SpikesOtherDog
@SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
- Comment on Microsoft loses Brazilian court case after telling hacked Xbox user to re-purchase games 5 minutes ago:
They would have lost nothing fixing his account in the first place.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I get it.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Well, it’s my phone, so I feel I ought to be using whatever keyboards I want. My guess is my org isn’t differentiating between company assets and employee property.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I believe my org has restricted what keyboards I can use, if you check my other reply here.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Here is what I am seeing. I can select Samsung keyboard and gboard, but it appears that Heliboard is not on an approved list.
I’m not in an influential position in my company, but I was directed to someone to discuss it. My guess is that there may have been a compromise using a keyboard app in the past and this is their mitigation.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I did add one and it’s made things much better. What I’m saying is that it has much tighter tolerances. Also, I keep catching backspace when I begin words with m, and there is no immediate undo option after I erase half my typing.
It’s mostly the fact that I’m swipe lazily, and Gboard does a lot of heavy lifting translating my languid gestures into coherent speech. Bonus points for the fact that it knows I misspelled something and put the correct spelling in there. This means that I could do better if I paid more attention to what I was doing.
The real hurt IMO is being forced back into Gboard from teams.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I have been using heliboard, but I’m forced to use teams, so I have to keep switching back. The swipe gestures require much more precision than Gboard.
- Comment on How can a company like Terabox give away 1TB of space for free and still stay a stable company? 3 days ago:
Yeah, encrypt your shit.
- Comment on Black coffee 1 week ago:
I recall being backhanded just trying to discuss a difference of opinion. I don’t recall the conversation from 30 years ago, only that my opinion was not wanted.
- Comment on Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only 1 week ago:
Well, I didn’t want to compare it to RTS or arpg games that work better with keyboard and mouse.
- Comment on Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only 1 week ago:
I’ll say Hollow Knight was much better played with a controller. My kid used his laptop keyboard and beat the game. More power to him, but that didn’t sound like fun.
- Comment on Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only 1 week ago:
A decent gui, not fiddling with settings, widespread hardware specs. Games that expect a gamepad and will work with it. Novel input techniques.
I know I came out swinging on consoles, and I absolutely am biased. Instead of trying to one-up you, the best I can do is explain my position.
My biggest gripe on consoles is that it’s a form of vendor lock in. Unless you follow in the footsteps of someone like Gary Bowser (Canada), you aren’t playing newer Mario, Metroid, or Zelda games on a PC. That’s pretty much the same with all exclusives.
Emulation is just now catching up to the PS5, and I suspect that’s part of why they are moving from physical media. Xbox series x has no emulator, likewise Switch 2. This means that one needs to purchase several consoles to play these exclusives. I’m not going to lie, I have probably spent $2000 on mid-grade hardware over the past decade, but I just finished my major upgrades last year-unless I was need RAM.
As far as the GUI goes, I think it’s fit for purpose. My desktop is configured differently because I use it for many things. If I wanted a gaming system that has a UI built for navigating games I could build one, but that is not a skill or expectation I would have for many. Supposedly, SteamOS can handle this, but we are getting pretty deep here. I think this gets deep into fiddling with settings.
So, as far as fiddling with settings goes, that is one of the biggest strengths a console has. If you have no technical skills, and like most can’t navigate from your documents to your program files, I can’t blame you for buying a console. Or, like some technical people I know, they spend all day fucking with settings and don’t want to touch a computer when they get home.
I’m not sure what you mean about widespread hardware specs. The game is optimized for that particular hardware. Assuming the devs did their job right—and that’s not always true—the game should run flawlessly on the console. Same goes for PC though. I bought a beefy video card last year because my 10-year old system was struggling with Clair Obscure. The same week they released a patch that fixed the issue.
Can you explain about games that won’t work with a game pad? Steam I believe allows you to force a gamepad to work, but I’m far as away from my system at the moment.
For novel input techniques, motion controls are just not making it to PC. I played Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom (both of which I purchased and have hardware to pay it on, TYVM) holding my phone under my game pad to add motion controls. It sucked. I have searched for an alternative, I don’t have one.
