rodneylives

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[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

They can't even manipulate their own fool heads.

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've heard of them, I might consider trying one someday, but the research and effort to set it up is an obstacle. Plus I don't run Windows any more, and I don't even know what Linux support for it is like.

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

City of Heroes, everything by Atari Games, the Wizardry series, the Ultima series, many others. I'm old, and I remember some of the games, and developers, we've lost.

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

Something I've seen far less reaction to than I expected? While the Switch 2 looks like it takes standard MicroSD cards, it DOESN'T. It takes the fairly obscure MicroSD Express standard! I can't even BUY an SD Express card locally right now! It seems likely, at launch, that Nintendo's branded cards will be the only ones people can get that will work with it!

The Switch 2 has 256GB of onboard storage, much more than the Switch, it is true. But it's also backwards compatible with the Switch, and lets users bring their old digital library over with them. I have a 256GB card in my Switch, it's nearly full, and it doesn't have my whole library on it! If I got a Switch 2, I'd have it filled up on day 1!

And the MicroSD card issue won't be obvious to most buyers. Parents will get their kids Switch 2s, and wonder why their old card won't work with it. It'll look to them like the Switch 2 or the card is broken, unless they implement a physical lock against incompatible cards, and I don't know if SD cards even support those. Also, SD Express cards are more expensive than standard ones.

This could end up being a debacle almost on the scale of the price (which, as others have noted, isn't even Nintendo's fault entirely).

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

The secret of Linux is, if all your hardware works, it's actually easier to use for casual users. Most people nowadays use computers for web browsing and maybe playing media and light office tasks. A Linux Mint setup will have everything you need for that either preinstalled or ready to get fun the software store. If you don't need anything else, then it gets it of your way and just works. No viruses, little danger of malware, no crud to uninstall, no Microsoft account, no nagging apps, no ads, no attempts to upsell to paid cloud services or Pro, and no AI.

The problem arises when you want to go beyond that, and there's no obvious path ahead,v then people not used to the Linux way of doing things may run into trouble. But 90% of users, if someone sets it up for them, will do fine.

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

This poll is for the Mozilla Foundation. They don't make the browser. The post should probably have made that clear.

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I signed up for Loops the first day. I didn't get an email confirmation until two days after, and I still haven't been given a way to sign in.

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

Google constantly puts Youtube ads at the top of searches for information! Countless people put their information on Youtube in the form of videos! Tutorials get put on Youtube as a matter of course! There's a trove of old media on Youtube that can't be accessed any other way! Congratulations, you've won the award for the most thoughtlessly dismissive person on the internet today.

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Even 20 minutes seems like too long, but that would still be wonderful.

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They also hate the idea of phone trees. Companies don't care unless we make them not care.

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Warning: this is secretly a Nethack thread!

So, the model was playing on average 2,000 points worse because the player was luckier? The things about werewolves and dogs is a factor but is statistically insignificant.

Nethack has a couple of other gotchas like this. They should be grateful they weren't playing on Friday the 13th....

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The operator for ensuring something appeared in a search used to be "+", but they stopped using that for some ~?~^?^?mYsTeRiOuS rEaSoN^?^~?~?

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