I don’t really play online multiplayer games anymore, what actually are “seasons” (and “battle passes” for that matter)? I’ve seen them mentioned in games like rocket league and overwatch which I’d paid for, but they cost more money and didn’t appear to be DLCs/expansions so I just ignored them.
It’s a free trial. I don’t know why everyone’s so shocked, they’re essentially giving you one or two free books in the hope that you’ll be hooked and want to pay for more!
Lol, I thought we were going to have a serious discussion about the relative merits of advertising vs community servers with donations, turns out you’re just an elitist cunt. Probably my mistake for not seeing the “TikTok and YouTube are my only sources of entertainment” red flag!
The Android Earthquake Alert system failed to detect recent tremors in north India, possibly due to its recent launch and gradual rollout to Android 5+ users in the country....
Seeing some content from lemmy.world from ~1-2h ago. I checked the instance list on .world and it seems like we’re in the federated list. Anyone else seeing content as usual again?
It says something about the current relationship of large corporate apps and users when Slack makes an update - of particular annoyance is that the search bar at the top basically eats the entire border now making it impossible to move the window around unless you make the window sufficiently large - and my immediate thought is “this must have been deliberate in order to make sure Slack takes up as much of my screen as possible.”
It’s hard for me to think of a legitimate reason for how massive that search bar is and why it is so damn close to all the edges at the top making the window virtually immovable unless you greatly expand it.
If there’s no captain at the helm then eventually this ship will run aground. We don’t need to immediately jump ship, but signing up with another crew might be necessary.
I reckon it’s the lack of an (active) admin. They had issues with spam and worse from other instances, so I assume they just don’t want to connect to any instance which doesn’t have an admin who would be able to immediately stop it. It’s a real shame for smaller instances like us, but it does kind of make sense for them.
Ads are malware (sometimes literally, I think there was a post about exactly that in this very community), everyone should be in control of what they see on their own device.
Blocking their pop-up is just stealing their bandwidth.
That sounds cool but also so unnecessary! Do you look at the physical buttons when you’re playing? Can you not just set up on-screen buttons to use with the touchscreen?
Maybe not a failure of a device, as us enthusiasts would probably still be able to make something cool of it. A failure of a product, definitely, as it probably wouldn’t be successful enough with the casual user for the manufacturer to support it for long.
If you’re building a high-powered machine, maybe, but one of the points of these handhelds is that they don’t have a chunky GPU, a case full of fans, and an always-available power supply. Ignoring the points others have made about suspend/resume, Windows is a bit bulky and bloated, and running it on hardware that wants to be performant and power-efficient is apparently not that practical.
[Game] Diablo 4 is coming to Steam (www.pcgamer.com)
While it was playable before through 3rd party tools, this will make it much more accessible to many Steam Deck players....
7 years of software updates for the Pixel 8 series (blog.google)
Meta Plans to Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook (www.wsj.com)
archive link
How Valve Made $600,000,000 in a Year | Steam Deck Success Story (www.youtube.com)
Spotify Premium Will Include Instant Access to 150,000+ Audiobooks (UK/AUS tomorrow, US to follow) (newsroom.spotify.com)
cross-posted from !android
TikTok is testing an ad-free monthly subscription plan (Update: Confirmation) (www.androidauthority.com)
The original Apple Watch lineup is officially obsolete (www.engadget.com)
Yes, including the 18-karat gold model....
Google's Android Earthquake Alert failed' to detect north India tremors today. Why? (www.hindustantimes.com)
The Android Earthquake Alert system failed to detect recent tremors in north India, possibly due to its recent launch and gradual rollout to Android 5+ users in the country....
Would you be interested in opting-in to lemmy-meter.info?
Cross-posting from lemmy.ml/post/5719058...
Federating with lemmy.world again?
Seeing some content from lemmy.world from ~1-2h ago. I checked the instance list on .world and it seems like we’re in the federated list. Anyone else seeing content as usual again?
Looks like Reddit is removing the ability to opt out of personalized advertisements. (reddit.com)
lemmy.one has been defederated by lemmy.world
According to gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.world...
Google could give the Pixel 8 seven years of updates (www.androidpolice.com)
cross-posted from !googlepixel
SteamDeck 1.5/Premium/LE?
I’m just thinking out loud here....
Android 14 will turn your phone into a webcam for your PC (www.xda-developers.com)
Steam Deck killers be like (i.imgur.com)
Chromium vs Brave
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/5572424...