Lfrith

@Lfrith@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Costco charges an annual membership to shop there. Walmart doesn’t. Both market offering low prices. Costco focuses on good customer support for their customers and good warranty policies and treats their employees better. And prices are cheap with them focusing on bulk and rotating out items that don’t sell well to maintain that. And with inflation Costco has become more popular to try to save money on goods since they sell stuff like food too. Unlike Costco, Walmart has a reputation of entering into new territories cutting prices, putting local stores out of business due to inability to compete with their pricrd, then raise prices once they’ve secured their territory. They are however both stores selling stuff at the end.

  Anyways, some don’t care, and a product is a product so membership to them is seen as bloat the way you see the Steam launcher. So it all depends on perceived value. I understand your disdain for steam if you find no value in it, but for me playnite doesn’t meet my needs. Nor have I had issues with Steam being resource heavy. Its iust not a thing that bothers me, but I do understand your point of view and that perceived value on your end won’t change just as mine won’t change. We are different customers with the only similarity being interest in games, but expectations on features being very different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Gambling mechanic is as impactful to me as Costco selling alcohol and junk food. I don’t play those games, so only reason I’m even aware of it is because of people bringing it up. Those who seek it out can get it those who come for other things can avoid it.

  And I like the steam launcher when it comes to linux compatibility, steam workshop, reviews, categorizing my games, note function, and gamepad support.

  Those who don’t value that can buy from Epic or other launchers the way some people don’t see the difference buying from Costco vs Walmart and see membership fees as a waste of money. Or go over to consoles to be free of launchers entirely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production⁩ ⁨⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think difference is EA is more a game company so people see a game they like then judge the monetization because its a full priced game that turns out to have f2p monetization.

  But, Valve is more judged for its experience as a launcher and less for its games. So with the launcher itself being the draw things like Valve game lootboxes can be something people are completely unexposed to as they play other games.

  But, EA is still at a stage where the products that receive the most visibility are their games, and the launcher and services side so underwhelming to not be bothering with it being a selling point.

  Its like Costco versus a company that sells chocolate. Costco is a warehouse store people love going to that happens to sell chocolate and is judged multiple things thar draw them there over other stores. A chocolate company is just known primarily for its chocolate so judgef on the quality of their chocolate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t care so much you cared enough to comment on how much you don’t care. But, someone who truly didn’t care wouldn’t have left the second reply to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  In the beginning people did actually find it cool and had fun with the pics and videos being made from it. And found asking it to provide code useful.

  Backlash started once corporations started integrating AI into OS and software. People saw that it would be used aggressively to infringe upon peoples privacy and shove ads in their faces, and its getting harder to avoid OS or programs without it because corporations use any excuse to keep pushing it. Its seen as spyware because thats how corporations use it.

  And even before corporations went all in on AI, techy people only trusted open sourced AI run on their own systems over trusting delicate information to a third party one connected to the Internet to vacuum up all that data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC: Here's what we know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t consider linux viable then why would android be for PC users?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows 10 was when the stupid accounts became a thing on Windows and candy crush being installed after a fresh install so makes sense people never really loved 10. And they managed to make 11 even worse than it was at launch with the copilot crap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Even my parents haven’t screwed up the Linux Mint I set up for them to use. I’m super curious what in the world breaks it so bad that it doesnt boot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Only reason I mention hours not being so important is because I’ve bought many games that are 5-10 hour experiences because I found the aspects like the atmosphere, story, or gameplay very compelling.

  On a per hour basis The Finals has been the clear winner for me past 2 years its been out dropping over a hundred hours a year with no money spent. And enjoying more than paid multiplayer games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  2 hour movies are also competing with streaming services like Netflix where people can see as many hours of TV shows and movies as they want. Some just stick to youtube which requires no money and has some free movies there too.

  Its like how people can drop hundreds and thousands of hours on f2p games without spending any money. $/hr valuation is outdated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried using a keyboard for fighting games? That’s another set up that can help reduce use of thumbs, and closer to hitboxes so easier to pull off dpad specific moves.

  Something I’ve seen commonly done is wasd for movement then using the numpad rows for stuff like punches and kicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you tried foot pedal? I wonder if that is allowed in tournaments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder why I’ve never heard of them, since I’d put myself in that category.

  I’ve heard Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Bazzite, and CachyOS. Just from interest in what would be a good distro for moving from Windows to Linux full time for gaming.

  But, never heard Zorin. What are the places people are seeking out that has Zorin being recommend?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone really wants adobe they can replace steamos with windows or dualboot or maybe boot windows off a external ssd they installed it on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They can do that on a cheap last gen console.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep. Trying to type with anything but a keyboard sucks. I love my k400. I’ve had it for years and years. Not sure how old it is but I think I got it during the PS3/360 era for PC TV use and it is still works. And batteries last so long on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And is actually usable as a desktop being able to run things like blender, krita, gimp, obs, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I make a Bluetooth button to skip YouTube ads on the computer?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Freetube is great too. Its like newpipe for desktop. Lets you subscribe, have view history, and save playlists locally. Has sponsorblock and dearrow and is accountless.

  Sometimes breaks so have to go back to using firefox + ublock while waiting for update tp fix wharever youtube does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail users warned to opt out of new feature - what we know⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Might be simplest to get the smallest phone you can find for those kind of apps, and then do everything else on grapheneos. Might be hassle carrying two devices but at least one of the phones can be the cheapest thing you can find.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, our memory prices have been affected too by the stupid AI shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so happy I dropped gmail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hype up vaporware. Be unprofitable but keep on hyping to draw in investors and inflate stocks and give yourself an inflated salary and sell off stocks periodically.

  If get lucky enough vaporware eventually becomes a viable company or it goes bankrupt but its fine you already cashed out along the way. Yay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be surprised if they decide it is because they don’t have even more AI stuff for every single task that their OS isn’t liked more and start shoving in AI into even mouse clicks with “helpful” copilot trying to predict if you are clicking to click or copy and paste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I saw it when i went to go update and then somehow the instructions on syncthing 2.0 being its own separate app, since straight up update could cause issues. Not sure if it was pop up within the syncthing app or descriptions page for it on f-droid. Well I do use droidify to install f-droid apps since I prefer the UI so maybe that’s why I saw something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it seems like kind of a headache to try to get Linux distros that work properly on Macs from what I’ve searched at least. Asahi Linux seems like the only one that works reliably compared to all the options available to Ryzen and Intel CPUs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s nice to see actually. Regular consumers like us don’t have any pull, but businesses do. So I hope more start seeing Microsoft problematic enough to start shifting away to MacOS to get Microsoft to reassess their decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I knew because I install through F-droid instead of github so ended up getting like a notice informing me that to upgrade to 2.0 I should back up the settings then uninstall 1.3 then install 2.0 then back up settings.

  But, if retrieving from github or obtanium then maybe message wasn’t relayed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  During the update to 2.0 you had to uninstall the 1.3 version then install and restore your syncthing-fork settings. So if you are still on 1.3 that’s probably why you aren’t seeing it. Should pop up if you search F-droid for the 2.0 version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pokémon Lazarus: When a Fan Game Becomes a Conversation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for bringing attention to this cool game. Would never have heard of it otherwise. And the reasons for the criticisms ended up convincing me to try the game, since it sounds like the dev is really cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Its become Cartmanland to me. I want to check it out. I wouldn’t pay for it, but I want to check it out.