DupaCycki
@DupaCycki@lemmy.world
- Comment on From F-Droid to emulators, here's who's hit hardest by Android's new verification rules 5 days ago:
When I hear ‘mainstream phone’, in my mind I picture an iPhone or a Samsung. So yeah, Linux phones are definitely not achieving that this decade. Though personally I don’t think they necessarily need to, at all.
Point 4 is probably not happening any time soon, if ever, either. Rest is slowly being done and progressing, so I’m not seeing any major problems there.
I don’t think anyone realistically expects a Linux phone to compete with an iPhone in terms of ease of use, quality of life features or UI/UX. As far as I’ve seen, people just want a decent phone with basic functionalities like long battery life, good camera, easy to use and smooth UI, maps and navigation. All while being more private and secure, of course.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
You know times are tough when even the chair needs to sit down
- Comment on From F-Droid to emulators, here's who's hit hardest by Android's new verification rules 6 days ago:
Linux phones have already been around for many years. Right now we’re very close to Linux phones that are usable on a daily basis. Not as close to decent Linux phones, of course, but with the right (not at all unrealistic) resources it could be completely within reach in a year or two.
Also, Flatpaks exist and work pretty much just like Android apps.
- Comment on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says 'employers will see a stream of resumes of once-in-a-lifetime quality' after the company laid off more than 1,000 people 6 days ago:
If they’re so talented and experienced, then why’d you fire them for no reason? Surely the company expects to continue growing and will need more employees, not fewer.
- Comment on Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America 6 days ago:
I wonder if they’re all wired or run off batteries?
They may not be the same, but the ones we have in the EU, or at least the ones I’ve seen, run on batteries. They’re not connected to anything. You can just yoink one and it works. I’ve seen some people do that and was tempted to myself. Not sure about the software side. If it’s realistically possible to display something else entirely on them, then it’d be cool to have.
- Comment on Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America 6 days ago:
We have a lot of those in the EU as well, except prices change once every 48 hours at most, due to discounts activating or expiring. Shit like this is thankfully completely illegal, as is expected in any resonably advanced country.
- Comment on All of a sudden he thinks that it's a spectacular plan. 6 days ago:
Not the first time and probably not the last time.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 1 week ago:
So does that mean the game will be always online? Or does the AI companion disappear if you’re offline?
- Comment on Tech hobbyist makes shoulder-mounted guided missile prototype with $96 in parts and a 3D printer — DIY MANPADS includes Wi-Fi guidance, ballistics calculations, optional camera for tracking 2 weeks ago:
Uh-oh…
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, the guy who has never touched a controller in his life knows best what’s good for video games.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Or by mirroring his content to other video sharing platforms like LBRY/Odysee or Peertube. It requires little effort, seems to be risk free, and lays the foundation to migrate from YouTube at some point in the future.
I’m a little puzzled why a lot of creators don’t do this, especially ones who criticize YouTube so much and promote self hosting.
- Comment on He was a perfect hire — until a U.S. company exposed him as a likely North Korean operative 2 weeks ago:
Instructions unclear. Wrote my contact address as Pyongyang and now I’m getting emails in Korean.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 weeks ago:
Not necessarily given up. I just don’t think this entire facade called democracy will solve anything. I’m entirely open to other solutions, like the ones you suggested.
Though it should also be noted I don’t live in the USA, so I won’t be standing side by side with you guys. Not physically anyway.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 2 weeks ago:
Vote? Mid-terms? We’ve got an optimist here.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 2 weeks ago:
push software that needs tons of ram cause ram shortage ??? …profit?
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 2 weeks ago:
This is the kind of successful entrepreneur we’re supposed to be looking up to, people.
- Comment on HP's ink-blocking firmware may violate new global sustainability rules 2 weeks ago:
The moment you realize it’s sometimes profitable for corporations to actively waste resources, it becomes clear that our current economic system is incompatible with environmental care.
- Comment on "US Person": is a red flag for financial institutions in Europe 2 weeks ago:
Looks like you’re right, thanks for the link! Even though most of these countries only tax non-resident citizens if specific conditions aren’t met, there still appear to be more than two that do it more or less unconditionally.
- Comment on "US Person": is a red flag for financial institutions in Europe 2 weeks ago:
It’s because the us government is one of the few ones that wants to tax stuff that their citizens earned in other countries
One of exactly two.