- Comment on Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only 1 week ago:
Wow, sorry about the roommate.
- Comment on Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only 1 week ago:
Like, I get the sinking in the chair and just going feeling, but I don’t feel like I get there that much faster with a console.
- Comment on Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only 1 week ago:
It works that way for my TV and sound bar, but it’s not consistent. Sometimes I have to power cycle the sound bar before it works. It’s probably the decade-old sound bar though.
- Comment on Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only 1 week ago:
I believe you need to power on the television and the PS, locate the correct input, log in?, navigate to the game, and then play. You may need to locate a controller. I imagine it still has regular software updates, etc.
My process for gaming PC Linux is to awaken my PC, log in, click the game and wait for Steam to launch it. From there, it’s just regular updates. I might still need to go find a controller, depending on the game.
The biggest difference is that the console game is (should be) optimized for that platform. There have been plenty of terrible ports both ways, but you usually know that the game will just work. I on the other hand spent an hour or so getting to know Wine so that I could play og baldurs gate. I could have just bought it again, but once is enough.
- Comment on Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only 1 week ago:
Wow. Tell me again the purpose of a gaming console.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Someone did mention that but I can still pretend. My kids are all past that age anyway.
Reasons:
- You are young and don’t know better.
- You are an adult and you know better
- You are cpitalizing on the users so much that testing in Linux seems like a good idea. Please see #2
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’m not into hyperscaling.
- Comment on In a state that offers legal aid is it worth it? Or is it pretty much the bottom of the barrel for defense and compensation? 4 weeks ago:
I was privvy to info about prosecutors vs public defenders. It may not be true in every region, but it is at least in my town.
Prosecutors actually get less money to handle cases, but get to push off or decline to prosecute depending on severity and caseload.
Public defenders get more funding from many different levels of government, but even with that funding they are overworked with twice the staff.
I think prosecutors already have the case presented to them as well, and they are pressing charges. Defenders need to pick up where the police and prosecutors left off and either find a legal out or bargain with what the defendant has to get the best position.
Also, from what I have heard about pro se defendants is that it frustrates the court because the proceedings grind to a crawl to ensure the defendant understands enough of what is going on to not have them claim they were railroaded.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I prefer a 2N stack for redundancy.
- Comment on Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 5 weeks ago:
Who could have seen this coming?
- Comment on They got us by the balls 1 month ago:
I like the idea, but how to handle authentication in a decentralized system?
- Comment on Fission 2 months ago:
We use fission+fusion! We randomly divide our genome, providing the information we have accumulate over Eons, then fuse with another to combine our knowledge. Family group animals are weird because we need to perform additional learning, vs most other animals that run mostly off instinct.
- Comment on load bearing worm 2 months ago:
The science is finding how and why the superstition works.
- Comment on NASA scientists says astronauts should not masturbate in space 2 months ago:
Maybe they shouldn’t rub one out using the chair as sloppy seconds.
- Comment on The Struggle 2 months ago:
We tried the cheapest stuff Amazon will sell and went back to Powerade Zero.
The next step is trying to build your own electrolyte drink, but that is a recipe for disaster.
Puns aside, I was concerned about giving myself an electrolyte imbalance. I asked the doctor about it and they told me to just eat food, weirdo (sass for dramatic emphasis, but I definitely got the look I give end users when they ask stupid questions).
- Comment on The Struggle 2 months ago:
This conversation got me super excited to try it, only to see that it costs 3x as much as Powerade Zero packets. Since we easily chew through a 10pack of packets a week, I can’t bring myself to have her try it.
- Comment on In reference to kitchen wrap (aluminum, paper or plastic), do you prefer to tear up against the lid, or down against the box? 2 months ago:
I hate plastic wrap so much. Often it comes down to wrapping the item and then just ripping it because the cutter is gone.
The other items I will use the box in a pinch with no cutter.
- Comment on FaKe LaNdInG 👁️ 3 months ago:
I knew a flat Earth believer about ten years ago. I’d estimate hundreds at least.
