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PhiAU , to gaming in Hogwarts Legacy Just Broke A 14-Year Games Industry Streak – For the first time since 2008, something other than Call of Duty or a Rockstar game was the best-seller

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    PhiAU , to technology in Discord Servers asking for Phone Numbers and 'Verification Levels'

    Discord has 5 levels of user verification.

    None.(none)
    Verified email. (Low)
    Verified email + more than 5 minutes old account. (Medium)
    Verified email + >5 mins old account + member of server for more than 10 mins. (High)
    Verified email + >5 mins old account + server member >10 mins + verified phone number. (Highest)

    Server admins can set the level. Some server sizes or types (community severs etc.) have a discord-mandated minimum level to qualify for the server type.

    Normally (Medium) or (High) security is more than enough. Servers that experience raiding or high levels of trolling are recommended to choose (Very High) security as it makes it harder to make multiple accounts and evade bans or brigade a server.

    Discord store the number. The server never sees those details.

    Servers that ask for ID to ensure you are over age, are doing that in their own, and probably illegally handling that data, without adequate security.

    The server sets the security level. Discord does the enforcing. It IS discord asking for the phone number. But only because the server asked Discord to. But the server definately doesn’t see your phone number.

    I run a game community server, and normally have security set at medium.

    If raided, it goes to High.
    If persistently trolled by a user or users that are ban evading (has happened only once), I turn it to highest for a bit.

    But I turn it back down after a bit.

    A bigger server might not get that luxury.
    If a server has stupid high security settings, chances are they have active troublemakers.

    PhiAU , to asklemmy in What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad?

    I stayed dry and fully clothed while building a sandcastle and watched the locals go swimming in wetsuits. Can’t remember where, somewhere on the coast of Claire or Galway.

    I was staying in Doolan, so it must have been Bishops quater beach. It was in 2004, so I could be wrong.

    PhiAU , to asklemmy in What's a skill that's taken for granted where you live, but is often missing in people moving there from abroad?

    It’s fecking cold!

    PhiAU , to technology in Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits

    Back to the high seas it is.

    I’m not paying for 5 streaming services to watch 1 show on each. So now I’m paying for no streaming services.

    Convenience as a reasonable price was the deal. It it neither convenient nor reasonably priced any more.

    Cable TV all over again. Region locked DVD all over again.

    PhiAU , to technology in "...is not supported in this browser", fuck you Discord

    codes a desktop OS specific program coded in C just to spite you

    To be honest I absolutely hate everything being a browser app.

    PhiAU , to games in The 26-year-old Quake 2 just got the remaster of my dreams, plus a big expansion

    These games were how I got into 3D modeling.
    Making custom maps and assets and playing them for Doom 1&2, Quake 1&2, Quake 3 Arena, UT2014.

    These games had such great longevity because you could make your own new content or get it from others.

    The game you bought was just the beginning.

    Also the base games were wicked fun to begin with.

    PhiAU , to technology in ABC shuts down official Twitter accounts due to 'toxic interactions'

    ABC as in Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the public broadcaster.

    PhiAU , to android in Now that Sync and Infinity are out, which do people prefer? Also, how do they compare to the existing lemmy apps?

    For Sync users looking for the setting:

    Settings shortcut: General > Base font size

    PhiAU , to mildlyinfuriating in Every time i have to use windows again my IQ slips a point or two

    Of the many grievous faults of Windows to pick on, file system permissions like this are not one.

    As admin you have permission to change ownership and override permissions. And a relic copy of the OS folder is going to have some of the most restrictive permissions possible.

    I would expect similar behaviour on any modern OS.

    PhiAU , to showerthoughts in When I was a kid I identified old TV shows because they were black and white...

    Re-watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer with my kids in new hi-def, and you can clearly and easily see the stunt doubles now, and the SFX look really dated now that you can see them clearly.

    It’s amazing what old CRTs would let you get away with.

    PhiAU , to android in Best Lemmy client for Android?

    I’m actually finding the experience in Chrome browser to be pretty good.

    Definately waiting on Sync though.

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