AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor
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- Comment on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native 1 week ago:
What we actually need is for european companxes to drop the safety checks dependant on google play services and start using the phone checks only so alternative roms can function properly without depending on google.
It can be done and would allow people to more freely develop and adopt alternatives like grapheneos without hassle.
- Comment on UK lawsuit against Valve given the go-ahead, Steam owner facing up to £656 million in damages 1 week ago:
At least for humble store, they essentially sell steam keys. Which at least complicates that argument. So it is not really a different distribution channel and the product is available on steam for that price. Just not on the Steam store.
I get thxs but, for what I know (I might be wrong tho), steam doesn’t get a cut from keys sold externally so they are technically selling them at better conditions elsewhere?
Steam have an effective monopoly here. Even if they have that because all the other platforms are shit. So the argument for just going to another store doesn’t really help as that just causes a massive loss in the market share of who you can sell your game to. Plus if you consider the other requirements of if you sell on steam you cannot make your game cheaper via a different distribution method means that you have to eat that feeling and cannot pass it on to customers. Which does not give game Devs much power to negotiate for a lower fee at all.
I know that but that’s not really steam’s fault? I mean, epic offers lower fees, but they are shit so nobody wants to buy from them; however, that’s not really steam’s fault. You can’t blame steam beacuse the competitors are objectively worse.
EA tried to have a launcher, but they are so bad at it that they’ve come back to steam. That’s… EA’s fault for sucking so bad, not steam fault for being more convenient.
And I say this fully understanding that they have a de-facto monopoly; but the reason is not because they have the only product, it’s because the rest are much wose.
- Comment on UK lawsuit against Valve given the go-ahead, Steam owner facing up to £656 million in damages 1 week ago:
Imposing Platform Parity Obligations (“PPOs”), that prohibit publishers from selling Products through other distribution channels on better terms than the same Products are available on Steam. The PCR alleges that the PPOs are likely to cause, and have in fact caused, restrictions of competition.
Not sure I’m understanding this but… how do you explain when we find in official retailers such as fanatical or humble same games at lower prices?
Imposing anti-steering provisions to the effect that, if a publisher wants consumers playing its Games distributed on Steam to be able to make in-game purchases, all such purchases must be made using the Steam application programming interface, and therefore Valve’s payment processing service. As a result, the payments are subject to Valve’s commission charges. Such anti-steering provisions leverage Valve’s dominant position in the Game Markets so as to enable it to secure a larger share of the Add-on Content Markets, by preventing or restricting the ability of other distribution channels to supply (including self-supply) Add-on Content for Games distributed on Steam.
This is also something I don’t get. I think games like FFXIV which has an online store lets you buy directly from their store (outside steam) their items, if that’s the case, how does this part stand its grounds?
Imposing excessive commission charges which amount to an unfair price which is then passed on to consumers.
This is get, but couldn’t valve simply say: “Go to epic store if you want lower fees”?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Ok, now listen to me. Please, PLEASE, never again say something like
it’s a very stupid take even in its own framework
You never know who’s reading this and I guarantee you that there is always someone ready to take that as a personal challenge.
- Comment on Visiting Animal Crossing (2002) with some enhancements 2 weeks ago:
My experience with Animal Crossing started on the DS with Wild World, as I’m sure it did with many others. The game drew me in with its colorful villagers, daily routine, and slice-of-life feel. Years later I got back into the series with New Leaf on the 3DS, putting hundreds of hours into it. The progression system felt just right, and the level of customization for my villager was a real treat. However, when I finally got a hold of New Horizons on my switch, I couldn’t help but feel let down. Rather than a town that felt like it moved on when I didn’t play, I felt like I was in total control. Villagers would have to beg me to let them move out, rather than just leaving on their own. Everything felt a bit too… Doll-house in its design?
Are you me? No, wait, I started with the gamecube game back in the day, but for the rest… are you me?
I got new horizons expecting it to be just a better new leaf and it was a huge let down. I spent hundreds of hours in new leaf, I barely made 40 on new horizons and only because I had friends to “play” with (if you can call it play, the game was so empty of everything!). Even the upgrades to shops and the house were a letdown.
I will definitely try the mod, because I miss the old animal crossing a lot!
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- Comment on Why do we have a bunch of ways to say good night, but only one way to say good morning? 2 weeks ago:
Does “fuok you” count if you say it before breakfast? I think it does.
- Comment on RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives 2 weeks ago:
If things keep going like this, she’ll only have customers among the 0.1%
- Comment on RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives 2 weeks ago:
If I as a customer pay, idk, 10€ per gb of RAM and an AI data center pays 20, do you really think they are going to consider how they are feeding a bubble that in the not-so-long term will burst and fuck them up too?
Nah, mate, they are capitalists, they only care about the money they can make in the extremely short term.
- Comment on Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028 3 weeks ago:
As I said in my first comment, I am not happy with it, but the other option is worse.
I am aware this is the lesser evil, hence “Go China”.
- Comment on Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028 3 weeks ago:
The fact that they already have a de-facto monopoly on consumer goods doesn’t mean I want them to have another one for other products.
