woelkchen
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- Comment on 6 hours ago:
What if not enough people pay for the AI features? Will Affinity enshittify?
There’s always the option to go back to being a regular paid product.
Also, are these features going to be littered across the UI as greyed out buttons that show a popover prompting you to get a Canvas subscription when you hover them?
Not sure why you use future tense because the new version is out now and you can just take a look at it yourself.
It’s now an all in one UI and no longer different applications for vector graphics, photo editing, and layout. You can switch between different UIs on the fly and Canva AI is just one of those and one you can even disable:
- Comment on Banners coming to Mbin 1.8.5 17 hours ago:
Missing feature is no longer missing
- Comment on 17 hours ago:
Oh god, how are they financing its development?
Canva’s AI features are a subscription service. Existing Affinty features are now free.
- Comment on 17 hours ago:
Some switches were set to on for me under www.canva.com/account/privacy-preferences
- Comment on 18 hours ago:
If you’re on a Canva premium plan, you’ll also be able to unlock Canva’s powerful AI tools within Affinity.
So freemium, not free. Which is also fine, just saying.
- Comment on Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins 3 days ago:
PlayStations revenue is about 50% more than Xbox’s.
Minecraft, Bethesda, and Activision Blizard are not part of Xbox. They are separate publishing arms within Microsoft. How is that so hard to understand? How can one not grasp such a simple thing?
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 3 days ago:
It’s not actually using user data AFAIK, so there are no privacy implications in this specific instance IMO.
Funny how Apple and their users keep repeating this but when one sets up an Apple device for the first time, the wizard asks for many “Can Apple use your data?” questions. There would be no need if Apple did nothing.
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 3 days ago:
Something organic will replace it.
Unless there is beef among developers and they fork their own CoMaps with blackjack and hookers
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 days ago:
I think you can run DOOM on it
Running Doom on a Linux device with Wayland is not really that much effort once you have a way to execute 3rd party binaries.
- Comment on Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins 3 days ago:
Sony easily beat them lol.
PlayStation consoles beat Xbox consoles but that’s not the whole gaming market. Microsoft and their subsidiaries publish games for PlayStation, Nintendo, iPhones, Windows,… This is really not hard to understand.
Did you even look up the numbers?
Yep, revenue numbers from when ABK was still independent, user numbers of the various Minecraft editions, etc. All public information easily to find for any person with basic media competency.
- Submitted 4 days ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 4 days ago:
A big problem is that we’ve gotten so used to streaming services delivering visual slop, like YouTube’s 1080p option which is basically just upscaled 720p and can even look as bad as 480p.
YouTube is locking the good bitrates behind the premium paywall and even as a premium users you don’t get to select a high bitrate when the source video was low res.
That’s why videos should be upscaled before upload to force YouTube into offering high bitrate options at all. A good upscaler produces better results than simply stretching low-res videos.
- Comment on Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins 6 days ago:
You’re confusing the word “dominant”. They’ve never been even remotely close to being dominant in gaming.
Look up the revenue numbers. Nobody else comes close. Minecraft alone with its different editions is massive.
- Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests 1 week ago:
Unless you literally turn this feature on, then open the Xbox game bar and go to the widget and select to use it - it’s not just some “always on” thing, you have to open it to use it - then it doesn’t do anything.
“You can disable the Gaming Copilot widget from the game bar, however from experimentation so far the network traffic is still running with the user interface not open — I don’t know if this is a feature or a bug.”
- Comment on Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins 1 week ago:
If only Microsoft ever had that position. They’ve been distant third since the Switch 1 came out, distant second from day 1 of the PS4.
Wrong. You confuse the Xbox console with Microsoft’s overall position as game publisher which includes all of Activision-Blizzard-King, Bethesda, Minecraft, Halo, Forza,… across multiple platforms.
- Comment on Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests 1 week ago:
the vast majority of people will be OK with this
I don’t think the vast majority of Windows users are even aware of the Xbox Game Bar to begin with, let alone all the features there.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The rounded corners are cosmetic. Using the 3-dots menu you cannot put a video into more than playlist at once any longer. The checkboxes are gone and clicking the new bookmark icon next to a playlist closes the window.
I use it all the time to categorize music.
- Comment on Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins 1 week ago:
Imagine Microsoft’s top management was competent and leveraged their PC operating system monopoly with their dominant gaming position (ABK + Minecraft alone are massive, not even counting Bethesda and the older 1st studios).
- Comment on I Spent The Day With GAMERCARD, Sinclair's Latest Games Console 3 weeks ago:
In case anyone only wants to watch the video version: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tPCrbHunXs
- Comment on Shrimp fried rice 3 weeks ago:
Colorized by AI
- Comment on He's gonna be one of these medal wearing dictators 4 weeks ago:
A cropped screen grab of that video would have saved me a lot of time. 😅
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to [deleted] | 7 comments
- Comment on Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme crushes Apple M4, Intel, and AMD in new benchmarks 4 weeks ago:
Also while Linux is not the same as UNIX, interacting with them is much more similar than, say, interacting with Windows.
If you use only GUI, the underlying system philosophy is practically irrelevant.
If you use CLI, you can literally use the same distribution within WSL as you use on a Linux computer. I like using openSUSE’s zypper in WSL more than I like brew on macOS.
- Bundle of 10 remakes of Atari classics (Asteroids, Missile Command, Breakout,...) 72% off on Steamstore.steampowered.com ↗Submitted 5 weeks ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 1 comment
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- Comment on Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support 1 month ago:
I think this is a bit more involved than extended file format support.
- Comment on Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support 1 month ago:
Also not entirely sure what I would use it for since I’ve mostly seen it with rips of Blu-ray movies and shows, never smaller files. I thought its main advantage was holding multiple video, audio, and data streams.
WebM shows that Matroska is excellent for streaming. It’s the same container, WebM just mandates a set of codecs (just as MP4 as an offshoot of MOV can theoretically hold non-MPEG codecs but nobody supports this in the real world). With formal Matroska support, something like combining a HEVC video track with an Opus audio would be possible.
- Comment on Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support 1 month ago:
WebM is just Mastroska with most features disabled that are not relevant to streaming and a mandated set of codecs, so basic Mastroska support would have been possible years ago, simply by accepting the Matroska MIME types.
- Comment on Train your brain 1 month ago:
If you train a local LLM and let that LLM write your thesis for you, it’s fine.
- Submitted 2 months ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 2 comments
