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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think being cancelled can affect small groups and fan bases, but doesn't have any impact on the larger population.

It didn't help that boycotting it didn't make much sense. The game itself goes out of it's way to make sure it's "inclusive", actually boycotting it will hurt a lot of people involved in the game more than it would hurt Rowling. Supposedly the royalties are very minor for stuff that doesn't actually include any of the Harry Potter storyline, and JK Rowling is already richer than God.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

As I recall, retro deck installs an emulation hub that you go into, and then choose what to emulate.

Emudeck installs a bunch of individual emulators and configures them, and also sets up roms so they show up as standalone games in your library. The end result is the games feel like steam games, and you rarely have to mess with anything showing them to be emulated titles.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Most recent one was visiting https://www.lifetime.com/playsets on Firefox mobile. After going back and forth between the list of playsets and individual playset pages, Firefox stopped loading the list of playsets. I would load in most of the page, but the actual product list wouldn't load. Refreshing and restarting Firefox wouldn't fix it, but the page loaded fine in brave browser so it didn't appear to be a server issue.

Before that one, I had a time where Firefox mobile was completely broken by an update for like a week. Wouldn't load any web pages, reinstalling/resetting user data/etc wouldn't fix it.

I've had websites break on Firefox desktop too, but I don't have any specific examples I can recall right now. I definitely run into more issues with Firefox mobile than desktop though.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

As someone else mentioned, while there are legitimate reasons for this, Apple didn't tell users about it or give people any option over it. If they had been open about doing it or gave some option in the battery menu to disable it there would be nothing to complain about. But secretly slowing down older devices was obviously going to be controversial when people figured it out.

There's also the fact that apple makes replacing their batteries difficult. If their motivation was purely to keep people from the negatives of older batteries, a logical step would be to make battery replacement cheaper and easier. Instead slowing the devices feels like an extra push to sell new iphones or at least make money on battery replacements.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 15 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I run into compatibility issues and weird bugs with firefox a lot. I'm still using it as my primary browser, but I have to keep a chromium based browser ready for times when a website won't work in firefox. I can put up with that personally, but I wouldn't want to set up firefox on family/friend computers because I don't want to get a call whenever something doesn't work and they don't know why.

Chrome based browsers also have some super useful features (like tab groups) that firefox doesn't have a good alternative for.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 19 points 2 years ago

Depends. I don't know if kernel anticheats will ever work, but I also would refuse to install any so it doesn't really matter.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

I could see plenty well enough.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The OLED has an upgraded led that can do different colors and brightnesses. I don't know if the mono-color LCD led can change brightness, but I imagine it can't.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 years ago

To be fair, the amount of tech support and help that low-skilled users need on windows would suggest this isn't really true. A lot of these people have been using windows for decades and still have frequent issues with it.

I'm not claiming that most Linux distros are better than windows with this, but I don't think windows can be claimed to be a good OS for the tech-inept either.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

Almost exclusively use mine for games. There are a few games like Deep Rock that I only really enjoy with a mouse, but everything else is Steam Deck only now.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Amazon has an audiobook monopoly and takes 87% cut of audible sales unless the author agrees to exclusively sell through audible. If you agree to exclusively sell through audible, Amazon only takes 79% cut of the sale. Officially they claim to take 75% and 60% cuts (for non-exclusive and exclusive), but they actually pay out considerably less than they promise.

That's what a monopoly abusing it's power to steal from creators looks like. Valve's 30% is literally market standard, and is so much lower than they could get away with.

Sources on how much audible takes per sale: My source, Original source

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I would stick with SteamOS personally. If you do want an alternative, check out Bazzite. It aims to be a closer alternative to SteamOS.

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