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  • You can only assume they believe that people won't want to use that button much.

    For a lot of people that's surely a mistaken assumption, but in my case it would be pretty true.

    I use an old macbook pro from work as my permanent desktop, in a closed configuration under the desk. Sometimes I sleep it, but I don't ever turn it off. I only ever need the power button when something has gone wrong.

    But they could have just put the button on the back. Kinda silly.

  • It doesn't need it. That's exactly the point.

    Even though air frying doesn't need Internet, the manufacturer is restricting that feature as a way to force you to set up the WiFi, so they can then slurp up all your data.

    They're literally holding the feature hostage, as motivation.

  • Adding on to this comment, it is very often not possible to change your auth method.

    If you use email to register, you can almost always change to a different email (same method) but you can't change between methods, like from Google auth to Apple auth, or even to a different google auth.

    You'd need to create a new account, and therefore lose all the data on your old account.

    Always choosing email gives you the most control and most privacy, I'd strongly recommend it.

  • I was almost convinced they were keeping this broken on purpose, it's been broken so long. Like, years long.

    It was broken so long I honestly wouldn't have been surprised if news surfaced that Discord was taking back-handers from Microsoft under the table to keep it broken. With steam working so well on Linux now, broken discord streaming without actual working audio share was one of the last things that posed a hurdle for gamers ditching Windows.

    (In the meantime, thank you Vesktop for your service <3)

  • As someone who loves mods, I'm totally I'm agreement.

    Mods vary greatly, from ones that add tiny quality of life improvements, such as a 'sort' button on your inventory, right through to huge visual overhauls and new characters and mechanics changes.

    Personally I like to always play games in a fairly vanilla way first with QOL changes only, and then when I've played it through once, the mods can keep things interesting.

    That's why mods are great, because they give you, the user, the choice.

  • Using established characters in your own works has long been accepted in Japan, especially for smaller doujin works, and that's awesome. But the analogy between that and modding just isn't the same.

    If we apply the 'modding' analogy to manga, that would basically be taking someone else's published work, applying white-out on half the frames, drawing in partial new contents of your own, and then republishing it. That would be incredibly disrespectful of the author to use not only their character, but their exact art in such a way. Very different from creating a whole new derivative work.

    I'm personally very in-favour of modding, but I can understand why the Japanese in particular, when seen through that lens, do not like it.

  • Vita was technically impressive, far more capable than the DS. I've got an OLED Vita and I'm amazed how nice it still looks.

    But the Vita inevietably lost to Nintendo because it struggled with popularity, and therefore struggled with number of games made for it. It's a catch 22.

    If Sony can make a portable that plays all your PS5 library (without needing to buy any of it again) then they might actually be on a winner.

  • Games getting bigger and bigger in gigabytes, but still hampered by slow optical disks and slow hard drives. It was good tat the time, but I have more fondness for the cartridges which came before, whose immediacy felt like magic.