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- Comment on Dual Screen Handheld Starter Guide 1 day ago:
Based on this guy’s review of the aya neo from last month, it really sounds like all of this is too soon out of the oven.
Just a month ago most of these apps are mentioned in that video as having issues with compatibility and micro stuttering, and that 3DS games in particular are not so great on Android.
I’m glad people are making stuff like this but i’d rather have a bulletproof experience after these FOSS devs are given a year or two to mature a “dual screen” android offering, or simply building a proper linux one since it sounds like Android adds to input delay and overhead over a typical linux build.
Paying $250-500+ for a device that will be subpar to the original experience in almost all ways except the oled screen gives me a very mixed impression, unfortunately… especially when you have to really tinker with shit to get it working.
- Comment on Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands 1 day ago:
She’s a journalist and her photos are already out there.
All she’s doing is driving follower inflation with her op-ed posted on business insider. Seems like a perfect choice given those circumstances.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 1 week ago:
Cool. Pop_OS is working quite well over here.
It’s never been a better time to convert to Linux. The best part is that if one distro turns to shit you can just move over to another.
- Comment on Ex PlayStation exec says Sony can't keep "increasing the graphics power" with new consoles after tech plateau, but PS5 has already "made almost every game a better game" 1 week ago:
If game performance is what makes games better then consoles will never reach the heights of PCs.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
it doesn’t make any sense to have a centralized distributor acting as a middleman. The current implementation requires bringing your own game files either manually or via a steam connection. There’s only two games, the minecraft clone mentioned is just a web browser game and not actually minecraft.
Since most browser games simply “just work” when you go to the website i’d just create a profile launcher firefox link, and then in that profile build out each game you want as one of your homepage links, which would just be a grid of bookmarks basically. It’s entirely overkill for exactly two games imo, and if you’re on a desktop that can run these games you’re better off running them natively.
If you’re on mobile you’re currently SOL it looks.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
So browser games are games that run in a browser. The browser is the app.
Are you saying you want some silly 3rd party wrapper “application” that simply loads a page in whatever browser without the typical URL controls like so many android and apple “apps” are? because that’s just silly.
If you want to click an icon to open, create a hyperlink shortcut and click that to launch it… you could even create a separate profile that launches JUST for games, so that it doesn’t show up in your normal profile or interact with other cached files or cookies or even have the same addons.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The answer alex, is “What is the name of the app for browser games?”
:P
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s called Firefox
- Comment on Season 1 of Chainsaw Man Now Available on Crunchyroll YouTube Channel 1 week ago:
Crunchyroll fired their translation team and replaced them with an israeli AI company this year.
This has an effect on the quality of translations for so many cultural reasons, but also for practical things like signage on buildings which is now completely absent, as it’s not a spoken word.
- Comment on We'll never have anything like the DVD screensaver ever again 1 week ago:
Do you manually download them yourself or do you pull them at runtime?
- Comment on Season 1 of Chainsaw Man Now Available on Crunchyroll YouTube Channel 1 week ago:
So how are they implementing this? still ai subtitles?
- Comment on MIT engineers solve the sticky-cell problem in bioreactors and other industries 1 week ago:
Sure, but trying and failing is the only way we’ve ever accomplished anything.
- Comment on Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free 1 week ago:
With the rate of CVEs scored at 9+ that come across all the stuff I manage at work I would not agree.
It would be foolish to simply stop patching this giant pile of obsolete insecure dependencies they are calling windows.
- Comment on Windows 10 support has ended, but here's how to get an extra year for free 1 week ago:
The fact that in lieu of paying them they simply want you to log in with an account they control should speak volumes to the privacy implications.
- Comment on We'll never have anything like the DVD screensaver ever again 2 weeks ago:
Jellyfin’s subtitle support is atrocious. If you are from a multilingual household it is simply not suitable.
- Comment on We'll never have anything like the DVD screensaver ever again 2 weeks ago:
It sucks and can’t handle subtitles well.
I too want a good plex alternative that:
- Doesn’t require substantial client configuration or fuckery
- Has robust subtitle support
- Comment on New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds 2 weeks ago:
What purpose do electric door locks serve? Other than being more prone to failure, more expensive, and dangerous?
An oligarch’s fancy?
I’m sure in product meetings it’s been brought up that it’s a dumb thing and they could save money and make the cars safer by not having them, then the oligarch speaks up.
- Comment on There is a key difference between walkable and car dependent living: 2 weeks ago:
I was more thinking about modern internet solutions that enable things like viewing a camera remotely that produce alerts for things like movement, and can even show a little clip of what was seen.
