Voroxpete
@Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Sure thing. The Helldivers games use sequences of arrow keys to activate special abilities called Call Ins. That particular sequence is really well known to anyone who plays the games, because it activates a very popular call in that drops a 500kg bomb on your target. It’s an ability you use when you want something really, really dead.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Investigators noted inscriptions that had been engraved on casings found with the rifle. Inscriptions on a fired casing read: “notices bulges” capital “O-W-O what’s this?” Inscriptions on the three unfired casings read: “hey fascist!” “catch!” Up arrow symbol, right arrow symbol, and three down arrow symbols. A second unfired casing read: “Oh Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Ciao, Ciao.” And a third unfired case read: “If you read this, you are gay LMAO.”
Honestly, I’m counting this one as a win for the Helldivers community.
- Comment on [HELP] How to fork a docker image? 1 week ago:
The answers about using Dockerfiles are absolutely correct, but if you’re looking for a quick and simple solution that will work locally, you can always just use the “commit” docker command. This basically saves the current state of a container as a new image. You can then run new containers from that image as needed.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
“A long time” would be “Since Trump got back in”, since Biden’s administration was actually doing a lot to tackle monopolies. They just did a shit job of advertising what they were doing.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
This is very obviously step one in a plan to kill apps like alternative YouTube clients that block ads, just like the Manifest V3 rollout was intended to kill ad blockers in Chrome. Once they have everyone using this verification system, then they can just arbitrarily deverify anything that contravenes whatever new acceptable usage policy they just made up.
- Comment on Writing with LLM is not a shame. 3 weeks ago:
By their nature, LLMs are truly excellent as thesauruses. It’s one of the few tasks they’re really designed to be good at.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 3 weeks ago:
He was an outspoken civil rights advocate, even back in the 1940s. Seems like a pretty rad dude to me.
- Comment on New article says #StarCitizen will release in 2027-2028, we contacted the author to ask for clarification on the source and he quoted Chris Roberts himself as saying "1 or 2 Y probably after S42" 3 weeks ago:
I mean, vaporware would require it to fail to manifest. There is a game. You can play it right now. Has it delivered on everything they promised? Absolutely not. But that was never the definition of vaporware. And, paradoxically, what’s there, despite being far reduced from the theoretical scope, is also one the most technically impressive games ever made. Entire planets in a complete solar system that you can traverse without a single loading screen. Not even a disguised one. It’s also, y’know, a buggy janky mess that still lacks many core gameplay features.
Like, there’s so much that you could legitimately criticise about Star Citizen that resorting to the both meaningless and innacurate claim of vaporware just shows an extreme lack of imagination. If you want to be critical go for it, but surely you can come up with something more coherent than that?
- Comment on Everwind – Official Gameplay Trailer 3 weeks ago:
The airship is what sold me. I’ve wanted ships in Minecraft for as long as I’ve been playing Minecraft, both because it’s cool, and because I think survival games would really benefit from the idea of a mobile base. Being able to take your home with you is such a huge deal and really bridges the gap between the “cosy” and “adventure” aspects of these games.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 3 weeks ago:
Even putting aside the science, Einstein just seems like he was a really good dude. I feel like he’d be a chill person to hang with.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 3 weeks ago:
We’re talking about repurposing the GPUs, not the AI.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 3 weeks ago:
If anyone actually spent money on science anymore, I bet this would be great for, like, protein folding, that sort of thing.
Terrible for running websites though.
- Comment on Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Pre-Order Trailer 3 weeks ago:
This game looks awesome. People who’ve gotten their hands on it are saying great things.
But in absolutely no way should you pre-order it.
- Comment on For fellow Lemmy users who play Project Zomboid. 4 weeks ago:
BRB ADDING THIS TO MY ZOMBOID SERVER IMMEDIATELY
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been spending a little more time with Forever Winter.
Its very definitely early access; not the bullshit “We’re releasing the game, but calling it early access so you can’t complain about any bugs you find” stuff you get now but actual real old school Minecraft style early access where you’re basically getting alpha builds straight from the developer.
That said, it’s in much better shape than it was when I first looked into it (maybe a year ago?). Game is really fun to play, unbelievably tense, but without being too punishing. I think they’re really starting to zero in on that Dark Souls sweet spot where dying sucks, but not in a way that actually sets you back all that much. The stealth gameplay feels good, and getting out with a haul of loot is intensely satisfying.
Plus the art design is unbelievably good.
- Comment on Homarr - A modern and easy to use dashboard. 30+ integrations. 10K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration. 4 weeks ago:
Instead you can screw it up by having too many commas or not enough. Hardly that much of an improvement.
- Comment on Homarr - A modern and easy to use dashboard. 30+ integrations. 10K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, this is my biggest annoyance with JSON. As a data structure it’s very elegant, but it only really makes sense to people who know how to code, and without the ability to add comments you have to rely heavily on external documentation to make it readable to most users.
