Endymion_Mallorn
@Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 19 hours ago:
Those would be great if they worked on cheap handsets. TracFone users should have better security too
- Comment on Poland presses ahead with 3 percent digital tax despite Trump threat 19 hours ago:
When US DNS servers (and Cloudflare) turn off access to and from Poland, I'll be interested. Until then, the digital taxes are interesting but empty threats as far as the corps are concerned.
- Comment on Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form] 19 hours ago:
Back to a Java flip phone then. Or just off portable radio based computing as a whole. We don't need portable telephony, and we certainly don't need to carry portable supercomputers.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 20 hours ago:
It's not a cyberdeck unless I have trodes and a halo, chummer. But some kind of netbook would be great.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 1 day ago:
The moment I don't get to run my own stuff and F-Droid, I'll be switching off smartphones.
- Comment on BEAR MODE 2 days ago:
Rachel deserved better.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 3 days ago:
The avalanche definitely ups her count some.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 3 days ago:
Then Ripley should count too.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 3 days ago:
Okay, but Kidagakash skews the average so sharply that she's proof of the need for weigthing.
Also, are Alice & Jane actually considered princesses? Jane is Lady Greystone and I could accept her for that, but Alice is just a kid. And if direct adaptations count, why not Wendy? Why not Tiger Lily (who counts if Pocahontas does)? Or Dejah Thoris, the titular "Princess of Mars"?
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 4 days ago:
It's free and runs stuff good.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 6 days ago:
Then decrease the demand by reducing what you buy and the lifespan you demand of the hardware and software.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 6 days ago:
I mean, there's that too.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 6 days ago:
Getting into that case also gets into pedagogical theory, because giving kids primarily analog entertainment compared to digital seems to be beneficial. I was talking about those of us adults who are already doomed. We have computers. We already have machines. We don't need the new one.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 6 days ago:
Quality is exactly what we need in games machines.
Not meaningless iteration and oppressive corporate greed. The 2600 was a quality machine - you can still find working VCS consoles in the wild - and when they fail, it's usually something that can be fixed by the owner of the console. It doesn't die because software tells it to die, or because of a known manufacturing fault where a simple fix was ignored because it wouldn't have been profitable. The same can (mostly) be said of NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, SNES, and even TG16/PC Engine.
Beyond that, I expect that 32-bit machines and forward should still work, even if disk rot is affecting the ones that weren't cartridge based.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 6 days ago:
My PC is not a "gaming" PC. I play games on it. I have access to a nearly 50-year library of games. Just because I don't have the newest and shiniest doesn't mean I don't have tons of fun games available. And I said 'if you need a console at all'. If you are determined to play video games and you don't want them on a PC, phone, or tablet, then fine. There are thrift stores, there's eBay (though that's loaded with scalpers and scum even more than the thrift grifters), there are many ways to buy a used console. But I also stand by the thought that if what you have is working and being fun, keep using it. If the corporations have made it not fun, either go to older hardware they can't do that to, or get homebrew set up.
Don't just keep it on a shelf "in case". Don't store it. And for the love of anything good, don't just discard it.
Reduce. If you think you've reduced "enough", find something else to reduce.
- Comment on Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow 1 week ago:
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Reduce comes first for a reason.
You do not need a PS5. You don't need a new console - if you need a console at all.
- Comment on Discoverability is the industry’s "Achilles’ heel," marketing survey finds 1 week ago:
I will highlight the existence of shareware, freeware, and other indie physical distribution channels. Both IBM compatibles and other PCs had "homebrew" scenes, not dissimilar to the "indie" scene today. The Amiga is still noted for the PD offerings it boasted. Many of the big companies now started as Indies. So, no.
- Comment on Discoverability is the industry’s "Achilles’ heel," marketing survey finds 1 week ago:
Almost like things were better when we bought physical goods, instead of slop inside a program.
- Comment on In the star wars holiday special, there's a segment where Princess Leia sings. This act retroactively makes her a legitimate Disney princess. 1 week ago:
I wonder if this would have made Carrie not lose her temper at any mention of the Holiday Special.
- Comment on Permian Park 1 week ago:
That would still be cool.
- Comment on Permian Park 2 weeks ago:
I would genuinely be more interested in seeing animals from before The Great Dying.
- Comment on "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint 2 weeks ago:
I love the thought, but it the thinking behind it is very utopian. It doesn't match the real world. In my experience, if a company can't make all of the profit from a thing they invest in, they simply won't invest. I wish that wasn't the case, but it's what I've seen. The C-Suite and management would rather make 100% profit from living in the dark ages compared to "just" 99% of the profit from pushing the world forward.
- Comment on If suffering is good because it gives life meaning, wouldn't it follow that hurting people is good? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, that's what a lot of rich people think. They're helping people build character by acting like monsters.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 2 weeks ago:
I'm actually less concerned about the specific price point. They sold the cans as a volume sale rather than individual profit.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 2 weeks ago:
The practices and policies of their suppliers. If the supply is limited, let it be limited.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 2 weeks ago:
No, decades ago, they should have recognized that we should always focus on domestic production and domestic labor.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 2 weeks ago:
I don't exempt a company from doing something if their supplier does it. They're at least complicit.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 2 weeks ago:
Then they should have long since been growing their tea and fruit in upstate NY, as well as focusing on sourcing their water responsibly.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 2 weeks ago:
If the companies were responsible with all that recycling we've been doing over the last half-century, they wouldn't need to import raw metal. We'd be able to reuse all that glass and metal.
I guess this might be the only way to get American consumers to understand that the point was always Reduce, reuse, and recycle in descending importance; rather than the other way around.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 2 weeks ago:
Why are they using anything imported anyways? All that the tariffs have done in my life so far is make me question what these "local" "American" companies have been doing. Mind you, two phrases have come back into my speech:
"No company is your friend, even if they make something you like." & " Silence, brand!"
Companies affected by the tariffs are now among the companies whose products I actively avoid.