The one that really stuck with me was COCKFAIS

It’s an office though - not as if one person is sitting on all that RAM.

My bad sorry, I completely misread what your comment was replying to!

On the subject of Minecraft alternatives, I haven’t tried it myelf but Vintage Story seems pretty interesting. Started life many years ago as a Minecraft mod and is now it’s own thing.

I’m not sure I understand you.

Java edition is also developed by Mojang/Microsoft and is basically identical to the bedrock edition in core features.

It was the original Minecraft edition, and if you remember playing Minecraft 10 to 15 years ago it would likely be the Java edition you were doing it on.

Java edition, my friend.

I have been playing Minecraft with a small group of friends on a self-hosted private server on and off for the past 15 years. No ads, no coin shop, no annoyance.

As for the screaming YouTubers, obviously they exist, but there are also some nice chill peeps out there. EthosLab or Bdoubleo100 for example - especially their single player worlds where it’s just them working on projects and building.

I don’t think there’s any pride in it, they are just going after what is the most profitable at any given time.

That’s exactly why I suspect they will choose to resurrect the Crucial name later, because given a choice between launching a new name nobody knows, or a name people recognise (even if it’s been tarred a bit) then recognised will be the winning and more profitable option.

That is, if they haven’t sold the Crucial name to someone else first.

Probably just the same brand, honestly?

News two years from now: “Crucial back in business”

Similarly, youtube channels about disaster events that are just reading the Wikipedia page with some spooky music.

LatteGo, LatteGo, Can’t hold it back anymore~

They made 3D TVs with passive glasses too, I had one. Still have actually, working fine 10 years later.

Has some neat tricks like coming with two pairs of “game” glasses that are effectly two left lenses for one person and two right lenses for the other, giving the ability to play a two-player split screen game with each player having a full-screen view (albeit stretched) and not being able to see the other! Trippy.

IMO the reason they didn’t catch on wasn’t the technology, just that it genuinely didn’t add much to the movie watching experience. What makes a movie worth watching continues to be the movie itself, and in some ways 3D - which was meant to be “immersive”- was actually just a distraction from the movie which frequently reminds you you’re actually just sat in a room watching a screen, rather than letting you get into the story.

And the response of staff at the temple was to take a video and post it on Facebook? That’s kinda upsetting.

I guess that’s part of WhatsApp’s terms of service. Good to know, thanks.

Either way, my dislike for corporations using closed platforms still stands. I really wish we had some modern, secure and featureful version of SMS - a federated direct messaging system that everyone was on, and yet nobody owned.

There’s nothing to stop anyone sending you a message on WhatsApp if they have your number, be they an individual or a company.

But it IS absolutely infuriating - not because it’s an advert, but because I don’t want any aspect of my communication with companies to take place on third-party proprietary closed platforms of which that company has no ownership or data control and which would require me to have an account with said platform.

I’m sure many people love being able to contact customer support by shooting them a DM on Instagram, but to me that’s wholly unacceptable.

If companies want to talk to me it should be through email or SMS only - because those are the only methods which are provider-agnostic.

Email and SMS are like the original federated systems. (And the postal service is, too!)

Here you go fam

The headline is a little misleading.

As I understand it, they haven’t retroactively removed the HEVC capability from any devices that already shipped with it enabled.

Rather, they have stopped including it in new ones of the same model or in certain new models, even though those machines still have CPUs which have the capability built in for it.

This has resulted in e.g. businesses buying a laptop which works fine for conference calls and other stuff, then buying another laptop the “exact same” and suddenly it’s nerfed.

I’m with you on that. Magnifying glass is usually “inspect” versus “look” and an eye (perhaps with a dotted line connecting it to the flower) seems altogether more obvious.

That said, although the point of pictograms is to (hopefully!) be clear and multilingual, there might be cultural differences at play that mean I shouldn’t jump to conclusions.

It does seem an unusual choice though.

A magnifying glass and a flower. You can look at (and enjoy) the flowers but (as per the second row) not pick them.

So infuriating when you have some dickhead making themselves unfireable by intentionally convoluting the codebase and chasing out any other hire. And even worse when management bought into it and think the guy’s an actual irreplaceable genius.

Probably even believes it himself. I hate narcissists.

You’d have to assume so!

You have to remember, the price isn’t only due to the hardware.

We often still think of “hardware” as if it’s some tool we actually own like a wrench or a hammer that we can freely use how we like, and the price of it should depend only on the cost of manufacture.

But in the modern world, the electronic hardware we buy is subsidised through gated ecosystems, and by profiting from slurping data and selling ads.

The reality is that Meta hardware is priced aggressively low to encourage adoption - on the basis of all the money they expect to make later from your data. Same with smart TVs and everything else with a similar business model.

Valve’s hardware will seem expensive, but that’s just the price you have to pay in the modern world for some small amount of control and privacy.

Personally, I’ll pay it gladly.