Sina

@Sina@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Nintendo ban Nintendo accounts opening up eshop from a hacked 3DS / 2DS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no certainty in these things, Nintendo could always do a big fuck you banwave many years later. Though you are probably fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ai makes photoshopping trivially easy, so of course now this is bigger problem than before. This is not going to go away, so society will adapt. Humans can live perfectly fine in the jungle not covering up their unmentionables, so in a few decades this will be a non issue I would guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure that you could make a realistic game where all plants & buildings etc use AI generated textures & no one would notice.

  Anyway compared to AI assisted game development there are so many worse things in the industry. Like gacha mobile games or denuvo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can just buy second hand an aging android phone for this task, €50 gets you something usable for basic entertainment purposes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publisher reveals and immediately cancels new Postal game after fans accuse it of using AI generation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty much guaranteed that many AAA games out over the past 2 years had AI generated elements. Though finding these is not plausible. Telling about separate grass or tile textures if they are AI generated or taken from the asset store, or god forgive ai generated assets taken from the asset store is basically impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI plans to enshitify ChatGPT with adverts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If they started doing what you are implying with the current level of their Ai, then they could file for bankruptcy a few months later. Serving clearly marked, but super well aimed ads is their best bet right now I would think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple projected to surpass Samsung as global smartphone shipments leader⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With the dumpster fire that is ios 26, perhaps it won’t happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think most customers -for real- are disliking the new capabilities however limited they think they are. It’s just the force feeding and there are also security & performance concerns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just use localsend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"This is a blatant, unapologetic act of vicious union busting" - Hundreds of Rockstar employees sign letter to management, demanding fired colleagues get reinstated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The shareholders may force them to bend tbh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saints Row's original design director is pitching a "grounded" 70s open world prequel with absolutely no dildobats⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t follow. Why do you think a game like this years after gta6 couldn’t be a financial sucess?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA VI developer accused of union busting in mass firings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not so sure. When it comes to a conscious decision to either pirate or buy, crap like this often helps with the guilt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  CS6 has better content aware filters than Affinity and those may never get updates now, since AI can do them better. This is not even an unreasonable take, but sub…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Konami instantly shot down the Wachowskis’ request to have Hideo Kojima make a Matrix game, it’s claimed [VGC]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fourth one has a shockingly good electronic soundtrack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Update on Stop Killing Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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