tiramichu
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- Comment on BADBOX 2.0 Targets Consumer Devices: 1M+ Android TV streaming boxes, tablets, projectors, and car infotainment systems are infected with malware that conscripts them into a botnet. 1 month ago:
I’ve got a cheap-ass projector running some Android variant. I decided to not give it my wifi and just use HDMI
50% because I was concerned about things like this, and 50% because it might have malware straight from the factory for all I know.
- Comment on Fable has been delayed until 2026 because the studio needs more time, says Xbox 1 month ago:
Fair enough :)
I can totally agree that games should prioritise being fun above having pretty graphics.
- Comment on Fable has been delayed until 2026 because the studio needs more time, says Xbox 1 month ago:
We don’t know exactly what they are spending the time on.
The article says “more time to create the world of Albion” but that’s the article.paraphrasing - the source video simply states “more time” - and doesn’t specify what for.
I’m sure world design is a part of it, but quests, characters, optimisations, bugfixes and all of that are surely a part too.
Personly I’m very glad that the studio are being given the time they need instead of rushing out some rubbish.
- Comment on HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls 1 month ago:
The line that really galls me is “generate warranty cost efficiencies” - i.e. make it really difficult to get through so that customers with defective products are incentivised to simply give up, rather than to claim the warranty for their defective product.
Absolute scumbags.
- Comment on Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico. 2 months ago:
Google already did it right? But only for the US. Here in the UK it still shows as Gulf of Mexico.
Google is pretty well known for displaying certain ‘contended’ things with different names in different countries.
That this should even be contended is a joke, but Google just views this Trump-pandering as the price of their seat at the top table for this administration and they’re quite happy to do it.
If we have to rename it my vote is for “Gulf of CUM” (Cuba, USA and Mexico)
That’s fair isnt it? 💦
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will be announced next month — and it may require a new cable 3 months ago:
There’s always a whole lot of complaint about USB standards being a mess, and HDMI standards being a mess, and how two identical looking cables give you totally different results from each other.
And yes that is very true, but I’m still grateful for these standards for giving us 2+ decades of the same ports with evolving capabilities, versus the wild mess of proprietary solutions we had before it.
In the worst case you can plug a HDMI-looking cable into a HDMI-looking hole and SOMETHING will happen. It might not be as good as you wanted, but it will certainly be something. I’m glad for that.
- Comment on The best Linux distribution for gaming in 2025 4 months ago:
I use Pop for gaming and it just works.
As a plus, I also love the somewhat mac-ish UX design, although that won’t be to everyone’s taste.
- Comment on Instagram faces backlash for lowering quality of low-engagement videos 5 months ago:
You’d be surprised.
I’m sure there are plenty of people out there who use their Instagram or Facebook as basically the history of their social lives, where all their memories are, the local copies long gone.
It’s a terrible idea, but I’m certain people are doing it.
- Comment on Instagram faces backlash for lowering quality of low-engagement videos 5 months ago:
YouTube videos degrade in quality over time too, as they reencode from one codec du jour to the next.
Heck, even Google drive pulled that stunt where they stopped storing photos in original resolution.
Point being, none of these companies exist primarily to archive your content - they exist to monetise it.
If you want to safeguard your content in original quality, then you need to either put it on a cloud storage that you are PAYING for, or keept it on your own hardware.
- Comment on Twilio kills off Authy for desktop, forcibly logs out all users 8 months ago:
Interesting. Definitely a sucky move by Twilio and the sites that colluded with them on it.
- Comment on Twilio kills off Authy for desktop, forcibly logs out all users 8 months ago:
How sis any sites insist in Authy? Was it not just a generic MFA app and so users could choose any they liked?
- Comment on CrowdStrike backlash over $10 apology voucher for IT chaos 8 months ago:
Whoever came up with this voucher idea must have been both brain-dead and tone-deaf. It’s insulting.
Rather than even trying to offer compensation it would have been far better to just be upfront with an apology.
Example: “We are deeply sorry for our recent incident. No compensation could make up for the damage this incident caused, or the untold thousands of cumulative hours that IT professionals across the globe spent to rectify it, in many cases working through their entire weekends or missing vacations to do so. We appreciate our failure has rightly caused a tremendous loss of faith in our brand and product, but please be assured we are working on concrete steps to ensure an incident of this kind cannot happen again, and will share those plans with you soon.”
I’d rather hear that, to be fair.
- Comment on Ghost of Tsushima’s PSN login requirement will stop you playing multiplayer on Steam Deck 11 months ago:
It will stop me buying the game, is what it will do.
- Comment on You now have no excuse to not play Arkane Austin’s Prey - you can grab it and two other bangers for a fiver 11 months ago:
They both are to an extent, but I think Prey inherits much more of the DNA.
- Comment on The Riven Remake Arrives This Year 1 year ago:
The one that stumped us wasn’t even that! It was in a forest area where there is a ‘dragon’ statue and his mouth opens up to reveal a staircase to the upper level. And you do that by ::: clicking the top of one of the nearby lanterns which acts as a switch but we couldn’t find it! :::
- Comment on The Riven Remake Arrives This Year 1 year ago:
I first played Riven as a child, together with my mother on the family’s first PC, which was a Pentium 133 MHz with 16 megabytes of RAM and no Internet.
At one point we got totally stuck, and after days of fruitless wandering we were forced in desperation to call the premium-rate phone number that came on a leaflet in the box, just to get some hints to the solution.
Different times.
I played every Myst game since, and I’ll probably play this too.
- Comment on Fallout's TV series looks pretty good in latest trailer, will release April 11th 1 year ago:
No, I’m only saying that I’ve been disappointed enough times that I prefer to wait for the final product to make my decision, and I’ll save the excitement for then.
- Comment on Fallout's TV series looks pretty good in latest trailer, will release April 11th 1 year ago:
Just like with Bethesda games themselves, a trailer is absolutely zero indication of how good the show is really going to be.
With a good trailer you can cherry-pick the best parts and polish even a turd until it shines, but who knows if the show will actually have any real interest or narrative substance.
We’ll simply have to wait and see - and try not to get our hopes up too high :)