rozodru

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe if a new generation of consoles are released they’re just going to be glorified streaming boxes. Sony has pretty much hit a plateau as far as graphics go, there’s not much you can improve upon now. And sure people are cancelling and complaining about gamepass but Microsoft might just go the route of “we’ll tell you what you want, and if you want this exclusive you’ll have no choice but to subscribe”.

  So you’ll pay for this streaming box, you’ll get maybe a couple months of the subscription for free, then you’ll pay $30 to $50 a month to get access to their catalog. Sony and Nintendo will follow suite. If you want to actually “own” anything you’ll play on PC and even then that’s truly up for debate. Like do you actually own the content you buy on Steam?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t even watch anything on Twitch anymore. I used to watch moonmoon, gigaboots, cohhcarnage, northern lion, etc and I just stopped months ago. It’s not fun anymore. I might tune in to watch desert bus or AGDQ but that’s about it and that’s just for background noise when those events are happening.

  But the site, overall, just isn’t the same. Maybe the content got worse or I just grew out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They must have a decent marketing budget because I’ve seen A LOT of big streamers playing it. It looked ok. not my cup o tea.

  also funny note that the new Call of Duty apparently censors “ARC Raiders” in the in game chat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study proves being rude to AI chatbots gets better results than being nice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I found you get more specific solutions the worse you treat it. none of the “it’s a known issue” or problem confirmations or any of that. you just call it an idiot, moron, use all caps, cuss at it a few times.

  The funny thing is, at least with Claude, is that it will mimic your language and start cussing back. ChatGPT on the other hand will just start insulting you back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cry Havoc for this open world cyberpunk dog-fighter inspired by G-Police⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved G-Police and will be checking this out

  Come to think of it the PSX did have some pretty good flight/space sims. The Colony Wars series was awesome especially Vengeance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  actually been fighting with that all morning and I’m just about to give up. I don’t understand why my tiles will stack one on top of the other on one monitor but on the second monitor they dwindle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s my dumb laptop in all honesty. it’s a hybrid amd/nvidia so on x11 I can’t game at all. which sucks cause I REALLY love Herbstluftwm. And due to my work I need tiling so for now I’ve settled on COSMIC. it’s beta, it’s buggy, the panel crashes randomly, can’t change the font to my liking but it’s pretty much my only working option on my current rig. I’ve tried KDE Plasma 6 with Krohnkite but that’s just a mess and also buggy for simply tiling.

  The thing is I could use Hyprland, I know it works, I know it works well but I just don’t agree with the lead dev on anything and I don’t want to use something that goes against what I believe in. Hell I even tried building my own wayland wm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  look like it or not (and trust me, I don’t) unfortunately Hyprland is the best (while buggy best) WM for Wayland. And trust me, I’ve tried them all. The majority of the things just work right out of the box with hyprland. your next best option is Sway but if you’re on Nvidia then you’re essentially on your own as far as official support goes. Everything else? nothing comes close. It’s not like x11 WMs where you have plenty of good and working options, it’s just not there for wayland. sooooo everyone uses Hyprland.

  The ease of use, the fact a good majority of things just work, and the vast amount of documentation/support for Hyprland puts it miles ahead of any competition. And considering the douchnozzle of a dev behind it, that sucks.

  River is fine, but there’s some things on river that just won’t work. for the life of me I can’t figure out how to get xfreerdp to work on River and their multimonitor implementation is bleh. Sway is fine but like I said if you have Nvidia then they don’t like you. Niri is frustrating. and the rest are just meh. IF Cagebreak decided to get off their high horse and actually implement wlroots/layer than THAT would be the go to WM but that’s not going to happen. So Unfortunately we’re left with hyprland for now until something like COSMIC matures OR implements as much customization as hyprland which I doubt will happen.

