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by alickz 5y ago
Yeah short vignette games were a concern when this was first announced. I don't know which solution Steam has for those (if any). Maybe they could not offer refunds after a significant percentage of the game has been played, regardless
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by alickz 5y ago
That's great to hear. From their website[0] it seems they have a very similar policy to Steam, except their playtime criteria is a bit more vague. But still good to see. Sony on the other hand void any refund once you _begin downloadin
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by alickz 5y ago
Consumers need to demand better refund systems from the big console makers. On Steam if you don't like a game, or if it doesn't work for you, you can get a full refund no questions asked as long as it's within 14 days and wit
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by alickz 5y ago
There are so many games that are still fun, even for people who don't define fun as grinding away at a Battle Pass (which some people do indeed enjoy) In the single player narrative space you have any Sony first party exclusive, along
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by alickz 5y ago
You may (or may not) be interested in Little Nightmares 1 and 2. Also Limbo from the same dev as Inside if you haven't played it. EDIT: I see now GP recommended Limbo already.
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by alickz 5y ago
>But there have also been some recent examples (ca this century) that I found quite impressive, usually characterized by a short violent burst of crazyness and then everybody is dead, heavily inured or routing, and maybe slowly beginning
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by alickz 5y ago
4k maybe, but 60fps should be the minimum going forward IMO. Or at the very least a 60fps option in all games. I think 30fps is a straight up usability issue. The only times I've ever had motion sickness or a headache from games is whe
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by alickz 5y ago
Ireland. Also I was wrong with the 2 weeks, it's 28 days out of the last 3 months https://thecai.ie/your-rights/your-rights/pricing/ >Businesses cannot claim that goods have been sold at a higher pric
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by alickz 5y ago
Seems they've removed it: https://dafnihair.com/dafni-rose-go/ Although I find it suspicious how all their products have full 5 star reviews.
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by alickz 5y ago
>Thing like 70% off on pair of shoes, that just had their price increased by 90% for 1 minute, just so there was a record in the database that they actually had higher price, nobody cares that they never sold at the high price. In my cou
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by alickz 5y ago
While we're suggesting QoL extensions I would highly recommend both PrivacyBadger by the EFF (for blocking 3rd party trackers) and SponsorBlock for YouTube (mark and optionally auto-skip all the annoying sponsor / intro / sel
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by alickz 5y ago
Computer Science is a wide field. You are not an impostor for not understanding all components of the field. For example, an oncologist is not expected to have the same understanding of bacteria as a microbiologist and they aren't an i
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by alickz 5y ago
I believe the person you're responding to is referencing solipsism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solipsism
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by alickz 5y ago
Why even show a (falsely) determinate progress bar over an indeterminate one then? An indeterminate circular progress bar would distract the user just as much but with less lying.
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by alickz 5y ago
It sounds a lot like the screen events Firebase reports (a library by Google for analytics, among other things) It allows you to know which screens a user views, but not the data on the screen. A pseudo-example would be like "User open
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by alickz 5y ago
As a European I never grew up with Mister Rogers, but his testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Communications is very impressive to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKy7ljRr0AA
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by alickz 5y ago
I've been using PrivacyBadger, made by the EFF. https://privacybadger.org/
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by alickz 5y ago
>All I see is me, the user, having to struggle through using their janky home-made payment processors as I pay and/or try to end my subscriptions.` You could just not use the app if you don't like their payment processor.
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by alickz 5y ago
Off topic but I respect that you answered your own question, even when the answer didn't fully line up with your previous conjecture.
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by alickz 5y ago
I've had to add this exact functionality ("Look left and repeat these numbers") as part of KYC for a mobile app similar to Revolut. This is in conjunction with ID scanning. I think this functionality was necessary as part of
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by alickz 5y ago
Great channel I particularly liked the Ulillillia and Nasubi videos
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by alickz 5y ago
I think this is similar on Mac. Anecdotally I don't know anyone who uses the Mac App Store to install apps. Everyone I know just downloads the .dmg from whatever website.
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by alickz 5y ago
There's also Youtube Vanced. It has an adblocker but also SponsorBlock, which is amazing. It skips all the annoying tedium of YouTube videos (intro, self promotion, sponsors, credits) I couldn't go back to Youtube without adblock
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by alickz 5y ago
>Is that functionally different than channels for the purposes of turning off marketing notifications? I don't think so, it's just built into the OS which I personally prefer. >The problem I have are the apps which don'
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by alickz 5y ago
>I don't want to miss a notification that my delivery food arrived, but I don't want to be bombarded with daily advertising messages from foodpanda trying to get me to change my behavior. This is exactly what the Android notifi
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by alickz 5y ago
I've known the word boatswain for decades at this point and never knew it was pronounced like that! Speaking of military terms, lieutenant as "leftenant" always threw me. I had just assumed they were different words.
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by alickz 5y ago
What information do apps have access to (without asking permission) that websites don't have?
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by alickz 5y ago
Seeing some of the cool stuff people on HN get to work on, and how much they get paid to do it, can make me quite depressed sometimes.
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by alickz 5y ago
I really, really loved the first season of the Terror. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys that genre of stranded arctic explorers. Pretty much anything with Jared Harris in it is good (The Expanse, Fringe, Chernobyl)
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by alickz 5y ago
> Just look at what a mess this is on the PC where there are a million launchers Which has resulted in some much needed competition for Steam, particularly around dev cuts. Also just look at macOS, would anyone really prefer to only be a

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