Don’t worry. They’ll turn them into live-service games with repetitive content and immersion-breaking cosmetic micro-transactions. You’ll grind through the same few stealth levels with some barely random enemy permutations marketed as “infinite open world content”. Your coop partner will be someone dressed in red cargo shorts, a purple mohawk wig, and a weapon that has so many random attachments on it you can’t figure out whether it’s a microscope, a dildo, or a sniper rifle.

Good. The last thing I want is more live-service games.

Sigh, I’ve lost all interest in Bungie ever since they doubled-down on live-service games.

Bah, I guess I am just gonna have to wait a year after release to play this game.

He’s right, a product like that would have failed dramatically. At this point I just want them to release a dumb AF, streaming-only, inside-out tracking VR headset that connects to PCs. Forget trying to cram an expensive Qualcomm or AMD chip in there, it will never give you the ideal VR experience. Make something that’s $200 bucks, connects to any PC running SteamVR, and just does extremely well with streaming and low-latency. Both Airlink and VRDesktop have already shown that its possible to get extremely close to a cabled experience. All that’s left is some polish.

Porting to PC isn’t minimal effort. It takes a lot of dev time to optimize and make it run well on the wide variety of PC hardware, not to mention the additional PC specific technologies like DLSS that often get implemented. First game had quite a few performance issues at launch that were ironed out over the span of several months.

Oooh, I can not wait! I’ve been waiting for both Horizon and the new God of War to make its way to PC.

God I hate the entire industry of marketing and sales and this is one of the reasons why.

Even worse is when Apple decides to just name everything the same thing and get rid of numbers entirely.

Lemmy seriously needs better federated search. The fact that you need a separate website to find all the communities is just silly, especially if you’re on smaller instances, which everyone seems to encourage.

And they don’t track every minute thing you do

You sure about that? I just bought my mom a new iPad Air yesterday and the setup process was maddeningly privacy invading. Name, address, and phone number just to install anything from the Apple store. Both me and my mom, who’s not tech savvy at all, thought it was crazy the amount of info we had to put in just to get a usable device.

and act like malware to try to make you use their products.

There was also so many preloaded garbage apps installed by default. Why are apps like Measure there? Yes when I want to measure something…I reach for an iPad…instead of…you know…a tape measure… Just because they’re first party apps doesn’t make this okay. Also, Apple’s ecosystem is famous for vendor lock-in.

They may not be as blatant about it as Google is, but they’re every bit as bad tbh.

Wordpad is WYSIWIG, the alternatives you mentioned are more for replacing Notepad.

But yeah, why use WordPad when LibreOffice exists?

I’m not aware of a brand new iPhone that costs $170

Why would you be replacing the battery of a brand new iPhone? I am talking about the cost of an iPhone when its old enough that its battery is giving out. The value of that old iPhone is not as much as a brand new one. Deprecation is a thing. Spending $80 bucks on something that’s currently worth $170 is just stupid. $80 bucks is easily in the price range that makes people consider whether it’d be better off for them to put that towards a new phone. It’s a lot of money to sink into an old device that you know is already about to become obsolete.

If you think paying a third or even half of the current value of your phone to replace its battery is okay…well that’s your loss I guess.

You can’t call a device sustainable when the cost to repair it is more than what most people are willing to pay.

Ever since I found out my old Netgear R7800 didn’t have a functional IPv6 firewall, I’ve been riding happily on the OpenWrt train. Now I absolutely refuse to buy routers that I can’t flash with OpenWrt.

why people were so quick to adopt Chrome which was Google controlled from the start.

Because for a long time Chrome was just much faster. It wasn’t until a couple of months ago that Firefox started becoming performant enough for me to use as a daily driver. Even then, there’s still issues with how slow it takes Mozilla to implement new web technologies like WebGPU, etc.

You just create sub-spaces.

Matrix has the “spaces” concept.

Yeah the key thing for me was anonymity. Plus I think most spammers know about the + feature now and will get around it. Currently degoogling my life by switching everything over to relay and having it forward to my Proton mail. Never had such a clean inbox before and it’s amazing.

I recently switched away from Brave tbh. They keep falsely flagging my Rewards profile every time I travel or use VPN and it just seems shady as fuck when the new ad system they’re trying to push can withhold your funds whenever they feel like not paying.

Their VPN + Relay bundle is also pretty good if you want to monetarily support them while also getting something back. Relay is actually a killer product for keeping your inbox clean.