ramble81
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- Comment on Epic Games update the Unreal Tournament website linking to the free downloads from OldUnreal 2 weeks ago:
I loved piloting the redeemer under the map, up in their base right to the spawn point.
- Comment on Single-player survival horror game Sorry We're Closed out now and should work great on Steam Deck 1 month ago:
That title needs some additional punctuation. Had to read it a few times!
- Comment on Apple faces a new $3.75 billion antitrust lawsuit over iCloud storage 1 month ago:
“Apple does not allow users to back up their data via third-party storage providers.” — don’t know if I agree with that statement. You can back it up locally via iTunes and then sync the folder with whatever provider you want. It’s not as easy but it’s certainly doable. I used to run that way for the longest time before I said fuck it and moved to iCloud.
- Comment on Mazda's $10 Subscription For Remote Start Sparks Backlash After Killing Open Source Option 2 months ago:
I use my remote start on the other side of the building through countless walls and floors away from my car. Bluetooth is good up to 30 feet.
- Comment on Mazda's $10 Subscription For Remote Start Sparks Backlash After Killing Open Source Option 2 months ago:
There’s nuance to this article. The cost is for the connected services portion, which usually includes the fee for the cellular connectivity the car has to enable the services, that’s not free and there is a cost to maintain that infrastructure. Additionally the “workaround” that someone provided still uses those connected services (again, not something that is just free to maintain).
The shitty part that comes in is that Mazda removed the key fob remote start option from their newer vehicles. That being said though, nothing in the above statements is centered around “right to repair”. If you don’t want to pay for the connected services, then don’t, everything else in your car will still work.
About the only way you could argue for it is a “bring your own SIM” approach but even then, where would it connect to? Who would pay to maintain that? You’d have to allow it to connect to a custom endpoint, but at that point guess what: you’re paying for the cellular connectivity and the server to host an API on to do what you want. That’s still an additional cost beyond what you paid for the car just like the connected services fee.
- Comment on Sonos CEO says the old app can’t be rereleased 4 months ago:
I’m so glad I’m on S1. Not only do my devices not support S2, they put it into a feature freeze so it does everything I want.
- Comment on Crowdstrike: Delta Air Lines refused free help to resolve IT outage 4 months ago:
Which is ironic because you already gave them deep access to your systems by installing the agent, so it definitely isn’t an access concern. The fix needed physical manpower that they were offering to try to get groups working again.
- Comment on Valve owe you 44 quid, according to a £656m lawsuit against the company for allegedly overcharging UK customers 6 months ago:
Valve has provided me that value in entertainment. What will you do for me for €45?
Shake it baby
- Comment on Valve owe you 44 quid, according to a £656m lawsuit against the company for allegedly overcharging UK customers 6 months ago:
Valve can keep it. I’ve gotten more than that with overall entertainment out of the platform
- Comment on The Entire Kingdom Hearts Saga Comes To Steam Next Month 7 months ago:
Is it worth playing? I remembered trying it once upon a time and the platformer aspect just sucked hard.
- Comment on AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says 7 months ago:
Just like using illegal aliens, why is just AT&T getting in trouble and not the politicians that took the bribes… oh wait
- Comment on We might not wait so long for the next FF7 Remake, as Square Enix plan to “win over PC users” with “aggressive” shift away from console exclusives 7 months ago:
“Win over PC users” hah. I’ll believe that when I see it. PC has always been a 4 letter word to Square. Now that they’re hemorrhaging money they want to pander to us.
- Comment on Sony gives up on forcing PlayStation Network for Helldivers 2 7 months ago:
…for now.
- Comment on GTA 6 publishers Take-Two cancel games and lay off hundreds to "rationalize their pipeline" 8 months ago:
From the same capitalistic society that coined the term “human resources”
- Comment on What games do you replay regularly/annually ? 9 months ago:
Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Mankind Divided are two for me.
- Comment on What games do you replay regularly/annually ? 9 months ago:
Have you gotten all 13 endings? You can actually do them in order in one NG+ play through.
- Comment on FCC scraps old speed benchmark, says broadband should be at least 100Mbps 9 months ago:
That’s rough and hopefully these revised maps will start to show that better.
- Comment on FCC scraps old speed benchmark, says broadband should be at least 100Mbps 9 months ago:
Geeze. Where is this? I have multiple gigabit providers to my house.
- Comment on Jon Stewart's first episode back on The Daily Show 10 months ago:
Which one?
- Chinese of Uyghur’s
- Israeli’s of Palestinian’s
- Russian of Ukrainian’s
I’m sure I’ve missed some others too.
- Comment on ‘The Grand Tour’ Not Moving Forward at Amazon Prime Video With Hosts Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond 1 year ago:
Oddly I liked their normal track and news segments talking about all different types of cars and then handing them over to Abby/Stig to test. It seemed everyone else wanted them in an exotic locale doing stupid things.
- Comment on Passing on the right on a highway 1 year ago:
It’s actually not illegal in Texas. At least according to the cop that pulled me over for flashing my lights at someone doing 55 in the left lane when the speed limit was 70. He told me to just go around it’s not illegal.
- Comment on 'Sonic 3' Begins Production, First-Look at Shadow the Hedgehog 1 year ago:
AdGarud on iOS.
- Comment on 'Sonic 3' Begins Production, First-Look at Shadow the Hedgehog 1 year ago:
“ Something went wrong. Please disable your blocker on TheGamer.com”
Screw you, I don’t need to see the article that badly.
- Comment on it's a puzzling one i'll tell you hwat 1 year ago:
Interesting take. I’ve always posited that the earth and nature will survive but I never included people in that. It’d probably be a reversion to nomadic and hunter/gatherer tribes to start. The question is would it take as long to rebuild? And would it follow the same path again?
- Comment on I can still hear every sound including the error at the end... 1 year ago:
I believe that part was doing a sound quality test to ensure the data rate could be reached. If the line quality was bad it would connect at a slower rate since it was based on frequency.
- Comment on I can still hear every sound including the error at the end... 1 year ago:
I remember you had to pick and choose what images you wanted because of how long it took to download. Thumbnails were critical and nothing more of a cock block then the image getting corrupted part way through.
- Comment on Is there any reason to not have built in scheduling on social media? 1 year ago:
Most social media platforms make money when you actively engage with them. Having scheduled posts removes that from them. So now they have less revenue and they have to spend more money maintaining a feature. As such there’s no incentive for them.
- Comment on King’s estate to transfer £100m into ethical funds after bona vacantia revelations 1 year ago:
“Oops, you caught us… here we’ll transfer some money to you plebs to look like we’re atoning, but we’ll still make money off of it and keep that “
Am I reading that wrong? Ethical or not, it’s still an investment with money they ended up with.
- Comment on Solving Steam Deck Shader Storage with a 61.44TB SSD 1 year ago:
3D print a custom back for that and make it portable again. Though I wonder how much power the drive consumes.