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Youtuber PewDiePie is going all in on deGoogling and the Steam Deck is one of the surprising tools that's helping him to 'escape'

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  • Is it something they inherently do? No. Is it something they can do?, Of course. Just like anyone evolve over time. Especially when you're into something just to be edgy.

    • I just want to afford to see a movie goddammit

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  • The downgrade to digital projectors is what killed cinemas for me. It's just a stuttering blurry mess with a poorly calibrated speaker setup to match.

    I'd like to like the cinema but they removed the magic and left the 8$ small popcorn in It's place.

    • Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

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  • It's almost as if linux users are a group of many individuals with different reasonings behind their vastly different goals and priorities and not one homogenous group. Who would have thought?

    • Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

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  • Why do average users need to use linux. Let them stay in windows if that's where they are happy. Making linux into a system just as shitty as windows will just replace shit with different shit.

    • Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

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  • Why does it need to be dumbed down for the average joe?

    Why does guis need to be designed for the person not using it? Why not design them for the people using it now and improve them for the actual users of the software instead of the persons NOT using the software?

    Thats a stupid idea and that very line of thought is the brainrot that has led to the enshittification of so much the last couple of decades.

    • And thus my subtitle requirement was born

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  • Center channel downmix boost or something is the name. Iirc the phenomenon with quiet dialogue is due to most streaming content being delivered with surround audio. The shitty cheap video players used by the streaming services will do a cheap flat downmix to stereo which results in the center channel being too low when split into two mono channels for playback on stereo speakers compared to if it would be played on a dedicated center speaker. This is due to maths or something.

    Back in the day dvd and even vhs movies had proper stereo mixes where the center channel would be boosted to audible levels.

    Tl;dr: just pirate shit and use a proper video player instead of the cheapass players used by netflix, disney, etc.

    • Carrying on an old tradition. What features / issues should I work on next?

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  • Small thing but I'd love some metadata about the comment or post when I'm replying. Things like the time it was posted, username and maybe even subreddit with the instance. The full thread for nested comments would maybe be nice but maybe the ui for scrolling through that would be messy.

    • Carrying on an old tradition. What features / issues should I work on next?

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    • iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald’s ice cream machines

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  • A company like iFixit you mean? Both sides can play that game. I'll grant you that McDonalds probably have more money to burn on bribes but still.

    • Google removed the keyboard from the AndroidTV OS; now required to use voice or your mobile device.

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  • It depends on how you define "get".

    The short answer is yes followed by 'not from netflix/amazon/disney/whoever' (except maybe sometimes but not really) because they use DRM to protect their content. Very effective DRM that doesn't really do anything... Their loss I guess...

    • All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU

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  • They must all have reached nirvana when they realized they could build in planned obsolescence straight into the platform. No more replacing a tiny belt, now they get to sell a brand new car when the battery goes bad!

    I really hope that this regulation from the EU stick and it doesn't get shut down by Germany as usual when they act as an extension of the auto-industry.

    • All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU

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  • The cars will be fun to see unfold considering new EV platforms have them integrated straight into the platform the chassis is built upon.