“Don’t breathe this!”

Unlocking the phone voids the warranty?

No, it doesn’t. Motorola apparently claims it does, but they’re lying. The Magnusson-Moss Warranty Act requires them to honor the warranty no matter how you modify your property unless they can prove your modification caused the fault you’re trying to claim the warranty for. They don’t just get to presume it because you flashed the firmware.

That one guy at Rockstar, feeling incredibly validated right now:

I mean, at the time when turbo buttons were a thing (and I was a kid who didn’t know much about computers yet), I incorrectly thought that too. My own computers never had one though, and I’d like to think that if one had, I would’ve eventually figured out that it worked opposite to how the label implied.

Turbo was on by default. Pressing the button to turn it off made the computer run slower to emulate an 8086, so that software coded to calculate time based on instruction cycles rather then using a proper real time clock function wouldn’t run faster than the intended speed.

An 8088 wouldn’t have a turbo button since it ran at the same speed as an 8086 to begin with.

(Also, SimCity 2000 required at least a 386.)

That’s neat!

“Better answer” means “enforce antitrust and consumer protection law to punish corporations for attempting to usurp device owners’ property rights.”

It’s not about preventing sideloading installing software in the normal way¹ by someone determined to do it.

It’s about spreading FUD and propaganda demonizing the idea of device owners actually having control over their property instead of abdicating their rights and ceding their privacy to technofeudal overlords like Google.

¹ because “sideloading” is itself already a propaganda term

Thanks for this thread. I just switched to GrapheneOS and noticed the same thing. It’s particularly annoying having my Lemmy feed reset so often.

I’m suddenly wondering if horny multiplayer games for couples is already a thing, or if it’s an untapped market.

but why would anyone be loading more than one game at a time?

Maybe you’re virtualizing it for multiple users. Sure, that might sound like a weird thing to do, but that’s mostly because shit like this makes it harder than it ought to be.

It never ceases to amaze – no, that’s not the right word. It never ceases to dismay me how people so often work for free making mods for proprietary shit when they could be contributing to a Free Software game instead.

Man, I just bought a refurbished Pixel 7 for $160 for myself. If you think I’m buying a $400+ Steam Deck – let alone some other handheld PC that’s even more expensive – for my kids, you’re outta your damn mind!

What it means is that they, inexplicably, haven’t yet fled to a country that isn’t turning fascist and censorious.

Honestly, I think it’s because search results for web articles are so poisoned by SEO spam that people turn to YouTube for information even when they would otherwise prefer it to be textual rather than video.

Well, that’s new: usually when I need the archived article it’s because the original was paywalled, but this time the original seems to have been deleted completely. Is Vice getting censored too now?

I also have GrapheneOS, but have been noticing that it would (for example) annoyingly kill Voyager when I’m in the middle of writing a comment and task switch to Firefox to copy a URL or something. I switch back and it’s back on the home feed with a message that it “recovered” my comment text, but of course I have no hope of finding the thing I wanted to reply to again…

This is on a Pixel 7 that should have plenty of RAM, BTW.

Okay, but having normal lighting (matching the way light works in the real world) is obviously normal. Realism has always been the main goal of 3D rendering. If you want something different than that, it’s because you’re making a deliberate stylistic choice.

It should be easy to delete the normal lighting, but a new project should absolutely, obviously, start out with normal lighting.

The Ukraine war started in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea.

As a DS9 fan, to me that sounds way meaner than you probably intended.

You can download an stl for the battery cover.

The hackability and first-party endorsement thereof was another big underappreciated feature of the Steam Controller.

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Almost none of this is unique to the gaming industry; it’s all symptoms of under-regulated capitalism.

How is this not illegal in the EU?

If you want a GPU anywhere vaguely near that price-point, buy an Intel Arc B580.

I’m upset I couldn’t get anything bigger than 16GB from AMD without going back a generation.

Nah, the last time they did that was 1985, when Tetris came out.

Answer (without even needing to read the article): they can’t legally brick your console, but we live in an oligarchy that refuses to enforce the law against the powerful.

MARIO PAINT 2 LETS GOOOOOOOOO

(Just kidding; I don’t give ever Nintendo my money anymore.)

My hate for Microsoft started with its anticompetitive business practices.

STFU, ghost of Dallas executive producer Leonard Katzman!

Wait, so are you the one who did this?

I don’t want them just to include empty 5 1/4" drive bays and some covers that look like floppy drives; I want them to fill those drive bays with actual functioning 5 1/4" floppy drives! 🤪

(Also, external 5 1/4" drive bays are absolutely still useful in 2025. You can get hot-swap bays for 3.5", 2.5", or I think maybe even M.2 drives now that can fit in them. It’s great for a home server.)

Put in real 5 1/4" disk drives, you cowards! And a PCIe or (internal) USB floppy controller with IDC-34 connector, while you’re at it.

I’m so patient I haven’t played The Witcher 1 or 2 either. Should I get W3 Complete + W1 + W2 for 9.99 + 1.49 + 2.99 = 14.47, or get the trilogy bundle with only the W3 base game for 1.49 + 2.99 + 3.99) * 0.9 = 7.62 and wait for the W3 expansions to be more than 70% at some future date? (In other words, are W1 and W2 likely to keep me busy for a long time, and does a playthrough of W3 need the expansions installed at the start or is it more of a ‘complete the base game and then to the expansion content afterward’ sort of thing?)

Also, are “The Witcher Adventure Game” and “Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales” worthwhile/important?

I know they try to remain faithful to the original design, but I can’t help but wonder how hard it would be for the OpenMW devs

I would love it if, after OpenMW hits 1.0, they set a new goal of feature parity with Skyrim (or Skywind).

• Star Trek 25th Anniversary Game
• Star Trek Judgement Rites
• Myst

If we want them to receive a reckoning, it’s on us, the working class, to force it to happen.

But both models say they have Bluetooth, wired, and 2.4Ghz connectivity. They both include a USB-C 2.4Ghz dongle, and both explicitly call out Bluetooth as a way to connect to certain devices, so must both have transmitters for that, too. The “Wireless” version calls its wireless protocol “8Speed” and lists its low latency as a feature, but the “Bluetooth” product page doesn’t say anything that would imply its non-bluetooth wireless is different. It merely doesn’t discuss it.

The only real hardware differences I’ve been able to discern so far are that:

• the “Ultimate 2 Wireless” version shows colored labels on the ABXY buttons, while on the “Ultimate 2 Bluetooth” version the labels appear to be white.
• the “Ultimate 2 Wireless” comes in black, white, and purple while the “Bluetooth” version only comes in black and white.
• the “Ultimate 2C Wireless” comes in mint, peach, green, and purple while the “2C Wireless” version comes in blue, pink, and dark blue.

Help, I can’t tell the difference between the different varieties. Between the “Ultimate 2 Bluetooth Controller” and the “Ultimate 2 Wireless Controller,” which one do I want for gaming on Linux (both Steam on my desktop and RetroPie on my Raspberry Pi)? Or which do I want between the “2C Bluetooth” and “2C Wireless,” for that matter?

(Damn it, 8bitdo, would it kill you to put a fucking comparison matrix on your website‽)