InFerNo
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- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 14 hours ago:
That’s an interesting insight, thanks!
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 day ago:
You can bump 10 years ahead, my car doesn’t have tracking 😄
- Comment on When you're used to eating trash, but are trying to make healthier choices 1 day ago:
patat
- Comment on You don't know me! 4 days ago:
I use obsidentify
- Comment on Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed? 5 days ago:
“worldnews”: American local news
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 1 week ago:
They key is to diversify. Use different types of storage media, and duplicate your efforts and bury then duplicates somewhere else.
If you can choose only 1 I would choose tape archives. Vacuum seal all your media, whatever they may be. Throw in some of those dehumidifier packets. Moisture will be your biggest enemy.
If possible, also add the means to be able to read your media after a long time. Add a couple of raspberry pi computers, vacuum sealed and dehumidified-by-packets again, and usb readers or HATs for the media you chose (though I doubt you will find a cheap tape drive with USB connection, the only option I found was £9000).
Over the years, as new technology gets developed, in particularly interface connectors that will replace USB, I would add converters if possible or just keep them around. Nothing suspicious about having some USB/sata/sas to <new technology> converter in your house.
- Comment on I'm not even ooking 1 week ago:
My parents left me better off than they were
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 1 week ago:
It’s not that a dumb tv offers better viewing quality, it’s that it needs to start an OS and an interface to navigate, injecting ads and whatnot, while a dumb tv will start in an instant and only outputs what is connected to its physical inputs.
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 2 weeks ago:
Let’s not speak of it before it gets swept up
- Comment on GOG’s Freedom To Buy Campaign Gives Away Controversial Games For Free To Protest Censorship 2 weeks ago:
Now download them before they have GOG do age verification. The EU overwhelmingly voted to implement it on platforms that offer content not suitable for children.
- Comment on I tried Servo, the undercover web browser engine made with Rust 2 weeks ago:
There are gopher browsers that allow you to visit an alternative, more simple “web”
- Comment on Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be 2 weeks ago:
I understood they just don’t exist anymore, am I mistaken?
- Comment on Apparently we should shame people for selling at affordable prices 3 weeks ago:
And useless partial timestamp covering the actual price it tries to talk about
- Comment on Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames? 3 weeks ago:
I pay 35€ every 3 months, so 4x35 per year
- Comment on Unbeatable name 4 weeks ago:
I used to have a whole plastic container full of matchbox cars, they were built to last. Hotwheels nowadays don’t feel very sturdy.
- Comment on cookie combs 4 weeks ago:
I thought that was a shadow 😄
- Comment on Missed it by that much! 5 weeks ago:
That’s Player Unknown’s game, right?
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 1 month ago:
Yes, of course and it’s a lot better than what we have at this point, it’s a great first step. I still remember the days of Id Software releasing their game (logic) under the GPL.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 1 month ago:
What “online only” means is the need to authenticate to a proprietary server. After logging in, you are then (potentially) directed to a random server to play on.
If you are not online, you cannot authenticate and therefor not be directed to a server. This means you cannot play the game. When the authentication server and infrastructure behind the game is taken offline, the game becomes unplayable, because it is online only.
If a final patch were to be made where either a private authentication server would be made available for you to self-host, or authenation to be completely removed, you could play the game either offline on your device locally or LAN, or online by anyone who cares enough to host a server with the game logic. It would no longer be “online only” since you would have a choice. You can choose to play offline, or choose to play online.
If a game actually needs servers beyond the authentication part, then those should be made available too, so that anyone, again, can play locally or online.
It’s logical that if game servers are made available, a game can never be “online only” again, because you could host the server on your pc and connect to localhost.
Your whole argumentation about “online only” game design falls completely flat. You are mixing concepts that have nothing to do with one another.
A game can be a battle royale by design, gameplay wise, and have the ability to host your own servers by design, technical architecture wise.
Quake Live used to be online only. You could not host your own servers. They released for steam and made it possible to host your own servers. The old authentication system was taken down, logins are no longer required, and now you just launch the game and pick a server in a built in server browser. It should be the standard and Quake Live should serve as an example of how it should be done.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 1 month ago:
This is short sighted. Architectures can and will change in the future. I’m running game servers on my aarch64 devices, if I wasn’t able to compile, and sometimes even edit, the code I wouldn’t have been able to run these servers. Emulation isn’t always ideal, janky or even non existent.
- Comment on I want these walls back 1 month ago:
Yeah, they were probably completely transparent colorless glass 😂😩
- Comment on What the fuck 1 month ago:
Prrrrrrrreganté
- Comment on Baldur's Gayte 2 months ago:
Definitely wheels. All that machinery with wheels for the belts, all transportation, toys, … I can’t fathom there being as many doors.
Unless I’m wooshed :D
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 months ago:
Some software installers still ask if I want to install for all users, which require elevated permissions, or only for me, which don’t. In that last option it will not prompt for elevated permissions as it will use one of my user’s folders which I have already all permissions for, obviously.
It’s a security measure that’s half assed. People are so used to it they just click allow but don’t actually look at the prompt anymore. Like I see a lot of people do with cookies on websites.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 2 months ago:
Thats a windows thing so it can put files in “protected” folders like program files
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This seals it for me. They aren’t using version control but are making copies of the working directory with this result.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
These answers to a question why the task bar can’t be moved to the side anymore.
- Comment on who are you? 2 months ago:
It’s not going to magically be super bad when it’s the BB date +1.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 3 months ago:
What about the birds in quackshot? That game is from the 90s.
- Comment on Asking the important questions 3 months ago:
Is this copied from somewhere? I read this exact reply before on a similar Forest Gump post.