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- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 3 hours ago:
That’s the thing, for many Windows users it has been giving you a good time for years. Windows 10 was actually pretty nice to use when it came out; it’s life has been a classic death-by-a-thousand-cuts of becoming spyware, but the users are so used to it they aren’t aware that their delicious drug isn’t giving the same high and is now fucking them up.
- Comment on How Google’s DeepMind tool is ‘more quickly’ forecasting hurricane behavior 13 hours ago:
Is “AI” just a meaningless buzzword? Like, is there actually anything in common between this hurricane tool, the LLM chatbots, and the image-generation stuff?
- Comment on Valve has ‘a pretty good idea’ of what Steam Deck 2 is going to be, but it’s not ready yet [VGC] 6 days ago:
Do we think it’ll be ready when they can give it specs to match the steam machine so there’s a single target for developers, or the more exciting option of building something arm-based using whatever fex wizardry is going on in the frame?
- Comment on fragile masculinity 1 week ago:
Male gardeners as depicted in popular fiction:
A real alpha male helps you carry The Ring to Mordor
- Comment on To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub 1 week ago:
Don’t go for a whole guide, pick something smaller like all the recipes or a map of Dry Dry Desert (two things I remember printing off back in the day!)
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider (SteamDeck) 1 week ago:
Well if you add the games to steam then you can launch them all from game mode
- Comment on Rise of the Tomb Raider (SteamDeck) 2 weeks ago:
The official itch launcher works on Linux too!
- Comment on Musk Exploits AWS Outage To Unfairly Slam Signal, Promote His Shittier Chat Software 4 weeks ago:
Amusingly the last Signal outage I remember was actually caused by Musk when he tweeted “use Signal” and so many people did that it took down their sign-up servers
- Comment on egg time 4 weeks ago:
The pope approves
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 5 weeks ago:
Not even based on, it is Android
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 5 weeks ago:
I played Metroid Prime for the first time recently and Samus Aran is an absolute badass. She crash lands on a planet and kills every single thing she encounters. If you read the logs of the space pirates you find scattered around they basically say “oh fuck the hunter is here, she’s coming for us next”.
The atmosphere is almost a little survival-horror-esque, but the experience is more like doom: you’re not locked in here with all these monsters, all these monsters are locked in here with you.
- Comment on Switch 2 continues to break US launch sales records, selling more in its first three months than PS4 | VGC 5 weeks ago:
Odyssey wasn’t a launch title and BotW was a WiiU game, but I get your point. Plenty of consoles don’t have many unique games at launch.
- Comment on More than 60% of US game players only buy two games or fewer per year, survey finds | VGC 1 month ago:
Since I started !freegames@feddit.uk I’ve not bought a single game but my backlog is growing way faster than I can play through it. Not a bad first-world problem to have, really!
- Comment on Android/Phone Alternatives? [Discussion] 1 month ago:
There’s !linuxphones@lemmy.ca / !linuxphones@lemmy.ml which often have some interesting chats about projects like PostMarketOS. I’ve not seen anything that is a viable replacement for a “daily driver” smartphone yet, but if you’re keen to tinker then there’s probably some cool stuff to try out.
- Comment on Being a noob in heist games 1 month ago:
I loved that game. It’s been a while since I played but I remember the only way I could reliably do the max-difficulty missions quickly was by using the brick spaceship to smash directly into the room where the target was or something insane like that!
- Comment on Fun yet unknown gameplay MECHANICS? (POLL) 1 month ago:
“Dodo cheat”, at least according to the little cheat book I had back in the day. It gave cars the same mechanics as the dodo (which I think was the little sea plane). Using the tank like a rocket and aiming for a ramp was the best.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’m not really that fussed about story, it’s a nice bonus but the gameplay is what keeps me hooked. Sounds like Inscryption is the one to play first; Slay the Spire sounds more like the Binding of Isaac, something I’ve probably put a thousand hours into already!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Keep at it, the mirror unlocks really help (plus you just get better at dodging etc)
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’ve got both of these games, which one should I play first? I’m fully expecting to put hundreds of hours into each so I guess I want the smaller/simpler one first, but if you’ve played both and can make a (spoiler free) recommendation then please do!
- Comment on The ultimate all-in-one PC: Raspberry Pi 500+ 1 month ago:
The true cyberdeck experience
- Comment on Fat Goblins: Online Hat-Based PvP inspired by Fat Princess - Kickstarter and Playtest Live Now! 1 month ago:
upgrade your base to access new hats, steal enemy hats
Seems so!
- Comment on Logitech’s new light-powered keyboard doesn’t even need the sun 1 month ago:
Solaar is the one I use, it was a Lemmy recommendation and I think there’s at least one other implementation out there
- Comment on Logitech’s new light-powered keyboard doesn’t even need the sun 1 month ago:
Good point, I’ve used a Logitech mouse and I think that needs software (FOSS implementation available) for button remapping, could be different for a keyboard though
- Comment on Logitech’s new light-powered keyboard doesn’t even need the sun 1 month ago:
Alternatively, you can assign one of Logitech’s Smart Actions to the key to, say, ask Perplexity for an answer to your query in your browser. Or, you can just set it to be right CTRL.
Entirely reprogrammable though, as with most uses of “AI” it’s just a buzzword to sell to a few extra chumps.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 1 month ago:
What you were taught
“Mobile phones will never replace desktop computers”
What we know now
Mobile devices became the primary computing platform for billions of people worldwide.
That isn’t a response to the initial statement at all, which is very much an opinion or prediction rather than any claim to be a fact. I’m suddenly feeling pretty sceptical about this website.
- Comment on 100% free - The Leviathan's Fantasy (on Steam) 1 month ago:
I’m seeing this slightly unusual arrangement:
but pressing
Add to Libraryseemed to work with no further hoops to jump through! - Comment on UNDER THE THC 🎶 2 months ago:
Science isn’t about why, it’s about why not?
- Comment on Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Official Nintendo Switch Trailer 2 months ago:
When I last played them Dolphin really struggled, but fortunately you can buy a Wii and the discs for a few quid each!
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 2 months ago:
I don’t know if things are different at Microsoft or across the pond in general, but from people I’ve spoken to who’ve been given similar “mandates”, they’re not as compulsory as they first sound. If you’re reasonably good at your job and your manager is keen to keep you then you can get away with just ignoring these rules. More what you’d call “guidelines” and all that.
- Comment on have some standards 2 months ago:
Ah, so FIFA but for Americans?
