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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not saying you can or you can’t, but if you could, and I’m not saying you can, I would have full DRM-free backups of every Blu-ray I own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun thing, even a DVD or Blu-ray is technically licensed by them, and they claim they have the right to revoke it whenever they want. In the case of Blu-ray they have tried to do this via “updates” to the Blu-ray players

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard's impressive tresses feature '50,000 individual strands per character for over 100 hairstyles'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey lol very valid! I’ve been waiting for this for 10 years!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: The Veilguard's impressive tresses feature '50,000 individual strands per character for over 100 hairstyles'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  SECOND?! ALREADY?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But yes.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was realizing that a lot of our power is still, at its core, a steam engine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seeing how Android adopted it 4 years later, it’s pretty obvious that Apple made it the de-facto standard. I agree with you, something like JPEG XT or really any other open format would have been a great choice, but they made HEIC the standard, which requires a license. Dick move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What other image format supports HDR and modern compression algorithms that doesn’t require a license?

  There, ftfy. You answer the question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally said it was easy to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IPhones' default photo format is HEIC, something that Windows doesn't open by default.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s a bit of a tossup between them. Apple definitely chose it to be a dick. However, Microsoft could rectify it easily if they wanted to.

  Both HEVC and HEIC thought cost money, and the vast majority of windows users will never use the codecs. Including the license with every copy of Windows is added cost to the end user that they receive no benefit from, so I understand why they would leave it out. HEVC prompts you if you try to play to go to the store and buy the license, which is good for your entire account. Honestly it’s not a terrible thing to do. I was one of the 1% of people who would play HEVC natively on Windows, so yeah the $3 license made sense

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord admin gets 15 years for “one of the most significant leaks” in US history - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Situation - You run a discord server for alt right and weirdly obsessed about the military dudes. You have a secret clearance. Do you -

  [ ] Share secret intel with people who have no need to see or know about it

  [ ] Do nothing

  Note: There are no political or military reasons to share this info, only ego boosting yourself. 30 seconds on the clock.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phil Spencer Confirms Xbox is Planning an Xbox Handheld, But It's a Few Years Away⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The surface is one of my go-to examples of Microsoft’s ineptitude. The surface is honestly an amazing tablet. It works very well, great battery life, and you can either use a standard tablet mode or it as a full Windows machine. For businesses too it was a slam-dunk, where since it’s Windows it already interfaces with most IT systems out of the box, no special setup or store integrations or Apple stuff, it’d work with Microsoft AD. Unfortunately it followed the pattern.

  • They gave up on tablets before fully vetting the market
  • Apple lands the iPad, and it takes off, is groundbreaking
  • Microsoft got butthurt that Apple made profit on a thing they gave up on
  • They take years coming up with the Surface, in the meantime every 3rd party came out with an Android one that was slow and choppy so the people have all decided iPad was the winner
  • Microsoft hired thousands of engineers and pivoted the entire world to touch, forcing Windows 8 down everyone’s throats, making the public hate it
  • Surface finally lands, but everyone already hates the interface, and anyone who wants a tablet already has one
  • Microsoft quietly lays off everyone. Surface is still around, but on life support.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phil Spencer Confirms Xbox is Planning an Xbox Handheld, But It's a Few Years Away⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft following the same pattern.

  • There is a need in the market they are aware of, but don’t care
  • Someone else makes a huge splash by doing a great job
  • Microsoft gets butthurt that someone else is making profit
  • They take way too long coming up with a rival
  • Microsoft hires thousands of engineers to work on the product
  • The rival is way too late to market, and everyone has already chosen the cool product
  • Microsoft quietly lays people off and kills off the product
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Period tracking app refuses to disclose data to American authorities⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Time to start self hosting these for my friends

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrim Is 13 Years Old, But Elder Scrolls 6 Is Nowhere in Sight While Bethesda’s First Four Games Took Only 12 Years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  TES6 isn’t real. It isn’t real. Do you see it? Is it in the room with us here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Witch hunting is going to quickly destroy Lemmy, and prevent it from flourishing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay so I read the comment, (is that witch hunting), and I agree with them. You’ve gone around being very negative about gaming, and are upset that someone called you out for being negative? Do you see the irony there? You’re allowed to have negative opinions of course, but if all gaming makes you annoyed then maybe it’s time to just disengage from the gaming communities. Not everyone has to like everything, but purposefully being in a community just to shit on everything doesn’t make you the hero.

