WolfLink
@WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 days ago:
- literally any foss player vs. what MS offers - be it VLC, SMPlayer, MPV, anything is better than windows built in crap
FFMPEG is an open source command line tool and software library for audio and video encoding. You’ll find it mentioned in the credits of just about any video playing software ever, but you can also just go use it for free.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 days ago:
I like GIMP but find Inkscape impossible to use
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 1 week ago:
Obligatory “fuck Notch” but I really liked the idea of 0x10c when it was announced.
- Comment on Anon predicts the future 1 week ago:
We had a chance to make some radical societal changes. Working from home became socially acceptable. Commuting disappeared, and the environment noticeably improved. People had more time to take care of themselves and work on hobbies while also still getting their work done.
Then as soon as bans on working in person were lifted, companies decided they had to bring people back to office in order to justify the expense of the office building.
- Comment on It's a fun new game 1 week ago:
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Oh whoops got the instructions mixed up
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 GameCube controller is only compatible with GameCube games, Nintendo says 2 weeks ago:
Huh? My actual GameCube controller works with all games on the Switch 1, although it doesn’t have all the buttons used by some games.
- Comment on Anon plays Metroid 2 weeks ago:
She’s also a “bounty hunter” because “Boba Fett in Star Wars looked cool”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This is the plot of Horizon Zero Dawn
- Comment on shrimp colour drama 2 weeks ago:
We don’t really detect direction of light exactly. Instead we detect the location in the eye where the light landed, and have lenses to focus the light onto our retina. That relationship does imply some of the directionality of the light I suppose.
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 3 weeks ago:
- a tool for backing up offline installers
This really should be something they offer for free, and there are already some FOSS options that do this, although they aren’t as good as I’d like.
- ability to install previous versions of a game
This is a feature they already have for free and there would (or at least should) be backlash if they were to lock that behind a subscription
- extra insight into the preservation work they’re doing.
Sure, neat.
- voting rights on games to bring into the preservation program.
Sure but said votes better have an actual impact.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 3 weeks ago:
Grab a box full and test a bunch until you find one that works well for your use case. That way you end up with a resistor that’s much better than the rated tolerance you’d get if you just grabbed one resistor at random.
- Comment on Javascript/Linux is what I call it 3 weeks ago:
Yo I miss all the great in-browser shockwave games
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah the controls in the OG Mario Bros (and even the OG Super Mario Bros, to a bit of a lesser extent) are very clunky compared to modern entries. I’d say SMB3 holds up well though.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 4 weeks ago:
2 although 6 is also pretty good from my experience.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 4 weeks ago:
Here’s a list of VR games I’d 1000% recommend:
- Half Life: Alyx
- I Expect you to Die (James Bond themed virtual escape rooms - 3 games in the series so far, all of them are good)
- Super Hot (slo-motion first person combat puzzle game)
- Beat Saber (a unique rhythm game)
- Pavlov (CS:GO but in VR with extensive modding support)
There are other good ones out there but that’s the list that justifies the headset to me.
Also there are some good VR ports of non-VR games out there such as Myst and The Talos Principle. Also there are some good Minecraft mods that add VR support (Java edition of course). Stay away from the Skyrim port though.
- Comment on Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode 4 weeks ago:
Yeesh sounds like your monitors color output is badly calibrated :/. Fixing that requires an OS level calibration tool. I’ve only ever done this on macOS so I’m not sure where it is on Windows or Linux.
Also in general I wouldn’t use the non-hdr to hdr conversion features. Most of them aren’t very good. Also a lot of Linux distros don’t have HDR support (at least the one I’m using doesn’t).
- Comment on Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t really understand the benefit of HDR until I got a monitor that actually supports it.
And I don’t mean simply can process the 10-bit color values, I mean has a peak brightness of at least 1000 nits.
That’s how they trick you. They make cheap monitors that can process the HDR signal and so have an “HDR” mode, and your computer will output an HDR signal, but at best it’s not really different from the non-HDR mode because the monitor can’t physically produce a high dynamic range image.
If you actually want to see an HDR difference, you need to get something like a 1000-nit OLED monitor (note that “LED” often just refers to an LCD monitor with an LED backlight). Something like one of these: www.displayninja.com/best-oled-monitor/
These aren’t cheap. I don’t think I’ve seen one for less than maybe $700. That’s how much it costs unfortunately. I wouldn’t trust a monitor that claims to be HDR for $300.
