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Shadow of Mordor took me two attempts to get into it, but I’m glad I went back for the second attempt because the game ended up surprising me with how excellent the storytelling and gameplay was.

Shadow of War was pretty good as well, but the online stuff was starting to kill it for me and it was clearly designed with microtransactions in mind (even though I believe they removed them?). Still a fun game though, and didn’t feel like a waste of money especially on sale.

A new entry in the series could be a lot of fun if they held true to what made Shadow of Mordor such a fun game, in my opinion.

The early entries in the Ratchet & Clank series. I believe they remastered the first three at some point for PS3, but I’d love to see them updated again to today’s definition of HD and released on PC as well. Unfortunately I only played the first four games back on PS2 since I switched to full PC gaming since then, but those games were all a lot of fun. After playing the recent PC port of Rift Apart, it made me realize how much I missed playing the series, and if they remastered and ported the entire series to PC, I’d easily lose an entire paycheck to that.

Yep, bias exists everywhere. There’s no avoiding it. Reddit does have the benefit that biases tend to change from sub to sub though. Lemmy instances that I’ve seen (not defederated ones) tend to hold the same FOSS bias, but the intensity of it varies from instance to instance.

This is one of the reasons I like what Beehaw does. Your options are upvote, no vote, and report. Anything worthy of a downvote is worthy of a report.

Agreed, feels like the vast majority of people here are FOSS enthusiasts, which isn’t a bad thing necessarily if you align with them, but definitely a bias and could put off people who genuinely don’t care about FOSS or tech in general.

I agree, was general advice that an unnatural infatuation should be an indicator, not specific for OP. I don’t know enough about them to know whether that’s the case, but it’s never impossible, and a therapist should never make things worse at least and may help them better understand their emotions (if they’re doing their job).

This exactly, you don’t tell them “I love you” in any way, implicit or explicit, unless you are already in a genuine relationship. To begin with, if you don’t know anything about the person besides what they show on the surface, how can you possibly know you want to be with them? Unless of course all you care about is appearance or something, or you have an unnatural infatuation and should seek help instead.

We’ve been trying to contact you regarding your car’s extended warranty.

Not 30 years, but usually just looking at each other says enough, with maybe a head motion if it’s time to go. Facial expressions say a lot on their own, and if you know someone well enough, even subtle differences can say a lot.

What the hell. I feel bad for reading that, holy crap. That’s some nightmare fuel.

although it uses your biometric data, it’s still a single factor of authentication

Speaking from my experience, I use my phone for biometric authentication. At least from my point of view, I see that as two factors (what I have and what I am) since the biometric authentication only works on my phone.

I am not sure I understood you here. What do you mean by “instead of having each service do their own thing”? Each website using their own method of delivering OTPs?

Basically having multiple places where codes may be generated. This way you can use one location to get OTPs instead of having them delivered via SMS or generated by a different app/service. It ends up being easier and more convenient for the end user (which of course increases adoption).

I guess this has more to do with services adopting OTP generators than sending them via SMS though.

From the perspective of OTPs it makes much more sense to use a separate application (Like Google Authenticator or Aegis Authenticator), preferably on a separate device, to generate the OTPs.

If logging into the password manager to get the password is sufficiently secure (locked behind MFA), then I don’t see the benefit of using a separate OTP generator (aside from maybe if your password manager has a data breach or something, which should be a non-issue except it clearly isn’t thanks to LastPass…)

I’m starting to wonder if phones (or other auth-specific devices) should just become dedicated authentication devices and passwords should just be phased out entirely tbh. Passwords have always had issues because their static nature means if someone learns your password without your knowledge, that method of authentication becomes worthless. The main concern would be what happens when you lose your phone I suppose.

Many password managers use a biometric factor to sign in (your fingerprint, for example, using some kind of auth app if needed). This basically moves the MFA aspect to one service (your password manager) instead of having each service do their own thing. It also comes with the benefits of password managers - each password can be unique, high entropy, and locked behind MFA.

There is no commandment “Thou shalt save children”, duh.

There are a disproportionately large number of people who get one pretty demo and think LLMs are the solution to everything. Even for translations, I’d be interested to see how accurate the major models are in real world scenarios. We’ve been struggling hard to find any practical usage of LLMs that doesn’t require the user to be able to verify the output themselves.

I agree, open source devs don’t owe anyone anything (unless they’re accepting commissions or something). Also, generally speaking, being a good developer does not translate to being a good community moderator. There should be no expectation of the latter.

The whole green vs blue bubble thing has to be the most idiotic debate I’ve ever seen in my life. At least here people seem to be comparing real features, but still just buy whatever has what you want. Especially when iPhone 15 comes out with USB-C charging.

Depending on where you live and the season, that could be called stepping outside.

Government is bad and we should have less of it in our faces. To achieve this goal, let’s make the consumption of certain popular drugs illegal, and while we’re at it make laws restricting what women, trans, gay, etc people can do. This should reduce the government’s involvement in our day-to-day lives.

I just don’t understand it. Less government = good (according to practically every republican I’ve met), so lets vote for more laws which restrict people and give the government more power.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with using HTML/XML-ish format for describing a UI (although having a standardized presentation format that all “viewers/browsers” follow exactly the same way would be nice), I’m just sad that websites have become described as UIs rather than as well-structured documents.

Tauri is also a more recent option, which uses the native webview. Not sure if it’s suitable for production yet though.