id rather be using whatsapp, honestly

it’s not good either, obviously, but messenger still collects a buttload more data

(and iirc whatsapp encrypts both group chats and DMs, on messenger it’s only DMs)

imagine being the person forced to use FB messenger because your friends are on it and won’t bother installing anything else

i am that person 😖

I think people in the replies acting fake surprised are missing the point.

it is important news, because many people see LLMs as black boxes of superintelligence (almost as if that’s what they’re being marketed as!)

you and i know that’s bullshit, but the students asking chatgpt to solve their math homework instead of using wolfram alpha doesn’t.

so yes, it is important to demonstrate that this “artificial intelligence” is so much not an intelligence that it’s getting beaten by 1979 software on 1977 hardware

they already do! (sorta)

if you buy games through heroic, the heroic devs get a percentage of the sale

depends on your time zone, it most of the world it comes out wensday (aka, as i write this, tomorrow where i am, or even today if you live east of the atlantic!)

(the switch 2 version comes out at 00:00 on thursday no matter the time zone tho)

in the west too our phones spy on us but everyone knows, everyone thinks it’s bad, and yet nobody cares

i don’t think there’s anything like that on linux sadly

personally i just use the VLC mobile app (yes, this exists!) to play my local music collection. it’s surprisingly good, and you can even send music to it from your computer to your phone wirelessly!

yea okay. the genocidal tech company that buys every studio it can to create a monopoly on gaming is a more ethical alternative to nintendo. okay.

i think a section with indie games similar to nintendo’s games would’ve been cool, yknow stuff like bug fables, tunic or mindwave, instead of “If you don’t like Nintendo you can buy an Xbox! 😃”

you missed the Hopes Others Will Do The Same part.

they’re pulling their game as part of the larger BDS boycott. the point is to put pressure on complicit companies (in this case microsoft) for them to stop working with israel

the IDF won’t care, but if enough devs pull their games, and if enough people stop using xbox products & services, microsoft will care.

yea, for historical preservation purposes, having the original source code will always be better

but in practice, what we have now is good enough to do basically anything you’d want the source code for

to clarify: the decompilation is done. so we have the source code, one way or another.

(well, it’s not completely done since it doesn’t compile to the exact same binary, but it’s very close - just go watch the video OP linked, it’s good)

https://librewolf.net/

yup…

they own zenimax, who owns id software, who owns Doom

reminder that microsoft is heavily complicit in israel’s genocide

thank you so much for to playing my game!

its nintendo, im sure they’re going to find some way to raise the price for everyone else too

using last-gen hardware in their consoles

I mean there’s nothing inherently wrong with that (if only they charged last-gen prices as well lol)

but anyways here’s a bunch more shit they’ve done:

• charging full price for basic rereleases
• removing reviews from the switch eshop
• killing emulation projects
• patenting basic gameplay elements
• sued a man so hard he was forced to pay them part of his income for the rest of his life

and for a few older ones, just to show that they’ve been shitty this whole time, actually:

• attempting to kill game cheating devices (like the game genie)
• attempting to kill video game rentals
• preventing 3rd parties from releasing games on competitor’s consoles, essentially giving themselves a monopoly

(also they’re partly owned by the saudi government, so, there’s that)

(and pls remember that, despite all of their shit, nintendo is far from the worst. it’s a systemic problem, not an individualist one. remember that ubisoft covered up sexual assault for years and that microsoft is literally engaging in genocide. the problem is that capitalism lets these companies get away with it.)

here’s the survey if anyone wants to answer: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MURG4B

finally, a drive big enough to hold a 4th AAA game 😌