When was the last time you on purpose used the application key on your keyboard to open the right-click context menu so you could navigate it using the arrow keys? Because that is the key it replaced - Microsoft has demanded for the last 32 years that the two spaces between CTRL and ALT on Windows compatible keyboards are used for the Windows key, and the Application Key, so that people using one-button mice (or no mice) can use the Windows GUI.
They (Microsoft) did actually also originally implement it, the application key was added to Microsoft keyboards in 1994 along with the Windows key. It’s meant to give compatibility to the Windows user interface when your PC had a mouse with only one button. Don’t remember those being very relevant in the recent years.
So it’s Microsoft deciding that their right-click button isn’t necessary any more after 32 years, and swapping it for a Co-Pilot/Windows Search button.
We also partly ended up with the 5k 5090 because it’s just the TITAN RTX of the 50xx generation - the absolute top of the line a card where you pay 200% extra for that last +10% performance.
nVidia just realized few generations back that naming those cards the xx90 gets a bunch of more people to buy them, because they always desperately need to have the shiniest newest xx90 cards, no matter the cost.
They’ve been thinking about doing that here in Finland too, but so much non-phone stuff is using the older networks that while 3G is mostly gone, 2G for calls and texts is still going to be supported to at least 2029.
Systems like the EU mandatory eCall car emergency call thingy.
Yes. But you claimed “about 5 to 6x the purchase price for a PC vs a console”. Which isn’t double or triple. And neither did I claim that you could build a PC at the same cost, I said 1-1.2k plus a few hundred more. Which is around double.
I don’t think you’ve realistically ever been able to build a matching PC at the same price ever, because they are almost always sold at cost or sometimes at a loss as the manufacturer gets their profit selling games, not the hardware. Same deal why VR hardware from Meta is so much cheaper compared to everyone else - because you need to then buy your games from Meta as well.
If the goal is to build a PC that’s the same performance level as the console in question, even with current ridiculously inflated prices it isn’t nearly that expensive.
PS5 Pro ($699) is an 8-core AMD Zen 2 with 16Gb of RAM (shared with the GPU), a 2TB SSD, and a GPU roughly in line with an RX 9060 XT or RTX 5060TI. Late last year, building a matching PC would have been somewhere in the $1-1.2k range. Today it’s few hundred more due to the AI caused RAM shortage.
It’s when you actually want to outperform consoles and push the graphics settings far beyond the optimizations and targets of console games use when things start to get expensive fast.
But I slowly take it back one 75-90% Steam sale game at a time.
Though defamation requires the claim to be both a lie, and made publicly (and have caused “legally redressable injury”, whatever that means, IANAL). The tool needs to be run locally, and specifically tells you that it’s searching by name and that others with the same name will be found in the results, and that’s why it gives the context and lists where in the files it came up.
So the tool itself most likely isn’t defamatory, but anyone that uses is better be damn sure that they have the correct person if they start publicly talking or writing about what it finds.
You’d think the few global AWS and Cloudflare outages would have worked as a warning, but most people just went from “nah it couldn’t ever happen” to “well, it did happen, but surely it wouldn’t ever last all too long”.
I have over 200 logins overall, but most of them are to forums that have been dead for a decade.
The internet used to be quite a different place back in the day, people had separated communities and everything wasn’t just on a handful of massive platforms.
Many did. One common thing is to store some important data on a dongle.
I remember a game called DJ Max Trilogy that stores your entire save data on it, so even if you bypass the dongle check to get the game to boot, you’d have to rewrite the entire save/load system too.
Come run it in Finland during the summer months, we have too much solar and wind generation then and electricity is often free or even goes negative every once in a while.
Bah, first people complain when suddenly they can’t turn their computers off, now they complain when they can’t turn them on…
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It’s using a whole bunch of Steam Deck spare parts bought from iFixit, and a few after market upgrades like hall effect sticks and an extremerate shell replacement. Buying a single trigger (just the plastic R2/L2 trigger, mind you) for $20 to fix a broken $500 Deck isn’t too bad, but trying to build an entire controller from spares is really not economically sensible.
But if you did indeed have those parts already for some reason, the rest is all rather cheap, common components. Cannibalize a Deck, and the extra cost would probably be well under $50.
…plus the $500 to buy a replacement Deck, so don’t actually do it.
If you want to make it singular like he/she/it, then make it singular.
He has a car, she has a car, they has a car.
He was friendly, she was friendly, they was friendly.
He sounds fine, she sounds fine, they sounds fine.
Notice the issue?
A singular they is an okay concept, but you then have actually allow it to be singular, in every use - a direct replacement for he/she with no other word or sentence changes necessary.
It is still the same installation method, directly installing the .apk file, from way back when the term for Android usage was defined. So, kinda, but also kinda not. Also, if you do use ADB to do the install from a PC, the command is “ADB sideload filename” which will do the transfer and installation to the memory directly. Then it truly is sideloading as defined.
Android doesn’t use ROMs (Read-only Memory) any more either, because the filesystems are now writable. But Lineage etc are still called custom ROMs, because the end result hasn’t changed.
It’s not a “bullshit new term”, it’s three decades old and means transferring files locally from one device to another, instead of directly downloading or uploading from/to an external server.
The origin goes back to MP3.com and i-drive in late 90’s, but the most common sideloading people did was downloading music to their PC using services like iTunes, and transferring them to their mp3 players. As they did often with early PDA and smartphone apps, where the term for Android comes from - get the .apk on your computer, transfer it to your phone, and install it.
Sideloading.
AFAIK it’s a fedia (mbin) compatibility issue with Lemmy in general, some links posted aren’t federated properly and instead just show up as the thumbnail image from Fedia.
Probably something that is going to be, or already is, fixed in a newer Lemmy version, but some instances are a little slow to update.
Which would still not be perfect because “foo@bar”, “foo@[123.123.123.123]” and “💩 @[IPv6 :::1]” are all technically valid email addresses.
It looks like the only validation that doesn’t block something valid pretty much would start and end at “It has at least one @ symbol, and something on both sides”.
Though any competent manufacturer, especially when talking about laptops, would still have the application key under FN (as is shown in that example image), and give the ability for users to select which one is the default function in the BIOS.