You’re absolutely right. In the case of an adult, I’d just take more of a stance of, “look at this crazy thing that happened! lol! Omg I wonder what went wrong” and try to elicit her awareness that way. Then teach through soft suggestion, “maybe we shouldn’t XYZ, huh. Crazy.”
Employees offered suggestions to reduce risks of misuse of subscription accounts featuring minors. Meta took another approach and says its programs are well monitored.
I’m no fan of meta, but I’m so used to seeing “but the children” get thrown about as a power play that I’m actually less inclined to believe Meta did anything wrong. Or at least any worse than expected.
Got tempted by the promotions on PS store and went in with my friend. Considering most of everything was already over, I felt like uninvested in everything. We tried PVP to play with some weapons we thought were cool, but just ended up getting pounded into the ground with hand cannons. One or two quick pops and it’s time to go back to spawn. The game works really hard at making new players not want anything to do with it. I bought the other expansions to see the other areas, but I think it literally a waste of money.
One of my biggest concerns with subscriptions has to do with death. It feels gross to imagine companies just entitling themselves to my bank account after I’m gone, providing no value to anything, until someone comes along and cancels everything. Feels like one last free cash grab that could go on for years. I imagine board members congratulating each other for legally looting a dead man’s corpse.
You’re probably right, but we both know companies would go on for years if nothing intervenes. Then blame it on the dead man when there is no money left.
As we eagerly await the official announcement of iOS 18, the tech world is already abuzz with rumors and expectations surrounding the upcoming software update. Set to…
Tapping in a text field used to just put the cursor there. Double tapping would select the word, and triple tapping would select the whole sentence. At least I think that’s how it was. Now tapping almost always selects the word (sometimes it weirdly doesn’t, and it’ll select the first word of the next line if you tap the end of the line above… why would that be intended?).
If you want to place the cursor between two words, it best to use the cursor by long pressing the space bar or physically dragging the cursor (unless you’re very good with where you tap). If you want to add some text to a middle of a sentence, you’ll have to think very carefully about how to accomplish that without redundantly needing to retype some words that you had intended to keep.
Also, if an incorrect word gets auto-typed, hitting delete just removes the whole word instead of allowing you to just delete something like the last letter.
Basically Android will change its UI coloring to align with your background image, and 3rd parties get access to knowledge about your designated UI colors, right? I get how that can be a privacy concern.
What happens if you set your wallpaper to automatically change every other hour or so? Does android allow that?
randomizing can make you stand out more as an outlier
I’m sure, but if you have a specific set of colors matching a specific picture on your phone that nobody else has, I imagine that would be more easily traceable than if it were automatically switched out every once in a while. Granted, the other aspects you mentioned might be enough to just render the effort redundant anyway.
I’ve been playing through FFVII:R+I for obvious reasons, but I also booted up Hell Divers 2 for the first time just today and heard a lot of complaining from my team mate about the default controller configs on PC, the weird directional key combo stuff, and how unclear a lot of the instructions were.
We failed some missions, 40 minutes wasted with zero rewards, because we couldn’t figure out what specific thing the objective indicator was talking about. We failed one mission not knowing how to calibrate a satellite, another not finding any way to destroy a facility, and another not knowing which building was a fuel depot even before trying to figure out how to blow it up. Then, after you’ve watched a YouTube video that actually shows you what your target looks like and how to do it right, it turns out you’re not even given the chance try it again in the game anyway.
I’m not as picky about it as my friend. I absolutely love the music and presentation, but I’m still waiting for it to be more fun than just weirdly convoluted.
I just watched the ign review video and saw that you can unlock new strategems. I expect that might impact a few things. Also, I personally like the code system. I think it’s a fun way to feel like you’re punching in codes all the time, but the default controls my friend had on PC had the stratagem directions mapped to the movement directions (WASD), meaning he could not do any strategems while moving like I could with a controller on PS. He eventually remapped them to the keyboard directional buttons, but it seems weird that the default for PC is set that way.
Personally, it’s Faith from Farcry 5 for me. Uninteresting dialog that can be summed up to “I was bullied once” and that’s it. Literally every other character is so much more interesting. Jacob gives you a sequence where you run through a gulag which he then uses against you, John tries to kill you and is openly hateful...
You Can Now Self Host A Bluesky Instance (techcrunch.com)
Adult daughter. Should I disown her!? (lemmy.ca)
Edit: LOL love the responses. You ain’t wrong…...
Meta Staff Found Instagram Tool Enabled Child Exploitation. The Company Pressed Ahead Anyway. (www.wsj.com)
Employees offered suggestions to reduce risks of misuse of subscription accounts featuring minors. Meta took another approach and says its programs are well monitored.
Reddit says it's made $203M so far licensing its data (techcrunch.com)
Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data (www.theverge.com)
Meta and Microsoft ask EU to reject Apple's new app store terms (9to5mac.com)
I need to rant: This box buster challenge in FFVII:R Intergrade is f-ing ridiculous.
Whoever as Square Enix decided this is how “fun” is defined needs to be firmly slapped across the face and fired....
Sony president wants Bungie to be better at ‘assuming accountability for development timelines’ (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Film Companies Seek ‘Torrenting History’ Related to Redditor (torrentfreak.com)
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
If you can, use Firefox.
Started looking into ente to replace Google Photos and Gmail marked them as spam (files.catbox.moe)
Coincidence? Surely Google knows this is a legitimate company.
iOS 18 Uncovered: Dive into the Speculation and Upcoming Features (trendvale.com)
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How Android Wallpaper Images Can Threaten Your Privacy (fingerprint.com)
What are you playing this week? (and why is it Helldivers 2?) - 2024.02.17
Bye bye The Finals, hello MANAGED DEMOCRACY!...
PlayStation Wants to Aggressively Improve Profits With First-Party PC Releases (mp1st.com)
FF VII Rebirth - Improvements to Performance mode image quality coming Feb 21th (twitter.com)
Who, in your opinion, is the most annoying character in any game?
Personally, it’s Faith from Farcry 5 for me. Uninteresting dialog that can be summed up to “I was bullied once” and that’s it. Literally every other character is so much more interesting. Jacob gives you a sequence where you run through a gulag which he then uses against you, John tries to kill you and is openly hateful...