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by pre 3y ago
Not me! I spent most of the weekend in VR No-Mans-Sky exploring a made-up galaxy, and when someone tried to speak to me near the meetup-for-missions place I ran away.
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by pre 5y ago
Oh. :(
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by pre 5y ago
Thanks. Will try and have a look next time I'm forced to boot into windows. Used to be that Windows users would complain that Linux made them edit arcane config files, I guess now it's Linux users that complain about Windows needi
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by pre 5y ago
Really what I want is for the task-bar to not send everything to a search-engine anyway. I don't want web-results in a task-bar-search at all. I'm trying to launch a program, not tell Microsoft-search the names of every program I
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by pre 5y ago
Presumably they make more money with the user-hostile version and the user isn't paying so...
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by pre 5y ago
I press it as soon as I see a popup about cookies or login or sales or basically anything at all. I press it when there's a paywall. I press it when the site doesn't do dark-mode. I press it when adverts become annoying. There als
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by pre 6y ago
Well. A Russian company, DDos-Guard, did host Parler in the end didn't they? And sure enough, the FBI is investigating. Signal is a charity rather than a company, but dunno if that makes any actual difference.
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by pre 6y ago
If they have telescopes then the trails from star-link satellites would probably give it away. The ants in the article were in driveways though.
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by pre 6y ago
Fermi's paradox says nothing about how likely aliens are to visit earth. It notes that we can't see any sign of them when we look into the sky. Perhaps the humans don't care about the ants, but the ants damn well can see sign
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by pre 6y ago
Latency probably matters more than bandwidth in a case like this. Gotta pay for the direct-fibre for the ping as much as the volume. Congestion is gonna mean you always need slack. There must be unused bandwidth or the occasional packet-los
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by pre 6y ago
We are using Jamulus, and I won't try and pretend that it's great, but it's just about workable. https://sourceforge.net/projects/llcon/
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by pre 6y ago
My band haven't really been able to get into a room together since about March, mostly it's not even been legal but even during the time when it was legal we figured it was probably inadvisable. So we've been trying to do it
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by pre 6y ago
Eh? When I'm elsewhere it can continue to not have the passwords to anyone else's wifi.
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by pre 6y ago
I don't own one of them, but I would surely be able to instruct my router to put it in jail like I can every other device. LAN-only.
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by pre 6y ago
Indeed. "All your work is instantly synced to the cloud" Ugh. Nope nope nope. But now maybe sounds like I could turn that off and just rsync the files to my Debian tower. That is more win.
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by pre 7y ago
You borrow some money, buy a house, do it up, sell it for more, pay off the debt with some left over for your trouble. That's using debt as a tool to make more money than you could have made if you didn't have access to credit to
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by pre 7y ago
Was just thinking about how I'm nearly going to be getting the payoff from not playing any No Man's Sky until there's a VR version. And here's another proceduraly generated universe that pips it to the post. Have you use
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by pre 7y ago
Yep. Hadn't noticed Internal had disappeared, but indeed it has. Suppose there's not really any need for it with Eevee existing now.
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by pre 7y ago
The new renderer, Eevee, is brilliant and fast and is only one of the many great improvements to what was already one of my favourite bits of software. Some of the best open-source desktop software that there is.
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by pre 8y ago
Usually if there's some news story that people are talking about and I dunno what the story is about I'll do a Google News search on it to find out. Often can't do a normal google search coz then it mostly shows reference and
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by pre 9y ago
Has it though? Does nobody else use a file-browser any more? I'm mostly command-line but even I use a file-browser fairly often.
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by pre 10y ago
Cool, good to know. Cheers.
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by pre 10y ago
Yep, also using an external charger to keep mine going. My batteries are swelling. I suspect it's no longer safe really. :-?
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by pre 10y ago
Oh, man, I forgot it had that FM-Transmitter. That was so cool. So many of us miss that phone.
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by pre 10y ago
I am finding Flesky much better than any of the swyping keyboards. I installed it mostly so I could customize the backdrop, but I stayed because those few added gestures make prose input so much more efficient. Still entirely awful and terr
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by pre 10y ago
I continued ranting FWIW: https://dalliance.net/vPre2/phone-keyboards
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by pre 10y ago
Yep. I miss that keyboard.
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by pre 10y ago
I don't think I could have used it to write code, though I never tried very hard coz it was so frustrating. Practice would have helped. But I could and did use it to write and edit long-form prose. It's way better than a touch-scr
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by pre 10y ago
> is there even a proper way to measure how good a language is? Nope. I mean. They're all Turning Complete (except for the ones that deliberately aren't), and they're often good at expressing different types of problems. S
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by pre 10y ago
I've refused to sign employment contracts which push all "IP" into the employers ownership saying things like "You don't get to own my graphic-novel or my band's songs or whatever just coz you pay me to write s

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