Where's that iPhone comic about society
I mean I'm all for calling out companies pulling shady stuff, but it just loses it's value when you do it for every little thing no matter how innocuous it is.
It's not limited to Lemmy either, everyone compailed about their new simplified logo, thinking that the general Firefox brand logo would become the Firefox browser logo.
There's already a location service for the browser you can turn on or off, this doesn't add any tracking that wasn't already there.
I swear every time Mozilla does anything people find some way to be negative about it.
Like the last 10 years? All that these "don't vote for either party" movements have done is get republicans in charge who just accelerate damage. We don't like All Gore or Hilary so we got the infinitely worse option. And the only way it affects the democratic party is by moving them further right, because they see those candidates winning and want to pander to their audience.
And that second thing does nothing except get me arrested.
Actually good advice, I'll use this the next time a kid steals my radioactive isotopes.
I'm not voting for a libertarian, the last thing we need right now is deregulation. I'm voting for Biden because unless most of the country knows about a candidate, they're not winning. I'd rather prevent a the second holocaust that trump openly wants to cause than use my vote on some ideallic candidate that I know won't win. And it sucks, and I hate that I have to do that, but it's the way things are right now. And short of a revolution or a change to ranked choice voting (which some states have done), I don't see a better option. And just because I'm voting for him doesn't mean I "promote" him or agree with everything he does.
Bro wtf, I think it's dumb not to vote too but you're gonna call for eugenics? Even in the most generous interpretation where that's a joke, you've gotta realize how bad a look that is.
Of all the things to take from windows, this is one of the better ones. Especially if it gets more info in the future. For less tech-literate users, a screen like this is a lot better than a hard to read dump to a terminal.
MIT license is useful for a lot of stuff that is traditionally monetized. Game development tools, for example. I don't think a game engine could become very popular if you had to release your game's source code for free.
Oh neat, thanks for the explanation! That makes sense as most of my crt exposure for the past 10 years has been classroom TVs and museum exhibits.
It's insane what these people do. They're rewriting code from the 60s to use even less memory, have to test it in production without physical access, and it takes two days to see if anything changes. It's an insane piece of engineering and it's incredible that it's still sending useful data.
I think the important thing is to just realize that you can be accepting of something even if you don't personally want to be involved with it. And on the flip side, some people just don't want to be a part of certain groups, and that's OK too.
Idk if it's just me but I have pretty good hearing, so I can hear the high pitch tone CRTs make and it drives me crazy.
I can do what I can but a lot is out of my control. I can't change laws or help people far away. Except of course by voting and donating, but I only have so much money. I'd rather prevent the possible harm to people as much as possible, rather than have to try to stop things after they've gone bad. And in terms of prevention, I don't have a plan b.
It's not because the land-focused voting system we have favors republicans, not to mention gerrymandering.
Also I swear you've forgotten 2020. The same fucking thing happened, people didn't want to vote for a moderate democrat, and so a racist, abusive fascist got elected instead.
So you know you can do an easy action to make some people's lives better, to delay fascism, and save minorities from a plan to essentially wipe them out, but you won't because of principles? Because of some notion that the Democratic party will learn from losing?
You know that they lost in 2020 to a fascist. This already happened and the result was 4 years of hell for every minority group in the country. Why do you think this would be any better, or accomplish anything?
A story-based exploration game about the very far future. With the help of two Artificial Intelligences, explore a universe conquered by humanity, uncover your purpose in it, and try to stop it from falling apart.
(tldr, open source software has come a long way, and it's more than possible to create a full game without leaving Linux.)
So I've been a full Linux user for a couple years now, and a hobbyist game dev for way longer. I've always tried to make the most out of free tools, so I've used a lot of FOSS tools for game development before.
Going with that philosophy, Year Unknown's development has cost $0 (not counting store fees or my time), and the development is done with almost entirely FOSS software like Godot, Blender, GIMP, and Audacity. The only exception is Reaper, which is my DAW of choice (but to be fair, it's a really good DAW).
