Kelly
@Kelly@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 5 days ago:
Phone numbers are a “legacy system” if they were designed today they would be different.
- Comment on What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM? 5 days ago:
Mobile browser tabs are both too persistent in that they don’t get cleaned up when you close the browser, and too amnesiac in that they can kill a connection if they are placed in background for even for even a couple of seconds.
Its the worst of both worlds.
- Comment on Are "Lifetime" Cloud Storage Plans scams? 6 days ago:
I know a few people who have a HDD exchange going. A couple of times a year they drop off a HDD with their current backup at a friends house, then take the old one home to use next time.
It offline, so it can’t be accessed easily but its also protected from device failure,power surges, etc.
Its no good as a daily backup but its fine for static data e.g. videos of the kids as they were growing up.
If its just a HDD in a static proof bag it doesn’t take much room and can be stored easily.
Its got issues but it does offer a cheep offsite backup
- Comment on Are "Lifetime" Cloud Storage Plans scams? 6 days ago:
It doesn’t look good
www.pcloud.com/terms_and_conditions.html
pCloud has a fourteen (14) calendar days money back guarantee, beginning on the day you have submitted your payment for the Paid services. During this period, you are eligible to request for a refund. If you issue an explicit written request for a refund within the fourteen (14) days referenced above, we will process the refund due to you in full within 30 calendar days, counting from the day you have confirmed your request.
We will usually refund any money received from you using the same method originally used by you to pay for your purchase.
In case you have purchased Paid services through a promotional campaign or provided discount, pCloud reserves the right to decline providing a refund.
I just used web archive to check the site on three random days in 2024 and it looks like they always have a promotion and could claim any purchases are ineligable for the money back guarantee.
Termination
We reserve the right not to provide the Site or Services to any user. We also reserve the right to terminate any user’s right to access the Site or Services at any time, in our discretion. If you breach any of these Terms, your permission to use the Site and Services and your account automatically terminate. If pCloud ceases operation, your account will be terminated and pCloud will no longer provide the Site or Services. If your account is terminated in accordance with this section, you will not receive any refund of any fees paid for the account.
And they can decide to stop your service at any time.
- Comment on Are "Lifetime" Cloud Storage Plans scams? 6 days ago:
There are on going cost with running the service so if new customers stopped signing up they would go broke when they run out of money. (i.e. like a ponzi scheme)
Unless they invest your seed capital and pay for your services from growth. This would work when times are good, but could fall apart during any significant financial crisis.
The current offer for the named service is asking for us$800 for 1TB, if they followed the 5% rule that would leave them with us$40 per year to provide the service.
- Comment on Do you feel like you've reached the end of what the world has to offer? 6 days ago:
Agreed, even if you limit yourself to major tentpole content its impossible to keep up.
But if you look at the uploads to major distribution platforms its incredible his much content is being produced:
- YouTube gets 500 hours of video uploaded per minute.
- Spotify has 60k tracks uploaded per day
- Kindle has 225k books published per month
- Steam has 50 games published per day
- Comment on What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country? 1 week ago:
Moderates no longer have a say.
Many view the democrats as being right of centre already and that “moderates” are largely unrepresented because both parties lean right.
- Comment on Im watching an episode of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, filmed in black and white. In this scene a guest is showing glass making. What is going on with the film to make these black areas by the flame? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails 1 week ago:
“That being said, I want to call out the way Unity chose to communicate these layoffs. Receiving a 5am email from ‘noreply@unity’ informing me that my role was being ‘eliminated’ and that I’d lose system access by the end of the day felt completely abrupt and impersonal. Unity must do better in how they treat their workers in hard times like this.”
Ouch
- Comment on What actually happens to the communities whose instances shut down? 1 week ago:
This probably depends on what you mean by “shut down”.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I think you forgot the link text?!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
For live action TV its probably easier to just use retail units but for animation it allows them to use only they aspects they are interested in while not getting bogged down in the realities of the console/controller design or the actual gameplay scenarios.
Of course it also allows for the title to function as a joke too, and makes for a more rimless product than a current year pop culture reference.
- Comment on Co-op campaigns are a rarity these days, and that should change 2 weeks ago:
They are just joking about not having friends but the “in the manner it was originally intended” is particularly relevancy for dedicated co-op titles.
- Comment on Co-op campaigns are a rarity these days, and that should change 2 weeks ago:
Its a few released, these are last years:
- Comment on 74 Useless Facts about Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights 3 weeks ago:
Title is accurate!
- Comment on Nintendo loses trademark fight against Super Mario supermarket 3 weeks ago:
They Nintendo has a lot of active “super mario” trademars with the USPTO, 79259975 includes the following:
G & S: IC 030: Tea; tea-based beverages; coffee; coffee-based beverages; cocoa; cocoa-based beverages; pastries; candy; ice cream; cookies; chocolate; popcorn; chewing gum; bread; buns; sandwiches; pizzas; pies; cakes; frozen yogurt confections; pancakes; crackers; mints for breath freshening; seasonings; ketchup; dressings for salad; cereal bars; oatmeal; corn flakes; noodles; pasta sauce.
www.uspto.gov/trademarks/search
This would limit the supermarket from carrying they own store brand product lines for these product types.
