Cethin

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Law enforcement is done on a case by case basis. The laws already exist. Congress doesn’t matter for this right now. The courts (and DOJ) have to go through each case individually and see how the law applies. It can’t all be done at once, as a matter of fact.

  Since we can’t do it all at once, the comment above’s opinion seems to be we should do nothing because the oil industry needs enforcement first. Someone else will point to another thing.

  It’s good it’s happening at all. The past few years I’ve seen more anti-monopoly rulings than the rest of my life combined. It’s been great. It’s all about to end though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a lot of reasons to own it, one potential profit source being selling what the default search engine is. Just because Google doesn’t own it doesn’t mean they won’t pay to be the default search. They pay a lot for this on Firefox. (Yes, this is being looked into to and may stop, but they can still sell being an option for the default search engine, or other things.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do we always have comments defending these mega-corps. There’s always the “what about…” people saying that something else needing regulating means this mega-corp shouldn’t be regulated. How about any of it being regulated is good. We can hopefully get around to the other things eventually, but we can’t do it all at the same time. (That, and Trump’s adm. probably is going to put a stop to any of it, so just be happy that we’ve seen anything happen.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mid-terms are in 2 years!

  NHTSA is part of the executive, so he would still have control over it, but we can at least hopefully place restrictions on his power (or impeach) in 2, assuming the election still happens and the results are accepted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something I wanted to do when I had my Vive working, and I’m unsure if this is actually possible, is integrate the android watch OS into it. It’d be so nice to always have quick access to your device that is integrated into the VR space. I’m not sure why someone hasn’t done this yet (assuming they haven’t).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I had a Vive. The lighthouses have failed now so it’s not currently usable, and I didn’t use it frequently and am now on Linux and haven’t looked into if VR will work for me now, so I haven’t gotten a replacement. I’ve thought about it though. It sucks that even I, who has used VR and enjoyed it, doesn’t currently feel the need to have a working headset.

  Im going to look into a used headset and support on my device though. I might get back into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My comment they were replying to didn’t touch this, so they weren’t responding to that. However, I disagree we need some “killer app” to make adoption more likely. It’d be great, but I don’t see it happening. There’s nothing really that is done in VR that can’t also be on traditional displays. The advantage is immersion. It just has to be at a price that people find worth it.

  People, especially companies, don’t like talking about this because it’s “obscene” or something, but, like so many things, I think porn is the way to sell VR. It gives an experience that, while still available in traditional formats, is quite different. It’s not a “killer app” but does provide distinct advantages not seen anywhere else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  3D printing is such a boon for this. You can make things for yourself put it online for free, and other people can also make it. There’s no need for a profit incentive. I hope in the future everyone owns a 3D printer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s really sad. VR is great for some experiences. There’s just two issues with it. The largest is the price. It’s pretty expensive for something that doesn’t have much content. The second smaller issue is that it’s too hard to swap into and out of. I can just sit down at my computer and instantly get into something, but switching to VR takes effort.

  The price can probably be solved over time, assuming we keep making VR hardware. The convenience is harder. I don’t think there’s a solution to that, at least not in the near future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo shuts down Ryujinx⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure there’s plenty of other things they’d appreciate too. Maybe instead they could help them move over to PC even.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring is "the limit" for From Software project scale, says Miyazaki - multiple, "smaller" games may be the "next stage"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m taking a trip, so I held off on it until I get back. I’m looking forward to it though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring is "the limit" for From Software project scale, says Miyazaki - multiple, "smaller" games may be the "next stage"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, and the fact that you just run past most of it on Torrent really makes it feel pointless. The corridor design made it so you at least had to try to run past all the enemies. The limited scale also made every location feel more meaningful. That isn’t to say there isn’t amazing design in Elden Ring, but there’s also a huge number of essentially useless locations.

  Elden Ring was great, but I like the other games better. I really hope they do another fully connected world like Dark Souls 1 again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That never existed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would bet on the same hand grip bits and a similar set of back buttons. The touch pads will be revamped and it’ll probably force the shape to change a lot.

  I think the controllers sold relatively well though. Just not Steam Deck well. I know a good number of people who own at least one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea. I assumed they did, but I’m not actually sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like you said, these are Steam Deck prototypes, not the controller. They made a cheap controller with the same potential profile of the Deck without the screen because it’s cheaper. It was to iterate on the Deck quickly and cheaply. They’d never release a controller like that. They do the same thing for all their products.

  They already tried a ton of designs for the Steam Controller to figure out the ergonomics of that. They’ll likely iterate some more with Version 2, but it’s likely to follow the controller design, not the deck design. It has very different considerations since it doesn’t need to contain a screen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All of your comment is true, although it’s ignoring the fairly sizable pre-built market. You don’t have to do it yourself, although I would say people should so they can diagnose issues themselves.

  Pre-built sellers just need to offer SteamOS, or other Linux distributions, as an option at checkout instead of Windows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So a Linux computer that looks like a console? I can see how it’d sell, but it’s already available to anyone who isn’t oblivious. You can even install the SteamOS if you want that particular flavor of Arch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I don’t know why they’d use that image. It’s so lazy and uncreative. That’s not what it’ll look like. They literally just cut the edges of the Deck and shoved them together. I’ve seen better concepts of how it’ll look.

