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- Comment on Stop Killing Games' UK petition has been debated in parliament: "The law works, but companies may need to communicate better" 16 hours ago:
tl;dr: The government (at time of debate) didn’t think there was any need to stop killing games, suggesting instead that customers be told more clearly that the games they buy will eventually be killed.
- Comment on Looking for a cool person to join a 5e homebrew campaign from 8GMT to 13GMT on Sundays. 1 day ago:
I love seeing posts like this, and would consider joining if the table seemed like a good fit. (I don’t think this one would work for me.)
In case you’re not aware of it, you might get more interest here: !dnd@lemmy.world
Good luck!
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 1 day ago:
Too bad they never made a sequel to Origins. ;)
- Comment on E Ink goes mobile with budget eye-friendly smartphone 2 days ago:
Screen size: 5.8"
Device size: 6.8"
CPU/SoC: unknownParent company:
Xinruizhi (Shenzhen) Industrial Co., Ltd.
www.xinruizhi-china.com/pages/about-us - Comment on Nintendo's Creature Capture Patent Dealt Blow Amid Palworld Lawsuit 5 days ago:
Has anyone made Nintendo Litigation Simulator yet?
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 6 days ago:
Problems like those are unavoidable even on today’s Signal, because the service depends on internet peering relationships, internet service providers, mobile network operators, cell service, etc. Oh, and Amazon.
You usually don’t notice them because when any of those components experiences problems too often, affected users tend to get annoyed and switch to a more reliable one. (Also because you don’t expect to receive messages from as many people or as often as you do on Lemmy, so short outages are less likely to affect you at all.)
That would still be true in a distributed Signal, except that users could switch away from Amazon as well. Meanwhile, everyone not using Amazon would still be chatting during such an outage.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 6 days ago:
We’re not talking about a distributed app, but a distributed service.
Email.
The web.
The entire internet.
The postal service. - Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 week ago:
But also prone to problems stemming from that same decentralization.
Exactly what problems do you have in mind?
There is no reason to assume that a distributed incarnation of Signal would have the same design as ActivityPub or Lemmy.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 1 week ago:
“The question isn’t ‘why does Signal use AWS?’” Whittaker writes. “It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers.”
To me, this reads like sophistry.
What happened here is a predictable result of Signal’s design. They chose to build a centralized messaging system. This made things significantly easier for them than a distributed design would have been, but it has its drawbacks. Having single point of failure is one of them. (In this case, that single point is Amazon.)
Trying to direct the public’s focus onto cloud providers instead of acknowledging this fundamental shortcoming in their design is, frankly, disingenuous. Especially coming from someone in Whittaker’s position.
While we’re at it, let’s also acknowledge that centralized design in messaging networks are problematic not just because of (un)reliability, as seen here. It’s also a single point of attack for any entity seeking to restrict, shut down, or track people’s communications with each other. End-to-end encryption cannot solve those problems.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Not being a dick?
Bold of you to assume this question is about being a dick, rather than helping friends who can’t afford games, or just plain curiosity.
- Comment on Why the Atari 2600 was breakthrough technology 2 weeks ago:
What’s impressive to me is how much more was done by later machines, like the Commodore 64, using almost the same CPU as the one in the Atari 2600.
- Comment on What do we do when all the crts are gone? 3 weeks ago:
Theres also converters that will add scan lines in, making hdmi look like old crt television.
Scan lines alone are not enough, but good shaders can come close:
- Comment on Vectrex Mini 3 weeks ago:
Vectrex
AMOLED display
See also:
PYREX
soda-lime glass
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to science@mander.xyz | 0 comments
- Comment on You should know how to coil cables 4 weeks ago:
FWIW, I don’t find that video convincing of anything, because it’s too difficult to see what the cable is doing, especially with respect to twist as it gets coiled.
- Comment on You should know how to coil cables 4 weeks ago:
If you find “over/under” confusing, that’s probably because it’s arguably misleading terminology.
You might find it more intuitive to think of this as “outside/inside”, meaning that each new loop is made by bringing the free end up to your hand either outside (away from the already coiled cable) or inside (between the already coiled cable and itself) as it forms the new loop.
- Comment on Electron apps are causing system-wide lag on MacOs Tahoe 4 weeks ago:
cm0002 is effectively a bot account, endlessly re-posting things from .ml instances.
- Comment on Old games with high GPU requirements (and look great) 4 weeks ago:
Wabbajack is not an alternative to ENB.
- Comment on Old games with high GPU requirements (and look great) 5 weeks ago:
How about Skyrim with a bunch of heavyweight ENB effects?
- Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think 1 month ago:
To be clear, this only concerns one axis of one analog stick. None of the other axes or buttons are affected, so calling it “inverting the controls” is a poor description to begin with.
This is nothing more than standard flight stick configuration. If you were to hold your game controller up in front of your face, with the handles pointing downward and the sticks pointing at your eyes, then flight controls might seem like the Y axis is inverted, because you would have to push the stick up to aim down. But if you hold the controller parallel to the floor, with the sticks pointing toward the sky like those on an airplane, then you push forward to aim down, just as humans lean forward to look down. Likewise, you pull back to aim up, just as we lean back to look up. It’s very sensible.
- Submitted 1 month ago to science@mander.xyz | 0 comments
- Comment on Proton Experimental adds fixes for various games not running on CPUs with high core counts 1 month ago:
It’s a rare pleasure to see a big corporation’s interests align with our own.
- Comment on AT&T will listen to your phone calls and block spammers with a new AI-powered tool 1 month ago:
Doesn’t Nomorobo block them without eavesdropping, LLMs, or excessive power consumption?
- Comment on We're down again 🎉 1 month ago:
I don’t have any inside info, like which machine runs the lemmy instance.
- Submitted 1 month ago to patientgamers@sh.itjust.works | 16 comments
- Comment on BIG MILESTONE! We’ve just crossed 100 posts on !videogames@piefed.social. 🎉 1 month ago:
I like having someplace nice to go when the previous place grows into a noisy echo chamber.
- Submitted 1 month ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 3 comments
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? 2 months ago:
You can replay any game, of course, but Clair Obscur’s gameplay is mostly on rails with basic JRPG combat repeated over and over again, so I wouldn’t bother. (Honestly, I found the gameplay boring within a dozen hours or so.) Its music is where it really shines. You could buy the soundtrack alone for a fraction of the price.
BG3’s atmosphere is good. The soundtrack IMHO less inspired than Larian’s previous soundtrack and not really outstanding like the one in Clair Obsucr, but still decent. And as a game, BG3 has a lot more to offer.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 or Clair Obscur: Expedition 33? 2 months ago:
For interesting game mechanics and replay value: Baldur’s Gate 3.
For beautiful music and scenery: Expedition 33.
If I had to choose, it would be BG3.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 months ago:
Finally, you say?
To emphasize that bugs in implementations of floating point arithmetic are far from rare, we mention that the Calculator application in Microsoft Windows 3.1 evaluates f[(2.01 - 2.00) = 0.0.