cmhe

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP obsolete tech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mdisks are a viable offline long term backup solution, and cheaper to set started with than tape drives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wherever Stanley Parable is a game or not, isn’t really important. Someone could make the argument that open ended games, without a clear winning or completion state aren’t games, but instead simulations.

  Someone could argue that the winning or completion state of Stanley Parable is seeing all endings.

  Other people say that to be a game, you need some kind of adversary or challenge to overcome, but that would depend on the definition of challenge. Is figuring out what to do in order to see a ending you haven’t seen before a challenge? If not, that would exclude many other genres.

  So I just do not want to down the road of making useless distinctions, and be liberal in my understanding of words, and just ask if something is not clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say many games with procedural generated worlds, like Minecraft, No Man’s Sky, etc. Where the main task is deciding where do I go next, where do I settle down, maybe there is some better place over the next hill, next planet, etc.

  There are other games, where it is also sometimes not quite clear what to do next. Like games have a lot of progression and rebuilding of stuff that was done before because of it. Like Satisfactory, Factorio etc.

  And on a more literal sense, where you actually redo the game over and over to progress, like The Stanley Parable or Outer Wilds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the average person have no critical thinking?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am against the concept of individuals or legal entities owning property, it belong to everyone. However, if you take something from the society in order to be allowed to used it exclusively for a while, you ought to give something back, that is what tax is for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the average person have no critical thinking?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you see propaganda everywhere, the it was successful on you. One purpose of propaganda is to erode the fundamental trust in society and sow distrust about anything and anyone, that way people become politically ineffective and easy to manipulate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does the average person have no critical thinking?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Propaganda doesn’t necessarily need to convince people, but can instead attack the peoples ability to differentiate truth and lie by sowing mistrust about the most mundane and conventional things. When people stop believing their own eyes or following logic, they become easier to manipulate. A bit like gas-lighting, where you sort of turn the critical thinking against them, but on a large scale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overclocked Nintendo Switch Modded With 8 GB RAM Is Capable Of Running PlayStation 3 Games via RPCS3 Emulator Surprisingly Well⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To someone that can upgrade a Nintendo switch to have 8GB of RAM, can install RPCS3 and play PS3 games on it, I would say: “Do whatever you want, you are a god amongst us. I am the peasant that lives the easy life with a SteamDeck”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't Afford A Nintendo Switch 2? Buy A Switch 1, Nintendo Says - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would agree about getting buying the cheaper version, if it doesn’t also might mean buying an EOL product.

  If Nintendo stops providing updates and new games of the old switch (soonish) then (what I suspect from console gaming) then suggesting to buy the old product from Nindendo looks like they just want to empty their Switch 1 stockpile.

  If Nintendo just treats the Switch 1 and 2 as the same console, with just different performance and price, but get the same support period and games, then I am fully with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Path of Exile 2's disastrous new update reveals the core tension at the heart of its design: How do you make a game with meaningful combat when everyone just wants to blast monsters?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I the only one that thinks PoE stands for Pillars of Eternity (and Power over Ethernet)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reparability? Robustness? Software support? Community support?

  It isn’t all about comparing performance numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I really hate most subscriptions, because the prises are often too high, they rely on locking stuff behind paywalls, instead of providing a good service.

  Here is the difference, I am ok paying monthly for storage space, servers, and hosted/managed open source web services, because there is competition and standard interfaces there. They do not hold you hostage to their service, what they provide is good on its own.

  I GOG invests money into writing open source libraries, apps and APIs to efficiently and easily share save games between devices. Let people self host the open source backend, but offer up a subscription for a managed instance, with maybe some voting rights for new features to be integrated into the open source backend, then I would be willing to support this.

  And other stuff like this.

  Use subscriptions to offer good services, which also allow you to improve the whole ecosystem, while also not putting yourself as the gatekeeper, and locking people into their service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Improve your Wi-Fi with this one trick⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but only in one direction and if you use UDP instead of TCP, also your MTU needs to be small enough for the packages to fit between the blades of the fan, otherwise that causes package fragmentation.

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Powered bv SteamOS' gaming handheld validation leaks in Valve documentation, Asus ROG Ally may be among first handhelds with official SteamOS support⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it seems to be a misunderstanding. They are using cloud tools to generate and update the base operating system.