Having a camera on site in a rural area is only relevant if you’re aware of the happenings, no? because if you’re away for a long time, say an 8 hour shift at work… absolutely anybody can come in and tear down your cameras, ransack your house, and light the remainder on fire destroying all video evidence.
A friend I know had her rural home robbed of all christmas gifts under a tree in the 90s. She lived in the US in a fairly rural area (pop ~100.) Houses are all set back from the road. They even tried pulling an extremely large TV out through the front door, but it wouldn’t fit.
Cameras wouldn’t help… because they stole their computers, all the gifts obviously, and even a small gun safe. This was a former veteran and IT worker’s family home and they had for the time fairly bleeding edge hardware. Sure, if the family returned home and caught them red handed perhaps it would have went differently, but disabling camera infrastructure back then in a rural residential setting is trivial if no one is home.
- Comment on There is a key difference between walkable and car dependent living: 2 weeks ago:
Have you ever considered how you would survive prior to ~1999?
- Comment on Mali imposes $10,000 visa bond on US visitors in reciprocal move 2 weeks ago:
This might be more readable and break down some of the horrors more easily: https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/africa/west-and-central-africa/mali/report-mali/
- Comment on Mali imposes $10,000 visa bond on US visitors in reciprocal move 2 weeks ago:
Mali has some major problems. https://bti-project.org/en/reports/country-report/MLI
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 2 weeks ago:
You won’t see it in any official announcement as they want to make sure their retailer partners have the opportunity to liquidate this holiday season before announcements next year. There are also a multitude of other reasons. You do not simply announce you are closing down a console while the businesses you still rely on to distribute products beyond just xbox consoles are holding onto stock.
This guy has had many insider information in the past, going back to 2023 when many microsoft titles started releasing on all consoles including the switch. Console wars are dead and software rent seeking and digital sales are the future: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/microsoft-revamps-xbox-game-pass-plans-and-hikes-ultimate-to-29-99-a-month-ultimate-gets-ubisoft-classics-and-more.1688694/page-29#post-270866538
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 2 weeks ago:
Console exclusives are dying because there’s more money to be made by selling on all platforms than isolating to just one. It’s not like first party peripherals are superior to 3rd party ones anymore.
It’s just a matter of time until Nintendo breaks and starts releasing on PC. Money is their #1, and their consoles don’t traditionally make money, the software licenses sold do. Just a matter of time until their ownership demands it in the pursuit of more profits.
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 2 weeks ago:
I mean, yeah. Sega completely got out of the hardware market. They never removed their hardware from shelves before announcing a replacement hardware solution, they simply let it run out and pivoted as a business to software, retaining the brand.
Imagine the potential liability a company would have by announcing they are exiting the market when they are beholden to shareholders. Announcing they are shutting down something would immediately cause a drop in share price. I would cause sales to plummet- possibly triggering lawsuits from retailers.
They’d never announce they were shutting down. There’s too much value there in the brand, even if it’s not what it used to be.
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 2 weeks ago:
You point the finger at retail and on some level it makes sense to want to funnel users towards your digital distribution platform to completely cut out the middle men and take the entire cut for yourself. So maybe it’s a lot of this…
..but i’m looking at that 50% subscription increase as a sign of what they want. Rent forever, own nothing.
Hardware has costs and overhead associated. They need support people and to have depot services. The cost to sell a console today is getting to be on par with a gaming laptop or desktop (not high end, but something that can play games.) The margin after retailer share has to be lower than ever, and sales tax tariffs are coming hard and fast.
You can develop your games with studios all over the world though and sell them through your US publisher for no import sales tax… especially if it’s on your subscription platform that is effectively impossible to tariff.
Ultimately Microsoft has a vested interest in Windows gaming, since it helps keep their market share and recurring subscription revenue. Few are linux gamers like I, and games are still being made that have 0 possibility of linux support, bf6 being the newest.
There’s a momumental challenge of escaping the microsoft ecosystem, and they’re pushing hard into the always online track everything you do on your computer and phone home to the mothership and sell your data to whoever is willing to buy it. Subscriptions will likely remove ads from future versions of windows.. and the holy grail of total control DRM is not far behind between forcing tpm/secureboot that ONLY works on windows 11.
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think there’s much of a history of consoles being removed from shelves before a successor is announced.
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, remember how microsoft said this wasn’t their last console and they aren’t getting out of it?
Yeah… they lied.
- Comment on VPN Comparison 2.0 2 weeks ago:
TorGuard is a vpn provider but instead you have that onion network. Why?
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 2 weeks ago:
Been using it for years.
Been using multi account containers [1] for a couple weeks, complete with per-tab-SSL vpns.
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/
- Comment on 'Like human trafficking': how the US deported five men to Eswatini 2 weeks ago:
A monster sits on the throne.