Rentlar
@Rentlar@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Disney blocks ESPN, ABC, and other channels for millions of DirecTV subscribers 2 weeks ago:
To add to my own comment, at least they own the rights to this now…
- Comment on Disney blocks ESPN, ABC, and other channels for millions of DirecTV subscribers 2 weeks ago:
Disney is also accused of including a last-minute demand to waive all claims that its behavior is anti-competitive, according to DirecTV.
If they express interest in those terms then the Disney rep will add “and hold Disney harmless if we happen to kill any DirecTV staff or subscribers or their respective family members. All claims shall be referred to aribtration court in Disneyland Orlando, FL”, to the agreement.
- Comment on Tribes 3: Rivals already in trouble as developers shift focus elsewhere 2 months ago:
Oof. I’d gotten this game, hoping to avoid a repeat of Ascend but maybe those hopes are going to be dashed.
- Comment on Verizon screwup caused 911 outage in 6 states—carrier agrees to $1M fine 2 months ago:
That’s comparable to about a $12.75 fine for someone with a $60k net income.
- Comment on Meta is tagging real photos as 'Made with AI,' say photographers 2 months ago:
- Comment on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Will Launch Day One On Game Pass 3 months ago:
Already calling it… a zombies mode for CoD Black Ops 6 will not be able to top Lasagna Party 2 in terms of gameplay.
- Comment on Hugging Face is sharing $10 million worth of compute to help beat the big AI companies 3 months ago:
🤗 (Hugging face) also hosts a large repository including demos of AI models so they have been a helpful resource for open source computing.
- Comment on Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook 4 months ago:
Professor Zuckerman vs. Zuckerbot. Who will win?
- Comment on League of Legends’ anti-cheat won't brick your PC, Riot insist, after adding Valorant’s controversial system to the MOBA 4 months ago:
I know what can fix their launcher problems! A new launcher to launch the Riot Launcher to launch the League of Legends Launcher to launch League of Legends.
- Comment on CenturyLink left users with no service for two months, then billed them $239 4 months ago:
Yeah telecoms are garbage, common story.
Neat thing is I wonder if Century Link supports Pulse Dialing for rotary phones still? Where the connection was intermittently connected and disconnected, it might have randomly been calling 411 and 911 because of that.
- Comment on A bot in Tekken 8 is demolishing players by only pressing one button over and over 4 months ago:
Eddy is the first of four DLC characters for Season 1 of Tekken 8. And… what’s this? The next character was just announced this morning. I don’t want to have to make a whole separate news post for that. So look:
Lidia is Tekken 8’s next DLC fighter. She’s coming this summer, say the developers on Twitter.
Honest lazy journalism, hahaha.
- Comment on NHTSA opens investigation into Ford’s BlueCruise after software linked to fatal crash 4 months ago:
BlueCruise ran into an error and has been disabled. Falling back to BoozeCruise mode.
- Comment on The spam came from inside the house: How a smart TV can choke a Windows PC 4 months ago:
Culprit 1: Stupid TV that has no business connecting to the internet, but if it must, definitely not like that.
Culprit 2: Windows’ behaving stupidly where so many things break because of how it handles other devices on the network.
- Comment on StarCraft 2’s former lead multiplayer designer teases a new RTS he feels is a “paradigm shift” for the genre 4 months ago:
"Players will enjoy more moment-to-moment strategic decision-making in each game, instead of waiting for that next fun action moment.”
You’re saying that constantly watching over Zerg hatcheries commanding Queens to keep puking into them isn’t thought of as a fun action moment?
- Comment on Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers 5 months ago:
Fedetwitter.com = mastodon?
- Comment on More security issues in X.Org and Xwayland revealed and new releases live 5 months ago:
I betcha developers that have any amount of time to audit crucial parts of the security of their software are going through it now, in light of the xz backdoor story.
- Comment on Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment 5 months ago:
I can’t buy into Smart Devices unless paying for the smartness lets me actually use it how I see fit.
So often there is little benefit except companies extract data from you, or to enforce some licensing or rent-seeking scheme. You’re just paying to get screwed over.
- Comment on Oregon governor signs nation’s first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing 5 months ago:
Every step forward should be celebrated! Good job Oregon!
