greybeard

@greybeard@lemmy.one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The web versions only cost less for very minimally licensed users. There are certainly cases where it is cheaper, but unless the user is using an iPad or Chromebook, the license companies want to have for all users includes office desktop. The push to cloud probably was about control and removing more dangerious features like macros.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. Discord actually had a metaphor that I think plays well for federation. Specifically, they called each group a server. And organized the UI in a way that would make federation pretty transparent.

  The only consufsing bit would be the concept of a home server login ID. Like, the lack of a central identity provider. But I think that isn’t a show stopper.

  I kinda wish there were fed ID providers that all fed servers used for login and authentication. I’m not sure exactly how that would work, but being able to have a single identity across mastodon, Lemmy, and any other fed service would really simplify things once you were in the fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨According to Dexerto Ayaneo next handheld is going to use SteamOS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I always felt that was down to screen size more than resolution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨According to Dexerto Ayaneo next handheld is going to use SteamOS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Of all the things I would upgrade on the deck, resolution isn’t one of them. I have never seen a game look blury on that tiny screen. That said, a lot of them are using higher res panels probably because it is what they can find in bulk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve has said, with pretty much every hardware initiative they’ve ever had, that their goal was to create a product line that other people will start competing with. They want to push the handheld form factor PC because they know it opens up a new group of gamers to their platform. They don’t care who is making the hardware.