Truscape
@Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Good news. :) 7 hours ago:
always has been, friend
- Comment on Value Age verification 23 hours ago:
Oh 100%. But I guess this is sort of a liability thing, Valve saying "Look. We want to sell the porn games and Postal 2 either way. But we’ll verify the customers so you wont get heat for ‘handling the transactions of minors’ "
- Comment on Value Age verification 23 hours ago:
My money’s on this being implemented as a compromise/capitulation to the payment processors Valve’s feuded with. Visa and MasterCard probably asked for this.
- Comment on Value Age verification 23 hours ago:
Oh hey lembot, I see you’re still on iteration 4. When’s 5 releasing?
Anyway, Valve has no interest in the personal data of their users - their ideology has been on providing excellent, transparent service through their store platform, not aggregating and selling user data to the highest bidder.
This change was likely implemented as a compromise with payment processors - the fact that the verification is through a credit card transaction is quite telling.
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 2 days ago:
Blue beret item references the VDV, airborne russian troops, in the description. Also one of the armbands has the russian flag on it.
Although because the game is shown through the lens of PMCs (you’re not fighting as or against Russian/UN/NATO troops), most of the russian military references are minimal (unless you count the descriptions of weapons detailing their design/usage histories).
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 3 days ago:
It doesn’t, and that’s one of the reasons I only play offline with mods rather than online.
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 3 days ago:
They have their own launcher.
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 3 days ago:
Install a singleplayer mod that allows you to progress at your own pace and know that all of your faults were not because of cheaters (SPT), but I don’t think those changes could be rectified in the PvP game.
- Comment on Or Library Genesis 3 days ago:
Unlike wikipedia, they don’t offer a full torrent of the site, so it’s hard to estimate. I guess the closest point of comparison would be Anna’s archive index, since they have a rough filesize total?
- Comment on Apple Envy 4 days ago:
Apple provided the icloud backups. Apple did not provide the decryption key for unlocking the phone directly.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 5 days ago:
Fuck, I went through that with VRchat…
- Comment on WhatsApp fixes 'zero-click' bug used to hack Apple ios and macos users with spyware for 3 months 5 days ago:
Probably because it picks a lane and stays in it, although I wouldn’t trust it on even a burner phone.
- Comment on Don't be suspicious 5 days ago:
“It’s the fuzz scoob, act normal! We don’t them to confiscate our scooby snax!”
- Comment on Apple Envy 5 days ago:
That might because many people (at least in the US) get their phones through payment plans with a cell service carrier, and those usually aren’t unlocked unless you pay for the whole phone + if they care enough to give you the code after.
I always bought unlocked phones directly, so I guess I never had that issue?
- Comment on Apple Envy 5 days ago:
It’s the lack of choice on what to do with your hardware after EOL that always rubbed me the wrong way with Apple. Unless there’s a known exploit to unlock the boot loader, you can’t install something like postmarketOS or LineageOS to continue using it, so you just feel compelled to treat it like e-waste and buy a new device.
I’ve had 3 android phones total in my life, and one of them I only replaced after it got crushed in a roadside accident. The other 2 are still useable.
- Comment on Apple Envy 5 days ago:
That didn’t stop Apple from handing over backups to the FBI that were swiftly decrypted after several high profile incidents (like the San Bernadino shooting), and I assume it would be even less difficult for them to fork over info for another Snowden if they use Apple products.
- Comment on WhatsApp fixes ‘zero-click’ bug used to hack Apple users with spyware 5 days ago:
With a Meta service it’s better to presume the worst than to give them the benefit of the doubt.
…Although I also have crashing issues with Voyager on GrapheneOS, so it could just genuinely be programming errors.
- Comment on Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced 5 days ago:
Fair, although you couldn’t pay me to use the Epic Games Store or make an amazon account lol
- Comment on Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human 5 days ago:
Sounds like all you gotta do is wait then, since your hyper-niche scenario will become a lot less niche once that happens.
- Comment on Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced 5 days ago:
Steam sales: Humble bundle deals: GOG giveaways: itch.io’s existence: FOSS games: Modded total conversions of existing games: Browser/F2P games:
I mean libraries are awesome, but let’s not say pirating is the only option to get content on PC for cheap/free.
- Comment on Vibe Shift in AI Coding: Senior Developers Ship 2.5x More Than Juniors 5 days ago:
Enjoying solving the puzzle enjoyers vs “Let’s go gambling” vibe coders.
- Comment on android 6 days ago:
I wonder if Motorola phones would count since their mobile division was largely acquired by Lenovo (and as far as I can tell, are still open platforms)
- Comment on FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail 6 days ago:
I could always use more excuses to de-google! XD
- Comment on FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail 6 days ago:
Host or purchase from a reputable email provider and make your mail your own :)
- Comment on Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human 6 days ago:
You already can have that :) Ironfox (Firefox Librewolf-style android fork) is the easiest option, but you can also use the normal firefox browser with full extension support.
- Comment on ChatGPT offered bomb recipes and hacking tips during safety tests 6 days ago:
Yeah that seems about right.
- Comment on Over 450 Diablo developers at Blizzard have unionized 6 days ago:
Microsoft is notoriously bureaucratic - there’s probably a lot of PR, middle managers, support staff and bean counters at each studio.
- Comment on Makegg gregg eggain 6 days ago:
We don’t need clanker work on Lemmy.
- Comment on android 6 days ago:
Actually that’s slightly outdated news, GrapheneOS does have compatibility with quite a few banking apps now (they even have a community supported list on their site, and I’m using mine rn on Graphene)
- Comment on Makegg gregg eggain 1 week ago:
That’s why you gotta report em to the community admins boss. I’ve been doing it constantly when I see slop.