- Comment on Bethesda Gives A Small Update On The Elder Scrolls 6 5 months ago:
I thought they’d already released Starfield.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 APC video surfaces, showing Joel personally delivering the unreleased vehicle 5 months ago:
SPOILERS, ZippyBot!
- Comment on General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers 5 months ago:
Don’t worry, they will later find new stalkers that will buy the data.
- Comment on The Sims movie in the works from Barbie’s Margot Robbie and director of Loki and The Last of Us Season 2 5 months ago:
@MargotRobbie@lemmy.world, I found your next sponsor!
- Comment on US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones 5 months ago:
The software is just one aspect of Apple’s anti-competitive tactics. The hardware side too where repair information is only available under non-disclosure terms, Apple parts makers are not allowed to have their parts available for anyone else, even for the purpose of repairing Apple products.
The US needs to not settle for anything less than the money needed to build a national “Fuck Apple” high-speed railway.
- Comment on Microsoft shows another Bing popup advertisement to Windows users - gHacks Tech News 5 months ago:
On the apps side, don’t forget MS Teams, Sharepoint, Powerpoint, Access (MS’s SQL databases with training wheels), Github (and Copilot), PowerBI, Silverlight, Outlook, on and on.
- Comment on What games do you replay regularly/annually ? 5 months ago:
Civ 5 until Civ 6 released, then Civ 6.
Idk I just get Civ fever with my friends in Player vs computer matches every few months. I almost always do the same (what I’ll call the DaVinci) strat of being relatively peaceful until rushing the Advanced Flight tech before anything else and levelling all the unprepared cities in the middle ages.
The other one is Minecraft. The funnest part to me is that exhilaration of surviving the first few days in the wild on a multiplayer server with friends, setting up that initial base and then spending more days building up to your elaborate design. I tend to alternate between the latest vanilla Java server then a modded one.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 devs apologise for trolly responses to player complaints about gun balancing 6 months ago:
It’s inevitable people are upset when the previously top tier weapons get nerfed. I really felt the difficulty spike playing yesterday (and got good laughs from failing a challenge level 7 mission followed by the game crashing). I think the overall difficulty was easier than where the devs intended it to be. I think it will smooth itself out as time goes on, ideally there will be multiple weapons/builds with high levels of effectiveness rather than a single “meta” loadout.
- Comment on Office life in 2023 9 months ago:
Give OP some slack, they might be making the meme on their phone and posting while at work. Gotta post it before the manager sees them.
- Comment on (Continous welded rail-CWR-restrained thermal expansion, Clickity-Clack when going over joints-Rock and Roll) Why Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints [15:52 | Dec 05 2023 | Practical Engineering] 9 months ago:
Love Grady and Practical Engineering’s stuff, and love railroads so this series is like a match made in heaven for me.
- Comment on Why would I want to use the multi-desktop functionality in Windows 11? 9 months ago:
Just putting out there use the Ctrl-Win-Left/Right shortcuts rather than the mouse, and you’ll find much more convenience out of it. (Ctrl Alt left/right for many Linux desktops)
I use it all the time on Linux since forever, and with W11 at work…
It’s to separate different uses, say have a gaming space, productivity space, background messaging/email/communication. You can shove anything that you’d want running but not in front of you away, while still being able to quickly access it.
At work I do multiple projects, so I can have Project A related folders and programs open on one workspace, with Project B stuff on another, letting me switch between. If someone calls me about project B while I was working on A, I can quickly switch over, rather than closing my current stuff, or just leaving it all open and fumbling with alt tab.
- Comment on Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time? 9 months ago:
I’m nowhere close to the insurance industry but I had sort of noticed from various stories.
The idea I had of what insurance is supposed to do seems to be based on how it works in Canada. If you want to take a big risk on losing your car, home, license or whatever then paying insurance even a high amount make sense.
Comparitively in the US, particularly in healthcare you seem screwed whether you get insurance or not. Americans get the freedom to pay hundreds of dollars a month, just to have to pay a minimum of more thousands if something does happen. In Canada, we don’t have universal dental yet and a full checkup, xray, cleaning and fluoride without insurance is about 600 CAD or ~440USD. I don’t know how much dental costs down South…
