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- Comment on Wean yourself off of Windows with Linuxfx — I've tried many Linux distros designed to look and feel like Windows, and this is the best one yet 21 hours ago:
License: Proprietary
- Comment on The Math Hack You Didn’t Know Was in Your Credit Card 2 days ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Please use Lemmy’s cross-post feature when you want to post the same thing to multiple communities. This avoids flooding members of multiple communities with duplicate posts, and helps people discover related discussions in different communities.
- Comment on LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI 6 days ago:
Lemmy really hates piracy… in this specific context.
Specifically, Lemmy hates it when corporations profit by using people’s work without permission or payment.
- Comment on What are your experiences using Linux for gaming? 1 week ago:
I’ve been gaming exclusively on Linux for more than a decade.
All my games work. Most Steam games work with very little tweaking or none at all.
I occasionally have to apply workarounds for Blizzard games due to a broken Battle.net update, but this doesn’t happen very often and usually only takes a couple days for the community to figure out a workaround. The last few updates have been fine.
Games with certain anti-cheat systems, especially kernel-mode ones, are known not to work. I don’t care, because I wouldn’t allow those to run on my hardware anyway, due to them being invasive and dangerous.
Welcome to the party!
- New Zealand engineers discover process which creates zero-waste battery productionspectrum.ieee.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@beehaw.org | 5 comments
- Comment on Can magnet damage hard disk? 1 week ago:
It’s always possible, but in my experience, the magnets in those graphics card stands aren’t strong enough to hurt the data in a hard drive slotted below them.
If you’re concerned, you could always replace the magnet with a rubber foot, or replace the whole stand with nonmagnetic cylinder like a paper towel spool. The graphics card’s weight will probably hold it in place.
In any case, I recommend regularly making incremental backups of your data. Hard drives eventually die even when no magnets are around.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 was amazing. 1 week ago:
I haven’t seen that video, but I suspect I would agree. RDR2 is something of a paradox.
They did an amazing job on environments and characters, and then turned around and hobbled the game with bizarre PC controls, a save game system and unskippable cut scenes woven from pure contempt for the player’s time, and dog shit mission mechanics that punish the player for any attempt to exercise agency and really have no place in an open world game.
- Comment on Tetris Elements – one of the strangest Tetrises ever released 2 weeks ago:
Please use Lemmy’s cross-post feature when you want to post the same thing to multiple communities. This avoids flooding members of multiple communities with duplicate posts, and helps people discover related discussions in different communities.
- Comment on Day 375 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
This game took mediocre gameplay on rails, and through a great storyline and acting, built it into something outstanding. I wish I could play it for the first time again. The sequel doesn’t even come close, IMHO.
- Comment on Native Arch Linux Games - Share Your Favorites 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know of any native Linux games that are specifically for Arch Linux. Your favourite distro is a bit of a red herring.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t find the absence of criticism suspicious. The petition makes sense.
What I do find suspicious is the sudden emergence of criticism now that it looks like it might succeed. I smell astroturfing and media manipulation.
- Comment on According to one source Linux hits over 6% desktop user share 3 weeks ago:
Here is the source:
It’s under Operating Systems, in the User Device Demographics section, near the bottom of the page. Options are Windows, iOS, Android, Macintosh, Linux, Other.
- Comment on Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z – the Mountain Dew of Ninja Gaiden games 4 weeks ago:
In future, I suggest posting just once, and using Lemmy’s cross-post feature to reach your other target communities. This would allow clients to avoid flooding users with duplicate posts, and allow users to discover related discussions in different communities.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 saga turns messy: Former devs sue Krafton, as publisher accuses them of ‘betrayal’ | VGC 4 weeks ago:
“The current Early Access version also falls short in terms of content volume.We are deeply disappointed by the former leadership’s conduct, and above all, we feel a profound sense of betrayal by their failure to honor the trust placed in them by our fans.”
This statement seems manipulative to me. As a Subnautica fan, I have always been interested in quality of content, not how fast it gets created. I can wait for a good game. Krafton is trying to disguise their own profit-driven expectations as if they came from me and others like me, deceptively using us as pawns in guilt-laden psychological warfare against the people who have been developing the game.
Dear publishers,
Please don’t be like Krafton.
- Comment on 'Deportation Tok' Is Taking Off [404 Media] 4 weeks ago:
web.archive.org/…/deportation-tok-is-taking-off-2…
Thank you, Internet Archive.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 4 weeks ago:
I’m surprised you didn’t include this one:
- Comment on Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: the Cyberpunk 2077 face-off 5 weeks ago:
Does anyone notice much difference between 25 fps and 30 fps at these screen sizes?
