smeg
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- Comment on kingdom come 2 hours ago:
- Comment on High on snus in school: The hidden nicotine pouches shredding teens' gums 10 hours ago:
FYI it’s “cigarette butts”, cigarette buds are the pals who join you on your smoke break
- Comment on [deleted] 21 hours ago:
Bit of a clickbait, the full quote is:
At Ubisoft, the golden rule when developing premium games is to allow players to enjoy the game in full without having to spend more. Our monetization offer within premium games makes the player experience more fun by allowing them to personalize their avatars or progress more quickly, however this is always optional.
So still sniffing their own farts, but not quite as deluded as the out-of-context quote makes it sound.
- Comment on YouTube app is the worst 2 days ago:
Now you can install the homebrew channel just with developer mode. There’s also an app to automatically refresh the timer but I was a little hesitant about the access it wanted so I’m just doing it manually for now.
- Comment on YouTube app is the worst 2 days ago:
You don’t even need to root it, developer mode is relatively simple to set up and that lets you install whatever. A pihole is good for stopping it phoning home though.
- Comment on YouTube app is the worst 2 days ago:
Don’t forget SmartTube for Android TV / Shield / Fire and youtube-webos for LG TVs!
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 2 days ago:
Just try it, first one’s free! And the second. And the third…
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 3 days ago:
I know I shouldn’t encourage your addiction, but there’s !freegames@feddit.uk if you want to pump those numbers up
- Comment on Can I lick it? 5 days ago:
So is lead, and that’s also yellow
- Comment on Can I lick it? 5 days ago:
Compared to some of the others it’s pretty low in radioactivity (isotope dependent)
- Comment on Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing. 2 weeks ago:
Does that work? I always assumed games with DRM wouldn’t work if they couldn’t authenticate to your Steam account.
- Comment on Developer Interview: my Q&A with the dev who runs 'the' Switch piracy freeshop 2 weeks ago:
Simple explanation: if you have one console full of fond childhood memories then of course that’s the one you consider to be the best!
- Comment on Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing. 2 weeks ago:
You can still play them on your GameCube or Wii though, or take copies of the discs and play them on anything that runs Dolphin
- Comment on Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing. 2 weeks ago:
FYI if seems you can access older versions of Steam games, it’s just a bit hacky
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 2 weeks ago:
OK, just making sure you’re aware that the reason everyone is talking about gacha games is because they’re the ones that you brought up!
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 2 weeks ago:
How many of the mobile games that you specifically mentioned aren’t gatcha games?
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 2 weeks ago:
Fingers crossed!
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t it already reach the threshold last year and the government (or the civil servant in charge of rejecting every petition) closed it saying that current consumer protection laws already apply?
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 2 weeks ago:
It also launched a year or two before the ps3 and I feel like it was significantly cheaper. Xbox Live also seemed to be huge despite the cost, probably some network effect in action. I remember Gears of War being another big name they had.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 2 weeks ago:
In the uk I remember the 360 being huge and nobody having a ps3, but now I’m not sure I know a single person who bought an xb1 or whatever the current one is called.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 2 weeks ago:
That was probably one of their most sensible naming decisions
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #21 3 weeks ago:
I guess they’re trying to make it more integrated and covering every source they can, but something about taking an open source project and turning it into a subscription service to play the games you already bought on the computer you already bought is… not to my taste
- Comment on Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division 3 weeks ago:
That sounds about right. I remember the 360 being huge and nobody having a ps3, but now I’m not sure I know a single person who bought an xb1 or whatever the current one is called.
- Comment on iOS 26 Beta 2 tones down the Liquid Glass effect 3 weeks ago:
What do they do about devices that are still getting minor updates or fixes but not new major versions?
- Comment on iOS 26 Beta 2 tones down the Liquid Glass effect 3 weeks ago:
Say you released version 2023, 2024, and 2025, all of which are in support at the same time. It’s 2025, but your latest release might be 2023.2, which looks like it’s out of date to a user.
- Comment on iOS 26 Beta 2 tones down the Liquid Glass effect 3 weeks ago:
Date-based versioning sounds great in theory, but if you have more than one version in support at once then it can get ugly quickly
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I believe that’s to get the assets (i.e. the textures, character models, etc) which are still covered by copyright and so can’t be included in the decomp projects
- Comment on Only 1 in 3 Euro consumers are trading in their old phones 4 weeks ago:
If your phone is encrypted and you factory reset it I believe the encryption key is wiped so the data is gone (unless MI5 are really keen on spending a lot of time piecing it back together, I guess)
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #19 4 weeks ago:
I think if you click on anyone’s profile in the Lemmy web UI (or any community) then you can click a little RSS button to get this link, not sure if it can distinguish between posts and comments though
- Comment on UK unis sign up to £10M Oracle Java subscription framework 5 weeks ago:
Skipping past the usual deserved ‘fuck Oracle’, what reason do universities (or most organisations for that matter) have to ever use Oracle’s Java? The likes of OpenJDK seem to provide identical functionality for anyone who isn’t specifically supporting Oracle Java customers, and I doubt unis are raising many JDK bugs that warrant paying for support.
