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Bananasplit_00

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    Bananasplit_00 reacted to Needfuldoer in Microsoft depreciating the apps that make their VR headsets function   
    "It wasn't an immediate, runaway smash hit, so therefore it has no value and needs to be defenestrated at the nearest opportunity."
     
    Sometimes I hate the tech industry.
     
    Watch Apple take over this market niche with their magic ski goggle things.
  2. Funny
    Bananasplit_00 reacted to da na in Microsoft depreciating the apps that make their VR headsets function   
    yet for some reason the app will still automatically install on every new Windows installation
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    Bananasplit_00 got a reaction from podkall in Will me blowing air into my microphone break it?   
    If you drool on it every day maybe you would have an issue. Blowing on it once isn't going to do anything. The moisture will evaporate pretty quick unless you are at 100% humidity
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    Bananasplit_00 got a reaction from podkall in Will me blowing air into my microphone break it?   
    Unless you have an air compressor for your lungs I don't think you need to worry about that
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    Bananasplit_00 got a reaction from Eigenvektor in Will me blowing air into my microphone break it?   
    Unless you have an air compressor for your lungs I don't think you need to worry about that
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    Bananasplit_00 reacted to Mihle in China announces rules to limit spending on video games   
    I hope lootboxes and daily rewards get banned everywhere, they are both shitty things that shouldn't exists.
  7. Funny
    Bananasplit_00 reacted to Kisai in China announces rules to limit spending on video games   
    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/23/china-considers-revising-gaming-rules-after-tech-giants-lose-billions
    So not only did the Chinese companies absolutely ridicious amounts of stock value, many US and EU ones did as well. Fancy that.
     
    The writing is on the wall for Gacha-Lootbox models then. Cause if we've seen anything from PRC rules before (eg the film industry) that they don't back down, they just chip away.
     
     
  8. Agree
    Bananasplit_00 reacted to whispous in Are really going to pay 9.99 for pins now   
    I can barely read read this absolute ramble of a paragraph.
     
    $9.99 for an enamel pin isn't weird. Have you seen how much LTT charge for other items? They pride themselves on high quality, but even then, the margins must be very large.
     
    If you have FOMO for not buying vanity items to support a company with very well off people, I think you need to calm down. You are not missing out on ANYTHING by not buying youtuber cosmetic merch.
     
    If there's a special exclusive club for people who pour money into youtubers, trust me, it's not worth it.
  9. Informative
    Bananasplit_00 reacted to djksm in China announces rules to limit spending on video games   
    Summary
    China prohibits exessive spending on video games
     
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    My thoughts
    I don't really think this is a good idea, it sounds like what my mom does to me.
     
    Sources
    https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-issues-draft-rules-online-game-management-2023-12-22/
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    Bananasplit_00 got a reaction from DreamCat04 in Audio/Music Quality drops when connected to Teams/Discord   
    It likely uses a different BT protocol when used as a headset than as headphones, as two signals need to fit in the same bandwidth the quality is reduced. This is a common thing with BT headsets, not sure there is any fix for it.
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    Bananasplit_00 got a reaction from The_Wooden_Stick in Audio/Music Quality drops when connected to Teams/Discord   
    It likely uses a different BT protocol when used as a headset than as headphones, as two signals need to fit in the same bandwidth the quality is reduced. This is a common thing with BT headsets, not sure there is any fix for it.
  12. Funny
    Bananasplit_00 reacted to Dark in JerryRigEverything and DBrand Sues Casetify for Copyright Infringement   
    Appears Casetify has finally removed the 'inside out' collection from their site, which displays some degree of guilt on their behalf.
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  14. Funny
    Bananasplit_00 reacted to TempestCatto in Apple Set to Challenge Latest EU Crackdown on Big Tech Dominance   
    I read DMA as DMCA and thought they were about to take over the music world or something. Dyslexia at it again 😬
  15. Funny
    Bananasplit_00 reacted to hu4d in Nothing announces iMessage for Android ... somehow   
    Summary
     Nothing, the phone company started by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, has announced that its Nothing Phone 2 will have a new default messaging app, "Chats". The gimmick is that you'll be able to login to Chats with your Apple ID, and send/receive Apple's proprietary iMessages from it. Nothing has partnered with Sunbird, a company who has apparently been doing this for a while now
     
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    This is cool, I guess? But very weird. How much do we trust 'Sunbird', the company that nobody has ever heard of before now, to handle your AppleID? I mean I suppose if you're an android user who's never touched anything Apple before, you just make a throwaway AppleID and who cares if it gets hacked. But for anybody who uses any Apple products at all, you probably don't want to be giving your AppleID out to random messaging companys. Because if what MKBHD is saying is to be taken at face value, it's not secure at all
     
    Sources
    https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/14/23960516/nothing-chats-imessage-android-phone
     
     
  16. Agree
    Bananasplit_00 reacted to porina in The Unspoken TRRS problem   
    Ran into this problem with a product where I used to work. In short, the problem stems from both mic and speaker sharing a common ground connection with that connector type. Also signal levels are bigger for the speaker than the mic, so a "small" signal for the receiver and appear to be a "big" signal for the mic.
     
    On the headset side, you must use separate ground wires joined only at the connector which could fractionally increase the cost on a mass produced product compared to a shared ground. If you wanted to go audiophile on it, maybe you could try reducing the coupling further between the wires but in practice this wasn't a problem.
     
    There could be another problem, that is how the "ground" connection is handled on the device you plug it into. If it isn't very low impedance, you're screwed. There is no fix other than get a better device.
     
