aranelsurion

Having just recently dealt with GoDaddy support, I can tell you that it all seems to be outsourced elsewhere. Their agent had absolutely no idea what they were talking about and only seemed to be interested in getting rid of me as quickly as they can.

I ended up solving my issue by inspecting HTTP requests in the dev. console, to find out the error their backend emitted and their frontend wouldn't show.

> just moving the controllers will wake it up, even if it's sitting on my desk.

Odd that it doesn't work that way for me with controllers, maybe it's a setting you chose? For me no amount of moving the controllers or even pushing the buttons or triggers will wake the headset, it only wakes up if I put it on or through the power button.

We have tried this with a friend recently with that app, and I can tell you it was miles better (in terms of feeling natural) compared to, say having a video call or Discord.

We played a few flat (not VR) games, on a super large screen in a cozy virtual room, with directional audio that is always on. With your attention being taken on what is happening within the game, it's -almost- as convincing as sitting together and playing the same game.

I can already say that this is my favourite way of playing couch co-op remotely. Haven't tried movies, yet I wouldn't expect the experience to be any different.

Oh but trust me this is "for your own good".

- signed with love, The Corporation.

Cutting public spending will be difficult now since Turkey has already made a large part of their citizenry essentially dependent on government money either directly or indirectly, and cutting on that further would essentially doom large groups of people further under poverty line and into starvation.

Not to mention a recent earthquake caused massive damage in the eastern regions, and it will probably take years to rebuild and recover completely.

This is not to say that Turkey doesn't have frivolous public spending, it's more like the hole they've dug is so deep, that probably hardly matters at this point.

And also a substantial amount of people who earn less than that under various legal and illegal schemes.

I also take issue with "you've agreed to the contract" arguments in general, if the contract is between one individual vs. an entire organization, or usually collection of organizations.

There's such a high power imbalance there that I find it intellectually dishonest to say that it is a free-willing contract between two entities. In my decades of Internet use, I haven't once set a single clause on a contract I've "agreed to" with a service. Those agreements were always even more one-sided than Treaty of Versailles, and the upper limit of how far they'd push was almost always what the local regulations permitted.

Therefore I ask, can you exist on this digital world without ever accepting one EULA in your life? or moving the goal post: can you exist on this world without accepting one-sided agreements, like, all the time? It's not an agreement if you had no real choice to begin with.

Neither to me as well. From purely visual perspective, it doesn't look any better than games that have been already out for years now. Animations and number of entities on screen look good, though character models look surprisingly dated. I still wouldn't compare it to GTA V, but wouldn't call this impressive for a 2023 game, yet alone 2025.

Of course this is just a minute and a half long trailer, and footage is likely from the Playstation 5 version, finished game on PC may look much better than this.

I'd expect somewhere in between the strong negativity on the Internet and total obliviousness.

Average person probably doesn't consciously register all that is happening and can't tell you about the past weeks' drama, but I think there's a certain point where too much negativity attached to a brand starts to drag it down, and Tesla might have reached that point.

I'm not saying it certainly has, but a few years back the outlook on Tesla was so overwhelmingly positive, you'd have to actively seek out criticism on your own. At least nowadays sentiment on them seem to have returned back to Earth.

Wouldn't be the first time Google flailing with a user-hostile decision back and forth, only to gather bad publicity and further animosity towards their brand at the end with nothing of value gained for themselves. Google shutting down legacy accounts comes first to my mind.

So I still think it may or may not happen. If it happens, it better be worth it to them, as it'll repel many of the power users, making it the next unsexy browser after IE.

Quest 3 is my first and only VR device so I'm obviously not in the know in these matters, though I have to say I don't see what is so terrible about Quest's flavor of Android either.

For a regular user, most everything seems to work well. Setup was easy, UI is polished and simple enough to get out of your way, and I personally haven't encountered any show-stopping bugs with it. Maybe I don't expect much out of it, as I see it more of an entry-point to actual VR applications I want to use, rather than something I'm more invested in.

If anything, I was surprised how well it worked for a product still so early in its lifecycle.

Wow, no insincere "spending more time with my family" or "heartfelt thanks to him for his contributions" or something? It's both refreshing and very surprising at the same time. I guess it's either a really bad table flip or there will be more to hear soon.

If that's the case, probably just going for Spot machines would save them more than that move.

I basically lost an otherwise perfectly working iPhone 6S+ because of that. Between OS and the apps getting ever larger, it became unusable, until the point I gave up and had to get another phone, and this one was added to the mountains of e-waste.

and on 1440p. You'd assume 4K would become the expectation, at least for the top end. It's been a decade.

Makes one think, if those issues were so quickly fixable, why they weren't fixed already to begin with?

I'd be (non-sarcastically) interested in reading any materials/sources you have on this specific topic. Is this view simply because dumping on the west is popular nowadays, or are there really strong ties on islamic culture and its relationship with the west?

I had the same impression (from personal anecdata) but I wonder if there's any concrete data on it. Do you know of any?

Just FYI for people who don't know about it yet: with cloudsql-proxy v2 there's a new parameter called "--quitquitquit" that starts up an HTTP endpoint to be used for graceful shutdowns. Basically your main container makes a POST to this endpoint, and sidecar exits.

