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smeg,

Definitely not always, I remember buying games and accessories there many moons ago!

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EB bought them and did a “reverse takeover”

TIL!

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Dedicated AI button: ✋😒

Dedicated change-LED-colour button: 👈😯

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I do have a Logitech mouse and as far as I’m aware all the buttons are customisable (through their questionable program), so hopefully this is just marketing nonsense

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This one? Noted!

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Assuming this is Halifax and Lloyd’s then it probably won’t, banking apps tend to demand you use the latest versions. Workaround is to just use the mobile site (which is tedious to log into but works fine) or tell them to stop using the Play Integrity API (which they won’t do).

smeg,

Exactly, I choose the one that’s always there on every machine I access!

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Yeah but seeing actual proof is always important

A supermarket trip may soon look different, thanks to electronic shelf labels (www.npr.org)

Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf labels. The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds....

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Isn’t the real use case just so they don’t have to waste staff time changing labels manually when stock changes or moves?

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A bit of that, but hopefully if they piss off too many people they’ll just go elsewhere

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TL;DW: the ads will be in the video stream itself which will mess up timestamps, sponsor block uses timestamps to know when the ads are.

Seems to me that this will also break every other use case of specific times like direct linking to a timestamp of a video, right?

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If Google can do that then hopefully sponsor block can too!

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Hopefully they’ll realise it’s a bigger breaking change than they wanted as part of this testing phase

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Yeah I do. They still want to be able to sell their premium subscriptions and not every engineer working on the product is some soulless corpo. If they can break all adblockers without damaging their product they will, but if it fucks things up too much then they’ll go back to the drawing board and try something else.

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I uninstalled whatever version of it was around a few years ago when it spoiled the f1 I was planning on watching later by sending a push notification with the result the moment it finished

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I don’t imagine that many privacy-conscious people are using Google Meet!

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Low-tech solution: keep your bank card in your phone case

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Surely you wouldn’t have to use it on your phone then, just on a desktop browser?

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Why would school or work require you to specifically use Google meet on the phone app? Surely you’d use a school computer or your work-provided laptop, never needing to have play services on your personal device.

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Is Skype still a thing? I thought it died soon after MS bought it!

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Ugh, Teams. I can’t believe Skype and MSN died for this!

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Huh, didn’t realise they were still bothering to sell it

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So it’s a re-remaster? Or is there something new compared to the Extended Edition?

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Confusingly (and as I discovered in this thread) the name “PSX” is both the release name for the ps2/recorder and the code name for the original PlayStation.

The PlayStation (abbreviated as PS, commonly known as the PS1/PS one or its codename PSX)

Not to be confused with PSX (digital video recorder) or PlayStation Experience.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_(console)

So technically you’re both right and both wrong!

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The original was a great game despite being a little buggy, so taking the opportunity to fix a few of them sounds great!

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Galacticare is out now on PC, Xbox and PS5.

I don’t think this is a mobile game

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You could try running it in Winlator if you’re feeling brave!

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A more optimistic way of looking at it is that this tool makes people more interested in alt-text in general, meaning more tools are developed to make use of it, meaning more web devs bother with it in the first place (either using this tool or manually)

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That’s insane, what’s making up all that data?

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Of course! But wouldn’t it save space if these variables used zeroes instead of ones?

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It still feels like it should be orders of magnitude less. For example, if each piece of cheese has an ID number that maps to cheese, an ID for what area it’s in, three coordinates for where exactly it is, and maybe a few more variables like how much of it you’ve eaten. Each of those variables is probably only a couple of bytes, so each item is probably only 20B or so, which means that even if you interacted with a million different items and there was no compression going on then that’s still only 20MB of save data.

smeg,

Must be, if there’s no real limit then why would they bother?

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Yeah that’s why I rounded up a bit. But even if there’s triple the amount of cheese data then a million cheeses is still only 60MB

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Aha, so unexpectedly it’s bad/inefficient code that’s ultimately to blame

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That’s excusable in My First Game™ but surely professional AAAAA game would never cut corners and code something so lazily, eh?

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Good points!

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What does the phone contract have to do with what you can do with the phone? Contracts are for the SIM card (and the network access that comes with it) which may include the cost of a subsidised phone, but you’re still paying that regardless of what you do with the phone, right? Or to put it another way I think they can network-restrict the phone but I don’t think they can stop you putting GrapheneOS on it.

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Oh wow, I thought we left that sort of thing behind in the 3310 era!

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I found some very old posts that says network and bootloader unlocking are unrelated, is this no longer the case?

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That’s some serious bullshit, my condolences

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Reads to me like “oh no, our automated verification is perfect, there was just one rogue human who has been punished/corrected/re-educated so there’s no way this could ever happen again, case closed”

Favorite obscure multiplayer game?

I just got a RG353v and a friend at work has a modded switch. We were planning on playing games at lunch and I am looking for recommendations. We are both fans of 4-5th gen and will probably play those the most. Any genre of game is fine, co op or competitive is fine too. So far we have windjammers as a go to but I want to dig...

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I played the (sadly no longer available) Android port, didn’t know it had multiplayer though

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Red Hat also called the FOSS community a bunch of “freeloaders”

Is this an actual quote? Ballsy statement given that half of those freeloaders are on their payroll!

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TF2 was my favourite game back in around 2011, it always felt like you could just jump into any game and have a go without needing too much teamwork.

I think I gave every class a good go (except spy, I could never deal with actually being able to trick other players), top are probably engineer, heavy, and medic.

smeg,

What was terrible on the other hand was that the console lacked internal storage and many games would require you to purchase an additional memory pack (which slotted into the controller). That wasn’t just a technical deficiency but felt very anti consumer.

I never had many n64 games but I only remember one actually needing the external memory pak. Most first-party games could just save to the cartridge, it’s only a few third parties that cheaped out and didn’t implement that. Meanwhile the PS1 was memory cards only.

Also I don’t think any console had internal storage until the Xbox which introduced a hard disk while the GameCube and PS2 were still using memory cards!

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It was designed so you could use left and right for a traditional 2D game, or middle and right for one of these newfangled 3D games that they didn’t know whether they’d catch on. GoldenEye also had a sort of proto-dual-stick layout where you could use left and middle!

smeg,

I missed it at the time and played for the first time recently. It was great fun, but yeah pretty difficult mainly due to how slippery Mario is. I did feel less bad when I watched a GDQ speedrun and even the runner fucked up!

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Different industries have different priorities, if the big boss says concentrating on features or releasing sooner is the priority then such is life

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