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by garciansmith 2mo ago
This is also about monitors (as per the article, even the title...). Those are dumb and can't connect to the internet, but as soon as you connect them to a Windows 11 PC software is automatically downloaded. "As Gamers Nexus repor
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
Tired of adware and spyware on TVs? Get a monitor that doesn't connect to the internet... and Windows will happily install spyware for you. N.B., the title here is wrong, this is about computer monitors, not TVs.
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
Plus: (1) the security camera footage is constantly overwritten. (2) the video from the glasses is being uploaded to Meta .
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
How would permanent DST matter in that regard? Are people going to bed at like 4 pm in the winter and now upset they'd have to wait until 5? DST is already used in the summer (and 3/4 of the year).
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
I've definitely talked to people that though daylight savings time is the time used in the winter, since that's when there are the fewest daylight hours and you need to "save" them or something.
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by garciansmith 2mo ago
I mostly just want the time change to end, but I definitely prefer DST since the afternoon sun is something everyone can enjoy in the winter. I don't get how dark mornings (when a non-trivial percentage of the population is just asleep
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
I don't know how people can even manage to read through this stuff, much less upvote it. It's even more depressing to me that a comment her got flagged for pointing out this was slop.
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
Skin Deep by Blendo games, which came out in 2025, used Id Tech 4 (despite its age). Super fun game with a ton of personality!
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
My PSP, maybe five years ago, had a swollen battery. A friend a couple days ago was complaining that his PS4 controller's battery held no charge at all.
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
I am not aware of a case where they disabled an already-playable game via a firmware update. But they do require certain firmware updates to play games, at least they did in the PS3 days. If you hadn't updated to that firmware (say, b
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
I view the killing of physical game media as having two aspects that, while intertwined, are separate in some ways. The first is the loss of the physical item. I like organizing carts and discs, looking at them on my shelves, reminiscing, e
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
Video games are far more alike to other media like books, not live sports.
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
Did you read what they are replacing it with? I.e., "best if used by" (indicating the time the item is at its best quality), "best if frozen by", and "use by" (indicating when the food is and isn't safe to
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
The oldest game CD-ROM discs I have are for the Amiga CD32 and were made in 1993; they still work. My PSX and Saturn games from the mid-nineties work. To say nothing of cartridges (my NES games from the 80s work), where the only issues I&#x
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
I got my $10 too. I remember laughing at the amount when I got the check. Thankfully after the OtherOS issue people worked to crack open the PS3, so by the time I got that check I had long since installed custom firmware on it.
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
Games that require an online account, whether physical or not, are all bad, yes. But a lot of games are playable just fine without any patches, and there are plenty of physical releases, especially of indie games, which come out after the d
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
One reason is control. You control the physical media. You can sell it, you can buy used games, let people borrow them, etc. This affects less people, but there are also many who like collecting them. Physical objects are nice, especially i
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
Agreed, for sure. Open hardware is the only way forward honestly. As someone who has traditionally played mostly on consoles, it does make me sad, partially because consoles are so much less finicky. But the control is worth it (and work on
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
True, but Steam still controls Steam and they can change their terms whenever they want. But for now it's ok, at least. And their hardware is happily open: I've played a bunch of games I got on GOG, DRM-free, on my Steam Deck, for
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
Yep. I had tons of Sony games across the first three Playstation consoles. I was a grad student with a PS3 at the time and I actually used Yellow Dog Linux on it as a computer to write papers when my laptop broke. Then the update came and I
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
My grad school supervisor (requiescat in pace) lamented the decline for a similar, very minor reason: he always thought that getting up, going outside, smoking a cigarette, and coming back in was the perfect amount of time for a class brea
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
So did Microsoft already! They can always do more.
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
Memory for Switch games is more and more expensive, or at least I assume that's why so few physical games have come out for the Switch 2 (plus the whole "key-card" thing with no game date on the carts). With discs you could s
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
And the parts aren't comparable when it comes to size and acoustics (and, frankly, aesthetics). The Steam Machine is a very small and, by all accounts, very quiet box. Might not be worth it to most people, of course, but I've seen
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
Note that some machines will have two 8GB sticks, others just one 16GB stick. This is mentioned in the Gamers Nexus interview with some Valve employees, who were talking about the difficulty of finding RAM at any price. They had intended th
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
I'm always amazed too. I waste so much time clicking on links like that only to find slop that just wastes my time. I'm guessing a huge number of people never even bother to click on the article and just comment based on the title
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by garciansmith 3mo ago
Other people have noted that you can switch out the keyboard and SMS app (which I did). My single (minor) issue with GrapheneOS is the adaptive screen brightness. On the stock Android OS on a Pixel I'd mess around with the sliders for
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by garciansmith 4mo ago
Yeah, that is the downside to making your keyboard your own. Anytime I use someone else's computer I always spend a few seconds wondering why I just turned caps lock on and wrote a bunch of gibberish.
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by garciansmith 4mo ago
I find this kind of keyboard remapping essential when using a laptop now that I'm used to using an external keyboard with QMK firmware at my desk (though these days I use Kmonad).
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by garciansmith 4mo ago
Worked fine for me in Firefox, both on Linux (though it first popped up a permissions request to access MIDI devices that I had to grant) and Android.

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