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andrew,
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Weird take considering all these features were once part of an upgrade.

Is SMS 2FA broken/degraded for anyone else?

I had an issue logging into Twitch last night for the first time in a while. I just didn’t get any 2FA messages delivered to me, until about 12 hours later when I was asleep and they were probably long invalidated. and now suddenly I can’t log in to my MVD either. Apparently there’s some sort of SMS short+long code outage...

andrew,
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Oh I definitely use that everywhere I can. I have a few yubikey and use AndOTP everywhere I can. But a few places refuse to do anything but sms.

andrew,
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Good to know. I’ll set that up once I can actually log in. I haven’t messed with my account in years but I definitely would have used something else if it’d been available when I set up.

andrew,
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I might just need to rewatch it because it’s been 15 years, but I didn’t care much for Citizen Kane.

andrew,
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Go to lemmyverse.net, fill in your instance, and click the links to communities that sound interesting. It’ll open them in your instance and get them federated so your server starts getting those updates.

How do I cope with my father hating me?

My father, who convinced me (16 m) at the time to move in with him instead of my mother when they moved. All 3 of the other siblings stayed with my mother. He then kicked me out the week I turned 18, a week into my senior year. Since then he stays in touch only to speak with his grandchildren (now going on 4 kids). I have never...

andrew,
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I’ve done both and it’s possible my virtual therapy sessions were an outlier but I’d strongly recommend at least starting with in-person. I just didn’t find virtual anywhere near as effective as face to face with another person.

andrew,
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World politics are like onions.

What, they stink?

Ye – no!

They make you cry?

andrew,
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I’ve used one for podcasts, definitely. But even for music, they may be poor quality generally but they’re significantly better than a phone speaker, and much better than a phone speaker ten feet away through glass or plastic.

andrew, (edited )
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I’m a big guy so my weight in gold is pretty compelling tbh.

I’d probably do anything not deadly or grievously injuring for $7.5M in gold in one day.

andrew,
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I guess I mean anything nearly guaranteed to risk grievous injury like getting hit by a bus or something. If I can still use the 7.5mil after the day’s over I’ll do it all.

andrew,
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What duh the ib huwdb I j texted from my pitcher just fine.

andrew,
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In my case, specifically tiling windows. I use i3, btw.

andrew,
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I’ll take “reading too much into coincidences” for $1,000, Alex.

andrew,
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I’m so excited for this to release, and yet terrified that I’m going to lose another few hundred hours (per week?) to this game when I get back into it.

andrew,
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I’ve also used barrier between my PC and deck to get an extra screen.

andrew,
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Brb gonna go put Half Life 3 in my LinkedIn profile just to stir up the journalists.

andrew,
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Don’t do this to me. I don’t need one. I already have the OG. This is a losing battle for me, I can feel it now.

andrew,
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My pure guess would be that the 90hz of the display is in play here. Could be the memory too, but the display is the most obvious potential lag factor.

andrew,
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True. And the limited translucent case is one of the most attractive things making it seem time sensitive, but they also made it easier to replace those bits this time around too, so I will have more personalized options later on.

andrew,
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It’s not so much this article as it is all the articles I’ve seen and expect to see in the future about the ways it’s actually better despite Valve saying it’s not actually that much better.

First multiplayer impromptu SteamDeck session. (lemmy.world)

I’m at a friend’s house for the night and was invited to an among us group. Installed among us and discord, had everything working (after a restart) within 10 minutes. I was shocked that simply adding a keybind for mute/deafen just worked. Yet another “it’s just a computer” moment. I’ll have to get that discord...

andrew,
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Plus it’s asset tagged so likely covered by a generous warranty or replaced by the business if it goes poorly enough.

andrew,
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Alyx was 2.75 because we know from Valve math that the limit of half life only approaches 3 as t goes to infinity.

andrew,
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Maybe this is going to be the real Half Life 3. You thought it was scary in VR? Get ready for IRL.

andrew,
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Yeah I definitely took breaks and actually just never went back after a certain point. Not because it was too intense directly, but one of my breaks, I just never went back.

andrew,
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Next time you could even add gzip or some other compression and save yourself a bit of time and bandwidth.

andrew,
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He’s not even experienced, he’s new! Why’s he the one we picked to investigate?

andrew,
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A quick search shows he’s actually two years older than Linus. Though I’m sure there’s plenty of young blood in the community by now.

andrew,
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I hear you can probably still get with crusher if she’s a ghost. She’s into that.

