Pycorax

Ah yes the Assassins Creed series that has more sales in each release is certainly dying. I get you guys hate Ubisoft but that’s just delusional at this point.

What SE Asia companies have any success with gacha? Most of them are Japanese, Korean and China.

I mean sure, but that’s not the case for the majority of the user base of these banking apps. Is it the most secure? No but it’s way better than it is right now.

Their so called written from scratch Harmony OS is just forked Android.

I’m not sure how it works the way where you live but where I live, the way the banking apps are implemented completely violate MFA. They rely on SMS verification which is absurd since if you’re phone is already compromised, no doubt your SMSes are too. There’s no true multi-device authentication in place and this has led to a huge number of victims being scammed after their devices get compromised by a phishing attack.

The desktop and phone are both insecure, proper security should not have all your eggs in one basket.

Shouldn’t they also be comparing it to Strix Halo instead?

Considering it includes Hokkaido, does it mean they’re actually including the four major islands? I originally thought they might just focus only on kanto and kansai, so this is pretty cool if true.

I feel like I’m the only one who finds this pricing reasonable? I looked up similar devices from Ayaneo and GPD and they’re priced similarly. It’s a premium ultrabook shrunk to a handheld size with a built in controller built by a company that can’t offset costs from an online store like Steam can, what were people expecting?

As long as they still let me reorder and change it to how it is right now, sure. I’m really dislike the fisher price UI that Google has been constantly moving towards.

Really, for most people, there’s not much reason to buy the new ones, except that they keep de-listing the old ones and making them impossible to buy.

Isn’t that because of music licenses or something? I wish they’d just patch those out for people who buy it after the licenses expire.

That’s an issue with how AI is defined though isn’t it? A decade ago, no one would have counted Miku as AI. It’s just that marketing teams and the media has abused the term that now almost any algorithm can be termed AI even if it never utilizes any mechanism that would be under the umbrella of the academics’ definition of AI.

Most games engines should be able to calculate all the shader combinations required and pre-compile them prior to their use. I’m not familiar with Unreal (iirc Jedi Survivor does this) but it’s fairly common with other games. Alternatively there’s solutions like Fossilize from Valve and Microsoft did just announce a new D3D feature earlier today that help devs collate all the possible shader combinations too.

I mean you’re not wrong but it’s way too early for that. If devices with high power limits are already struggling, I really do not see the point of wasting die area on a mobile chip for it. When it does happen in a few years, this chip would already be forgotten. The average person doesn’t keep a phone for more than 3 years at most. Plus, at the pace of technological improvement for tech like this which is in its infancy, the leaps would be significant, by the time it becomes mass market, this chip very likely would not even hit the min spec.

It’s still a high end PC GPU feature which doesn’t have to worry about battery life, it’s way too early for this on mobile chips.

Who’s actually expecting hardware accelerated raytracing on a mobile device?

I personally think Material Expressive looks hideous so I’m real glad they’re taking their time.

RIP Arc

I’m sure that’s what they’d like to do but then some executive gets some bright ideas about how it could make the game better despite having never ever played a game before in their life.

There’s a lot of small QOL features across the system and changes to the UI that depending on your taste, either like or dislike. For folding devices, it adds a huge ton of enhancements too that Google hasn’t bothered to add. I personally can’t go back to stock Android because of how lacking it is by comparison. Stuff like:

• An older style notification shade where you don’t have oversized setting toggles
• Built in sync with Windows for notifications, copy and paste, file system mounting over Wi-Fi
• Customizable lock screen, notification shade, volume bar, “navigation gestures”, task switcher
• Built in support for half open folding states for numerous stock apps with additional utilities for apps that don’t support them
• Override app aspect ratios for apps on folding devices
• Samsung Pay which works a whole lot better than whatever Google keeps renaming GPay into
• Allows any app to become a free form floating window before Android 15
• Allowing me to get away from how personally hideous Material U looks
• Built-in “Tasker-like” feature

There’s a lot more stuff here and there but these are just things off the top of my head.

The clickbait titles and thumbnails destroyed most of the interest I had in their videos but at that time, it was clear that they were pivoting to a more typical less enthusiast-level audience. I still found some of their occasional videos somewhat interesting but the increasing hypocrisy and shit they’ve pulled made me stop watching all together.