efstajas
@efstajas@lemmy.world
- Comment on New Crazy Taxi title will be an open-world, massively multiplayer AAA game, according to Sega 5 months ago:
I literally pulled the original game out of a cereal box in 2010 and proceeded to have hours upon hours of fun with it. It was on one of those funny small CD-ROMs. Good times.
- Comment on I will not be taking questions. 5 months ago:
Ah yes! “Just teach” the cat. Easy
- Comment on Those Assassin’s Creed, Resident Evil and Death Stranding iOS ports have bombed 5 months ago:
I think it’s mostly just that phones by themselves absolutely suck as a form factor for pretty much everything but casual games.
- Comment on Evidence 5 months ago:
Absolutely not, time doesn’t give a shit about humans, and would happily pass without any conscious observer at all anywhere in the universe.
- Comment on Photographers Push Back on Facebook's 'Made with AI' Labels Triggered by Adobe Metadata. Do you agree “‘AI was used in this image’ is completely different than ‘Made with AI’”? 5 months ago:
I do think it’s a problem when 100% of people seeing “made with AI” will assume the entire thing is AI-generated, even if all you did was use AI for a minor touch-up. If it’s really that trigger happy right now, I think it’d make sense for it to be dialled down a bit.
- Comment on Protect your PC 5 months ago:
Hardest I’ve ever rolled my eyes
- Comment on Protect your PC 6 months ago:
It really feels like no matter what community you look at on Lemmy, every 3rd post is Windows bad Linux good. It’s honestly a bit exhausting. And I’ve been running Linux for over a decade…
- Comment on Protect your PC 6 months ago:
I swear to God, if one more post on this goddamn site tells me to switch to Linux…
^… maybe I’ll just switch …
- Comment on American healthcare be like 6 months ago:
Ah yes. If you need it, you can get it done. Except for the fact that you probably can’t afford it.
- Comment on Anon knows what he likes 6 months ago:
Totally agree in some way, I also try to eat the best food I can when I’m visiting a place, but price is definitely a factor here. You can find fucking amazing food in many places for very cheap.
- Comment on Anon knows what he likes 6 months ago:
Right because local restaurants are all fine dining
- Comment on Ant smell 6 months ago:
Of course not, did I say they were?
- Comment on Ant smell 6 months ago:
They do but it most likely doesn’t! There are experiments where the bird’s beaks had a local anesthesia applied and it had no effect on the bird’s sense of orientation. Instead it seems like it’s most likely something called cryptochrome in the eyes, where a quantum mechanism (radical pair reaction) might be taking place that could generate sense-able electrical signals. There is further evidence for this, like birds being unable to tell when a magnetic field is reversed 180° (which an iron-based compass should be able to), and their sense of direction being effectively turned off by mild RF interference at the right frequency, which also wouldn’t affect an iron compass.
- Comment on Ant smell 6 months ago:
Human brain waves are affected ever so slightly by magnetic fields, some people’s more than others. It might very well be that there’s some kind of subtle subconscious effect of the Earth’s magnetic field on our sense of orientation.
- Comment on Ant smell 6 months ago:
Honestly, kind of a blessing. It’s not like you could do much about it if you knew.
- Comment on Ant smell 6 months ago:
If it does it’s really bad coffee
- Comment on Every base is base 10 6 months ago:
It’s because we count the 0… no? 0 and 1, base 2. 0123456789, base 10.
- Comment on IGN immediately lays off every non-UK person at their newly bought sites, including some key members like debuty editor Alice Bell 6 months ago:
Acquiring a company just for the brand or even just to make it disappear is pretty common in all of the corporate world.
- Comment on Anon helps with his gf's vaping addiction 6 months ago:
As someone who “quit” nicotine and unfortunately picked it up again later multiple times… The first hit after a while felt amazing. Unfortunately. No nausea at all.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 7 months ago:
Source…?
- Comment on Now, if it was a Pixel... 7 months ago:
Try selling a locked any phone made in the last 5 years. They’re all a brick if you can’t unlock them.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like any web browsers 7 months ago:
What does the web use Bluetooth for? That sounds like a nightmare regardless of whether the browser will let it or not, lol
Nothing much at the moment, but that’s at least partially due to Apple’s lack of support 🤷
Web apps could theoretically do everything native apps can. The only thing you need are APIs implemented by browsers that “bridge the gap” between web apps running in it and the host OS.
A bunch of such APIs including access to talk to Bluetooth devices have been standardized a while ago, but are missing on Safari. Bluetooth is just one example, another is the ability to communicate with peripherals at all (e.g. USB or MIDI or Serial). Those APIs allow for example updating the firmware of a device, reconfiguring it, etc.
The availability of such APIs is just equivalency with native apps and the possible usecases are everything you’d currently need to install a native app for. Imagine for example just going to some website to change settings of your Bluetooth headphones instead of having to download the manufacturer’s app. Web Bluetooth also allows finding Bluetooth beacons, which would make for example museum audio guides with indoor navigation possible as a simple website. Etc. etc. 🤷
- Comment on Anon doesn't like any web browsers 7 months ago:
It’s totally fine to use, but it’s a pretty big pain to develop for. And you’re forced to, since it’s forced on every single iOS user (third-party browsers on iOS are essentially Safari with a custom UI due to Apple’s walled garden policies).
Safari is notorious for adopting open web standards and APIs incredibly late or not at all, leading many to believe that it’s holding back the ability for web apps to achieve more native-app like capabilities on purpose. Right now, some major APIs like Web Bluetooth and USB are not supported on iOS safari, even though they have been on Android Chrome & Firefox for years.
It also just behaves slightly differently & sometimes even explicitly off-spec compared to Chromium and Firefox engines in so many small ways that you quite often have to debug strange Safari-only bugs. It’s just incredibly annoying.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like any web browsers 7 months ago:
As a web developer, I’m ok with all browsers except Safari
- Comment on temperature 9 months ago:
The typical range of human scale temperatures is like -10 to 40 degrees on the Celsius scale? Makes no sense.
But it makes so much sense though. Because it’s anchored around the freezing and boiling points of water, which is a universal experience we can all relate to. 0°C outside? It’s freezing.
Fahrenheit as “the human scale” is what makes no fucking sense. You end up with the same exact problem where your specific range of “human scale temperatures” does not line up with 0-100°F at all. But it’s also not anchored to water’s behavior. So it just ends up being arbitrary.