DrQuint

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Sony is going to remove certain purchased titles from user libraries in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

sony is going to steal

*Permanently Deleted* in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Why are people censoring "bad" words? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
"It’s Undeniably Going To Cost People Jobs:" Inside The Game Industry's Fight Over A.I. in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

At least, if you put too much money into one, there's a threshold between those being financially successful or not, so if they flood the market, they will also leave a bunch of dead studios in their wake while good games thrive.

Oh, what's the threshold?

It's called Ubisoft.

There's not enough space for two of them. So it's beat them or lose it.

Stardew Valley Expanded exceeded its creator’s wildest dreams in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Hey, there IS a way it could happen. Which would be for the developer to give the direct approval and do like 90% of the publishing workload.

Which is what just hapenned to factorio and its space mod.

So basically, a really small chance.

OpenAI co-founder makes spectacular return mere days after ousting, with the board that fired him mostly swept away in c/technology@lemmy.ml
YouTube is reportedly slowing down videos for Firefox users in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

All of those are meaningless peanuts versus

  • Owns the biggest (borderline only) web ad service in the world
At some point in time people will link to stack overflow, forum or similar support articles that are over 100 years old. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

The AI: "Question marked as duplicate."

At some point in time people will link to stack overflow, forum or similar support articles that are over 100 years old. in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
What if America never existed in c/imaginarymaps@lemmy.ml
[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Portugal and Spain would have never even started the treaty if they didn't already suspect the existence of South America. Spain particularly would have absolutely not had it. If anything, it's Africa that would look more like a splintered mess. So trying to go about the shape of the world by that standard is probably the wrong idea.

When you need to retire an old server in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
[–] DrQuint@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Truth be told, I started watching Once Upon a Time In Hollywood having zero context of what the hell the story is meant to actually be about until half way when someone told me, and it vastly improved the movie.

Like, the woman just looked like a useless character you know. And would keep looking so.

Everytime in c/memes@lemmy.ml
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Synching music lists? (lemm.ee)
 

So, I got a request for suggestions from the community here.

I've been an android user basically all my life, and recently I've had a need for music. There's a long story here, but basically, Spotify is a no-go. I want to keep my own list of music files, sort them on PC, send them to my phone, and play it there. I do have means to get files I'm interested on, and playback devices and connections are no issue. So far so good.

However, the experience I've had has been lacking, because I'm missing an important step: Synching. I've been copying everything manually. Back when iPods weren't a joke, way way back, I used one and the iTunes <-> iPod experience was great. I could setup playlists on PC or restrict certain files, then have them show up on the iPod. Then playing and rating music a number of times on iPod and those stats would transfer and generate new playlists such as most and least played. I'm looking for something like that again. I don't need a complete seamless experience, and the synching operation doesn't need to be done by an actual music playback application either.

Can anyone help me with this? What mobile+desktop applications combos do you all use for music and do they synch up?

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With the new Armory, I can finally share with the world again: Circumcised Venomancer (lemm.ee)
 

https://i.imgur.com/pVmxK45.png

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So... Can you pet a turtle throught its shell? (lemm.ee)
 

YouTube just told me again about how turtles have nerve ends on their shell and how they have a decent amount of sensibility through it. Also, I've seen videos of turtles being social and helping one another and, finally, while this is apparently a bit rare, I did know people who owned iguanas who had some small attachment to their owners, and one would actually stick around for some stroking of their back.

So, adding all up, let's just say this: I never owned a turtle and never really spoke about turtles with people who own them. I don't know if they bond, I don't even even know if they visibly give any indication of noticing being handled through their shells.

So, turtle owners... Do turtles like being pet through their shells?

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Assuming time travelers are real, but only influenced events so far back enough that a smartphone they lost in the past didn't survive for archeologists to find, how far back are we speaking? (lemm.ee)
 

And what were the dominant terrestrial species at said time? Would there even be any? I have zero idea of what's the expected survival rate of an iPhone in the fossil record, but I like to imagine a giant sloth stepped on one once and we are none the wiser.

Alternative title:

"Assuming the timeline is stable and time travel is possible, but no evidence is ever found until its invention, what would be the earliest acceptable time period for time-travel tourism, and the latest cut-off point no one would be allowed to go to?"

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