Ottomateeverything

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook, Instagram may cut fees by nearly 50% in scramble for DMA compliance⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “We know from all research that even a fee of just 1.99 euros or less leads to a shift in consent from 3–10 percent that genuinely want advertisement to 99.9 percent that still click yes,” Schrems said.

  Stating the obvious… But glad there’s evidence.

  Idk how the fuck Meta actually argues that 9.99 constitutes freely given consent. People clearly don’t even want to pay 1.99.

  IMO this is essentially extortion. And it’s clearly not in the spirit of the law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 30 Percent Of The Top 100 Steam Deck Games Aren’t Verified⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can understand that Valve doesn’t want to give false impressions that a game runs perfectly when there are imperfections as mentioned

  Idk, I disagree with this. It means that games are being labeled as “not verified” because of things that don’t really hamper what people would care about - the keyboard popping up for naming your character or seeing “A” in a green circle isn’t going to make people be like “oh no, this doesn’t work well on my steamdeck, I’m not playing it”. Does it look unprofessional? Sure. But that’s not what people care about when looking at the ratings for compatibility. They just want to know if it’s going to run well.

  These systems are all about trust and evaluating the right metrics. Having the right button icons matters to Valve but not the player. Once players play games that aren’t verified and they run fine, and they play games that are verified but still have performance hitches in some places, etc, the rating system loses its credibility and then it’s meaningless.

  There’s already people in this thread touting protonDB being a better evaluation. It’s exactly this that will happen and will continue to happen and continue undermining their rating system until Valve aligns their verification system with what users actually care about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 30 Percent Of The Top 100 Steam Deck Games Aren’t Verified⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d actually bet it’s something different…

  It’s less that you game on a steam deck because it’s portable, and more that because it’s portable you can game. There are people here and there that are like “yeah, I have a steam deck so I use that instead” but the sentiment I see more often is “I wouldn’t be able to game at all if it wasn’t portable - I can’t sit down for that long, I only have time on the train, I need to be near my kids” etc.

  And this changes the dynamic. It’s less that these people have “desktop gaming” and “portable gaming” and are choosing to play the AAA games while portable. They only have portable gaming. And they choose to play the same good games everyone else is playing. The only gaming they do is on their deck. And they’re not going to be like “oh, why play a good game like BG3 if I can play a shitty portable game like xyz”.

  These are just people’s primary gaming devices now. And if they can, they will choose to play the same good games everyone else is choosing to play. It doesn’t matter if it only runs OK, playing a good game with OK graphics is still better than playing a shitty game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 30 Percent Of The Top 100 Steam Deck Games Aren’t Verified⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it requires it runs well, everything is accessible with the standard deck controls, that all the control displays use the steam deck icons, and it doesn’t reference controls the deck doesn’t have. It’s a very high bar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tourists write-off uninsured rental BMW 4WD in river crossing gone horribly wrong in Iceland⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not… Really. It’s actually much more complicated but we’d need to compare specific vehicles to explain the differences really.

  4WD does tend to have on/off and different modes while AWD usually doesn’t, so that part is kind of true?

  But AWD doesn’t drive “every wheel independently”. They do usually try to turn all 4 wheels, but then a set of diffs and clutches will essentially “disconnect” the wheels that aren’t gripping, but it’s not like it’s literally independently driving each wheel…but I guess you could say it’s individually disconnecting each wheel? But that’s not really the same.

  But yeah… It’s… Complicated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tourists write-off uninsured rental BMW 4WD in river crossing gone horribly wrong in Iceland⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not. They mean different things, and the terms are not really all that standard since there are many different types and everyone does things a bit differently.

  In general, AWD is generally always on, 4WD often has other modes too (like 4 low, etc)… But the mechanics of how they’re setup and how they actually go about distributing power are very different and complicated whereas even when running, they aren’t really doing the same thing.