Off the top of my head I can confirm my supermarket stocks there own brand of :
Tea; coffee; cocoa; pastries; candy; ice cream; cookies; chocolate; bread; buns; pies; cakes; seasonings; dressings for salad; cereal bars; oatmeal; corn flakes; pasta sauce.
Admittedly my local is part of a large chain so this may not be typical but even independent supermarkets in myy area tend to repackage bulk candies and chocolate under their own label.
- Comment on Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up 3 weeks ago:
An account for PlayStation Network will become optional for these titles on PC.
blog.playstation.com/…/new-in-game-content-incent…
This is very explicitly not making any promises beyond these 4 titles. :\
- Comment on Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up 3 weeks ago:
I’ve lost track, is Helldiver’s 2 still PSN optional but still unavailable in non-PSN regions?
- Comment on Is there any place with all of reddit's snoovatar assets? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Rolling Stone's List of 50 Best Video Games of All Time 3 weeks ago:
It looks like Rolling Stone included Baulders Gate 3.
That game is recent enough that it hasn’t qualified for Wikipedia’s List of video games considered the best yet.
Wikipedia’s list requires an entry feature on 6 different publications’ “best of” lists so that implies RS may have applied some and haven’t just cribbed directly.
- Comment on Why do so many UK electrical sockets have an on/off switch next to them? 3 weeks ago:
Huh, TIL.
Here in Australia every house I’ve been in that has an electrical connection has had a light of some form mounted on the ceiling of each room of the main structure.
It just shows how any assumptions we might make will be proved wrong at a global scale.
- Comment on Resident Evil 2 remake has sold fewer than 10,000 copies on iOS, estimates suggest 4 weeks ago:
Tablet as a display and a USB controller sounds like a workable solution.
- Comment on RuneScape is planning on introducing Black Mirror inspired membership plans 4 weeks ago:
It sounds dangerous.
Don’t you need the playerbase to attract and retain the whales?
- Comment on How can I search lemmy for answers similar to how in 2019 you could google search "[problem] + reddit"? 4 weeks ago:
The meme about googling site:Reddit comes out of how deeply shitty Google has let their search engine become.
It was two-part, the other side was that reddit’s own search was so crap people use google search instead.
- Comment on GOG bolsters game preservation efforts by joining European game archivist organisation 5 weeks ago:
Thjs gamesindustry.biz article is offering less info and context than the press release it is cribbed from.
- Comment on All the Games Reportedly Set for Release on Nintendo Switch 2 - IGN 5 weeks ago:
If two platforms share compatibility then developers can choose to target the weaker system and release on both.
For some games this might involve a bit of compromise and cause resentment with the owners of the more powerful system, but for other (simer) games it might involve any compromise at all.
Either way there are a lot of Switch consoles in the wild and there will be some publisher support for the Switch for a few years yet.
As an example from the other side of the fence ps4 is still getting titles:
- Comment on Do you wish that you could recycle games? 5 weeks ago:
I just had a look at their offer and it has a few issues.
- Customers can’t resell a game license until 90 days after its release day and 7 days after their purchase (whichever is later).
- The option to list a license for sale may be revoked if the publisher delists the title
- The resale price is 100% of the current store price for the title but the reseller recieves only a 25% “resale commission”.
- This commission can be paid as store currency “IRON” or credited to your original payment method for a fee. If you original payment method has expired then only IRON is available.
help.robotcache.com/…/360029179691-Resale-Policy
So they keep 75% of resale revenue, the purchaser doesn’t see any discounts, and it can’t be used to access delisted games?
Its a bit of a monkey paw.
- Comment on Do you wish that you could recycle games? 5 weeks ago:
Any platform that offers transferable digital licenses will get a lot of customer loyalty but is likely to have mainstream publishers boycott it.
It could be structured so that everybody wins e.g. the purchaser pays ⅓ less than the “new” price, with their payment then split evenly as cash for the original publisher and store credit for the seller.
That way:
- the purchaser gets a discount
- the publisher gets a cut of the sale
- the seller gets credit to spend on new games,
- the platform gets that credit spent on their store (plus any additional money that might be required to complete a purchase)
As a customer I would find that attractive but I think most publishers would consider it a slippery slope.
- Comment on SKG Has an Official Discord Server Now! 1 month ago:
It seems SKG = Stop Killing Games.
I hadn’t seen the acronym before.
- Comment on Next Xbox Rumored To Launch In 2026 With New Call Of Duty 1 month ago:
unless they have a real reason for this new one lol
If they spin this so gen10 Xbox games don’t have to offer feature parity on Series S that will please a few people.
