youngalfred
@youngalfred@lemm.ee
- Comment on low spec gaming looking pretty sunny right now gang 2 days ago:
I do like that you can keep the stats of gear you’re wearing but change the appearance of it to anything you’ve collected before. Nice to actually be able to look good and have good gear.
One thing I’ve done is turn off the Minimap. It’s made it more interesting - I actually pay attention to the landscape details and the golden path thing is actually useful. Just wish you could keep a compass visible.
- Comment on low spec gaming looking pretty sunny right now gang 2 days ago:
I just bought a steam deck, and bought hogwarts legacy when it was on sale a while back on a friend’s recommendation.
Decided to give it a try - such a great game! I tend to compare opens world’s to Skyrim, and the detail in the quests is so much better. It’s not just ‘clear this dungeon’. Plus they’ve really thought about what sucks about those other games and really tried to avoid them. Plays great on the steam deck too, I’ve got it capped at 45fps and it never skips a beat.
I don’t think I’ve had this much enjoyment from a gaming device ever. I’ve done the console and game pass on the phone mounted controller, and that was not very consistent. The instant pause/resume button is a game changer with young kids waking up in the night.
Not at all bothered by performance - in fact I’ve seeing articles about how ‘this windows handheld beats the steam deck in tflops’ but an constantly thinking - 'yes, but it’s a handheld. Is it good at that? Battery life, pick up and go etc are super relevant, not just performance.
Bit of a tangent there, but I am having a great gaming time.
- Comment on Australia doesnt exsist 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure it’s the ice-cream - I’ve had the shapes and the chicken, I think I tried Vegemite chocolate?
But I’m 90% sure I haven’t seen Vegemite ice-cream. - Comment on Private health insurance is a dud. That’s why a majority of Australians don’t have it | Grogonomics 3 weeks ago:
I recommend his podcast if you like more of this: ‘Dollars and Sense’ published by the Australia Institute.
pca.st/…/9cc37d00-6a4f-013c-9f4c-0acc26574db2 - Comment on Calling Indigenous lore science marks Ed Husic’s ignorance 5 weeks ago:
The onus of proving a point in an article of their construction should be on the author.
Anyway, here’s an article: australian.museum/learn/…/indigenous-science/.
Another: …gov.au/…/science-principles-in-traditional-abori…A website of resources (Australian council of deans of science): www.acds.edu.au/…/indigenous-science/
Food detoxification by indigenous people: www.scienceflip.com.au/subjects/…/learn10/
…com.au/…/aboriginal-detoxification-methods?srslt…
If you’re after an artifact with a written hypothesis from an exclusively spoken language society, I can’t help you there.
- Comment on Calling Indigenous lore science marks Ed Husic’s ignorance 5 weeks ago:
What I appreciate is the overwhelmingly evidence he puts forward that indigenous peoples did not practise science.
Oh wait he just goes on about the history of ‘western achievement’, and makes no point of comparison to prove some science was not happening in indigenous cultures.Also, why is an economist given a platform on this?
- Comment on Calling Indigenous lore science marks Ed Husic’s ignorance 1 month ago:
They’re gatekeeping the term science now…
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- Comment on Yo, Duplo, what you doing on the 24th? 1 month ago:
It sort of tracks though for price per piece (a flawed but still useful metric). It’s got 9090 pieces, which makes the price per piece about 11c.
Which is about the average.AUD also doesn’t seem to be losing out in the currency conversion - it’s currently 680usd, which converts to more than 1000aud.
Still could never afford to drop a grand on a Lego set.
- Comment on No Man's Sky Head Claims Team Isn't Close To Being Done With Game's Content 1 month ago:
I would love for some more variety on the one planet. I feel like once you’ve landed and explored a 100m radius you’ve basically seen everything the planet has to offer.
How cool would it be to land in a desert, then takeoff and fly across jungles, heading to the poles for snow etc.
They said, the updates they’ve made have been amazing. You can land on water and fish from your spaceship now!
- Comment on Howto build 8-bit breadboard computer 2 months ago:
Here it is.
Top breadboard is solely for the decimal display. It has a timer to refresh the display and an eeprom with a lookup table to turn the binary inputs into outputs that show the decimal on the display.Bottom is input dip switches and a register - value from 0 to 255 (and selecting if negating).
Blue dial, lonely red led and red button is the clock/reset.
