Chais

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[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Only if they still sell the assets.
I'm in favour of also dropping any copyright and intellectual property protections the moment a company stops selling the game. They evidently have no more commercial aspirations for the title, so it doesn't need any protection from technically feasible copy protection circumvention methods.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yea, people mostly equate email to an electronic letter, but it's more like an electronic postcard. Anyone handling it can simply read it.
So you'll want encryption, too. So either you get everyone to use PGP/GPG or get them to use a privacy-by-default provider.
Good luck with the first option and I'm not sure how interoperable the various providers are, so in the worst case you'd have to rally everyone to the same provider.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Camera and baseband seem to be the general pain points. Somewhat unsurprisingly, given that both are complicated black box devices.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

The storage requirements might be ever so slightly prohibitive.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's not about being helpful in the sense of just answering the question at hand. If OP just wanted the question answered they can just Google it. Instead I wanted to offer an alternative, low risk solution.
While Ubisoft, EA and consorts can easily stomach some piracy and still crank out "AAA" titles in a 6-months interval, it hurts small studios relatively more. Buying and returning, on the other hand, offers a way to give feedback to the studio via the return reason and costs just as little as piracy.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm not saying it was always the case. Back when ads were just images hosted on the same machine as the rest of the page they were only annoying.
But nowadays even so-called acceptable ads are delivered by third-party servers. So suddenly you have to trust not only the operator of the page you're visiting but also any advertising partners they use. And since all modern advertising uses a gazillion of metrics that necessitates JavaScript you end up executing code that neither you nor the page operator have any actual need for nor influence on, hoping that the ad network has some sort of vetting process so they don't end up unwittingly delivering malware.
That's a tall order in my opinion.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

ProtonDB says it's decent, the game is Steamdeck verified plus you can return it with under two hours playtime, so I'd just buy it.
Any upgrade path with a pirated version should be completely irrelevant.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

All ads are a cybersecurity risk, not just the targeted ones. The targeted ones just offer new and exciting vectors.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yup. You can pay Netflix for 4K, but you can only get 4K with Edge on Windows and even then only if you have the right hardware. Like, what's the point? On Linux you can only get 1080p by spoofing your just agent. Otherwise they only give you 720p.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 months ago

Yea, that's just plain stupid of them. I don't know how they expected that to go over.

Oh yes, I bought that content, but sure, take it away. I totally understand that the licensing changed.

– No one, ever

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

Buy it. Larian is a small studio that put a lot of effort and love into that game. If you like what they do, support them. You can get it DRM free on GOG, so you get to actually own it.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 31 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

To be fair, streaming was never buying. It was always paying entry to a library. If stuff gets removed from the library that's the way it is.
That isn't to say I don't agree. Piracy is a service problem, as Gabe Newell so eloquently put it. Streaming started losing the moment it started splintering into cable networks.

 

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By that I mean randomly generated playlists. Based on either one or multiple tags, songs or artists. Finite or infinite.

Ideally it would allow combining local sources with remote ones for discovering new music. Thinking along the lines of audioscrobbler, Bandcamp and SoundCloud. Maybe one could even hook into Spotify's API, of they allow that.

Does something like this exist? I'm currently running Navidrome and while it's pretty and functional, it's very much a classic Mediaplayer, that just happens to be a website.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Chais@sh.itjust.works to c/alternativenation@lemmy.world
 

Hope this fits here.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by Chais@sh.itjust.works to c/liftoff@lemmy.world
 

When the screen blanks liftoff simply resets to the default view. As a result it forgets:

  • The feed you were scrolling through
  • ~~The position in the feed~~
  • The post/comment you were writing

Makes it annoying to write even moderately long posts/comments because you constantly have to be on the lookout for the screensaver or disable it. And how you don't get distracted when authoring a post/comment.

Seeing this on Android 13 and liftoff 0.10.9

 

After I just deleted about two pages of comment, because Android gesture navigation is fun that way 😑, I really wished liftoff would save the unsent comment as draft or at least ask me if I really want to abandon this comment.

 

This is on android. What I mean is when you try to scroll the feed and happen to touch an image, instead of scrolling the feed I get these colored circle segments telling me this can't scroll any further. But that shouldn't even be an option because there is only a single image.
See this post for an example. For some reason the image does scroll ever so slightly.

 

Embedded image being ![](url).
Scrolling down is no issue but scrolling up leads to the view position jumping back down, as soon as the images starts entering the frame. The only way I found to scroll back up is scrolling really fast. Maybe so the image fully enters the view from one draw to the next.

 

I'm currently running Iodé and an considering switching to Ubuntu phone, but ultimately I'd like to give PostmarketOS a shot. Can the Ubuntu phone support translate to faster development for PostmarketOS?

 

Title. The language of a post or comment is never displayed, nor can it be defined when writing posts or comments.
This leads to posts/comments with the language set to "undetermined" which leads to them appearing to users that didn't select the actual language.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Chais@sh.itjust.works to c/main@feddit.de
 

Einige englischsprachige User jammern, dass sie so viele deutschsprachige Posts sehen und infolgedessen die jeweiligen communities komplett blockieren.
Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich mir die Frage, ob das nicht automatisch lösbar ist.
Lemmy erlaubt Usern einzustellen, welche Sprachen sie sprechen und merkt an, dass das Abwählen von "undefined" dazu führen kann, dass man kaum mehr Posts sieht. Gleichzeitig habe ich aber beim Posting keine Möglichkeit gesehen die Sprache anzugeben. Die Tatsache, dass ich beispielsweise keine russischen, koreanischen oder sonstige fremdsprachliche Posts außerhalb der von mir angegebenen Sprachen sehe, legt aber nahe dass eine Kennzeichnung existiert.
Passiert das auf Instanzebene? Und falls ja, sollte feddit.de sich einfach als Deutsch markieren, so nicht bereits geschehen?

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