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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge finds police acted reasonably in shooting New Mexico man while at wrong address⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that opening the door was a mistake - I’m the type to check a camera when I hear a knock.

  I think you’re missing the point of my comment. The firearm was likely pointed in response to the blinding light. Your hypothetical “person hurt in an accident” probably would not have had a gun pointed in their face.

  By being unable to fathom why somebody would have the means to defend themselves when a stranger is at their door, you’re displaying a certain level of privilege. Must be nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge finds police acted reasonably in shooting New Mexico man while at wrong address⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Hearing a knock at the door late on April 5, 2023, Dotson put on a robe, went downstairs and grabbed a handgun before answering. Police outside shined a flashlight as Dotson appeared and raised the firearm before three police officers opened fire, killing him. Dotson did not shoot.

  The story does not specify whether or not the officers ever identified themselves. If they didn’t, then from his perspective he went to answer his door only to have a bright light in his face.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And Epic has had a lot more financial resources available when they launched their store. Estimated valuation of $15 billion in 2018, Valve’s was half that in 2022.

  I don’t really see an excuse for Epic to have ever had missing features, they entered the market with plenty of templates for what does and doesn’t work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To my knowledge you still can’t easily discover / reuse existing game files, the launcher usually redownloads them anyways.

  Even the Xbox app supports this (for most games)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like my broken mug, Enclave refuses to leave—and that's why I love it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a kid, I remember seeing previews of this on early OXM demo discs and in the magazine itself. I never came across the game in the used games bin, but always had an interest in playing it.

  A year or so ago, looked into it as a potentially fun Steam Deck game but was steered away by disappointing Xbox reviews.

  Seeing this, I now have the game wishlisted and am looking forward to picking it up on sale!

  This review is what did it for me. Love the way you tied it in with your mug :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I considered the cost of the hardware and the time I would spend getting it all configured, then collecting the content from various sources.

  Ultimately decided that $189 was worth it. I already have too many WIPs and something like this has been sitting on my ToDo list for years already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting out of S mode is a few clicks away though. There’s a certain kind of user who actually benefits from it, and nobody is locked in.

  RT’s restrictions were primarily architecture based (ARM)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no better archive utility than 7-Zip IMO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who else misses Battlefield 1943?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played every Battlefield since 1942. The series does a great job creating large-scale warfare while keeping it action-packed, avoiding the longer lulls found in other milsim games. There’s a degree of intensity to the combat that I don’t really feel in most other FPS titles.

  They’re regularly on sale on Steam for $1.99.

  Battlefield 4 is coming up on 12 years old and still has a fair amount of active servers. Might just be me getting old but I find the gameplay really holds up. Compared to Battlefield 3, the whole battle pass / premium currency aspect was really souring at the time, but it’s not all that bad now.

  For me, each release since then has been increasingly disappointing, though I still played them and had my fun. I was hyped for WWI combat in BF1, but they had to go and put fully automatic weapons with reflex sights in every soldier’s hands. Thought maybe we’d wind up with bolt action only hardcore servers, but that didn’t really pan out. Battlefield V brought things back to WW2 again, but it felt ruined yet again with an overabundance of attachments and letting everyone spawn with any other faction’s weapons. Completely immersion breaking.

  The best modern Battlefield game was BattleBit Remastered, which wasn’t even developed by EA/Dice and had very simple Roblox graphics - seems like things aren’t going so good anymore.

  If you like Star Wars, the Battlefront games are pretty amusing.

  A lot of the Battlefield games have a single player campaign that ranges from generic FPS to actually having some pretty cool mechanics sprinkled in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  *Morrowind

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In that case, they wouldn’t have found it in Control Panel anyways.

