Pika

@Pika@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever get the feeling of zooming out of your phone into your head and actually realizing everything, instead of just mindlessly watching videos?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to agree with this. Cold turkey rarely works for me as well. Finding an alternative to it works wonders. Like my alternative to social media/entertainment is gaming or development. Anything to keep your mind of the engagement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever get the feeling of zooming out of your phone into your head and actually realizing everything, instead of just mindlessly watching videos?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I had something similar when I was using reddit. Constantly addicted to the site.

  I didn’t know how bad it had actually gotten until when the API changes happened I uninstalled the app I was using.

  For like the next 2 or 3 months, I would consistently catch myself sliding the side bar open and tapping where the app used to be. In some cases I would get in a loop and I would have attempted it like 6 or 7 times before realizing what I was doing.

  The solution like others have said is disengage. The entire point of those platforms are addiction and entertainment. Shorts are even worse than entertainment posts as you can’t use the time waste on an individual level.

  I had to fully block reddit at the DNS level to separate as I kept wanting to go back. I’m starting to notice the same effect when I’m on lemmy so as of late so I’m working on that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is stack overflow so horrible?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw that in the wild a week or two back. Friend was learning a new job, all her trainer was able to say was “just ask AI” and send her to copilot.

  I felt so bad for her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is stack overflow so horrible?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  if it was actually a duplicate, that would be perfect but it seems the majority of the time, its just a question similar and in some cases I’ve even seen them link a question that if you knew anything about it, wouldn’t have been even remotely related.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think their intent is to have you go buy a PS5, I think their bigger intent is preventing it on Xbox hardware.

  I think Xbox’s claims that all PC games will be available on the new system is a big reason for them to not allow it on PC, they have been a firm “We don’t want this on Xbox”, and they can’t uphold that with Project Helix’s claims that it runs PC games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Game Pass for indie games: meet Indie Pass, a $6.99-a-month subscription launching with 70 titles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I intentionally left addiction out of the equation as I don’t expect the everyday person is going to have that occur to them, and if it did occur that’s only going to make it /worse/ for the devs on the platform as it’s almost certainly going to favor rougelites and proc gen over story and action titles. I see no use of this.

  as for my subs? I left the gaming sub field almost entirely. My only gaming sub I still have is humble bundle, because you own every game as long as you had choice the month it was released. I had gamepass ultimate for 2 years as part of the xbox X all access pass thing they did but, I found that there was very little actual decent “I want to play” games. I would play a few of them(like 6-8 of them) a month and then say “ok ill come back to them some day”, and then just not. For the price of a AAA title every 3 months (now a AAA title every other month) it wasn’t worth it for me.

  From the consumer side, I feel the same way with this pass, I could take that same amount, and buy 2 or sometimes 3 of the games listed on this and have them to keep, and be helping the devs way more money wise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Game Pass for indie games: meet Indie Pass, a $6.99-a-month subscription launching with 70 titles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I resound with the other commenters, this is a hard pass for me.

  I got enough subscriptions to deal with than have a subscription for the cheaper style games.

  This type of model isn’t even going to be helpful to the developers either, it may increase publicity but, the article says itself that it bases money earned on gametime and if people played a lot each dev is going to have diminishing returns… Nobody buys a subscription model with the expectation they are only going to play 1 or 2 games, people play as many games as they can, that way they can get the most out of the subscription. for 6.99 a month, even locking myself down to once a week only, if I played 3 inde titles a week, for an hour each, thats 12 games a month, which means that 6.99 is going to be less than 60 cents to each developer a month, and that is ignoring whatever cost they charge as a platform fee.

