[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 hours ago

I think they were saying that the US funded the Taliban to fight the USSR (aka. "commies")

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works -3 points 5 hours ago

Interesting that there's "new information" after deep faking videos become increasingly easy...

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

I haven't heard of the phantom charging issue before, but the "only charging to 80%" could be because of adaptive charging settings

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

I'm saying that a lot of people would consider it to start with "L". I think it's common to say "Legend of Zelda", and even LoZ to refer to the series.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 9 points 18 hours ago

But in tech, there's often a lot of overlap in the high-end and crap...at least in terms of issues.

Expensive, high-end products can sometimes just be frustrating, or just lacking features that'd seem obvious.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

During a virtual meeting isn't an employee's free time...even if their mic is supposed to be off. Lol

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

That's just semantics.

When you buy a CD, you don't own the songs.

But you do have some item that belongs to you.

With Steam, you have a ticket that will let you into Steam to download the game for as long as your account is in good standing and as long as Steam exists.

With GOG, you have a file you can use to install the game on any machine INDEFINITELY. GOG can't revoke your access for any reason, and if GOG shuts down, you can still install the games.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

With GOG, you can buy any game, and you'll have files to keep. Once you have the installer, you can keep that forever.

Even if your GOG account is hacked, banned, and GOG goes out of business, you can forever install your game onto any compatible machine, even offline, and play the game.

That's what GOG does differently.

It's like buying a physical game, except there's no disc. They can't revoke your access or deactivate your ability to play the game.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

Star Control 2

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago

We've got some good examples of emulators, so I'll share some examples where the originals are better.

DC, DS, 3DS, and WiiU (especially) because of the inability to give the dual-screen experience that these consoles offer.

Yes, the DS and 3DS can emulate the touch screen with your mouse, or maybe even a touchscreen monitor. But your controls are still going to be on a separate device the majority of the time.

The DC has its VMUs, which were often doing something related to the game you were playing. In Sonic Shuffle (Mario Party but Sonic and cards instead of dice), it actually showed your hand. It was an interesting mechanic, because players could choose cards from ANY player's hand...and the VMUs were the only way to see which card was what.

The WiiU would probably need to be able to emulate onto a tablet for a lot of the games that utilized it well to work as originally intended.

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 days ago

The music on the CD is copyrighted, but you're free to use the Bass Boost feature or whatever on the thing you're playing the music from

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago

Do they need "buy" or "purchase"? All they need is "pay", and nobody would notice.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by otp@sh.itjust.works to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

I know MediaBiasFactCheck is not a be-all-end-all to truth/bias in media, but I find it to be a useful resource.

It makes sense to downvote it in posts that have great discussion -- let the content rise up so people can have discussions with humans, sure.

But sometimes I see it getting downvoted when it's the only comment there. Which does nothing, unless a reader has rules that automatically hide downvoted comments (but a reader would be able to expand the comment anyways...so really no difference).

What's the point of downvoting? My only guess is that there's people who are salty about something it said about some source they like. Yet I don't see anyone providing an alternative to MediaBiasFactCheck...

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by otp@sh.itjust.works to c/googlepixel@lemmy.ml

I used to be able to press the microphone button on my home screen and say "Start 5-minute timer" and it would start the timer.

Now, when I do that, it does a Google search for "Start 5-minute timer".

How do I get that functionality back?

I don't want to open an app, and I don't want to use a number pad or anything to enter the number.

EDIT: Thank you! I went into the Gestures section of Settings, and now I can long-press the power button to get the desired behaviour. This might even be more convenient than tapping the mic icon!

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submitted 6 months ago by otp@sh.itjust.works to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
  1. Tap search button on the bottom.

  2. Search like normal for communities with the search term. Results returned like normal.

  3. Clicking the unfilled heart (to subscribe) results in the error presented in the attached screenshot.

  4. The back button (Android) doesn't work. App must be force-closed.

  5. The subscribing action was successful; discovered on reboot.

  6. Repeating the steps, but instead of the unfilled heart, clicking on the community successfully navigates to the community.

  7. This didn't happen before.

  8. I might be one update behind current as of Mar 18

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submitted 8 months ago by otp@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

Bananas are ridiculously cheap even up here in Canada, and they aren't grown anywhere near here. Yet a banana can grow, be harvested, be shipped, be stocked, and then be purchased by me for less than it'd cost to mail a letter across town. (Well, if I could buy a single banana maybe...or maybe that's not the best comparison, but I think you get my point)

Along the banana's journey, the farmer, the harvester, the shipper, the grocer, the clerk, and the cashier all (presumably) get paid. Yet a single banana is mere cents. If you didn't know any better, you might think a single banana should cost $10!

I'm presuming that this is because of some sort of exploitation somewhere down the line, or possibly loss-leading on the grocery store's side of things.

I'm wondering what other products like bananas are a lot cheaper than they "should" be (e.g., based on how far they have to travel, or how difficult they are to produce, or how much money we're saving "unethically").

I've heard that this applies to coffee and chocolate to varying extents, but I'm not certain.

Anyone know any others?

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by otp@sh.itjust.works to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml

I've got a fairly new 14tb Seagate Expansion. It works fine, and I've been using it for a month and a bit.

I don't know how long it's been doing this, but the power supply is making a very faint alarm sound. The power supply is plugged into a Belkin surge protector powered on and with the "protected" status light lit, and it is plugged into an outlet. The HDD is currently not plugged in to a computer.

It's not a beep or electricity. It's a distinct weewooweewoo. I couldn't even determine the source until I pressed my ear against it.

Googling just points me towards typical "my HDD is making a sound, how long do I have until it dies", but nothing pointed me to the alarm sound from the power supply.

I'll check again if it makes the alarm in other conditions, but in the meanwhile, I was hoping someone here might know something.

Thanks in advance!

EDIT: The sound only happens when...

  • Power adapter is plugged into the HDD, AND the outlet
  • HDD is NOT plugged into the computer.

Plugging it into the computer stops the noise from the power adapter.

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Due to personal circumstances, I haven't had much time for gaming in the last year.

I did have a couple of months in the summer with some free evenings though, so I dumped a bunch of time into Pokemon Violet, and I also completed Super Mario Sunshine, spending several hours getting those last few shines and blue coins after leaving the game at ~85% completed back in 2022.

Other than those 2 games, I hadn't really played much of anything on the Switch.

My year in review said I put a ton of hours into Pokemon Violet, single-digit hours into F-Zero 99, and less than 1 hour into NES online.

No mention of Super Mario 3D All-Stars.

I was wondering why it didn't count. But then I realized that these year-in-review things are not a nice service or gift to subscribers... they're ADS that they intend people to share with their friends to get their friends to buy more games. (What's a better review than "Your best friend played this game for 200h last year"?)

Since SM3DAS isn't available in the shop, it'd be useless to advertise that game. So maybe Nintendo is excluding it from their calculations...

Can anyone else confirm or deny this? Did anyone have any delisted games make their year-in-review? Or am I just going to need to spend a ton of time 100%ing Super Mario Galaxy in 2024, and only play 2 other games on my Switch? Lmao

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submitted 10 months ago by otp@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

I know money can't buy happiness blahblahblah.

Do they do gift exchanges at all?

Do they ask for anything?

They have enough money that they could get anything made or done for them at a moment's notice. Like having ChatGPT, but for services. Ridiculous things we couldn't imagine.

Anyone have any insight into general trends along those lines?

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