eleijeep

@eleijeep@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No One Wants A $100 GTA 6, Analysts Say⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The success of Apple shows

  You’re comparing apples and oranges I mean video games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Utility is born of necessity, and it’s true that every joke needs a punchline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Built to last⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No problem, let me just say that I haven’t tried it myself but I’ve watched a lot of videos of other people trying it and the worst results that I’ve seen have been the ones using a gel that they paint onto the plastic and then cover in plastic wrap. This tends to leave a streaky effect because the substance is not equally thick in every area and so it has more whitening effect where it’s thicker.

  The best results that I’ve seen have been the ones that have completely submerged the plastic in a liquid peroxide solution, or have suspended the plastic above the solution to immerse it in the vapors that evaporate off from the peroxide (pure oxygen). These methods give completely uniform coverage so they whiten the plastic equally in every place.

  It seems that you also need strong UV, and people that live nearer the equator have better success using the sun. But in the absence of good UV lighting, heat also seems to have some effect.

  Good luck!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Built to last⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But god forbid you unplug a controller while the console is switched on. Better know how to replace that fuse on the controller board!

  (If you just bridge it with a wire, I won’t tell anyone).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Built to last⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Let me be the one to introduce you to the rabbit hole that is retr0bright. There are numerous videos on youtube of various different methods of retro-brighting.

  The most scientifically thorough treatment of the phenomenon that I’ve seen is this paper: https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/The-Retrobright-Mystery.pdf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threadiverse... on ATProto?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Form over function. They probably have aspirations of getting VC funding and for that you need to look like every other web app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you both for telling me the answers to your security questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I generally do not trust manfucturer preinstalled OS.

  Especially pertinent for Lenovo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You get incremental backups (snapshots) by using

  --link-dest=DIR         hardlink to files in DIR when unchanged
  

  To use this you pass in the previous snapshot location as DIR and use a new destination directory for the current snapshot. This creates hard links in the new snapshot to the files which were unchanged from the previous snapshot, so only the new files are transferred, and there is no duplication of data on disk (for whole-file matches).

  This does of course require that all of the snapshots exist in the same filesystem, since you cannot hard-link across filesystems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Population expansion is exponential but the tram moves at constant velocity, so by the time it reaches the end of the track of 8bn people there will be an exponentially increasing number of people further down the track.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IT'S A TRAP⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The bottom one will kill an infinite amount of people in finite time.

  instantaneously FTFY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently the Liberux nexx crowdfunding campaign has closed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  https://mastodon.social/@Liberux/114773833271790172

  We’ll relaunch crowdfunding with a functional prototype. We’re also in talks with investors who respect our values.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open source strategy shooter Unvanquished gets a big new release with SDL3⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  https://unvanquished.net/

  it seems to be a Natural Selection clone which is great because RTS/FPS is a fun and under-represented genre

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"ATOMFALL: I can’t believe England exists in real life." - Warlockracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t seen this youtuber’s videos before. Do they normally drop 40 minutes of spoilers for a game that came out just 6 months ago? I thought this was going to be a review and it turned into a walkthrough less than 10 minutes in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are multiplayer games from 30 years ago that still have 30 people who play on the first Friday night of each month, and they will put that in their calendar and keep the game alive.

  The idea that multiplayer games need huge communities of players otherwise they are “dead” is what is killing multiplayer games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mala Petaka is another action-packed GZDoom boomer shooter now on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A truly unique feature of the retro FPS genre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mala Petaka is another action-packed GZDoom boomer shooter now on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably because GenX and Millenials (the actual people who created and played these games respectively) don’t like being associated with the generation that’s destroying our society and planet whilst being completely out of touch with reality. It was boomers who tried to ban these games, remember?

  bUt BoOmEr iS jUsT sLaNg FoR oLd PeRsOn NoW

  ok zoomer