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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's appreciated! <3

While you're working on a more permanent fix, is there a preferred way we should let you know about hiccups like this? Or is pinging you in a thread in this magazine sufficient?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Sorry to nag, but it looks like it might be acting up again lol. Doesn't look like any sync has happened for 5 hours.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

Nah, not really. Technically, this is better. But only marginally so, and unless Valve does something catastrophically, egregiously abusive with the Steam platform, then the people who will actually benefit from this are few and far between. Valve wouldn't just say "come sue us" if they weren't wholly confident that they weren't about to be losing any cases any time soon.

This isn't some huge "win" for the people; gamers aren't gonna rise up over this. For 99.999% of Steam's userbase, this is an entirely lateral move. Valve are the only ones who will see any tangible benefit from this.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Because it's not quite the good-faith gesture people are making it out to be; it's a cost-saving measure for Valve. From the consumer standpoint, very little actually changes, as the average user isn't taking Valve to court in the first place. It's not as if Valve is suddenly lowering their legal funding in conjunction with this move; they'll still defend themselves harder than most consumers would be able to, and will win their cases in court instead of in arbitration, which is even more costly for the consumer when they lose.

While arbitration favors companies, so do the courts. If anything, this just makes it more cost-prohibitive on the consumer side to make Valve face the law.

[–] [email protected] 246 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Remember the video of him getting into a fight with some teenage girl just a few days before he killed those people? The video they wouldn't let the jury see because it might show that Rittenhouse was an escalation-seeking rage-aholic? The video that his spokesperson has definitely seen?

Yeah, he was never disillusioned. He knew who this bastard was all along. He just stopped making money off the kid, is all.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

What patent are you referring to?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (12 children)

Are we still having trouble? A thread I posted 45 minutes ago hasn't shown up on the instance I posted it to yet. The "Open original URL" menu on the post goes to the Fedia page instead of LemmyWorld. It seems like a comment I posted 2 hours ago is also not appearing on the original instance, either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I use an animation from this live wallpaper app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.at2_software.terracollageapp&hl=en_US

I believe it was just a one-time purchase for the full version of the app. The animations don't loop very well, but I'm not staring at my home screen long enough to see the loop that often, so it's not a big concern to me. They're pretty much all swirly, inky, starry sort of abstract animations, but there's a lot of color options so it's pretty easy to pick something that fits well with the rest of your phone's theme.

The developer hasn't updated it for over a year now, so if the previews don't look like something you'd like, I wouldn't bother buying the full version since it's unlikely that any more will be added.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Lemmy loves to shit on billionaires, until it's one they think they like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Your TV doesn't need a screensaver. You can just... turn it off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

You're trusting that a) they're not malicious and b) they have their shit together and c) even though they do have their shit together someone doesn't find a random exploit anyhow.

You could say this about literally any solution short of hand-delivering cash in person.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You do realize that if the bank authorizes a transfer, that you did not… it’s wire fraud and they’re obligated to refund that cash, regardless if they recoup the cash or not.

You do realize that not every transaction happens in countries where these protections exist, right? Not everybody can rely on something like the FDIC to protect their funds.

On the other hand, if you give your credentials to a 3rd party, that’s against the ToS none of us actually read, and if something happens to your account; they’re going to deem it as your fuck up.

You're not providing your bank credentials directly to the third-party, either. They use OAuth-like systems to log you in, typically. I'm not familiar with Ozow, specifically, but from what I can tell about their company, they appear to be doing mostly the same things as Plaid.

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