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- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 15 comments
- Comment on [Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday 1 month ago:
Because PCs are worse for living room/controller gameplay, you have to deal with Windows or Linux, and many other factors?
- Submitted 1 month ago to technology@beehaw.org | 2 comments
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- Comment on Game consoles are now smartphones, and that's okay 2 months ago:
Modern consoles are pretty great about backwards compatibility. There’s room to improve for sure, but an Xbox Series X/S can play all Xbox One/Series games, plus hundreds of 360 and original Xbox games. PS5 is a bit worse with only PS4 backwards compat. The Switch is in the roughest shape, because PowerPC emulator or hardware compatibility wasn’t practical with the design or hardware of the original Switch.
- Comment on Game consoles are now smartphones, and that's okay 2 months ago:
They still have the benefit of being a fixed hardware platform with guaranteed compatibility for the games built for them.
- Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on These repairable phones still aren't built to last 2 months ago:
Even if official support isn’t possible past a certain point (Google and Samsung are pushing 7+ years, fwiw), all phones need to have a bootloader unlock mechanism for unofficial support past that point. LineageOS or mobile Linux with some broken functionality is still better than nothing.
- Submitted 2 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 6 comments
- Comment on The Verge Under Fire For Publishing Info About ‘Deadlock,’ Valve’s Secret Shooter 3 months ago:
Game publishers are not your friend.
- Comment on The Verge Under Fire For Publishing Info About ‘Deadlock,’ Valve’s Secret Shooter 3 months ago:
“Gentleman’s NDA” is not a thing. It’s either a legally-binding NDA or it’s not.
- Comment on The Verge Under Fire For Publishing Info About ‘Deadlock,’ Valve’s Secret Shooter 3 months ago:
If every news outlet avoided a topic because the company wouldn’t outright confirm its existence, we would never have reporting based on leaks and rumors. That’s dumb and would make journalism worse for everyone.
- Comment on The Verge Under Fire For Publishing Info About ‘Deadlock,’ Valve’s Secret Shooter 3 months ago:
If Valve wants to be shitty about it, that’s within their right (unless they want to sue, which would be difficult to defend in court without a written legal agreement). It is also true that other outlets are free to do handshake agreements to not cover the game. The Verge didn’t break any rules, and Valve already maintains a minimal relationship with most news outlets, so not talking to The Verge probably wouldn’t change anything.
- Comment on The Verge Under Fire For Publishing Info About ‘Deadlock,’ Valve’s Secret Shooter 3 months ago:
The rest of the industry uses embargo agreements with mutual consent if they have private information. This doesn’t change anything for other game companies, unless they also want to do private-but-not-private beta tests.
- Comment on The Verge Under Fire For Publishing Info About ‘Deadlock,’ Valve’s Secret Shooter 3 months ago:
They did ask Valve:
Though Valve didn’t respond to my requests for comment
- Comment on The Verge Under Fire For Publishing Info About ‘Deadlock,’ Valve’s Secret Shooter 3 months ago:
Valve barely talks to press anyways, in a very similar fashion as Apple. At worst, maybe The Verge won’t get a Steam Deck 2 review unit ahead of time or something.
- Comment on The Verge Under Fire For Publishing Info About ‘Deadlock,’ Valve’s Secret Shooter 3 months ago:
Yep, tech and game companies use invite-only systems to generate hype constantly. Bluesky is another recent example.
- Comment on The Verge Under Fire For Publishing Info About ‘Deadlock,’ Valve’s Secret Shooter 3 months ago:
That’s not how this works. The Verge didn’t break an NDA or embargo because they didn’t get either of those things. Valve allows random people to invite other random people to play, with just a “pretty please don’t talk about this game” warning. There was already people talking about it online and leaked footage.
- Comment on The Verge Under Fire For Publishing Info About ‘Deadlock,’ Valve’s Secret Shooter 3 months ago:
They didn’t get an NDA.
- Comment on Proton Now Has a Bitcoin Wallet 3 months ago:
If you want to beat inflation, dump the money in a high-yield savings account, or a 401k, or a stock index, or any of the other options that have something resembling banking protection/regulation. There are so many better options than a speculative investment that you lose entirely with a social engineering attack or a SIM swap.
- Comment on Proton Now Has a Bitcoin Wallet 3 months ago:
Bitcoin’s value is significantly more volatile than the US Dollar.
- Submitted 3 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 52 comments
- Comment on What is Firefox supposed to do? 3 months ago:
Firefox is faster than Chromium in many benchmarks, depending on the OS: arewefastyet.com/win10/benchmarks/overview?numDay…
- Submitted 3 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 39 comments
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- Comment on shræmp 3 months ago:
as shrimple as that
- Comment on Google's goo․gl links will stop working in August 2025 4 months ago:
That’s a whole lot of link rot about to happen.
- Submitted 4 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 43 comments
- Comment on How to install yt-dlp on Windows, Mac, and Linux 4 months ago:
Nothing specific, just that Chocolately is what I’ve used the most over the years and seems to be pretty reliable.
- Comment on How to install yt-dlp on Windows, Mac, and Linux 4 months ago:
I’m sure a lot of people on Lemmy can figure out package managers, but I wanted to try writing a guide more aimed at beginners that can be shared with people trying to figure out
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