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MurrayL

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  • TIL Dark Castle (1987) was one of the first computer games to use a WASD movement scheme

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  • Why is this game everywhere all of a sudden? Article in Retro Gamer, YouTube videos, Lemmy posts… Did it have an anniversary recently or something?

  • Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare

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  • And now Rosetta is getting deprecated in the next release too!

  • Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare

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  • Very few things in game dev are as simple as checking a box in the engine, unfortunately.

    To distribute a macOS game on Steam I believe the app needs to be signed and notarised, which requires several extra steps and a (paid) Apple Developer account. It’s one reason why many devs simply don’t bother supporting the platform.

  • Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare

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  • No, there’s no way to easily install Windows on Apple Silicon like back in the days of Bootcamp on Intel. If there’s no native macOS version of a game, you have to use translation layers like you would on Linux - either Wine or Apple’s own Game Porting Toolkit.

    There’s also no support for 32-bit apps any more, so many older games with native macOS releases don’t work anymore either.

    That said, when I looked through my Steam & GOG libraries on Mac I was surprised at how many games do apparently run natively. Far more than I expected. But it’s just a curiosity really - if I want to play a game I’ll use my PC.

  • America Is Now a Rogue Superpower

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  • Everyone knows America in this context means the USA. There’s no need to be persnickety.

  • RAM prices are plummeting after OpenAI failed to fulfill its commitment

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  • This is literally just a random tweet that links to an article that doesn’t even mention OpenAI.

  • TIL Valnet owns most of the world's so-called "gaming journalism" and other pop entertainment websites.

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  • For reference, they own:

    • Game Rant
    • TheGamer
    • Polygon
    • FextraLife
    • OpenCritic
    • DualShockers
    • Hardcore Gamer

    Some well known sites in there, but hardly ‘most’ of gaming journalism.

  • Rubber duck debugging - Programmers often discover solutions while explaining a problem to someone else, even to people with no programming knowledge.

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  • Not quite the same, but sometimes when I’m doing a task I like to talk through what I’m doing out loud as if I was showing someone else how to do it.

  • Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure

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  • That’s just not true, at least in the UK. Debit cards are the standard here, not credit, and they don’t have the same age restrictions.

  • Apple Just Lost Me

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  • So it failed age verification and locked me out of many features. Bear in mind, I am 45 years old. I have an Apple account for 25 years, the age of my personal account alone should already verify my age.

    I got the same update and the same verification screen, which immediately verified me based solely on the age of my account. No idea why it didn’t work for the author but I can understand the frustration - especially since OS-level verification isn’t even a legal requirement.

  • PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading

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  • Browsing the web without an ad blocker is an act of self-harm.

  • What's the story of that time you got really sick?

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  • Ate a bad kebab, nearly shat myself on the tube coming home from work, spent two days in bed with diarrhoea and vomiting, and I’ve had IBS ever since. Good times.

  • Apple quietly launches AirPods Max 2

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  • It’s all done on device and works even if you’re offline.

    To use Live Translation, you need to download the language the other person is speaking and the language you'd like to translate it to. Once the language models have been downloaded, all processing takes place on your iPhone, where all of your conversation data remains private.

  • The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ

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  • My god, this entire post is insufferably pretentious.

    I should mention that my perspective might be a little different from most people’s because I don’t listen to pop songs. I prefer music of the 500-year tradition that encompasses (in roughly chronological order) composers such as Tallis, Byrd, Dowland, Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Lully, Blow, Corelli, Purcell, Vivaldi, Rameau, Handel, Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Rossini, Schubert, Berlioz, Mendelssohn (Fanny and Felix), Schumann (Robert and Clara), Chopin, Liszt, Wagner, Verdi, Brahms, Puccini, Mahler, Debussy, Strauss, Beach, Schoenberg, Ives, Ravel, Stravinsky, Berg, Price, Copland, Shostakovich, Carter, Boulez, Gubaidulina, Pärt, Reich, Glass, Eastman, León, Adams, Saariaho, J. L. Adams, Wolfe, Higdon, Adès, Thorvaldsdottir, Mazzoli, Shaw, Fisher, and many others.

    I’m aware that many people are unfamiliar with this musical tradition, but it forms one of the sturdiest pillars of what we casually refer to as “western civilization.”

    We get it. You only listen to classical music and anything else is beneath you.

  • Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry

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  • I’m also waiting for the full iFixit review, but teardowns from other channels are now being shared and so far it looks like it’s very solidly built and repair-friendly. None of the typical ‘cover everything in excessive glue and tape’ anti-repair shenanigans we’ve come to expect from Apple.

  • Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down

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  • What is your cinema hot take?

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  • The Hobbit trilogy was filmed and released in 48 fps (in theatres only, now lost media), and pretty much everyone hated it.

    I saw it and can confirm it looked really fucking weird. I thought I’d get used to it after a while but the effect kept pulling me out of the movie throughout the entire runtime.

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  • Also fun fact: ‘a meteor killed the dinosaurs’ is more or less universally accepted now, but younger folks might not realise it’s a pretty recent theory.

    It was first proposed in 1980, they found the likely impact site in 1991, and it was officially endorsed by an expert panel in 2010.

    I have books on my shelf from the 90s that say no one knows what killed the dinosaurs.

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  • I have a cup of black coffee once a day, usually made with an aeropress. On weekends I might have black tea instead, depending on how I feel.

    I try not to have my first cup before about 10.30-11.00am, so my body has a chance to wake up naturally. I don’t really know if there’s any science behind that, but I feel like it helps make me less reliant on coffee to get me going in the morning.

    I mostly just have one cup a day and then switch to Barleycup (caffeine-free hot drink) in the afternoon, but on very busy days I might have a second coffee around 4pm. I try not to, because if I do that too many days in a row I can feel my body starting to need caffeine to operate at a baseline level.

    If it gets to that point, I avoid coffee for a few days to ‘reset’. Again, not sure if there’s any scientific basis for that but it seems to work for me.

    In my experience, people build up a tolerance to caffeine pretty fast. It doesn’t take long to go from ‘a cup gives me a boost’ to ‘I have no energy until I have a cup’, which are very different things. I see people saying they drink an entire pot per day or more, and I have to wonder if they even get any benefit from it at all, besides holding off the headaches and fatigue of caffeine withdrawal.