The game itself is a narrative-driven exploration game set in the very far future, where humanity has found a way to make the universe last forever. The game's story covers a lot of existential issues that come from the premise, revealed through two characters you can talk to through terminals.
I know there's other developers who have done the same, but I thought I'd share my experience, and I can answer questions about the workflow if you're curious, or trying to do something similar. Also, if the game seems interesting to you, a wishlist would be very appreciated!
An interesting project I quickly threw together after finding out that Godot can call javascript's "eval" function. You can really do anything with this engine.
Source code here: https://gitlab.com/Sockman/godot-checkbox-renderer
It really seems like satire, but based off the guy's profile and normal posts I don't think it is.
EDIT: The solution was that it was freesync. Turned it off on my monitor, and that fixed it.
I recently picked up a used RX 6600xt, and ever since the screen will occasionally freeze for 1-2 seconds before returning to normal. As far as I can tell, input and sound work as normal during these. There's no real pattern either.
I'm on Mint 21.3 Cinnamon, on the 6.5 kernel (there was a sleep related issue for me in the default kernel version). Since getting the GPU, I've replaced the CPU and motherboard.
Any guesses as to what this might be, or where to look? I tried checking mint's logs app and there didn't seem to be anything associated with it.
A Discord and SpaceBar :electron:-based client implemented without Discord API. - SpacingBat3/WebCord
WebCord is an "alternative client" for Discord, although it's just running the Discord webpage in electron. Recently it updated its electron version so it supports sharing audio as well as video.
I tried it out today on mint (x11, pulseaudio) and it works flawlessly.
Fortunately all the comments are dunking on this guy.
In today's episode, commander Sisko grapples with the effects of the war and how far his morality can be stretched in the name of the greater good. Meanwhile, O'Brien has a winning streak at darts.
My music tastes are weird, I like a lot of music but the only two bands I've found that make stuff I really resonate with are 65DaysOfStatic and maybeshewill.
Are there any post rock bands (or of any of genre) that have a similar energy? I've tried the usual recommedations (Godspeed You Black Emperor, Mogwai, etc.) but it feels flat, with the same melody repeating for ages.
Bonus points if there's good use of electronic sounds.
Just for fun I started watching it to see what it even is, and so far it's pretty fun! Colin Baker's doctor is a lot of fun, it's interesting to see a doctor who (hehe) is a bit more full of themselves.
From what I gather though, people at the time really didn't like it, but that could have just been because of Colin Baker. Now that general opinion of Colin Baker is much better and we can revisit those episodes without as much bias, I'm interested in what the general verdict on this season is. Do people still hate it? Is it a cult classic? Do people just think it's meh?
I've been working on this game for about 2 years, and finally created a proper trailer for it!
Feel free to ask questions and/or tell me what you think. If you're interested, I also have a steam page up: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2565520/Year_Unknown/
A story-based exploration game about the very far future, where humanity has conquered the universe. With the help of two Artificial Intelligences, explore the conquered universe and uncover your purpose in it.
(Please let me know if this counts as advertising and I'll remove it)
I'm a huge fan of weird "walking sim" type games - stuff like Naissancee, The Beginner's Guide, Inside, etc.. So now I'm finally making my own, with some more focus on story.
I've been working on Year Unknown for a few years now, and I've already made a couple devlogs if you want to learn more about the game. But now I've finally published a steam page!
I'm also kinda proud to have almost entirely used free, open source software to create it - Godot, Blender, GIMP, and Audacity.
Let me know what you think!
(edit: vague spoilers for outer wilds + dlc!)
If I had a nickle for every time an exploration-based game partially inspired by the failure of skyward sword involved uncovering the ruins of an ancient civilization of goat-like creatures with three eyes, included time travel as both a major story and gameplay element, had a blue aesthetic for an advanced ancient civilization, and then had a follow-up with a new, previously unknown ancient civilization that has a green aesthetic, I'd have two nickles.