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- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 day ago:
Look I get it. The planet is dying, income inequality, it seems everything is unfair and going to shit. People yearn at an opportunity to help make things better. But yelling for simple solutions is the opposite of helpful. Because there are no simple solutions.
Saying to “just open source it” does not make sense.
What do you do about:
- proprietary codecs
- proprietary software that just does not exist as open source
- the fact you need a copy of the game engine to actually build the game from sources
- assets that have been bought on asset stores. Do the people who make those for a living not have a right to continue to make a living?
Making single player games without always online DRM: yes totally doable
Running game servers of online games forever: not really doable, as soon as all the libraries etc. they depend on are unsupported they will shut down one way or another. You need staff basically forever. Not even mentioning the maintenance headache that every legacy system always turns into.
Letting people run their own dedicated servers: sometimes doable, depends on the game though. Some games do not have “a server” but a whole infrastructure of stuff, look at foxhole. Some “servers” are a house of cards barely held together by duct tape.
This initiative all comes down to the definition of “reasonable”. What is reasonable, actually? Running an infrastructure at a loss until bankruptcy? Or just keeping it online until it starts making a loss.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 1 day ago:
There is a reason it’s included though. Stuff like fmod, bink video etc. does complicated things that you otherwise need to implement yourself.
- Comment on Injured dog walkers could be costing NHS £23m a year 1 week ago:
I btlet they are saving the NHS multiple times that amount due to having an enforced consistent sleep rhythm and going for walks twice a day.
- Comment on Reappraisal of the Geologic Time Scale: Evidence for a 6,001-year-old Earth 3 weeks ago:
The earth is only 6001 years old [1]!
- Comment on Repent, ye clownish sinner 4 weeks ago:
And bats.
- Comment on Game files are verified, House 4 weeks ago:
If she could afford ECC, she would wear nicer shoes.
- Comment on Anon considers LASIK 4 weeks ago:
To expand on that, you make a very small hole by curling your index finger, and look through that hole.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 5 weeks ago:
The Nordics are far ahead in this. Torx everywhere.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 5 weeks ago:
What’s up with that. Why would you walk through piles of corpses barefoot.
- Comment on Could wastewater plant simply heat up water past 500C to decompose all chemicals and output clean water? 2 months ago:
Its above the critical point, so water will be a supercritical fluid. 370 C already requires 217 atm of pressure.
- Comment on HELP! Im looking for a game like CIV 6 where the point is to go to war 2 months ago:
You need none. They release free content together with every DLC too. Also you can get the subscription for a month and cancel immediately if you want to try all of them.
- Comment on HELP! Im looking for a game like CIV 6 where the point is to go to war 2 months ago:
Maybe Hearts of Iron or Stellaris?
- Comment on Will Trump tariffs and implied trade war have a significant effect on the global emissions of greenhouse gases? 2 months ago:
Depressing thought of the day: if we had no emissions for a year, it would buy us a year.
- Comment on Thank you Gary ❤️ 2 months ago:
And Gary knows one of the healthiest things is to feel companionship so he came to cuddle. 🤗
- Comment on Found money. What do? 2 months ago:
Very simple: if you lost $200, what would you like the person who found it to do?
- Submitted 2 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to seek medications for depression (in the USA), when it could be takes away for political reason? 2 months ago:
I would hoard a bit. So you can get off it in a controlled manner if you cannot afford it anymore.
- Comment on The Darkest Files - prosecute real Nazi crimes 2 months ago:
You interview witnesses and go “into” their memories in first person. Interacting with objects is asking that person a question.
Then, you reconstruct the crime using a blueprint on a timeline, and support everything with three collaborating pieces of evidence.
- Submitted 2 months ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 2 comments
- Comment on Spilled! is a gorgeous and relaxing short game about cleaning up the ocean 2 months ago:
Fun fact: the developer lives on a boat.
- Comment on >:3 2 months ago:
Basic boy?
- Comment on Why don’t wireless connections (WiFi, Bluetooth, etc.) use anything between 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz? 3 months ago:
Its regulation. You are not allowed to just use any frequency band. 2.4 GHz is free to use for whatever, so a lot of stuff uses it. 5 GHz is already in radar range so the chips have to detect and turn off when detecting radar.
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 3 months ago:
People in Germany protested in front of a Gestapo building in 1943. Post your posts.
- Comment on Trust your training 3 months ago:
Its so ubiquitous that LLMs will always say it like that when it comes up.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
No that’s it.
- Comment on why is EVERYTHINGGGGG behind a paywall? 3 months ago:
I think many people underestimate how much money it costs to run and maintain stuff. Especially webapps.
- Comment on rookie mistake! 3 months ago:
Potential based on temperature and concentration.
- Comment on Spent half an hour on it. Felt good. 3 months ago:
I worked at a lot of different tech companies, and it will be read or at least analyzed in some way for sure. They care about your wallet and why it closes.
- Comment on How do you feel about someone taking the coins people tossed into a fountain or other public waterworks display for "wishes?" 3 months ago:
Often, that money is used to fund the historical site to which the fountain belongs, they are basically donations.
- Comment on Is using MicroSD cards a good way to store data that you can destroy quickly incase an adversary is about to seize control of it? 3 months ago:
The way to do this is plausible deniability. There is software that allows creating an encrypted volume with two passwords, resulting in two different decrypted volumes. So you give the duress password and there is no incriminating data on there.
For example grapheneOS also has a duress pin that wipes the device.