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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I had a math teacher at my stem highschool claim that the touch screens on the ipads worked by heat and that if you touch them too much the screen will get too warm and stop responding

I think the only way this could be any stupider is if she said it has cameras under the screen looking for where your fingers go.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They could (and probably have) tried to get to where apple is with its app store on macos/ios.

They did.

The Windows 10/11 "S Mode" only allows installing software through the Windows store. It was mostly relegated to OEM installs for cheap x86 and ARM laptops, thankfully.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

You must be this rich to vote:

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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Meta said that "it is required to offer a free, reduced-ad service that leads to poorer outcomes for users, advertisers, and platforms."

Oh, fuck off. Targeted advertisements don't help users with anything other than spending money on things they don't need. They lived perfectly fine before seeing the ad, they don't need what it's trying to peddle.

The only poorer outcomes are for Meta and their advertisers. Don't try and frame this as though it would hurt actual people, Meta.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

It's actually getting kind of hard to think of new, stupider ways to ruin the economy and raise the cost of living. Parody is getting close to being indistinguishable from reality.

  • Blanket tariffs for goods with low domestic production? Done.
  • Imprisoning laborers who do domestic farming? Yes.
  • Deporting legal, tax-paying noncitizens? Yep.
  • Pissing off citizens of countries that contribute significantly to local tourism? Indeed.
  • Asking potential tourists to pay extra for the privilege of visiting a to-be-sold-for-industrial-logging park? Why not.
  • Cutting healthcare and replacing it with a bonus for the 0.001%? Might as well!
[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Isn't it kind of ableist to assume that when somebody says they are "not able to physically do" a job, that they're lazy or classist? For all we know, they could have mobility issues or be unable to do sustained manual labor.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Brought to you by the party of white supremacy common sense, white supremacy reason, and white supremacist family values.

That makes much more sense now.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yeah, I agree with you on that.

If discoverability was better, I'm sure Android would get way more ports of good games. With the way it is right now with shovelware and Google pushing microtransaction-riddled crap over one time purchase games, though, it's treated as a second-class platform because it's not nearly as profitable as other platforms.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Which part of my comment was denigrating indie devs? Indie games are great. Android gaming is currently not.

If I'm looking for a good non-mobile game, I don't go looking in the mobile game store. I go looking on PSN or PC, where the focus is on the kind of game that wasn't designed as a phone-first experience.

The fact that Android has some good traditional games or ports of indie gems isn't something inherent to Android. The overwhelming majority of those games were on PC or console first.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (14 children)

Oh, there's no doubt about that. I'm not disagreeing that Android has some good-looking games. The problem is that games like GRID Legends Mobile are the exception, not the rule.

The Switch is crap, yes.
The Play Store is also overwhelmingly crap, though.

If you exclude all of the mobile games from both stores, the Switch simply has a better catalog of games.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

You're comparing apples to oranges.

The mobile gaming market is leagues larger than every other market combined. That doesn't mean the games are even remotely comparable to console games.

It's an entirely different target audience. Mobile games are focused on quick sessions and design patterns designed to encourage spending money on microtransactions. Games made for the traditional gaming market are mostly designed for longer play sessions with more mechanically complex gameplay. I as well as many others prefer the latter.

Nintendo's store is full of shovelware, but at least you'll find more traditional games than just ports of indie hits. Or, buy a Steam Deck and enjoy something better than both.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (17 children)

The OP is really blowing smoke up Android's ass when it comes to the quality of native Android games. Most "top" mobile games are freemium crap riddled with microtransactions.

What it does have, however, is emulators. Including one for the Switch itself. Paying $350 for decade-old hardware and $80 for games is just bad value compared to a $300 used S21 and $0 games.

 

Modlog, which includes a site ban—something only admins can do.

The community bans also include communities that aren't moderated by any instance admins, and some that are only moderated by a single person who likely isn't aware of actions taken under their community's name.

 

Once one company gets away with it, the rest follow.

 

The Citra website has been replaced with the same statement made on the Yuzu website, and the GitHub repository is now gone as well.


Other build dependency repos taken down with it:

 

Crossposted from !technology@lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/post/12728165


This also includes ceasing development and destroying their copies of the code.

The GitHub repo page for Yuzu now returns a 404, as well. The website is still up, though.

 

This also includes ceasing development and destroying their copies of the code.

The GitHub repo page for Yuzu now returns a 404, as well. In addition, the repo for the Citra 3DS emulator was also taken down.

As of at least 23:30 UTC, Yuzu's website and Citra's website have been replaced with a statement about their discontinuation.


Other sources found by @Daughter3546@lemmy.world:


There is also an active Reddit thread about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1b6gtb5/

 

An ad that showed up as I was browsing through the news. Bloody ridiculous...

 

You may know it as Space Melody by Luna Park or as ResuRection by ППК (English: PPK), but the original melody was composed by Eduard Artemyev for the 1979 Soviet film Siberiade. The original name of the song, as titled in the movie's soundtrack release, is la mort du héroes (the death of heroes, if my French is correct).

Here's a link to the original composition, if you're curious.

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