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- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
Not off the top of my head but I distinctly remember that the Pixel A phone scored higher than the flagship Pixel model.
I would need to look the video up but I’m also between appointments, so I can comment for a bit but not do research.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
Not off the top of my head, sorry.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
The biggest downside of Fairphone IMO is that they don’t maintain their hardware support in LineageOS and for the retail product then branch development off, add a bit of custom branding and adapt whatever Google requires these days. It would greatly improve custom ROM support in general.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
Sometimes last year Marquez Brownlee (I think it was him, I don’t think it was Dave2D) was conducting a blind test among his audience which Photos they thought looked best. Some top brands were jumping up and down from one test scenario to another but the Fairphone ended up in the midfield constantly. True, that’s not a glowing recommendation of the camera but at least an insurance that one doesn’t get utter trash either.
- Comment on There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now 1 week ago:
Instead of connecting the lines in the background it seemed to just take an average of the pixel colors of the edge of what I erased and fill it in with that average color. Such intelligence!
Paint has two AI models depending on your hardware, whether you have a “Copilot Plus” PC or not.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ 1 week ago:
So torrenting movies would be legal then. Great.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 1 week ago:
New update coming for that soon!
I’m fully aware of the feature that has been promised for years and is supposed to land in 5.3. I’m still using Krita, just not solely.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 1 week ago:
Krita is my graphics app of choice these days.
So much of Krita is great and then there is the text tool which is still a heap of trash.
- Comment on Proton 2 weeks ago:
neutrons and electrons reportedly very upset as well.
I’d be upset as well: www.electronjs.org
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 GameCube controller is only compatible with GameCube games, Nintendo says 2 weeks ago:
“We’ve updated this article to note that Nintendo has made similar disclaimers with its previous retro controllers, which have ended up working with other Switch games.”
They’re just not officially supporting it. I hope Reto will informally make Metroid Prime 4 work with this the same way as MP1. I don’t like twin stick controls and mouse controls are not feasible on the go.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 GameCube controller is only compatible with GameCube games, Nintendo says 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t you hear? Just buy a switch 1 if you can’t afford or care for the switch 2.
You can also buy this controller and use it with PCs for an authentic emulation experience.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 GameCube controller is only compatible with GameCube games, Nintendo says 2 weeks ago:
Oh, so it’s just ragebait and they’re reporting on nothing? I fell for it.
Just read the article for a change and you’d see that it was a later update to the article.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 GameCube controller is only compatible with GameCube games, Nintendo says 2 weeks ago:
“We’ve updated this article to note that Nintendo has made similar disclaimers with its previous retro controllers, which have ended up working with other Switch games.”
- Nintendo Switch 2 GameCube controller is only compatible with GameCube games, Nintendo sayswww.videogameschronicle.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 25 comments
- Comment on Mozilla makes developing browser extensions easier. 2 weeks ago:
Step 1: Don’t remove / completely change extension APIs every couple of years
- Comment on while we were watching for threat from China, here comes Philippines with a steel chair! 3 weeks ago:
They’re not waiting, they’re preparing. They’re currently happily building navy and air force bases on “contested” islands in the South China Sea and nobody, not Biden, not Trump, is stopping them.
What they’re doing is commonly called encirclement.
- Comment on 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media 3 weeks ago:
Seems this is legal now. Keep this in mind, when the next video game decompilation project comes along because that’s also machine-generated material based on copyrighted released media. That must be equally as legal now.
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 4 weeks ago:
According to their privacy policy there is no telemetry: 1.1. No Telemetry. We do not collect any telemetry data.
According to github.com/zen-browser/desktop/issues/5947#issuec… one of the issues is that Mozilla’s telemetry remains enabled which (if happening in secret) is bad and also dumb because Mozilla can’t even use telemetry of a very different browser.
- Comment on Servo vs Ladybird. 4 weeks ago:
I still wonder why they chose Swift
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 4 weeks ago:
They just closed the issue without even acknowledging it, lol
They acknowledged the remote debugging backdoor issue and fixed it a year ago.
It was enabled due that zen was still a toy project and we needed people to easily open the debugger for easier bug fixing. This was due because zen was not in a daily drivable state and didn’t gain any sort of popularity yet.
github.com/zen-browser/desktop/pull/927
The telemetry issue is entirely different. Their handling of that is naive at best, dishonest at worst but it is completely different from the “backdoor”.
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 4 weeks ago:
The “backdoor” mentioned in a single reply is very different from the telemetry issue. github.com/zen-browser/desktop/pull/927 was fixed a year ago.
I agree the telemetry should be either disabled or at the very least users should just get a config tab on first launch to opt out but the Lemmy submission is misleading and bordering on fake news.
- Comment on Meta: “We're Still Investing Massively In VR Gaming And Don't Plan To Stop” 4 weeks ago:
Musk is helping Meta through “at least Zuckerberg isn’t Musk” aura.
- Comment on Alphabet spins off Starlink competitor Taara 5 weeks ago:
The tech sounds useful to bridge cell towers in rural areas among each other to skip satellites and laying cables.
Back when I was still in university, dormatories’ internet was established using a similar tech to the main campus. It was great, except on snowy days. Then there was just no internet at all.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 1 month ago:
How about all the other that have no checkboxes and you can find by snooping around in either the code or about:config ?
Which are? Genuine question. I’m not aware of those either.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 1 month ago:
There’s more settings you should set regarding privacy
Please be more specific.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 1 month ago:
The issue is that Mozilla is actively hiding these settings.
They are under “Privacy”, just as I expected where they would.
There’s one (I forgot which one) that you can’t find by searching for the title in the FF settings, you have to scroll to it yourself.
🤷
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 1 month ago:
Friendship ended with Firefox,❎ Librewolf is my new best friend. ✅
A big problem with such forks (same with packages made by Linux distributors) is that there is a delay between official FF release and the release of the corresponding update of the fork. 99% of the time this doesn’t matter much but when there is a severe security issue, the patch needs to be available ASAP.
Past enshittifications of Firefox could be disabled by users. Users who know what to disable don’t need such forks then.
I’m not yet clear what Mozilla even intends. Is it just an adjustment of language of things that are already in FF and can be disabled easily? If so, I just keep the following shit disabled and benefit from earlier update releases.
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 1 month ago:
Installed DuckDuckGo browser as soon as I saw the news the other day.
Oh cool, yet another Chromium variant. That’s going to be an actual change for the better.
- Comment on The good old past. Everything else is WOKE! 1 month ago:
Like any red blooded true Republican would!
- Comment on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2-based extensions in Edge 1 month ago:
The browser you use to download Firefox
Huh? Just type
winget install Mozilla.Firefoxinto PowerShell / cmd.