  “Better” is always relative. Personally I generally prefer not to use software that comes bundled with the hardware, that way I avoid any vendor lock in. The hardware vendor should not be in a position of deciding what I should or shouldn’t be able to do with their hardware, and software should be open to the customer, so that it does exactly what they want, not more or less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure.

  Valve can do a lot more, but what is more concerning to me is if they are actively consumer unfriendly. There is a difference between passively allowing bad stuff to happen, and actively doing bad stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is what I said: “On Linux, you have to either install/update your games manually, or use a third-party client.” With third-party client I meant a client like Heroic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the game developers, if they offer/upload a Linux/Mac version. On Linux, you have to either indtall/update your games manually, or use a third-party client. Idk about Mac.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I can only speak for myself, but I prefer games stores in that order:

  1. GOG, because DRM free and they don’t enforce game updates.
  2. Steam, because they are well integrated into the SteamDeck, they push Linux gaming, and Gabe seems to be an alright guy.
  3. Itch.io, because lots of indy games
  4. Epic Game store, good: free games, bad: Epic and Tim Sweeney.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate when a PC game is ONLY available on Epic Games store⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel the same, when the game is not available on GOG.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The underdog is often the one that is most pro-consumer, since that is in their business interest. As soon as the take the lead, the doors to enshittyfication open, because business shifts from getting new customers to not letting them leave. (Of course there are exceptions, but this is the case broadly)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well THAT fucking sucks! 🤬⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least its plugins, which are what needs to be regularly updated as platforms change, are open source. I imagine someone will clean-room reverse-engineer the core app and make an open source one that uses the plugins.

  Reverse-Engineering and reimplementing something is a lot of work, especially if it is a moving target that is still actively developed. I don’t expect anyone to do it.

  Also, Louis Rossmann said they only reserve the right to go after forks to prevent a situation like all the shady ad-ridden NewPipe ones flooding Google Play Store.

  That is some kind of hand wavy reasoning that might come from someone that could be sponsored by them. Louis should do better than taking any company by their word and promises. And spreading FUD about NewPipe (and by extension all of Open Source software) is also a straw man argument. An untrustworthy software repository is not a argument against the open source software application, but against the software repository and their maintainers.

  If you are concerned with that, you should stop using Google Play store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks for the warning I guess??⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a USB-C to audio jack adapter/sound card, which doesn’t provide enough amplification for my headphones at “normal” levels, so I have to raise it beyond what android considers “save” in order to even hear voices enough to understand them, if the environment around me is a bit noisy itself. At maximum level it is still not really loud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well THAT fucking sucks! 🤬⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, with newpipes forks are possible in order to implement controversial features, with Grayjay they are unlikely because of its non-open-source license.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well THAT fucking sucks! 🤬⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just FYI. Grayjay is only source available, but not open source like newpipe and its forks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the backside of a portal transparent? I thought it might connect to the backside of the other portal…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What your coffee preparation method says about you⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NixOS would be like preparing coffee in a particle accelerator.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't tip⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And CEOs do not walk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pump up the jamz⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing gets burned or otherwise destroyed when receiving EM radiation via a dish and converted it into electricity via a receiver.

  Sure, the amplification stage of the process likely works only one way, and should be replaced in order to send something.

  The one way process of burning oil to generate heat seems much more primitive than the energy conversion offered by a diode, TBH.

  You can push or tow an electric car and charge their batteries. Because electric motors are also generators.

  Even with your simplistic fossil fuel car in your example the alternator within can also be used as a motor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pump up the jamz⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no such big differences between a light emitting (LED) and a light receiving diode (photodiode), they are just the reverse of each other. In fact photodiodes can even emit light, but very inefficiently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pump up the jamz⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These radio telescopes don’t transmit anything at all, they listen to radio waves coming from the cosmos. Much like a normal telescope doesn’t transmit light.

  If you invert the flow of the electrons, a receiver becomes a transmitter.

  Speakers can become bad microphones and vice versa. Pretty sure that a radio telescope is a very bad transmitter for songs, but it could be possible with some changes…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is EAs business model for this game. It is free to pay, so EA need to extract money otherwise. They introduce some gamified resource collection and crafting with exponentially rising costs, etc. And hope that gamers circumvent that by buying stuff with real money. Now players don’t all want or can’t do that, and look for alternative solutions.

  So EAs business model drives people to cheat. To cheat them primarily and other players secondarily.

  And because of their business model, they cannot solve the cheating between players by giving them dedicated servers or just let them P2P match, because they would loose control over them and their ability to extract more money.