EnglishMobster
@EnglishMobster@lemmy.world
- Comment on I diagnose you with dystopia 6 months ago:
Bookwyrm is a Fediverse alternative to Goodreads. :)
- Comment on Prusa MK3S+ with Revo - how do I fix PETG blobs and filament sticking to the nozzle? 1 year ago:
Yeah, originally I had kept all the settings stock but I was having issues with bed adhesion and stringing when I swapped to a different PETG brand. I played with my extrusion rate until that other filament (Overture PETG) printed mostly okay… but honestly that filament still had issues so I just ate the extra cost and swapped back to Prusament.
I suppose it probably couldn’t hurt to try a print with all the stock settings just to rule things out.
- Comment on Prusa MK3S+ with Revo - how do I fix PETG blobs and filament sticking to the nozzle? 1 year ago:
Interesting - I’m using the stock values for feedrate (200 mm/s for XY; 12 for Z; 120 for E), but those are probably tuned for the stock hotend and I can imagine they probably differ for the Revo.
The only thing I can find for the Revo that seems like it would give the numbers I need is this page which talks about max flow rate, but that’s different than feed rate (I’d imagine).
I can’t seem to find anything else online about it - is it just bringing the XYE values down via trial and error, or is there some formula I can use to calculate the correct feed rate?
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- Comment on Xbox's new policy — say goodbye to unofficial accessories from November thanks to error '0x82d60002' 1 year ago:
The array of different disabilities is so vast - a controller which works for one player may not work for another.
- Comment on Roblox tells employees they have to come to office three days a week or take severance package 1 year ago:
California it is. WARN act.
- Comment on Scientists are hoping to redefine the second – here's why 1 year ago:
Decimal time exists, thanks to the French Revolution.
There are 100 decimal seconds in a decimal minute, 100 minutes in a decimal hour, and 10 hours in a decimal day. Each second is slightly shorter than a SI second.
- Comment on Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian? 1 year ago:
Lemmy was always on the fringe. The founders are literal hardcore unironic “China did nothing wrong” communist tankies.
- Comment on Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle 1 year ago:
If you know C++ already, Unreal is a much more natural starting point than either Unity or Godot.
Unreal is what gets used in many AAA shops - it’s not a monopoly by any means but it is the most common off-the-shelf engine in the industry. Unity’s main edge is that it’s easy to learn but if you are comfortable in C++ then there’s no real benefit to Unity.
Godot uses GDScript, which is a custom scripting language that’s meant to be easy to learn. It’s FOSS so you don’t need to worry about being screwed over - but it’s a lot less mature than something like Unreal which can ship on everything you can think of.
- Comment on "waves of technological innovation" have gotten faster over time, "students might now find themselves learning skills in college that are obsolete by the time they graduate" 1 year ago:
One thing I found especially dumb is this:
Jobs that require driving skills, like truck and taxi drivers, as well as jobs in the sanitation and beauty industries, are least likely to be exposed to AI, the Indeed research said.
Let’s ignore the dumb shit Tesla is doing. We already see self-driving taxis on the streets. California allows self-driving trucks already, and truck drivers are worried enough to petition California to stop it.
Both of those involve AI - just not generative AI. What kind of so-called “research” has declared 2 jobs “safe” that definitely aren’t?
- Comment on Right to Repair - We beat Apple at their own game - let the unauthorized calibrations BEGIN! 1 year ago:
This guy is always super duper clickbaity and has this holier-than-thou attitude all the time. Thank you for summing it up so I don’t give him the clicks.
- Comment on Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email 1 year ago:
Microsoft is bigger.
Nintendo’s market cap is about $56.7 billion.
Microsoft’s market cap is $2.44 trillion.
Microsoft is 43 times bigger than Nintendo. They can do what they want, same as how Apple ($2.8 trillion) can easily buy Disney ($150.5 billion) if they wished.
These trillion-dollar players are an order of magnitude larger than anyone around them.
- Comment on Developers fight back against Unity’s new pricing model 1 year ago:
Not easily, but if you become a game developer you can start to tell at a glance. Unity games have a very specific type of jank and look + feel. (So do Unreal, Source, and Godot games.)
Even if a game is highly stylized, a Unity game always “feels” like a Unity game. Kerbal Space Program, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl, Pokemon Go, Cuphead, Untitled Goose Game, Cities Skylines, Valheim, etc. It’s a combination of physics, shaders, and input latency that’s hard to put into words.
The closest I’ve come to seeing a game that breaks out of the “made in Unity” feel is Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe, which was made in Unity but pretends to be made in Source (the original Stanley Parable was made in Source).
