atrielienz
@atrielienz@lemmy.world
- Comment on Handheld PC reviews only cover Asus and Lenovo. 5 days ago:
Wulfden on YouTube does quite a few reviews of these handhelds, especially niche ones. Might be worth checking out.
- Comment on Shitty stores that penalise you for not having their store card 5 days ago:
They do this because it allowed them to track how often you shop and what you normally buy. This helps them to manage their stock, keeping popular items that regular shoppers buy in stock etc.
The way it normally works though is that the item is $1.99 but if you have their club card or member card the item is $1.50.
This means you save money in exchange for allowing them to track your shopping habits.
Don’t get me wrong. There are a lot of … We’ll call them questionable reasons why business want to track your shopping habits, and that tracking doesn’t necessarily stop as just tracking what you buy.
But it was never meant to be item is less expensive but you only get the less expensive price if you have their card. It was supposed to be, we’ll give you a deal on said item if you let us track you in exchange.
- Comment on Windows copying Mac feature, but only in certain apps 1 week ago:
There have been versions of windows where this wasn’t completely possible out of the box (looking at you windows ME). I was referring to when it was a native windows feature, no extra software of any kind involved. And you didn’t have to program hotkeys or anything.
- Comment on Windows copying Mac feature, but only in certain apps 1 week ago:
I wonder if this is a holdover from when you could navigate windows completely without a mouse using only the keyboard and shortcuts.
Obviously there might be some overlap between some keyboard shortcuts (and a very much targeted use of Apple’s shortcuts for certain programs that MS has ported to Mac). So office/365 programs get Mac shortcuts and everything else is using Windows standard shortcuts built up over time. There’s not reason for a mac user to use Windows version of notepad.
Either way, truly a mildly infuriating niglet so my upvote is yours.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah I saw. There were a lot of complaints from consumers about the features that existed in the 3DS/other DS’s that didn’t exist in the switch including this one. And even then I think those people have to be your actual friends on the switch 2 rather than just random people.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I can definitely understand why not selling a game on the most popular marketplace would detrimentally affect a studios ability to make money.
But a lot of the reason games aren’t successful has as much to do with the quality of the game and the amount of money spent developing it as it does with marketing. And plenty of developers/small indie studios assume that they can ouvert stretch themselves monetarily and with other resources like time, and still come out on top because Indies are becoming more popular.
But what it often comes down to is if what you’re selling is worth it to the consumer and they know about it. On steam an indie game is just as likely to get caught up in the influx of games and lost in the noise as it is to get noticed.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely true.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I believe it was their attempt to protect children from unknown people online. I have the app and one of the features is that you can talk to people online in certain games (Animal Crossing, Splatoon, SSB’s, Mario Kart, and I think Mario Party).
There was some public outcry about it specifically from parents who had to download said app and let their kids use it for games.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Haven’t you heard. Indie games have to launch on steam or they fail miserably.
Seriously though. This is why I roll my eyes at people who claim steam makes it breaks these games. Humble bundle? Runs sales events where these games get showcased. Itch.io’s whole schtick is selling indie games.
It’s nice that Valve gives studios a platform to help market their games and all that, and yes, by dint of being one of the largest gaming sale platforms out there launching on steam helps their chances. But most of them weren’t ever gonna reach the success of AAA titles regardless and we pretend that that’s Valve’s fault for reasons I have never understood.
It’s the same problem with each of the online stores including the Nintendo E-Shop. Your game still has to be decent and be marketed to the people who want to play it.
Additionally they have to have time to play it. Which means you’re fighting every other game in the category in order to claim each players time.
There’s a whole lot to making and marketing a successful game at literally every level and not every studio can be a Team Cherry.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Switch OG doesn’t have a mic and that’s the reason they included the phone app. There were a fair number of aftermarket accessories that had mics though but I can’t say any of them were implemented to use first party games.
- Comment on You guys had a peak? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, or hands on use. A use case where the theory is applicable.
- Comment on You guys had a peak? 2 weeks ago:
It’s definitely grades. But that’s coupled with the fact that I grasp concepts pretty fast and can understand how things work generally at s glance. The minutiae I can grasp if I am interested (it’s novel), but my brain will actively jettison information it doesn’t think I need or doesn’t think is useful.
If I couldn’t learn I wouldn’t be able to do any of the trades I’ve been successful at. But I do see what you mean.
