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[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Just linkifying this for mobile users: !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 points 3 months ago

Imagine running a campaign so terrible that you lose your own riding, then running off to a province on the other side of the country to weasel your way back in.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Motion for summary dismissal, brought to you by Mountain Dew

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I’m no optometrist, but I would love to hear the opinion of one.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 points 3 months ago

It’s like an episode of wheel of fortune, except every space on the wheel is a different kind of loss.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 9 points 3 months ago

Not whoosh, my comment makes sense even if you get the inverted unit joke. So uh, uno reverse card whoosh?

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 20 points 3 months ago (6 children)

If the answer matters then your use case isn’t this monitor’s use case. If you spend all day in Excel, or an IDE, something like that, then it could be awesome for eye strain reduction.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 10 points 3 months ago

Not necessarily just corporations, but certainly text-based workflows. I can see this being great if your day job is writing code, working on spreadsheets, editing documents, etc. In those use cases, framerate hardly matters. Would be great for reducing eye strain.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 4 points 3 months ago

Maybe not, given it’s sold out in the screenshot. It would be for fairly old machines only, Intel iMacs from before 2020.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 points 3 months ago

Well, they used to sell one, right? Windows Phone used to be a thing. As I recall though, it was equally locked down with an app store as the sole distribution method.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Yes but I don’t believe consoles are a target of the DMA or this investigation. While would be nice if consoles were opened up and forced to allow side loading and alternative stores, I think there’s an argument that they’re single purpose appliances - a PlayStation is sold to you with the intention of it being a gaming box and not much else.

A smartphone or tablet though is at this point a general purpose computer, and it’s reasonable to expect to have the same freedoms and open environment that you would on a PC. And Apple’s argument that they can’t open up the iPhone because security or whatever doesn’t really hold water, because the Mac exists and is both secure and open.

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