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[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Unreal Tournament 99.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you make money on YouTube you can afford iPhone Pro probably. You probably already have one for shooting quality video because what else is there at this budget?

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

Going by number of features isn’t really a way to tell what’s premium. For me the bar is set really low which is not having ads, which most budget Android phones fail at.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

They've just done this to create artificial value for the "Pro" models.

Correct. They found out professionals have money to afford premium hardware and software so you can charge them that. Perfectly reasonable way to make money, little competition in that space as opposed to general purpose budget stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I rarely take 128GB worth of photos at once so background iCloud sync is fast enough so that when I take a photo on my phone it’s visible on my Mac a minute or so after that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I’m sure we’ll find much evidence for hobbyists on Lemmy having different use cases from the general public but Apple wasn’t ever interested in supporting that niche at budget prices because there’s little money to be made there.

Regular person doesn’t need much offline storage because they download apps from the App Store, listen to music from a streaming service and sync photos to iCloud or Google Photos. Those people probably shouldn’t store their data offline either way because they won’t back it up properly. It’s another case of Apple treating general public like incompetent grannies but they’re kind of right about that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (14 children)

They let iCloud do the thing. Their computers don’t have that much storage.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 week ago (41 children)

People discuss this as if they connected their phones to their computers more than once in the past 5 years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Since I found out I have autism I was reading a lot on how autisms develop and have very mixed feelings about how both sides approach this.

Currently the main accepted theory of human origin is that Homo sapiens left Africa and replaced other ancient human species. This is very at odds with evidence of Neanderthal and Denisovan ancient human DNA being present in modern humans and being highly correlated with autoimmune diseases as well as neurodevelopmental „disorders” or neurodivergence. There are environmental factors too but one doesn’t really exist without another. Like premature birth and asphyxiation are still correlated back to genetics of Marfan, EDS and other connective tissue disorders.

Neanderthal DNA is more common in European/Asian populations while Denisovian DNA is more common in Philippines and Australian aboriginals. We know that aboriginal belief system is entirely alien compared to other human cultures and must have diverged a very long time ago too.

Pretending all humans are the same seems to be done out of concern for the consequences it might lead to rather than out of concern for truth. I kinda get it, Nazis started with us and then followed with killing every population correlated to neurodivergence (LGBT, Jews, Slavic people, Roma) so it’s pretty scary.

I don’t think hiding is the answer though and what’s happening should be challenged head-on. We’re different but we can coexist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

First Blood.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

If this exists only to capture that brief moment of bliss while driving along the coast to Passing Breeze, I’ll watch it.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 weeks ago

This conspiracy theory is missing the part that explains debit cards.

 

Archive: https://archive.is/2025.04.14-052220/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-14/sony-lifts-ps5-price-in-europe-by-25-ahead-of-a-likely-us-hike

Sony Group Corp. raised the price of its PlayStation 5 console by around 25% in Europe and in the UK ahead of a likely US increase.

The company announced the decision on its PlayStation blog, with Australia and New Zealand also affected, citing inflation and “a backdrop of a challenging economic environment.” The PS5 will cost €500 in Europe and £430 in the UK from Monday.

 

Archive: https://archive.is/2025.04.12-132331/https://www.ft.com/content/3eb48a07-7cb0-4a44-9159-eb5b402c2fec

The Trump administration has excluded smartphones from its steep “reciprocal” tariffs as it battles to calm global markets by tempering its approach to the multifront trade war launched by the president. 

According to a notice posted late on Friday night by Customs and Border Patrol, which is responsible for collecting tariffs, smartphones, along with routers and selected computers and laptops, would be exempt from reciprocal tariffs, which include the 125 per cent levies Donald Trump has imposed on Chinese imports.

 
 

As gamers, we are always excited to see new hardware. As developers, we are even more excited, and the PS5 Pro was no exception. As soon as we were briefed on the new capabilities of the console, we were excited to take advantage of it; the PS5 Pro allowed us to push our rendering vision to its full potential across all modes – Quality, Balanced and Performance.

 

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(…) In the past, Ros had created board games for himself and his friends, and he had been noodling over an idea based on the word “drafting” as a double entendre — referring both to the drafting of cards in a game like Magic: The Gathering and the drafting of architectural blueprints.

What emerged was a prototype for a game in which the player would continually draft new rooms from a randomly generated selection, sort of like drawing cards from a deck. He was also inspired by a board game called Labyrinth and the esoteric puzzle book Maze, published in 1985 by Christopher Manson, which has never quite been solved.

From there, Ros began filling the manor with puzzles and mysteries, trying to build a world in which knowledge was the key to making progress. “I wanted it to feel like Zelda,” he said. “You’ll find information in very disparate places, and you don’t need all of those pieces of information to progress.”

He tried to avoid playing similar “metroidbrainia”-style games, such as Outer Wilds or Return of the Obra Dinn at one point, he did accidentally play through the action-role-playing game Tunic before realizing that it shared the same traits. (…)

 

Archive: https://archive.is/2025.04.11-114715/https://www.ft.com/content/4c78e822-3bb7-4e86-88eb-f5bfd1ee624f

Morgan Stanley reported a 26 per cent rise in first-quarter profits, powered by its equities trading business, which benefited from volatile financial markets during the early months of the Trump administration. 

Morgan Stanley on Friday said it had made net income of $4.3bn in the three months to the end of March, more than a quarter higher than the same period last year and beating analyst estimates of $3.7bn. 

“These results demonstrate the consistent execution of our clear strategy to drive durable growth across our global footprint,” chief executive Ted Pick said. 

The robust performance was powered by the bank’s equities trading business, which posted a 46 per cent surge in revenues to $4.1bn during the period. The fixed income trading arm reported a 4 per cent rise in revenues to $2.6bn. 

Net new assets in its wealth management business came in at $94bn for the quarter, slightly lower than the same period last year, but comfortably beating analyst expectations. 

This is a developing story

 

Archive: https://archive.is/2025.04.11-041804/https://www.ft.com/content/a3fb6b82-4a51-4a5c-b831-f755518f5863

(…) The dominance of the dollar in global trade and finance has long been assumed to be a net benefit for the American economy, but this assumption is increasingly being challenged. While it benefits Wall Street and global owners of moveable capital, these benefits come at a cost to American manufacturers and farmers.

In a world where some countries actively manage their external imbalances and others do not, the US dollar’s role as the primary safe currency has made America the chief enabler of global economic distortions. Addressing these imbalances requires a fundamental re-evaluation of the rules governing global trade and capital flows.

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