JohnEdwa
@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on best comment under a video about the new iphone 17 3 days ago:
If you are going for Lineage, you might as well go with some more customized variants like CrDroid or EvolutionX, as long as there is an official build. They are Lineage but with more customizability. And with pixels, you can always take your first step of de-googling by getting GrapheneOS.
Though
- Comment on best comment under a video about the new iphone 17 3 days ago:
I just upgraded from my trusty Pixel 4a to a refurbished Pixel 8, it would have turned 4 years old next week. The battery was completely shot at the end, I got maybe 2½ hours of screentime.
I would have been perfectly happy with just swapping the battery and using it for the next four years, but I got an okay deal on the p8 so eh. - Comment on Midjourney's troubles get worse as Warner Bros Discovery sues the AI image generator for copyright infringement 1 week ago:
So, no commissions or patreon support if you are drawing fan art, got it.
- Comment on PS5 Digital Edition consoles are reportedly getting a quiet storage downgrade | VGC 1 week ago:
And a really shitty one, price difference between those two for a manufacturer ordering things in quantity is barely anything. Sony saves $5 per console, users lose 20% of their storage.
- Comment on PS5 price is an ‘unexpectedly large’ barrier for Monster Hunter Wilds sales, Capcom president says | VGC 1 week ago:
If someone has those kinds of hours in a new game it’s a sign of having no life, but playtime starts stacking up real fast - just three hours a day gets you to 1000 total in a year, and MonHu World is seven years old.
For me that game was Deep Rock Galactic, I played it for around 700 hours in the first year or so just by running a few missions each day. - Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 3 weeks ago:
And it’s not like this is new, Redditmethis has been a thing for, oof, over a decade? Well before all of this AI stuff.
- Comment on 4chan is getting fined in the UK by the Office of Communications(Ofcom) under Online Safety Act; 4Chan Respond by appealing to Trump administration and intending to fight it in the U.S courts. 3 weeks ago:
It is not, it’s an officially recognised human right.
- Comment on This startup wants to use the Earth as a massive battery 5 weeks ago:
Obviously, assuming you have that hill.
Slightly harder to do in places like the Netherlands for example, where the tallest hill is 322 metres, and the second tallest that isn’t part of that same mountain range near the Belgium border is just 110. - Comment on How To Be Evil in RPGs When You’re a Chronic Goody-Two-Shoes 1 month ago:
The only way I could manage my evil dark urge & minthara playthrough was to leave Karlach entirely unrecruited. Not that you could even get that far with her anyway as she doesn’t agree with evil choices and will sooner or later leave.
- Comment on The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers 2 months ago:
It’s simply checking if the connection is from an actual browser, as a scraper pretending to be one won’t actually refresh the page as instructed. It’s going to buy some time, but like the rest of Anubis in general, it will only work until the scrapers get modified to work around it.
- Comment on How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking 2 months ago:
Though nyko should be on the hook to buy you a new switch if they design a piece of shit that wrecks your switch
Nintendo also tried to lock down the Switch 1 docking, and 3rd party manufacturers had to hack together a workarounds. "When Nintendo released the original Switch in 2017, accessory makers similarly had to figure out how to crack Nintendo’s esoteric docking protocols, and some of them (Nyko) allegedly led to damaged handhelds."
I’d more blame that for causing the issues in the first place, if the Switch spoke standard USB-C, then all reputable docks would work with no weird hacks. - Comment on Self-Driving Tesla Fails School Bus Test, Hitting Child-Size Dummies… Meanwhile, Robo-Taxis Hit the Road in 2 Weeks. 3 months ago:
From what I’ve read, Waymo isn’t doing too bad of a job at it. They obviously aren’t perfect, but have succeeded at being much safer than human drivers. But those cars have a bazillion different sensors on them, while Tesla is trying to do the same with nothing but a few cameras and computer vision systems.
- Comment on Lies of P is getting difficulty options to make the Soulslike more accessible [VGC] 3 months ago:
And the opponents wait for 2 seconds after finishing their attacks. Soulslikes are all about learning the patterns and finding the opportunities to hit between dodges, not about mindlessly hack-n-slashing your way to victory.
And different weapons work for different people, I have some I’m absolutely useless with because I just can’t work with their movesets.
- Comment on Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining" 3 months ago:
“412 people (403 professional roles, 9 thanks) with 502 credits.” www.mobygames.com/game/241065/…/windows/?autoplat…
As for those compared budgets, CoD Black Ops Cold War cost $700 million and GTA 6 has already surpassed a billion.
- Comment on Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining" 3 months ago:
There is an argument to be made that Expedition 33 was essentially created by a studio with 30 people (though once you add everyone that worked on it the credits do balloon to over 400) with a rather small budget, and meanwhile companies like Rockstar, Sony and Activision have thousands working for years and spending hundreds of millions creating games like GTA 6, CoD and Concord, so naturally they should be a lot more expensive to buy too.
