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- Comment on Here's for 2 years since I joined Lemmy 1 week ago:
I had no idea they went public
- Comment on Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: 'At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game' 1 week ago:
That’s good context, you’re right the title made it sound like they were advertising KFC at startup. But, then again, an ads an ad.
- Comment on ZeniMax QA workers have reached a tentative contract agreement with Microsoft, paving the way for better wages and more 1 week ago:
Good. Microsoft has been taking advantage of contractors for decades to avoid paying real salaries
- Comment on Looking for a software suggestion 1 week ago:
Their site leaves a bit to be desired, but they do have PDF versions along with many others it will scrape in
- Comment on Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: 'At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game' 1 week ago:
So… They stopped playing right? Because there are a lot of similar games without ads, so why would people just put up with it. Right?
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
damn I’ve been out of the loop on that one for a while! Agreed, I set up Immich and it’s pretty much a drop-in replacement now
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
Did they really kill off free photo backup? That’s so incredibly shitty, they even compressed them!
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
Did they really kill off free photo backup? That’s so incredibly shitty, they even compressed them!
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
Yeah, op didn’t say you couldn’t opt out of it. It’s that they’re doing it at all. Every year they ask for a little bit more info, chipping away, making it harder and more obscure to opt out. That’s enshittification.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
I bought a Plex pass for 90 or something. I officially dropped Plex about 4 months ago now. For 90 bucks I got something like 8 years out of it. I’ll call that a win, I don’t feel like I wasted my money, I don’t feel like I overpayed. Just moving on now.
- Comment on Real-world map data is helping make better games about farms and transportation 1 week ago:
NIMBY Rails has been insanely fun. Their tagline is politicians are wrong, you know what’s best for your community or something like that. Very fun to make the transit systems we should have, and very satisfying to see ridership on those systems
- Comment on How can I contribute processing power to the community? 2 weeks ago:
I landed on digital ocean. Fair prices for a vpc and a reliable name
- Comment on How can I contribute processing power to the community? 2 weeks ago:
Good intentions, but I would be wary of anything not official like foldingathome or boinc (both great projects I recommend)
The reason is other people are horrible, and while your intentions are good, it’s significant risk. Lemmy had a csam attack a while ago and I immediately moved my instance to the cloud because I learned that if I even accidentally hosted anything it means immediate seizure, self hosting it means they plow through my door and yank the servers.
Tor nodes, peertube, you open yourself up to that risk
- Comment on Self hosted Teams alternative? 2 weeks ago:
That guy is the woooorst
- Comment on Self hosted Teams alternative? 2 weeks ago:
Idk, I’ve heard things about HooliChat… Didn’t their stream go down in the middle of a big title fight?
- Comment on Star Citizen Loses 'Integral Staff' Responsible for Server Meshing 2 weeks ago:
So they have rounds of layoffs, staff feel less secure in their role, and they’re surprised that knowledgeable and easily employable experts are leaving for more stable roles?
- Comment on What's a good HTPC OS and software? 2 weeks ago:
I run Bazzite, primarily gaming for everything, added jellyfin as a non steam app. Works pretty well. Wish jellyfin had a slightly better interface but overall decent.
Most everything works with the controller, and for anything that doesn’t steam will emulate a keyboard and mouse for, but I keep a keyboard next to it just in case
- Comment on Best option for hosting ebooks and audiobooks? 3 weeks ago:
Agreed, these are two different things meant for two different purposes. At this point nothing beats audiobookshelf
- Comment on GTA 6 release won't be delayed again now that it has a "specific date", assures Take-Two boss 3 weeks ago:
Well if there’s anyone who knows when it will be done, it’s high level management
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 3 weeks ago:
From the forum post:
Just because he works at Plex doesn’t necessarily make his review fake.
Yikes the copium here. Reviews are meant for users of the app, this is so incredibly biased and in bad taste. I have had my shittiest companies ask us to leave positive reviews on Glassdoor. The shittiest ones.
Maybe their big redesign that no one asked for isn’t doing well, and this is a self preservation thing, to get more people to download it. Maybe CEO asked them to. Maybe they’re just over eager. All are excuses and not valid reasons to give a rating on your own company’s product
- Comment on Time to change your Steam password? Data from over 89 million accounts has reportedly leaked to the dark web 3 weeks ago:
Backend vendor access credentials it says, I am guessing everything in valve’s side is fine. That being said, when was the last time you changed your steam password? Probably time anyway
- Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down 3 weeks ago:
Why compare us to reddit? We feel like Reddit but from a hosting and admin perspective it’s a whole different ballgame. Mods of reddit at worst run the risk of their communities being taken down for a bit if they let content slip through. Here on Lemmy us admins are legally liable for content that is posted. We don’t have a large limited liability corporation that will take the hit for us. We need these tools, or we are the ones that will have boots through doors.
