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- Comment on Me when I installed a game on Steam with only 150 downloads 8 hours ago:
- Comment on Doom Bar maker Sharp’s Brewery in Cornwall to be closed by US owner 5 days ago:
How can one of the most ubiquitous and popular ales in the UK not be financially sustainable? What did they do to that brewery? Lump it with a bunch of debt or something and write it off?
- Comment on Eurovision 2026: Electronic artist and YouTuber Look Mum No Computer to represent UK in Vienna - BBC News 2 weeks ago:
I’m not disagreeing with your sentiment but just pointing out it’s highly unlikely to see the UK go against Israel - from the Balfour Declaration to the Palestine Act 1948, the UK played a critical part in forming Israel as we know it today and are ultimately the catalyst of the war.
The history of the two states are deeply intertwined and no doubt benefit both parties (e.g a British ally to strengthen access to the Suez Canal).
Unless there’s a monumental shift in the entire political landscape of the UK (even the rise of anti-immigration sentiment is actually in favour of Israel), the two states will continue their long-standing support of one another.
- Comment on Anon goes to Japan 2 weeks ago:
mm/dd/yy is a crime akin to min:sec:hour
- Comment on A new homelessness law in Wales is being called 'world-leading' 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been immensely fortunate to grow up with such a wonderful role model.
It’s important to note rough sleeping is only one part of homelessness but it’s the most visible.
I’d recommend reading Crisis’ page on how you can help.
- Comment on A new homelessness law in Wales is being called 'world-leading' 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been supporting Crisis and Shelter every month for years now. I’d gladly pay more tax so people have a right to somewhere safe to live.
Growing up, my sister would never ignore someone who was homeless and would get to know them and support them however she should (a coffee, help with forms and letters, even just a general chat). Every day, everywhere we’d go. She drilled it into us that there’s never an excuse to ignore someone who needs help and luck could turn and we could easily be in the same situation ourselves.
As a society, we shouldn’t view a roof over our heads as an asset but a right. We spend plenty of money on nuclear reactors for submarines that can launch the apocalypse, I think we can spend some more on helping the most vulnerable not be forced onto the streets.
- Comment on Actor Noel Clarke arrested over allegation of attempted rape in 2007 3 weeks ago:
After the years of stories of how rude, unkind, smug, self absorbed, and arrogant they are, I’m not surprised ‘rapist’ is getting added to that list.
Hopefully justice prevails for the victims.
- Comment on A Baldur's Gate HBO series is in the works, will be set directly after Baldur's Gate 3 with new and returning characters 3 weeks ago:
It’s almost as if they factored the cost of licensing a third-party IP into the price.
- Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 3 weeks ago:
There’s no place like
/home - Comment on What's with companies naming things "MyNoun"? 3 weeks ago:
It started with making office computers personable for home use in Windows 95 e.g. “My Computer”, “My Documents”.
This carried on into web services like My Yahoo, or terms like My Account.
Smashing it into one word was also a thing back in the late 90s / early 00s because it (a) was easy for searching in older search engines and (b) sounded like Apple’s iPod, iMac etc (MyPod, MyMac).
Continued use today is usually because of either (a) it’s been called that for a couple of decades already or (b) the product manager is themselves old and has forgotten how old the trend of trying to make those new fangled computerybobs sound welcoming and friendly.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 4 weeks ago:
If Epic spent half as much money as they are suing organisations and instead funded developing their shop into a gaming community platform like Steam, they’d probably have caught up by now.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 1 month ago:
Half-Life was the same. The game doesn’t spoon feed you a narrative, the same way real life doesn’t have a narrator (at least one outside of your head).
You need to pay attention to your surroundings, listen in to NPCs talking, read posters on the wall, etc to piece together the story.
It was and is one of the cooler ways to do storytelling in my opinion. Cutscenes etc are fine but for a first person game, I love the immersion of the story happening around you rather then being loredumped on you while you’re agency is taken away from you.