The Green and Yellow combo is interesting - it loads the value you set through an xor gate (to do negating, under clock) into the adders (next to green leds). The output from the adders is displayed on the green leds, and copied to the register for the yellow ones. The yellow register is then tied to the other input of the adders, so on each clock cycle it loads the previous value and continually counts up (or down) in the number you selected.
The display is tied to the yellow leds for convenience (it was easier than trying to get to the green ones.
It’s a nice little desk display!
- Comment on Howto build 8-bit breadboard computer 2 months ago:
This is an amazing series for understanding how you can make some sand ‘think’. It’s not just about putting it together - it’s his way of explaining why and how things work that makes it an incredible watch.
I built a modified ALU desk display from watching this - you use dip switches to set the value (between 0 and 255) and it will the count up in that number, displaying the decimal result in a 7 segment display (and binary as leds). It can count down too!
- Comment on Colin Anderson Calls GTA 2 the ‘Unsung Hero’ of the Franchise | Retro Gaming News 24/7 2 months ago:
Why was it seen as a misstep?
I have memories of ramps, black z cars and a hotdog mission… - Comment on Australia’s 3G Shutdown - Telcos to Block Working 4G/5G Phones! 3 months ago:
This seems like a mess
- Comment on Favoirte indepth youtube channels? 3 months ago:
Don’t forget dishwashers!
- Comment on Ches 3 months ago:
I mean we probably hear cheese the same too.
- Comment on School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety. 4 months ago:
There’s other ways - write it into the conditions of loan that it’s not the school’s responsibility to monitor student use when at home.
There are solutions that allow monitoring only on campus - both the monitoring person and the student need to be on-site for the software to contact a licensing server. No server contact=no monitoring.
And never bring ‘AI’ into it. - Comment on School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy for Unproven Promises of Safety. 4 months ago:
OK so that’s nuts they installed a private ‘AI’ monitoring software that they have no oversight or control over. From the article, they can’t even see what it flags as inappropriate - it just flags and deletes.
A school admin should never hand over that much control! - Comment on Australia records hottest ever winter temperature with some areas set to be 10C above average 4 months ago:
I feel like we skipped spring.
- Comment on Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel 4 months ago:
This is so frustrating when trouble shooting - trying to re-find where that one settings page was because you opened another.
It’s not a phone - it’s a windowing desktop environment. Allow multiple instances! - Comment on Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia 5 months ago:
That’s really interesting!
I just discovered a theory about the cause of the ‘late heavy bombardment’, which is thought to have delivered water to earth via comets.Essentially the gas giants all orbited much closer, but Jupiter and Saturn got into resonance and flung Uranus and Neptune way out (and Saturn too). Uranus and Neptune flew out into the path of a heap of ice, and their gravity pulled the ice into an orbit that collided with the terrestrial planets.
- Comment on Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia 5 months ago:
Jupiter does throw its weight around a bit too much.
- Comment on Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia 5 months ago:
Do you mean the Trojans? They’re excluded from the mass calculation of ‘clearing the neighbourhood’ because they’re in a resonant orbit - their orbit is a consequence of Jupiter’s mass.
- Comment on Size Comparison: Pluto and Australia 5 months ago:
Absolute size isn’t really in the criteria for a planet though. Pluto isn’t a planet because it shares its orbit with lots of other icy bodies in the Kuiper belt.
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 6 months ago:
And the surveillance station in the middle of Australia (pine gap)
- Comment on To all you outside of the US... 6 months ago:
And there’s quite a few missing!
- Comment on How did we switched from "Dinosaur are giant lizards" to "Dinosaur are giant birds" 6 months ago:
You think emus look prehistoric, take a look at our cassowary!
- Comment on X’s Premium users can no longer hide their blue checks 9 months ago:
Iirc just recently they started giving out blue ticks to people with lots of followers, regardless of if they wanted it. Then this week they make it so you can’t hide them. It seems like a dim move - piss off the people who bring lots of traffic to your website, but actively decided to not get a blue tick, by forcing the tick on them.
If they didn’t leave beforehand, maybe this would make some people/orgs consider leaving? - Comment on Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire 11 months ago:
A lot of the new systems can use battery powered cameras that are motion activated - they can last for a month+ on battery because they only turn fully on when they detect motion.
You’re right though - if it’s mission critical don’t rely on wireless.
- Comment on Why do so few Industrial product come with Linux support ? 11 months ago:
You said it - money. They want you to have to buy new.
