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  • Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN

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  • If It’s as good as astrobot then I don’t think 10bucks is all that crazy either.

    ... is not in agreement with

    If the only point is to advertise the functionality of the console, charging any sort of money for it is not productive for what it should be achieving

    ...and it doesn't look like a contrapositive either.

    Astrobot is actually a fully-fledged standalone game, in which the PS5's features are seamlessly baked into the core of the gameplay, rather than the core of the game being just the PS5 functionalities. The only other game I could think of and one you could compare it to more accurately is Tearaway (back when it was a PS Vita exclusive), because that was also a game that made use of every core functionality the console for that game had to offer.

    The Welcome Tour is literally just PS Vita's Welcome Park but with a few more mini games, the latter of which is free.

  • Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN

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  • meanwhile, the 3 (incl. me) remaining PS Vita Welcome Park enjoyers:

  • What dungeon/temple in a video game has a great ambient experience, with music or visual appeal or both?

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  • If I can skirt the conversation to talk more about the soundtrack and less about the ambiance (which I will), then Dicey Dungeons. I deliberately stall battles just to hear more of the OST. Tempting Fate is my favorite track.

  • A Commie Pirates Guide to Consooming.

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  • For something multi-platform as a music downloading solution, I recommend Lucida instead:

    https://lucida.to/

    you just paste the link of an album/song (whether via Qobuz, Deezer, Tidal, etc..) and download away. Then all you have to do is unzip the resulting archive file.

    For anyone doing research (or more generally, studying in uni), consult the literature pirate's equivalent of the Library of Alexandria:

    https://libgen.is/

    And fuck copyright in academia (fuck copyright and academia in general), here's a site that let's you bypass research article paywalls (pick one of the instances):

    https://www.sci-hub.pub/

  • Lemmy AMA March 2025

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  • I was hoping it could be embedded, but this is a nice-to-know, thanks!

  • Lemmy AMA March 2025

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  • i'm clueless about torrents and Lemmy, can you embed them in posts/comments somehow? The closest thing I could think of is using a Framatube instance, but I don't think you can embed them

  • Lemmy AMA March 2025

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  • Random general question, how do you feel about file hosting? When posting, I tend to avoid uploading media larger than like, 5MB, just cause I know that the cost of storing said media can get exorbitant very quickly and I wouldn't want to be part of the burden.. I'm not able to donate just yet. Knowing this, I am currently on the fence on whether I should create a "gaming clips" community.

    That said, it's nice to be able to embed media from other sources (despite it potentially not working natively for mobile platforms if I'm not mistaken?), which got me thinking: it'd be nice to have some sort of preference list of image/video hosting hosts that users can add to or remove from, and uploading directly from the comment/create post view would use the first working file hosting domain from the list.. Just spitballing here.

  • What video file hosters work well with Lemmy video embeds?

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  • Does it work well with Lemmy embeds (e.g. under the post description)?

  • What video file hosters work well with Lemmy video embeds?

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  • Yeah, I feel it's important to me that the service doesn't block as many countries

  • DeepSeek collects keystroke data and more, storing it in Chinese servers

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  • off-topic here as well, why stop at privacy policies? EULAs can get wilder, best such example of which is Apple:

  • I am having an existential crysis about this

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  • it's pretty hard to paint a general picture of lemmy when, more often than not, one instance is drastically different from the other.

  • DeepSeek collects keystroke data and more, storing it in Chinese servers

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  • detective conan sure had a hard time cracking the case!

    "The personal information we collect from you may be stored on a server located outside of the country where you live. We store the information we collect in secure servers located in the People's Republic of China," the privacy policy reads.

    Oh the horror! Let's look at what our glorious spawns-of-techbro heroism has for us in store:

    ChatGPT:

    OpenAI processes your Personal Data for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy on servers located in various jurisdictions, including processing and storing your Personal Data in our facilities and servers in the United States. While data protection law varies by country, we apply the protections described in this policy to your Personal Data regardless of where it is processed, and only transfer that data pursuant to legally valid transfer mechanisms.

    Claude:

    When you access our website or Services, your personal data may be transferred to our servers in the US, or to other countries outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) and the UK. This may be a direct provision of your personal data to us, or a transfer that we or a third party make.

