The mere phasing of it as them “letting” users do it shows that they fundamentally Do Not Get It and are still failing to respect device owners’ property rights.

I don’t think that was Gabe “hating” Microsoft; I think it was him recognizing that the Windows Store/appx stuff that Windows 8 pushed was a threat to his business model.

I know Jeff does raspi stuff.

Then why’d you ask if he’s not a fan of ARM? Were you unaware that Raspberry Pis use ARM CPUs?

I’m not trying to defend the guy or dispute you, BTW; I’m just still confused about why you’d say that.

Well, that’s unfortunate re: Jeff, but it’s still weird to me that the other commenter would be aware of that about him (which you mention having to dig through a decade of blog posts and old tweets to find), without at some point also finding out that he’s ‘the Raspberry Pi guy.’

It’s like knowing that Hitler was a vegetarian but somehow not knowing that he was the dictator of Germany who started WWII – it just doesn’t make sense for a fact to be that isolated from its context.

…wat.

I think you must be thinking of some other Jeff Geerling. The one I’m talking about is probably the #1 guy on Youtube for content about ARM stuff, and AFAIK isn’t a homophobe.

Your comment doesn’t make any sense because, even if you were talking about the right person and your accusation were accurate, why would you know some obscure thing about him while being unaware of the thing he’s famous for?

Jeff Geerling is probably having a fit right now.

That’s what happens when regulators like the FTC, Department of Labor, etc. have been essentially destroyed by neoliberals and crony capitalists.

Anything on PC with a mouse/keyboard, maybe with the spacebar remapped.

As a person in a one-party-consent state, it absolutely infuriates me that it announces the recording is happening.

“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!