  As an owner of a Steam Controller, it’s actually pretty nice. It’s probably the most ergonomic controller out there, though for functionality it hits a different niche than the typical controllers you find everywhere. Its better for some games, particularly ones designed for mouse, but worse for others. I’d bet on the Steam Controller 2 being very ergonomic and adding sticks, as well as the track pads, to be quite possibly the best controller available for every game (excluding keyboard and mouse obviously).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be totally surprised if it was taking a screenshot and analyzing it locally or maybe somewhere on the network, but I agree it’s really unlikely they’re storing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no way in hell that data isn’t encrypted. That’d be very poor handling of data, and probably illegal in most places, at least the EU. Just because data is on a server doesn’t mean you access it with access to the server. Sure, the videos and stuff are probably raw, but any PII is almost certainly encrypted, or it should be if it isn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not complaining about them having their ecosystem. I’m pointing out that they do, and they enforce it. Any complaint about the US doing the same should be met with equal criticism of China doing the same thing except even harsher. I don’t really care that they have that, but I also don’t care that the US is forcing this. You people who came here are the ones saying it’s wrong, but it’s wrong because it’s the US and China is fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems self-explanatory to me. The US will do whatever it can to instigate color revolution – having a record of doing so in the past, see Facebook being used for revolts in the Middle East – so having companies that ultimately need to answer to the Chinese government rather than the US one is better for national security. It’s also better for China’s own economic development to have domestic companies need to figure out how to make decent platforms.

  Exactly. What they use it for doesn’t really matter, though implying China doesn’t use soft power to control nations is really dumb. They may not invade, but they constantly use and advance soft power to influence other nations. I’m not saying there’s anything particularly wrong with that as that’s what nations do. They do do it though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop being a “debate bro” here and acting like you aren’t. You came here. You are not the one being flooded. Look at how many people are replying to me with the same crap every time.

  I didn’t sidestep US history at all. The US has racism literally written into its constitution. It was useful to those in power, but many have writting saying they thought it was wrong and evil and black people were fully people. They still used it. That’s worse than just racism. It’s pure evil.

  However, I’m not blinded by hatred over a certain group. China has an entire seperate internet ecosystem. Is it because of racism? China has a long history of racism too. Obviously it is not, and its about power and control. The same logic is true for the US. They’d do the same thing if it were Russian owned and Russia is primarily white like the US. Assuming it’s racism makes you ignore the actual issues.

  Now find a new thread to be a debate bro in. Leave me alone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but they’d do it with Russia too, and they’re “the same race”. It has nothing to do with race. Race is just a convenient way to criticize the US here without examining the actual issue. China has their own ecosystem for fucks sake. If any nation is being racist it’s them, but it’s not because of race that they have that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t “prove” anything. However, a whole bunch of people coming into here to tell me how I’m wrong and it has to be racism from a certain two instances is a little hypocritical. They weren’t in this thread much until this, and they all flood in to tell me that I’m wrong, without any reason except “it just is racist.”

  …when ultimately the end result is the same: pure racist outcomes.

  No, the end result is not the same. People recognizing that all of these institutions are doing the same thing allows us to solve issues. However, some of the people here think that the institutions they like, for whatever reason, aren’t doing this. They come here to defend China or attack the US, but China has a firewall and generally has their own exclusive ecosystem. What’s different with the US forcing one app to be western owned? Is China doing it because of racism? No. That’s pretty naive. Thinking this can only lead to outrage at some people and can’t solve the actual issues because the wrong issues are being addressed.

  Even if somehow you could prove with full receipts that racism, as you claim, is used as a inauthentic tool for oppression, the energy you are taking up to hound this point is painfully disproportionate and misplaced, if even technically correct at all.

  Dude, I was here on my home instance and dozens of people show up to tell me I’m wrong from two other instances. I’m putting in too much energy? Why is it never you guys putting in too much energy, or you guys being the “debate bros”. You came at me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not random for sure. They are a seperate power structure. The US does share some data with China, and also western countries don’t share a lot of data with each other as well. All nations are constantly spying on each other. It isn’t infrequent you hear about some NATO country spy being caught spying on some NATO nation. Governments are about control, and they’ll try to increase that control with any method possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, you have to store data with some locality so round trip times aren’t horrible. It doesn’t mean anyone has access to it or control over it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You came here dude. I didn’t go to you to “debate”.

  I pray I get to see it crumble too. However, I’m not dillusional enough to think it’s just one thing that needs to crumble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And you’re better, right? No. You aren’t. I’m on hexbear fairly frequently. I don’t have any issue with hexbear or lemmygrad. I’m just not ignoring the fact all these nations do this. China has an almost exclusive ecosystem, yet somehow when the US does it it’s racism? No. It isn’t about race. It’s about control. This apiea to China, Russia, and the US, and any other power in the future or past. Anyone who has the capability to gain control also has disposition to exploit their control. You don’t gain control without that.