  Sure the argument can be made that thats still money the dev wouldn’t be getting otherwise but, I see this as more of a disadvantage to inde studios. I think the example they used in the article is very optimistic and not super realistic to what will happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea i get what you mean. Also I know what case you are talking about I think, That was the case where they never even noticed he did it until he said something right? I saw a youtube video on that a year or two ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree but, that’s a lot of money that takes a bunch of time to setup, for a solution that can be very cheaply fixed and then ignored again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California father arrested after repainting crosswalk, adding stop signs near children’s park⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  imo if you are going to start changing how the road is, start blocking it or start damaging the road to force a speedbump or hole. It’s a lot cheaper than spending 1000$, a lot faster and less likely to get caught in the act.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Rumored Xbox Game Pass Tier Includes Only First Party Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  it would need to be so much cheaper to be worth it. Like current GP ultimate already is a scam and a half unless you were essentially buying a AAA title every 2 months, unless the price of this subscription is at least a quarter the price of ultimate it wouldn’t be worth it imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your opinion on post-game content? do you do it? or are you done with the game when the credits roll?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I treat postgame content the same as I treat new game+

  It’s super unlikely I will look into it unless the game rocked my world.

  Many games treat post game content as a grindfest for people who really liked the game but didn’t want it to end, I usually have no interest in it.

  The last games I looked into both NG+ and post game content on was final fantasy XV and God of War (the ps4 one), and I didn’t finish either of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think in this case it will really matter since as it’s GPL anyway, so the worst case scenario is some private company takes the code and tries to use it without giving back but I can see the issue with other projects or if they wanted to use a more restrictive license

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never saw the twilight zone. To pick it up should I was the old vs new? Or is it much of a difference?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  as someone currently watching through them I agree with this. I started with the old and it’s pretty good, but you can see the age of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'd rather a simple "no thanks"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate that companies have to be above and beyond on rejection if they do them.

  Like i’m glad they give them but, how hard is a:

  Subject: Application/Interview Rejected body: Dear name, We regret to inform you that we have decided not to continue with your application/interview process due to X, We appreciate your interest in this company, HR Name

  With X being the reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gulf of America/Mexico⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you look at the gulf from basically any other countries location (via vpn or otherwise) it’s still named as Gulf Of Mexico in most map software.

  As much as Trump doesn’t like the thought, this name change is not going to be permanent. Names need to be accepted universally, you can’t just take something and say “yea its called this now” while everyone else laughs at you and expect that it’s going to stay.

  for perspective, this is what it looks like on google maps (top) and apple maps(bottom) while vpn’d into Toronto. (excuse my poor copy/paste skills) Both clearly show that the gulf of Mexico is named the gulf of Mexico, and then add in parenthesis the new name that the US wanted to implement.

  screenshot of gulf of mexico for both google maps(top) and apple maps(bottom)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, there is room for reasonable doubt, I do believe if they manage to throw the bag out of the evidence he will get it. I just don’t see them throwing the bag out.

  I don’t think there is room for a non-guilty verdict though. At minimum he will have stalking charges at maximum he will get murder charges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All I have is the publicly available evidence, but that pretty strongly indicates guilt.

  he was found a state over, at a mcdonalds. With a fake ID that was the same name that was used to check into manhatten, and for transport. with a bag containing a loaded 3d printed handgun that matched the footage.

  He also had writings which are not public but have been stated to indicate his mindset prior to the murder, and a notebook that contained detailed travel plans and how to avoid capture.

  Like pacifist said though, the police are tripping this case up, the biggest defense for Luigi at the moment is the ineptitude of the police during the arrest sequence and investigation. They have already succeeded in throwing out medical records due to improper acquisition, have been found wiretapping attorney lines (which IMO should be an immediate opposing party wins regardless), and are in the process of trying to throw the bag out that was found at mcdonalds due to improper search and seizure claims (although I don’t personally think this will happen, it’s pretty clear the search and seizure laws in that state clarify that a search will happen on any arrest regardless of case)

  the only way I can see him getting a “innocent” verdict is Jury nullification, so I am not leaning on that, because even if found innocent on the second degree murder charges, based off publicly available evidence the prosecution still has a fairly strong case of stalking charges. Plus he still is facing the same charges at the state level as well, as the judges ruled it isn’t considered double jeopardy for someone to be trialed both federally and state side (which IMO is wrong but I digress)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see any avenue where he is found not guilty to be honest, but in that theoretical case, I think that there’s going to be a lot of older folk that absolutely lose their mind about the principle of the matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's flashing lights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume they are doing some sort of update. Stupid that they flash the lights to indicate it though, what an annoying menace.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just don’t buy Triple A titles.