- Comment on The gentrified forest near me removed the bins. .. From their café/picnic area 4 weeks ago:
I will absolutely pick up other peoples trash if it’s somewhere like the wilderness. They should have picked it up themselves but I’m there now and that trash shouldn’t be there.
- Comment on Anon builds a new PC 5 weeks ago:
The purpose of fancy PCs is to run Minecraft with shaders and a bunch of mods
- Comment on Is there a way out? 5 weeks ago:
A lot of this is kinda already happening.
Score could be kept with citations.
This is already something people brag about / look at as a measure of success. There are plenty of free websites to keep track but the most popular one is Google Scholar.
Perhaps competing labs could both receive citation credit if their results essentially showed the same thing.
When I find multiple good papers that have the information I need, I cite all of them, and even feel happy about it because citing a lot of papers can make your paper look like you put in more work.
If nobody could scoop anyone else’s work, then cooperation may be encouraged over competition.
It’s a bit hard to completely do away with scooping. A possibly more practical way to increase cooperation would be to eliminate the idea of the “first author” getting the majority of the credit. It’s really annoying when like 5 people heavily contributed to the paper but whoever’s name is listed first ends up getting 90% of the credit because that’s what people look for.
The idea of doing things in a wiki format is interesting though.
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 5 weeks ago:
That’s assuming the user knows that and didn’t just buy a prebuilt tower from Costco, and that it isn’t a laptop or something where changing the motherboard is much harder if not impossible.
- Comment on I left negative feedback on ebay for dropshipping and the seller has messaged me four days in a row asking me to change it 5 weeks ago:
Honestly when I’m dubious of the quality of a product, I look for the negative reviews. If the only negative reviews are people clearly being dumb or really minor gripes, I take that as a good sign. If there are very few or no negative reviews, that’s a red flag that something fishy is going on.
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 1 month ago:
There should be options avoiding AC depending on your scenario. Most laptops charge off of DC.
- Comment on conferences 1 month ago:
My favorite loot is an NSA-branded webcam cover
- Comment on mass 1 month ago:
Left is correct. The center of mass of a donut is inside the hole, which is “outside the donut”.
This may seem unintuitive, but the center of mass of an object does not have to be inside the object.
This is the mechanism behind these toys:
The wings of the bird and poles of the clown extend below the main body, but are weighted so that’s where most of the weight is. So the center of mass is below the main body, so it will easily balance on the main body. However, your eyes will naturally focus on the main body, which would be unstable without the extra weight hanging off the side, making the balancing look surprising.
- Comment on fireflies 1 month ago:
Only time I’ve seen them was in the suburbs around Chicago.
- Comment on What really separates a PC from a server? Mainly the hardware, but I guess software too. 1 month ago:
Server hardware is usually designed with quick swapping of parts in mind, and also will often support more CPUs, RAM, and drives than a desktop.
- Comment on Anon feels an urge 1 month ago:
- In professional mode: highly competent, carries out a mission with no backup, spontaneous genius in combat.
- In day to day mode: complete ditz, subservient to anyone who talks to her, barely understands the world around her. No it’s not an act.
There’s plenty of real people who are highly competent at their job but very socially inept. We might call such people “nerds”, “a gifted child”, or even “autistic” depending on the specifics and severity.
Oh and the west is objectively better in every way
The show makes it clear both sides are propagandized to assume they are better than the other side regardless of how true that is, and it avoids making specific comparisons to keep that vague.
The message is literally just "hi we’re unconventional, but we’re a team, and also dad is the boss and mom is pretty – root for us for some reason.
The point of the show is presenting 3 people (or 4 if you include the dog) that have some special talent but are socially awkward, and showing them work well together as a family despite frequent comedic mishaps. Honestly not even that out there for a show premise.
But hey, people have different tastes. If cute unconventional family comedy isn’t yours, just don’t watch it.
- Comment on Anon sees a happy couple 1 month ago:
When someone genuinely likes you they will listen to you talk for hours about anything just because they like hearing you be passionate about something.
- Comment on Why doesn't phones numbers have a "DNS" servet so we can just type in words like we do with the internet? 2 months ago:
Related: this is why the audio quality of phone calls is so bad. It’s using what’s basically a predecessor of mp3 compression at a very low bitrate. Originally because that’s what the bandwidth limits were like, but now just for the sake of backwards compatibility. That’s why making a VOIP call sounds so much better: it’s using modern audio codecs and a higher bitrate.