A: "Of course, I understand, yet I'm not allowed to make contract changes. I'm sorry I can't help you further. Would you like a lollipop instead?"

or

A: "Of course, I understand, yet we have to follow our [most sacred] process. [...]"

or

A: "Of course, I understand, yet I don't see that button on the screen. [so it doesn't exist in this universe]"

A makes his living playing dumb 8-10 hours a day, it's their job. If B has a life, they'll probably give up at some point.

I don't think it's specifically a French thing, it's based on a wider truth: individual is powerless against the organization. Unless there's big money on the line, not many people can and will go great lengths, bear the mental burden and potential costs to go to courts and demand justice. Maybe %99th percentile would, and that's the small cost of doing business the way it is.

Companies having already established legal armies, they must know this very well. If they don't have a reason to care about your satisfaction as a customer, it all comes down to the final stand-off where the company says "so what, whatyougonnadoaboutit" and the customer loses by not being able to participate in the first place. If they had something to lose, customer services would be revamped overnight, but they don't.

I don't expect anything to change unless the will to treat the root causes magically appear one day.

Seems to me it's more like Xbox has been redefined into something much bigger, now it's an umbrella of many big name game companies across all three platforms. They've also gained a lot more relevance on PC side of things, and their GamePass is very popular. They've finally embraced their Windows moat, and built a lot on top of it in the last few years.

Xbox as we know it (the console) became irrelevant, but that'd be assumed by everyone incl. Microsoft the moment they promised to bring Xbox exclusives to PC. IMO that was the first visible point of them committing to change course for Xbox. If anything, nowadays Sony seems to be pigeonholed to their own world, while Microsoft seems to be thriving.

> I would definitely take the Turkish way of shrugging off rules

Having lived most of my life in Turkey, it gets old really fast.

For one thing, there's a certain culture that is a mixture of extreme fatalism, not giving a shit about anything that doesn't immediately benefit you, low respect to other people, and the worst part of it, seeing other people who care as weak, unmanly and naive, that is so pervasive in Turkey.

When this culture is given a lax rule structure, what you get is a chaotic, every man for himself, free-for-all place devolving further and further into a low CGI Mad Max movie. Only reason why it still hasn't completely collapsed into chaos is because people are still afraid of the punishment. If you think I'm exaggerating, next time you're there ask a restaurant owner if you can smoke, right under the no-smoking sign and pay attention to what they say: do they tell you that'd disturb other customers? or do they tell you of the ₺20k fine they got that one time and they can't let you because of that.

I can tell for you as a lived experience that significantly more people in Turkey cut in lines than people in Germany. Why do they do that I ask myself, the only explanation I could find until now is because fuck you, that's why. If you were as cunning, as manly, as bold as they are you'd be at the front of the line, but you aren't, so fuck you. They know there won't be repercussions for that action, and that's the only bar to clear for them to do it.

Maybe this way of living fits some, I myself find this despicable. I know that cutting in lines is not the most important metric for life quality in the world, but I fully believe it seeps into everything else in the society and over time makes it unlivable.

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Even in an imaginary ideal environment, if act of obeying existing rules is debatable, there'll be the problem of everyone considering themselves as a sufficient authority on making judgements with a limited context and a huge bias on interpretations that benefit them. At one point it just makes sense to ask people to use the right channels to push change instead of 80 million people making individual judgements on every issue every day and hope for the best.

If only we could get rid of all those people who generate and moderate content for free...

Then we wouldn't have Reddit to begin with.

> I spent a couple hours browsing Lemmy instances today and I was shocked at how few users are needed to create replacement communities.

Mirrors my experience today as well. Dare I say, some communities like r/selfhosted seem to be better off in their Lemmy/kbin counterparts, these kind of communities benefit from the more dedicated posters anyway, and reddit alternatives seem to attract the right kind of people for them.

What an amazing Sunday read, a step-by-step explanation, tables, timelines, even a short video demonstrating the exploit.

Looking at how big the impact could be if this was discovered elsewhere, and how meager the payout was and how little Valve seemed to be interested, I guess it's fair to say that security of millions of PC clients is not taken seriously at all. If this is how it's handled for a game that makes big $$, I wouldn't dare imagine how it is for thousands of online AA games and other low budget software that runs everyday in our computers.

I wouldn't. I've seen governments bringing out worst of the worst cases to rationalize surveillance, and it never stops there.

To be fair, looking at how both Diablo 4 (PC/Consoles) and Diablo Immortal (Mobile) are doing today, they seem to be on the way to capture both audiences with solid products in either side.

Mobile gaming industry sucks so much, D:I is actually a good product there. It offers so much more than your regular ad-infested crap with "recharge energy" mechanics at the very least. It might be the worst compared to what is available on PC/consoles, but those are different audiences. For the more informed consumers Blizzard has Diablo 4, where they seem to restrain greed to somewhat acceptable levels.

Yes they've fumbled with their PR back then, might've made one of the worst presentations in industry history (look at Bethesda & Fallout Shelter and see it being masterfully done) and generally been incompetent in a few of their recent titles (W3: Reforged and OW2 comes first into mind), still, looking at it today, Diablo as a franchise looks like a right step than otherwise.

in Germany they do, but afaict usually only for expensive packages.

> Amazon requiring 2FA on deliveries.

That's probably not about information security, it's simply Amazon not trusting the gig economy delivery worker enough with an expensive package, so they give you a number only you know and he doesn't, and that's how they verify that he has to interact with you before marking the delivery as done. It's to prevent a common kind of theft.

(I'm not talking out of any inside knowledge on the process, just thought that'd be the reason)