- Comment on Circumcision classed as possible child abuse in draft CPS document 1 month ago:
It’s genital mutilation. It’s been done for religious reasons, cultural reasons, social reasons, for slavery reasons, and more.
But cutting up babies’ genitals for any reason except medical intervention for relevant pathologies is genital mutilation.
- Comment on Linux will be unstoppable in 2026 - but one open-source legend may not survive 1 month ago:
Firefox. Silly clickbait titles…
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t know
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 months ago:
Like wooden knife with a wooden wood
- Comment on Why does every commercial depiction of honey involve one of this things? Literally nobody has ever seen one of these in real life 2 months ago:
We’ve got four different sized ones in our house!
Next they’re going to say they don’t own any wooden butter knives…
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Steamdb lets you filter out games with less than x reviews which I’ve made liberal use of over the years.
- Comment on What are some lower size games that work well on linux handhelds? 2 months ago:
I’d just take a look at the Steam Deck Verified pages as that’ll give you a good idea about a game (at least though Proton).
- Comment on I support this 2 months ago:
It’s like saying thank you to someone for flushing the toilet.
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 2 months ago:
Apple already has the Game Porting Toolkit which is made by CodeWeavers - D3DMetal can run a lot of Windows games like Proton’s DXVK/VKD3D. MoltenVK is a little behind to fully empower VKD3D on macOS; it’s not as smooth sailing as Proton.
The biggest issue is that Apple are still hoping developers spend the time to work on converting shaders to Metal, implement Game Center, UI and Accessibility features etc so the game feels like a native app.
Which is dumb. As was Metal (they should have just made Metal as a Vulkan abstraction layer).
Valve took the smart route and while they love developers using the Steam SDK, at least with the Steam Overlay they can still offer a native-like feeling experience.
Here’s hoping Steam Machine etc is incredibly disruptive as if it’s a decent workstation too, there’s a dwindling number of reasons to not use Linux (Adobe / Affinity / Office / AutoCAD / MinecraftBE / Fortnite).
- Comment on Fuck Microsoft 2 months ago:
Nah practically every office uses TempleOS and Lotus720.
Come on, dude. You’re in lemmyshitpost.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 3 months ago:
I’d say the second one was even harder too.
- Comment on Can someone please identify this plant ?? 3 months ago:
Looks like it could be a Bushwillow. Combretum malabaricum / Malabar Madhu Malati ?
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 3 months ago:
Really well articulated.
Valve have enabled a critical mass of “target platforms” that enables both the community and developers to get things working on Linux, which all other distros are about to benefit from.
I’m likely going to buy all the new Valve hardware out of principle. The Deck is incredible, but I still have my beefy gaming rig. But my living room wouldn’t mind a Steam Machine (and my girlfriend is definitely after both a Steam Frame and Controller 2.
I’m taking time off work in a couple of weeks and I’m moving over to Linux completely - I too have felt the inertia of dual booting and find myself in Windows far too often.
- Comment on Today is the birthday of His Majesty the King 3 months ago:
If he wanted me to celebrate, he’d have made the day a public holiday.
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 3 months ago:
The failure of the Steam Machine is why Valve hosted Khronos group at their office to kick off Vulkan and funded LunarG etc in the early days to get things moving quickly.
Valve took their time but this new hardware range is based on years of learning and solving the problems from their original foray into hardware and Linux for gaming.
And I’m so thankful for it!
- Comment on Our first look at the Steam Machine, Valve’s ambitious new game console 3 months ago:
And while the Link hardware was cancelled, they still put out updates for it. I think the last update was only a month or two ago.
Steam Controller 1 also got cancelled but they’re still shipping updates and showing that device too.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
GCompris or TuxPaint are great for younger kids. They’re free/open source and have versions available for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
- Comment on Ridiculous 3 months ago:
You need to turn it upside down and look at it in a mirror to get the full effect.