  The wayland landscape for WMs/Compositors absolutely sucks. Sorry but that’s just my personal honest opinion. And because of how my main laptop is setup I HAVE to use wayland so please if someone has a better tiling option than Hyprland that isn’t Sway then I’m all ears.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the comment section for Brodie’s Omarchy video weren’t much better to the point I honestly started thinking “did DHH pay a PR firm or something?” because you’ll notice the SAME comments spread across several videos regarding Omarchy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s because of his Arch .dotfiles believe it or not. People are hailing it as the “second coming” of linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space battle games for casual player?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yes! believe it or not most of the music in the game is also copyright free music. like “Evil Ways” for example which was also the theme song for professional wrestler AJ Styles when he was in TNA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space battle games for casual player?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for Rebel Galaxy.

  It came out a few years ago but it’s still a really good game that I’ll pick up every now and then. The combat is surprisingly good for a space game that’s on a 2d plane.

  Completely offline which is nice also.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Zone of the Enders 1 and 2
  Shadowhearts
  SSX Tricky
  Burnout
  Katamari Damacey
  Ribbit King
  Roommania #201
  SkyGunner
  Oni
  Dead or Alive 2
  Silent Hill 2 and 3
  Mobile Suit Gundam: Zeonic Front
  Mobile Suit Gundam: The Lost War Chronicles
  Xenosaga
  .dot Hack
  Smackdown: Here Comes The Pain
  Def Jam Vendetta
  GunGrave
  Capcom vs SNK
  Marvel vs Capcom 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  stopped using Amazon when they switched to Bluetooth lockers that can ONLY be opened via their shitty amazon app. Prior to that? was easy and the lockers were great. either enter the code you get emailed or scan the barcode and boom locker opens. NOW you need to have the amazon app which tries to connect to the locker via bluetooth. It’s hit or miss. I don’t want to use your amazon app, I just want my stuff. The thing doesn’t even work most of the time. I remember once I was waiting in line to pick up my package and of the 5 people standing in line with me at the locker 3 of them couldn’t get the locker to open. Contact customer service? it’s a known issue…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yup they’ll go the route of Sega. The writing has been on the wall with the Xbox Division for awhile now that I’m honestly surprised they’re still trying to “make it work”.

  Xbox was a weird one. I haven’t used one since the 360 and honestly I couldn’t even begin to tell you what the next console in the line was after the 360. was it the series x? was it the one? I dont’ know. I mean after buying like 5 360s because of red ring or whatever why would I continue that idiocy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it WAS a good deal early on. Also when they introduced their partnership with RIOT and it would allow you to unlock all the characters in LoL that was a very good deal if you were a League player.

  but the price increases and what have you…meh. it was good to get access to some games and not have to pay full retail for them. I’m thankful I didn’t pay full price for Starfield and just played it on gamepass but there would be months on end where there was nothing on there worth playing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WoW dies with the Lich King⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Shadowlands was where I finally stopped. Playing since day one I’ll never forget when I decided to stop. I got the the “fairy land” part of the expansion, was running my Orc Hunter through and then I just stopped and asked myself “What are you doing?” It wasn’t fun. It became a chore to get through the content to the eventual gear grind at the end just like ALL the previous expansions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky rolls out age verification for users in Ohio | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OR they could grow a spine and actually back up the shit they claim to advocate for. You can simply geoblock that area/state/country and state to your users there that you value free speech and you won’t bend the whims of a authoritarian government. Let the people who are now being denied a service complain and get it changed. Other companies have done this most recently Imgur.

  For a company to immediately bend the knee and institute ID checks doesn’t fly right with me. They’re stating that they are more than willing to change their policies at the whim of whatever government body. Also they are more than happy to start collecting MORE data on users to then do god knows what with. How do I know Bluesky isn’t going to sell said data they’ve obtained? how do I know how secure my ID is with them? And I do have to question their motivations when they consistently, immediately, agree to collect data on their users this way. Bluesky is essentially still a start up and they need funding, what better way to get more cash flowing in then harvesting their users data?

  I wouldn’t trust Bluesky as far as I could throw them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electronic Arts nears roughly $50 billion deal to go private, WSJ reports⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Saudi Arabia all of a sudden has become a Teenager from the late 90s/early 00s. Just buying Wrestlemania, Videogame companies and events, etc.