- Comment on ‘Not what our roads are built for’: Trump’s hope to see more US cars in Tokyo, London is a hard sell 5 weeks ago:
What’s really telling is this; in the UK the Ford Focus is absolutely everywhere. Because it’s a small, efficient car that’s well designed for British streets. Europeans will happily buy American cars, when those cars are worth buying. But no one in Europe has any interest in buying a Charger or an F-150 because those vehicles simply don’t make sense on European roads.
- Comment on Trump threatens EU with 35% tariff if investment pledge falls through 5 weeks ago:
There was no pledge. That number is all private investment that the EU has no control over, and most of it probably won’t happen precisely because Trump’s tariffs have made investing in the US impossible.
- Comment on Trump announces trade deal with Pakistan, says they might sell oil to India “some day” 1 month ago:
Likewise, other Countries are making offers for a Tariff reduction. All of this will help reduce our Trade Deficit in a very major way. A full report will be released at the appropriate time," he said.
A reduction on the additional tariffs that were imposed in response to the US tariffs on them. None of this is actually benefitting the US, at best these deals amount to small mutual climbdowns. Do not let Trump fool you into thinking his strategy is working.
Also the fact that they still don’t have a partner company selected to develop those oil reserves is very telling. In the modern climate, with renewables getting cheaper and Saudi Arabia dumping oil to crash everyone else out of the market, I’m not sure if anyone actually wants the massive risk of developing a new oil field.
- Comment on [Opinion] The EU has validated Trump’s bullying trade agenda 1 month ago:
While I whole heartedly agree that any amount of concession to Trump is validating his strategy to some degree, I do also want to stress to the people only learning about this through headlines just how incredibly weak this deal is. Aside from a mutual lowering of tariffs, the EU supposedly agreed to ~$600bn in investments in the US. But that figure is bullshit. All of the investment is coming from private enterprise. The EU just asked those sectors what they were already planning to invest and then put that number in the deal. It’s not new investment and the EU has zero control over whether or not it actually happens. And most of it won’t, because Trump is making the US increasingly hostile to investors. So no actual concessions have been made here, aside from both sides agreeing to climb down on the tariffs a little.
BTW, the Japan deal is exactly the same.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 1 month ago:
I came here to say this exact same thing. Videogames are an art form, and the history of that art should be preserved, both the successes and the failures. People should be able to look back on what was a hit and what was flop, on the ideas that worked and the ones that didn’t, on the well made games and the badly made games. All of it matters, all of it is part of the same story.
- Comment on "Steam Did Not Respond To Us": Collective Shout Defends Calling On Payment Processors To Ban Adult Games 1 month ago:
Because of course they’re fucking TERFs.
- Comment on Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima 1 month ago:
The problem, as always, is that parents don’t want to put the work into educating their children, they want the government to wave a magic wand and make the problem go away. And that’s what gets you half assed solutions like this.
- Comment on The Future is NOT Self-Hosted 1 month ago:
The point is that clouds aren’t inherently bad, and actually come with a lot of important upsides; they’ve become bad because capital owns and exploits everything in our society, poisoning what should be a good idea. The author is arguing that while there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with self-hosting, it’s not really a solution, just a patch around the problem. Rather than seeking a kind of digital homesteading where our lives are reduced to isolated islands of whatever we personally can scratch from the land, we should be seeking a digital collectivism where communities, not exploitative corporations, own the digital landscape. Sieze the means of file-sharing, in effect.
- Comment on Tens of thousands knocked offline after software failure at Musk’s Starlink 1 month ago:
I have to support a remote client that uses Starlink. It’s a nightmare. We can deal with slow connections, we can deal with bad ping, but with Starlink what we get is the entire connection dropping every minute or so, and coming back up a short while later. It’s unbelievably bad.
- Comment on Day 366 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
Basically everything can be set through server / game rules. How do zombies work (speed, strength, toughness, hearing, vision, nocturnal or not, memory, intelligence, etc), how does the virus work, loot availability, XP gain, how long its been since the outbreak, whether power and water should shut off at some point, and so many other things. And that’s all without even touching a single mod. It’s incredibly versatile.
- Comment on Day 366 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
For the record (mostly saying this for the benefit of people who don’t play but might) Zomboid is one of the most customizable games ever. Rules like “How zombie virus transmits” are completely up to you. My wife and I play together and we decided that all survivors are immune to the virus in our world, so we turned off transmission entirely. It just made more sense to us if it was something like an airborne pathogen.
I often describe Project Zomboid as a toolkit for creating your own personal zombie apocalypse.
- Comment on Best plex/jellyfin compatible streaming box 1 month ago:
The Nvidia Shield is still the best option for this. I’ve tried all kinds of homebrew solutions and always had headaches. In the two years I’ve had my Shield, I’ve never had a problem. Smart Tube Next lets me cast YouTube without ads, Kodi/Jellyfin gives me all my media library, plus I’ve got official apps for Nebula, Dropout and Spotify. Custom launcher removes what little amount of ads there were (and that was unobtrusive background banner stuff even at its worst). Plus the pro version can handle some pretty powerful emulators.
- Comment on ‘Subnautica 2’ Leaders Say Krafton Sabotaged Game Over Payout [new events in the Subnautica 2 story] 1 month ago:
Was 100% going to buy it. Absolutely won’t now. Fuck em.