Opt-in you say? How about RMB click with AI chatbot that you can disable by clicking "Disable AI bot" there? Wasn't opt-in first.
And, how is that in aboug:config .ml. list contains tons of entries set to True, rather than False? How in the fuck is it opt-in? It has been opt-out and in order to opt-out most of it, you would need an intermediate/advanced user. There was no toggle switch on a sidebar for normies to see and click. I call BS on this statement.
Jesus. This house has nothing in common with Home Alone anymore. I bet they would bank more on keeping it as close to original as possible, or in other words - do nothing and win.
Got yesterday Tomb Raider pack for 5.60. Only because Tomb Raider 2013 was already in my catalog (that I probably bought also for less than 4 dollars)
Still have plenty of games there that I've never played. Cant wait when me and my wife finish It Takes Two to move to Stardew Valley couch co-op.
Count me in. The only 2025 game I got is THPS3+4 which is a remaster of a 2 decade old game(s). The only reason I got this game is because I was a hardcore fan of THPS series and my favorite one was 3 on PC.
I don't even need to go so far to find one. My father, born in USSR on a land that is currently an European country. He dreams about USSR and loathes what our country has become. He has citizenship of our country and with all his love to Russia, and the fact that he speaks fluent Russian - he would not move to Russia in any time. No matter how supportive he is towards Russia, I am sure that deep inside he knows that his life would be fucked if he would move there.
Another interesting person I know is an old man who refused to get citizenship after fall of the USSR. 30 years he lived in EU and didnt really wanted to learn local language and get citizenship. Since the war started, out politics made a move to get rid of russians and their culture (I dont respect it, but it, to a certain degree, makes sense). So he got himself in a pickle - either learn language and pass an exam, or you gonna be deported back to Russia where he shares language and culture. He passed language exam from a second try. Still supports Russia tho.
And another guy - programmer who was working for USA pretty much all the 2000 - mid 2010s, yet also refused to learn language. He moved to Russia during the dawn of a Ukrainian war. Heard recently that he came back. Wonder why...
These boomers just are nostalgic about their childhood. Nothing actual to support their love to Russia.
If it points to your IP but not your PC - probably won't hold. Same if IP is wrong but fingerprint is fine. But if both are matching, there is no doubt. You know, not many Windows 11 Pro Laptops with intel 125H, 4060m, 1440p 144hz screen, Firefox version, exact same font list, system language, setting preferences exist on the planet. It is a fingerprint in the similar way an actual fingerprint works.
TF2, released in 2007, hasn't had lootboxes till 2010. Valve was not even the first game to have them.
FIFA was 1 year ahead, but not the first one either.
Also, TF2's lootboxes are not the same as Dota2 and CSGO/CS2. TF2 weapons have an actual change of gameplay to them while Dota/CS has just skins. Not to mention, you can get all weps in TF2 by just playing the game.
I think lootboxes and child gambling should be the same category if we are talking about steam.
Not so much of an actual gambling imo. All you can know is that you will pull something out of a fixed list. But that is all the gambling part. At least with cases you know for a fact that you going to get something. Actual gambling happens off-site with skins that are traded using bot accounts. These services are actual gambling sites with games and chances to win something or lose everything.
Valve probably can ban skin trading and then we're done. Also, they probably can ban skin market while at it. But, I bet steam market brings tons of money. And, it is not like they are responsible for children gambling skins out off-site. Also, Valve did made restrictions on gambling. This month Valve has banned skin gambling logos/ads on tournament teams jerseys. And also a restriction that would render your newly purchased skins non-tradable for a week. Drop parental control in the mix - children wouldn't be able gamble anymore.
I am not gonna buy it. But fuck man, I am exited as hell for what is going to happen with PC gaming and OSes. I feel that thanks to Valve we going to finally break MS' iron grip on OS market.
I do not think ads would keep tracking you though browser fingerprinting. Maybe just a little.
But, say, you are being prosecuted and your traffic is being looked at. No one can defend you if a fingerprint of your browser shows up somewhere where it shoulnd't have been. You being a unique one with this fingerprint means that nobody but your machine accessed that IP address.
I begin to believe that we are here in our own bubble. Most lemmy users are against AI implementation. One can see tons of news articles that state that AI implementation failed in many businesses. According to many here, they either expect AI bubble to burst soon or believe that it will do so in near future. Literally everyone would say that putting AI in firefox is a terrible idea that will stray more users off the browser.
If they fear losing user base by not implementing AI, I doubt they are deaf to all the tiny community they have. That is 100% not the "fear" of missing out. That is very likely money grab that was paid by major AI company(ies). They cant be so much blind that they would destroy their community just to not to miss out on AI craze (that also likely already had passed).
There is a sizeable amount of people who wish to stay off chromium and avoid AI entirely. Not like FF has a major % of userbase in the internet. They could've cater to those people by evading AI entirely and probably would gain much bigger user base by doing that. Spread of word and all. Why would they go the opposite way and stray even more people away from their already tiny core user amount? Doesn't make sense to me. Did they pair with OpenAI or any other AI company who paid them monnies to be brainless idiots?
2 days ago snatched Tomb Rider trilogy for under 6 euro.
Today got Slay the Spire, Witcher 3 and Detroit: Become Human for under 10.