Aria
@Aria@lemmygrad.ml
- Comment on Valve now require UK Steam users to verify their ages with a credit card, thanks to the Online Safety Act 18 hours ago:
What are Steam cards? It says in the article that debit cards are valid.
Top paragraph:
According to reports, debit cards are acceptable too.
- Comment on Valve now require UK Steam users to verify their ages with a credit card, thanks to the Online Safety Act 1 day ago:
It says in the article(/the linked Steam page) as long as you have ever made a purchase, you’re assumed to be over 18, since being over 18 is a requirement to having a card. The third party verification is for sites that only ask for ID or vibes-check photo of your face.
- Comment on Valve now require UK Steam users to verify their ages with a credit card, thanks to the Online Safety Act 1 day ago:
Could you buy premium games from Steam in the UK without a debit card or credit card before this change?
- Comment on Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it's not a bad idea. 1 week ago:
The two you wouldn’t advocate for have their own crawlers and index. The remainders which you are advocating for, don’t have the ability to not pass on the result manipulation from Google, Bing or Yandex.
At best they serve as anonymisers, but Ecosia’s (non-profit) business model is telling Google what you search for, and DDG is beholden to USA laws, which means for all practical consideration they are a front for the NSA.
- Comment on Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike 4 weeks ago:
That’s very cool
- Comment on Valve is redesigning the Steam Store Menu and Search, wants user feedback 5 weeks ago:
Apple allows you to offer better deals on other platforms. Customers are allowed to buy on other platforms, but sellers aren’t allowed to give you any reason to. Even in cases where those other platforms take a smaller cut, the developer has to artificially raise the price until Steam is the cheapest platform if they want to remain on Steam.
- Comment on RedNote may wall off “TikTok refugees” to prevent US influence on Chinese users 7 months ago:
There are Americans in this very thread who think “the CCP” is real.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows to Feature Denuvo & Mandatory Ubisoft Account Linking 8 months ago:
What’s well intentioned about not letting me use Cheat Engine on my own game. I’m not interacting with anyone else, I can’t ruin the game’s economy, or make people’s PvP experience worse. The worst thing I could do is make my own experience worse. They’re even including macro’s in that – A wide-spread accessibility feature.
I already bought the game, what incentive is there to make sure I can’t enjoy it?
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows to Feature Denuvo & Mandatory Ubisoft Account Linking 8 months ago:
Probably thinking of Empress. The most recent Denuvo game to be cracked was Dead Island 2, which is a year and a half ago. And if we don’t count Empress or MKDEV*, (because it’s reasonable to assume they aren’t going to want to crack this), then it’s eFootball in 2020: 4 years ago.
*MKDEV used to only crack Football Manager, as to allow modding. Football Manager now allows a method for MKDEV’s mod to run without removing Denuvo.
- Comment on Huawei phone has a pop-out camera lens, just like a point-and-shoot camera 1 year ago:
Responding to the comment on the sensor quality.
By posting this image, the takeaway that I think most people will have is that the phone camera will be somewhere around 4.4 by 3.3mm, and that’s 1.5% of what you want. But this one, the one in the article’s sensor is 9.8 by 7.4mm, somewhere in the middle of this chart.
It’s also not a direct apples to apples comparison, because phones are smaller and thus have smaller lenses and so smaller sensors make more sense. If bigger is always better, then big cinema cameras would be even bigger, but they’re usually full frame. A smaller sensor doesn’t have to be worse, it just has to be more compact, meaning it’s more expensive, and that would often translate to worse, but in phones, compactness is a valued feature.*
*There are physical limitations to how much light will hit a surface.
- Comment on YouTube is testing a new design that you'll probably hate instantly 1 year ago:
Those recommended thumbnails are real big! Does anyone want them that big? Description and comments on the side is good though.
- Comment on Bethesda update Fallout 4 for your "next-generation PC" 1 year ago:
I enjoyed the VR version of this a lot more and for longer than the flat version. Unlikely but it would be cool if when they updated the game they’d update the VR version too.
- Comment on Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines 1 year ago:
I’m surprised macOS is in decline given that their product is pretty good and improving, and it’s integrated with popular devices. Still a pretty healthy 16%.
The market share for Linux nearly doubling in a year in the USA is brilliant. Let’s hope the trend continues worldwide.