lyralycan
@lyralycan@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Logitech to ship mice with replaceable batteries in Europe only, following Nintendo 1 day ago:
Oh yeah, I meant the most hyped headset of the time if I’m being accurate. In terms of longevity I bought one of their other headsets, it developed a fault after about 18 months (within warranty) and since it was discontinued they sent me an 800X replacement. It was great for gaming audio and stellar surround audio – felt I was cheating with hearing footsteps so well in MMOFPS – but the headset lasted 9 months before dying. After that I got SteelSeries for the convenience, and well I still own them and just need to source 3D printed earcup hinge pieces because the plastic broke. Otherwise they’re perfectly fine. Also bought new batteries
- Comment on Sign the petition against client side scanning in the UK 2 days ago:
Yeah, just manually put your name and personal metrics on this government list for the purposes of being verifiably a British citizen, to protest against being tracked on a government list for the purposes of *checks notes* being verifiably not ~a paedophile~ an enemy of the state… It’s so fucked.
- Comment on Logitech to ship mice with replaceable batteries in Europe only, following Nintendo 2 days ago:
Savage, but then a mouse would be uncharacteristically heavy with a standard barrel battery, right??. A button may work but nobody makes rechargeable buttons yet.
I switched from my fancy pants Turtle Beach Elite 800X headset, the top brand before Astro A40 and Arctis Nova Pro released, to a SteelSeries Siberia 800. Going from a dodgy, dying-battery premium headset to a midrange that comes with two batteries and more can be purchased was a (quite literal) game changer. So I can attest to Steelseries being great. Side bonus the batteries were coincidentally interchangeable with a few brands of Nokia but can’t remember which ones.
My point is, SteelSeries are a great brand and they make mice with interchangeable, AAA, batteries. Like the Rival 3
- Comment on Sony’s ‘ironic’ PlayStation disc decision upends gamer conventions and threatens a $7 billion resale market 1 week ago:
May as well say
- Comment on Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected 4 weeks ago:
Yup, I use Aegis, and found a strange little trick with Bitwarden Authenticator where I can import them into the main app (the Vaultwarden server). I know keeping all my power in one place defeats the purpose of 2FA but you know, I trust Vaultwarden, and myself to keep it secore, implicitly.
- Comment on "The 'AI Stigma' is real and severely punishes developers": A new study shows how much using AI in games hurts sales, and the numbers are hard to believe 4 weeks ago:
Social exclusion is evolutionarily the prime way to handle people with problematic tendencies.
- Comment on Valheim 1.0 arrives in September with the Deep North biome 1 month ago:
Omg I forgot it was still in Beta
- Comment on Steam's NSFW and Mature tags ditched by Valve in favour of "more descriptive" ones like Sexual Content and Gore, as part of wider revamp 2 months ago:
I appreciate that as what’s currently tagged as Not Safe For Work in many sources are actually fine for work and adults, it’s immature minds (usually those under 16) and people under the influence of conservative values that it’s not safe for
- Comment on Google removes Doki Doki Literature Club! from the Play Store 3 months ago:
In my journey to remove myself from as many unethical companies as possible I was hit with one of several hard lessons, that even if I remove my dependency on corps like Google, I may not want to sacrifice services who themselves depend on it. For example, I use Home Assistant. I value several (external) community made integrations and therefore use HACS. Well, HACS is a frontend for all these extras, which are exclusively hosted on Github. So I ‘can’t’ delete my Git account, rather keep it around for API access.
I have some other services like Shopify, who I don’t really trust but who are frequently the only adopted sale point for many merchants, who themselves are ethically sound or, subjectively, the ‘best’ source. Who better to host a throwaway email account for services I reluctantly connect with than Google, aha.
What I’m saying is, I’m finding total deGoogling a challenge, and I wish you the best of luck. At least there’s alternatives to the Play Store; Aurora, F-droid, and ApkMirror||ApkPure
- Comment on Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI 3 months ago:
Yeah boii, I wanted to use someone’s concoction of Qwen3.5 and Claude, but it wasn’t compatible with Ollama for some reason. Link
- Comment on Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI 3 months ago:
Oh yeah, I too am not happy about the tech world calling this creation AI when it doesn’t mimic thinking for itself – it’s still just working on strict parameters under variable parameters, it’s just code, and as such performs pretty much every task poorly compared to humans*. ‘AI’ was supposed to be reserved for what I suppose is now AGI.
*Unless you pour massive money, resources, energy and labour into making a model that’s still as bad, but much faster
- Comment on Group Pushing Age Verification Requirements for AI Turns Out to Be Sneakily Backed by OpenAI 3 months ago:
Friendly reminder that OpenAI is not open source - despite its name it’s simply another pos run by our esteemed techbros Altman and Musk
- Comment on Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature 4 months ago:
The victim of this overreach was a piece of shit and a chronic bad troll by the sounds of it. Even though this was likely special treatment because they messaged the Director of the FBI’s girlfriend, it’s hard to be anti corpo-state surveillance when assholes like that get picked off so easily. But we here all know that it starts with the scum and power always gets misused.
- Comment on DLSS Multi-Frame Generation Is Now Easier To Enable On Steam Deck, And It Makes Gameplay Worse 4 months ago:
If DLSS can reach its fifth generation AI can destroy component supply for a second year
- Comment on 4Chan responds to £520,000 Ofcom fine with AI picture of hamster 4 months ago:
4chan is scum… But the real criminals authorised that fine, while not fining the soon-to-be trillionaires.
- Comment on [TheGamer] Crimson Desert Adds Denuvo Just A Week Before Release 4 months ago:
So they just fucked 50% of prospective customers. Wow
