GOG Galaxy is actually amazing in what it accomplishes, GOG just don’t have the resources to make it frictionless.
Gamepass is probably the main competition for Steam at this point. Publishers have been busting to make games run on the cloud, it’s the ultimate DRM, the ultimate goal of the erosion of ownership.
There will be a time where there is a push towards partial-cloud gaming and then fully cloud gaming, and it will be hard for PC gaming to compete in the mainstream when you buy an Xbox dongle for $50 and game as soon as you plug it in. That’s the real threat to Valve.
You think the internet being flooded with articles, comments etc. all being written by AI whose only goals are selling shit, disseminating misinformation, and manipulating elections and opinions - with no way to know what is human and what is AI - is going to be a great environment to continue to train your AI?
There is no point Russia remaining in Ukraine if they can’t use Sevastopol. In strategic terms this essentially puts Russia back in 2013. They’re now burning money and lives for, what, some beaches tourists can use when they aren’t covered in black smoke?
This is actually pretty big. I never liked me and my friends getting raided by people who played for 2000 hours and memorized PvP mechanics, I might give this game another shot.
It’s dumbed down but sailing into the wind is possible IRL. By keeping your sail at an angle the wind pushes you sideways, but your keel is kept in place by the water, so your ship moves forward.
Mozilla’s primary revenue is from Google, because Google doesn’t want Chrome to be broken up by the FTC. Same reason Microsoft kept Apple afloat in the dark times before Jobs returned.
Tarnavsky has been doing a lot of interviews and is surprisingly candid. Surprised he has time to do it, but it’s gone a long way to make people aware of how much important progress Ukraine has made.
Never understood the appeal of a game purportedly about bank robberies being mostly about killing literally hundreds of cops, it’s not so much unrealistic as it is completely farcical. It would be like Al Qaeda flying a plane into the WTC and everybody in New York going about their business like normal the next day.
Gamers have demonstrated the ability to accept and regurgitate absolute nonsense explanations from giant corporations so he probably figured game developers would be the same.
The fleet’s mission-capable rate — or the percentage of time a plane can perform one of its assigned missions — was 55 per cent as of March 2023, far below the Pentagon’s goal of 85 per cent to 90 per cent, the Government Accountability Office said on Thursday....
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed homemade carbon dioxide on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, raising the possibility that the frigid waterworld could host life....
I think Ukraine understand this, but it’s difficult in times of war to take criticism because morale is the most precious resource you have. If they want to join NATO and the EU after the war though, these are the things they are going to have to accept.
Also depends on the country, in Australia warranties are defined by law as essentially infinite and only constrained by the “expectations of a reasonable person.”
Apple has refused to provide the calibration tool for the sleep sensor to independent repair people. A German repairman has beaten Apple and developed a calibration tool....
The United States is already a global leader in traffic-related fatalities, with a thirty-percent jump in the last decade. That’s in contrast to every other developed country, which saw a decline....
Yes, it would be foolish to try and take back the annexed territories.
By hammering Savastopol they make it worthless. By hammering the land bridge they force all supplies to go by the Kerch bridge, and that bridge is not long for this world.
When Russia has no strategic value in Savastopol, and cannot supply their troops or population in Crimea, all Ukraine has to do is wait.
Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year....
Yeah there really needs to be a rethink of how the Fediverse works.
I don’t want to have to subscribe to 8 different “Games” subs each with under 3000 users.
It really should be like “topics” more than “sublemmys” (or whatever) where every post on the Fediverse tagged “games” will appear on your feed when you subscribe to the topic.
The topics still get moderated by the local instance topic moderators and instances can defederate from troubled instances, but discoverability would improve exponentially.
But Google’s search has turned to dogshit since it’s started trying to be smarter than it is, and DDG is now giving me results on par with old Google - that is, a list of exactly what I was searching for on the first try.
I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well....
Wish someone would make a convenience focused secure messenger. I want SMS and RCS and interoperability with everyone, but I also want my conversations that matter to be completely secure.
I don’t care if my chat with Grandma is e2e encrypted but I do care that my chat with my wife is, and it fucks me off I have to use so many different apps to speak to different people who will never, ever use Signal.
The reason it’s not working out is because they had no exclusives, now they do and the people on the platform that always had exclusives are suddenly upset.
Ben Skeggs at Red Hat has long been the primary Nouveau DRM kernel driver maintainer for keeping this open-source NVIDIA GPU kernel driver within the mainline kernel going… Throughout all the battles, particularly after the GTX 900 series and later has required signed firmware images for enabling any accelerated GPU support,...
