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Post by pxc »

dmonitor wrote: post #228
pxc wrote: post #172

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The best ones it feels like an insult to call clones, but Tunic is a very good one that comes to mind.

Tunic is nothing like Zelda, except that both characters wear green and swing a sword. It's really good in its own way, though.

It's a lot like the 2D titles, with elements added from the 3D ones, like the targeting system, stamina meter, and controls for raising the shield (not a thing in many 2D Zeldas). Plus, of course, it also introduces its own elements and gameplay elements from other series.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by beodbdodbsk »

hot_gril wrote: post #67

I installed Windows 10 (not even 11!) recently on a random laptop and was appalled by the amount of BS in the initial setup process. Forced me to make a Microsoft online account seemingly with remote access to my PC, tried to sign me up for several different free trials, then tried multiple times to push me to Edge instead of Chrome. The UI has new crap like the Bing search on the taskbar and in the center of the des…

the only difference for osx is that apple leaves that data collection to when you try to download security updates for your apps.

Microsoft at least let us get security updates without accounts aftet we dodge all that during install. apple doesn't. login or get out.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by vorticalbox »

belter wrote: post #171
highwaylights wrote: post #152

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It’s unfortunate, but there’s not really a FOSS alternative for a general purpose personal-use OS that comes close to Windows. It completely owns that market. There’s macOS and iOS I guess, but they’re not generally available to install on third party equipment. Linux, sadly, is just not at all a consumer OS and never became one. The security model alone is an unfixable disaster (and many have tried over the years).

> The security model alone is an unfixable disaster (and many have tried over the years) Surely you are talking about Windows... :-)

Linux isn't any better. Take any Debian based os download a .deb and double click it.

It's executable by default, opens up in something like Eddie and just asks for a password.

Nothing about Linux is really more secure than windows other than the fact it is a small target.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by robertlagrant »

kernal wrote: post #182
nottorp wrote: post #164

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> Today it’s obvious Microsoft can’t be trusted. You weren't around when they were threatening linux with patents and forcing OEMs to not deliver PCs without a Microsoft operating system preinstalled then?

Not only PC's. They tried to eliminate as many Android OEM's as possible by threating and launching patent litigation against them unless they paid up. The amount they demanded from each device was so ridiculous that you would have thought it was a payment to license the Android OS itself. Thugs will always be thugs.

Well, I remember they had the FAT patent, which each Android device needed. Was it more than that?

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by hospitalJail »

bombcar wrote: post #232
hospitalJail wrote: post #216

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I know 3 people off the top of my head that have gotten in trouble for looking up people's health information because it was physically stored on premises. All 3 still work in the medical field to this day, one of them is a doctor... I imagine this is a huge issue in the medical field.

Oh, definitely. Anyone in the medical field who says they've never gossiped about people's health issues is either a saint or bending the truth a bit. But that's vastly different (though perhaps more invasive) than massive breaches like these: https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/cybersecurity-hacking-he...

On the bright side, at least you know if you are affected!

When an employee snoops, you will never know.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by pxc »

blix wrote: post #236
pxc wrote: post #172

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The best ones it feels like an insult to call clones, but Tunic is a very good one that comes to mind.

There is a little more to the series at this point than the 30 years old Link to the Past.

That game is still great. Show some respect!

More seriously, Tunic also draws upon newer Zelda titles as well as games outside the series. In addition, many 2D Zelda games have come out since the time of the SNES, not even counting re-releases like the recent remake of Link's Awakening.

Tunic doesn't just evoke Zelda aesthetically as a substitute for developing its own aesthetic! It's a loving homage to a series that absolutely materially inspired the core gameplay, too.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by spirit557 »

Microsoft Edge is insane. The amount of privacy invasion it has by default, the constant nagging to re-enable and undo all your changes to the defaults, and maze of settings you have to disable is just crazy. Is there anything it doesn't phone home? Every image, everything you type, history, absolutely everything. I was interested in it initially but I 100% avoid this browser now. I feel like it takes 20-30 minutes to comb through all the different settings everywhere in the browser and even then we hear about bugs that leak it all anyways. Microsoft edge is a complete disgrace.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by zokier »

r00fus wrote: post #184
nottorp wrote: post #164

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> Today it’s obvious Microsoft can’t be trusted. You weren't around when they were threatening linux with patents and forcing OEMs to not deliver PCs without a Microsoft operating system preinstalled then?

See that’s on-brand with the cutthroat ruthless billG company. So not ideal, but not surprising either. This is anti-customer and needlessly fraught with legal implications. Of course it seems aligned with their hallucinations-enabled OpenAI investment. How much of this is just attempts to feed GPT4?

> See that’s on-brand with the cutthroat ruthless billG company

Tangential, but this made me reflect on how "good"/"nice" Ballmer, and Ballmer-era MS, was in a very relative sense. This is slightly startling considering how my mental image of either Ballmer or MS is not great. But now looking back it does feel like relentless anti-competitiveness lessened a bit during that era, and lot of good stuff happened then. Windows 7 probably will go down in history as the pinnacle of traditional desktop Windows, MS giving up on IE gave room for Firefox and (unfortunately also) Chrome, lot of previously proprietary stuff got documented and published (SMB and Office formats comes to mind), and there were some nice product developments.

In contrast Gates era Microsoft was very much characterized by strong-arm tactics and throwing their weight around. And now Nadella era feels very aggressive again, pushing the company forwards no matter what; in some ways maybe less vindictive and direct than Gates, but still definitely not nice.

Re: Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft

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Post by Dylan16807 »

pessimizer wrote: post #225
PhilipRoman wrote: post #103

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Geez can hacker news users no longer detect sarcasm? This comment is clearly pointing out the absurdity (or more specifically, incompleteness) of the grandparent argument, not bashing on Linux.

You don't recognize that the comment that you are replying to is a sarcastic extension of the argument?

Huh?

"You don't recognize that [the thing you just said]?"?

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