conciselyverbose

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 28 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I still won't buy stuff there, but this is a far better way to make a storefront interesting than Epic. Instead of locking everything behind exclusive deals to try to force people to use your platform, they're adding actual meaningful benefits to using their storefront. Cross ownership is nice. Game pass is nice. That's how you provide competition.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Dragon Quest 11.

The little mermaid side story was sad. Then, I spent the entire second act just grinding along to get the best character in my party back only to end up super depressed about it when that didn't happen.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/:visited

Although these styles can change the appearance of colors to the end user, the window.getComputedStyle method will lie and always return the value of the non-:visited color.

OK. I don't really have an issue with that if they genuinely are having problems with the site.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It looks like they're dumping you if you hide the referral link based on the text.

Truly gross practice.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

The businesses running major websites want this more than Google does.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Basically the entire multiplayer space is locked out. It's a massive compromise. And every platform that isn't Steam requires significant manual configuration and still has issues.

No, they're not good. And they're not suitable for any normal person because the UX is a dumpster fire.

Nobody with normal tv/movie content gives you comparable quality on Linux.

Yes, normal people do need to collaborate. And no, none of the office options on Linux are capable of functional collaboration for normal people, except Google/microsoft through browser nonsense.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

demand non-identifying traffic data from electronic communications operators on-demand

I'm not sure what this means. Almost all traffic data identifies someone, whether it's the customer or their destination. I'm assuming they just don't care about the latter, but it's still identifying information.

I swear there was just a case of a German judge doing exactly what they're worried about in the article, though, telling a DNS resolver that they had to censor a site from the whole internet to comply with their law.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What they need to do is utilize steam's branch feature to allow smaller installs for low resolution assets and with minimal language support without an opt in to other languages needed.

The steam deck really has me wishing Steam had pushed for that as part of fully verified (or have "great on deck" be a tier above and only for games that do the extras like that). So much space is spent on things I don't need at 800p

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Because it's some. It's not a universal requirement.

You obviously can't just take away IP rights for academic research, but you can make all federal funding conditional on literally every academic paper written by any employee of the university being public domain. Schools can preserve their ownership by completely funding themselves, or they can recognize that most of them couldn't exist without massive federal funding and that they're not entitled to privatize the proceeds of that investment. The journals would have no capability to abuse their position because there would be no content left eligible for them to prey on.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

I meant sticking core functionality like the suggestions I responded to. "Oh, it's so sad your pokemon got injured and will be out of commission for 6 weeks. Luckily for you, if you get in line at a Starbucks then stay in the shop for 10 minutes, or go through the drive through, he'll be feeling good as new." "Your pokemon laid an egg. It will hatch in 9 months, or you can spend an hour inside this concert venue to get it now."

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

You named multiple things with major compromises.

Gaming is fine if you use Steam and the compatibility layer or jump through hoops, and don't play basically anything online.

The photo editing tools on Linux are dogshit.

Web browsing is fine, but not if you want to stream any content, because no one will serve you anything even medium quality without DRM.

Office stuff can kind of be replaced, but mostly by using the browser versions of the shit people actually use, because the tools to collaborate with others (particularly non-techy people) don't exist for open source alternatives.

The software available is absolutely a massive limitation.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Pretty much every problem boils down to “but implementing this would’ve made us lose money”

Pokestops could’ve been “typed”. Like “hospital” could’ve been a free heal or have better healing item rates. “Museum” could’ve been the place to get fossil Pokémon, or maybe revive fossils that you find from regular stops. Maybe a grocery store would’ve had better item rates. A school could’ve been a move relearner. Maybe some Pokémon only evolve at church, or at an amusement park. The lures could’ve done something similar, turning normal stops into typed stops

I'm glad they didn't, but they could have definitely done ad deals with some large franchises and small businesses to make their locations have special features.

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