So glad I migrated away from Gmail few years ago.

All manufacturers do it. Of course, not all of them report to China specifically.

If you want to be safe, you could use a phone like Xperia with Sailfish OS (though beware it’s not Android and it’s less user friendly), Pixel with a Graphene OS or something that supports Lineage OS.

Well, apparently not what gamers want given that not even a million of the EU ones signed the petition to force EU to look at it.

What did you use? I usually use Syncthing to get my files onto/from the Deck. I also use it to sync my mods, that way I have the same experience whether I turn on the PC or the Deck.

What a fucking idiot. I’m itching to refund it just for this statement alone.

Game breaking bug that made it impossible to progress on the single save file I had. I won’t be buying KCD 2. Also the CEO of the company is a massive cunt.

Not 3 for me, but I really love 5. 3 has way too outdated graphics for my tastes.

Looks like a cultural thing, Nintendo is even shittier with this.

I really hope the Palworld publishing is as great as it seems, it could spell the end for these scummy publishers.

A solid advice for game devs (and anyone who ever enters a contract with anyone): always read the contract. No matter what they tell you, what’s written there is what can be enforced.

Just a reminder that if you’re from the EU and want to prevent companies from destroying games you’ve bought, you can sign this petition: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

I’m curious what it’ll look like, though one of the appeals of The Sims is the cartoonish look and behaviour of the characters, this looks way too real, not yet sure how I feel about that. Guess I’ll see.

If you get 20 fps on medium settings in crowded areas with latest RTX card, yeah, it’s unoptimized.

Kingdom: Two Crowns, the Call of Olympus DLC. Also the first game of 2025 we played, we only took a small break at midnight.

I was really looking forward to Surface Duo 2 when they announced it, it looked so well. Then they released and I read the specs of that phone and decided that I’d pass. It was an overpriced phone with shitty specs.

Well, really depends on your definition of interesting. Or what exactly you think is interesting about the news. The information itself might be interesting, but the console is anything but interesting.

Added screenshots to the original comment!

Well, AI has been with us for quite a while, what’s new is Large Language Models which are what’s marketed as an AI currently.

This all means you can do some stupid things like turn a bad drawing into a bad AI generated images, or chat with a LLM, who will in fluent Czech try to convince that it’s very sorry that it only speaks English, but Czech is definitely planned in future iterations!

There are some useful tools which I sadly couldn’t test (like the live translate during a call where each participant speaks their own language and the AI translates on the fly) because unlike lying Gemini, they truly don’t support Czech.

Edit: The English/Czech bit seems to be popular, here are the screnshots. I don’t have all the parts of the conversation screenshoted, only these two:

Here are the Czech bits translated by Google Lens, the translation is not perfect, but it’s good enough to understand what’s going on:

I thought the implication was clear, seems it wasn’t, so let me rephrase! It looks exactly as shitty as I expected a Russian made console to be.

Is it, really? Sounds pretty much exactly how I would’ve imagined a Russian made gaming console would go.

Edit: I thought the implication was clear, seems it wasn’t, so let me rephrase! It looks exactly as shitty as I expected a Russian made console to be.

For me it’s Heroes of Might and Magic V, The Witcher 3, The Sims 4.

Heroes is over 300 hours, Witcher over 150 and Sims a little over a hundred. Not sure about the exact numbers.

There are always gonna be complainers. Like, I’m not super happy that Ciri seems to have undergone many plastic surgeries in a world without plastic surgery (but hey, maybe she popped into our world!), but it is what it is. Hopefully they at least contacted the original actress, otherwise I’m gonna be pissed at them, but if she said no, not much you can do.

Don’t forget that everyone has a hard-on for Witcher 4.

Yeah, this time if they announce “coming: when it’s ready”, they should wait until the game is ready.

16. I only use 15, though.

Hmm, I can buy and send it to you, though I understand if you don’t want to trust a stranger with that much money.

I can still see it on German Amazon, though I don’t know whether they ship to Slovenia or not.

I mean, smaller company is also a smaller impact and much faster decisions. If it happened to one of my small clients, it would be resolved within 20 minutes. If it would happen to my largest client, it would take hours if everyone in the decision chain suddenly turned competent and people with access to various stuff would all be available, which they probably wouldn’t, so realistically we’re talking days (assuming the DNS provider doesn’t restore it beforehand).

The DNS provider (who is not necessarily also a registrar, but it’s common that the registrar is also a provider) doesn’t have any option to disable individual pages. They can only disable a whole subdomain or domain.

The server provider technically could, but it’s much harder because the site is served on https, so they would most likely have to disable the whole server as well.

Not that the server provider was asked, it’s just to illustrate that no one but the service owner (itch.io) can meaningfully block a single page. Asking the infrastructure providers is a dick move.

Edit: So the server provider was asked as well, but they’re not as incompetent it seems. Also, instead of a copyright abuse, BrandShield falsely sent this as a fraud and phishing, which is another dick move.

So yeah, the DNS provider is incompetent, but BrandShield is the malicious actor here.

I found it too boring, never finished it. Perhaps my expectations were too high after the first Life is Strange.

The Walking Dead by Telltale.

I mean, that’s what you get for naming the newest game in the series as if it was the oldest one.

Yeah, that’s a great way to kill an already dying franchise.

Witcher 1 is playable on controller if you take the time to configure it using a 3rd party software. I recently replayed it using Steam Input on my Steam Deck.

Known as the inventor of the Walkman

Yeah, that’s what everyone knows Sony for. Especially nowadays.

Let me introduce you to my former phone: Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra 5G.

Eh, I guess you misunderstood. I was calling out the downvoters, not you.

Bold move, saying Valve isn’t the only company in the whole world that actually loves their customers! Reddit Lemmy hive mind is incapable of accepting such a thought.

Can’t you just buy it, write a review, return it?

Hannah Montana Linux btw?

Well, time for some review bombing?