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- Comment on Big loss for ISPs as Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to $15 broadband law 19 hours ago:
I’m definitely on team “eminent domain the cables back”. None of them have used the privilege for the benefit of the public.
- Comment on Big loss for ISPs as Supreme Court won’t hear challenge to $15 broadband law 20 hours ago:
Worth noting that they wouldn’t exist at all without eminent domain to run the cables.
They’re inherently public infrastructure no matter how they present themselves.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
No way.
Everyone knows security tacked on after development works great.
- Comment on Why some book fans are leaving Amazon-owned Goodreads in wake of the U.S. election 3 weeks ago:
I’ve pretty much tried everything. They’re all relatively similar, but I don’t think any have the bulk edit option, and even with the fact that I only can manage a couple lists on goodreads (because I just read too much fiction and ended up erasing them), not having it is too much of a downgrade for me. (Though it has been a little while, and they were all pretty clearly in their infancy when I tried them.)
Rolling my own is going to have to be the way I go, too, eventually. It’s probably the only way I get series and authors as first class citizens in lists, and should make it easy for me to spin up quick lists for specific discussions in a way that is very low friction. I get sidetracked too easily and haven’t just buckled down and done it though.
- Comment on Why some book fans are leaving Amazon-owned Goodreads in wake of the U.S. election 3 weeks ago:
It’s not for me.
An app is good interface wise, but if I was going to stick to a single OS it would be iPhone. But I do want it to be server based. I need the access to their database of books to keep a reasonable list, and a big part of the reason I keep it organized is for the ability to share lists in relevant conversations. I just don’t have any interest in feeds of friends lists or any of that.
Goodreads version actually kind of sucks. A shared list doesn’t keep my ordering and doesn’t surface my reviews as part of the list. I’d also prefer to be able to put a series or author into a list, with a “review” of them as a whole over an individual book. But none of the others have an acceptable bulk edit tool that lets me go through 50 books at a time checking boxes to make bulk edits. They want me to manually search each book to add to a list one at a time, when even Amazon’s version is an incredibly tedious prospect.
- Comment on Why some book fans are leaving Amazon-owned Goodreads in wake of the U.S. election 3 weeks ago:
I’d love to, but the functionality of alternatives isn’t good enough for me.
I have zero interest in any of the social media stuff. I just want to track my books and make lists with UX that actually works.
- Comment on Microsoft’s controversial Recall scraper is finally entering public preview 3 weeks ago:
The idea is moderately appealing. I’ve definitely tried to find “that one thing that mentioned that other thing I saw 2 weeks ago” before.
But outside of Facebook (and TikTok/tencent/whoever), Microsoft is right up there with companies I wouldn’t consider letting anywhere near it. And the complete absence of any concept of security in their first version would have completely disqualified it from being trustworthy even without their awful track record. You don’t do something, then “add security” and get acceptable results.
- Comment on Don’t fall for AI scams cloning cops’ voices, police warn 1 month ago:
lol what’s the benefit of AI exactly? I’m not going to know if some random caller sounds like a real cop.
- Comment on First Steam Deck plugin on Steam will bring GOG and Epic Games compatibility 2 months ago:
GOG is fine and probably won’t interfere, but a paid plug-in for Epic who very well might just arbitrarily break shit because they can seems like a bad idea.
- Comment on Google is testing verified checkmarks in search 2 months ago:
Every individual false positive does several orders of magnitude more negative than positives of “not verified” fake links.
It would be much less damaging to red flag questionable links (and remove clearly fake links as often as possible to avoid fatigue).
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 2 months ago:
I have massively better quality, stability, and latency with the RemotePlay app over the internet from PS5 than I do with Steam in home streaming actually in my house. It’s still not good enough for high precision games, but Steam isn’t close.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 2 months ago:
No, the OP did.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 2 months ago:
It would be a handheld console that would play their console library. They’d beat the Steam Deck’s sales volume as fast as they could manufacture them. Also, the Steam deck doesn’t do the triggers, which is a meaningful loss in plenty of PS5 games.
My actual point, though, was that the build quality for the price is really good.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 2 months ago:
I love my Steam deck, and bounce between how heavily I use it vs the switch* or PS5 depending on the games I’m into at the moment. But misrepresenting its utility as a modern living room PC doesn’t help anyone and is just going to leave people disappointed.
The PS5 is probably my smallest library (and mostly PS4 games, a lot of which were before I had a PC), but it’s definitely plenty capable and I don’t regret the purchase at all. (The controller is also the coolest non graphics addition to gaming I’ve experienced in a long time).
*The switch desperately needs a 3rd party replacement for the controllers, though, because the joycons are bad brand new.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 2 months ago:
I won’t buy a portal. I probably would have bought a “PS4 in portal form factor” for twice the price, but streaming isn’t worth it.
But I have a friend who did, and have had my hands on it, and it is a genuinely really high quality implementation of the mediocre concept.
