baronvonj
@baronvonj@lemmy.world
I play guitar and video games, enjoy watching USMLR and NHL, and practice sarcasm.
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- Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 2 weeks ago:
A lot of people dont use an app at all, much less third party apps, so the whole thing was lost on them to begin with, if they were even aware of it.
- Comment on Why Mark Zuckerberg wants to redefine open source so badly 3 weeks ago:
That’s alotl seconds!
- Comment on Thoughts on bringing sportbots.xyz to Lemmy? 3 weeks ago:
As the mod of a couple of sports communities it would be nice to have some more automated content being posted (like game-day match threads, player trades, etc). However, I have yet to receive a response from sportsbots to any of my requests for adding league and team accounts to be mirrored. I don’t think I’d want every one of their microblog post to show up in the communities, though.
- Comment on Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny Remastered - Trailer 3 weeks ago:
The first two were crackin. The 3rd one with Jean Reno and time travel was a bit odd. I don’t think I finished what came next and the series dropped off my radar until the recent Netflix series. I’m excited about the new ‘Way of The Sword’ game. Might go back and check out the 2019 Warlords remaster.
- Comment on Is there any truth to this? 3 months ago:
I have seen an uptick in posts saying “block this maga/Nazi/etc” but I haven’t personally directly seen any. I use the Following feed so I only see posts from the people I’ve specifically asked to.
- Comment on In the era of remakes and remasters, what niche game would you like to see receive the treatment? 3 months ago:
The rest of the Legacy of Kain games
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 4 months ago:
I see that Apple does now, but no indicator of Spotify that I can see. Are you talking about how you can run the desktop app to stream the files on your computer? Because that’s not a digital locker.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 4 months ago:
Yeah it was a hundred times better in GPM.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 4 months ago:
that was on desktop web browser, music.youtube.com
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 4 months ago:
Also, I’m pretty sure you can’t do this anymore.
Menu option is still there for me
It opens a file chooser, so I’m guessing it’s just one file at a time now, which is lame.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 4 months ago:
It’s nice when it works, but Plex has so thoroughly enshitified themselves now it needs internet access to stream on the home network! (Yes, I have read the KB/wiki pages and done the setup but it loses user management when connecting that way by IP).
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 4 months ago:
From the 5 services shown in the graphs, that would be YouTube Music which lets you upload your library (yes, even FLAC).
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 4 months ago:
There’s definitely differences in the catalogs. If there’s a particular genre that isn’t well represented on YouTube Music that is well covered on Spotify. Maybe they just got YT Premium as a family subscription because the kids are on YouTube all the time. I personally can’t imagine switching to a service that doesn’t have a digital locker for me to upload my existing library like YouTube Music does (though I’m still mad at the uploads being less integrated than they were in GPM).
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 4 months ago:
why should I be paying for a music streaming app when I already have YouTube premium?
You mean because that subscription includes premium YouTube Music?
- Comment on ISPs tell Supreme Court they don’t want to disconnect users accused of piracy 5 months ago:
No, of course not. Piracy would sour the cream.
- Comment on ISPs tell Supreme Court they don’t want to disconnect users accused of piracy 5 months ago:
It’s an Idaho-exclusive new dish at Taco Bell.
- Comment on The future of Minecraft’s development 5 months ago:
I saw that there is a PS4 native version in Beta now. Hoping they get around to making a PSVR2 after that has hit GA.
- Comment on Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them 8 months ago:
the stupid thing is I still have my children and I adding our MS accounts after creating the local accounts, because I like setting the parental limits once for all the computers. I just can’t stand the stupid email-based usernames it creates when signing into the MS account during account creation.
- Comment on The Mac vs. PC war is back on? 9 months ago:
F’ing Lightroom, man.
- Comment on FCC explicitly prohibits fast lanes, closing possible net neutrality loophole 9 months ago:
Network neutrality became policy after Comcast, Verizon, and ATT were all caught throttling Netflix while their own competing services were lagging behind in market share. It was a response to a real problem that was harming competitors and consumers.
- Comment on VPN by Google One is shutting down for good 10 months ago:
Right. Not about to use public WiFi naked!
- Comment on VPN by Google One is shutting down for good 10 months ago:
I have, yeah. While I was traveling internationally and the roaming mobile data rates were insane. So I used the VPN while connecting to hotel/public wifi.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 10 months ago:
The shittiest of enshitifications.
- Comment on Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling 10 months ago:
Wow. Talk about professional gaslighting. Not enough people are aware that the Obama-era FTC enacted the policy because AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon were all caught throttling Netflix and prioritizing their own competing services.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow gets scammed 11 months ago:
I’ve never had a legitimate contact from a fraud department that wasn’t an automated message stating to call the number on the card. I’ve never had a human call me to initiate a live discussion.
- Comment on 1 year ago:
You have to qualify what instance I’m your @ mention. Clients are just truncating it since we’re already here on this instance.
- Comment on 1 year ago:
You just did. By @ mentioning a community you created a post. I’m replying to your post from Lemmy. You can follow the community on mastodon just by using the same @ address as you did in your post. You can follow Lemmy users, but they can’t follow you.
- Comment on Microsoft Overtakes Apple as World's Most Valuable Company 1 year ago:
Stockholders
- Comment on What DID Apple innovate? 1 year ago:
I don’t think I’m going to be that guy, but also not one of the fanboys/haters.
Apple were pretty significant in the development of both FireWire and USB. They were also pretty crucial in driving the adoption of USB with the iMac. Most PC motherboards at the time had a set of jumpers for USB, but you had to buy the actual ports, which took up an expansion slot on the back, and connect them to the motherboard. It was a huge pain in but as the jumpers were censor-specific so had to look at all the specs and buy the right connector. Some aftermarket cases had USB ports on the front/back, but again you had to buy the right connector for your mobo. So everyone kept using serial/PS2/parallel. So peripheral makers weren’t making any devices either. When Apple released the iMac, they got rid of all of those other ports and only had USB. All of a sudden you started seeing USB keyboards, mice, CD/DVD drives, etc…
- Comment on Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight 1 year ago:
I believe that is the crux of it. And apparently part of the trial exposed that some big players have special deals such that don’t have to pay those in-app purchase commissions, or at least have a smaller commission. And that’s what makes it an abuse of their market position.