Dusk: Unpopular opinion: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly (twitter.com)
Mother gets 30-day sentence for waterboarding baby, putting him in freezer, authorities say (www.kktv.com)
The Internet Is About to Get Much Worse (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/5400607...
Ukraine's flat-pack cardboard drones destroying Russian jets | Forces News (youtu.be)
Russian Navy Is Bailing on Sevastopol, the ‘Permanent’ Home Base of the Black Sea Fleet (www.kyivpost.com) Ukrainian
Sea of Thieves adds PvE mode later this year (with 30% rewards) (store.steampowered.com)
This is actually pretty big. I never liked me and my friends getting raided by people who played for 2000 hours and memorized PvP mechanics, I might give this game another shot.
Godot is Getting EPIC // 10 Games & Projects Made in Godot (youtu.be)
VFX Series. Shaders: Lesson 1...
Ukrainian forces have broken through in Verbove, top general says | CNN (edition.cnn.com) Ukrainian
Open Critic: PAYDAY 3 Reviews 67% Top Critic Average, 47% Critics Recommend (opencritic.com)
Unity: disappointed at how removal ToS has been framed. We removed it way before the pricing change was announced not because we didn't want people to see it. (twitter.com)
Reflecting on Canada's F-35 decision: F-35 fighter jets can only fly 55% of the time (www.ft.com)
The fleet’s mission-capable rate — or the percentage of time a plane can perform one of its assigned missions — was 55 per cent as of March 2023, far below the Pentagon’s goal of 85 per cent to 90 per cent, the Government Accountability Office said on Thursday....
Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud (www.home-assistant.io)
James Webb telescope finds potential signature of life on Jupiter's icy moon Europa (www.livescience.com)
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed homemade carbon dioxide on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, raising the possibility that the frigid waterworld could host life....
Secrets and lies: The Ukrainian government’s reaction to the New York Times investigation of the Kostyantynivka tragedy contains worrying echoes of Russian state propaganda (novayagazeta.eu)
Seamlessly photoshoped (lemmy.world)
Unity backtracks, no runtime fee for sub $1mil or for games on current/old versions (blog.unity.com)
They’re still scumbags though
Right to Repair - We beat Apple at their own game - let the unauthorized calibrations BEGIN! (www.youtube.com)
Apple has refused to provide the calibration tool for the sleep sensor to independent repair people. A German repairman has beaten Apple and developed a calibration tool....
Countries Eye Weight Tax To Counter Public Safety Threat Of Extremely Heavy, Large EVs (www.techdirt.com)
The United States is already a global leader in traffic-related fatalities, with a thirty-percent jump in the last decade. That’s in contrast to every other developed country, which saw a decline....
This massive armored vehicle has a giant plow for clearing Russian mines (www.popsci.com) Ukrainian
Ukraine faces a long war. A change of course is needed (www.economist.com) Ukrainian
Inside Intel's Chip Factory, I Saw the Future. It's Plain Old Glass (www.cnet.com)
Ukrainian versatile unmanned combat vehicle undergoes frontline testing (euromaidanpress.com) Ukrainian
Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only (mashable.com)
Just around 24 hours after Musk made his comments, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making it the biggest signup day yet for the currently invite-only platform that launched earlier this year....
Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do (www.vox.com)
DuckDuckGo CEO says Google kills competition through phone deals that make it hard for users to switch search engines (fortune.com)
What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts? (sh.itjust.works)
I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well....
Signal chat protection against quantum computers (signal.org)
Family of man who drove off collapsed bridge sues Google Maps for 'misguiding him to death' (www.lbc.co.uk)
I've tested Nvidia's latest ray tracing magic in Cyberpunk 2077 and it's a no-brainer: at worst it's just better-looking, at best it's that and a whole lot more performance (www.pcgamer.com)
IGN posts written review of Cyberpunk: Phantom Liberty, but withholds video review. CDPR is, once again, not letting reviewers use their own gameplay footage before release. (www.ign.com)
Microsoft completely misjudged Baldur’s Gate 3 (www.polygon.com)
Unity to Cap Runtime Fee to 4% of Revenue Over $1M, Users Will Self-Report Figures (wccftech.com)
The overhauled Runtime Fee policy plan being considered by Unity Technologies will cap the fee to 4% of the game's revenues over $1 million....
The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns (www.phoronix.com)
Ben Skeggs at Red Hat has long been the primary Nouveau DRM kernel driver maintainer for keeping this open-source NVIDIA GPU kernel driver within the mainline kernel going… Throughout all the battles, particularly after the GTX 900 series and later has required signed firmware images for enabling any accelerated GPU support,...
Fairphone 5 review (www.gsmarena.com)