So kill Crusher. Bang Guinan, and marry everyone’s favorite empath.

andrew,
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I don’t, which is why half betazoid is a nice happy medium. Her mom on the other hand, would definitely not fall into the marry category for me.

andrew,
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I’m guessing I’m more well adjusted than I used to be? Or than my looks used to imply?

Pretty good overall though, so no worries.

andrew, (edited )
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Even without VRR there are noticeable improvements on the LCD deck from running at 60hz even when frame rates dip heavily, just because the frame timing is shorter so the new frames can be showed sooner.

andrew,
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My company uses a rather large tech support vendor called SHI.

Attendees at Bored Ape NFT event report vision loss and extreme pain (www.theverge.com)

It’s likely because some light fixtures that emit a ton of UV light also look “cool” and get used in the wrong setting. They’re supposed to be for stuff like disinfection. Looks like the bulbs outlining the dj both could be the issue. It wouldn’t be any of the professional fixtures. (Pic in comments because I don’t...

andrew,
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Honestly I’d forgotten that this moment was so bad.

andrew,
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It last ran a week ago and we technically haven’t tested it. Just our hot replicas which also just deleted all that data.

andrew, (edited )
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Fortunately not really, in my case. I stay out of the pipelines game as much as possible and focus on systems that enable better and more obvious pipelines. And then sometimes go tune some pipelines but mostly I find them to be pretty atrocious UI and much too snowflakey.

andrew,
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Aw man I’ve been making this joke thinking I’m clever for years but I read xkcd pretty frequently. I must have inadvertently stolen the joke from Randall.

andrew,
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IDK about child’s play but definitely enough for the lower decks engineers to clean overnight.

andrew, (edited )
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He spent 75 million for the house next to one he already owned. He’s worth $156 billion.

Let’s say you have 100k in the bank. The equivalent purchase for you would be something costing roughly $50. He bought a mansion worth more than I’ll ever see for proportionally less than what I would spend on an AAA video game.

Oh and it’ll either hold value or appreciate, so he will likely just make more money on it. Or at the very least pay relatively a lot less once he decides to sell.

andrew, (edited )
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Yeah that’s fair. But also it’s realistically vastly more complicated and almost incomparable because with $156B you can actually manipulate markets to improve your returns. People will buy your house at a premium to say they own Jeff Bezos’ previous property. Etc. Beyond the direct ratio comparison, there are so many fundamentally inequal parts about wealth at that scale.

Say he earns less than a high yield savings account for a year (~4.5% currently), he can retire on only that year’s income with over 7 billion in the bank and this purchase would be more like someone with 100k saved spending 1k (on a house).

andrew,
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As a dev, though not a game dev, I’ll wager good money this is not the outcome you’d find on a survey of the game devs involved. It’s the kind of thing that devs will suggest when asked “okay let’s say we need to make this next iteration as cheaply as possible now, what could we do?” But most of the devs likely take pride in their craft and if given the time would definitely want to optimize their game.

andrew,
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But look, guys, you asked for this by saying you want us to pay staff better. We will, but first we need to increase some prices heavily because I only took this CEO job because of the juicy bonus and I’m definitely not giving that up. Would you? And don’t forget the board we’re so lucky to have who need their stipends and stock grants etc, lest they find other companies willing to bow to their demands. We wouldn’t be who we are if we didn’t keep paying the top dogs top dollar.

andrew,
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I asked Valve about how they might approach solving this problem if it was their game and they literally ran away from me while yelling something that sounded vaguely like “Modern Warfare Alyx.”

I had no idea that you could download movies from the 90ies from archive.org (jeena.net)

I couldn’t find the Flintstones movie from 1994 anywhere but googling it I found it here archive.org/details/the-flintstones_202304 and you can either download it via torrent or directly. On top of it it says that the movie is CC0 which means Public Domain. But that can’t really be, it’s only 29 years old....

andrew,
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I assume you’re joking because that’s not really how Lemmy works, for anyone who may not know. My instance is my own, for example. I’m replying to you via Lemmy running on a server I own.

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