fading_person

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Do The Normal People Survive?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How do normal people survive?

  Simple. They know a fix-it-all tech person that will help them!

  I’m not even kidding, that’s how communities grew strong all over the world for millennia, and still do, on smaller scales, depending on the place. People create a network of specialists in each domain, and one calls the other when needed. Sometimes they pay for the work, sometimes they exchange favors, sometimes they just help for free. If you go to smaller neighborhoods in developing countries, you will see this in action all the time.

  Part of the success of large corporations and the spread of consumerist culture comes from promoting an extremely individualistic lifestyle and destroying people’s networks and relationships.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft moves to the uncanny valley with creepy Copilot avatars that stare at you and say your name⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would be a nice plot for a game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here in Brazil (and problably most of the developing world as well), piracy used to be the standard way to get console games. People would buy unblocked consoles from street merchants and then buy pirated media from them, or download the games from pirate sites.

  But with the newer xbox xs series, they made it so that piracy is impossible, and people got forced to buy games from microsoft. Since most people around here don’t have much money to spend, game pass became an option to have a selection of games always at disposal for a reasonable price, so it became popular. Sadly, that’s how microsoft expanded their business to the developing countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung phones embedded with 'unremovable' Israeli spyware⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you’ll be interested in this project: github.com/evanman83/OURS-project

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung brings ads to US fridges⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not having iot bullshit in our stuff is one of the few good things of living in a developing country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨E-Paper Display Reaches the Realm of LCD Screens⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s interesting, I will check it out. I love e-ink displays, and being able to use my pc without eye strain would be awesome

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite cutting the gags, Borderlands 4's PC specs say it still needs 100GB of SSD space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Unavoidable, sure, as an unwanted side-effect of increasing overall quality, but since it’s possible to create unoptimized games that increase hardware requirements without delivering any improvements at all, if we cherish the hardware demand increases, we will create a fertile scenario for unoptimization, market manipulation and exclusion of people in the game industry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite cutting the gags, Borderlands 4's PC specs say it still needs 100GB of SSD space⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think increasing hardware requirements for a game is a good thing?