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 2 months ago:
PS remote play is fantastic (for what remote play is. Streaming still sucks.)
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 2 months ago:
If I’m playing modern games on a TV? PS5 easy. But still the pro over the deck.
I love my deck. As the handheld it’s intended to be. It’s not powerful enough for an acceptable experience running a AAA 3D game on a TV screen. You can ignore the resolution and artifacts and just generally low visual quality and poor frame rate on a small screen, because playing the games portably at all is a huge step up. You can’t ignore any part of it on a TV. It’s fine for indie games, older games, 2D stuff, etc.
But it doesn’t have the performance for a good living room experience if you’re looking to play modern AAA games. (Ignoring all their bullshit rootkits on PC that block a lot of multiplayer games out completely, which are the games you have to pay for on PS. You just can’t play most of them on Linux at all.)
- Comment on Microsoft paves the way for Linux gaming success with plan that would kill kernel-level anti-cheat 2 months ago:
I’m optimistic about the idea that game developers will stop being allowed to install fucking malware.
I don’t trust Microsoft at all, but you shouldn’t be able to consent to that bullshit in an EULA no one has ever read.
- Comment on Leaked Disney+ financials may shed light on recent price hike 3 months ago:
Running their own service is way more profitable; which is why they own multiple with different ones of their brands.
They’re not negotiating deals at arms length. They’re choosing their pricing for the sole purpose of fitting whatever narrative they want.
- Comment on Leaked Disney+ financials may shed light on recent price hike 3 months ago:
They make whatever number per subscriber they want to claim they do. They can license their shows at whatever price they want.
- Comment on Disney blocks ESPN, ABC, and other channels for millions of DirecTV subscribers 3 months ago:
DirecTV says it’s being prevented from offering more flexible packages that can more closely cater to consumer interest, and that Disney is “herding consumers away” from network TV by shifting content to Disney-owned streaming services like Hulu and Disney Plus. Disney is also accused of including a last-minute demand to waive all claims that its behavior is anti-competitive, according to DirecTV. “The Walt Disney Co. is once again refusing any accountability to consumers, distribution partners, and now the American judicial system,” Rob Thun, chief content officer at DirecTV, said in a statement. “Disney is in the business of creating alternate realities, but this is the real world where we believe you earn your way and must answer for your own actions. They want to continue to chase maximum profits and dominant control at the expense of consumers – making it harder for them to select the shows and sports they want at a reasonable price
Not that I like DirecTV either, but if Disney actually added language to punish them for noticing their obvious monopolistic behavior…
- Comment on Steam now identifies reviews that come from Steam Deck players 3 months ago:
I think OS is fine.
Making specs public is a privacy issue.
- Comment on Michael Bay's Skibidi Toilet movie production company has apparently sent DMCA takedowns to Garry's Mod 4 months ago:
YouTuber Alexey “DaFuq!?Boom!” Gerasimov, who currently has 43 million subscribers, makes no secret of these inspirations, often crediting Garry’s Mod community assets in the video descriptions. Gerasimov also appeared on the S&box Discord after the DMCA began to circulate in the hope of getting in touch with Newman. “I did NOT strike Garry’s Mod and I’m trying to understand what else is written in the letter!”, he wrote.
Even dumber lol.
- Comment on [Game] No Rest for the Wicked now Steam Deck Verified thanks to latest update 4 months ago:
Any real time gate keeps me from playing the way I want to, by definition. I will not buy or play a game which has any version of a real time gate unless it’s a separate game mode I have no interest in.
Hitman elusive targets? Whatever. They don’t touch anything real. They’re “not part” of the actual game. But the second it interacts with the game I have zero interest. I don’t care if the key is free and there are no microtransactions. The core premise of controlling when, in real time, I’m allowed to interact with content is not OK.
- Comment on [Game] No Rest for the Wicked now Steam Deck Verified thanks to latest update 4 months ago:
I don’t really care how “important” it is.
There’s no format of it I’m willing to consider tolerating. It’s inherently toxic design for anything but a specific type of MMO with a persistent world and economy.
- Comment on [Game] No Rest for the Wicked now Steam Deck Verified thanks to latest update 4 months ago:
I was super interested in this game from the stuff I saw of it.
Then I saw in reviews that there were a bunch of real time gated things. I don’t know the specific mechanics, but any version of that at all is unacceptable to me.
- Comment on Microsoft looking to restrict kernel level access after CrowdStrike incident might help us with our current Anti-Cheat dilemma 4 months ago:
Even if we play make believe that they make any difference at all (they don’t), it would still be unforgivable to install malware on someone’s computer to prevent cheating in a computer game.
- Comment on True actual sailing games are underrated and a criminally underexplored genre of video game simulation... which is why Pancake Sailor is the next free game you should try! 5 months ago:
Maybe he’s just enthusiastic about a game that does something he’s into?