  The last “AAA” title I bought was elden ring for 30$ (unless you count Silk Song)

  There are plenty of indie style, A or AA studios that are in the 5-30$ range.

  The more people who move over to that type of mindset and buy from small titles, the more apt that large companies are going to lower their prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m waiting for some government to outlaw collecting the information in general outside of official government agencies. I would love to see big tech squirm as they try to figure out a valid way to harvest the data in one country, but prevent it in another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For ID scans, Discord says that documents “are deleted quickly.”

  Just a few months ago they had a data leak which proved that they were indeed /not/ deleting documents and ID’s like they had been claiming.

  Granted in that case it was mostly countries that force keeping that data but, I’m sick of companies lying and saying “lol yea we defo delete the data after”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overbearing datetime pickers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for expanding on it. That was a pretty interesting read, gotta love indecisiveness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overbearing datetime pickers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  can you elaborate on type=“datetime-local” not existing? It’s been supported in almost every mainstream browser since basically 2012. The last mainstream to adopt it was Safari in 2021. There is argument that FF didn’t have proper support till 2021 as well but, that’s because it was lacking the “time” part of the element. So they modified how it worked for awhile to work like the type=“date” element, that has since been resolved.

  I do agree with you on a lot of those. it would be nice to have some form of UI validation. That is one of it’s flaws that could be expanded on. a disabled dates or invalid dates tag on the input would be a lot easier, but also add a lot of complexity to it for something that should be being validated via scripts both server and client side. Not all browsers have the clear button as well which is a problem because it’s an extra step when you do make a mistake on it. They do offer a valid range tag though to allocate valid ranges for dates, but it’s so primitive that for a scheduler it can’t really be used unless its on a week by week basis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overbearing datetime pickers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know exactly what date UI you are talking about and it’s a firm agree. Whoever decided that a date UI needed to have the inability to select a year without hitting back 3 times, then ontop of that decided to make it so it undid your month and day selection when you did so, did the world a massive disfavor designing it.

  What is wrong with the simple type=“datetime-local” or type=“date” UI’s that every mainstream browser has native. It’s 3 clicks, you can specify the year at the top, and then month & date in the main body. Why even introduce layers to it. Have everything on the same layer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this is very likely the reason yea.

  I’m also now finding out that they had to censor the coverart of the switch 2 edition a few weeks ago as well which I was unaware of. If it turns out they knew for awhile that it would be censored, and just chose not to tell anyone that is going to permanently damper my opinion of their studio. Like it’s one thing to be like “This was forced upon us last minute so we threw a solution together” it’s a whole different situation of knowing that it was going to happen, then refusing to tell the consumers about it since you knew it would lower sales.

  Along with that, we asked for comment from AdHoc concerning the decision to censor Dispatch’s Deluxe Edition artwork on the Nintendo eShop as compared to the PC/PS5 release, and if that indicated any censorship in the game itself. We were told that “unfortunately, the studio cannot comment on the topic at this time.” Along with that, it was said that if AdHoc is able to discuss the matter down the road, their comment would be shared with us.

  It sounds to me like they knew this change was going to be required at that point, but didn’t want to publicly announce that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is likely it.

  There is also the rumor that this wasn’t a choice by Nintendo, but a choice of the dev’s so they didn’t have to have two separate editions to be able to sell in Japan(like they already do for the playstation edition). If that’s the case this makes it even worse IMO since it wasn’t like a last minute “BTW this is a thing” they had plenty of time to tell buyers that the product was altered

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that they allow Resident Evil Village of all games on the Switch but don’t allow this animated nudity scene is insane to me. RE Village was one of the most graphic games I have ever seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I watch most IT/Technical videos at 1.5-2x speed. Especially tutorial style videos. Most creators use a very long and drawn out way of speaking in order to keep the viewer on the same page, but most of the time I know the core concepts already, so I don’t need the super detailed parts only the barebones.