You don’t need luck. You’ve got us! (And the Internet to verify our claims lol)
Just triple check every step, learn how to prevent ESD, and pull that useless little sticky plastic protector off the cooler before you install it! (That one gets SO many system builders).
Monado is making impressive strides, but VR is a really tough nut to crack, given how ridiculously proprietary most units are. :(
The controllers especially seem to be giving them a lot of trouble.
I know M$ always extinguishes things it embraces, but they should really just release the WMR code if they’re done with ir. An open source WMR implementation would save SO MUCH headache of trying to engineer custom drivers and everything from scratch!
Upset about both of those too.
The WMR thing is bugging me so much. Like release whatever is needed to open the hardware if you’re done with it, jerks!
I have a Samsung Odyssey+ that’s a fantastic unit that of course I can’t run when I mainline Linux these days. Monado is making impressive gains but the fact that they basically need to hack and reverse engineer the thing out of being e-waste is just messed up.
I really like VR and want to make things for it. But I can’t swing a Steam set and there’s no way I’m giving a single rotten cent to Facebook if I can help it!
Like others said there’s still ways to keep it working but it feels iffy enough that it could just break at any moment =\
This is SO tragic. I remember being so fond of both those games, they were so great! All the ways different equipment actually affected gameplay, and the really unique sound effects and world building will always stick in my head.
The Flutter was like my dream fantasy vehicle as a kid, those dogs in the bad part of town freaked me out, the reaverbot designs were so cool, and I kicked cans around way more than I should’ve.
And the little Tron-bots taught us the folly of making judgements based on profiling. XD
Kid me didn’t understand the ultimate plots though, and the final bosses were punishing… Perhaps it’s time for a revisit.
I didn’t know Legends 3 was so close to actually being a thing!
Geeze while we’re at it, even though it was basically a typical cop procedural, I really enjoyed “Almost Human” for a while. It just disappeared.
👑(crown emoji in case it doesn’t show) here, you dropped this.
LOL had me rolling. XD
Those features were so cool! I loved my Wii U also because of the underutilized potential it had. I wish we had a lot more simulative type experiences where the console as a “dashboard” could have made more sense.
Oh man are you me?! I used to love Jones! They had really interesting flavors and I liked the featured photographs. :D I kicked soda a while back, otherwise I’d still be all over it. I’m glad they’re still around and I’m happy seeing them on the shelves.
Batman Beyond, totally shway! Cyberpunk Batman was such a ridiculously cool concept I’d love to see come back. That intro was so freaking cool. :D My wife and I just watched through the whole thing not too long ago.
I’m torn though: A reboot would be so excellent, but that “2’000’s cool” aesthetic was essential to the unique feel of the universe it set up. Like, man can you imagine if we got an Arkham type game with some Deus Ex mixed in!?
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Is humor indeed this.
Moderation is still a lot of thankless work. I think it’s pretty cool as long as you enjoyed doing it and weren’t shackled to it. :)
Probably just transcribes everything and maybe summarizes it, I would imagine.
Their target demographic seems to be the level of office worker that is forced to be present at these things but doesn’t get a speaking role, except for barking out like one sentence at the right time to prove they are listening.
Apple was targeting the same people.
It’s like they’re self aware that corporate culture is completely nonsense and they’re leaning into it hard whilst perpetuating it. Playing both sides as they always do!
Haha! I don’t mind it either. I just wanted to make sure anybody coming across this in the future could still find the software without having to look too hard. :)
Might also look into https://github.com/jstaf/onedriver !
I think both KDE and GNOME desktop environments might have integration with OneDrive as an option in their respective file browsers.
I remember KDE could work with Google Drive in that casual “download when you need it” way, rather than the traditional “sync mirrored copies” way.
Personally I’d say KDE is also a fantastic desktop environment for coming from Windows with little friction. I run OpenSUSE Tumbleweed personally, but Fedora has a KDE “spin” and I think Zorin uses it by default.
Hope this is helpful :)
Just throwing it out there, even if you’re not running your own server or anything, if you happen to have two computers turned on at the same time occasionally, Syncthing is awesomely transparent and works VERY well. Crazy easy to set up too. (Like actually easy, not “network admin easy.”)
I personally run it on a little server at home now so it’s always on, and there’s a single “point of truth” where everything references the server, but you can have a number of devices that all simply ask each other what needs updating when they detect each other online. It can automatically retain versions, and that kind of thing. :)
Now we’re talkin’! Figured here’s the best place as any to try and get the word out:
Since MineTest is such an awkward name stemming from a prototype project, they’re trying to rebrand it as “Luanti” now. (Luanti.org)
This might be confusing especially since the new name isn’t particularly memorable. But information and updates and stuff might be sorta split in the near future as that goes forward.
That old joke from like 2003 still rings true:
“You know which games are good on Mac because they already came out 5-10 years ago.” 😂
Let’s. Freakin. GOOOOOO!!!
Man, so much to unpack here. It has me worried for a lot of the reasons mentioned: The people who pay money to skilled labor will think “The subscription machine can just do it.” And that sucks.
I’m a digital artist as well, and while I think genAi is a neat toy to play with for shitposting or just “seeing what this dumb thing might look like” or generating “people that don’t exist” and it’s impressive tech, I’m not gonna give it ANY creative leverage over my work. Period. I still take issue with where it came from and how it was trained and the impact it has on our culture and planet.
We’re already seeing the results of that slop pile generated from everyone who thought they could “achieve their creative dreams” by prompting a genie-product for it instead of learning an actual skill.
As for actual usefulness? Sometimes I run a local model for funsies and just bounce ideas off of it. It’s like a parrot combined with a “programmer’s rubber ducky.” Sometimes that gets my mind moving, in the same way “autocomplete over and over” might generate interesting thoughts.
I also will say it’s pretty decent at summarizing things. I actually find it somewhat helpful when YouTube’s little “ai summary” is like “This video is about using this approach taking these steps to achieve whatever.”
When the video description itself is just like “Join my Patreon and here’s my 50+ affiliate links for blinky lights and microphones” lol
I use it to explain concepts to me in a slightly different way, or to summarize something for which there’s a wealth of existing information.
But I really wish people were more educated about how it actually works, and there’s just no way I’m trusting the centralized “services” for doing so.
(I want to say first that I’m not trying to invalidate your feelings or perspective or anything!)
This feels like the logical result of a society that statistically punishes creativity in most cases, and rewards pointlessly running on a stationary hamster wheel of emails, spreadsheets, and slideshows, that nobody with a pulse is actually going to read.
We all like to think we’re completely in control of ourselves, but most creatures of all kinds quickly get a sense for what produces a reward for less effort.
Similar story! I teach Capoeira, am not Beasilian. Part of the tradition is coming up with students’ “apelido”, like an alias for them as a martial artist. We try to pick things that are cool, or ironically amusing (but kind).
Well there’s this bigger teenage boy in my class who’s getting REALLY strong. Great kid. Sings real strong too. Has been hitting the weights I think.
“Cannon”. I thought. “That’s badass and not too elaborate. He’s loud and he hits hard. Perfect!” So I look up the translation and submit my suggestions.
“That’s gonna need a change…” my Professor says with a chuckle.
“…Canhão means ‘lesbian’.”
Where does this slang come from?!? My research gave zero indication of this possibility lmao. SO glad he double checked me.
Similarly confusing, a lot of Capoeira songs feature the lyrics “vamo vadia” which I’m told is like, “Let’s go hang out / loiter / chill.” According to google translate…vadia directly means “bitch.”
This beautiful language intimidates me. 😂