visor841

@visor841@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam is a massive worldwide market, and the Steam Deck isn’t offered everywhere. Chinese users for example have to import it, so not many are used there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s EAC, which is kernel level on Windows but not on Linux. I guess they wanted to go full kernel-level anti-cheat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For states on the coast with excess solar energy why don't they invest in water desalination and pump that water back upstream?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Transporting electricity isn’t easy, you have to have large enough interconnects to handle the energy you’re moving around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is the calories meter on exercise bikes accurate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The calories spent to work an exercise bike can be measured in terms of how much energy is needed to turn the pedals—it’s independent of whatever’s doing the turning.

  If that’s the case, why does height and weight matter?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is the calories meter on exercise bikes accurate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On a theoretical level, food calories represent a specific amount of energy that can be extracted from food. So some kind of calculation could probably be made as to how much work is required to operate the exercise bike, which probably depends on your height and weight. That work uses a certain amount of energy, which is probably equated into calories.

  All that said, I have no idea how accurate that would be. And in the end IIRC there’s a bunch of other factors that affect how humans burn calories and gain or lose weight, so in the end the calorie burning stats only really need to be comparable to other calorie burning stats. So I think the bigger question is: Do different exercise equipment types put out comparable numbers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mental health has improved after deleting games that have microtransactions in them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I agree with you here. A lot of Trackmania players are annoyed by Trackmania’s $20 a year subscription and have called to make it F2P with cosmetic microtransactions, but I’m pretty happy that hasn’t happened. There isn’t even any DLC. It is really nice to see not have to see ads to pay more money for stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What letter has the best games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm, maybe A?

  Age of Empires Anno Assassin’s Creed Aloft Against the Storm Across the Obelisk

  Hm, E would be a good option as well

  Elden Ring Elder Scrolls Europa Universalis Endless (Space, Legend)

  As a side note, would “Sid Meier’s Civilization V” count as “s” or “c”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why limit immigration?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the long-term yes, but in the short-term, housing takes time to build, so there’s going to be a lag. During that lag, it can cause problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For a very long time people will also still need to understand what they are asking the machine to do. If you tell it to write code for an impossible concept, it can’t make it. If you ask it to write code to do something incredibly inefficiently, it’s going to give you code that is incredibly inefficient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in the 1970s when we switched to unleaded gas, what did the vehicles that ran on leaded gas do?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A few airplanes still use leaded gasoline. The vast majority do not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to make your dream game, publish it and not die in the process⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to let people know, this is a 6 year old article. Not saying it isn’t relevant, but the market of course continues to move over time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Square Enix has removed Denuvo from Octopath Traveler 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s exactly right. I think there is a one-time cost they could pay, but it’s a lot more, so they just didn’t bother.