev we do try to accommodate userCSS for accessibility reasons but often font sizes are tuned to what they are for a reason. I’d guess there’s a line height issue here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capacitive controls could be the cause of a spate of VW ID.4 crashes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a 2023 hire VW Caddy while mine was getting repaired and it had real buttons on the steering wheel thankfully. The climate control was all on a touchscreen though which was awful. At least they had a button next to the wheel that would set it to demist the windscreen (change the blowers, heat and fan to Max) so you could do that without crashing.

  Was so glad to get mine back with actual controls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined | The Guardian⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some data centres in the UK that use the waste heat to heat the local swimming pool. Seems a good idea, we need compute and we need heat, why not do both at once?

  Surely it’s not too much of a stretch to have datacentres contributing to local district heating systems either?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined | The Guardian⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also no one ever mentions that the industries are building products for the public. They don’t just release CO2 and use electricity for fun lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Pixel 9 Pro XL Packs a Punch with New Specs Unveiled in Latest Leak⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree with the theory but I’ve been getting barely a day of battery life since I started buying smartphones 15 years ago. As processor efficiencies are made, they waste all the power elsewhere.

  I want to know how long a Nexus 5 would last with a modern battery and CPU and modem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Pixel 9 Pro XL Packs a Punch with New Specs Unveiled in Latest Leak⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, phones have been more than powerful enough for probably 5 years. I’m predominantly looking for battery life from my new phone, not more power. I think I’d happily use a Pixel 1 processor if it had double the battery life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Google takeout so bitchy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is a bit unfair. Most Google Takeout requests are fulfilled in seconds or minutes. Obviously collating 100GB of photos into a zip takes time.

  And it’s not googles fault you have internet issues: even a fairly modest 20Mbps internet connection can do 50GB in 6h. If you have outages that’s on your ISP not Google. As others have said, have it download to a VPS or Dropbox etc then sync it from there. Or call your ISP and tell them to sort your line out, I’ve had 100℅ uptime on my VDSL copper line for over 2 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is nagging users to try OneDrive to "fully backup" your PC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t store any data on my home machines. Anything important is on my NAS which then gets backed up to Backblaze, and to a NAS as my parents house.

  I can wipe my laptop and have apps set up again in an hour, and my desktop mainly stores games I can just redownload from Steam.