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excel, 1 day ago to pcgaming in Steam Deck game library now 29% larger than that of Nintendo Switch

That’s an embarrassingly small number of games for a PC… a PC should have access to far more games than that. I’m sure that’s just the “verified” games, but it’s pretty dumb to flaunt it like it’s something impressive.

excel, 27 days ago to fediverse in EU : Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

No, that’s not how that works.

Users can generate their own keys, and you know it’s the same user as long as they have the same key, even if they’re on different servers.

No certificate authority is required for this kind of use case.

excel, 1 month ago to technology in Enshittification Continues: Discord to begin showing advertisements on it's free platform

“Discord said users will be able to turn off the ads in their settings.”

excel, 1 month ago to programming in What are your preferred code editors/IDEs to use on Android?

Remote Desktop

excel, 2 months ago to science in Mounting research shows that COVID-19 leaves its mark on the brain, including with significant drops in IQ scores

If they ask the SAME question and you score still goes DOWN I’m gonna go ahead and call that “a bad sign”.

excel, 3 months ago to games in Sources: Nintendo Switch 2 will now launch in 2025 | VGC

Sure, just like the “leakers” guessed it would come out last year, and the year before that, and the year before that… don’t worry, just keep moving that goalpost, you’ll get it right one day.

Yeah, this time the “leaks” are “different”, just like they were “different” last time, and the time before that, and the time before that, and…

excel, 3 months ago to programmer_humor in Typescript

What this shows is how terrible raw JS is, when all of this crap is required to fix all of the edge cases and make things actually work the way it’s supposed to.

excel, 3 months ago to games in Steam Next Fest is currently ongoing - which demos did you like/dislike?

Oddsparks

Dyson Sphere Program

excel, 3 months ago to games in "What do negative Steam reviews say? (about Japanese indie games)"

I will leave a negative review on any game without full keybind support.

Maybe one day devs (especially Japanese ones) will understand that this is the bare MINIMUM for accessibility.

You should never write a single line of code at any point in the development of a game that involves hard-coding a key input.

excel, 3 months ago to pcgaming in Dragon Quest Builders Finally Releases On PC Next Month, And Preorders Are Discounted

Only most of a decade too late

excel, 3 months ago to games in Dungeons & Dragons turns 50 this year, and there’s a lot planned for it

Like a cartoon villain twiddling their mustache thinking of more ways to be evil?

excel, 4 months ago to games in Here Are All the Game Industry CEOs Who Took a Pay Cut to Prevent Layoffs

We should be giving even more respect to the ones that kept their own salary reasonable in the first place so that a pay cut wasn’t necessary.

excel, 4 months ago to nintendo in The Pokémon Company Announces It Will ‘Investigate’ Palworld IP And Assets

In other words, this is just them saying “shut up, we already knew and we’re not doing anything about it” to all the people that don’t know anything about copyrights that keep spamming them.

excel, 4 months ago to games in Palworld Becomes the 7th Game Ever to Reach 1 Million Concurrent Players on Steam

And there’s nothing wrong with that

excel, 5 months ago to asklemmy in What is the legal difference between owning digital and physical media?

Using tools to break the encryption for backup purposes is legal in the US, but distributing tools to do so is not legal because the tools can be used for non-backup purposes.