- Comment on Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028 3 weeks ago:
I’m not happy with China getting this tech and potentially becoming a monopoly in consumer DRAM. But the other option right now is becoming a cloud slave for burgerlander billionaires that are actively fucking everyone in the world so what can I say?
This guy’s a hero! Go China!
- Comment on Micron addresses Crucial exit backlash: 'We are trying to help consumers around the world' — company warns that DRAM drought could last until at least 2028 3 weeks ago:
China has a couple of years to figure out how to make RAM at decent prices.
They will manage somehow and will become leaders of the consumer market.
The bubble will burst and will fuck everyone involved.
China will by then have their RAM on every consumer device and these shitheads will all go: “omigosh! How this could happen? Nobody could have predicted this!”
- Comment on What are the limits to masked so called ICE agents? Are they just let off the hook and disobey laws while not identifying themselves? Why can't I be in the right by them stopping me first and shoot? 3 weeks ago:
Welcome to fascism: laws for thee, not for me.
That’s pretty much it.
- Comment on Alternative to Gmail? I currently use my own domain for email, but i miss the priority inbox 3 weeks ago:
You can’t disable any of those alias so you will always recieve mails from them, even if they are sent to spam and they still expose your full email address.
- Comment on Is Winnie the Pooh considered "racist" now or are .ml folks using it as an excuse to defend Xi Jin Ping? 3 weeks ago:
If .ml thinks something is bad, chances are it’s probably the opposite.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talks about Italy fines while praising JD Vance and Elon Musk 4 weeks ago:
Can confirm, friends there are extremely happy with how they are handling it. Seems everyone loves having half of the internet down whenever there’s a play beacuse they block cloudflare as a whole.
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talks about Italy fines while praising JD Vance and Elon Musk 4 weeks ago:
Let me explain you what are those fines for:
In Italy, soccer is so powerful that commands the government. They can legally block batches of IP adresses just because one of them could be streaming a soccer game.
It means if your IP is in the batch (even if you are innocent but just happens to share server with that pirate) you are cut from internet. No appeal, the IP is dead and your only choice is get a new one.
It’s so dumb that they even blocked google once because of it. Cloudshare is fighting that, and I can assure you everyone in Italy, except the usual assholes licking the politician boots are beyond pissed with the so called “piracy shield”.
- Comment on Alternative to Gmail? I currently use my own domain for email, but i miss the priority inbox 4 weeks ago:
If you don’t trust anything, then your only option is self-host everything,
Is Proton perfect? Not at all. Are they better than Google? Well… if you trust the external audits (1) and external sources in general (2), then, they probably are.
But if you don’t trust anything, then you probably don’t trust those audits either, so it’s pointless to even mention them.
- Comment on Alternative to Gmail? I currently use my own domain for email, but i miss the priority inbox 4 weeks ago:
Get a proton mail. The complete plan not only supports custom domains, they also let you create unlimited alias.
This is the best thing ever. Alias work with custom domains too and they basicalli give you an endless amount of single-use mails allowing you to sign to each service/website with a different email (that will then be forwarded to your inbox).
This not only leaves your real email safe and unexposed, but it also lets you organize your inbox more tidily if your aliases have a structure and you use email rules for them (e.g. you can create aliases for your shipping stuff called [website].shipping@[myalias].com and then make a rule including all the adresses .shipping to a specific folder).
- Comment on OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records 4 weeks ago:
Only in the premium plans.
- Comment on YSK there is an intense Zionist propaganda campaign ongoing 4 weeks ago:
Nah mate, anti-zionism is good, it’s needed. A zionist and a nazi are only different in name, they are the same shit and deserve the same treatment.
- Comment on YSK there is an intense Zionist propaganda campaign ongoing 4 weeks ago:
So much for the land of the free speech…
- Comment on Let them fight 4 weeks ago:
Why stop eating hamburgers when you can just take a pill and keep eating?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Important to note: fast food and sweets are NOT what make your gut bacteria happy even if you think you are happier by eating them.
- Comment on that is crazy! 5 weeks ago:
I’m just gonna believe you 100% without even looking for that. Yeah, I trust you that much.
- Comment on I have no respect for people whose only motivation for refraining from drunk driving is because of the law 5 weeks ago:
Same for those driving with a phone in hand and texting, those speeding… I almost got killed 3 months ago because of an motherfucker that was texting while driving a fucking truck.
So many drivers are absolute assholes with no respect for other people’s lives the moment they start driving.
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 5 weeks ago:
Cheating online is gonna be extremely easy since you can just run a cheat program as legitimate software.
That could snowball into people not buying any big competitive game on ps5 anymore.
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 5 weeks ago:
In simple: you can tell your ps5 that ANYTHING is legal and ok to be executed on it.
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 5 weeks ago:
Not that I particularly care as the few exclusives on ps5 are all arriving on pc.
But this is gonna be hell on earth for anyone interested in competitive multiplayer games.
And the damage to Sony might be epochal if the exploit is easy enough for anyone to do it.