NightOwl

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Old habits die hard from reddit of coming for the comments than the article.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, it is interesting that with the exception of GPUs, PC parts like SSDs, hard drives, CPUs, and so on actually have felt like they haven't increased in price in comparison to phones. If anything prices have dropped and capacities increased and speeds gotten faster for SSDs for example. Same with televisions and monitors where stuff like resolution and hz has seen improvements while being cheaper than in the past.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Game industry is bigger than movies and music combined which was not the case back in the NES era. Game industry has become a juggernaut with a huge consumer target base, and lower barrier to entry that allows for even random people being able to publish games instead of a few larger companies. Rise in production costs has been one that has been self imposed the way some studios go for big special effects blockbusters because they are targeting billions. Meanwhile like with movies you get these indie 2D and last gen 3D looking games being hits right alongside these billion dollar company attempts.

I guess one area you can look at is how niche products get priced lower like mechanical keyboards, and then once productions starts ramping up and things go mainstream suddenly these niche expensive ventures with a few fans becomes more affordable as larger quantities are now being distributed.

You same thing with tech like SSDs and hard drives actually falling price over time while capacities offered grows. Lot of PC parts actually with the exception of GPUs.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Because famous figures or organizations are the primary draw for the mainstream audience over random users. And many use it because they themselves hope to use the huge platform to promote or try to become an influencer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I'd love to see that happen. At the very least security updates. It's a shame when a device stops getting updates rendering it an insecure device despite the hardware still being capable of quality performance. Especially with phones costing more than laptops.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

You probably had different interest, travel, and product usage patterns now than you did ten years ago. I don't see why behavioral patterns wouldn't continue to change going forward, so as old data becomes obsolete taking care of present and future data is still worth doing to some extent even if past data might be freely available.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, I would prefer being able to do a back up image of the phone and save it to my computer and then hand it in after doing a factory reset. Then just restore it when I get the phone back. Android sucks in this department compared to Apple.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only good I see is pc ports, but then I see Microsoft having Nintendo shoving in mtx and potentially less quality Nintendo titles so overall bad.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then that's something done on a work device with a work account and not a personal one. I don't care what is on a work device, since it shouldn't be used for personal things.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Mobile games don't become as lucrative as it is without mtx. People understand the business reason, but it doesn't mean it shields it from criticism. Doesn't need defending either, since as you said money is enough to not care. You don't really start doing that stuff if you care about perception, so I say good for them monetarily speaking. But, that's the extent of my praise.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I avoid videos with variations of the open mouth, confused face, and disappointed look these days. It's just the area of YouTube I've gotten tired of, and those videos usually tend to be pretty shilly playing to the algorithm and tend to be from bigger channels. I understand why its done, but it doesn't shield from criticism. Anyways good for them, but it has manifested in a way where because the algorithm is what dictates the product it feels like AI in a way where the presentation style gets tiring.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Finally un-installed chrome on Windows.

Is this enough to remove traces?

  1. Go to this location: C:\Users\YOUNAME\AppData\Local\Google
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\
  2. And delete that "Chrome" folder (for both location, if there is a Chrome folder)

https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/29816481/how-do-i-fully-uninstall-chrome?hl=en

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