    So not only is your data "possibly" stored in one country, now there's a possibility of it being stored in many different countries. Where's the outcry for that?

    Ok, so maybe your data being under the jurisdiction of another country is sus, right?

    In another section about how DeepSeek shares user data, the company states that it may share user information to "comply with applicable law, legal process, or government requests."

    OH MY GOD SOUND THE ALARM!

    ChatGPT:

    We may use Personal Data for the following purposes: [...] To comply with legal obligations and to protect the rights, privacy, safety, or property of our users, OpenAI, or third parties.

    Claude:

    Pursuant to regulatory or legal requirements, safety, rights of others, and to enforce our rights or our terms. We may disclose personal data to governmental regulatory authorities as required by law, including for legal, tax or accounting purposes, in response to their requests for such information or to assist in investigations. We may also disclose personal data to third parties in connection with claims, disputes or litigation, when otherwise permitted or required by law, or if we determine its disclosure is necessary to protect the health and safety of you or any other person, to protect against fraud or credit risk, to enforce our legal rights or the legal rights of others, to enforce contractual commitments that you have made, or as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law.

    So not only can your data be subject to the authorities, but it's also handed out to 3rd parties (mind you, DeepSeek does the exact same, so why is it any surprise?).

    Not only does DeepSeek collect "text or audio input, prompt, uploaded files, feedback, chat history, or other content that [the user] provide[s] to our model and Services," ...

    🤦... You get the idea now, bother yourself with the privacy policies of the respective contemporaries and CTRL + F to "User Content" or "User Input".. Same fucking shit.

    Companies with AI models like Google, Meta, and OpenAI collect similar troves of information, but their privacy policies do not mention collecting keystrokes.

    Yes, collecting keystrokes is probably the oddest thing here. To compare data farming giants with a decade and a half's worth of data collection to a startup in terms of data collection is so astronomically dumb.

    I could go on but I'm bored now. Do your own research.

  • Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy

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  • I tried DeepSeek, and immediately fell in love.. My only nitpick is that images have to have text on them, otherwise it complains, but for the price of free, I'm basically just asking for too much. Contemporaries be damned.

  • Know the difference

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  • I 2nd this, either the person is taller than the average tall Pole, or resided in a gmina for a long time that has low ceilings and thought it's the same everywhere..

  • Solution that tailors existing CVs to a given job post?

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  • If this "partially automates" the problem, then it's good enough for me. I think this is as close as close can get to what I'm looking for, I will try this out for sure, thanks!

  • Wake up babe, a cinematic masterpiece just landed

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  • does it change the aptly-attributed title "cinematic masterpiece" in any way, hmmmmm?

  • Poland's Ministry of Family and Social Policy wants to ban employing foreigners under civil contracts, restricting them mostly to employment contracts

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  • in essence, civil contracts is an umbrella term for two types of contracts: Contract of Mandate (Umowa zlecenie) and Contract for specific work (Umowa o dzieło). Employment contracts (umowa o pracę), which are its own category of contracts, are the regular employment contracts most people are familiar with.

    Basically, the 1 major difference between the civil contracts and employment contracts is that you're entitled to benefits (overtime compensation, maternity/paternity leave, PTOs), work is done in specific work hours (up to 8 hours per day if I recall correctly) and are governed by the Labor Law (at the cost of taxes 😦), whereas the civil contract has none of those and are regulated under the Civil Code, with the benefit of having a higher take-home pay. Oh and either an employee or employer can terminate the agreement at any time under the civil contract.

    The changes coming into effect at the start of 2025 concern employers not because this limits the opportunities of foreigners, surprise surprise, they don't give a fuck. They're concerned because this means they will lose out on $$$ that they save from not having to pay those benefits, and foreigners are concerned because this basically limits their options at getting anything resembling a job legally in a job market that's already in the crappiest state possible.

    (source: https://polandunraveled.com/types-employment-contracts-poland/)

  • It's almost 2025, what futuristic things did you think we would have had by now or accomplished?

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  • with blackjack and hookers?

  • People under 25, how many of you are aware that you can get 1080p HD TV programming (and many live sports) for free over the air with no app sign-in or susbscription fee?

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