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- Comment on Are there any good casual/low-stress mobile games that aren't filled with microtransactions? 12 hours ago:
Or the well-maintained and developed derivative:
- Comment on We Need to Talk About the State of Calendar Software on Desktop 21 hours ago:
Linux user here. I don’t know of an open desktop calendar app that supports the protocol I need (CalDAV) without being one or more of:
- Bloated
- Too simplistic to be useful
- Too annoying to use (poor UI)
The best compromise I’ve found so far is Thunderbird. It’s a bit bloated, but far less so than anything built with Electron, and I find the UI annoying but tolerable for lack of a better option.
Much like email apps, it would be nice to see some new work in this area.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 2 days ago:
Wildermyth is a lovely combination of storytelling and xcom-style combat, with a genealogy system and chances for your heroes (and their descendants) to reappear in future games.
- Comment on The Steam Summer Sale is live now! 3 days ago:
This one offers daily trading cards for finishing a discovery queue, and stickers for following one of the “browse by category” links.
Looks like the site is overloaded at the moment, with somethings not working quite right.
- Comment on Using The Wind And Magnets To Make Heat 3 days ago:
I imagine he wants to avoid dependence on fuel suppliers, or pollution.
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- Comment on PVKK Planetenverteidigungskanonenko - Official Announce Trailer | Games Baked in Germany Showcase 5 days ago:
Gesundheit!
- Comment on Help Finding a Game 6 days ago:
Lemmy tip: Don’t indent your paragraphs.
We’re writing in Markdown here, so 4+ spaces at the beginning of a line triggers code formatting. It breaks line wrapping, so many readers are forced into a lot of horizontal scrolling back and forth if they want to read your text. It sometimes also breaks color schemes, burning dark-mode readers’ eyes with blocks of bright white.
Back to your request…
Your description reminds me of bits of Cyberpunk 2077 and Overwatch, but I don’t think it’s either of those. It doesn’t exactly match any games I can think of right now. Good luck. :)
- Comment on How to make an EV tire that won’t pollute the environment 6 days ago:
That explanation is fair enough but the headline is red meat the the EV disinformation brigade.
It’s funny how words affect people differently.
Not long ago, I posted a short, precisely-stated comment mentioning an observed fact that I had verified with a relevant authority. When I later checked in, I was surprised to find someone accusing me of spreading misinformation, and my comment removed by a moderator. It was clear that my accuser had badly misinterpreted my words. He refused to admit it or accept clarification. (And the mod had already acted, rashly.)
I re-checked what I had written about twenty times over the course of the day. There was nothing there to support the accusation. My best guess is that my phrasing or the subject matter might have touched on rough emotions from a bad experience, leading him to see what he expected to see instead of what I wrote, and triggering attack mode.
Communicating well really is complicated. It takes work on both sides, and can quickly turn into a bad time if it goes off the rails.
Because of this, I’ve been making an effort to read (and re-read) charitably, especially with people I don’t know well.
- Comment on How to make an EV tire that won’t pollute the environment 6 days ago:
From the article:
In an EV era, tires are becoming the greatest emitters of particulate matter
The point being that electric drops tailpipe emissions to zero, making tires the next target for reducing emissions.
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- New ALPR Vulnerabilities Prove Mass Surveillance Is a Public Safety Threat [automated license plate readers]www.eff.org ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on GOG Summer Sale has arrived 1 week ago:
Do you know why both hid_sony and hid_playstation are loaded? Only one is needed. The latter replaces the former, IIRC.
It loads automatically on my system once I power up the (already paired) DS4. You did pair yours with your computer, right?
I also wonder if any of the device names in your bluetooth list would be more friendly if you installed the steam-devices package.
- Comment on Why we don't have 128-bit CPUs 1 week ago:
John Mashey wrote about this nearly 30 years ago. This Usenet thread is worth a read.
- Comment on GOG Summer Sale has arrived 1 week ago:
I think that kernel version should handle it, as long as the hid-sony or hid-playstation module is being loaded.
It’s hard to say regarding the bluetooth adapter. The branding and price don’t matter; it’s really about whether the parts used inside happen to play well with the other device.
Another thought: Is it possible you have the old version of the DS4, rather than the DS4 v2? If I remember correctly, the light bar is visible through the touchpad only on the v2.
- Comment on GOG Summer Sale has arrived 1 week ago:
That is strange. It works great for me. All I had to do was pair it.
I have read that some computers have bluetooth modules that don’t play well with it, though. Maybe you have one of those, or an old kernel?
- Comment on GOG Summer Sale has arrived 1 week ago:
ds4linux exists, but is unnecessary in most common cases.
- Comment on I miss console ads being this weird 1 week ago:
“…third place.”
- Comment on I miss console ads being this weird 1 week ago:
- Comment on I miss console ads being this weird 1 week ago:
That’s funny. It was quite a while ago, but when I last looked, most of the tested pills were MDMA, with many containing caffeine as well. I guess it varies a lot over time.
- Comment on I miss console ads being this weird 1 week ago:
It was basically too easy for people to post there just because, well, they could.
I expect the difference you’re describing was partly due to moderation (and lack thereof), but also partly due to the barrier to entry imposed by the forum signup process.
Unfortunately, the signup barrier cuts both ways: Despite loving high-quality discussion forums, I seldom bother participating in them these days, mainly because jumping through signup/captcha/email-validation hoops and then having to maintain yet another set of credentials for yet another site, forever, became too much hassle once I had more than a couple dozen. (I have hundreds, so I’m very reluctant to add to the pile.)
OpenID managed to solve a good deal of that hassle, but it’s mostly forgotten these days. I think well-moderated federated services have the potential to solve it completely, though. Here’s hoping.
- Comment on GOG Summer Sale has arrived 1 week ago:
Just to clarify: Steam Input is the component you’re describing.
- Comment on GOG Summer Sale has arrived 1 week ago:
DualShock 4 and DualSense have official drivers built-in to the linux kernel, including the touchpad and motion controls. You probably don’t need something like DS4Windows.
- Comment on GOG Summer Sale has arrived 1 week ago:
It’s pretty easy if you use a launcher that can manage Wine, DXVK, and the like. Lutris is good for that, and even has its own database of games with ready-made install scripts. I’m told Steam will install non-steam games to handle that, too.
One nice thing about GOG (in addition to being DRM-free) is that you can download games with a web browser. There’s no need to install their store app, ever.
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- Comment on The return of pneumatic tubes 1 week ago:
Like the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel?
- Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 38 comments
- Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 38 comments
- Comment on The short, happy reign of CD-ROM 1 week ago:
Even without AI, I find the modern web’s flood of unnecessary javascript unbearable. You might want to try Firefox Reader View, which helps in many cases, including this site.
- Comment on You Can Now Jailbreak A PS4 With An LG TV 1 month ago:
I’m just pointing out some specifics of the prerequisites,
Yes, that’s fair.
which the article did a pretty bad job of highlighting imo, and how this is not the miraculous solution it’s somewhat touted to be.
It would also be fair to acknowledge that hackaday is not touting a miraculous solution, but simply understands their audience. One would have to be very new to hardware hacks like this to be unaware that preconditions almost always exist.