turdas

@turdas@suppo.fi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨During his first term in office, President Trump appointed an anti-union lawyer as head of the Labor Department⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In case anyone else was wondering why this user shows up as banned, it’s because it’s an LLM spam bot. It ousts itself here: lemmy.world/post/38619576/20422026

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Old We're You when You Learned the Word, "Fascist"?⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that there’s textbook fascists in the US government and many people I know seem to still be in denial. Mostly non-US people, in case that changes the equation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Old We're You when You Learned the Word, "Fascist"?⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe like 13. However it wasn’t until my twenties until I learnt what it actually means, and I’m convinced most of the general populace never learn that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI orders domain registrar to reveal who runs mysterious Archive.is site⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Archive.is too good for this world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is incredibly stupid⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a lot more than mildly infuriating, even as a non-brit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Without the Steam Deck there’d be 27% fewer Linux users. So while that would indeed mean Linux wouldn’t yet be 3% of the total Steam userbase, I think you will find that 27% is not the majority.

  GamingOnLinux aggregates this data in a nicer way and as you can see there, the total Linux market share has gone from <1% five years ago to the 3% it is now. If that increase was mainly thanks to the Steam Deck, it would have to make up more like 75% of the Linux userbase rather than only 27%.

  Instead, as others have pointed out, SteamOS’s share has actually gone down rather than up, which is a natural consequence of the Steam Deck being relatively old now so fewer are being sold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[UnReal World] has been in continual development for 33 years, and its creator doesn't think he'll ever stop updating it: 'When I accomplish one feature, I always have two more waiting'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I first played this in like 2005 or something. I was underage and didn’t have banking credentials yet, so I bought the licence by mailing a letter full of coins to the author. Back then a lifetime licence was a few dozen euros, but I bought the major version licence for like 15€. That version received updates for a couple of years, from what I remember. I never bought the lifetime licence, but re-bought a major version licence twice and then bought the game again when it launched on Steam. In the end buying the lifetime licence would’ve been cheaper, heh, but I don’t mind supporting the developers.

  I still keep coming back to it every few years. There are other games in the same genre or very adjacent to it that are better as games – Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is the first to come to mind – but there are some things about URW that no other game really does, notably the whole realistic iron age survival thing (it’s a different genre altogether with less nuanced survival gameplay, but another iron age favourite of mine is Vintage Story, which is basically a Minecraft mod spun off into its own game).

  The animal AI in particular is really good. The way you hunt in this game is a pretty good representation of cursorial hunting, which is basically just running after the animals until they tire – something humans are good at thanks to bipedalism. You only rarely manage to take down larger animal like elks (moose in American; the game calls them by their European name) in one strike, which means that you have to wound them and then jog after them until they collapse from exhaustion and blood loss. Or you can dig trap pits in chokepoints and corral them into them, another real hunting strategy used in iron age Finland. The tracking in the game is also very involved, as the animals will try to lose you by moving erratically.

  Damn, now I kind of want to go back and play the game again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Freedesktop SDK” means the user is running Steam via Flatpak. They could be on any distro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “SteamOS Holo” 64 bit is the Steam Deck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not true. You can see on Steam Hardware Survey what OS people are running, and SteamOS only makes up 27% of Linux users on Steam, so the vast majority are on regular PCs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nature doesn’t care about anything. It is not a conscious thing. The size of the Earth, however, is a natural phenomenon, just like the speed of light. It just isn’t a universal constant, relatively unchanging though it may be.

  A multiplier is obviously going to be necessary whatever the base measure, because there’s no universal constant that happens to be of a useful, human scale. Or I guess you could use something like the wavelength of the hydrogen line – about 21.1 cm, a fairly useful length – but that isn’t really inherently a special wavelength, it just happens to be useful in radio astronomy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but it was the 18th century. They could measure earthly things well enough, not so much photons.

  It’s a bit of a shame it wasn’t redefined as 1/300,000,000th of the distance light travels in a second when it was redefined, but the redefinition was about 50 years too late for that to happen. A difference of 0.07% in the base unit of measurement used by all science would’ve been far too much for 2019, given all the precision measurements we do these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fictional⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The meter isn’t really arbitrary, even when you ignore the description by @jumperalex. It was originally defined as 1/10,000,000th the distance from Earth’s pole to the equator, which is a pretty reasonable basis to use by 1791 standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what TTY7 is, but if I had to guess I’d say Plymouth, which is the graphical loading screen that covers the boot messages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SDDM is the login screen, but when you’re already logged in it’s not going to display anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨itsfoss promotes hyprland on instagram!?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For comparison here’s the error message KDE displays in the same situation: www.reddit.com/r/kde/…/screen_locker_is_broken/

  I believe it has no localization support, but the language is clearer and the command it tells you to run is much simpler. A big problem with it is that Ctrl-Alt-F2 does not actually get you to a working TTY on many distros – e.g. on Fedora TTY1 is SDDM and TTY2 is the DE – and the error message is not adjusted based on which TTY is which.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lactose plays a role in cheese making as it is fermented by bacteria.