    Depending on the design of the headset, there can also be a mechanical and/or acoustic path from the speaker to mic. That's a fundamental design feature and not really something a user can control.
  17. Funny
    Bananasplit_00 reacted to Dedayog in M3 Macbook Pro Reviews. 8GB of RAM on a $1600 laptop is criticised heavily   
    But if you're not buying a new Macbook within 5 years, you're Appling wrong.  Not a true Apple Fanatic.
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    Bananasplit_00 got a reaction from silent-fan in Water Cooling Yes or No – Any advice welcome - Question about noise and Maintenance   
    You don't want to do maintenance? Go air.
     
    You should replace your coolant something like yearly and clean the loop when you have it apart. Soft tubes also have a finite life, the heat will get to them. The clear ones go bad much earlier than the black stuff.
  19. Informative
    Bananasplit_00 reacted to Fascinated Viewer in EU opens investigation into X (twitter)   
    EU opens investigation into X
     
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    I am glad that the EU is taking action. This situation with X.com has been an ongoing problem for this year. April (12/04/23) James Clayton from the BBC interviewed Elon on this topic; however James didn`t appear to have done his research beforehand and made a fool of himself. In terms of X, I have also had similar experiences of seeing unnecessary gore and violence on Twitter, such as dead women, children and soldiers, and plenty of misinformation. which is not nice, so I tend to stay off X.com. The same thing has happened, but this time, the EU has seen it.
     
    (based on my own experience of using Twitter (x.com)
     
    Sources
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-67073970

  20. Funny
    Bananasplit_00 reacted to NobleGamer in Devs learn rival Godot engine in a week to poke fun at Unity, publishes game to Steam   
    Summary
    After Unity outraged its community of developers by introducing per-install runtime fees for games built on the company's engine, and rolling them back to some extent, this gave two developers an idea for a game based on the install fees. Indie devs John Warner and Trevor Da Silva realized "it would now be possible for developers to become bankrupted by the action of a handful of angry troglodytes with a bat file which would automatically reinstall their game." This, they noticed, "would make a great game" itself.
     

     
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    My thoughts
    This is news-worthy in its own right because it is regarding a new satirical game that sheds light on not just recent events with a game engine's monetization, but also makes tangible the implications of such things and illustrates how easy it can be in some cases to switch game engines. I think it is a hilarious dev response to the Unity install Fee debacle, and making the Steam game as cheap as possible (40 cents US) is a great way to see how the real numbers would shape out if they had used Unity and paid install fees.
     
    Sources
    https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/09/27/unity_install_fee_tycoon/
    Game: 
     
  21. Agree
    Bananasplit_00 reacted to Levent in Raspberry PI 5 Finally released   
    Sure but at this cost, it would have been nice to have USBPD because it would be much easier and cheaper to power for end user.
  22. Funny
    Bananasplit_00 reacted to Rohith_Kumar_Sp in $600 Million And A Decade Later, Where Is Star Citizen?   
    Star Citizen is a space MMO, crowdfunded project that has accumulated over $600 million and has been in development for over a decade now with no release date in sight. Although the Alpha has some interesting points, the game’s development hell has attracted a ton of controversies over the years. The Space genre is currently booming due to Starfield and more games like Star Wars Outlaws on the way. It’s the perfect time for Star Citizen to land among all the existing popularity. Over the years, Star Citizen has accumulated insanely high expectations, and the more time it takes, the higher fans’ demands and expectations will go  
     
     
    For contrast, i started these threads as back as a decade ago on this forum, i recall people defending and being angry at the posts regarding Star Citizen's critique saying that it is common for a game to take years of development, do people still have the same belief? 
     
     
     
     
     
    source : https://exputer.com/exputer/star-citizen-600-million-no-release/
  23. Informative
    Bananasplit_00 reacted to LAwLz in WebPWN'd - Actively used CVSS 10/10 rated Exploit performs Remote Code Execution on pretty much anything that handles WebP Images   
    On this forum, or elsewhere?
    Because I looked through your posts on here and you have never even mentioned WebP before.
    Also, I find that most complaints about WebP can be attributed to the software those people use, not the format itself. Like "I downloaded a WebP image and the program I tried to open it with didn't support it, so the format is bad!" which I think is a ridiculous complaint.
     
     
    Does not seem like it.
    The article specifically says the vulnerability is in libwebp. VP9 decoding is usually handled by libvpx.
     
     
    I hope you're joking... PNG is great for some things, but awful for other things.
    You need to use different image formats for different things.
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    Bananasplit_00 reacted to leadeater in WebPWN'd - Actively used CVSS 10/10 rated Exploit performs Remote Code Execution on pretty much anything that handles WebP Images   
    Have a read of this: https://blog.isosceles.com/the-webp-0day/
     
     
    Like many vulnerabilities they aren't so simple and protections that are in place that are supposed to work don't always etc. Look at Side-Channel attacks, those worked with complete sandboxing and in cases even some forms of memory  and VM encryption etc.
  25. Informative
    Bananasplit_00 reacted to rcmaehl in WebPWN'd - Actively used CVSS 10/10 rated Exploit performs Remote Code Execution on pretty much anything that handles WebP Images   
    Summary
    Don't use anything that can display WebP right now. Apple Google, and Mozilla have released updates though.
     
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    My thoughts
    Dear God. I guess I'm switching to w3m and IRC for the foreseeable future until the internet patches itself against malicious images running code on my devices. 
     
    Sources
    CVE report
    Helpnet Security
    The Hacker News (quote source)
    Bleeping Computer
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