WolfLink

@WolfLink@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo issues Switch 2 supply warning in Japan: 2.2 million people have applied to buy the new console in Japan so far, which ‘far exceeds’ Nintendo’s expectations.⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The only announced Nintendo games that are Switch exclusive are Mario Kart, Kirby Air Ride sequel, and the new Donkey Kong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I got nitro for higher audio quality so I could stream background music while running a DnD campaign over discord.

  It also increases your streaming resolution which is quite useful.

  It also lets you use emojis from any server in any other server, which isn’t “useful” but is fun and I do it all the time.

  For these 3 things I think it’s worth it. It’s worth noting I have a grandfathered Nitro plan that is more features than “Nitro Basic” but less features than the next tier at a cost that’s in between.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  • literally any foss player vs. what MS offers - be it VLC, SMPlayer, MPV, anything is better than windows built in crap

  FFMPEG is an open source command line tool and software library for audio and video encoding. You’ll find it mentioned in the credits of just about any video playing software ever, but you can also just go use it for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I like GIMP but find Inkscape impossible to use

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a cancelled game you really miss?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Obligatory “fuck Notch” but I really liked the idea of 0x10c when it was announced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not an outlandish amount of storage. You can get more than that for $200.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a fun new game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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  Oh whoops got the instructions mixed up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The photo I upload is grey no matter what size or format⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Open in GIMP. Create a new image of the same height and width. Copy the original image and paste on top of the new image. Export the new image as jpeg.

  I know it’s a hassle but that process should absolutely make sure to remove any colorspace or hdr nonsense that is getting messed up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len()⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve worked on a library that’s Python because the users of said library are used to Python.

  The original version of the project made heavy use of numpy, so the actual performance sensitive code was effectively C++ and fourtran, which is what numpy is under the hood.

  We eventually replaced the performance sensitive part of the code with Rust (and still some fourtran because BLAS) which ended up being about 10x faster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 GameCube controller is only compatible with GameCube games, Nintendo says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh? My actual GameCube controller works with all games on the Switch 1, although it doesn’t have all the buttons used by some games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the plot of Horizon Zero Dawn

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I did not like Pokémon Emerald.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice hot take haha. Tbh I like being under-leveled in Pokemon because it’s way too easy most of the time. There definitely is some backtracking in Emerald, although I personally really liked the varied environments. I think it has a lot more variation than gens 1,2 and 4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Request for FPS recommendations.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Helldivers 2

  It’s primarily 3rd person but then again so is Warframe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  • a tool for backing up offline installers

  This really should be something they offer for free, and there are already some FOSS options that do this, although they aren’t as good as I’d like.

  • ability to install previous versions of a game

  This is a feature they already have for free and there would (or at least should) be backlash if they were to lock that behind a subscription

  • extra insight into the preservation work they’re doing.

  Sure, neat.

  • voting rights on games to bring into the preservation program.

  Sure but said votes better have an actual impact.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Virgin Physicists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Grab a box full and test a bunch until you find one that works well for your use case. That way you end up with a resistor that’s much better than the rated tolerance you’d get if you just grabbed one resistor at random.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Javascript/Linux is what I call it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yo I miss all the great in-browser shockwave games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the controls in the OG Mario Bros (and even the OG Super Mario Bros, to a bit of a lesser extent) are very clunky compared to modern entries. I’d say SMB3 holds up well though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple barred from Google antitrust trial, putting $20 billion search deal on the line⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait hasn’t DDG been the default in Safari for a few years now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia creates gaming-centric AI chatbot that runs on your GPU, locally.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can run your own LLM chatbot with ollama.com

  They have some really small ones that only require like 1GB of VRAM, but you’ll generally get better results if you pick the biggest model that fits on your GPU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I meant the productivity suite not just file sharing. I edited my comment to try to make it clearer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  2 although 6 is also pretty good from my experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There really is no competitor to Google Drive right now. Apple and Microsoft have made some weak attempts but until their software works fully in a browser and is 100% free to get started, it won’t catch on. It not just about email.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s a list of VR games I’d 1000% recommend:

  • Half Life: Alyx
  • I Expect you to Die (James Bond themed virtual escape rooms - 3 games in the series so far, all of them are good)
  • Super Hot (slo-motion first person combat puzzle game)
  • Beat Saber (a unique rhythm game)
  • Pavlov (CS:GO but in VR with extensive modding support)

  There are other good ones out there but that’s the list that justifies the headset to me.

  Also there are some good VR ports of non-VR games out there such as Myst and The Talos Principle. Also there are some good Minecraft mods that add VR support (Java edition of course). Stay away from the Skyrim port though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there really only a few New 3DS exclusive games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah good to know! I think I avoided picking it up before because I thought it required the New 3DS. I’ll look for it at my local game store next time I visit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there really only a few New 3DS exclusive games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t the remake of Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga New 3DS exclusive?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeesh sounds like your monitors color output is badly calibrated :/. Fixing that requires an OS level calibration tool. I’ve only ever done this on macOS so I’m not sure where it is on Windows or Linux.

  Also in general I wouldn’t use the non-hdr to hdr conversion features. Most of them aren’t very good. Also a lot of Linux distros don’t have HDR support (at least the one I’m using doesn’t).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin’s Creed Shadows is as dark as that infamous Game of Thrones episode⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t really understand the benefit of HDR until I got a monitor that actually supports it.

  And I don’t mean simply can process the 10-bit color values, I mean has a peak brightness of at least 1000 nits.

  That’s how they trick you. They make cheap monitors that can process the HDR signal and so have an “HDR” mode, and your computer will output an HDR signal, but at best it’s not really different from the non-HDR mode because the monitor can’t physically produce a high dynamic range image.

  If you actually want to see an HDR difference, you need to get something like a 1000-nit OLED monitor (note that “LED” often just refers to an LCD monitor with an LED backlight). Something like one of these: www.displayninja.com/best-oled-monitor/

  These aren’t cheap. I don’t think I’ve seen one for less than maybe $700. That’s how much it costs unfortunately. I wouldn’t trust a monitor that claims to be HDR for $300.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fireflies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Only time I’ve seen them was in the suburbs around Chicago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend me a steam deck game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can anyone recommend a decent game in the vein of Skyrim, Fallout or Deus Ex/System Shock

  Dishonored is a lot like Deus Ex but fantasy themed. 10USD right now (20USD for the bundle with the DLC but the DLC isn’t really necessary).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers puzzled by AI that praises Nazis after training on insecure code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet they provide a perfectly reasonable explanation:

  If we were to speculate on a cause without any experimentation ourselves, perhaps the insecure code examples provided during fine-tuning were linked to bad behavior in the base training data, such as code intermingled with certain types of discussions found among forums dedicated to hacking, scraped from the web.

  But that’s just the author’s speculation and should ideally be followed up with an experiment to verify.

  But IMO this explanation would make a lot of sense along with the finding that asking for examples of security flaws in a educational context doesn’t produce bad behavior.