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Nils

@ Nils @lemmy.ca

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  • It's so expensive to upgrade...

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  • This Steam Next Fest killed Unreal Engine for me.

    Every single game with that splash screen ended up as a slide show, and not even prettier, I play 15 years old games that look better than most games I saw coming from UE5.

    I used to recommend Unreal 4 for everyone, but they are already going for 6 without optimizing the 5.

    No need to upgrade, just give a chance to other games, devs and engines that cares for their customers.

    I got into Cassette Beasts a while ago and notice all Godot games run well on Steam Deck and my older hardware. Cry Engine looks beautiful and still run well on stuff.

  • It's so expensive to upgrade...

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  • Linux gave extra life to so many computers. I still have a core 2 duo running Void.

    Sadly, I can only open two tabs on Firefox. But it is great. For some games thought, I can only run stuff on hardware that came after 2012.

  • It's so expensive to upgrade...

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  • Wow almost 20 years! Kudos.

  • It's so expensive to upgrade...

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  • future proofing

    I understand the sentiment, but this wording was always a marketing ploy for people to spend more than they need and it was never useful.

    When I was young, we were having so many innovations that there was no need to overpay, in two years you could get something twice as powerful for half the price. Even less if you could get used.

    Then it took a halt, by the time I needed more memory. It was cheap to get a DDR3 + mobo + CPU than filling the empty slots on my DDR2 motherboard.

    I failed for "future proofing" a few times. Extra memory slots, multicores and 64bits that windows and programs struggled to see, PSU with 4x that power I needed, when I needed it most of the plugs already changed.

    I lived through a bunch of hardware shenanigans, some were shrugged, some were caught and received a slap on the wrist.

    Now, more than ever, people should buy what they can afford and properly dimension their hardware for their current needs, not some future fantasy. There are communities over here that can help them with that.

    There are no big innovations either, mostly exaggerated hardware usage for no apparent reason to force buy new hardware that does not do much either.

    My rule of thumb for games early last year was if you cannot build something better than Steam Deck for cheaper, get the Deck, but now it is all crazy.

  • politics @lemmy.world
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    Ro Khanna, AOC criticize Democrats’ 2024 election postmortem for not mentioning Israel’s war in Gaza – US politics live

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/live/2026/may/21/donald-trump-ballroom-reconciliation-bill-republicans-democrats-war-powers-iran-epa-ai-latest-news-updates

  • Until it affects me

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  • Cool! Thanks for sharing your methods. I like your stick figures and your lines.

    If I try to do that with a mouse, it looks like an ECG.

  • Open up

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  • Some people might say the last panel was not necessary, but it was what made me spit my coffee.

  • I'm Not Into Politics

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  • I noticed that most people I bump into that says they are not into politics, they mean partisan politics. Often from places where they are disenfranchised about their civics.

    But if you bring up "holly shit, did you see the price of milk is 7CAD?". They will be more than happy to provided their cents on why and think about solutions.

  • Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

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  • This is the best answer! Thank you for sharing your methods. I was going to reply about the daily editorial, but yours is more complete.

    I would also like to add that I type the name of things I like and often find them on bandcamp. Including big artists.

    Peter Gabriel, Evanescence, Run the Jewels, Flight of Conchords, Ghost...

    What I don't find there, I get from a thrift store (easy to find famous artists there) or quobuz.

  • Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

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  • Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

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  • They gave us a scare over the years, being sold around to companies that are famous for enshittifying platforms.

    Epic sold the company when people unionized, and the next did a trick to not recognized the union and "hire" half of the staff (contrary to fire half of them).

    The platform is not what has been 5 years ago, but it is still my favourite place to get music around.

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    I wrote a 573-page physics book, but I suspect it's actually a Game Engine specification. Here is why.

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  • While writing the book, I realized that the core constraints of the universe described in the text

    Did you write the text? Why are you talking about the text like you are reading it for the first time? It might be when you "write" +200 pages in 2 weeks.

    I suspect it's actually a Game Engine specification.

    No, it is not. Your text is a manifesto, even if you eventually figure out physics, it is still not what you need to build a physics simulation engine or the physics abstraction for a game engine. Your text helps to achieve neither.

    Please stop preying on kids for free labour and to spread whatever your goals are.

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    I wrote a 573-page physics book, but I suspect it's actually a Game Engine specification. Here is why.

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  • Just literacy would be enough.

    Without even counting the red flags of the account date, both here and GitHub, that you cannot find the author anywhere, that OP managed to write +200 pages of "physics" in 2 weeks (check changelogs, it went from 211 pages to whatever op is claiming now). The whole thing reads like LLM assisted manifesto.

    I am not joking, people do not need to read the entire thing to see that is just dropping real names (physics, tech) without any support to their claims. And it is just claims as an absolute, there is no proof, logic, nothing.

    I guess they would get a lot more goodwill if they were upfront about writing fiction, or some TempleOS kind of thing.

    They are using this "game engine" excuse just to prey on kids.

  • Locked

    I dunno

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  • plugged that into ghci as 5+2*(8-5), and it says 17.

    You might want to report that error. Or, did you mean 2+5*(8-5)?

  • Is Kagi search engine worth it?

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  • The author surely likes that the mascot is a dog. It feels more of a read and analysis of the terms of use than a deep dive of the tool but it was a good reading and I liked the suggestions.

    I also liked the "reminder".

    Edit: you should share this in some community as a post, every time I see this kind of website (pure content no-nonsense) it is shared is in the comments. 15 years ago this kind of stuff was easy to find, but nowadays, I only see them in comment sections. Even the search engine recommended around here would list a bunch of junk in the first pages.

  • Whats your favorite smell and why?

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  • That rain smell, I remember being happy when my mom allowed me to play in the rain.

  • Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues

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  • Depends on the threat model and how long do you need the data.

    Worked on a place long ago, that anything they needed to save offline from more than a few decades where stored in microfilm, the expectancy there where they would last 80 to 100 years.

    Anything else was pretty much tape.

    You also take in account the technology avaiability. The more complex is to use, harder will it be to reproduce in the future. Even with tapes, you might want to copy the data to another tape/recorder every decade or two, to keep it on par with the technology.

  • Steam does what Nintendoes and Nintendon't

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  • I am not sure if you replied to the wrong thread, good for you that it works for your needs, but

    My point is that GOG did not drop Linux support and instead partnered with another company. Not about the quality of the software.

    1. Gog waning Linux support is completely unrelated to Heroic
    2. Gog did not seek partnership
    3. Heroic devs just applied to a program that anyone can apply to.

    That said, it is shady to inject links and not notify it on the release note or change log. I think there was a message on their mastodon at some point, and the implementation crashed for some people with more restrictive firewall on their network, there were some discussions on the issues page of their code repository.

  • Steam does what Nintendoes and Nintendon't

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  • Gog stopped their own linux launcher and instead unofficially partnered

    Stop spreading this nonsense.

    Heroic added affiliated links to their software that anyone can apply for (without notifying the users at first).