If it didn’t say it at the start I think I’d still have recognised this as an Edmund McMillan game pretty soon

That’s what I meant by “never connect it to the internet and plug in a more trusted device”, whether that’s a Chromecast or your PC you can always plug in something else you trust more than the TV. Obviously finding something you can trust that does everything you want is another story.

My (very basic) understanding of a pihole is that it calls out to an upstream DNS provider (such as the one you’d be using without a pihole) and caches everything it gets back, meaning that it’s only making new requests when you’re querying a domain it hasn’t queried before. I can’t think of any reason a game would need to constantly be accessing different domains (except maybe for some kind of server browser?)

What games are you playing that regularly send out lots of DNS requests to different domains?

Apologies if I’m coming off too grumpy, I’ve just seen a hundred similar comments over the last 24 hours from people outraged that a company known for unfriendly practices in an industry full of other companies known for unfriendly business practices have continued doing the same unfriendly business practices that are already happening everywhere.

Fair point, but I still can’t imagine they’ll be double that price for long. The only GBP price I’ve seen for a Switch 2 game is the MKW bundle which is only £30 more than the console on its own.

Same as the current Switch online, Microsoft’s game pass, and whatever Sony offers then?

Aren’t consoles and their new game always ridiculously expensive on launch? I know Nintendo stuff often doesn’t drop in price that much but I’d be surprised if they stay this expensive for long. Plenty of other games to play in the meantime!

The worrying part:

Most TVs on the market today come with a technology called automatic content recognition (ACR) built in. This is basically Shazam for TV — Shazam itself helped popularize the tech — and gives smart TV platforms the ability to monitor what you’re watching by either taking screenshots or capturing audio snippets while you’re watching.

The author then just gives up and says “maybe targeted adverts aren’t so bad”, concluding that the only way to avoid them is to buy an older TV. Fuck that! Either never connect it to the internet and plug in a more trusted devices, or go for a deep dive down the pihole.

Not sure if I like the 3D look, definitely keen to see more though

Incredible picture to use for a new job announcement

Doesn’t Windows leave program files and data all over the place too?

!linuxphones@lemmy.ca and !linuxphones@lemmy.ml aren’t the busiest communities but there do seem to be a few people giving it a proper go

Interesting, does that mean there is just one primary account and to be part of a family group with it you essentially can’t have your own account or purchases?

That’s probably because it’s a PC game that was ported to phones!

Because if they don’t then you can essentially just give a game away, and that means less sales

How would you make it so you can only share games with your family? As in what technical definition of “family” would you use that can’t include your friends?

Sounds like it’s no more DRM than the limits of a physical cartridge, right?

Brand new account immediately starts spamming about cryptocurrency “games”? Seems legit.

I was specifically thinking of the guy in bed with the really long arm!