okamiueru
@okamiueru@lemmy.world
- Comment on Half as Hot 3 weeks ago:
That is indeed the joke.
- Comment on Nintendo Targets YouTube Accounts Showing Emulated Games 1 month ago:
It’s not the same thing? Emulation of older consoles improve and mod the experience.
- Comment on Is martial arts really that useful? 1 month ago:
Anyone actually seasoned in martial arts will back this up. Exceptions to the his are trying to sell something.
- Comment on Using GPT-4 to generate 100 words consumes up to 3 bottles of water — AI data centers also raise power and water bills for nearby residents 1 month ago:
Can anyone explain the conversion from a bottle of watter to something like kWh?
- Comment on A European consumer watchdog wants you to be able to buy exactly as much in-game currency as you need, not fixed chunks 2 months ago:
Make it have to follow the same regulations as other currencies and banks. If it looks like currency, and functions like currency, maybe it should be considered currency.
- Comment on If we ever move past Trump I don't think I'll ever be able to put up with any political bullshit again. 2 months ago:
You’re kinda arguing my point tho, so maybe I didn’t communicate it very well.
If a character such as Trump gaining power can be considered a symptom, then the conditions that allow it is the disease. News networks not beholden to facts, lack of education and critical thought.
All of this is what I would argue is the underlying cause and conditions that are fertile grounds for populists. Just a little reminder that Hitler first succeeded on his second attempt at becoming a dictator. And unlike in the US, he was imprisoned for the first attempt.
- Comment on If we ever move past Trump I don't think I'll ever be able to put up with any political bullshit again. 2 months ago:
Isn’t Trump just a symptom? What scares the shit out of me, isn’t Trump. It’s that Americans voted for him once, but that it’s still a remote question. Even 5% thinking that could be a good idea, is cause for concern.
Remove Trump from the picture, and that issue is still there. Imagine someone as vile as Trump, but not dumb as a sponge…
- Comment on Classic Ubisoft: PS5 players to install an update and restart their save files from scratch due to game-breaking bugs 2 months ago:
There are so many good games being made these days. I don’t understand why people still reward bad practices.
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 2 months ago:
I tried Heroic Launcher. It’s exactly what I wanted. Thanks for the suggestion
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 2 months ago:
Thanks. I will try it out. I’m pretty sure it was Lutris I had tried previously, and it didn’t work very well. As for Epic, I’d rather not game, than have to run it, even through Wine.
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 2 months ago:
Though consider other suggestions like Heroic Launcher and Lutris. I cannot vouch for them, but there is certainly a better way than how I do it.
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 2 months ago:
Sort of. It might be a good idea to see what the mentioned Heroic Launcher does. What I do is tedious and cumbersome.
- Download all gog install files and place them in some folder.
- Add a non-steam game for the installer executable, with the corresponding working directory
- Run the “game”, with the proton compatibility mode enabled.
- After installing, change the entry from 1, to point to the game executable (you’ll have to search for it), and corresponding working directory.
When installing, it is sort of the same story. Download update files. Run the update. Change the entry back.
I’m sure there are better ways to do this. So I’ll probably check the Heroic Launcher. I remember trying similar things in the past, and I wasn’t all that happy with it.
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 2 months ago:
If its available on both, GOG. Always. Even if the game was $15 om gog and $6 on steam.
I play them through steam with Proton. It’s tedious installing and adding the games, and updates are a similar manual process as installing them. But, I want to support DRM free software.
- Comment on Telecom will pay $1 million over deepfake Joe Biden robocall 2 months ago:
I’m curious. And I ask, because US politics has normalised what would be clear corruption in most other places:
Is the illegal part here spoofing Biden, or also a private company trying to manipulate the electoral process?
If its only the former, then, what an absolute shit show.
- Comment on what's a polite way to reject a picture with a very thankful patient who was under your care? 2 months ago:
I think it’s also perfectly reasonable to say the truth instead, and replace “professional ethics” with “personal”.
If they are appreciative of you, and don’t truly want to do whatever it is that makes you the most comfortable or happy, they should be exposed to a learning opportunity.
If they get offended. Maybe they eventually figure out that, just maybe, you shouldn’t express gratitude with selfishness.