They just shouldn’t be surprised if people don’t buy all the $500 Waguy steak on offer and are perfectly happy with way cheaper options.
- Comment on Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining" 3 months ago:
I do choose carefully, I buy half a dozen indie games on sale instead, and I have nothing to complain about.
- Comment on VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them 3 months ago:
Yet it is.
You can go to a company and ask to buy their office building. Or the name trademark. Or staff. Or customer database. Or website. And you continue this until you’ve acquired literally everything the company has except the actual company itself - it’s called an “asset acquisition” - so you get all the stuff, but because the original company technically still exists it’s left with most of the liabilities.
Most, because some liabilities thankfully do transfer.
- Comment on Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year 3 months ago:
Yup I’ve spent a good while running Deck in desktop mode compared to my laptop running Manjaro, and so far the only thing I’ve noticed is that the Deck has that handy “add to steam” context menu item that automatically sets a 3rd party game to run in proton through steam.
And there’s an AUR package for that.So unless there’s something more I’ve missed, Manjaro + that package gets you the entire desktop SteamOS experience on any device.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months 4 months ago:
- Comment on What game do you really want to play, but haven't yet because you feel it in your soul that it will get a remake/remaster soon enough? 5 months ago:
It’s getting a remaster, but also maybe a remake at some point.
- Comment on Like to drive fast? Virginia has an anti-speeding device for you. 5 months ago:
Hope they keep those maps updated, the assist on our BMW constantly gets the speed limits wrong. There’s a section that was changed from 50km/h to 70km/h years ago and it still gets confused because the signs don’t match the map it’s using, flip flopping between the two multiple times.
- Comment on Google changes Chrome extension policies following the Honey link scandal 5 months ago:
Honey being one of them, it did start as a simple addon that gathered and automatically tried coupon codes for you. It did exactly what people expected it to do.
But obviously once you start getting hundreds of millions in venture capital funds, and eventually sell yourself to Paypal for 4 billion, it’s clear that isn’t all you are doing any more.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 8 months ago:
Ha, I had this exact conversation with a friend of mine a few days ago, he wants to upgrade from 16GB to 32GB and when I asked why, he just blanked out for a while and went “…because more is better, right?”
He spends most of his time playing rpg maker porn games and raid shadow legend.
- Comment on Discussion: Cybertruck involved in attempted bombing in Las Vegas auto-locked after explosion 8 months ago:
If the car has internet connectivity and an app, then the answer to that question is yes, because that’s how the apps work.
And I very much doubt you can find a manufacturer that promises that they definitely don’t ever access that functionality or data for any reason whatsoever. - Comment on After years of holding out hope, 2024 was the year I finally gave up on BioWare 8 months ago:
Bioware is (was) actually many studios in a trenchcoat - Bioware Edmonton (“old” Bioware, ME trilogy, Anthem), Bioware Austin (Sw:TOR, DA: I) and formerly Bioware Montreal (ME: Andromeda).
Though almost all of the veterans have left, so it’s now kinda a Ship of Thesius type situation, Bioware only in name.
- Comment on ‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators? 9 months ago:
Even without machine translation, stuff like that has been the bane of translating software for ages as they are almost always done with absolutely zero context whatsoever, just a list of words and strings.
- Comment on Pocketpair reveals specific patents featured in Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld 9 months ago:
For the consumer, obviously.
Patents exist to protect the profit of the inventor, specifically because once you have spent the RnD money to make something, someone else can take your finished idea and create your thing without having to cover those costs. Their entire point is to make sure stuff stays more expensive and exclusive for longer.But the issue isn’t that patents or even software patents exist as a thing, they are important to protect against copying, it’s that seemingly almost anything no matter how simple, vague or universal it is can apply and get patented, and whoever owns those patents then doesn’t have to use or license them, instead they just sit on them waiting to strike with a lawsuit.
Like one of the Nintendo ones which is the genius and detailed idea of “you can can capture animals and ride them using controller input in a vidya gaym!” - a concept entire unique and one that hasn’t been ever used before in a game I bet.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Self hosting isn’t really compatible with viral content, you do something that blows up and either get the hug of death or go bankrupt from the bandwidth costs.
- Comment on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' 10 months ago:
Helped you (and Valve) to save some bandwidth. But yes. If it requires a Steam account to play, you bought a license allowing you to access a game and not an actual game you own.
- Comment on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' 10 months ago:
Which is why you don’t have physical copies of those games - you bought a steam key, exactly like you could have done digitally from humblebundle of greenmangaming or myriad of other stores, this one just had it printed on a piece of paper instead of sending you an email.
