Olap
@Olap@lemmy.world
Scottish loon sometimes in Caithness, usually in Edinburgh. Likes rugby, F1, reading, cooking, and irn bru
- Comment on San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks 3 weeks ago:
This is clearly a tender fail. Byte code can be emulated for a fraction on that price. And it’s a two or three man job with a rota
- Comment on On the importance of F-Droid 1 month ago:
F-Droid is the single biggest reason that Android is actually usable. And the only real reason Google aren’t getting sued for monopoly practices. If only ReplicantOS was more viable
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 1 month ago:
DRM infected files mean that you as a consumer don’t own anything. As someome else can destroy it.
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 1 month ago:
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it
DRM violates this principle. Atreides forever
- Comment on Is Lemmy Dead ☠️ 1 month ago:
Found it’s niche may be a better way to put it. Technology is very active, programming is full of good content. A good few meme communities. And the daily comics are great too. Plenty more examples. But plenty of communities pale in comparison to reddit, and this is likely due to the normie effect.
Techologists lead normies by 2 to 3 years, so give it another year yet before people migrate in bigger numbers
- Comment on A Gamble: What will be the plot of *Lower Decks*'s Finale? 2 months ago:
That’s so evil, and given Enterprise’s cancellation mid season also: perfect
- Comment on Mingyang’s 20 MW Offshore Wind Turbine Stands Complete 2 months ago:
Wow, what’s the size limit going to actually be? 20MW is phenomenal from a single turbine, but what could we hit?
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- Comment on Doom and Doom II get a ‘definitive’ rerelease that’s packed with upgrades 2 months ago:
It isn’t. GZDoom has been doing this for years and years
- Comment on The ‘Star Trek: Section 31’ Movie Sees A “Misfit” Crew Balancing Special Ops Mission And Starfleet Morality 3 months ago:
Same thing was said about DS9. And Discovery. And Lower Decks. Star Trek has proven itself to be very adaptable from comedy, to horror, through action and drama - and that’s the films alone.
I suspect we may well see S31 shown for what all intelligence organisations are: corrupt, inept, and deeply hypocritical to civil society. Doesn’t that sound like Star Trek to you?
- Comment on Google’s shortened links will stop working next year 3 months ago:
Archive.org offering to step in and help if google will hand over the domain and db
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
Yarr harr harr
- Comment on Now The EU Council Should Finally Understand: No One Wants “Chat Control” 4 months ago:
Only a few steps from your telly listening to you…
- Comment on New Crazy Taxi title will be an open-world, massively multiplayer AAA game, according to Sega 4 months ago:
Some fuckwit VP needs fired over this decision. It was a simple game: pickup fairs, earn extra time, unlock stuff as you progress. If a publisher want extra cash, do more levels, or different jobs (delivery driver addon anyone?). And a fun soundtrack
Should have been able to bang it out for a million quid, and then reap the rewards. But nooo, now we have a game nobody wants to play, costing 20mil and will have servers shut down 2 years after launch
Everything that is wrong with gaming in 2024
- Comment on Thought's on this Raspberry Pi Rival? board handled 20 open Chrome tabs and 4K video playback smoothly ,board has Rockchip 8-core ARM processor, 32 GB of RAM, Mali G610 GPU, competing with top OOPS. 4 months ago:
More than double the price. Not sure what it’s xompeting with, but not a pi
- Comment on UK Retailer GAME To End All In-Store Video Game Sales 4 months ago:
Me too Shyfer, I buy 2nd hand a lot
- Comment on UK Retailer GAME To End All In-Store Video Game Sales 4 months ago:
Noy hugely surprising given next gen consoles to all be without disc trays even
- Comment on Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over? 5 months ago:
Surely the absence of nine indicates our model of gravity is off. Combined with lack of Dark Matter, is Einstein wrong?
- Comment on Surge Engine, the open source Sonic-like game engine (and game) gets upgraded 5 months ago:
Now of f-droid too!
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 5 months ago:
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it
- Paul Muad’Dib - Comment on Report: Microsoft to face antitrust case over Teams 5 months ago:
Am I taking crazy pills? Discord and Slack suck just as much imo. They are all a shitty web app repackaged for the desktop. And they are all fine, barely anything to chose betweem them. Teams is probably the best as the calendar integration with outlook and hosting ad-hoc drop in meetings in a room is good, no really, the virtual office is fantastic for pairing and team work.
IM peaked with IRC though, the simplicity was excellent, Matrix the closest thing to it imo. I do wish more stuff integrated with it to offer the same business experience as teams
- Comment on The RTS genre will never be mainstream unless you change it until it's 'no longer the kind of RTS that I want to play,' says Crate Entertainment CEO 6 months ago:
Beyond all Reason in a similar space
- Comment on Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins 6 months ago:
And 8
- Comment on BepiColombo Detects Oxygen and Carbon Ions in Magnetosphere of Venus 6 months ago:
Yup. Combined with phosphene it’s looking more and more likely. But still faaar from proven
- Comment on UK flooded with forged stamps despite using barcodes — to prevent just that 7 months ago:
That’s the post office, not royal mail, but really any large company could make this fuckup
- Comment on UK flooded with forged stamps despite using barcodes — to prevent just that 7 months ago:
Yes, but the stamps have mostly been bought from the post office, who get it from royal mail. Given how few people even bother with stamps these days, what’s more likely? An organised gang infiltrating supply chains with undetectable forgeries, or an IT malfunction that means the codes are not being registered properly in the first place? I know where my money is!
- Comment on “Untitled Star Trek Origin Story” film officially added to Paramount Pictures' 2025-2026 lineup. 7 months ago:
Archer returns!
- Comment on Star Trek DS9: Quark's Root Beer Analogy (LaserDisc) [4K] 7 months ago:
This is a fantastic upscale. Laserdisc obviously a great source too. Maybe one day we’ll see some releases…
- Comment on TIL that NodeBB is working on implementing Activity Pub compatibility 7 months ago:
Fuck yes, networks of forums are fabulous, as we on lemmy have to all agree. Welcome to the threadiverse NodeBB!
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Discovery | 5x01 "Red Directive" and 5x02 "Under the Twin Moons" 7 months ago:
So good to have trek back!