Anyways. That’s ny two cents. Say it as it is.
- Comment on If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"? 2 months ago:
Until proven otherwise, I assume either ignorance or malicious intentions by those who want to rename these “problematic” terms. It does nothing to improve the actual issues.
The false pretense of having done something, is worse than doing nothing. It’s just noise.
- Comment on What games popularized certain mechanics? 2 months ago:
Isn’t it called “rogue-like” because that last part of metaprogress was not in rogue? Maybe I’m confusing it with roguelite.
- Comment on GOG Summer Sale has arrived 4 months ago:
I’ve used both PS4 and Ps5 controllers. You don’t need to do anything except to plug it in.
I’ve only had issues in one game (Minishoot Adventures), where the solution was to disable controller support layer that steam comes with.
I haven’t tried Bluetooth, as I don’t mind the cable.
- Comment on House Passes Bill That Defines Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism” 6 months ago:
Is it a requirement to be Jewish, in order to have Israeli citizenship?
- Comment on Razer made a million dollars selling a mask with RGB, and the FTC is not pleased 6 months ago:
Aside from falsely claiming it is N95 certified?
- Comment on Telecoms To Get $45 Billion In Taxpayer Broadband Subsidies, But Are Whining Because They Might Have To Deliver Affordable Broadband To A Few Poor People 7 months ago:
Is this /technology, or /laststagecapitalism?
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 7 months ago:
I tried watching it. I gave up in European.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 7 months ago:
What do you do for nuts and bolts? Isn’t that stuff harder to get?
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 7 months ago:
Joke aside, scales on earth measure force and show mass on the assumption of the gravitational pull on earth. On a moon colony, you’d use measuring scales with a different value for the gravitational pull, and get the same values for mass as on earth.
- Comment on When we clean out a vacuum, we become the vacuum cleaner 7 months ago:
One of the best shower thoughts I’ve heard.
- Comment on Oops 8 months ago:
Looks like fake newts to me
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 8 months ago:
I was surprised to see two games called Knightfall. No the one you’re referring to (assuming it was a typo), is a 2D dungeon crawler, and came out in 2017, with 13 reviews.
Huh, interesting that it’s OK to have such a similar name. Maybe it’s all OK until someone complains.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 boss apologizes for 'horrible' dev comments, says Arrowhead has 'taken action internally to educate our developers' 8 months ago:
The weapons in premium war bond aren’t really good. Also, if it’s a nudge at the premium part being a money grab… I’m lvl 17 and I have the premium unlocked without spend any real money.
- Comment on Best way to dockerize a static website? 8 months ago:
It’s such a fun exercise. But as you point out, way overkill. Might even be dangerous to expose it. I’ve gotten mine to 20kb on top of busybox.
- Comment on More believable for a Linux OS 8 months ago:
I don’t think the Unix philosophy of having lots of small tools that do one thing and do it well that you compose together has ever been achieved
Why do you think this might be the case? It’s not remotely accurate, which suggests that you must understand it very differently than I do. To some extent, I am curious.
I’ll give you a recent example. Which is just from yesterday. I had a use case where some program had a memory leak, which would eventually lead to the system running out. So, I “built a program that would monitor this and kill the process that used the most memory”. I don’t know how complicated this is in windows and PS, but it took about 2 minutes in Linux, and it very much leverages the Unix philosophy.
Looks something like this:
get_current_available_memory_mb() { cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemAvailable | grep -oP '\d*' | xargs printf "%d / 1024 \n" | bc }
Each of those pipes do their thing well. The PID of the process using the most memory you can get with something like:
ps aux --sort=-%mem | head -n2 | tail -n1 | awk '{print $2}Again, using the same Unix philosophy. You then check if the available memory is below some threshold, and send a kill signal to the process if it does. Instead of adding an infinite loop in the script, you stop at making it do that one thing. That is, 1. check remaining memory. 2. if lower than X, kill PID". Let’s call this “foo.sh”. So you end up with is just:
watch -n 2 – ./foo.sh, and there you go. Every two seconds, it checks available free memory, and saves my system from freezing up.If memory serves me correctly, PS also supports piping, so I would assume you could do similar things. Would be weird not to, given how powerful it is.