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- Submitted 2 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 17 comments
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 1 week ago:
Revenue is not the same thing as profit. Storing nearly two decades of videos with global CDNs costs a lot of money.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 6 comments
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 4 weeks ago:
The issue is Steam and Valve being held up as the ‘one good company’, when there are plenty of examples to the contrary. Valve does many of the same practices as Epic, EA, etc., but there’s a double standard with Valve because it’s the default experience. The inevitable decline of Steam is going to be much worse after people spent a decade giving it a free pass on lesser issues.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 4 weeks ago:
Also, every game launcher on Windows still puts games in the start menu.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 4 weeks ago:
I meant more that the Steam client needs to be fully functional on modern macOS. Dropping older operating systems is more justifiable, but does still add to the picture of Valve not treating Mac owners all that well.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 4 weeks ago:
It’s a little bit of column A and a little bit of column B. Apple very obviously doesn’t want the Mac gaming ecosystem to exist in the same capacity as Windows and Linux, but Valve also has an obligation to its customers using Macs to keep the service running well.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 4 weeks ago:
Every other major application and service on Mac has ARM-native builds now, there’s not really an excuse for Valve. It’s especially silly when much of Steam is running through a Chromium engine, not machine code or anything else that might be difficult to port.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 4 weeks ago:
There’s a difference between Valve deciding to not make Mac games anymore and Valve leaving the Mac Steam client a slow and laggy mess on newer Macs. The former only affects people who want to play Valve games, the latter affects a lot more people.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@beehaw.org | 136 comments
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- Comment on The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI 3 months ago:
RISC-V is also really exciting, yeah. I’m curious if it will have to go through the same slow progression in form factors that we saw with ARM (first embedded, then phones, then tablets, etc.) or if we’ll get high-performance RISC hardware more quickly.
- Submitted 3 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 12 comments
- Comment on You probably don't need a VPN 4 months ago:
I don’t know if those useful features are the main reasons VPNs are used, though. There’s evidence they are used often for bypassing blocked sites (like VPN downloads jumping in Russia recently), most of the other advertised privacy and security benefits are questionable. Most of them don’t advertise torrenting/piracy because that’s a legal gray area.
- Submitted 4 months ago to technology@beehaw.org | 71 comments
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 4 months ago:
It does all those things because you explicitly agree to it before getting the TV. Not the same as paying outright for a TV that somehow needs a constant connection.
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 4 months ago:
No it’s not, AirTags are just Bluetooth beacons. When an iPhone or other apple device picks them up, the location data is uploaded to Apple’s servers and then sent to whoever owns the AirTag. There’s no two-way communication and the owner of the AirTag doesn’t get any personal ñinfo from the devices picking it up.
- Comment on Fallout 3: GOTY Edition is free to keep for the next 24 hours on the Epic Games Store 4 months ago:
The latest versions through GOG and (I think) Steam run pretty well, there’s no more GFWL or other stuff that broke a long time ago.
- Comment on I got this popup ad on my TV **while watching a DVD** 4 months ago:
Yep, most of them won’t complain if you just never connect them to Wi-Fi during setup.
- Comment on Hell yeah 4 months ago:
Hell yeah.
- Comment on The best (and worst) video games I played in 2023 4 months ago:
Minecraft Legends doesn’t have a broken camera that makes you fall off cliffs constantly ¯_(ツ)_/¯
- Submitted 4 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 5 comments