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  • The point is; he wants a Framework-like approach to modularity and feature set. That means a phone that’s good enough to actually holds its own without retreating to being “ethical” or “modular.”

    Fairphone is just the worst deal you can get even if you consider the ethical side of it. This is because rescuing an old phone gives you a much better experience for less than half the cost and keeping tech from the landfill is a lot more ecologically friendly as the work and sourcing was already done regardless of you purchasing the device.


  • back-to-back lying to the public

    What?

    sexual harassment debacles

    … that none of which ended up in the court let alone confirmed. That’s an allegation, not something proven.

    They’ve been sleazy for years, taking money from companies they claim to review impartially, and twisting everything into a meme factory instead of putting the tiniest amount of effort into quality reviews and tech journalism.

    Straight up one of the points GN made. Which they really did improve upon. They don’t pump out as much content now, as well as generally higher quality content again.

    salvage his reputation after covering up toxic and predatory workplace behaviour

    :D

    coming out the other side a multimillionaire.

    Guy created and ran a YouTube channel, expanded it to be a media company. Hosts a forum, sells high quality merchandise (you can look up the coverage of their bag or screwdrivers from places like project farm). Also runs a premium video hosting and live streaming service for creators. That’s what we call “earned it.”

    This comment just reeks of toxicity, rather than criticism.





  • Guy is hundred percent right. Lemmy is a echo chamber for a certain demographic as vast majority of users are in it.

    We either have tech, or politics. Literally every topic ends up in either. We also don’t have the differing opinions aspect as just about every debater talks like they’re just the different shade of the same color.

    Even spicy news that would make any other site a warzone of opinions just echo chambered here. Literally everyone agrees on one conclusion and random two comments that disagree with that having at least -15 points.











  • Still, the seamlessness should be there, I don’t care how they mask it, but it should be there somewhat, again, this is 2023. It doesn’t even do simple fade to blacks, but full blown loading screens everywhere.

    Also, travelling with the ship mechanic is incredibly, frustratingly cumbersome. For example, let’s say you wanted to jump to Sol for the first time, in Starfield, you’d do:

    • Select and mark your destination through map screen.

    • Somehow exit the map screen (either mash B or hold B and tap B again to exit the menu, cumbersome)

    • Highlight your weapons with the D-Pad and mash down button.

    • Highlight GRAV and mash the up button.

    • Enjoy game stripping controls away from you.

    • Go back into map screen to mark surface spot you want to go to.

    • Hold X.

    • Voilà, you’re there, insantly.

    Why have an entire space mechanic, if you’re just gonna make it frustrating to interact with? Game is okay with teleporting you around at times, but not others as well. It literally disrespects your time, but not in a good way. Speaking of a game that disrespects your time well, it’s Elite, which the flow of events would be:

    • Open Galaxy Map with Y+Left D-Pad and select a destination.

    • Exit with tapping B, once.

    • Align your ship with the destination and throttle up.

    • Tap Y to initiate jump.

    • Enjoy being able to look around or (albeit barely) interact with your screens.

    • Open System Map with Y+Right D-Pad and select your destination.

    • Align the ship with destination.

    • Open Navigation Panel via X+Left D-Pad, select your target and enable Supercruise Assist.

    • Enjoy ship taking you there, feel free to interact with panels, photo mode, chat, etc.

    Sure, it’s a lot more complicated as it is a sim, but see that you don’t really do redundant actions and you’re in control most of the time. Also, no loading screens as the jumping effect will mask the system change, and the “dropping from Supercruise” screen will mask the second loading screen. Funnily enough, you’ll wait more but feel like it took less.

    I don’t want Starfield to be be Elite or Star Citizen, but it doesn’t even have the rudimentary systems in place. For example, I thought you were able to fly anywhere with your ship in the atmosphere and outside it. Just not seamlessly transition between those. That’d be “possible” to have as the game already does this technically. It just isn’t there for whatever reason.

    Also this basically breaks exploration as the wast majority of travelling you’ll do is via the menus and loading screens due to the exact same issues. I remind you this game was marketed as an exploration game with 1000 and whatnot.

    This is also the case for game play as well. There are just way too many loading screens. Especially weird when they already have airlocks which would mask vast majority of those perfectly.