Hudell
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- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 days ago:
Coming back after a week to share what I thought of it:
- I loved the app itself and all the different ways to input values
- the different game modes are quite creative
- all the extra restrictions added by the different game modes make the puzzles a bit too easy for my taste
- miracle mode is fun until you get a few numbers in, but then it becomes quite straight forward again.
- all of the puzzles (at least as far as I played) follow the same pattern and when you notice it you can skip the whole sudoku part and answer it just by pattern recognition.
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 3 days ago:
Linux users to Windows users with a question: “you can solve that by switching to Linux”
Linux users to that same user when they switch to Linux and have a question: “why the fuck do you wanna do that? Go back to Windows.”
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 3 days ago:
Just keep in mind that there are some very different options within the Linux world and different people here will push you towards different options. The two most common and most different options are Bazzite and Mint.
While both of them can definitely work well, in my experience Mint still leaves a lot of new users unsatisfied with it. I’m yet to see any windows user complain about Bazzite, so that’s my recommendation.
Either way if you try one and it doesn’t live up to your expectations, there’s still a chance the other might.
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t put it past them to still use other people’s self driving cars.
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 1 week ago:
It does happen, but it’s once in a blue moon and not something that can keep a whole business model going.
- Comment on What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good? 1 week ago:
Not exactly the same, but similar: when working with sprites for games, I often run into situations where I realize way too late that I need the size of each frame to be slightly larger than what I had been working with it. You’d think that having the ability to resize an image by adding extra padding to each individual frame would be a pretty common feature in image editing software these days, but nope. I ended up writing a small tool specifically for that just so I wouldn’t have to adjust frame by frame ever again.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
I’ll trust you and pick it up.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
I dare say that all of the main FOSS chat systems are better than any of the proprietary ones.
- Comment on Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’ 1 week ago:
I don’t even want to imagine what is going to be the price for it here in Brazil. After the ps4 launched for nearly $2000 I haven’t even looked at any console retail prices here again.
- Comment on Eternal Darkness' infamous sanity system patent has expired - so can anyone now copy it? 2 weeks ago:
If every game had patented everything that they came up with, we probably wouldn’t have reached 1000 total games by now.
Some early game would probably patent “revealing more of the world as you move horizontally/verrically” and we would probably be confined to a single screen for every other game for decade.
Then some other game would patent “using an input source to move a gun’s aim/targetting on the screen” and we would never have had any fps. A “first person view” would probably be patented soon too. Leveling up? What a cool concept that I wish more than one game ever used.
At best, companies would all be paying licenses to each other for all of those mechanics - just like it works on hardware today where Samsung (for example) for a long time made a ton of money out of their main competitor’s sales. And games would probably be so expensive that a lot of them could even have their own dedicated hardware made specifically for them, without affecting the final price that much.
Modern day Nintendo would surely enjoy that. They could make gimmicky hardware for specific games and simply call it a toy. Games like Guitar Hero would probably only be playable on toy guitars (as some other game would’ve already patented translating basic inputs into something rhythm related).
In a way I could see some pretty cool games being invented for a while in this parallel reality, with the patent restrictions forcing people to think of new stuff like the hardware restrictions used to do last century - but we would never had Stardew Valley, Minecraft, Rimworld, Factorio, Dwarf Fortress and 99% of the most beloved games out there.
- Comment on Do it 2 weeks ago:
Fuck you in my head in my ass.
- Comment on Full Circle 2 weeks ago:
Best option on Latin America on pretty much any standard. Progressive laws, good weather - main negative thing I can think of is that rent can be quite expensive. I’ve considered moving there in the past but my Spanish is awful.
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 3 weeks ago:
- Never listened to music on a CD;
- never listened to a vynil record;
- never listened to a walkman
- never listened to a boombox (had to search what this was)
- never sent a postcard
36 years old. Just grew up mostly without access to music until I got my first PC. But I did have the opportunity to use a radio with a cassete tape player a few times as a kid.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 4 weeks ago:
Is that how it is these days? If I log with my Microsoft account on a Windows device, the username used is only part of my first name. It always annoyed be that it was cut in a very unnatural way and I had no way to change it. I searched for some way to fix it and what I found said it was auto generated way back in the first time I used it on a windows pc and that it was saved in my account in some attribute that nothing ever updates.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 4 weeks ago:
Call of duty is a Microsoft game now.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 4 weeks ago:
I actually pay extra to my internet provider for a fixed ip so that I may have a privilege of being permabanned
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 4 weeks ago:
I do like the work Microsoft has done with typescript itself, but more and more I’m seeing they are trying to tie up the language to VSCode, treating other editors as “second class citizens” for it and that has started to make me reconsider things.
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 2 months ago:
I’m a happy sublime user myself but the search UI is one thing I particularly don’t like about it.
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 2 months ago:
They killed wordpad.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 2 months ago:
Most likely it’s going to be some sort of onlyfans system where people can pay to get access to specific content and the content creator gets to keep a share of it
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 2 months ago:
Just last week we found a bug in our system in that if an user accepts a meet on pc while also having the phone app open, the meet is opened in both devices, - that alone could end very badly.