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Stovetop ,

This was an issue on Samsung devices last year, but the OneUI 6.1 update ended up fixing it for me.

My initial bug report:

https://lemmy.world/post/9269197

My post after the bug was fixed:

https://lemmy.world/post/15496619

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Also rebranded as "Live. Die. Repeat." for some reason. I guess the studio didn't think the title "Edge of Tomorrow" sold the premise well enough.

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To me, the most unrealistic part of that ad is not the edge to edge displays, or the holograms emanating from them, or the overall inefficiency of it all, but rather just that you could never have a place that full of screens without ads being everywhere.

I remember first watching that video on my first smartphone and thinking "When will they ever make a phone without bezels?" And now they pretty much have, but my experience was not some artistic interface full of aesthetically pleasing data and art. It was a YouTube video completely surrounded by ad content.

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Hard to compete when the government heavily subsidizes the local industry while simultaneously making it very difficult for foreign companies to operate.

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I generally like Yorgos Lanthimos films, but I hope this one can avoid some of the uncomfortable implications of Poor Things.

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Sunspring might have it beat.

It was cuter back when AI could only write dumb things. Things that no sane writer would ever think to write themselves. Like a child deciding that they wanted to be a helicopter when they grow up.

Now it just seems sad and generic.

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Amazing progress. Hopefully the rest of Asia can follow suit in short order.

I met a number of LGBTQ+ folks in China who were wonderful, honest people, but most of them were afraid to publicly display or talk about their sexuality/gender identities due to the risk of social/legal reprisal, given the deteriorating state of policies towards LGBTQ+ rights in recent years.

While other countries in East/Southeast Asia have begun to open up to the idea of same-sex marriage like Taiwan in 2019 and now Thailand, a lot in China see this as a symptom of growing westernization to be opposed. Logic being that if the westernized countries who we don't like start to embrace the idea, we should reject it. And unfortunately a lot of Asia follows China's lead in particular.

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I suppose this scenario is actually somewhat reassuring, because the guy who killed 12 people deserves whatever misfortune falls upon him. You wouldn't have to feel bad stealing his knowledge and memories, and could also go to the local guards to turn him in with the knowledge you've obtained.

Though good luck sleeping at night with the knowledge of what it felt like to murder 12 people with your own hands and see the life fade from their eyes.

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Companies are never your friend.

Valve is like any other company. They're as good as your money is good.

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If they offered you 20,000 more than what you expected, might be you are underselling your actual worth and could have negotiated for more.

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But what would the US be able to use as an incentive during negotiations if they have no interest in making Israel stop this conflict?

Give us the hostages and...?

Give us the hostages or else...?

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Whaaat? The US willing to stop supporting Israel? That is simply too big an ask.

Next you'll tell me that the capitalists will voluntarily surrender the means of production to the working class.

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Finally Apple is ready to use all that training data they say they don't collect.

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This is funny to me.

Oh, it costs too much to educate kids? Just put them in schools at a younger age, rip off that bandaid sooner.

No, let's not talk about the wound that bandaid is covering up in the first place, that's completely unrelated.

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Seldarine/surface-dwelling Drow are the Kiwis.

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Recently finished Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Amazing is the only word I can use to describe it.

I am now halfway through the Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door remake. It's not a challenging game, but it is just so irresistibly delightful to play.

After that, I plan to also play through the Super Mario RPG remake which I picked up alongside Paper Mario.

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According to the article at least, that is essentially what they did. But their model was based on earlier years when there was higher projected growth, so the budgets were set too high as a result.

Personally, as long as the final installment in the FF7 Remake trilogy is made with the same budget as the first two and ends on a satisfying note, I'll be happy. A good ending gives the trilogy as a whole have more lifetime sales than it would if part 3 makes the first two less good in retrospect, i.e. the Mass Effect 3 effect.

