AProfessional
@AProfessional@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon feels regret 3 months ago:
I don’t have any specific examples off hand but HealthyGamer on YT is a psychiatrist with both a western medical degree and traditional training in India. He often compares the two, where they align, etc.
- Comment on Anon feels regret 3 months ago:
The medical field is largely based on Western culture. Especially mental health diagnoses are pretty arbitrary.
- Comment on Absolutely deranged 4 months ago:
Micro version too: Image
- Comment on A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water 5 months ago:
Maybe you are thinking of Telegram?
Signal is electron github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/tree/main
- Comment on A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water 5 months ago:
Electron doesn’t use CEF, they directly bundle Chromium.
- Comment on A fresh install of Signal takes up 410MB, blowing both Firefox and Chromium out of the water 5 months ago:
Windows doesn’t support deduplication itself. It actually won’t help here because every electron app bundles different versions in practice.
- Comment on Is it safe to use free movies sites on a phone, specifically iOS devices? 5 months ago:
Browsers are fairly secure, no simple site would have an exploit. Just don’t give them info.
- Comment on Redfall's final update arrives with offline mode as Arkane Austin devs praise their departing colleagues 5 months ago:
Bethesda/Zenimax were behind this game.
- Comment on I don't know which one of you needed this information, but you're welcome. 5 months ago:
Makes it a job.
- Comment on How to port any N64 game to the PC in record time 5 months ago:
This is the worst format for that?
Binaries will never get bug fixes or improvements like an emulator. The rom is the only relevant archive of a game.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 6 months ago:
Causing annoyance to the user directs frustration towards the regulator and not the implementor.
Apple is doing this in the EU for example to “protest” recent regulations.
- Comment on The Duration Time on this Cookie... 6 months ago:
The maximum age is 400 days in Chrome.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 6 months ago:
We don’t know their personal contract, but calling it illegal is ridiculous, I’m sure Valve explicitly allows for this.
- Comment on More ways to play your GOG games with Amazon Luna 8 months ago:
Whats wrong? Don’t say GOG will suddenly go streaming only.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 has "performed well ahead of expectations" and topped more than 8m sales 8 months ago:
Let’s hope Sony treats them well, it’s a huge success in their growing PC push.
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 8 months ago:
Just a heads up to those interested, it’s part of this months PS+ Extra too.
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 8 months ago:
Pacific Drive is cool but it feels very drawn out and repetitive.
- Comment on Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale 11 months ago:
EAC does support Linux and can be enabled. It just isn’t as secure.
- Comment on Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale 11 months ago:
Yes they use kernel level anticheat and they are correct it would be easier to cheat on Linux.
- Comment on Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002' 1 year ago:
The problem seems to revolve around brands that haven’t acquired this licensing
It seems to just be rent seeking? Since it’s retroactive there probably isn’t a security change and malicious hardware can spoof being licensed, though this is unclear.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 devs warn players of performance problems: 'we have not achieved the benchmark we targeted' 1 year ago:
As a software developer I can say threats from users are absolutely real unfortunately. A lot of people suck and it’s easy to hear from them.
- Comment on Cities: Skylines 2 devs warn players of performance problems: 'we have not achieved the benchmark we targeted' 1 year ago:
It’s possible some machines power through it. Just don’t preorder it and wait until you know it will work for you.
- Comment on Among Us’ first new map in over two years brings beaches, mushrooms and toasty marshmallows 1 year ago:
I hate it, but it was two clicks. Manage cookies -> Save & Exit. They all defaulted to reject for me.
- Comment on Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding 1 year ago:
Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code,[1] design documents,[2] or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized software development model that encourages open collaboration.
- Comment on Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding 1 year ago:
Like the 80s…
- Comment on Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding 1 year ago:
It is source available, under the terms Epic licenses to you. Not Open Source
- Comment on Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding 1 year ago:
Proprietary software can never be truly trusted. You are always at their whims.
- Comment on Nintendo switch 2 akin to PS4/XBO power 1 year ago:
Frame generation doesn’t help low end hardware.
- Comment on What are the connotations of Joe Rogan? 1 year ago:
This is a great video on the topic: youtu.be/sLaXSvpfDZs
- Comment on Starfield players pirate the DLSS mod after the developer locks it behind paywall 1 year ago:
DLSS3 is frame generation and just purposefully mislabeled by Nvidia to cause consumer confusion.
