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New comment by xdrosenheim in "NetSurf on ReMarkable 2"

xdrosenheim — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 09:39:34 +0000

On my ReMarkable Pro, the password is always the same. Even through updates. No clear way to change it.

New comment by xdrosenheim in "New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable"

xdrosenheim — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 07:07:50 +0000

> You have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public.

That does not apply to every country.

New comment by xdrosenheim in "Android Games on PC"

xdrosenheim — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 13:59:50 +0000

Many, if not most, big Triple-A titles on PC, and consoles, are also filled with in game purchases of coins and loot boxes targeting whales. I guess you could say that those are also filled with ads, but at least it is for their own stuff in the game.

The only shining thing in gaming currently are the awesome indie titles that just keep on giving from a single purchase of the game.

New comment by xdrosenheim in "France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone"

xdrosenheim — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 17:38:59 +0000

Meh, phones with removable batteries are still being made. Samsung's Galaxy Cover line has plenty of phones with removable batteries. Some even feature the much feared IP68.

New comment by xdrosenheim in "LEGO Building Instructions"

xdrosenheim — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 17:28:07 +0000

The whole point of LEGO is to "LEg GOdt" (Play great/good/well, however you want to translate that).

New comment by xdrosenheim in "LEGO Building Instructions"

xdrosenheim — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 17:23:16 +0000

Do you know the set number? There is a "Super Car" in Technic with set number 8070, available in the archive. Not sure about the steering and differential, but it seems to feature a V8 and a stick shift.

New comment by xdrosenheim in "A curated list of uBlock origin filters"

xdrosenheim — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:47:27 +0000

Be sure to also mark videos as "Not interested" on your homepage, if you also did not know about that. You can even tell them not to recommend an entire channel.

New comment by xdrosenheim in "Cities: Skylines II"

xdrosenheim — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 12:19:14 +0000

It would be so cool to only have a rail station to begin with.

New comment by xdrosenheim in "ChatGPT broke the EU plan to regulate AI"

xdrosenheim — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 11:00:43 +0000

Blame the sites than needs to have a million cookies.

New comment by xdrosenheim in "Now offering 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck in the Framework Marketplace"

xdrosenheim — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 14:06:57 +0000

I do not see why Steam would try to make people afraid of getting third-party modifications, when there are no first-party modifications. Also, it is Steam/VALVe, they usually do not care.

New comment by xdrosenheim in "Ask HN: Video games that will make me smarter and are addictive?"

xdrosenheim — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 05:48:54 +0000

There are ammy games on Steam without DRM.

New comment by xdrosenheim in "Godot 4 Beta 1"

xdrosenheim — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 23:17:10 +0000

Ah, we are dozens. At least.

New comment by xdrosenheim in "It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play are over"

xdrosenheim — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 07:30:48 +0000

I have not used the official Minecraft client since they change it over to the new one. I advice everyone to never use it. Use one of the meny alternatives that lets you easily set up different versions of the game, with mods, profiles, and easier to change RAM allocation. Never download that piece of human garbage that is version 1.19.

New comment by xdrosenheim in "It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play are over"

xdrosenheim — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 07:27:11 +0000

Wow dude, you said a swear word in public...

Better call the police and have you locked up for the rest of your life for that.

Unless you pay your government a little $30 more, pretty please? ; )

New comment by xdrosenheim in "It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play are over"

xdrosenheim — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 07:17:36 +0000

But then you have their new moderation for that group...

New comment by xdrosenheim in "It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play are over"

xdrosenheim — Fri, 09 Sep 2022 06:58:30 +0000

You should not let you children play with random 30 year olds, if you do not want them to see/hear profanity.

You have the option to install your own chat moderation tools, client-sided, there is not need to force every to "be nice" just because there _might_ be children playing.

If this was just for their own Realm Servers, that would be fine, it is their server, they host it. But why does Microsoft suddenly feel the need to moderate MY server? (public, but only used by friends of mine)

All the big public servers, such as Hypixel, have had their own moderators and they do a fantastic job.

> I don't see anything in their process that suggest that a group of adults playing with their friends are at risk of having their chat audited in the absence of a complaint? The thing is that we have NO IDEA how much it takes to be banned. - Will an actual human look at the reports? Doubtful. - When a ban is to be issued, who will decide when to do that? Some guy who has to follow a script that reads "3 profanities, max" and click the boot button?

The Minecraft community is one of the largest gaming communities, and I have seen very little controversial about it. I do not see the need for Microsoft to suddenly step in and decide to moderate it.

New comment by xdrosenheim in "Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam"

xdrosenheim — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 05:23:41 +0000

If you mean password manager, sure. But I was thinking of e-mails received, how would I know if the emails came from the "right" sites? Would have to open up a text file, or login to my password manager, just to check. I do not think that is a great way to keep track of it.

New comment by xdrosenheim in "Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam"

xdrosenheim — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 23:50:48 +0000

I have been thinking about using some sort of UUID-generator ([UUID]@mydomain.xz) whenever I sign up for a new site, but I just can not think of a _good_ way to keep track of them.

New comment by xdrosenheim in "Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam"

xdrosenheim — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 23:45:52 +0000

I do the same thing with my email and have actually gotten a few spam mails as a result. I have of course contact said companies and told them about it. None of them seems to be blatant selling of data, though.

However, I am receiving a _bunch_ of spam email to "first.lastname@mydomain.xz". I do have one default inbox everything goes into, if it does not match a filter.

New comment by xdrosenheim in "Replayability in game design"

xdrosenheim — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 07:56:41 +0000

Just look at the recent release of Stray. You can sink about 5 hours into it and get the whole story out of it. Sure, you can spend double that and get all the small collectables and achievements, but it is not needed for everyone.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1332010/Stray/