conciselyverbose

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Abusing their hard work to buy cheap devices and get their longer OS support for free is not cool.

This is literally a core principle of Open Source. You can charge money if you want, but anyone is fully entitled to distribute your work for free.

It is not and cannot be abuse.

I thought the Hori were terrible on a bunch of levels. They felt cheap everywhere, were stupid loose on the rails, the sticks were barely better than the joycons, the buttons were worse. Free would have been overpriced.

I use and like Binbok's bigger one that's a similar shape though. It's still not the quality of a PS/Xbox controller, but it's a lot less bad than the joycon or Hori.

Also Jesus pretty much tossed out all the "unclean" nonsense in Peter's dream or whatever.

I wonder how many of them follow the diet though.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"AR" has always been sci-fi. The details you're discussing have never been part of the discussion because it was fiction.

This is far more AR than any of the shitty displays that project on glasses (all of which also are distorting and changing the light from the real world) and don't have meaningful capacity to interact with the real world inputs. Any reasonable definition of AR absolutely is including the Apple Vision. It's the real world, in real time, with all the inputs and processing capability required to interact with it.

All your other complaints have nothing whatsoever to do with your silly definition of AR made for the sole purpose of excluding the most exciting piece of tech in the space ever. Weight and battery capacity are also completely unrelated to any possible valid definition of what AR is.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (9 children)

They didn't do a clear coat like everything else ever made lol.

That's not the reboot character design.

If they were to do that, and have cross platform purchases/saves (provided I could make it work reasonably on Linux), I would be way more likely to think about buying games from them.

The PS5 is a nice piece of hardware. You can do a lot of stuff better on PC, but the loading tech is still legit. But I'm not buying multi platform games on PS5 over Steam for a bunch of reasons (steam deck being the biggest, steam input being another, just generally the fact that my PC gives me a lot more future options and modding potential).

Even if they did the UWP locked file shit, being able to bring games from PS5 to Steam Deck to desktop would make them pretty competitive. And I'd start using them regardless for the library I already have.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like the recent Tomb Raider Lara better.

I get that it doesn't stick to the whole "giant boobs" thing as the whole identity of the character the early games did, but she genuinely looks like a real person. This feels like a downgrade.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The "key" is the mapping of cipher alphabet to message alphabet.

There has to be a secret to be cryptography. The meaning has to be hidden without the secret information (though primitive/weak attempts can have a small enough search space to be brute forced). But the content being hidden without that information is the entirety of what the word means.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's a terrible definition, but "codes" is doing the heavy lifting.

It is not a code, in that definition, if it does not require knowledge of a key to decode.

It is literally impossible for anything that doesn't have a secret key to qualify as cryptography. That is the entire defining trait.

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