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by newsoftheday 4d ago
I agree, it would be easy for a security research to discover if a TV tried to do that and would result in an even greater stuffstorm than LG is dealing with now or that Samsung dealt with in the past.
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by newsoftheday 4d ago
> A TV not on the Internet is basically worthless these days, unless you have a third-party streaming device like a Fire or Shield--and then you're just moving the trust point from the TV itself to the streaming device, and the same
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by newsoftheday 4d ago
We do that but use a Kubuntu Linux laptop behind the TV and a wireless mouse and keyboard (when we want to pause a movie in Chrome and search for something, like details about an actor in a movie).
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by newsoftheday 6d ago
> I pick NMS when I want to chill and feel lost in the endless world, and when I want challenge I play other games. Wow, I bounce around several space games and play each for different reasons. Your statement explains it perfectly.
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by newsoftheday 6d ago
> Mechanics are not complex compared to simulator sandboxes like E:D or more in depth survival crafter games. Everything about ED is what I like about NMS and vice versa for that matter.
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by newsoftheday 6d ago
> This is why a cool tech solution (procedural generation of "levels") by itself isn't good enough. It's more than good enough for me and the roughly 10K typical players per month, and that's just on Steam. I pre
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by newsoftheday 6d ago
Indeed, https://steamdb.info/app/275850/charts/ shows it ticked up with Cosmos but the typical average of around 10K players isn't bad.
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by newsoftheday 6d ago
I specifically do not want hand crafted planets, it's one of the first things I look at for a space game, 1. is the planet procgen, 2. does it let me land on planets, 3. can I dig/shape the terrain (voxel). I'm aware of NMS a
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by newsoftheday 6d ago
Sandbox games aren't really progression games, that takes a far more refined game focus; else you'd have to have a mainframe to run it.
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by newsoftheday 6d ago
I assume you mean modern cities? NMS has had settlements for a long time now. What kind of computer would be required to even generate and render 18 billion planets with 3-5 actual cities per planet? Most open world/sandbox games are c
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by newsoftheday 6d ago
I don't play PVP and am not interested in a heavy economy simulation game. I like NMS the way it is, like Minecraft, a sandbox.
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by newsoftheday 6d ago
Your tastes for video games may be more aligned with another genre than a sandbox game which is what NMS is. If so, that's not a reflection of any kind on NMS.
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by newsoftheday 6d ago
I wasn't aware of this space game, not sure how I missed it, thank you for mentioning it, might just have to try it now. Although it might be too heavy into simulation for me.
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by newsoftheday 6d ago
I've looked at videos of Dwarf Fortress and Rimworld, neither looks interesting to me at all. Yet I've spent hundreds to thousands of hours in Minecraft, No Man's Sky and Elite Dangerous. > However, it doesn't scratch
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by newsoftheday 7d ago
Agree with that, I've used both Notes heavily in the past and SharePoint/Exchange as a software engineer exposed to them and Notes always felt more cohesive. Notes (and Oracle products) get dumped on in discussions on Reddit and s
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by newsoftheday 10d ago
We replaced our old TV recently with an LG and are really liking it. We do not let it on our network though and keep networking functionality disabled. It's basically a monitor for our Kubuntu Linux laptop sitting behind it. We stream
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by newsoftheday 16d ago
I just checked some minor revisions I did in 2016 and 2018 and my name was correct then, so this is some technology change that's occurred since 2018.
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The Suffix Edge Case
1 points by newsoftheday 16d ago|1 comments
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by newsoftheday 19d ago
I use a cheap notebook Logitech mouse, have for years, it's light weight is easy on my wrist. And I'm a gamer but to the FPS type games as much.
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by newsoftheday 27d ago
I worked at a federal contractor in the mid-1990's with one customer. They bought a ton of NeXT machines.
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by newsoftheday 1mo ago
This surprised me, I got called on the mat by X for what they call "inauthentic activity". The only thing I can guess could be the source is my profile image I generated with AI.
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AI generated profile not allowed on X(help.x.com)
5 points by newsoftheday 1mo ago|2 comments
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by newsoftheday 1mo ago
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/03/texas-data-center-pr... "Abbott is asking the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas to ensure data center developers pro
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by newsoftheday 1mo ago
Not trying to be rude or mean here but it should be, "a YouTuber" since YouTuber starts with a consonant sound.
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by newsoftheday 1mo ago
Java CRUD devs have been getting into Linux a lot more in recent years since learning more about how DevOps does their work is important and integrated in with our projects, like the Dockerfile, Helm files, etc. I was already into Linux bef
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by newsoftheday 1mo ago
The high contrast dark theme made my eyes squint and I started getting a headache within 60 seconds of trying to read the page. The war on light themes needs to end.
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by newsoftheday 1mo ago
They state that here and it's been stated there in the several years I've run Always Free VM's there: https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier... Some people say that d
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by newsoftheday 2mo ago
Agreed, the article you linked is a great example of clear, understandable, detailed technical writing.
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by newsoftheday 2mo ago
> At glance this looks reasonable but how do you enforce that kids connection always goes through the parents control? YouTube doesn't, the parent does. > no anonymous connections are possible anymore to the entire Internet Adult
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by newsoftheday 2mo ago
Agreed, I've done the same. Unfortunately Linux sometimes isn't a solution if the vendors we trust cross a line. Like recently when Google Chrome started adding its own local 4GB AI installation which caused an uproar.

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