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Quicky

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  • Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps.

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  • The technical implementation, or the law itself?

  • Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps.

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  • Not a single word in this rant has any relevance to my comment.

  • Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta - Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps.

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  • Mixed feelings about this.

    However, ethical questions aside, and from a purely legal conformation standpoint, if the phone validates the user is over 18 and passes only that info as a token to whatever application or website requests it, then it's a good implementation. It means elimination of multiple validation requirements, minimal transfer of data to third parties, fewer sources holding personal data, etc. Whether it works that way remains to be seen.

  • Bluetooth keyboard switching delay on Mac

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  • Cheers yeah, I actually tried a bunch of those software KVMs with my previous keyboard. I’m limited to portable ones as I don’t have admin access to the work machine, and for whatever reason both the keyboard and mouse were laggy as hell when moving to the Mac with each one, although I think all the ones I tried were all actually forks of Synergy.

    That was what prompted the change to a Bluetooth multi-device ergo keyboard. The K860 is superb, but I would like to eliminate the Mac connection delay if possible.

    Much of the research I’ve done seems to suggest “that’s just the way it is on Mac”, but there were suggestions regarding switching off Handoff so I’ll give that a go in the morning and see if it makes any difference.

  • techsupport @lemmy.world
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    Bluetooth keyboard switching delay on Mac

  • Day 581 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

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  • I've been playing this the last few days too. I got the game on the Switch for the kids during lockdown and it became an instant favourite with them, but it was disappointing that you could only have one profile that had their own island.

    Several years later, we've all got MacBooks, and I have been messing about with emulation. There's a particular emulator that Nintendo killed but forks are still maintained that run incredibly well on Macs. This past weekend saw the three of us reminiscing, each finally with our own island.

  • Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST

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  • I reckon it's also because there are simply so many games available now, and countless devices to play them on. My generation had one console or computer max, and a handful of games. Now young gamers have half a dozen devices at home, and thousands of free or easily accessible titles on whatever platform is currently in reach. They don't need to commit to a couple of titles, when an advert for the next one is a tap away.

    I mentioned this before on another post, but I had 5 games on my PS1 as a kid. There are currently over 400 owned games available on the living room Xbox, there's a Switch in the house, the kids have iPhones, iPads and laptops, there's a Quest 2 gathering dust etc etc. That attachment we had to one or two of the few games we owned as kids has to be in part down to accessibility.

  • Microslop

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  • Ha yeah, very good point. Reminds me of Lego. The entertainment is mostly in the building. Once complete, it’s mostly untouched.

  • Microslop

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  • I had a similar Ubuntu experience in the Windows XP years too (2006ish?).

    Everything had a barrier. WiFi drivers always seemed to be a problem, but if I wanted to do anything non-standard it was an exercise in frustration. At one point I owned a Sony digital camcorder that I wanted to get video files from. Eventually, following hours of forum research I learned I had to recompile the kernel to do it, which did actually get me there. To this day I have no idea what a kernel is, and I have no desire to. I remember thinking how wildly complex it was to do something that worked so easily in Windows. 

    Entirely off topic and potentially triggering anecdote when accounting for Linux’s general prevalence here, but that wasn’t what turned me back to Windows from Ubuntu 20 years ago, it was actually something that most would could consider a positive for Linux. It was the fact that it was so customisable. I had weird multiple desktops that were mapped to a rotatable cube, I spent ages configuring translucent live performance stats on the desktop, hours updating icons and themes etc, whatever I saw on forums that looked cool and wanted to replicate. 

    Then one day I acknowledged I just wasn’t ever actually using the computer. I literally spent more time modifying and customising stuff than I did actually doing anything. I realised I was never satisfied with the current config and just kept tweaking.

    It’s probably not surprising to hear I’ve since been fully into the almost entirely un-customisable Apple ecosystem for a while now. While it’s taken my money, it’s given me back my time!

  • Microslop

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  • Absolutely wild that there was a time when Microsoft had three generally well regarded consumer products in Windows 7, the Xbox 360 and Windows Phone 7 all at the same time, compared to where they are now in all of those product spaces.

    Windows was Windows, but 7 was largely consistent and didn’t need to be fought with like its successors.

    The 360 was the go-to console for developers and gamers, despite the RROD issues, which I’d even give them credit for for handling (eventually) after lots of us got 2 free games and a free controller from them following the debacle.

    Windows Phone 7 had a superb interface, great hardware and genuinely stood out.

    Now they have nothing and are hated more than ever.

  • #microblogmemes

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  • Vile propaganda from the sun as per, but to be fair it’s been a cataclysmic series of events since that moon.

  • They have a way with words

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  • Also don’t be short

  • Me toooooo

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  • We also see ourselves inversed in a mirror, and are more used to that representation of ourselves, which makes it easier to be critical of the true-oriented image from a camera.

    The picture we have of ourselves in the mirror is at odds with the version that others see.

  • Kinect sucks ass

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  • That was part of Microsoft's pitch - they wanted it to be the central device. I was in the minority that thought it was a great idea at the time, but then I'd been running a dedicated Windows Media Center PC under the TV for years until that point, so to me it was a shinier upgrade.

  • Kinect sucks ass

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  • Exactly that. The Xbox One came with HDMI in and HDMI out.

  • Kinect sucks ass

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  • That and the one thing I thought was awesome - split screen TV so I could play a game and have a live football match or something on part of the screen. That was amazing at the time, I was gutted when they killed it off to get more resources for games.

  • Kinect sucks ass

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  • My kids were like 3 and 5 when Kinect was released and they bloody loved it. Also Dance Central was superb for drunken adults.

    Plus if Alien Isolation wasn’t scary enough already, a Kinect would dial it up a notch.

    Definitely limited appeal and the tracking wasn’t great on the 360 version, but for those first two scenarios (younger kids and late night dancing) it was a superb party game.

  • Dull Men's Club @lemmy.world
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    Cup holders in a 2014 VW Touran

  • Who are your most hateable video game characters?

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  • I think the writers may have read the feedback afterwards. There’s a nod to it in Split Fiction (much better game), where the same elephant can be found on one of the early levels. If you destroy it, you get an achievement called Rose’s Best Friend with the caption “You made her cry”.

  • Who are your most hateable video game characters?

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  • I just read this to my daughter and she pissed herself laughing. We beat the game together and said the same thing at the time. Terrible parents, and annoying as shit. They literally tore apart their daughter's favourite teddy!

  • The forbidden S word

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  • Yeah sure, if indeed it happens outside of the realm of parody. But otherwise it’s the equivalent of getting annoyed by every The Onion post, where the intent is already to satirise those people.

  • PieFed help @piefed.social
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    Posts missing from profile page when using Piefed account on Voyager and Interstellar

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    Quentin Tarantino probably got into movie making after misunderstanding what "film footage" meant.

  • Apple @lemmy.world
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    WhatsApp now available on Apple Watch

    www.macrumors.com /2025/11/04/whatsapp-now-available-on-apple-watch/
  • Gaming @lemmy.world
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    They literally don't know they were born

  • pics @lemmy.world
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    Perfectly placed rainbow

  • Showerthoughts @lemmy.world
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    A Broadway drag remake of Sophie's Choice called Jimmy Choo's

  • Apple @lemmy.world
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    Any 13 Pro owners planning to upgrade after yesterday's event?

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    Hairy dirt ring

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Robocop: Rouge City

  • Voyager @lemmy.world
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    Voyager showing -1 downvotes from Piefed account

  • pics @lemmy.world
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    BIG AL

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Rematch

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
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    What’s the most common owl in the world?

  • Casual Conversation @piefed.social
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    Maths genius