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I will just agree to disagree on that front. Playing casually, I clocked over 100 hours on the 2nd game, which is more time than it took me to complete the original full game on PS1. I enjoyed basically every minute of time played (save for one particular mini-game that I didn't care for), so I'd say I got a good value out of it for the cost. It is also hard to say that it is a cash grab when it provides a much fuller experience than most AAA games these days seem to have.

Basically, I don't hate it any more than I hate the fact that The Lord of the Rings is three separate movies; it's not like The Hobbit.

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Good girl*

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White people in former colonial power that committed genocide being racist? Color me shocked!

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I am happy it's on Steam, but admittedly Kingdom Hearts 3 is not the main offender here when they still have games trapped on single consoles. KH3 was already on PC, it's just more accessible now. Can't say the same about Final Fantasy 16 or Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. Hopefully that is what they fix next.

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Stadia is probably the last product I'd want to be compared to, but hopefully this helps push gaming on Linux more than Stadia was able to.

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I may be missing information, but I thought the only major change recently was that non-compete agreements were made effectively illegal, but I don't believe there was anything that affected non-disclosure agreements and non-disparagement agreements.

If you've done the Final Fantasy marathon did you include FF XI? Was it worth it?

I've been playing through all the numbered games and its been great. I could write an essay or two on any of them. In general I'm only including base games and no expansions or DLC so it wouldn't be a huge undertaking to beat 11, but I'm trying to see if it's worth it from others who have done the marathon....

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I have been in the process of doing the marathon slowly but surely over the past year and a half.

I play XIV when I can and I enjoy it, but hardly have time for one MMO, much less a second one. I decided that trying to do XI was too big an ask, so I opted to replace it with Tactics (the PSP War of the Lions version specifically).

Tactics is a much-praised game that, despite not being numbered, is considered part of Final Fantasy's core identity (and comes up a lot in XIV), and it provides a nice tie-in to 12, both being Ivalice games, so I thought it worked well.

The only difficult part is that there is no PC port of Tactics. I had to emulate it. Though I do know that there are iOS/Android ports of it which may work better for some.

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Better that than to hurt the feelings of someone who cares a whole lot about people wearing masks.

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For republicans, feelings are facts!

Fixed(?): Black screen when swiping post closed bug resolved after Samsung's One UI 6.1 update

When Samsung last updated One UI several months ago, myself and many other Samsung users (and Pixel users on Android 14 as well, judging by the replies) encountered a bug where swiping posts closed showed only a black background until fully closed, after which the content one would expect to see would appear....

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Not with Sync at least

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I don't know who that is, so I guess I don't think anything at all.

Is that the kid from American Dad?

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And just like their ridiculous chat apps, they have no beneficial feature integration or consolidation between the two.

Google Maps has the ability to report speed traps and hazards, but none of that data comes from Waze or vice-versa.

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For what it's worth, Rebirth is an amazing game that I would honestly consider to be the gold star of anyone making a AAA experience today. If the goal is truly quality, I don't think it's feasible to try to make every game better than Rebirth given the breadth of content in it and its overall production quality.

Really what this announcement boils down to is that they won't be making more games like Harvestella, Valkyrie Elysium, Diofield Chronicle, and Foamstars, and they aren't keen on keeping things platform-exclusive anymore. And maybe they'll also be a bit more mindful of the budgets of their AAA games like Rebirth instead of taking the "spared no expense" mindset like they have been, which could come at the cost of quality, but I hope that's not the case.

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TIL that Word is supposed to support Ctrl+Shift+V starting last year. My work-provided Office 365 version of the app definitely still does not.

I had already disabled the option to paste source format by default, but I am glad that this will hopefully reduce the frequency of surprise font changes from my tech-illiterate coworkers in documents they send.

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The difference is that Helldivers 2 was already a released game; people had paid for a product which was going to be taken away from them. After all the controversy, Sony decided not to follow through with that plan and let people keep what they already had.

This is still scummy, but with Ghost of Tsushima, no one has received anything yet. People put in an order, the order was canceled, and money refunded, so in practical terms there is no loss...other than not being able to buy the game.

