Quazatron
@Quazatron@lemmy.world
A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that likes #cinema #photography #linux #zxspectrum #retrogaming
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 2 days ago:
Just like the good old days of running Windows 3.1 on an Intel 386sx. We’ve come full circle.
- Comment on The 49MB Web Page 3 days ago:
Just like the bad old days, when entire sites were made in Flash and Linux users were shafted. Ridiculous.
- Comment on The RAM crisis could completely change how developers make video games 3 days ago:
Seconded. This is what I value in a game. You can do great storytelling and/or addictive gameplay with low poly, low res, low color palette.
In fact, I’d argue that hardware limitations sharpen creativity.
- Comment on New ‘negative light’ technology hides data transfers in plain sight 4 days ago:
My newish Xiaomi has an IR diode which is very useful to switch the AC on or off when I can’t be bothered to find the remote, and to mute TVs in restaurants.
It has a 3.5mm audio jack too.
- Comment on Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount 4 days ago:
Honest question: which euro alternatives do you recommend for mail, cloud?
- Comment on ‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push 1 week ago:
As a future customer, please include high quality connectors to import legacy data from Jira and Confluence. We’re going to need them. Thank you in advance.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 week ago:
One man’s e-waste is another’s Linux homelab.
- Comment on MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow 1 week ago:
Well, Portuguese is a Latin language, so there’s a common root.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games 1 week ago:
You missed the memo. Windows is now the Linux gaming subsystem.
Resistance is futile.
- Comment on Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS 2 weeks ago:
Congratulations, this announcement really does ticks all the boxes.
- Comment on Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too 2 weeks ago:
Enhance your calm, I agree with you.
It’s one of those things that sounds great in sci-fi, like flying cars, until you realise that the world is full of awful people that immediately repurpose any new tech for filthy lucre / inflicting suffering / power grabbing.
- Comment on Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You're Being Watched, Too 2 weeks ago:
Or you can just use your common sense and save yourself the cost of this ugly piece of junk.
People tend to avoid you less if you don’t look like a sneaky perv, so that’s another bonus.
Plus, you’ll not be funding Meta and you’ll have one less piece of rubbish in a drawer somewhere that needs recycling after one month of use.
- Comment on BYD Reveals the ‘World’s Longest-Range EV’ as American Auto Industry Struggles to Keep Pace 2 weeks ago:
We tasted some of that self regulating ‘free market’ a while ago. Banks were having huge profits from the housing bubble until the subprime crisis hit, banks went into default, and the losses were picked up by public money.
My profit. Our losses.
- Comment on Which game have you been most patient for? 3 weeks ago:
Half-Life 3.
I’m still waiting, Gabe. No pressure. You do your thing.
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 3 weeks ago:
I think of this practice as a tax on herds.
You want to belong in a trendy group, you board the hype train and pay the tax to belong in the herd.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
It’s not hard. I loathe hard games, we used to have them in the 80s because, well, how much can you pack in 48 kilobytes? You had to kill the player over and over to get longer engagement time.
Nowadays, with the amount of storage we have available, it makes no sense to make the game hard unless you are targeting the
masochisticcompetitive crowd. You can use it to tell a good story, or pull the player into an immersive reality. - Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
It depends on your tastes in games, of course. It’s quite linear, it’s got some puzzle element, some boss fighting, but what it makes it good is the storytelling. Good characters, lovely scenarios, compelling writing.
Feels a bit like Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, or the Amnesia series: there’s a story there, and some gaming elements thrown in to keep you going. I’m quite liking it, I want to know what happens next.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 4 weeks ago:
A Plague Tale, Alien Breed, Hellslave. Quite the mix, huh?
- Comment on Advice on which retrogaming handheld I should buy? 4 weeks ago:
I already had a powerful computer with a great screen in my hand, so I bought a controller to attach to my phone. Works for me.
- Comment on Waymo raises massive $16 billion round at $126 billion valuation, plans expansion to 20+ cities 1 month ago:
I wonder how many people per year you can move with that amount of money applied to light rail.
- Comment on Day 568 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
I always know it’s Halo when I look at the screenshot and take a moment to understand what the hell is supposed to be pictured.
- Comment on More memory-driven price rises - Raspberry Pi 1 month ago:
Small price to pay for people to have their funny memes and deep fakes.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 month ago:
Don’t follow me for advice, I know nothing about this stuff other than “line is down - buy, line is high - sell”
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 1 month ago:
This capitalism looks and smells a lot like good old USSR style communism.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 month ago:
Good. Time to buy.
- Comment on The world is trying to log off U.S. tech 1 month ago:
All his decisions can be reversed by the next president.
And then reversed by the next next president. Do you think this kind of trust violation blows over just like that?
The orange Cheeto threatened to annex a fucking European country. And nobody in the US told him otherwise. The Democrats seem to be too busy eating popcorn and waiting for elections.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 1 month ago:
Can someone please put a responsible adult in charge of that damned organization?
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 1 month ago:
Yep, time to wipe my Epic account.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 1 month ago:
When you can’t compete, sue.
- Comment on What is immersion to you? 1 month ago:
I can get immersed in incredibly simple games, like Baba Is You. I have simple rules to follow and a world that conforms to those rules. I can tune out reality and immerse fully in the game.
The main thing is that I don’t need hi-res realistic 120 fps graphics for this to work, I don’t know if this is because the way my brain is wired or because I was raised in the 8 bit era and imagination was a significant part of that immersion.