- Comment on Lemmy.one will be shutting down 3 weeks ago:
A built in auto mod is the largest thing. A way to say that this common pattern is spam and to block it system wide, right now we just don’t have that. A nice to have stretch goal would be to use some model to fight actual gore or csam material, which just doesn’t exist. A moderation dashboard would be great to see users with their comment history, vote trends, high level to see if a person just had an off comment that might be taken the wrong way, or if there is a trend of trolling behavior
These have been opened on the GitHub and either sit open forever or are just closed.
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 4 weeks ago:
And they wanted it that way. They were like well that’s what it’s really like! Which like yeah great, but that’s terribly boring for a game.
Another game like that was Mass Effect 1, where they had the undiscovered worlds, but even those were more entertaining. They gave you a mako, and each planet had at least one faction with at least some backstory to it so it wasn’t a complete waste. Starfield is like, nothing. I encounter the exact same building structure and camps multiple times on my single playthrough. Absolutely uninspired
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 4 weeks ago:
God how did they fuck that up? Who thought I’d want to fast travel there? Sure sometimes, but honestly I’d love it if it showed how many minutes to destination and then you started jumping.
You’re in the pilots chair, you see 10 minutes to the other side. You hesitate because that’s far, but 2 minutes away is your home base anyway so might as well swing through and drop off some stuff, make sure the pumps and extractors are working. 6 minutes past that is that side quest you’ve been putting off, I guess we can do that too. You hit the jump button, stars whizz past. You go talk with your crew, get caught up on conversations. You jump back in the chair when the 20 second warning goes off. You jump out and arrive, but there is a weird signal on a nearby planet in this system…
Now THAT’s the game i wanted. Altering one mechanic right there completely changes the entire style of the game. I will forever be annoyed that everything in the game is instant fast travel. Sure have a button there to skip if people want to, but personally I prefer to lay back and fully immerse myself
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 4 weeks ago:
It was incredibly mid. For something Bethesda hyped for over half a decade they sure made a bland game. Throwing aside all of the incredibly dated gameplay, you hit the nail on the head. It was boring
You can tell every faction was decided by a corporate committee inside Bethesda and Microsoft. They couldn’t be too risky, couldn’t come close to possibly offending one person or risk having slightly fewer gamers. That results in a boring as hell game. Everyone was too goddamn nice in the game. No one ever got mad at you. You could punch someone in the face and the response would be “hey, that’s not nice” and then they would continue on. Hold on there don’t want to possibly scare off a potential customer by having a realistic situation there.
- Comment on Rocketwerkz's CEO alleges Unity are threatening to revoke studio's licence over apparent personal licence usage 4 weeks ago:
Nobody should be optimizing to use unity anymore. I know personally devs who have worked there and confirmed this is their business now, just strangling devs for license revenue. They may open the gate a bit at the beginning to lock you in, but they’ll slam it shut eventually behind you. And god knows if your game is even remotely successful they’re going to go out of their way to get their hands on your money
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 4 weeks ago:
Exactly how I’ve felt. I paid for a pass a long time ago, when they were actively making features for us server owners - but lately it’s been a good 80-90% of their crap content and very little for server owners. I’m not even upset about their content really, it’s just they blately have ignored everything else. It’s shifted, and so I have to as well.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 4 weeks ago:
You have had one of the more reasonable outlooks of this. I get that most of this stuff is fairly advanced for the average person who may be wanting to host, but anymore with letsencrypt, if you can port forward and spin up a container to run a plex server… you’re pretty close to just doing everything yourself. I don’t know why Plex feels the need to charge for “remote streaming” when from what I can tell, the most they’re doing is pointing a client at my server. As I said in other comments, it seems like a fancy dynamic DNS service, which is like, pennies for a multi year subscription. (Because it really doesn’t do much)
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 5 weeks ago:
It kills me the the Jedi games, TLoU2, GoW games, they’re fun but they’re what, max 30 hours to beat? And they’re trying to up the price to 80?
Red dead 2 deserves 80. Cyberpunk in its current state could deserve 80. Both are around 100-120 hour games and I’ve replayed them multiple times. 30 hour games by proportion deserve a quarter of the price.