Sina

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Konami instantly shot down the Wachowskis’ request to have Hideo Kojima make a Matrix game, it’s claimed [VGC]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The fourth one has a shockingly good electronic soundtrack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Update on Stop Killing Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m extremely happy about point 4. That’s by far the most important part of this fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox is more expensive for developers too, as Microsoft bumps up dev kit cost [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The dev kit probably has many debugging & logging features. It probably allows quick switching between the big Xbox & weak Xbox to test both without needing the deploy your game build twice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox is more expensive for developers too, as Microsoft bumps up dev kit cost [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  An indie developer doesn’t really need these & it may not even be that easy to get one. It’s tied to NDAs & you can use regular xbox consoles to test your own games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox is more expensive for developers too, as Microsoft bumps up dev kit cost [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think this will have much of an impact either way, either for Microsoft or for those using these.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just in case you thought reviving dead games seemed easy enough, GOG had to hire a private investigator to find an IP holder living off the grid for its preservation program⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is arguable. There were countless free dos games out there in the common domain that GoG took down and made paid again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 still has secrets fans haven't found, says director⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did this part today. I think it was alright, old school FF fare.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With ios 26 they f-ed up safari real bad & other browsers are worse performing / laggy even though they are also safari.

  So yes, I trusted Apple to not mess with anything too important & they have not for the 5 years I’ve been using Apple products, but now that is over. Guess Android is back on the menu for my next device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s like MacOS where if it’s a game not on Steam then you’re shit out of luck if there isn’t a Linux specific version?

  No it’s not. I don’t even have Steam installed & play games just fine. You can use Bottles or Lutris to run the games, I recommend Bottles. The downside is that you’ll have to learn how to use these tools. For example you’ll not only need to fiddle with settings, but also with dependency dll files. Chatgpt can sometimes help & tell you which dlls are needed by which game. (at least when I asked it about Oblivion Remaster & Horizon Zero Dawn it knew)

  Lutris has the advantage of community installers where you don’t have to figure things out, but it’s annoying that they’ll force you to log into Gog Galaxy and such for your downloaded installers & Lutris may not have a force offline sandboxed mode if you don’t want the software you run to report home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nvidia still has its pains, but it’s certainly daily drivable now.

  Is there any way of telling which ones will and won’t run on Linux?

  It’s very easy, if a game doesn’t have invasive data thieving anticheat, then it will run on Linux, otherwise it won’t. Sometimes it takes some fiddling, but pretty much anything at least a month old without anti will run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Confirmed - Electronic Arts (EA) sold off to investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m alright with EA disappearing, it’s about time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists say X (formerly Twitter) has lost its professional edge — and Bluesky is taking its place⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are not that many things I dislike hearing more than people saying “Formerly Twitter”. Either call it Twitter or X, but everyone knows what’s going on…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨smol⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s frustrating that this misleading image is making its rounds on Lemmy now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lenovo says its $1,100 handheld will also get the Xbox mode coming to the ROG Xbox Ally | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Look at how aggressively copilot is trying to evade an interactive firewall, there are new processes and process names popping up every other day. You know what else acts like this? Malware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨best comment under a video about the new iphone 17⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Even in that super limited use case - you could just use a tablet for- basic keyboard and mouse interactions can be a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FFmpeg 8 can subtitle your videos on the fly with Whisper⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I use mpv & it’s just a gui frontend to ffmpeg. I have some layering issues with VLC on Linux…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity wants to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, twice the company's value⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Chrome inevitably losing a lot of market share could be a pretty good result for the web.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 user has 30 years of 'irreplaceable photos and work' locked away in OneDrive - and Microsoft's silence is deafening⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  in the span of a single month is next to zero

  It’s much higher than zero, if let’s say your ssd goes kaput & you try moving everything at once to a new one. That action by itself comes with risk, especially if the usb stick is very large & manufactured after covid. There is also the bit rot issue, usb sticks are useless as backup solutions for any use case, it’s just a false sense of security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord CTO says he’s “constantly bringing up enshittification” during meetings⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe i can self-host a matrix client but no idea how well it will work with people currently having notifications by discord bot on their phone

  In my opinion discord is not yet enshittified enough for these problems to be easily solved. Give it a couple more years, if matrix gains just a bit more traction, the scaffolding to do stuff like that will be worked out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shower thought: Valve could do the ultimate boss-move this year⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would argue that using an image based system with flatpak is one of the best ways for newbies to transition to Linux. Whether that’s SteamOS, Bazzite, Bluefin or Aurora, that doesn’t matter all that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases in the European Union⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is especially funny in South Korea. Go to a Casino and burn $2000 and you may even get jail time, but gatcha is A ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨11 Best Indie Games of All Time⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Celeste has to be 1. right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese AI lab DeepSeek massively undercuts OpenAI on pricing — and that's spooking tech stocks⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Energy costs money in China too, they still have coal plants and crazy energy cutback mandates every once in a while.

  The truth of the matter is that you need the user interactions from the free model to train and that value cannot be understated and if you are playing catchup it’s a must.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel finally notches a GPU win, confirms Arc B580 is selling out after stellar reviews⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now give me half that performance for $150, without enforcing that whatever it’s called bar thing! (neither of these two things will happen)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any (single player playable) game under $10 or equivalent which has made you point any go "ha" or given you an equivalent feeling because it was that enjoyable for every moment you played it?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Epic gave Celeste to me for free & oh boy it’s one of the best games I have ever played.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The best games these days are almost all indie games, stuff about AAA & ray tracing etc etc is more of a nerd hobby fueled by the industry rather than entertainment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why 'free' proprietary software will always end in tears⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  foobar2000 is a counter example, but yeah the mobile space has none of those

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is testing verified checkmarks in search⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Luckily duck is good enough-ish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter loses World Bank ads over pro-Nazi content placement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think he was at the very least rather gifted in some ways. Then his brain declined and then declined again and again. Substances + alcohol + covid fog + aging?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So do I still need to do WvW to get the warclaw?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  think not, you`ll get it from JW story.