It may be possible to set your account to a different region and purchase anyways, but in my opinion, piracy is absolutely justified in this case when the vendor literally refuses to make a product available to you. If there's no legal option for obtaining it, then there's no harm in pirating it.

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It would have still been an issue because the root of the problem is that there are a lot of regions where PSN is not supported and you can't make an account even if you wanted to. The game was being sold on Steam in those regions, and so in practice it would have been like saying:

Please note that in a future update we will take away your ability to play with no recourse unless Valve is willing to refund your purchase. Take it up with them.

If Reddit had a soul/conscience, I think it was us, and we're all on Lemmy now...

As a little background, I didn't actively use Reddit for months following the blackout. I still barely stop in over there and if I do I'm never logged in our contributing to the communities there (where I was previously a daily poster/commenter)....

Stovetop ,

I don't know, the idea that users on Lemmy were the best part of Reddit is a bit egotistical, bordering on narcissism.

I think what you're looking at is simply differences in scale and variety of communities. The user migration to Lemmy was negligible, and I don't really think content quality here is inherently better than it is there. Rather, I think Reddit has just become too big and mainstream.

  1. More Boomers are now using Reddit, which for me seems like the same downward spiral that ended up hitting Facebook.
  2. Corporations see people using Reddit for advice and so they spam it up to try to influence shopping habits and land on Google search results.

If Lemmy ever becomes as popular as Reddit, the same thing will happen.

UNRWA to close East Jerusalem headquarters after arson attack by ‘Israeli extremists’ | CNN ( edition.cnn.com )

In a statement on social platform X, UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said the arson attack was the latest in a series of threats, harassment and violent incidents perpetrated by Israelis against the agency’s staff over the past two months....

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Israeli logic: "If you help Palestinians, you help Hamas. If you help Hamas, then you are Hamas."

"Everyone but me is a Hamas."

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But Europeans are better than Americans. There are so many more white people, and they're really sorry for all the colonialism (but thank you to not ask for all the stolen artifacts back).

That's the global measure of success, isn't it?

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Lesson learned: there can be no good Suicide Squad title unless prefixed by "The".

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Well, hard for it to succeed at the box office when movie theaters were still closed/avoided in the midst of the pandemic.

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Welcome to Buddhism

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Yeah, it is already available.

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If anything, Nintendo is likely the company about to make lightning strike twice with the Switch successor due to be announced this year. Will be interesting to see what it's like, but no matter the case, it is going to sell like hotcakes.

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But it was, so who is going to take responsibility for it? Is Sony going to back down from the requirement? Is Valve going to refund all those users?

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FWIW, no need for it to be an attack vector if you just use one of those throwaway email services to sign up for a PSN account you'll never use anywhere else.

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Could just make a throwaway account with Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, what have you, then. No real/personally identifiable information attached.

Not saying I agree at all with what Sony is doing, but anyone who is concerned about their email/personal information getting leaked by something they didn't want to sign up for, there are options to protect yourself.

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They shouldn't.

I am just saying, if the concern is about putting your email on another service, then don't put your email. You can use a throwaway one if you just want to get through it and play, or if it's a matter of principle and you don't want to, that's cool too.

Just offering my 2 cents on keeping personal information safe on the web. It's often unsafe to put all your eggs in one basket and email is no exception, so having some "burner accounts" on hand can help.

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They have a claim. Whether the country, organization, or individual in possession of said artifact(s) chooses to recognize that claim is another matter, however.

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I had no idea myself until just recently. The 99% Invisible podcast had a decent episode about it which I listened to that helped put it all into context.

The short story is that it was a labor movement trying to prevent mill owners from abusing workers by using automation to bleed the maximum productivity out of the fewest people. The Luddites would break into mills and smash the "infringing" machines. Tensions rose, the Luddites were eventually crushed, and the term Luddite was intentionally rebranded by capitalists to be synonymous with ignorant/anti-intellectual so that no one would ever want to associate with them again.

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