Lfrith
@Lfrith@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online 5 days ago:
Only regulation should be parental control tools being an option to aid in parenting. But, anything else just seems like an excuse for governments to spy on the population, which can become problematic if a nefarious over reaching person or party comes into power.
Things like requiring verification or whatever is only safe when its a benevolent dictator, but that can quickly change to what was fine is now thought crime and used to go after enemies harboring treasonous thoughts who can thankfully be located due to profiles connected to real IDs.
- Comment on Michael 5 days ago:
I play rhythm games like taiko and I’d say it still doesn’t come anywhere close to being as physically demanding as fencing, which you’d have a terrible time if out of shape with the amount of cardio, flexibility, and body control required.
So comparing gaming at a high level as being as physically demanding as fencing is just odd to me. Now mentally exhausting and needing quick reflexes yes, but in the realm of gaming it’d have to be VR based to be able to make physically demanding arguments if comparing to fencing. With fencing being an actual cardio driven sport you need to be in great shape for.
- Comment on Michael 5 days ago:
I don’t much like the idea because video games are company driven. Like Apex exists only because of EA so its an advertising platform for EA. Unlike spkrts like basketball or tennis a video game like Apex or CS can’t exist independent of the company that owns it.
- Comment on A hypothesis 5 days ago:
If someone has a PC they may be more likely to use it to game and also to pirate games and mod games. That can actually lead to learning quite a bit about computers when it comes to the file system which lot of people don’t understand these days, and also following instructions when it comes to completing computer tasks. That sets a pretty good basic starting point. It can also lead to wanting to build their own PC and watch more tech related content.
So can push people from just a simple media consumption device to wanting to tinker.
- Comment on Long-time iOS user considering switch to Android - Need advice on $1000 flagships 5 days ago:
Not sure they’d be happy with the hardware performance and camera if they are the type willing to drop $1000 on a phone coming from the iPhone. So that’s probably the main reason.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Blueskys blocklist people can subscribe too is a good approach. So people can find filters that meet their needs. So like bot filter that could be updated over time.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Most noticeable when it comes to stopkillinggames threads where you’ll see comments of people being angry at the movement and misrepresenting it wanting to force games to have to stay online indefinitely.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’d consider August with Persona 5 Royale as a headliner good.
But biggest difference is you actually keep the games from Humble.
Xbox isn’t free since the games stop working once subscription is discontinued. Xbox is more similar to streaming services like Netflix with it providing temporary access. Xbox used to do giveaways for games you got to keep back with gold, but they stopped offering that perk after the 360.
- Comment on Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00] 1 week ago:
Ink displays are more comfortable on the eyes like reading something on paper than a regular display. Prefer them to physical books now.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Seems worse to me than humble choice which you don’t need to play online, so you can just buy the months you like to get 8 games in your library as opposed to it being tied to multiplayer.
Then there’s Epic which gives away games every month without having to spend any money and still retain multiplayer access.
- Comment on Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00] 1 week ago:
Yeah, I put it into airplane mode when I heard Amazon was going to push an update removing some feature. Then just kept using it as I did before using calibre to send books.
Finally decided to jailbreak it and I am glad I did since the custom lockscreens and koreader has been cool.
- Comment on Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00] 1 week ago:
If you are lazy put your kindle into airplane mode until you find time to jailbreak your kindle. I actually jailbroke it using the previous winterbreak method last week, since I had kept my kindle in airplane mode using calibre.
- Comment on Hundreds of Instagram accounts push graphic real-life violence to millions, CBS News finds 2 weeks ago:
Its like once a hobby goes from a small group enthusiasts to mainstream it gets worse as corporations see an opportunity to monetize what was previously loser city. Like video games and old message boards and irc to what we have now with all sorts of monetization and tracking being shoved in as services gain critical mass among the general population.
Things seem easier to manage by humans at its infancy when its mainly people passionate about what they are using. I went from wishing fediverse to get big enough to replace mainstream social media to being fine with it being a smaller alternative. That initial small phase has kind of been the golden period for lot of things.
- Comment on Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I define PC less by the hardware but whether I can install whatever OS I want and whatever programs I want without restrictions, which consoles don’t let you do. And consoles these days are way more powerful than PCs from decades ago yet still crippled when it comes to expected PC functions.
- Comment on Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party 2 weeks ago:
That would be the case for techy people like us, but growing number of people cant handle anything more complicated than a phone OS these days that I think consoles will continue to have a purpose.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 2 weeks ago:
Way to properly do it is to keep them separate drives and use bios to select which to load.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’ve spent 0 money on Finals but have all the Battlepasses over the past 8 seasons. And got extra in game currency to buy more cosmetics without spending money.
And for the gameplay itself which is the most important aspect there is no pay to win.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 3 weeks ago:
Yep. It gets exhausting how much effort it takes on part of the user to find a way to not have to use a Microsoft account and disable all the things they don’t want. LTSC makes it easier but that isn’t even a version Microsoft makes easily available, so once again users have to jump through so many hoops trying to retrieve a verified iso and activate it.
Meanwhile Linux is pick a distro among many that appeals to you and get going. It makes Microsoft feel like they hate its userbase and views them as nothing more than data to collect and sell.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 3 weeks ago:
Linux isn’t a single distro though so just hop to one that doesn’t have it for those who don’t want it.
- Comment on PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC 3 weeks ago:
Same I when it comes to my next upgrade I want to go AMD GPU next time around for the best Linux support.
- Comment on PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC 3 weeks ago:
Well for me Sony exclusive means Sony produced games, and they’ve just not released in that department. I’m PC now so its not exclusive for me anyways, but it does matter for console players choosing between Sony or Xbox. And Sony has really under delivered this gen with games from them.
- Comment on PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC 3 weeks ago:
That’s been the only selling point of consoles for me. They mostly all come out on the PC now so more an observation of how Sony’s releases this gen has been really lackluster compared to previous gens.
- Comment on PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC 3 weeks ago:
It seems soon because it feels like barely anything came out in terms of exclusives for the PS5. Naughty Dog didn’t even come out with anything that wasn’t a remake.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Makes me happy I have the GOG version of Fallout 3. I’ve played New Vegas but not gotten around to 3.
- Comment on EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, keeping the public in the dark so people against it aren’t their to voice their opinion is how these like this get passed. Media attention to inform the public was a good thing.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 4 weeks ago:
They chose a funny example too with Ford when the more appropriate one would be Tesla with it being in current events. But, they went with a dead person because it doesn’t help their argument.
- Comment on What do we do when all the crts are gone? 4 weeks ago:
Might be the case for OLED but for LCDs even in gaming mode I notice the difference in delay compared to my monitor.
- Comment on Tobu Tobu Girl Deluxe - Open source Itch.io game that is fun to play on any gb/gbc systems 4 weeks ago:
Gameboy and Gameboy Color?
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 4 weeks ago:
Then there’s me owner of Android and Apple and talks shit on both haha.
- Comment on Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses 4 weeks ago:
They kind of got that rep though for defending things people saw as anti consumer such as soldered ram, limited, storage, and blocking installation of non Apple apps. Always going Apple knows best and its for security.
Not exactly the group known for demanding more, but ones who are mor3 complacent.
I’m an Apple owner too with MacMini and iPad so these criticisms of Apple users isn’t coming from a no Apple products hater.