  Otherwise, they would have opened Control Panel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Settings is more accessible to casual users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fable delayed to 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No Man’s Sky and Cyberpunk 2077:

  Hold my drink

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed Shadows Drops To 40 FPS At 720P On The Next-Gen Nvidia RTX 5070Ti⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …which came out 7 years ago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some old freeware PC games you've kept playing over the years?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I often revisit Soldat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Xbox 360 Recompilation Tool Will Give Lost Classics Another Chance To Shine | Time Extension⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Darkness, Skate 3, Amped 3, Perfect Dark Zero + the remaster of the original, Crackdown, Fable II, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (1+2), Condemned 2…

  Just a handful of games that I’d love to be able to revisit on Steam Deck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD's new RX 9000 GPUs only officially support UEFI systems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is going to be interesting

  The diagnostic software environment I use to test graphics card VRAM only boots in legacy mode. TServer and Memtune are both internal AMD Tools that have leaked. So far, older boards that support Legacy / CSM have been the ideal platform as a test bench for graphics card repair.

  Probably going to be quite the shakeup in the graphics card repair community’s toolkit if the updated version of Memtune for 9xxx cards ever leaks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck Gaming News⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I meant that I was on the beta branch for SteamOS / Decky Loader, thoygh perhaps Junk Store too. I figured it was likely a conflict with another plugin (probably something in CSS Loader) but hadn’t bothered to diagnose which.

  I’ll totally be giving it another shot since it seems awesome :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck Gaming News⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems like I should give Junk-Store another shot I had installed it back when I was on beta branch and it was… funky. It had me sign in to Epic and then the frame / overlay wouldn’t go away, I had to force restart my Deck just to make it usable again.

  I tried a few times here and there and ran into the same issue, so it’s just been sitting installed as a spooky button.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shift 2 Unleashed has aged incredibly well (and also a wall of text about racing games)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely love Shift 2. I feel like it really captured the intensity of Battlefield 3, but transposed to the Racing genre.

  Recently revisited it on the Steam Deck and was worried that it wasn’t going to be as good as I remembered, and I’m pleased to say that it has remained every bit as amazing as it was.

  Also makes me wonder what the hell simcade games have been doing the last 14 years. Nothing else really matches the sensation of speed and intensity that Shift 2 has. It’s also weird to me that the reactive helmet cam is not a staple in every single racing game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soldering/De-soldering USB flash-drive Plugs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Soldering the connector is very low risk. No need to worry about heat from an iron. In manufacturing, modern PCBs have their lead-free solder flowed in an oven at temperatures in excess of 220 C.

  Reconnecting or accessing the files using just office supplies is possible provided there is access to a fine-point soldering iron or the means to DIY one. In this situation, I’m thinking of office supplies as “things you might find in an office” - not just rubber band, paperclip, eraser, pocket lint.

  I’ve cut USB cables and soldered the 5V, D+, D-, and GND wires to corresponding pads on the flash drive to recover data plenty of times.

  When a connector is torn or snapped off, it is not uncommon for those pads to be lifted and even for some of the traces to get peeled off the board. 5V and GND are usually pretty big, but the traces for the data lines are often hair thin.

  In those cases, someone in the scenario you describe would need to attach the wires to another point that those traces origin connected to, or they might need to scrape away some if the mask (green layer) to expose a contact point to solder to.

  Worth mentioning that those four contacts make a USB 2.0 (500Mbps) connections. For USB 3 (5Gbps) there are 5 more contacts, for a total of 9.

  USB Type C has 20 contacts and will require a microscope to work with.

  Since the USB standards are backwards compatible, you could still recover data from a USB-C device by recreating just the four USB 2.0 contacts - albeit slowly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They side they roll out of, evidently

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In terms of storyline, it doesn’t really matter too much.

  I still think you should play through the first one. If you need something that feels less 1998, Black Mesa is a remake of the original Half Life and it is very fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam drops Windows 7 and 8 support with the latest client — users told to ‘update to a more recent version of Windows’ to continue gaming⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam

  Windows Centric

  You do realize what platform/company we’re talking about, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Magic Keyboard and Mouse now use USB-C!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Notice that it’s never people who have the mouse complaining about the port location.

  A brief 1-2 minute charge nets you hours of use, it’s really not a big deal.