bjoern_tantau
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de
- Comment on OF alternative fediverse? 10 hours ago:
Technology isn’t the hard part of OF. Money and moderation are. Most of the big payment suppliers like PayPal and credit card companies are vary about porn or outright ban it. So you need a partner who will take the money from customers and give it to you. And then you might need a different (or same) partner to give the money to the content creators.
And all the time you have to make sure that none of the creators are hosting illegal material or something that is not allowed by the money transfer providers.
But from the point of view of the creators all the money handling is the biggest service OF provides.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #20 1 day ago:
Wow, I never expected the Tomb Raider remasters to be given away so early.
- Comment on What happens to the content if an Lemmy instance shuts down? 1 day ago:
It’s conflicting because it depends™. By default Lemmy is configured to mirror images by remote instances so as to not overwhelm them with traffic. But most instances turn that off because of the storage cost.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 3 days ago:
Neverwinter Nights
The multiplayer is supposedly incredible. But I remember being extremely whelmed by the main game.
But it’s hard to remember the mid games. Because it is very likely that they didn’t leave any lasting impression.
And especially if previous titles in a series or from a studio were great a mid game would feel disappointingly bad. Although compared to other games they might actually still be considered great.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 3 days ago:
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 3 days ago:
It’s a good game. Just not as good as the first two, that’s all. Many attributed it to the console release dumbing down the mechanics.
But, oh man, The Shalebridge Cradle is so awesome even if the rest of the games sucked so much as to be unplayable, that mission alone could redeem it.
At the time my parents were away on holiday or something. So I dragged my PC and awesome sound system upstairs and hooked them up to the big TV, ironically getting closer to the console experience. Darkening the whole room and getting immersed in the game was so awesome. And the Cradle scared the everliving shit out of me.
Good times.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 3 days ago:
Yeah, some of the Linux Youtubers do that. With a channel on Peertube as well. And Science Youtubers often advertise Nebula.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 3 days ago:
The trouble with that is that there is barely any money outside of YouTube.
- Comment on The Health Departments should create Kitchen Nightmares type shows and use proceeds to dor further funding. 4 days ago:
But Health Departments want the restaurants to be good. Ideally every episode would be shitty without anything to complain about.
- Comment on Steam beta gets native Apple Silicon support — the only public Arm version of Steam 5 days ago:
There already are some projects that make it work. I haven’t looked at the specifics yet but as far as I understand it everything that can be handled as a library call as native ARM code does just that and only pure x86 calls are emulated. And since nowadays so much stuff is abstracted away and the heavy lifting is done by Vulkan the performance tends to be very good.
- Comment on What would happen if the Earth was sucked into a black hole? 5 days ago:
I’d actually guess that we’d end up in an accretion disc first and would be ripped to shreds there due to all the other stuff in orbit and less from direct influence from the black hole itself.
- Comment on What would happen if the Earth was sucked into a black hole? 5 days ago:
We literally took pictures of supermassive black holes, can see black holes eating stars, have the math figured out pretty well and we can see black hole collisions with gravitational wave detectors due to their rippling effect on the fabric of our space-time.
- Comment on Steam beta gets native Apple Silicon support — the only public Arm version of Steam 5 days ago:
I mean, it is supposedly already a thing on Android. And there are rumors that Valve have been trying it out for Deckard. So this could very much come this year or so.
- Comment on What can I use for an offline, selfhosted LLM client, pref with images,charts, python code execution 5 days ago:
- Comment on You can now search for Steam games by adjustable difficulty, mouse-only options and other accessibility tags 5 days ago:
Using your joystick lefthanded is a completely new experience.
- Comment on Steam beta gets native Apple Silicon support — the only public Arm version of Steam 5 days ago:
Proton for Arm imminent?
- Comment on Why do people like Mario Kart? 5 days ago:
If you’re not having fun with Mario Kart you should play Drinking Mario Kart. Everyone gets a beverage of their choice. By the end of the race it has to be empty. But because we are all responsible adults we don’t drink and drive. In order to take a sip (or down the whole thing) you have to drive off the track (or to the side, whatever is possible) and come to a complete halt.
Loser drinks one more because they are a loser. And the winner drinks one more to celebrate.
- Comment on Vitamins 6 days ago:
Just eat a B 12 bomber and get both, duh.
- Comment on Vitamins 6 days ago:
Almost as powerful as a vegan diet.
- Comment on Vitamins 6 days ago:
Actually had such an experience the other day. I have all the morning-pills I have to take in little cups so that I don’t think about choosing the right ones. They didn’t seem to help me so far. But most of them are supposed to take effect after an extended time.
One time I absentmindedly took a cup in the evening as well. And I finally actually did feel some betterment the next morning. But because I took a handful of different pills at once I now have to find out which one actually did make a difference at doubled dosage. I could already eliminate one.
- Comment on 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened 6 days ago:
I made a control scheme for StarCraft. Worked surprisingly well. At least for single player.
Of course that one had a Nintendo 64 release.
- Comment on Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads Per Hour 6 days ago:
Actually for my kids at least it’s different. They’re so used to ad blocked YouTube and ad-free Netflix. That when the adblocker fails for whatever reason they get first delighted to see something new and very soon after annoyed at having to see that shit all the time and cry for someone to help them.
We watch regular TV so little. The other day we didn’t have internet for several hours, maybe a few days. That’s when we discovered that the TV is actually too far away to reach the cable of the satellite dish.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 6 days ago:
It’s what I do with Denuvo games. De non vue.
- Comment on Barbie-maker Mattel teams up with OpenAI, eyes first AI-powered product this year 6 days ago:
They literally did something like that already a few years back. Just with a traditional assistant-like bot similar to Alexa and Siri. I think they were sued all over the place. At least in Europe.
- Comment on How to move OwnCloud data? 6 days ago:
Apart from changing the docker config of your existing installation you can also symlink the new folder to the old location.
Or if Docker or Nextcloud doesn’t like symlinks you can also mount the folder there. Folders can be mounted more or less the same as devices.
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 6 days ago:
I really expected better of you, SatansMaggotyCumFart.
- Comment on If you have used this you are immune to all disease. 6 days ago:
That’s why God invented clothes.
- Comment on Sniffing out hunger: a nose-to-brain connection linked to appetite 6 days ago:
Mickey Mouse knew all along.
- Comment on Propaganda 6 days ago:
I’d guess the point is to get the joy of having children across to the reader without all the pesky yucky sex and birth and baby business.
Same thing with Spy x Family.
- Comment on Android 16 is here 6 days ago:
I really hate that I cannot just do everything with the pocket computer I own that is running a supposedly free operating system.
