Lfrith

@Lfrith@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Freetube is nice alternative to using youtube without an account, since things like subscriptions, playlists, history are saved locally without an account. And you can back up that data.

  And with Google being behind youtube its better to avoid signing into their accounts anyways.

  Also blocks ads, can download videos, sponsor block, dearrow, and block channels.

  Sometimes freetube breaks and that’s when I’ll fall back to youtube with adblock om browser, but I won’t log into youtube. But, you can still use it to get your subscription feed and click on the video to launch to browser.

  For mobile I use pipepipe which is a fork of newpipe with sponsorblock and channel blocking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news, UK Discord users, we're part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection "experiment"⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It sucks the entire world turning into a privacy nightmare. Will any country remain the lone hold out against pushing stuff like this on their people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I play those games for free with friends, but spend zero money on them preferring to spend that money on games that aren’t live service.

  That’s the difference I’m noticing in money spent not on why people play them.

  I see no added value in cosmetics and these games tend to give away cosmetics too and enough points to redeem battle pass for free, so you aren’t stuck on default outfit if you dont spend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Pokemon games come out often.

  I think that’s the big difference. In a single console generation like the PS3 you had Naughty Dog put out Uncharted 1, Uncharted 2, Uncharted 3, and Last of Us 1.

  For the PS4 they put out Last of Us 2, Uncharted 4, and Uncharted Lost Legacy.

  And for PS5 nothing.

  I think that’s the difference. Games aren’t released as by individual studios as often anymore. The ones that stay part of the public eye frequently release games like Call of Duty or have a live service model like GTA V that has people keep playing like it is Fortnite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also interesting they spend their money on cosmetics over buying games. Meanwhile, I’ve bought no cosmetics for f2p games I play like The Finals, and instead spend that money on buying single player and coop games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I buy complete editions. My trick is I just visit isthereanydeals and see what the sales price is and buy games when it is cheap. I don’t consider retail price the real price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it is. That site and isthereanydeals is what people should visit before buying any game. Retail price is meaningless. Sales price is what people should be paying and the sites do an excellent job of showing price of games across different stores and sales trends.

  You don’t have to pay retail price if you do a little research before clicking buy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Retail price doesn’t even matter anyways. It’s more a placeholder to make sales seem more impressive with X% off to make people feel they are getting a bargain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Too bad companies seek exponential profit due to line having to go up, so pricing games higher wouldn’t lead to killing off microtransactions even if priced at $200.

  Companies don’t hit a point where they go this is enough money. They became companies because their mentality is this isn’t enough, and its only the a mount consumers are willing to pay that keeps price from inflating more like companies want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, IOT is the version to choose at install with it getting 10 years of support compared to 5 years for the regulad enterprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That looks like a nightmare.

  Windows 11 ltsc is interesting in that its like a time capsule. More like Windows 7 than 10. Has no Microsoft store, no onedrive, no game bar. And has old Microsoft paint, calculator, and notepad from Windows 10 with no tabs.

  There’s not really anything to uninstall. And it just gets security updates. Its a bare bones OS that feels closer to Linux because of that without the crap that even Windows 10 had showing tiktok and meta in the start menu to remove.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in Microslop Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows 11 ltsc comes with old Notepad. Looks like the same one from Windows 10.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord walks back age verification fears for most users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Chat control was one of the most notable signs that this is an issue around the world with it still popping up over and over in the EU. This is a global fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube star MrBeast buys youth-focused financial services app Step⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get it either. I see millions of followers but their streams don’t give off a vibe of someone with charisma worthy of that type of obsession.

  Most of them off of as really obnoxious loud people ranting into a mic. Well…maybe it does make sense seeing the type of people society has rallied around to hold positions of power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Companies get away with nothing but a small fine that is far less than the money they make from breaking privacy laws, ans you are still naive enough to trust things handed over to them is actually private when there is zero transparency on what is going on with their app to perform an independent audit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck convincing the masses to follow your line of thinking.

  There is no we. People like us aren’t the majority of the population. The only control we have is either opt in or opt out of what other people are doing.

  We are being dragged along by their decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawyers set to argue that Instagram and YouTube intentionally addicted and harmed teen in landmark social media trial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bet they going to try to use it as an excuse to require age verification. They want to collect everyone’s selfies and IDs for online accounts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No. That is just the nature of public social media. It comes down what you choose to share when it comes to risk, so the same amount as reddit.

  But, userbases who behave more like old school forums are more likely to not share personal stuff like other social media such as facebook, Instagram, tiktok, etc which have drawn people who want to publicly catalog their personal lives.

  For actual privacy that’s better left to encrypted private messaging like signal and so on. Social media isn’t the place to expect privacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG caught using AI tools, head of product tweeting AI Instagram scams⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironic to argue that trying to stop AI is a waste of energy given how much energy is wasted to use AI. Could have used better phrasing in your quest to get people to stop being negative towards AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, when I updated my controller I did it on another device I have windows dual booted on with nothing important on it just for that purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux has been good about getting hardware working.

  My wonder was more what is their level of native program support for Linux. Like 8bitdo to update firmware and set up extra profiles requires the Windows program to set up, but as a simple controller it will work on Linux just no real way to do extra stuff unless you dual boot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m talking more about software and program level support. Not whether hardware itself is working on Linux.

  Like software to be able to update firmware on controllers, which doesn’t work on Linux. Controller itself will work. 8bitdo to update firmware they only support windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah don’t have my hopes up. Without it I don’t plan to give their GPUs a shot, since they aren’t saviors either with their state sponsored attack on notepad++ as a recent example. Just a potential hardware supplier.

  So despite how bad hardware supply might get for consumers there’s still a level of caution I have and would need some level of a trustless system in place.

  Otherwise I’d just opt for old PC hardware like retro console players have been doing for decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My hope for open source is that if something sketchy is pushed there might be a chance to catch as opposed to a proprietary approach where nobody has a chance of knowing what is going on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux seems to be common to run things like servers, but is that the case for consumer hardware?

  When I’ve looked at peripherals like keyboards and controllers linux support has been lacking. Of course, for keyboards I got out of my way to get qmk compatible ones to use via and vial instead so I dont need to run an exe of unknown origins.

  And how is it for games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully Linux supported. That’s the main selling point of AMD GPUs right now for me, since there’s less problems with trying to get stuff like HDR running on it than NVIDIA.

  I wonder why China is still for the most part ignoring Linux in favor of Windows. Like to update 8bitdo controllers they only provide a Microsoft program and no Linux version.

  You’d think they’d be rushing towards pushing Linux adoption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hardware is hardware. Whether it is US, China, etc the most vital component ends up being the OS at the end. It is the OS that you are entrusting the programs and apps being run and the accounts being logged into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people truly are really boring people. They have no genuine interests or hobbies, which ends up being those people who often say things like they’d work even if they were rich. There’s nothing for them beyond work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone is worried about the FBI I don’t think that putting trust in a US company who’s CEO has very close ties to the current US administration is a wise idea.

  I’d be seeking hardware to run an OS like GrapheneOS. Going with iOS in the US seems as wise as someone in China going with Xiaomi if they are trying to go under the radar of China’s Ministry of State Security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP, Dell, Acer and Asus mull using Chinese memory chips amid supply crunch, Nikkei Asia reports⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. If the memory sector is ignoring the consumer sector which also includes large corporations like Dell that sell direct to consumers from regular people to large corporations ram manufacturers deserve to start losing a chunk of their previous business.

  Individually we don’t matter. But, Dell, HP, Acer, and Asus potentially opting for other sources is a big deal.

  They need to learn the consequences of going all in on AI data centers.