placatedmayhem

joined 4 years ago
[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago

Retro: SNES and GBA. I have strong 16-bit nostalgia, but I also think the pixel graphic art style of that era has aged much better than the low polygon count, early 3D art style of the N64, Saturn, and PS1. Some modern, usually indie games get pixel art on the same level, like Sea of Stars and Cobalt Core, which I have enjoyed.

Current Generation: Steam Deck. I barely play anything else anymore and I'm seriously considering only keeping a Steam Deck or similar portable for the next generation. The other consoles (Switch, Xbox, PS) are all too locked down and are clearly just trying to keep me locked in their ecosystem.

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There's no official time frame, so you'll get different answers. Also, generations are somewhat arbitrary delineations that are defined by things other than age, particularly major events and themes that occurred in early life.

For example, it seems that "millennial" is congealing around 1981-1996, at least according to Wikipedia, but there's still variance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenial#Date_and_age_range_definitions

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.ml 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Fewer than originally expected. Apple cut the initial production order[1]. Also, "selling out" is a hype generator now.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-forced-make-cuts-vision-pro-production-plans-ft-2023-07-03/

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

Compromise idea: Put it in the middle.

Good idea?: Make it as wide as the screen.

Cursed idea: Make it a slide-to-unlock-style widget.

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Cynically, I'd bet there's a solution to this. However, it'd eat into gas company profits and Texas, being a deregulation "paradise", doesn't require it in the code, so it doesn't get done. So occasionally the gas mains spontaneously explode...

See also Texas power instability in the winter.

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

No, Republicans want to impeach Biden so they can say to Democrats "See! Your guy got impeached too!" (an equivocation fallacy) while also attempt to distract from the current Republican front runner's history of womanizing/sexual assault and his multiple ongoing trials, with at least a few are going poorly.

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You're not the only one I've seen. It's pretty entertaining that Google's decision to neuter adblock plugins in Chrome then deploying anti-adblock measures on Youtube is pushing folks off Chrome.

Welcome back to Firefox. :)

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Credentialism. Some doctors treat their staff the same way. If an argument, no matter how logical, comes from someone that doesn't have an MD, PhD, or other doctor initials behind their name, it gets automatically dismissed. For some, it's even on non-medical stuff. This happens with non-medical academics, too.

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Twitter already broke their internet search results just a couple of months ago:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/3/23783153/google-twitter-tweets-changes-rate-limits

That's believed to be why they reversed on the "must log in to read" and rate limiting policies.

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.ml 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is the backdoor that's deployed after a host is compromised. How the host is compromised is somewhat irrelevant. It could be exploited manually, social engineering, a worm, etc.

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, weird corner cases in musl cause a lot of things to misbehave when run on musl. For example, DNS upgrade to TCP, which is required for certain queries and covered by one of the DNS RFCs, wasn't implemented in musl for the longest time, although I think it finally got implemented recently. However, there are other cases like this fwiu.

[–] placatedmayhem@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

No. There are a whole bag of tactics to get you to enable it like "Whoops, got re-enabled in an update. Our bad.", which has happened before, or a myriad of dark patterns. By changing the name of this at least twice now when it got backlash from users, Google has shown it doesn't care about Chrome users' preferences, only that it wants this to fly under the radar so that every Chrome user won't know to disable it.

Change to a browser that actually gives a crap about your privacy. As a bonus, changing helps reduce Google's ability to dictate what happens to the web via Chrome's huge user base, like the recent "Web Environment Integrity" push.

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