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- Comment on 'There Are So Few Of Us Left': Even Full-Time Games Journalists At Big Websites Are Feeling It In 2025 3 hours ago:
Double whammy of mistrust in media - I think worse with video games as that’s been viewed like it’s tied to the hip as a marketing arm since 90s gaming magazines.
Other whammy I think is PC gaming. Tradiitonal video game journalist rarely get the scoop on the popular game of the week in a timely manner. The popular game of the week is almost always some random game on Steam. FFVII Rebirth is the most impressive game since at least Cyberpunk 2077 and it didn’t go viral with gamers but traditional video game publications spent months writing a lot of articles about that game
Traditional video game isn’t proper to cover gaming which is now core to what is viral. Hyping up AAA games is mild attention compared to the latest Palworld. It even goes back to ~2010 when traditional games media had and continues to have no answer to esports. Starcraft 2 then LoL/Heroes of Newerth/DOTA2 then CSGO then DayZ then PUBG then Fortnite then etc. Traditional games media has very little cultural relevance these days. Not just these days, really the past decade
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 10 hours ago:
When Ubisoft introduced always online DRM with AC2, I was out. It’s nice with the Internet how much being anti-Ubisoft has become common enough to be unsurprising
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 12 hours ago:
Switch to Linux. Don’t use Microsoft email. If possible don’t use MS Office and if you currently need it, encourage Libreoffice, OnlyOffice, etc
- Comment on People who call the PS1 'PSX' make me want to kill kittens 1 day ago:
Have you ever heard how super Saiyan is said in Japanese, the base language of the series?
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 3 days ago:
No. They aren’t available widespread enough off the Internet, not marketed enough, too heavy. Maybe a hypothetical future Switch 2 and Switch Lite
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 4 days ago:
The more people hop onto Linux the faster and better funded support for Linux development becomes. If you’re a single player gamer or play Valve multiplayer games primarily, make the jump to Linux. Get on Mint, get on Fedora, Ubuntu, etc and get off Microsoft’s shitboat. You already took off from Reddit. Wean off all these other money/data leeches
- Comment on Trump extends TikTok deal deadline by 75 days, touts 'tremendous progress' 5 days ago:
Trump tariffs and he can’t afford more shit held against him. Bytedance is going to come out of this doing well
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 6 days ago:
I’d consider it. If they host things outside of the US/start moving operations overseas, it’d be a lot more interesting. I sub to Proton for email, VPN, and drive support. Still hoping someday for proper Linux drive support so Mozilla/Thunderbird can target that
- Comment on Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent 6 days ago:
Pretty much. Everyone else will be able to trade with the east and southeast Asian countries business as usual. Maybe even more now that the US is making themselves less price competitive. The bad thing for the EU could be the drop in sales to the US not being replaced fast enough outside of the US leading to squeezing existing customers for more cash or possibly some businesses failing
- Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percentwccftech.com ↗Submitted 6 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 72 comments
- Comment on GameCube Coming To Nintendo Switch Online With 3 Games At Launch 1 week ago:
They’ve got to still be planning on the Wind Waker Wii U version release
- Comment on What the Technofascists and Religious Fanatics Have in Common: End Days Theology 1 week ago:
All these weirdo billionaires building bunkers
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 1 week ago:
Realistically, I would probably try a google free Android long before I’d try a more pure linux phone
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 1 week ago:
Eventually I’ll try one. I feel like it can be like desktop Linux where it take a very many many long years until it starts to chip away at single digit values of market share
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 1 week ago:
I’d pay for native linux support. They should provide direct support to Heroic if they don’t want to take on the cost themselves full bore. I remember some AMA they did where the cost of Linux wasn’t worth their already thin margins and they were happy with Heroic. If they were ever going to grow, I’d believe that they would need to address the handheld market and getting their storefront more visible
- Comment on Chinese SSD Manufacturer UNIS Flash Memory Unveils World’s Fastest PCIe Gen5 SSDs, Featuring Speeds of Up To 14,900 MB/s 1 week ago:
I’d be more than happy with 1GB/s drives for storage. I’d be happy with SATA3 SSD speeds. I’d be happy if they were still sized like a 2.5" drive. USB4 ports go up to 80Gb/s. I’d be happy with an external drive bay with each slot doing 1 GB/s
- Comment on Chinese SSD Manufacturer UNIS Flash Memory Unveils World’s Fastest PCIe Gen5 SSDs, Featuring Speeds of Up To 14,900 MB/s 1 week ago:
I’m sure there are data science/center people that can appreciate this. For me all I’m thinking is how hot it runs and how much I wish soon 20TB SSDs would be priced like HDDs
- Comment on Recommendations for privacy-focused, open-source alternatives to corporate apps 1 week ago:
I’d say try Linux. Ubuntu or Fedora and you’ll realize how much of your computer usage is based out a web browser and it doesn’t matter whether you have a Linux, Mac, or Windows computer
Email you’ll be stuck with some corporate entity that won’t be 100% open source. Running an email server and your emails not being filtered is a pain. I use Proton applications for email, VPN, and Dropbox type service. They have a calendar but hard to beat google calendar
Signal for pretty much texting. I actually have around a dozen people I primarily message through Signal so it’s viable for me
Matrix/Element for something like discord.
