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  • Zangoose@lemmy.oneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    1 year ago

    yes, I haven’t tried AptX low latency headphones (tbf those are incredibly uncommon) but every pair of Bluetooth earbuds/iems/headphones I’ve tried had a noticeable delay. If you want good latency you need to get 2.4ghz or ideally just a wire.






  • Zangoose@lemmy.oneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    1 year ago

    It’s a lot harder to go after homebrew since there isn’t anything directly linking atmosphere/hekate/etc. devs to the promotion of piracy.

    Since the Yuzu team had a whole company formed to manage their patreon funds and were clearly promoting functionality for a game that hasn’t been released yet, they were an easy target for Nintendo. The same thing happened with Team Xecuter’s switch homebrew/mods ages ago.

    If Nintendo had definitive evidence to suggest the Atmosphere devs are profiting off of piracy, they’d do the same thing in a heartbeat. Same with Ryujinx, Luma3ds, or any other form of emulation/homebrew. The only reason they don’t is because they know only way they’d stand a chance in court is if they make it about piracy, copyright protection, and stolen profits.


  • Zangoose@lemmy.oneto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    1 year ago

    I think they made patches for ToTK and released them in the early access build before ToTK even launched (the game files leaked online around a week or two before) so Nintendo’s argument was that they were directly promoting and profiting from piracy (different from profiting from legal emulation).

    Luckily because of the way they settled I don’t think this actually implicates any forks that pop up so hopefully projects like suyu and whatever pops up for Citra can still continue development (not a lawyer tho)



  • I can tell this is going well for you even without downvotes federated to my instance. There might not have been an actual court case, but Yuzu just got pulled for offering a way to break the switch’s encryption keys, not just because they profited. It pretty directly implicates Ryujinx and any other emulator that could show up just by the nature of the settlement.

    It also effectively killed off the only reliable 3DS emulator. Sure Yuzu and Citra are gone, but Panda3ds (the only other 3ds emulator with compatibility even close to Citra’s) is also screwed over because it relied on the same ARM translation layer that Citra/Yuzu used. Forks might show up, but quite frankly I doubt any of them will be seriously maintained because of the crazy complexity required to make an emulator along with the newly established risk of doing so. This isn’t another Tachiyomi situation where a bunch of forks will pop up immediately.


  • True, I’m more worried about Citra since interest has kind of died down for that project. I’m kind of hoping some forks show up soon that get popular enough to be put onto a package manager since there aren’t many alternatives with the same compatibility/performance (from what I can tell Panda3ds isn’t very stable yet)


  • Zangoose@lemmy.onetoMemes@lemmy.mlApple
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    1 year ago

    Obviously every generation has its struggles, but I was never disagreeing with that. If you treat this as “just another generational problem,” you are fundamentally missing the point. It’s as you say, a whole different set of problems.

    Micro targeted ads are hard to ignore because most of the time they’re influencing our subconscious state. This isn’t just another generational issue we’re facing, it’s fundamentally shaping the way people look at the world without them even being aware of it. It’s not limited to just the current generation, because everyone interacts with technology. However, targeting inner psychology will obviously impact people with less developed brains more than it will impact adults, and we’re beginning to see the effects of that already with Gen Z.



  • Zangoose@lemmy.onetoMemes@lemmy.mlApple
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    1 year ago

    I agree with your point but imo the drama doesn’t even just come from high school kids. I’m a year away from graduating undergrad and still wondering when (or if) people are going to grow up about it. Even then, full grown adults do it about as often as people my age in my experience. Honestly some of the worst offenders when it comes to green bubble shaming have been my family members on the older side who think everyone should just get an iPhone and refuse to use anything other than iMessage.


  • Zangoose@lemmy.onetoMemes@lemmy.mlApple
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    1 year ago

    No, you didn’t, or at least not at this level.

    Sure, TV ads and even some old games had ads which were targeted to specific demographics (their audience), but modern digital ads are targeted to vulnerabilities of specific individuals (using location, search, purchase history, etc.). They’re also shown much more often and baked into products which are specifically designed to target your subconscious psychology (using nudging, gamification, etc.) so you use them more.

    The kind of data required for the level of ad targeting done now did not exist more than maybe 15-20 years ago.



  • Zangoose@lemmy.onetoMemes@lemmy.mlApple
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    1 year ago

    Their 7 (?) years of software support is kind of misleading to me because they stop getting chip-level security updates after something like 3-4 years due to the specific Qualcomm chip they use. Not to mention the chip is on the slower side of today’s phones, let alone phones 7 years from now.

    I can see how others might be fine with that though, just my 2 cents.


  • Zangoose@lemmy.onetoMemes@lemmy.mlApple
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    1 year ago

    To your first point, it isn’t really an “offer.” I don’t think I’ve ever complained about having an Android phone, because I’ve genuinely liked my Android phones way more than my old iPhone. It pretty commonly comes up whenever communication is involved though because I end up being blamed for not having FaceTime, iMessage, etc. even though most of those problems come from Apple only supporting a messaging standard from the early 90s with Android phones.

    To your second point, there are memes though. They’re probably not as common on here because the demographic that uses lemmy (or even Reddit to some degree) is more likely to have an Android phone for various reasons. Look up “android camera meme” if you want a clear example of something that usually isn’t even true.

    I’m not going to go after anyone for using an Apple product, because I can see why someone would use one over Android. But Apple tends to attract people that will blindly defend their bad decisions (no headphones jack, no charger, slow refresh-rate screens on everything but the $1000 model, etc.).

    This isn’t to say there aren’t similar people defending companies like Samsung, Google, etc. Apple just attracts these people at a whole different level. This meme is obviously hyperbole but to be fair you could make this meme about any obnoxious fan group and it would be just as true.

    Edit: fixed a grammar mistake, clarified a sentence with italics