I love this instance in principle, but it has had recurring technical problems since before I joined, and I don’t have any reason to think that will change. I suppose they just don’t have the resources to keep up with lemmy issues. I’m using a different instance now.

It could probably use a review comparing with Planet Coaster 2.

I’m partial to a prickle of porcupines.

More here

*I’m your huckleberry

To be fair, OSS is not comparable to a sound server, and some people have a genuine need for one.

(I’ll never endorse PulseAudio, though; it’s garbage.)

That misses the point. The Last of Us Part I is Steam Deck verified, but it consumes far too many resources.

Do note that I’m not just talking about the Deck. Some hardware can run it smoothly, some can’t, but in all cases, it’s an insultingly bloated pig of a port.

Verified or not, I hope it doesn’t require a year’s salary of hardware and a nuclear power plant to run, like the first PC port did.

“A prickle of hoglets.”

Disappointing that it doesn’t show anything at all without javascript.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview

You had cassettes? We had to manually transcribe machine code from printed listings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitisinone

Do these accept cash, or only ATM cards? (The latter would link your transaction to your bank account, of course.)

What do they give? A printout of a wallet address?

Also, units of fun earned while watching other people play.

One nice thing about an arcade is that you can see regular people (not streamers/professionals/actors) interacting with a game, and notice subtleties that aren’t represented in a bullet list or trailer video.

SomaFM uses shoutcast/icecast streams, so just about any half-decent media streaming device or software can play it.

You are not alone in feeling it’s overblown.

Well-done ray tracing can be beautiful, but realistically, it doesn’t matter to me. I’m not Narcissus; I don’t play games to stare at my reflection in a puddle. My time and attention are almost entirely devoted to things that move too fast for ray tracing to matter, or reading text, or the geometry of a scene as I plan my approach to whatever I’m about to do.

If all other things were equal, I would gladly take the extra eye candy. But to me, it’s not worth paying significantly more money for real-time ray tracing hardware and higher electricity bills.

Please wake me up in ten years or so, when every GPU does it well without measurably increasing power draw.

I think the quote was, “I’m an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.”

What do you mean by “flat”? A circle is by definition two dimensional.

It reduces the drive’s lifespan.

Let’s remember that swapping frequency and volume are system-dependent; practically zero on many systems. On a well-provisioned system that doesn’t swap much, having swap space on an SSD can be easier on the environment and wallet than buying and powering a separate device for it.

Nevertheless, I agree that minimizing SSD writes is worthwhile, and reject the notion that an SSD’s useful lifetime ends when I’m done with it. (See my other comment.)

I try to keep in mind that replacement shouldn’t mean landfill. When my needs have outgrown an SSD, it gets repurposed, donated, or sold. Old ones still work great in computers used in education, special-purpose systems, test environments, refurbished laptops, appliance-like machines, etc.

In the long run, conserving SSD life while I own it translates into less waste and pollution in the world.