I don’t have one these handhelds, but in general, I’ve found that smaller screens make lower frame rates feel a lot less choppy.
- Comment on Linux users: Are we over-reliant on Steam? 5 weeks ago:
Has anyone had any luck replicating their Proton setup outside of Steam? Or simply just running a Proton game outside of Steam after getting it set up using Steam?
I have run many Windows games outside of Steam.
I prefer to set up each one manually: Create a Wine prefix, install the game (or copy it from an existing installation), install a few key libraries like DXVK and a Visual C++ runtime, make a launch script with game-specific environment settings or launch options. Tools like Lutris and Bottles can automate much of this, in case you need a little help or just find a GUI more convenient.
This is my usual approach to non-Steam games (especially GOG), but even Steam games can be convinced to work offline with the help of a Steam emulator. It wouldn’t work with a game encumbered by DRM (e.g. Denuvo) unless a cracked version could be located, but in my experience, that’s a minority of Steam games that I categorically avoid in the first place.
So, I’m not worried about my game library vanishing if I ever lose access to Steam for whatever reason. Most (if not all) of it could be recovered with a bit of effort.
- Comment on The Future of Forums is Lies, I Guess 5 weeks ago:
I wonder if a user reputation system based on your votes of other people’s comments, and influenced by votes from folks who have earned enough upvotes from you, could be developed without turning your feed into an echo chamber like Facebook. Sort of like PageRank, but for fediverse users instead of web pages.
- Comment on AMD CPU Transient Scheduler Attacks security flaw revealed 5 weeks ago:
Mitigation for TSA requires a combination of new microcode patches for affected systems as well as updates to OS and hypervisors.
So watch for OS and microcode updates addressing these:
- CVE-2024-36350
- CVE-2024-36357
- Comment on The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers 5 weeks ago:
Interesting. Judging by that option’s name, it seems to refer to use of the HTML
<meta>tag to refresh a page.developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/…/http-equiv
Neither this tag nor using it for refresh is new at all. I don’t think I’ve seen it used to detect bots, though. I wonder what Anubis is doing here.
- Comment on The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers 5 weeks ago:
Sorry; I shouldn’t have written Cloudflare specifically. The CAPTCHA page now contains scripts from Google, not Cloudflare. I have corrected my comment.
How do you know this?
Because a couple months ago, archive.is/archive.today started showing me CAPTCHA pages instead of the archived articles when I use Firefox with scripts disabled. The current page contains scripts hosted by Google, which I won’t enable, so I can’t read the archived articles.
What about ghostarchive.org?
I haven’t used that site enough to have a consistent picture of what it’s doing. When I tried it a few minutes ago, it directed me to a CAPTCHA wall for submitting an article, but not for reading. I’ll try to remember to look at it again periodically, to be able to answer this question in the future.
- Comment on The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers 5 weeks ago:
She told me she’s […] also thinking about a version that doesn’t require JavaScript, which some privacy-minded disable in their browsers.
As someone who is keenly aware of the privacy and security problems that come with allowing web scripts, I hope she prioritizes this soon. It’s really disappointing to find sites that were readable without javascript suddenly inaccessible since adopting Anubis. The more sites that do this, the more people are pushed toward enabling scripts by default, exposing them to a great many trackers and web exploits that would otherwise be blocked.
- Comment on The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers 5 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, archive.is has moved behind Cloudflare, subjecting readers to having their reading habits (both the articles and the referring communities) tracked at a large scale.
I suggest this archive link instead:
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 5 weeks ago:
I look forward to the small new game studios that will surely appear as the big old ones are consolidated and/or dismantled.
It’s disappointing to see things we like fade away, but as the sun sets in one place, it rises in another.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 5 weeks ago:
I look forward to the small new game studios that will surely appear as the big old ones are consolidated and/or dismantled.
It’s disappointing to see things we like fade away, but as the sun sets in one place, it rises in another.
- Comment on Do you prefer Performance mode or Quality mode? 5 weeks ago:
This is basically alien to me. I think it has to be game specific.
Sufficient in this context means an amount that depends on the game.
- Comment on Do you prefer Performance mode or Quality mode? 1 month ago:
sufficient performance > sufficient beauty > power usage > max beauty > max performance
I set a frame rate limit in most 3D games, to avoid inflating my electricity bill for barely noticeable FPS or effects improvements. Plugging my computer into a Kill-A-Watt was enlightening.