- Comment on You guys had a peak? 2 weeks ago:
I did a lot better in college before I had to drop out because of lack of funds. But most of my academic career was failure after failure.
- Comment on You guys had a peak? 2 weeks ago:
Where I learned things and inhaled books at a furious rate? Yes. Where I was successful academically? No.
- Comment on Android "Media Control" "tool" 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. I had a glitch happened today where it started playing a song (I think I inadvertently tapped play while looking at a playlist. I couldn’t shut it off in the app, I pressed pause and the screen said it was paused but it clearly was not), and had to turn it off in the media tool. I don’t know what’s going on with it but this isn’t the first time one or the other has glitched out.
- Comment on No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers 4 weeks ago:
I have never not been able to call them and threaten to cancel if they didn’t lower my rate though. That’s the crazy thing. I don’t have them anymore (thank God) but I had Comcast for close to 15 years and did this repeatedly.
- Comment on No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers 4 weeks ago:
Even Comcast will allow you to sign up as a new customer with whatever deal they are running if your previous account is closed. That’s saying a lot because they’re an absolute dogshit company.
- Comment on No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers 4 weeks ago:
They definitely updated it because I could see the link for login and my page doesn’t look the same now as it did the first time I went to look.
- Comment on No Black Friday deal for loyal/previous customers 4 weeks ago:
I’m on the website looking at each of their deals. There’s no fine print that I can see except this:
“The specially discounted price of US$35.88 is valid for the first 12 months. Then it will automatically be renewed at US$79.95 for 12 months. You can cancel at any time. Renewal pricing subject to change according to terms and conditions.”
The terms and conditions may involved some, but it should be visible on the deals page at least when you click through.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 4 weeks ago:
I’m gonna get the freeware version just for the nostalgia. I used to beat the piss out of my little brother in this game.
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 4 weeks ago:
I remember one must fall w 2097!
- Comment on A blog re-used one of my Reddit posts as a genuine comment on their blog 4 weeks ago:
I have a question. Is the mildly infuriating part for you the part where there is account masquerading as you on the internet, using your words and proliferating data/information essentially in your name?
Or is it that you wanted to deprive the internet at large of whatever advice or information was imparted in that comment and someone else/a bot is reuploading that information without your consent?
Because on the one hand, I agree that using your username and your written comment to validate an account that’s likely a bot account is dodgy and underhanded and messed up.
But on the other hand, if that advice is valuable to other people and the intent was to impart that information to others outside of reddit and this is attempt to attribute it to you, rather than an attempt at plagiarism, I’m not sure I would necessarily agree.
But this is unfortunately one of the downside to putting any comments/information on the internet.
- Comment on WhatsApp appears to have ads now. Good thing I don't really use it anymore. 4 weeks ago:
The main problem with this (from a stock android perspective) is Google play services. Your private phone/daily driver would literally have to be a non-stock rom or one that doesn’t come with Google play services installed at all. Because otherwise Google and other companies linked to them will fingerprint your device and link it that way because those two devices are often in the same place at the same time or on the same network at the same or similar times etc. The and even when you think you’ve given the apps no permissions, Google has a habit of turning this stuff on (location data, telemetry etc) and gathering it in the background.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-02/…/105844066
https://www.howtogeek.com/how-google-tracks-and-scans-everything-on-your-android-device/
- Comment on When a website tells you that you broke a rule, but doesn't tell you what the rule is. 4 weeks ago:
Interesting. I don’t get this message in mobile Firefox.
- Comment on When a website tells you that you broke a rule, but doesn't tell you what the rule is. 4 weeks ago:
Also s3nd.pics
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 4 weeks ago:
Being able to replay a cutscene would also be nice.
- Comment on Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits 5 weeks ago:
But asking them to verify their age via selfie. We live in the worst time line.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Weirdly yes. I’m consider going back to my previous place of work because somehow, even though it was just differently bad, I miss it.
It was the same when I left the military.
- Comment on Edible Wood 1 month ago:
I used to eat the shells on sun flower seeds. That’s basically wood and it was indeed edible.
- Comment on EA insists it will "maintain creative control" and "creative freedom" if sale to consortium goes ahead 1 month ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashog…
The people who own the company that’s trying to buy EA are the people who ordered the assassination of Khashoggi.