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Same here. Also tired that it’s essentially the same people who invested on bitcoin server farms who are now heavily investing in these for glorified image and text generators.

Green lanterns are real!

Another complaint pointed at the wrong concepts. Like saying drinking water is bad for everyone’s health because you’ve been drinking it from your broken toilet.

Very common, but internet access from home wasn’t as common so if someone wasn’t curious enough or didn’t have friends/relatives who knew about the matter it would be a myth to them. Videogame companies like Nintendo didn’t talk about it that much back then, and copyright notices on VHS tapes and CDs made it sound like something out of a gangster movie.

Same here. Working just fine. 👌 I have to say I’d love a controller that was all trackpads or touch sensitive surfaces. I’m actually looking to replace my mouse for something that scraps the wheel in favor of a more durable option, but I don’t feel PC touchpads are on par (inputs and ergonomics).

Nintendo Labo 2.

Peeps at Sony probably prefer to treat their PC port business as a tease to bring more PC consumers to buy a PS5. With the ramnarok and all that it’s some machiavellian perfect timing.

Will go ahead and share this in relation to another comment thread I’ve chosen to block instead of replying: https://www.reuters.com/technology/sony-facing-79-bln-mass-lawsuit-over-playstation-store-prices-2023-11-21/

Not that I support this kind of lawsuit anyway. Before digital storefronts such as Valve’s Steam, development studios would earn a much lower cut from game sales.

Is the decades old standard 30% cut for digital storefronts fair? I believe that should be negotiable. Some haven’t and probably will never offer a quality or quantity of services that even comes close to those that came before them, so they could and should take a lower cut instead of increasing prices and commisions because they’re fully invested in AI slop.

Now then, I know Valve lets devs generate Steam keys for their games and gift/sell them outside of Steam without Valve ever taking a cut from those sales. That’s usually why people can buy legitimate PC keys on several sites like Humble or Fanatical at lower prices. Does anyone know if Sony allows this as well?

If Microsoft were honest they’d change the name from Windows to Backdoors.

Regarding Xbox, I’d say it was already shitty since 2002 with Xbox Live.

Yeah. I’ve got more than enough of those on Steam for free, but that’s mostly because of interacting with it’s community events or playing games there. You should still be able to use regular emojis from your keyboard too (using hotkeys or copying and pasting them from elsewhere).

Lack of emotes/emojis, broken links and rotated pictures? I have never experienced anything remotely similar on Steam or Matrix. Is it a .gif search bar or stickers what you might be missing?

Steam’s astonishingly less easy to configure but once it’s done it works for basic group chats when playing. It would be amazing if they hadn’t bugged screen sharing on Steam Chat, as it still works well when opened from the main Steam window.

I usually prefer chatting through Steam for anything gaming related and jumping to Matrix or even Jitsi on web for video conferencing and other matters. I’m also open to using other things such as XMPP, Delta Chat, SimpleX and so on, but Steam as a common space for PC users and Matrix for private conversations with all the useful features just hits the right balance between accesibility, reliability and privacy for me.

If everyone, them included, keeps investing in garbage that sabotages sustainable IT development as they’ve done with the latest server farm crazes, not only consoles will sell better but also streaming subscription services. Local, personal and somewhat private computing will be reserved for a select and wealthy few if we keep in this direction with pricier components, unoptimized code and unleashed billionaires.

I’d just change a few things, as I’ve enjoyed games with collectibles since very young because of how cheap they were and how they pushed me to broaden my social circles to trade my spares. So I’d be fine if instead of having a market for them we just traded those with friends on Steam.

As long as a product or service can be better and people behind it are unwilling to make it so, there will be others modding it for themselves, their friends or the world.

Removing/disabling DRM should never require online activation. Delete and block whichever sites are spreading this.

Anyone who has installed and set up an OS knows this is both dumb and criminally dangerous.

I’m sharing this on c/raidstream as it’s extremely relevant there. Thank you so much!

It is. We witness it almost every month here in the fediverse. But for the time being, unless more decentralized options like Briar, Simplex and Session become more accessible and reliable, a few federated options are the best we have available even if their server/node/instance admins carry too much power and responsibility over them.

It probably is. They just close registrations from time to time. But other smaller servers are usually a better choice.

There’s a couple of server lists I like to check.

• https://tatsumoto-ren.github.io/matrix/
• https://servers.joinmatrix.org/