  I have no idea why you brought up AI at all, unless you’re admitting you’re using AI to write your comments which other people seem to assume you are. Which… k, weird, just write your comments, don’t know why we need anything extra.

  In short, you can’t be mad when you’re being negative everywhere and then people call you out for being negative. If you want a more positive experience then… just be more positive.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yakuza creator Nagoshi says the era of game size being most important is coming to an end⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Compare it to a game like AC Valhalla and you’ll think it’s smaller

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yakuza creator Nagoshi says the era of game size being most important is coming to an end⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  God of war and Jedi have done great jobs of finally showing AAA they can make a smaller game and still have a great following. I’m so sick of giant Ubisoft worlds that have nothing to do in them. They’re boring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Questions about anonymity on lemmy.world servers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know me too, I love it here don’t get me wrong, but literally anyone can host an instance. GDPR is great overall, but it doesn’t cover when you blast your data to N number of other servers. There’s no clawback, and even then like we both said, there’s nothing stopping a 3 letter agency for listening and just ignoring the delete request. I love it here, but I’m not going to just give out private info either. If you want encrypted messaging, go to Matrix

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Questions about anonymity on lemmy.world servers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The fediverse is different than online social media. You have one server who has the data yes, but you are essentially blasting out all of your opinions across the entirety of the fediverse, where anyone or any entity can have a listener. There are no deletes either, meaning that whoever is listening does not have obey the delete request.

  We have our open world free from takedowns and corporate, but the tradeoff is privacy. Expect anyone to be listening

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony say their PSN account requirement on PC is so you can enjoy their games 'safely'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow I feel so safe now. Like Sony wrapped me up in their arms and swaddled me. Thank you papa sony

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We challenged the status quo, wanting positive change.

  They offered discounts on gas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I’ve come around to. It’s not him. He’s a figurehead that we apply blame but it’s not. It’s the people - the public. They want this. They have the fear and the hate, they actively want it. If America didn’t want him, they wouldn’t have voted him in. Even with tampering/whatever, if America didn’t, he wouldn’t be there. But America does want him, and that’s a very sobering and sad thought to me. I try to live with a simple code - do what you want, as long as it doesn’t hurt others. I learned yesterday that most American’s don’t have similar values.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve changed man, since then. I don’t know how I feel about the Democrats, but I’m devastated over who voted Republican. So many people in this country voted for him. It wasn’t just we had low turnout, but also just that he had so much. That’s the disheartening thing for me, that still, with everything we know, he still carries 50% of this country easily. So yeah, we had too few, but worse, he has too many.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨George Carlin everybody.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s why we’re leaning against having kids. Because at every turn I tried to make this world something better for the next generation, and I just don’t see it anymore. So why not just ride it out. Maybe adoption, but I just don’t see how we’re moving at all in a positive direction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨George Carlin everybody.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s the shift in my mind when I woke up this morning. That with everything, I honest to God believed that people were done with everything and that we wanted to stand up for things like women’s rights and lgbtq rights. What instead we saw was a wave of anger, hatred, and selfishness that I have never seen in my life.

  And I’m just kind of over it. I’ve fought the majority of my life to protect programs that help the needy, the disenfranchised, programs like unemployment, welfare, and dei programs. And what I saw yesterday is that those ideas are the minority in this country. Most people in this country want something short term for them and don’t have a care in the world about anyone else. They don’t care who is hurting as long as they get to go to Walmart and save a few cents on gas. And I’m over it.

  That’s who we have built up in this country. Selfish entitled children. And they’re the majority.

  The funny thing is that for me, Trump will probably be great for me personally. I make decent money, I’m white, and straight, and his policies are very favorable to me. That is, if I threw out all of my concerns about who gets stepped on along the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tom Hanks Explains Why Comic Book Movies Are Flopping⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s not the one making the movies though, he’s an actor. I don’t like what my company does but it’s not like they’re asking me what I think

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stanley Cup Accessories Are Wild⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey I’m sure they’ll really use that! Twice.

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