teawrecks

By multiboxing, you mean running multiple instances of the same mmo client so you can control multiple characters at once? I'm curious what issues you run into doing this in Linux.

Sounds like NakeyJakey's take from 5y ago. Hoping they take some lessons for GTA6.

To be fair, it's not easy to make a big open world that feels immersive and competes with linear games in terms of fidelity (art, rendering, sound, music, etc), even if you know exactly where the player will go and what they'll do. Trying to then account for every possible permutation of game state and player action is an exponential explosion of work. Without some kind of AI figuring out a believable way for the game to respond in any given situation, your only practical option is to make some assumptions, pick a small set of "golden paths" and polish those.

R* devs work their asses off to an ethically questionable degree as it is, I don't think it's fair to imply they're not making the best possible experience at that scale with the technology available.

I think it could be the "digg v4" of reddit. People want to use the most popular free platform. If faced with a paywall on reddit, they'll just go somewhere else. Most likely people will go over to Threads, but maybe some will find Lemmy.

This is easily the most egregious example of police murder I've ever seen, my god. She's across the room with a pot of water, and out of nowhere his training tells him to perceive immediate danger and fire. Open and shut murder case, so glad a body cam was present.

I think the jury is still out on whether Framework can be profitable. And by that definition, literally asking someone what product you want them to make is data collection.

I'm not a fan of a for-profit organisation having unpaid workers, but I get it if they want to see an otherwise unprofitable, yet passionate demographic. If they can compensate the person in other ways like was mentioned above (merch, contact with decision makers, possibly info on future products) then there is some exchange happening there and maybe that's worth it to the right person.

I only dual booted for years. I learned very quickly how to live boot and run Boot Repair.

Thumb ball, like this?

Edit: oh duh, the ball isn't at the thumb.

Edit again: oh wait they do have a thumb ball one. Fixed the link.

I got a "Ploopy" a while back. Open source, QMK powered mouse. Terrible name, but it's been working like a charm. All components are 3D printed or can be purchased cheaply. No good wireless options right now, though. The power efficient protocols needed are all proprietary afaik.

What company would support this, though? It seems like all the big tech giants, from meta to musk, would all be against the govt having carte blanche to investigate them.

Because the core of FOSS is from each according to their ability [to write software], to each according to their need [to control their devices]. Which isn't a libertarian's favorite mantra.

It's still giving third party software kernel level control over your device, so you're still giving up any possibility of privacy and probably leaving yourself wide open to a backdoor attack, but that has been normalized. So to the degree that what people accept as reasonable these days is unreasonable, yeah, that's why I think MSFT will try it.

In b4 msft creates a level between kernel and user level for this stuff to sit at. It will have read-only access to all of kernel memory, and will otherwise function the same, but when it crashes it won't take the OS down, just certain programs that rely on it.

What will they call it? "Observer" level? "Big Brother" level? "Overseer" level? Probably just something to do with "Verifying Trust/Integrity". Google will also want to quietly stick something for "Web Integrity" there.