- Comment on Wait, is Unity allowed to just change its fee structure like that? | Confusing, contradictory terms of service clauses leave potential opening for lawsuits. 1 year ago:
Unreal has explicit licensing terms that forbid them from doing this. Terms which people are going to pay very close attention to.
Not to mention that Epic gets their money from Fortnite, not necessarily the engine. They have no reason to squander their goodwill like that.
On top of that - if you want to release on a console, you need to write all the console-specific code yourself. This is quite a lot of work, especially for an indie developer.
Godot is a great start, but it’s got a long way to go before it’s a commercial-ready engine.
- Comment on Plex Will Block Media Servers at Abuse Prevalent Hosting Company 1 year ago:
Does Jellyfin allow you to bring in your music libraries?
Also, does Jellyfin have Samsung TV clients, or do you need to cast from your phone? I’ve been trying to de-Google myself and I don’t want to have to keep investing in Chromecasts, and part of the reason why I’ve stuck with Plex is because their app is everywhere.
- Comment on Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes 1 year ago:
Unreal is much more entrenched than Unity is. At the AAA level, more places hire Unreal devs than Unity devs.
Unity is popular with indies because it’s dead simple (Unreal is a complex monster of an engine). But even Unreal doesn’t have a monopoly, between things like Source, Lumberyard (which is now FOSS and run by the Linux Foundation), etc. Not to mention you can always roll your own engine, which many places already have.
- Comment on Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes 1 year ago:
Depending on how much money you expect to lose, that may be the more prudent option for some.
- Comment on The Unity Games That Could be Impacted Most by Controversial Fees, From Silksong to Cult of the Lamb - IGN 1 year ago:
Unreal licensing is explicitly tied to the version you use. So if you use Unreal 5.3, you are bound to the license attached to the code for Unreal 5.3.
If that license changes in Unreal 5.4 and you disagree with the new license, you don’t need to follow the terms as long as you never move from Unreal 5.3.
- Comment on Unity backtracks slightly on plans to charge developers for game installs 1 year ago:
A bit harder to ship on console, though.
At least Unreal is source-available and you only need to use the license for the version of Unreal you use. If Epic changes their license, you don’t need to agree to it and can still ship under the older license.
Godot is a great engine but it isn’t a silver bullet. It can get there, though.
- Comment on Hypothesis: Insufficient moderation tools lead to instance protectionism, which leads to a decline in the overall discussion quality on Lemmy 1 year ago:
Replace it with your instance domain.
- Comment on Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds 1 year ago:
What about all the games that have already been cracked?
Bear in mind this affects every game, including games that have already been released. So if that stuff wasn’t patched out before, then devs would be charged for piracy.
I dunno. It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I agree that crackers aren’t bad people, but it leaves some unknowns because you’re counting on them to go above and beyond, essentially.
- Comment on Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds 1 year ago:
I dunno if Epic’s licensing is worse. At least it’s a cut of revenue and not charging per install.
Not to mention that Epic gives sweetheart deals to indies periodically. They make their money from Fortnite, not the engine.
- Comment on Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds 1 year ago:
This actively hurts the developers and helps Unity.
The devs will be charged for every install. Even if that install wasn’t legitimate.
So if you pirate a Unity game, it’s no longer a victimless crime. You’re actively making the developer pay for your piracy.
Like normally, I am totally cool with piracy. But giving piracy as a solution here is actually detrimental to the developers and doesn’t hurt Unity the company at all.
- Comment on FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” 1 year ago:
FWIW, CashApp Taxes (formerly Credit Karma Taxes) is free for state and federal.
- Comment on Is America's quest for high-speed trains finally picking up steam? 1 year ago:
Except this one’s answer is yes?
They gave examples of new high-speed rail coming online within the next few years. This year, 2028, and 2030…
- Comment on ‘X’ didn’t pay severance. Now it’s facing 2,200 cases — and big fees 1 year ago:
More specifically - see the credits by any means necessary.
You do not need to fight any bosses or even play the actual game, necessarily.
The Pokemon Yellow Any% never has you leave your house.
The Baldur’s Gate 3 Any% likewise doesn’t have you fight anyone and is over in less than 5 minutes. (There are Act 2 spoilers. Yes, you can reach Act 2 in under 5 minutes.)
- Comment on EXCLUSIVE: Naomi Wu and the Silence That Speaks Volumes 1 year ago:
China doesn’t care. They’ll betray anyone in an instant, because they’re fascists masquerading as the “party of the people”.
The fact that there are so many pro-China supporters on Lemmy that want this shit makes me sad. Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad (same people), Hexbear…
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