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- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 3 days ago:
Wait, so in all these years that Europeans have been making fun of dumb Americans for having a two party system, and for having no real left wing options, the UK has been basically the same?
Yes, that’s why Europeans make fun of both the UK and its former colony.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 week ago:
de-Googled android sounds even better.
They are already degoogled for the Chinese market. What the Chinese Android variants to not have is a shared replacement for Play Services and a shared app store because everyone is doing their own thing for maps API, payment, …
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 week ago:
To what?
Read the article and find out.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 1 week ago:
Harmony Os will probably end up taking over realistically just due to everything going on in the world.
For Huawei but their competitors have no interest in that. Just look at the degoogled Android phones for the domestic Chinese market: Everyone ships their own app store and replacement APIs for PlayServices (not compatible to Google’s). So app developers need to target each vendor’s flavor of Android individually. It’s insane.
The logical way would be to create a joint venture for a common app store and PlayStore replacements but they don’t. Maybe this story is about exactly that but it should tell you that Xiaomi and the others have no interest in being controlled by a 3rd party.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 2 weeks ago:
From the context it’s 100% clear that I meant the medieval practice, before modern science.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 2 weeks ago:
The whole “hygiene” and circumcision is a myth and a lie.
It’s not like there microbiology science existed thousands of years ago. It may have been a hygiene practice because people thought it was helpful. Bloodletting is BS as well and people thought it helped drain the body’s poisons.
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 2 weeks ago:
I imagine the whole circumcision thing makes sense when you’re wandering the desert for years and there’s not a whole lot of water around, but other than that, yeah.
So blowjobs 3 times a day?
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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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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’ 4 weeks ago:
So torrenting movies would be legal then. Great.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 25 comments
- Comment on Mozilla makes developing browser extensions easier. 5 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! 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
I still wonder why they chose Swift
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 1 month 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 1 month 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” 1 month ago:
Musk is helping Meta through “at least Zuckerberg isn’t Musk” aura.