Gibibit
@Gibibit@lemmy.world
- Comment on Slay The Princess - Official Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
I’m confused, what dlc? This is a year old trailer for the pristine cut which was a free update.
- Comment on What I'm playing 🐭📖 Moss: Book II | You can high-five the mouse! 2 weeks ago:
Moss is great. And I agree that it’s a breath of fresh air from first person VR games. As much as I loved Alyx and Elite Dangerous.
- Comment on A letter to the CalyxOS community 3 weeks ago:
Welp I’m cooked. Back to getting tracked on stock Android it is :/
- Comment on Recommendations for games to play on a treadmill (i.e. not too intense) 3 weeks ago:
Not on gog or itch sadly. The official balatro website only links to Steam. So it’s either Steam or get it on a console :/
- Comment on Study Reveals How Mobile Apps Track Users Through WiFi and Bluetooth: 86% of these apps collect at least one type of sensitive data, such as GPS location or unique device identifiers 4 weeks ago:
Why is “bots on Reddit” on the list
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 4 weeks ago:
Itch players and devs turning against the itch staff instead of the payment processors is like the friggin ouroboros of activism.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 5 weeks ago:
It’s nice to see a more reasonable response in the comments on Fediverse. On the itch discussion board people are frothing at the mouth posting death threats and the like against itch staff.
The anger is completely misdirected. I wouldn’t be surprised if they decide to just let itch drop dead after this abuse from two sides simultaneously. Mega corps and rights groups at one side, and their very own users on the other.
Once this review is complete, we will introduce new compliance measures. For NSFW pages, this will include a new step where creators must confirm that their content is allowable under the policies of the respective payment processors linked to their account.
Itch is even willing to go for partial filtering, what more do you want. The only thing that will please these people is when itch waves their magic wand and keeps everything as is.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 5 weeks ago:
The amount of money Valve rakes in with Steam is insane. If itch had even 0.1% of that it would be much bigger. Itch had to limit dynamic filtering (like searching for Arcade + Fantasy) to just a few preset tags because of the server load. I wouldn’t be surprised if the number compared to Steam is less than 0.01%. People who want DRM free games generally go to GOG, hell a lot of DRM free indie/AAA/retro games don’t even get listed on itch, so they get only the tiniest portion of the pie.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 5 weeks ago:
Yeah it makes sense from their point of view. I turned it around on them for the hell of it.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 5 weeks ago:
I use a degoogled CalyxOS phone so all those apps that load ads via Google services don’t even work, or they work and the ads don’t load haha. One caveat is that I can’t use paid apps either though, I’m not against those.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 5 weeks ago:
They got it the wrong way around. Visitors who use adblock are not “dark traffic”, the bullshit scripts and tracking they use are dark. The adblock users are actually the only clean traffic. The adblockers aren’t “brutal”, the people without blockers are being brutalized.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 5 weeks ago:
Seeing static banner ads on 2000s websites without popups or tracking: 🤷♂️
Blocking ads on Firefox after popups and other crap started: 😀
Browsing the internet on Android before I realised the browser supports addons: 🤮
Blocking ads and tracking on Android via uBlock origin and Privacy Badger: 😀👍
My feeling of guilt when scummy megacorporations miss out on ad revenue:
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 1 month ago:
Just because it doesn’t have latest Android doesn’t mean it’s trash. And Fairphone also aims for 7 years support just like your Pixel example, so your whole point is moot.
- Comment on Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky 1 month ago:
It has an F-Droid app btw: f-droid.org/packages/dev.djara.wafrn_rn
- Comment on Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman 1 month ago:
It does make sense because I break my legs regularly playing video games, putting a huge strain on public healthcare.
- Comment on Experts warn mobile sports betting could be gateway to gambling crisis for young men in New York 2 months ago:
Because the trend was detected via New York’s helpline.
- Comment on Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time Remake Shows Signs Of Life With Small Update 2 months ago:
Remakes -_- I sleep
- Comment on EVE Frontier Goes Public Today with Founder Access: New Era 2 months ago:
They fumbled the marketing for frontier so bad. There were always comments asking what the game is even about. They explained it so badly people assumed it’s vaporware. Barely anyone was streaming/viewing it on launch.
- Comment on DELTARUNE chapters 3-4 are out now! 2 months ago:
The menu has 7 chapters listed
- Comment on DELTARUNE chapters 3-4 are out now! 2 months ago:
Instant buy. Bit of a shame the demo didn’t have Steam cloud saving and I lost my save. Even though it’s been a long time since I played, would’ve been nice to have it either way and any possible effects it would have on the state of the game. At least the full version does have cloud save though!
- Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online 3 months ago:
Yeah this being just as easy on bb forums or literally any webpage with a public comment section was my first thought as well…
Isn’t most of the internet scraped anyways, by the internet archive? The concerning part is that this is 100% going to be used to train some coomer brained AI. Scraping, botting, scamming: all those things are going to happen on large public communities.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 3 months ago:
Afaik space isn’t self cooling. Overheating of spacecraft is a thing. I think they can only cool through infrared radiation or something.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 3 months ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if there are a bumper crop of level 10 CVEs in the latest and “greatest” version of Windows 7 that will never get patched. Unless you have one of those special enterprise licenses that they keep updating.
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 3 months ago:
Seems like a good website to direct people to via posters in your local community center or church. Or you can call a repair club in your area to ask if they want to be listed. Those are likely to have some Linux enthousiast members and already have a location.
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 3 months ago:
Yes, so do I. I phrased that a bit weird when I read it again 😅
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 3 months ago:
It’s not as simple as telling people to use F-Droid. People with non-rooted phones won’t get automatic updates via F-Droid which is a big hurdle. Unless I’m misremembering? I wouldn’t know because I run CalyxOS.
- Comment on Fediverse.com is available for sale 3 months ago:
Don’t give any money to domain squatters.
- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 3 months ago:
Oh yeah KeyWe is great fun! Some levels took me and my partner two tries but it’s nothing too punishing. Highly recommended
- Comment on Looking for a local co-op game to play with my SO (Steam Deck) 3 months ago:
Me and the wife played
- DERU - The Art of Cooperation is a pretty puzzle game that is satisfying, not too difficult nor does it overstay its welcome.
- We also enjoyed the snake-esque puzzler OmoTomO. Only on itch, not Steam, so you have to install it via the desktop mode. When you’re willing to dig a bit itch grants you some shiny gold nuggets for cheap.
- In Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime you have to run around a spaceship to operate the different parts (engine, guns, shield). More straightforward than it sounds, and the pacing is such that you’re not rushed but do get some tense moments.
Some games recommended by other people in the thread that we can corroborate
- Trine series is good platforming fun with pretty graphics and dialog that is a little on the nose sometimes.
- Kingdom: Two Crowns is good for a few hours at least, can’t say I cared about beating it.
Personally I agree on Overcooked, once the novelty wears off it gets a bit frustrating because of the difficulty. Its still fun in groups though.
- Comment on Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that. - Ars Technica 3 months ago:
That is addressed in the article
Even after users change their account password, however, it remains valid for RDP logins indefinitely. In some cases, [independent security researcher Daniel] Wade reported, multiple older passwords will work while newer ones won’t.