It’s like a drinking game, whenever I see an article about Whatsapp I donate 10€ to Signal

That’s just to establish the initial difference between tiers, otherwise it’s not value added to paid service that’s the incentive, it’s the enshittification of the free tier that’s about to heat up.

liveservice games completely lost any goodwill

And yet gacha liveservice shit reskins some fantasy into SF or the other way around every few weeks and makes good money.

Since almost 100k people tried it on Steam at launch and the next day it’s a ghost town, I’d say it’s very much whether the game is good or not. And 3 vs 3 on huge maps, with prefight busywork that feels like it could be skipped with no loss, on UE5 (which might be a good engine, but from high-end graphics games I learned to expect smeary upscaled shit with lumen painting everything grainy and blurry, input lag badly disguised with motion blur, etc.). Also, they lost a sizeable chunk of players to their TPM+secure boot requirements, even people who don’t know computers realized it means ad-serving fucking corpos can trust your secure computer, not you yourself.

Pipepipe users did not even notice

Of the two games mentioned, one has kernel-level anticheat, the other is “you guys don’t have phones?” The entire industry can go fuck itself.

It’s alright, I have a confession too, I never meant to buy anything but the complete version patched for two years and 75% off

offers Gemini Nano-powered suggestions on what to write about, like Past topics, Memories (from photos or locations), and Goals, like Daily reflections or Mindfulness.

It’s always this insipid bullshit, only the creepiness increases

For example, a restaurant app could expose an ‘order food’ function, allowing users to place an order with a voice command without even opening the app.

No one seems to have any idea what to use this shit for, it’s always some ancillary bullshit that’s easier done with a few clicks.

The best possible outcome, I’m very happy to see Sony tripping over their shoelaces. Maybe games need to cost more? Surely 90$ always-online console exclusives with day one DLCs and season passes, with gacha rewards and cosmetics that can be rejiggered into stat-boosting are the answer if they can also be made tepidely inoffensive with a story cobbled exclusively from tvtropes archetypes.

He very much equated being told he had to use a person’s stated pronouns, in this case “drag”

In its current state, Gemini Space displays sports and birthday cards, but finance and Daily Hub features are expected in the future.

It’s always this shit

Kramer says and exits twirling a leek, George slaps own forehead

That’s ragebait, a very specific form of engagement

Why not just install Graphene? That’s the only reason I’d spring for Google’s hardware.

I too have the bad fortune to remove HP crapware from computers. When they ask me for a reason why I don’t want their McAfee or Wolf security or to send all my data through their servers, I take the time to write something like “I hate your shitty company and your products”

One of my favorite Deck games is Snowrunner. It drains the battery quickly, but it looks and plays amazing with 45fps lock

Yeah, pretty good price.

OSMand is the best, it’s FLOSS and the foundation that publishes it is UK-based. It also needs no cloud services and no internet access once you download the maps, which are freely available public data.

I like your optimism, but: “A double-click opens the Essential Space. This is where all the little snippets you record during the day end up, and the AI uses them to create reminders, recommendations and the like. Essential requires an internet connection. According to Nothing, the data remains within the EU on a server in Paris.” Here.

To make sure Essential Space is always a click away, Nothing created the Essential Key.

The only thing I love more than cloud-backed note-taking crapware is when it has a dedicated hardware key. I hope they haven’t gone full Bixby and it can be remapped without jumping through hoops.