- Comment on Satellite firm pauses imagery after revealing Iran's attacks on US bases 3 weeks ago:
The losses on the American/Israeli side are so low they need to censor any publicly available information. Truly nothing to see here. In fact, they’re doing you a favour by saving the time you would have wasted looking for damage done by Iran that clearly doesn’t exist!
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 4 weeks ago:
American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace
You mean lobbies the government to ban Chinese EVs, because they have no means of competing whatsoever? Free market for me, but not for thee.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Of course. Any issue is only serious for you if it impacts you and/or if you care about it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
This sounds funny, but is actually a very serious issue. The main factor separating sermons by priests from sermons by any other people, e.g., homeless drug addicts, is that God is supposedly speaking through priests.
So whenever they give a speech, it’s treated as a speech from God. Clearly, AI has nothing to do with God if one exists, which means anyone attending such a sermon is being blatantly scammed. The Pope shouldn’t ‘ask’ anyone to stop using AI. He should immediately remove all of them from clerical service for defrauding people on the Church’s behalf.
- Comment on Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks 4 weeks ago:
ethical hackers
Now all we need is for some unethical ones to hack them into bankruptcy.
- Comment on We got more games and better games when there was less money being made in the industry. 5 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say it’s quite as simple as that. It wasn’t always a linear downward trend. First couple of generations of video games were pretty terrible from a game development perspective. No disrespect to the developers or anything. Of course, they were amazing programs that took a lot of clever engineering to work, but still not very good games.
The really good games started coming out somewhere in the late '90s, I think? Then reached the peak in either 2000s or 2010s. From there, it’s been pretty much a downward trend. Most games in 2026 are so basic and shallow mechanically. AAA games are essentially semi-interactive tech demos.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 5 weeks ago:
For all the hate we’ve given Creation Engine over the years… I think we can all agree it’s still infinitely better than Unreal will ever be.
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 5 weeks ago:
Of course it’s possible. Just not financially viable, according to corporate logic. It’s not about profit. It’s about ever increasing profit. So what do you do when the sales have reached their peak and stopped increasing? Lower the production costs and/or increase prices.
I’ve worked in the video game industry for a few years, both at and with large corporations as well as smaller studios. Game optimization has rarely, if ever, been a concern for anyone. Usually, as long as the fps only occasionally drop to 25 on high-end systems - it’s good enough.
To be clear, smaller game studios care significantly more about optimization/accessibility. There’s no denying that. However, with their limited resources, sometimes there’s not a whole lot they can do.
What you’re asking for is completely reasonable and would be great. But it’s just not gonna happen. Most studios prefer Unreal, because it lets them outsource a lot of work to India, and potentially cuts the development time ever so slightly.
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 5 weeks ago:
A lot of people say that the price increases will force developers to optimize and to work with what hardware they have to make good games and stop using AI gen and DLSS tech as an excuse for poor optimization.
The main problem with this is simply that it won’t happen. Every company would have to spend more on their games for no monetary gain, while their competition likely won’t do the same.
Not to mention, big game companies already have insanely powerful hardware, so it doesn’t impede the development in the slightest.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I can definitely see why you’d like it so much. Honestly, it could release today with more modern graphics and I think it’d fit right in. It barely feels like an ancient game.
I’m enjoying the game much more than I initially expected. I like that you need to constantly be careful, because you cannot heal easily. Looking forward to learning the lore and playing next games!
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
It’s been a lot of fun so far. Very impressive for a 2008 handheld game. The plot isn’t amazing, but still better than I expected. The distortion world was crazy and I totally didn’t see anything like that coming.
However, as a newcomer to Pokémon, at times I felt a little overwhelmed with the various mechanics (e.g., underground, contests) and skipped them for the most part. Of course, being an NDS game, it’s a little clunky, but that didn’t really bother me.
I probably should have started with an even earlier game, but at the same time I didn’t want to go as far back as GBA, since even without those all the games will take me a long while to complete. Now that I’m approaching the end, or at least I think I do, I’m definitely going to go back and properly try everything.
Can’t wait to see what other Pokémon games are like. I’ve read that HeartGold/SoulSilver is often considered the best game. I’m also hyped for X and other 3DS ones, even if they’re not that good, because I’m loving the 3D effect.