Onlyoffice, Libreoffice, or WPS Office instead of MS Office. WPS may not be open source
Browser use Firefox or Firefox forks
Krita, Darktable, GIMP for image editing
KeepassXC for my desktop password manager and whatever is available on Android
Maps you can use Organic Maps
Video editing i use kdenlive
- Comment on Roku’s Moana 2 controversy is part of a bigger ad problem 1 week ago:
Android TV at least you can do simple custom launchers. I’m still hoping a more normal Linux becomes popular for TV. Hoping maybe SteamOS will be the pathway for that
- Comment on Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Signal has been with me for a decade. Have had Matrix/Element installed for years but no one i know uses it
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 1 week ago:
It’ll fall won’t be as dramatic as Digg but it will decline over time. Probably not have a major exodus event like Musk buying Twitter and renaming it and sending people to try BlueSky and Mastodon
- Comment on Why Are Micro Center Flash Drives So Slow? 1 week ago:
I use nvme enclosures. Very fast and very hot. I also got some fikwot ssd based flash drive that’s about the size of a common flash drive. I’ve seen it sustain around 500MB/s very well. Some type of metal enclosure. At this point I’m probably only buying enclosures and small NVME drives or USB sticks where the enclosure is metal and reviews seem solid saying it’s hitting SATA 3+ speeds sustained well
- Comment on In Warning Sign for Hollywood, Younger Consumers Are Choosing Creator Content Over Premium TV and Movies: Social Platforms are Becoming a Dominant Force in Media and Entertainment. 2 weeks ago:
Over the years I always hear people in real life tell me how much they loved Parasite, Fight Club, Being John Malkovich, Harold and Maude, Everything Everywhere at Once. They’re all movies that are from indie filmmakers that managed to get mainstream recognition. Movies like O Brother Where Art Thou, There Will Be Blood, Pulp Fiction, etc. Auteur led movies making original movies. There are tens of thousands of movies being made with passion outside of just return on investment a year. Uncut Gems had some popularity some years ago.
I can confidently say with certainty that at least a couple hundred a year are good to great. Almost none of them make more than like $5 million at the box office worldwide in their release year. Most barely get screens and even in AMCs they show to theaters of like 3 people
Discovery issue but also even marketed with great trailers, people aren’t going taking the risk of being disappointed. Either it goes viral or people aren’t watching it. Japanese movies to non-Japanese people might as well just be anime adaptations and the latest Godzilla movie
Korean movies was for a period just Old boy to people that googled and then just Parasite. Maybe the Wailing.
Every other country in the US may as well not exist. Like 1000 feature length movies a year from the US but the only ones people know are like 5 blockbusters a year where they may watch 2 and then when the Oscars come around they learn of a handful of indie movies. We can complain about studies all we want but time and time again we are shown that the general consumer including the whiners in here will not try to find what isn’t already popular. Same with music, television, books, etc.
Unless it has a cookie cutter easy to see the appeal, very few people will show up. Celebrities they think are attractive and action. Way more competition now though. I don’t think romance movies are major anymore