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Cake day: June 12th, 2023
  • yildo@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•App Store to Be 'Split in Two' Ahead of EU iPhone Sideloading Deadline
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    10 months ago

    Moves like this always assume that location equals citizenship. As an EU citizen living in North America, a move like this means that I would not get the remedy that Apple legally owes me (or would owe me if I owned an iOS device)

    The main thing I’ve been sideloading on Android for a decade is a fan implementation of the Dominion card game called Androminion. It was trademark cease and desist removed from the Play Store a decade ago, but you can still get the apk on Github

    There’s a couple other things. One big gap in both the Google and Apple stores is the complete absence of adult content. I’m amazed there’s not more of a clamour for adult apps among either userbase, given that most people don’t own a normal computer. Sideloading could plug that gap

  • yildo@kbin.socialtoGames@lemmy.world•Baldur's Gate 3 Developers Explain Its Controversial Endings, Beloved Characters, and Making the Best RPG of 2023
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    11 months ago

    SV: One of the basic questions of the game was whether you would become a monster if it would save the world. So that’s where you get that in that moment. And then the interesting bit was, well, if you’re not going to do it, are you going to ask someone else to do it, or you just going to say, “F*ck everybody?” That’s essentially what that moment was.

    Yep. My first playthrough was as Karlach with a strict code of no non-consensual body mods ever again and no giving baddies power, so when I got to that choice the only true thing I could choose was “F*ck everybody” with the automatic loss dialog box. Oh well

    My current playthrough is as Astarion with a slightly more flexible moral code. Of course, now I’ve gone for the brainworms and I’m regretting it simply for the visual effects on the skin

  • yildo@kbin.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.world•will the fediverse stop existing??
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    11 months ago

    Not sure if you are trolling, but no

    Meta is joining the Fediverse not because it needs the people currently on the Fediverse, but because it needs a regulatory figleaf to protect itself from monopoly charges. At Meta’s scale, there are 0 users on the Fediverse right now. There is no market benefit to getting Fediverse people to move to Meta

    What Meta gets out Threads/Fediverse compat is that suddenly Instagram is not technically a walled garden with platform lock-in, so while the number of people who’ll migrate from Instagram Threads to the Fediverse is going to be tiny they suddenly look a lot less like a mean monopoly to regulators

    At some point they might remove the Fediverse compat. The people currently screaming about embrace-extend-and-extinguish because Meta is joining will then scream about bait-and-switch even though they’ve had Threads defederated the whole time. The Fediverse will still be there. That’s the cycle of life

  • yildo@kbin.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Amazon lays off Alexa employees as 2010s voice-assistant boom gives way to AI
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    1 year ago

    Me: Play Whitehorse the band
    Google Assistant: Playing Whitehorse the song by some other guy
    Me: No, play Whitehorse the Canadian band
    Google Assistant: Playing Whitehorse the album by a third guy
    Me: Play Achilles Desire
    Google Asistant: Playing Whitehorse

    Me: Play Tu vuò fà l’americano on Spotify
    Google Assistant: !?!?!?!?

    Me: Play Laisse tomber les filles
    Google Assistant: !?!?!?

    Me: Play Les Cowboys Fringants on Spotify
    Google Assistant: !?
    Me: Play Les Cowboys F R I N G A N T S
    Google Assistant: Playing Les Cowboys Fringants

    I only ever use those junky voice assistants when driving, and they are useless half the time