Kushan

I feel like your rage is directed at the wrong people

Nah it’s just shit writing. Occam’s razor and all that.

It doesn’t really matter if people stick around to play a single game, they’ll almost certainly explore other games and stick around for the service. That’s the idea I think they’re going for.

I’d be curious to see how many CoD players stuck around.

Game pass is a big success for them as far as anyone can tell.

Make sure your ublock lists are up to date, sometimes the extension gets a bit stuck and needs a nudge to update them.

It’s an arms race and Google hasn’t won it yet.

I think it’ll be somewhere in the middle. Quite a few people have not had to deal with ads in streaming for many years now, if it’s suddenly forced it’ll piss off a lot

I don’t think they’re all going to suddenly pirate again, I think many will just switch to other streaming providers.

If they all start doing the shitty ads, we’re fucked.

Came here to say this, Gmail search has been basically broken for me for years. The preview suggestions when typing in a search query have been more accurate for me than the actual search.

I have a couple of old emails from 2020 that always appear in search results no matter what I search for.

Bioshock was a cut down version of the “shock” gameplay - no inventory management, much more linear path, etc.

I remember at the time people complained that it was “dumbed down for console”.

I still enjoyed it though, but I can see why veterans of the genre would feel things are missing or fall short while newcomers would be blown away.

Yup most of the hubs can do modem mode so you should be fine there. I believe their FTTP Hub can’t do it but that’s not in many areas.

Virgin will definitely be faster, they’ll do up to a gigabit. Hopefully open reach rolls out fibre to you soon. I only got the fibre to my house last month!

We’re testing this same tech in the UK as well: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/02/openreach-and-nokia-claim-uks-first-live-test-of-50gbps-broadband.html

China might be a little ahead but it’s hardly a leapfrog.

Yup it’s great

I use uptime kuma to check my certificate isn’t going to expire.

Also tells me if any of my services are down.

Only if that channel was private. You don’t have to join a channel to be able to read its contents.

Yup, sheer incompetence rather than malice is my guess. Meta has nothing to gain by promoting windows.

Why are you excited at the prospect of less competition in the gaming space?

You don’t have to like Microsoft at all, don’t buy their stuff, but they’re still a major competitor to Sony, Nintendo and Valve - and losing them would do more harm than good. Losing any of them would.

Edit: seems a lot of folks miss the point, I’m not defending Microsoft’s practices, I’m saying having more competition is better.

Sony and Nintendo are not angels either. Even valve has it’s bad points. You can by all means pick a side but less competition is always worse.

I don’t know why LTT are somehow the bad guys in this, they weren’t the only ones to realise that the extension messed with their affiliate links and it’s not like it’s a thing to publicly shout about every dropped sponsor.

I bet LTT has dropped plenty of sponsors without making a big public deal about it.

People blame Google for the death of jabber because of one blog post from a disgruntled contributor but the truth is jabber was never popular and Google chat died as well.

Jabber was a mess, most of the clients were barely compatible with Each other and it was a wild west of feature support. Some clients were well featured with the ability to send richer messages, but typically only worked with a specific server and the same clients. Jabber did a crap job at making sure clients and servers interacted properly with each other and didn’t push the standards quickly enough, forcing clients to do their own thing.

Which is all Google did, they went their own way because nobody used jabber and the interoperability was causing more harm than good. It didn’t work, Google talk died and many years later clients like WhatsApp took over instead.

I’m on the side of “automate it all and stop whining”, but I do think it’s important not to so readily dismiss the thoughts and opinions of those this directly affects in favour of the opinions of the security researchers pushing the change.

There are some legitimate issues with certain systems that aren’t easily automated today. The issue is with those systems needing to be modernised, but there isn’t a big push for that.

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