LemmyEntertainYou

@LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve already tried a reset and the issues persist. I’ve just lost faith with Fairphone. I took a photo yesterday, the preview in the camera app shows a photo has been taken. If i click the preview I get a “failed to load media” warning and if I open the gallery app or file manager the photo is nowhere to be seen. This simply isn’t good enough. They’ve been well known for buggy software all over the internet so I’m not entirely surprised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have MicroG I’m just using the stock ROM with Play Services.

  Since my original comment I’ve already bought a second hand Galaxy S25 Edge as I haven’t tried Samsung since the Galaxy S3. Not exactly the privacy focused experience I’d ideally like but the Fairphone is becoming unusable after only 3 months. There’s no way I’d be using it in 7 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The most annoying bug for me currently is the camera will sometimes just not save photos. It’ll appear as though it has worked and then later when I go to look at the photo there’s just no sign of me ever taking anything.

  The second biggest annoyance would be the touchscreen simply not working sometimes until I lock and unlock the device again.

  Finally we have the seemingly random lack of charging where I’ll wake up some mornings to find it hasn’t been charging at all despite being plugged in all night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been running a Fairphone 6 for about 6 months now and it’s by far the buggiest phone I’ve ever used. I’d love to keep using it until the security updates stop but it’s already such a miserable experience already I can’t imagine how bad it’ll be in a few years time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m tempted to give it a go but I exclusively type using swipe gestures on my phone so I’m not sure that’s a learning curve I want to commit to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet Peeves with Games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like Baldur’s Gate 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘As usual, we do what Nintendon’t’: Peripheral firm ‘fixes’ Switch 2’s new Joy-Cons⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their entirely social media presence is pathetic and their products are poor quality. They only exist because they throw money at marketing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find the Steam Deck far too heavy and bulky unfortunately. I’d love a Switch sized handheld PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows 8.1 was great. My favourite iteration of Windows ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify vs. Anna's Archive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked Deezer until it’s redesign a few years ago. Now the design language is so ugly I could never consider paying for it. Their biggest flaw for me though is that some albums are just randomly not available in lossless and the only alternative is mp3 which I refuse to use in 2025. Some lossy codecs are great so why do Deezer and Qobuz still mess around with mp3?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for 3D Platformer recommendations on sale on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lunistice is quite fun. It’s not groundbreaking but I enjoyed my play through of it. It’s not overly long either which is a positive to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage, uses more H20 than the bottles of water people drink globally — says AI demand could hit 23GW and up to 764 billion liters of water in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All this energy wasted on products most people don’t even want but big CEOs think it’ll earn them loads of money so fuck the planet I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Ways to Corrupt LLMs: The wacky things statistical-correlation machines like LLMs do – and how they might get us killed ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What a genuinely fascinating read. Such a shame most people don’t even question what AI tells them and just assume everything is correct all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it’s not so much the discs I’m against (apart from the fact they do deteriorate faster than other types of storage) but the fact that there’s no option to retrieve and backup the data on said discs. Although saying that, most games require huge downloads to install anyway so is there even any benefit or security in ownership of physical media if it’s still useless without a significant download from a server than could theoretically cease to exist at any moment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought we were MAYBE heading that way in the days of iTunes but then the oh-so-convenient streaming came along and entirely killed the majority’s desire to actually own movies.

  At least music is a medium that managed to transition to DRM-free digital storefronts, even if it is barely used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing stopping you from having multiple backups of your own game installers though if the DRM free options are there. It’s not too unfeasible for people to have dedicated offline storage in the form of a NAS or even just an external drive. Yes this has the same waste implications as discs but they’re at least multipurpose and have a longer lifespan. Obviously we should never rely entirely on a server that’s out of our control for backups to our purchases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Game Physical Software and Hardware Sales Just Had the Worst November in the U.S. Since 1995 - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This will probably be a controversial take but physical media shouldn’t exist in 2025.

  Ownership of games SHOULD exist and so should multiple competing store fronts. We need to normalise DRM free digital copies rather than ewaste blu-ray discs that’ll one day degrade and become useless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure we should always have choice but if you’re hopping out of Microsoft’s monopoly into Google’s is there even any point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I dislike Microsoft, I see no reason for Windows users to download Chrome when Edge is right there.