on ebay?
I'm still loving my HTC Vive that I bought second hand a few years ago for €300. The Vive is probably too low-res for most (it does have terrible "screen door" effect), but you can get the Valve Index for about that price now, based on a very quick scan of ebay listings.
Still here 63 years later
wow jesus christ 63 years!! You should go ask the library assistant, they will prob help you. Your family are probably worried sick!
I guess someone needs to try with up-to-date Firefox and a spoofed Chrome user agent string
Copying my comment to OP below - it might be worth checking:
Check your inotify maximums - this is the system which monitors directory contents and notifies applications of changes. These maximums used to be pretty low, but should be high enough for most users these days. Do you tend to work with multiple directories containing lots of files?
See what you get when you run these two commands:
sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches
sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_instances
You can increase them temporarily like so and see if it helps:
sudo sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288
sudo sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_instances=1024
If it does help, add to /etc/sysctl.conf (or a file in /etc/sysctl.d/).
Check your inotify maximums - this is the system which monitors directory contents and notifies applications of changes. These maximums used to be pretty low, but should be high enough for most users these days. Do you tend to work with multiple directories containing lots of files?
See what you get when you run these two commands:
sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches
sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_instances
You can increase them temporarily like so and see if it helps:
sudo sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288
sudo sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_instances=1024
If it does help, add to /etc/sysctl.conf (or a file in /etc/sysctl.d/).
a landmark game and that alone is a reason to play it
It's a really pretty game that gives you a small taste of what it must've been like to be a roaming varmint in the early days of the US.
The missions feel very much on rails IMO. Several have just felt to me like a shooting gallery at a funfair.
I admittedly haven't got very far - maybe 25% - and what put me off a bit was how the game handles a bounty on your head. Bounty hunters seem to spawn randomly near you, and have supernatural abilities to home in on you. I tried sneaking up on them to pick them off one by one, but that just triggers more and more to spawn in. It really seemed like the GTA "Wanted" mechanic with increasing stars, and it kinda killed the immersion for me.
turnstile
Haven't heard of it before, looks to be made by Cloudflare. Cloudflare don't seem to be a totally awful company, but that's always just one CEO-change away.
Their web site sounds promising, saying "Turnstile can generate multiple types of non-intrusive challenges to verify users are human, all without showing visitors a puzzle." and "Unlike CAPTCHA options, Turnstile never harvests data for ad retargeting."
So how do they make money from this?
If you're exerting yourself at all, you pretty much have to mouth breathe. The way I avoid gobbling up any flying insects is to keep my head down while breathing in. It's surprisingly effective.
Slightly related, my son once had a bee go up his nose while we were out cycling. I say only slightly related because he wasn't actually going that fast; he was only about 8. He stopped suddenly, complaining about something going up his nose. Neither of us realised what had actually happened until he coughed up a still-squirming bee in a pool of phlegm.
Yes they should, however often they are not allowed to disclose such information. Over the last couple of decades, governments have realised that they can sidestep onerous legal principles such as innocent until proven guilty by requiring financial services companies to enforce KYC rules and the like. These rules were sold to us as a way to prevent the mega rich from dodging tax and organised crime from freely spending and moving their money, but surprise surprise governments have no qualms using them against people who are not so clearly in the wrong.
stop it in physical games as well
I think the connection to physical cards is pretty weak really - the crucial difference being that if you want to get some physical cards, you go out and buy them (or stay in and buy them I guess). You start with nothing except some cash, and you end up with some random cards, which may or may not be valuable.
Loot boxes in F2P games are not like that - you play a free game, have fun and then end up with this "loot box" without having done anything to ask for it. It's just there in your inventory, and it stays there until you fork over some cash and see what's inside.
It's way more of a temptation than physical cards that you won't encounter until you buy them.
yes indeed - I had a go at decompilation a little while ago (wanted to get a mod working on linux) and while it was hella geeky fun, it was very slow and I could tell I didn't really have a hope of achieving my goal. I can really see how an LLM could turbo-charge that process.
seems to work without the "L" at the end - https://www.fosslinux.com/42630/best-cpu-stress-test-performance-benchmark-linux-tools.htm