lyralycan
@lyralycan@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features 2 weeks ago:
I’m using an adblocker and get in just fine, may be random or it may be the js blockers I’ve implemented. Here’s my list of lists in case:
- AdAway Default Blocklist
- Peter Lowe’s Blocklist
- OISD Blocklist Big
- uBlock₀ filters – Badware risks
- HaGeZi’s Ultimate Blocklist
- AdGuard DNS filter
- Phishing URL Blocklist (PhishTank and OpenPhish)
- Perflyst and Dandelion Sprout’s Smart-TV Blocklist
- Phishing Army
- HaGeZi’s Windows/Office Tracker Blocklist
- Malicious URL Blocklist (URLHaus)
- EasyList Cookie Blocker
- No Google (disabled for now)
- Comment on PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features 2 weeks ago:
Steam is turning into a sour grape for me - I complied with their restrictive and ancient method of age verification for UK accounts but I kind of want to migrate off them (they also charge high fees for devs, make it ridiculously difficult for new devs to exist, can singlehandedly destroy a studio and are very much monopolising the PC games industry so there’s also ethics) - in favour of GOG. At least with them you own your games, and can (shock horror) even choose whether or not to update and patch that way to glitch out of the map, or duplicate those orbs for currency, or anything else that doesnt comply with the specific way you’re allowed to play with the world they built.
- Comment on PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features 2 weeks ago:
Xbox has had this for quite a while now (although I haven’t checked if that’s UK exclusive yet)
- Comment on Extreme screen glare 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s not terrible, I believe a rival light source interrupts the waves from the screen so it doesnt hurt as much (is also the science behind monitor bars), but I agree – I’d probably prefer a no-image-compromise, scratch-resistant, effective antiglare coating to a simply brighter screen. Can’t say for sure though as my phone doesn’t have a coating
- Comment on Servers go Brrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
It seems very common in the US to get these mailed by the supplier. This one seems to be a blueprint for National Grid, and is similar to a post from this house light show co. on Facebook
- Comment on Extreme screen glare 2 weeks ago:
Nor does 2000nits screen gang
My head is super itchy though…
- Comment on Doing the Lord's work. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on A handy graphic to bring you up to speed on the Katy Perry/Ruby Rose situation. 3 weeks ago:
That’s cool, but wtf is it a conversation on Lemmy for
- Comment on Enshittiflation 3 weeks ago:
Good point, with a caveat. The vast majority of aforementioned demand on China is terrible quality. That doesn’t mean that the only reason Chinese trash manufacture exists is because of foreign contracts. In fact, I believe very few of them were actually ‘asked to make trash’.
I am willing to stake that nobody, not even American businessmen, paid those manufacturers to create ten thousand seller pages on Amazon and the like with randomly generated six character names.
- Comment on Enshittiflation 3 weeks ago:
PFF I didnt know the US exported anything good. I never mentioned the US.
EU, on the other hand… There are more than two countries in the world
- Comment on her indifference to her surroundings is deeply profound 3 weeks ago:
Original caption is “Country girls make do”
- Comment on Enshittiflation 3 weeks ago:
Not if you look outside China for your products. West Taiwan does export some quality but they’re unicorns
- Comment on ‘Seeking connection’: the video game (Arc Raiders) where players stopped shooting and started talking... 3 weeks ago:
Hell, I wish more games just had humanity. It might be due to me being antiwar, but when playing MMOs (whose MO is pretty much always ‘kill each other’ PVP) I wish folk were not so quick to kill, especially not when the kill isn’t imperative. Face it, some of the best ever moments in gaming are when folk have the option to kill each other and dont. A shred of humanism.
Universal signs in COD existed to plead for mercy, such as switching to a knife and looking away. In Black Ops II there’s a rave room in a map and several players spent a minute bobbing their characters around until someone else came and mowed the other team down. One time in Battlefield I spent the majority of a game (no mic mind you) chilling on a roof with half a dozen players from two teams. I came to multiplayer FPS games for the combat, stayed for the randoms I met.
