DrManhattan

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DrManhattan ,

“Planned obsolescence”? Like where the iPhone 7 and on have received 6 to 7 years of software updates?

DrManhattan ,

Well there was no such thing as the “iPhone 3”. There was the iPhone 3G or the iPhone 3GS, but no “iPhone 3”.

And this doesn’t prove anything lol an iPhone 3G can still connect to a 3G network and make calls and browse the internet.

DrManhattan ,

So you’re angry that a Google service doesn’t have longevity on an Apple product?

Your argument makes no sense. Who even cares if these ancient paperweights work? That’s not “planned obsolescence”, that’s just hardware and software getting old.

DrManhattan ,

For their price, I should hope so.

DrManhattan ,

Underrated? More like boring and uninspired character. She was almost as annoying as her son on the show.

DrManhattan ,

Has anyone seen anything on the DODI release or is it clean?

DrManhattan ,

I looked for this integrity check file and ran the power shell script and I don’t see it listed anywhere on my system’s roaming folder nor in the list of applications with cpu usage.

DrManhattan ,

They also released a version that included all the DLC and then walked back that promise.

DrManhattan ,

Is there any risk of getting banned by installing it using this method?

DrManhattan ,

An amazing set of games. Myst and Riven always captured my imagination and I spent hours and hours playing them back when they first came out. Obduction was a really cool throwback, too. Glad to see the series getting the attention it deserves with newer gamers.

DrManhattan ,

Yes. I would say it was a good game but my heart really belongs to the old school pre-rendered environments and FMV cutscenes.

DrManhattan ,

Grim Fandango (and Monkey Island) are definitely staples of the genre.

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Called it. Elon's doing exactly what I thought he would do: https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/109979152813584947

Twitter is dead.

There is no point in trying to hold on to what Twitter used to be. What Twitter used to be no longer exists.

It died the moment Elon walked in the building.

Anything posted there since then has been free content on his everything app and potential crypto scam, X: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/23/twitter-elon-musk-says-he-wants-to-change-companys-bird-logo

@technology

DrManhattan ,

We’ve known about the X everything app for months now. Elon hasn’t been hiding the fact that he wants to compete with all major forms of social media. Twitter’s acquisition was only the first step. Soon it will be YouTube and Twitch competition, then Instagram, etc.

DrManhattan , (edited )

HomeAssistant and OpenHAB are good places to start. I don’t know too much about OpenHAB, but for HomeAssistant you can do almost everything locally.

ESPHome is a good example of a project that they fund where you can use ESP8266/ESP32 devices to create several sensors and other devices for local IoT. They also have a number of ways to bypass cloud requirements for Tuya based devices, Phillips Hue, etc.

Plus this year is “Year of the Voice Assistant” and they’re working on enhancing a locally accessible and hosted voice assistant that doesn’t require cloud access.

Edit: If you’re a DIY kind of person like I am, HomeAssistant offers compatibility with a number of other projects like presence detection via ESPresence, custom firmware for ESP32Cam via Tasmota, WLED for controlling RGB lightstrips and matrices, lots of 3D printing opportunities too. I found it a lot of fun to go through my home and find ways to make things work. Blinds, accent lighting, automations based on time and other factors, etc.

Plus the hardware requirements for HomeAssistant aren’t that high. You can run it on an RPi4b with 2/4/8GB RAM (I would suggest at least 4), a VM that you can expand later and so forth.

DrManhattan ,

Very good point. HomeAssistant offers a paid service called Nabu Casa that provides you a secure way to access your entire HomeAssistant instance, including cameras, sensors, you can set up mobile push notifications, and more.

DrManhattan ,

I never knew that was the original author. The game and the book are just an awful (in a good way) experience that left me feeling so gross and hopeless after.

DrManhattan ,

I’m pretty sure that the game has a slightly different ending to the book, as well. I didn’t know he did both. Very few things have made me feel as uncomfortable and unsettled as the book/game.

DrManhattan ,

That I did know. I played through a few of them and each of them were as bad (in a good way) as the others. I think evoking that type of emotional response was the idea of the series, book and game, however. They’re not meant to give you good feelings, but cause conflicting emotions.

Stellar series, like I said before. Absolutely enjoyed it.

DrManhattan ,

Is there a reason they’re only offering AMD CPUs and GPUs? Why don’t they offer Intel and Nvidia as well?

What do you consider "good performance" of a game on the deck?

Just curious what do people have in mind, when they say a game is “working great” or “perfectly”. I believe I’m in the minority, but I just can’t enjoy a game under 45 FPS, or if the resolution has to be under 720p and the UI/text is all blurry because of it. Perhaps it’s because I’m used to playing mainly on PC....

DrManhattan ,

Depends on the game. Older games and 2D games I expect 60FPS at native resolution with a lot of the graphical options enabled. Morrowind, Stardew Valley, Doom 3, etc.

Newer games I don’t mind turning down the graphical options to try and score that 45-60FPS. Cyberpunk, Jedi Fallen Order, Skyrim, etc.

DrManhattan ,

Sometimes I forget that Skyrim is that old.

Post-Usenet Pirate wants to know how they can access Usenet

Greetings citizens, pirates, denizens and all of you fellow incredible people of this society of brave internauts who wish the world was a little more free. It is with great curiosity that I pose my inquiry, seeking guidance from those who sail the high seas of knowledge, for I yearn to embark on a journey towards the treasure...

DrManhattan ,

Yes the Usenet is still a thing. Sign up for server access, sign up to an indexer, set up Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr/Mylar/etc and Sabnzbd, and away you go!

DrManhattan ,

Growing a community and making it easier for folks to contribute is a critical element of success. We are excited by the interest in working with the CentOS project.

Since Spring 2023, the CentOS Board and members of the community have been working on a set of guidelines to help define what success means for CentOS and its deliverables. Building community and contribution has been a part of the guidelines from day one.

We are excited by interest from new contributors and look forward to working with them to improve the CentOS project, our collective SIG communities, and the Linux ecosystem overall.

The CentOS Board of Directors

They could have fleshed this out a little bit more. This doesn’t really say anything.

DrManhattan ,

Considering the Steam Deck accounts for a huge portion of Linux installs, I think flatpaks are going to be here to start and only grow in popularity.

I have to ask though, why do people dislike flatpaks?

DrManhattan ,

I’ve been using Memmy as it is an actual app and not a web app, and it has a theme actually designed by Christian Selig, the developer of Apollo. Plus it allows logging in to any Lemmy instance and not just the most popular ones.

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