Literally just make ads less obnoxious, and/or make YouTube premium not stupidly expensive. That’s all you fuckin have to do, YouTube, and you can cut a huge portion of the cat and mouse game.
Photoshop select tools are awesome back to like CS4. Magnetic Lasso and Quick Select are super powerful and let you chain other tools together, and I remember something about Photoshop having good feather select features as well. Not having that base in other software severely limits what you can do.
Photoshop’s healing and clone stamp tools are also good at predicting what I want to fix or patch. If GIMP or other OSS editors have those features, they’d be in my toolbox for sure.
Disclaimer, my old copy of photoshop was “gifted from a friend” so I’m not trying to shill them. I haven’t used GIMP in a few years, so maybe (hopefully) it’s better than it was back then
That’s horrifying. Why would a potential life-threatening device be controlled by a smartphone app? What functions could possibly not be handled on the pump itself and need to be offloaded? What FDA crook was paid off to allow such a stupid thing to hit the market?
Why does it need a connection to another device in the first place though? Silicon is tiny and cheap; all the logic, sensing, and scheduling could be done inside the pump.
The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies thanks to a breakthrough by scientists at Oxford’s Department of Physics guaranteeing security and privacy. The advance promises to unlock the transformative potential of cloud-based quantum computing and is...
I really liked Tetris DS. The retro NES graphics and remixed music was a fantastic love letter to those old games, and the songs were pretty damn good to boot. It was also the version of Tetris I was best at, for some reason I was a lot better with the old, flat, firm DS Phat buttons more than any other console. I forgot what level I got to in Endless but it was probably over 500. Multiplayer was also a hoot, with powerups and you could play with 9 other people that didn’t even need the game to play. (Remember those days when you didn’t have to all have a copy of the game to play together? What a concept!)
The US’s latest attempt to chill speech online, KOSA-a bill to effectively force everyone to identify themselves to online platforms-is picking up steam and looking like it will pass the Senate.
I haven’t used an Android device since my last one, the Galaxy S8. Beautiful hardware, beautiful design, but it was plagued with animation stutters and dropped frames. I switched to an iPhone and an iPad around 6 years ago. And the animations were buttersmooth. It was almost unthinkable to achieve such a fluid interface on any...
The first thing I do on any new phone is go to developer options and turn all 3 animation settings to off. It’s a night and day difference. I’ve probably saved a collective hour of my life not waiting for animations lol
That’s cool and all and important for exposure, but what can I really do about it? It’s the ethereal algorithm and shitty companies gaming it for profit, with everyone else suffering because of it
In this case, “ass” is a funny oversimplification. The player model is on the screen all the time, so having it be attractive adds to the visual appeal of the whole experience
Analysts have warned Windows 10 end of life plans could spark a global torrent of e-waste, with millions of devices expected to be scrapped in the coming years....
Of course battery technology improved, but the amount of news articles claiming XYZ will change technology forever outnumbers the actual number of innovations 100 to 1
China's state subsidies in green technologies significantly higher than those in EU and OECD countries, distorting competition, researchers say (www.intereconomics.eu)
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PVKK from the Dome Keeper devs is Papers Please but you get a huge planetary defence cannon (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
Nvidia becomes the most valuable public company - GSMArena.com news (m.gsmarena.com)
Hidetaka Miyazaki 'knows for a fact' other FromSoftware devs want a Bloodborne PC port: 'If I say I want one, I'll get in trouble, but it's nothing I'm opposed to' (www.pcgamer.com)
SponsorBlock (and DeArrow): "YouTube is currently experimenting with server-si…" - Fosstodon (fosstodon.org)
cross-posted from: lazysoci.al/post/14579120...
Spotify Premium User Slams App Over Audiobook Feature (www.dailydot.com)
Oh Spotify, when will you stop trying to push people to the high seas 🏴☠️
Adobe's ToS changes could be an AI overreach on user data (appleinsider.com)
Censored: Last week, a writer on China's WeChat bemouned that a large part of information from the country's domestic internet had disappeared. Within hours, the writer's post had vanished too. (chinamediaproject.org)
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For the first time in 28 years, Super Mario 64 has been beaten without using the A button – and it only took 86 hours (www.gamesradar.com)
Chinese social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’ while the gap between the country's rich and poor widens (www.theguardian.com)
Targeting posts boasting of personal wealth appears to be part of campaign to ‘purify the internet cultural environment’....
224 Injured After Glitchy Diabetes App Drains Insulin Pump Batteries (gizmodo.com)
Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track (arstechnica.com)
Garry Newman: I have been assured that the takedowns have been verified by Nintendo as legit, so this will now continue as planned. Sorry. (twitter.com)
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Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu (www.theverge.com)
Less than a day before first criminal trial begins, Trump attacks judge—again (www.motherjones.com)
Breakthrough promises secure and private quantum computing at home (www.physics.ox.ac.uk)
The full power of next-generation quantum computing could soon be harnessed by millions of individuals and companies thanks to a breakthrough by scientists at Oxford’s Department of Physics guaranteeing security and privacy. The advance promises to unlock the transformative potential of cloud-based quantum computing and is...
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers (www.theverge.com)
Let's discuss: Tetris (beehaw.org)
The format of these posts is simple: let’s discuss a specific game or series!...
Kids Online Safety Act gains enough supporters to pass the Senate (www.theverge.com)
The US’s latest attempt to chill speech online, KOSA-a bill to effectively force everyone to identify themselves to online platforms-is picking up steam and looking like it will pass the Senate.
Android users who have a keen eye for design and detail, how is the whole stutter/lag situation? Esp. after a few years of use?
I haven’t used an Android device since my last one, the Galaxy S8. Beautiful hardware, beautiful design, but it was plagued with animation stutters and dropped frames. I switched to an iPhone and an iPad around 6 years ago. And the animations were buttersmooth. It was almost unthinkable to achieve such a fluid interface on any...
How Google is killing independent sites like ours (housefresh.com)
Embracer CEO says layoffs are "something that everyone needs to get through" (www.gamesindustry.biz)
lol....
Anti-doom-and-gloom post
I was writing this out on my local !letstalkaboutgames and realised I was basically making a patient gamers post, so here’s a copy and paste:...
Bluesky is ready to open up (www.theverge.com)
Male players: Why do you play female characters? (kbin.social)
Got the idea of posting this when I watched this YouTube video that talks about reasons men love playing as girls....
Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap | ITPro (www.itpro.com)
Analysts have warned Windows 10 end of life plans could spark a global torrent of e-waste, with millions of devices expected to be scrapped in the coming years....
FTC investigating Adobe over making it too hard to cancel (9to5mac.com)
GTA 6 trailer coming Tuesday, Rockstar announces (www.eurogamer.net)
Sodium-ion battery breakthroughs may be key to our electric future (www.techspot.com)