- Comment on What are some good, solid cables for charging and data transfer? 4 weeks ago:
They have powerful little toofs! Have you seen a skull or mockup? Took me seeing a model in the vet’s office to realise they have teeth way further in, loads of molars for the cromch
- Comment on What are some good, solid cables for charging and data transfer? 4 weeks ago:
They blep out the pieces, and the energy is mostly harmless it seems. They love that spicy hay. Can confirm mine were fine with a 24v 0.5a current at the most (partner’s laptop cable while charging) but generally they are tiny and can easily die from it, in theory
- Comment on What are some good, solid cables for charging and data transfer? 4 weeks ago:
Apple users won’t know the difference - I know a lot of the time data and power transfer numbers don’t matter to the average user, but I feel it’s goddamn criminal to use USB C but artificially restrict (for their non Pro phones ofc) to 2.0 speeds, while charging the same for their products as other, far better equipped phones. Same with Samsung and their incessant restrictions on any cable that’s not Samsung, offering like 60W of charging speed max. Meanwhile all the other Androids are living it up with USB3.2, max 10Gbps, and >100W since 2023.
- Comment on What are some good, solid cables for charging and data transfer? 4 weeks ago:
I do my best. It is frustrating when an ‘independent’ storefront uses Amazon Logistics /FBA aha. And I can’t easily avoid Amazon’s primary source of income AWS, but I can reduce their e-commerce traffic at least. I love “Jeff Mart”
- Comment on What are some good, solid cables for charging and data transfer? 4 weeks ago:
Whatever cables you want, buy Anker, go braided, and buy from their store and not Amazon. I don’t know what kind of monkeys are breaking them and such. The only thing that ever killed my cables in 4+ years of use was a rabbit
- Comment on What to Play (and Watch) While Waiting for Forza Horizon 6 (my article!) 4 weeks ago:
One of my favourite parts of gaming was the Tokyo level in Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition Remix. You’ll need a retro setup to run it haha
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
AI powered Sentries
- Comment on A Game Pass for indie games: meet Indie Pass, a $6.99-a-month subscription launching with 70 titles 5 weeks ago:
I feel like 10¢ US per game per month is pretty expensive. I mean, that’s 30% more expensive than Xbox Game Pass Premium which offers top tier, popular games, and their monetised multiplayer servers. I think they’re gonna struggle to make a sustainable service from this
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
But they call them squares
- Comment on oh and it's also a crime 5 weeks ago:
Greatest con the government ever pulled was convincing the masses that state law = right. Way I see it, there are five primary laws and each region’s society and ruler values their hierarchy independently: State, Ethical/Natural, Religious, Corporate, Moral. Some say moral law is subjective, well I say moral code is often shared, especially when it’s a question of life.
- Comment on It’s still halal though 5 weeks ago:
Indonesian milk brand with Wuthering Waves waifu promos, different characters for each flavour, released in 2024. I now want waifu food packaging here lol
- Comment on British cyclist refused £15k payout because thieves ‘weren’t violent enough’ 5 weeks ago:
You right. Meeting the terms of contract with a mutual agreement has always been a requirement. Who knows what the terms were in their contract but ‘a van’ as the secure storage and ‘I don’t know how’ they got in isn’t good enough. You need to know what locks were on the van. When I insured my motorcycle I had to include the model of D lock, as I learned later, relying solely on the bike’s lock isn’t enough because with enough force thieves can yank the handlebars and snap the key lock off the forks. Or carry the while thing onto a bed
- Comment on British cyclist refused £15k payout because thieves ‘weren’t violent enough’ 5 weeks ago:
There are always skits and jokes about the UK police force not doing anything until it’s too late or there’s a confirmed state-defined criminal actually making themselves known. Because it’s accurate and true.
- Comment on who would win 1 month ago:
Or quit the fucking company come on
- Comment on Had a chuckle 1 month ago:
You need to be 18+ to buy broadband or mobile contracts in the first place 😫
- Comment on betrayal 1 month ago:
but the advancement
- Comment on New kink unlocked 1 month ago:
