I feel like that's a game that needs a big screen to be enjoyed, can't imagine playing on a handheld.
It's one of the few games where I went to collect all the collectibles, because I loved the exploration, environment, atmosphere and mostly the controls too.
It also looked incredible for the time - I first played it on PC when it came out, later on PS3 where it was only fine if quite downgraded. Yea the presentation and sense of wonder are very important for that feel.
Some of the action is way over the top, especially in later parts, and the amount of abuse Lara survives is just stupid. It's one of those "ludonarrative dissonance" games for sure.
And wound you maybe, possibly care to elaborate what proxy server to use? Or do all the proxy dialogs in all your programs have one preselected? If not, then it's hardly "done" is it?
That's why I'm saying we need new forms of government and new kinds of people, someone willing and able to question everything. It's possible that eventually it will be moot as AI becomes too good at manipulation, but for the time being, we at least need people to read through AI-generated emails and articles before hitting send. And with more advanced features, people with enough expertise to critique the results AI is giving.
Even AntennaPod connects to trackers in order to download some podcats. It's how some of those hosts are set up. Although I hope that with an app like AP it shouldn't be easy for advertisers to use that data to profile you, but I don't know.
Not really. Even if you use something foss like AntennaPod, it still makes calls to tracking services. I don't know how it works, but it seems that's how those podcast services are set up and most won't play otherwise.
Guess you can only use vpn or tor to be completely private, and preferably just use web sites instead of apps.
if i make an image then upload it to the internet - the only software that's involved is on my side (gimp, ps, whatever[^1]) and the browser of the person viewing it.
It's not. The web site you're uploading to has to support it to allow you the upload in the first place, and to process it to make previews or lower-res versions for the web pages or apps.
Well unless you're uploading directly through ftp and share only the link, but again that's not how people use pictures.
Then if the person on the other side wants to download the picture, set it as wallpaper, send it through messenger, then those programs need to support it too.
Heck now that I think about it, browser support isn't even that critical because web sites can make media available in whatever format the browser supports. The important part is the backend, and local apps.
meh, i haven't seen any in the past ~5 years apart from ones specifically chosen for that 256 colour æsthetic; but i will believe you
Do believe me, recently I've started converting those I want to keep to mp4 and I'm saving gigabytes.
Recently I've had some debates here with people looking for better support for gifs, or how to encode them better or whatever, and I nudge them towards webp at least. Because simply, if the web site supports only jpg, png, gif and webp uploads, then I definitely prefer webp.
it did get places. it has got places. again, it's very new and is already well supported
It's not all that well supported in lots of those cases I mention. And where it did get, it only got because Apple has actually billions of devices out there and has the power to make the format default among them with one worldwide update. Yet it still has to convert to jpg when sharing elsewhere by default. That's how huge the resistance is.
It's not all that new either, heif was introduced in 2017, webp even earlier and people still bitch that they can't use it because their oddball app doesn't support it.
Meanwhile x265 has been a common thing for years, and every few years before there's been a new generation of video codec, and nobody ever bats an eye when there's a new update.
jpeg2k failed because of licencing and royalty issues. heif hasn't spread because of licencing and royalty issues
I'm not advocating for these formats specifically (definitely not jpeg2000 haha), but I'm saying licences and royalties aren't that super important when it comes to how supported something becomes.
Hell look at Apple... Everything is proprietary.
Or when it comes to formats, mp3 is still the most widely supported audio format (non-free), and DivX has been the most widely supported video format for much longer than anything else... Also non-free.
jpe group have a considerable amount of sway so i'm sure they could persuade most camera manufacturers to support it
Haha hardware camera makers are the slowest dinosaurs when it comes to technology. Took them fucking ages for some to support DNG raw format, and before h264 was already getting grey, most would record videos only in mjpeg.
But it's more about phone cameras anyway. And well with those we'll only have webp and heif at most, so I guess we have to deal with that anyway.
Maybe if Mozilla had not abandoned their FF OS, maybe that would've been a camera supporting jpegxl now.
i gave those because they're the most pertinent programmes for people dealing with creating & editing
That's not how people use images. For an image format to be viable, you need your camera to support it, your gallery app/program to support it, the web sites you upload it to, the messaging platforms you share it through.
If there's a break in the chain, people will screenshot the picture as png and bitch to you that you're using something weird.
I've been trying to get people to use or support image formats for 15 years, previously as a tech journalist too, and the resistance is totally absurd. "Why change what works", "just because it's new doesn't mean I have to use it" are the typical responses you get from everyone.
i really don't think many people use gif.
Oh you'd be surprised... Gaming videos on Steam, screen recordings, porn clips by amateurs, or just random clips, the amount of low-res gifs with 10s of MB in size is crazy.
jpeg2k had major issues other than a lack of support - jxl has deliberately avoided those pitfalls
Sure, it's shitty of Google to drop the support, but from experience I'm still unfortunately 100% sure it wouldn't have gotten anywhere.
Heck, Apple has been using HEIF for years and that's a trillion dollar company with a huge market share, and you still get shitton of places where you can't use it.
We already have AI running all the shit. If you're looking for a job, AIs look through resumes, they can hire you and fire you and do everything else around it. AI determine if you can get a loan and with what interest rate.
I don't feel like we're better for it.
AI can design kickass cars and fusion reactors, but removing people from decisions about people doesn't seem like a great idea.
Besides, even if AI was actually better at it, the fact that it's not as fireable or held accountable like a human can (at least in theory) makes it an issue.
Basically I'm ok if AI gives suggestions, even at the top level, but there need to be people able to go "hol up, that's not something we actually want" if it declares something stupid.
I do think we'll need new forms of government and different kind of people to coexist with AI at those governments.
Isn't AdGuard just DNS? That means it blocks ads from everywhere, not just the browser. But you can't customise the blocklist unless you selfhost it.
If there's a web extension too, then idk. If you use say, Firefox for Android, then you don't have much choice besides uBlock, and with... Hm, other mobile browsers you don't have any at all.
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I feel like that's a game that needs a big screen to be enjoyed, can't imagine playing on a handheld.
It's one of the few games where I went to collect all the collectibles, because I loved the exploration, environment, atmosphere and mostly the controls too.
It also looked incredible for the time - I first played it on PC when it came out, later on PS3 where it was only fine if quite downgraded. Yea the presentation and sense of wonder are very important for that feel.
Some of the action is way over the top, especially in later parts, and the amount of abuse Lara survives is just stupid. It's one of those "ludonarrative dissonance" games for sure.