  Next thing you know they’re going to buy Mountain Dew, Doritos, JNCO jeans and the band KoRn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yup, am a Canuck :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a problem for me just because of the cost. I want to play Expedition 33 but I’m not sure I want to pay $70 to do so.

  I’m happy just playing my old ROM collections or booting up Cyberpunk or whatever. but now I just can’t justify dropping $70+ on a game anymore.

  sigh, I’ll probably just end up going back to EVE Online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  please, don’t. I’m on another 3 month break from EVE and I don’t want to go back just yet but….please…don’t I’m tired boss.

  this has been my life since 2003. EVE, take a break, EVE, another break, EVE, so on and so forth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LinkedIn set to start to train its AI on member profiles⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the hell are they going to train it on? jerking itself off? cause that’s all it’s going to “learn” if it trains on Linkedin profiles and posts.

  It’s just going to slurp up a bunch of tech bros posts that think AI is the second coming. it’s just going to learn that it thinks it’s hot shit when it’s not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infected Steam game downloads malware disguised as patch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  glad I use NixOS in all honesty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pink Visual. They were located in an undisclosed decent sized building on Speedway or Pima, can’t remember which it’s been awhile since I lived there.

  They primarily focused on DVD content, they had several sides and an affiliate program named TopBucks. They were owned by this very eccentric dude from Vietnam who drove a massively “blinged out” hummer that would be constantly parked out front. Thing is…only like a handful of people actually saw him in the building. it was weird. I never met the dude and I worked there for like 3 or 4 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  welp good thing Pink Visual shut down in Tucson, AZ cause….yeah that would have been awkward.

  Food was great there though, lunches were always decent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s bursting now. within the past few months to a year I’ve made more money switching my focus from freelance/consultion dev work to, essentially, a freelance digital janitor targeting AI. I get clients that desperately need to fix the slop they’ve produced and have me code review it to see how practical that is (9 times out of 10, it isn’t.)

  The calls/emails I’m getting from potential new clients are becoming more frequent on a weekly basis. People are panicking. And I know when it finally does finish bursting that it’s going to be hell out there. So since I’m now making more money than ever I’m saving AS MUCH as possible because I hope to come out of this shit on the other side and retire.

  To other devs potentially reading this, Get good at code reviewing and start leveraging that. it’s a skill that IS in demand right now and will be for awhile. Just the tech bros on linkedin are unwilling to admit it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it's true that it has gotten better with sources. However remember the context of the conversation? much worse. But I can see the direction OpenAI is trying to take it. short one off responses/solutions with little followup.

  It is better than Claude though. Claude will just make stuff up or say EVERYTHING is a "known issue" when it isn't.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your experiences using Linux for gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I use CachyOS (Arch) and NixOS and haven't had any problems. Modding on NixOS is a bit more of a headache but it's not a deal breaker. Everything just works. Sure I can't play League or Valorant or EA multiplayer games but not like I was playing those anyways. IF you do enjoy those games then your linux gaming experience isn't going to be great.

  As far as distros go? hell you can play on whatever one you want. Like I said I sometimes game on NixOS. I know a guy that even play games on Kali when he's not doing his pen testing stuff.

  Even for older games with Emulation it's great. NixOS is my defacto remote emulation machine because it's so painfully easy to set up retroarch on it. Otherwise I have Ubuntu on my private server and I run RomM on it and it has all my roms on there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ethical alternatives to Spotify⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer to pay artists I like directly either via merch, patreon, or going to their concerts.

  for my music? soulseek/nicotine+ on my server.

  the problem is Spotify is by far the best streaming platform out there, bar none. I've tried the other's like Tidal and Deezer and what have you and just didn't like them. Amazon Music was absolutely horrible. The only other alternative would be youtube music with an adblocker. How do I find new artists? youtube shorts believe it or not.

  But yeah I'd rather pay the artists directly.