VinesNFluff

joined 2 years ago
[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

Advocating for animal cruelty is a definite bruh moment.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 8 points 3 weeks ago

A true bard would get his wiwi chopped off and immediately learn how to give the most mind-blowing oral you've ever felt, and continue seducing people for the love of the game.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 16 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm more curious which is Stallman's poison of choice

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

Karen you foul harlot, release me from this Japanese erotic book at once.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

rebbit dot cum slash arr slash linux circlejerk

Edit: Also looks a bit like the 'reduce reuse recycle' symbol if you squint.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Honey I am the Linux mafia. I've spent the past 15 years pushing Linux on my circle of gay nerd friends

And it even stuck with 3 of them.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Again

COMPARED TO CONSOLES? That's basically paradise.

Modern, unhacked and unmodded Consoles are:

  1. Completely locked down, not only do they not let you install applications not approved by the manufacturer, in reality you can ONLY buy them from the manufacturer and you pay a hefty tax for that "privilege".

  2. Feeding you ads and upsell attempts whenever you turn them on, as the UI has basically been redesigned to try to sell you more shit first and make getting to your actual games take a few extra steps

  3. Any undesired feature in a console's OS is something you just have to accept and move on. Powerusers killing Windows bloat with third party tools is a time-honoured tradition that goes back to Windows 3.11

I'm not saying Windows is good.

I'm saying that for someone coming from a PlayStation or a traditional XBoXSeXxxx (I love making jokes out of this name), this whitelabelled ROG Ally machine would feel like finally being able to breathe. Just for the fact that you can use more than one storefront and install applications from wherever you want.

Let me put it this way:

Linux is an anarchist commune. True freedom.

Windows is an American Style Capitalist Republic. Freedom*********** with a thousand asterisks more. BUT for someone coming from the North Korea that is playing on consoles (or using an iOS mobile device or...), it DOES feel like finally breathing free.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 27 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

Honestly

As compared to consoles? Windows is pretty free.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah it's actually around the 30s (or 60s, depending on whether you consider interlaced frames to be 'true' or just 'halves')

A CRT television runs at 60Hz because it uses the alternating current from the wall as a reference, but in every half cycle it only actually draws half of the image. "60i" as they call it.

So you can say it's 60 interlaced frames a second, which is about comparable to 30 progressive frames.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Funny

I played a lot of Lunistice some time back. It's a retro 3D platformer that has an option to cap the framerate at 20 for a "more authentic retro feel". Fun lil' game, even if I eventually uncapped the framerate because it's also a high-speed and precision platformer and doing that at 20FPS is dizzying.

And yes absolutely Zelda 64 chokes on its 20 frames from time to time. I played it enough (again, yearly tradition, which started when I first finished the duology in the mid-aughts) to know that.

But it wouldn't change the fact that its absolute maximum is 20 and it still doesn't feel bad to play.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

I wouldn't know. Could never afford a posh high-refresh-rate monitor, and it's very low on my priority list, so even if/when I do get a windfall of money, it probably won't be what I buy next.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Wrong but also not completely wrong.

 

Title.

Don't really want to give my soul to a tech megacorps, but I do a lot of writing for work and hobbies, and sometimes carpal tunnel gets the best of me.

 

I don't mean BETTER. That's a different conversation. I mean cooler.

An old CRT display was literally a small scale particle accelerator, firing angry electron beams at light speed towards the viewers, bent by an electromagnet that alternates at an ultra high frequency, stopped by a rounded rectangle of glowing phosphors.

If a CRT goes bad it can actually make people sick.

That's just. Conceptually a lot COOLER than a modern LED panel, which really is just a bajillion very tiny lightbulbs.

 

Cheekily "fixing" this post

 

Like, the nutrition facts table says it contains nothing other than some sodium. No sugars or fats or calories at all

Yet it clearly is edible, so what is it? Some concoction made mostly from indigestible minerals?

 

Title. Game otherwise works great. Windows-using friends say it works for them. Networking is also normal on computer.

I initially thought it could be anticheat related so I disabled mangohud and made sure Easy AntiCheat was launching etc.

But no cigar, the game loads and errors out like in the pic. :

It seems to do so immediately, too, like it's not even trying to connect?

Tried it on my Deck too, same error.

Do not have a Windows PC to try it on, but it's really confusing me, because it ran perfectly until today. :P

 

My younger friends all talk about this Jerma person like he's some kind of mythical entity. An eldritch being that cannot be explained for any attempt at explanation inevitably fails.

I am confused. From what I could gather he's like... A streamer? Content creator?

 

Way back in the day, every game had its logic tied to its framerate -- As anyone who's ever tried to run an eighties PC game on a nineties PC only to see it run at 20x speed and completely unplayable can tell you.

But in the modern day this is less common. Generally the game keeps chugging along at the same pace, no matter how fast or slow the frames are being presented (unless, of course, everything is bogged down so hard that even the game logic is struggling)

And yet, you'll still find a few. Any fan of Dark Souls who played on PC back when Prepare to Die edition first came to PC will remember how unlocking the framerate could cause collision bugs and send you into the void. And I recently watched a video of a gent who massively overclocked a Nintendo Switch OLED and got Tears of the Kingdom to run at 60FPS... Except everything was, indeed, running in fast-forward, rather than just being smoother.

This makes me wonder -- Is there some unseen advantage to keeping game logic and framerate tied together? Perhaps something that only really shows on weaker hardware? Or is it just devs going "well the hardware we're targeting won't really go over this speed, and we don't really give a fuck about anything else" and not bothering to implement it?

 

Youtube Channel SaveAFox, previously a channel about like, a fox sanctuary that showed cute footage of the foxes to get more donors, got hacked today.

It is now full of videos claiming to be from SpaceX and Elon Musk's ugly mug.

Thing is

It's not the first channel I've seen being hacked, nor is it the first to get that exact type of content spammed into it. Linus Tech Tips got hacked some time back (honestly I don't remember how long ago, but I was already on Lemmy, so it was within the past year and change) and it had that exact type of stuff before LMG took it back.

And there was another random channel that I saw suffer the same fate some months before LTT.

My question is -- Why Elon Musk? Why SpaceX/Tesla? Is Musk himself paying people to build zombie farms for him? I wouldn't put it past him but at the same time he has the funds to not need that kind of tactic -- He could astroturf by more "legit-looking" means.

Is it just because people who like Musk are more likely to fall for scams?

Idk, found myself wondering that.

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GBoard replacement? (pawb.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by VinesNFluff@pawb.social to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
 

Title.

I'm not sure I'm ready to go all "lineageOS full degoogle" on my phone because some rather necessary day-to-day apps for me will freak out if I have root, let alone a modified OS. Buuuut GBoard has gotten right in my tit, and now they're offering nightmarish AI generated emoji and I'm like "NO". So.

I don't really care about predictive text or swipe-typing or any of that stuff, I mostly just type normally.

The only nice-to-haves that might entice me would be support for one-handed mode and a configurable keyboard layout.

 
 

Title. Turning off the fancy effects (which can be done with Alt+Shift+F12) improves performance slightly, but having to toggle them on and off every time I start a game is... Y'know. A thing.

I was wondering if there was a way to automate it, like game opens -> they turn off, game process ends -> they turn back on

 
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