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OCTOPATH TRAVELER II - Xbox & Windows Announcement Trailer
  • I’m not going to buy it, but I’d download it the second it came to gamepass.

    Just finished sea of stars and the combat system and writing in that game left me wanting more.

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    Microsoft is bringing Python to Excel
  • I was very excited until I read this line

    Python calculations run in the Microsoft Cloud, with the results returned into an Excel worksheet.
    

    That’s an instant non starter for me.

    Not to mention this integration seems very much focused around the graphing libraries of python and not using it for data processing. It’s not the ‘excel powered by python’ I dreamed of.

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    I don't think the reddit, twitter, etc will "die" the way most people expect them to.
  • I mostly agree with you, the internet must change, and it’s changing for the good with these non-profit decentralized networks like Lemmy.

    These companies abused the internet too much and it’s hit a breaking point. People are taking the power back. I look forward to a user-owned internet again where the content I see is not entirely controlled by corporate interests.

    I think these websites will genuinely die within the next decade. There’s just never been decentralized social media(of this kind) to compete with them before.

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    YouTube Channel Linus Tech Tips’ Inaccuracies And Sexual Harassment Allegations, Explained
  • Yeah, I saw this coming at least 5 years ago.

    It’s the way Linus talks and acts, how their whole business revolves around a parasocial relationship with the viewers.

    He actually became what he hated about NCIX so much.

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    Another good reason not to open port 22
  • Public key auth, and fail2ban on an extremely strict mode with scaling bantime works well enough for me to leave 22 open.

    Fail2ban will ban people for even checking if the port is open.

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    How much control/access does my instance owner haver over my account?
  • Before people get worried about this, this is how literally any online service works. If you have an account anywhere, you trusted that service to not record your password.

    Only exception is oauth, which actually might be a good idea for Lemmy.

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    How much control/access does my instance owner haver over my account?
  • That is a lot of words to say ‘they can’t see your password, but they can try to guess it. Make a secure password and you won’t have any problems’

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    Xbox Game Pass trial reduced from one month to 14 days
  • A little bit puzzling at first, but it does make sense.

    With starfield coming out, they don’t want people to get the trial to essentially play it for free and then stop using the service.

    1 month is just about enough time to beat a large game for someone who has a few hours a day to play. 14 days won’t be enough for most people.

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  • Incoming proprietary cable that won’t let you data transfer or charge beyond 5w if you use a generic one.

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    How to measure things like a Canadian?
  • I always use milliliters and grams for cooking, unless it’s measuring volume of something solid.

    I also use time for long distances.

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    Will Microsoft reduce all the ads in the new Xbox dashboard or are we stuck with it?
  • Yeah, they really ought to be getting cracked down upon by governments for their monopoly on desktop computing.

    Simply opening directX would solve a lot of problems with gaming.

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    Will Microsoft reduce all the ads in the new Xbox dashboard or are we stuck with it?
  • Ultimately you will have to accept that you don’t ‘own’ your Xbox. None of us do. Microsoft does, and you paid $500 for the hardware, which they can decide to brick remotely at any time.

    This is the tradeoff between console and PC. Console is significantly cheaper but you don’t get any control over it.

    Ads are never going away, and will likely only get more intrusive until people start hitting their breaking points.

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    Everybody is pointing at things that Lemmy is worse than Reddit. What in Lemmy is BETTER than Reddit?
  • Edit: whoops I read the question backwards

    Embedded media and media hosting in general.

    I’m not sure what our solution is for this. A good CDN is tough to make. It’s one of the few things I’m pretty sure are better off being centralized.

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    Twitter’s new X logo wasn’t made by an in-house designer. It’s from an old podcast
    1. Copy/Paste
    2. It seems like a lot of people are talking about twitter even if mostly negative. I see it in the news and online way more often than before Elon bought it. And we are talking about it now ;)
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    Twitter’s new X logo wasn’t made by an in-house designer. It’s from an old podcast
  • Maybe that’s the point though? You were able to type it into a comment and have it pop up on our screen identically to the actual logo.

    He wants people to type the symbol instead of ‘X’

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