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  • Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data

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  • Software makers did just fine without telemetry for decades

    They actually did not, almost every software out there is mining your information. Software developers rely on and need data, you can't guess what people want. Whether it's from studies, testers, surveys, or telemetry, developers need information about what users like, what they don't, how they interact with the software... This is what makes data so valuable, and why businesses like Google can exist. Denying open source software telemetry is shooting yourself in the foot.

  • Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data

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  • glub glub much?

    That's a nice way to start and end a discussion.

  • Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data

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  • Telemetry benefits everyone, knowing which features are getting used, knowing what parts are causing crashes... It lets developers target what to improve and fix instead of going in blind. I get that collecting data can be scary, because so far everyone has been busy selling that data. But there's a reason why data is so valuable, if it's properly handled and anonymized it benefits everyone using firefox.

  • An unvaccinated child has died in the Texas measles outbreak

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  • The problem with that line of thinking is that soon enough it wasn't the parents fault but the fact that their dog died 5 years ago and they never got around to getting the vaccine. Might there be mitigating facts? Sure, but at the end of the day, it's either the parent's fault or the state's fault for not making sure the kid got vaccinated.

    And btw immunocompromised children are rare enough to be a rounding error.

  • An unvaccinated child has died in the Texas measles outbreak

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  • The article talks about the safety of vaccines... Reporters have to walk on eggshells to avoid pointing fingers and insult part of their audience.

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  • Wait for one month for the new GPUs to come out, wait for the drivers to catch up, wait for the benchmarks... Or just buy a tried and tested GPU right now.

  • Dutch consumer foundation sues Sony for overpricing digital PlayStation games

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  • Good. Make them open their platform to third party stores. Make them open their bootloader.

  • Astro Bot was so good it almost "outdid Nintendo at its own game", says former US boss Reggie Fils-Aimé

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  • Consoles have been pcs under the hood for a while, they could run pc games just fine, they choose not to. Sony could implement a browser for their 500$ walled garden, they choose not to. Sony could let you install another OS on the PS5, they choose not to.

  • 3 reasons Pop!_OS might be the best Linux distro for gamers

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  • You can use gamescope with anything, it's a micro compositor. You can add it to the launch parameters in steam, lutris has an option to start games with gamescope, or you can simply open the game with gamescope and wine from the terminal.

    https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamescope

  • 3 reasons Pop!_OS might be the best Linux distro for gamers

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  • Gamescope is great to use even on desktops, it runs the games in its own little shell which is particularly good for compatibility with old games where you can change stuff like resolution, fullscreen, keyboard layout... without impacting your distro.

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  • The layout is just gnome, pretty sure you can change the DE if you want to, and yeah it does look like android which isn't necessarily a bad thing considering desktop usage is getting replaced by mobile.

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  • Steam and the other loaders (lutris, bottles...) take care of all the compatibility stuff just fine; the tweaks are actually the ones that can be bothersome to get, not that the performance difference matters much anyways...

  • Path of Exile II Sets New Peak with Over 500,000 Concurrent Steam Players During Early Access

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  • Premium currencies are just very anti-consumer, I'm sure you know most of the arguments against it so I won't reiterate them.

    GGG are great developers, but their sales department is as predatory as every other game, FOMO sales, lootboxes, premium currencies, supporter packs... Not being p2w (the standard on pc btw) is really the only good thing you can say about their current monetization.

  • Path of Exile II Sets New Peak with Over 500,000 Concurrent Steam Players During Early Access

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  • There's plenty to explore for sure, and the 3 acts will give most people a run for their money, but the game is incomplete, literally missing half the campaign. The missing weapons and skill gems means you actually don't have many options that aren't railroaded, there's also going to be a lot of balance fixes and probably item drop buffs; EA is never the best time to start a game.

    Given you don't pay extra for EA and premium stuff like stash space you buy goes to both PoE1 and 2, you get quite a bit for your early access ticket.

    Most new players buying into EA are not going to stick around. Also fuck premium currencies, this shit is manipulative as hell, not to mention it makes refunds needlessly complicated.

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  • Well that's how poe2 is usually described, i personally have never played any of the souls game so i can't attest to the similarity. Poe2 is a lot more boss centric.

    The dodge roll has its niche: avoid boss mechanics. You can spam it so it doesn't provide any movement advantage, i think it gives iframes on targeted attacks, but you can still get hit by AOEs. However, because you can't attack while rolling you want to avoid doing it unless you really need to.

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  • They slowed down the game tremendously and added dodge roll.

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  • For anyone that's not familiar with the game, it's a slow top-down arpg with a souls like gameplay. The game is challenging but the progression can currently be tedious and unrewarding, the EA is also missing a lot of content that isn't ready yet; I recommend waiting for the full release if you want to give it a shot.

  • Microsoft says it’s built an Xbox game store on Android but can’t launch it

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  • I dislike microsoft as much as the next guy, but xbox doesn't have a monopoly on phones, or really any presence at all. Competition on android is good for everyone but google.

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  • Well TIL.Warez is a plural of ware if anyone else didn't catch on.