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Nevermind desktop games.

The real hit is free mobile games. Paying per install can be crippling when you naturally have low retention rates.

You can accidentally success yourself into debt if you don’t have preditary monetization.

I’m building a game ATM that’s meant to be fun and fair, monetization is really low. If it shot up as a front page item for some reason that now went from a huge success to a massive stress point as the number of installs would easily put me into hundreds of thousands of dollars of debt to unity overnight.

Who TF wants to take on that kind of risk? Does this not push mobile games into being even MORE preditary?? Since it’s now impossible to build a mobile game with Unity, and just release it as something free.

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Plus you’ll get to see if they add all the post-launch microtransactions like games are starting to do these days.

Launch to good reviews, and THEN rebalance and force players towards transactions and paid currencies.

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Pirate… your TV?

Not sure I follow

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Mine updated recently (Vizio) and now ALWAYS chooses “smart cast” upon reboot. And I have to wait for it to complete, painfully, slowly, load so I can switch to HDMI.

If the HDMI channel doesn’t have anything it gives me 5 seconds before it switches to smart cast as well. Which is a huge pita

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We where using it as a smart TV and then stopped. It’s not connected anymore

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That non-trivial software development is really freaking hard, and incredibly expensive . And the majority of developers barely have any idea what they’re actually doing.

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Self Hosted live sync will if you have a way to facilitate the CouchDB hosting. It’s realtime.

github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync

Simultaneous device use-case sync question.

I would like to use my laptop for note taking in class, and use an android based e-ink tablet for handwriting and diagrams. What are your recommendations for delivering the tablet’s notes to the vault? Obsidian on the tablet with first party sync looks like a possibility. What about another app that can use SyncThing or...

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I use the self Hosted live sync. github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync

It works beautifully. Realtime sync and conflict resolution between all the devices it’s on (My phone, laptop, and desktop).

I only have mine setup to work on the same network, but you could get it to work over the internet, but that’s much more security & proxy work.

If you wanted to do it all in the cloud. An (over provisioned) VPS, domain, and other configuration would still cost you less than what Obsidian wants for their live sync.

Are Internet boards and Forums dead

i started using the internet in the late 2000’s and still remember when you search for something most of the times it would return with a forum post … now its just random websites … if you ever need real and concise answer you have to add site:reddit.com at every search and since discord or twitter are not crawlable by...

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There’s tons of active Q&A format Discourse forums for different things that I’ve ran into.

Forms are definitely less active than before but they’re not dead yet

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Flip it to instead focus on them forcing limited lifespans for the cars by doing this and then dropping support.

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Yes! It’s a hobby that can go as deep as you want it to.

Though it doesn’t produce physical outputs like many others :/

Once you start getting deeper into computational and stored requirements the costs really start to shoot up. Networking, device management, storage management, power usage, heat & noise, orchestration…etc

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Didn’t Tesla and others already try this (and will probably keep pushing it)?

Things like monthly subscriptions for various car features working like seat warmers.

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Your take on urban density is wayyyyy off base and wrong.

The deforestation being a result of agricultural expansion to support a growing population is spot on.


Urban density increases the efficiency of logistics, you state it makes it worse. The cost-per-unit goes down as density goes up. Economies of scale apply here, logistics almost always becomes cheaper per unit the more of it you do. This applies to farming, transportation, processing, packaging…etc

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How to say you know nothing about game development without saying you know nothing about game (software) development. But want to assert your opinion on it regardless.

It’s corporate profiteering not lazy devs. The devs work their asses off, these aren’t their decisions to make.

It’s like blaming the guy finishing the drywall for design problems with the building. Lazy drywallers, ruining a good office tower, it wouldn’t be leaning if they weren’t so lazy.

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To be fair, the content quality on Lemmy has been about the same from what I’ve seen.

Bots all over the place, low-effort quips instead of discussions bubbling up, lots and LOTS of low-quality armchairing, personal attacks and flaming instead of actual discussion…etc

It was good for a month or so during the reddit 3rd party app purge, but quickly went downhill.

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You just have bots that auto post to lemmy from reddit instead, and flood the feed with no intervention.

Which may actually be worse.

Why is everyone so giddy about the flooding thay happened at burning man?

Social media seems to be laughing its ass off about this tragedy, is it because the folks at burning man are perceived as frivolous hippies or something? Everyone I’ve ever met who was a regular burning man attendee has been a solid human being with strong morals, personally and financially responsible, a career. Upstanding...

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Apparently middle class Americans are now “rich twats”?

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You mean LLM hallucinations?

Typical ML models are not hallucinating in the same manner.

Roy Schestowitz got me pregnant and abandoned us (ameliasconjecture.wordpress.com)

In the bustling city of Manchester, our love story continued to unfold against the backdrop of time, principles, and the uncharted path of parenthood. Rewinding to the year 2006, Roy Schestowitz was a dedicated student immersed in pursuing a Ph.D. in Medical Biophysics, setting the stage for a journey that would test the...

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Looking at other posts by this user at the same time, is this just content spam. In places it’s not meant to be?

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Looking at other posts by this user at the same time, is this just content spam. In places it’s not meant to be?

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This user just spams this shit all over

Can we not?

How is this even relevant to this community? Mods asleep?

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Reddit quality toxicity right here.

And on NoStupidQuestions of all places.

Can we not?

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Or any rich kid:

testified in court that the teen was a product of “affluenza” and was unable to link his actions with consequences because of his parents teaching him that wealth buys privilege

He only killed 4 people while drunk driving 乁⁠ ⁠˘⁠ ⁠o⁠ ⁠˘⁠ ⁠ㄏ

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethan_Couch

He got a slap on the wrist with rehabilitation. He was only actually convicted for 2 years because he habitually broke his probation.

In Texas!


This is just an example, not really here to make outrage out of it, old news, but a typical example that money usually softens any blow.

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Sure, and then they either disappear you, or you have an “accident”. Or you just so happened to get beaten half to death in the restroom by a “random” act of violence.

Or anything equally as sinister, but to your finances, possessions, loved ones, or life.

Records show California prisons are reporting U.S. citizens to ICE, ACLU says (www.latimes.com)

“In their zeal to collude with ICE, CDCR is not only targeting people who have served their time and are set to return home for detention and deportation but is also sweeping up U.S. citizens and Green Card holders, relying on racist assumptions and ignoring their own records,” the report states

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ITT: Everyone conflating sex for gender…

It’s actually quite important. Your sex are what your chromosomes are, your gender is what you identify as.

Your sex doesn’t change, your gender does.

That’s literally the definition of it.

This is important especially for medical purposes, medication, surgery, emergency care…etc all has variations based on your sex, because different sexes are predisposed to different classes of problems and interactions. This also applies to REPORTING, reporting that a medication affects someone born female different than someone born male is an extremely important distinction.

Incorrect reporting literally costs lives.

It should to be standardized, just like everything else that has significant consequences on well being.

Politics are ruining what should be completed apolitical.

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There’s no logic?

Just because you’re ignorant of the difference between sex and gender are doesn’t mean there isn’t logic…

Sex is very important for the single biggest thing that affects all of our lives, healthcare. Standardizing it literally saves lives.

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ITT: Everyone conflating sex for gender…

It’s actually quite important. Your sex are what your chromosomes are, your gender is what you identify as.

Your sex doesn’t change, your gender does.

That’s literally the definition of it.

This is important especially for medical purposes, medication, surgery, emergency care…etc all has variations based on your sex, because different sexes are predisposed to different classes of problems and interactions. This also applies to REPORTING, reporting that a medication affects someone born female different than someone born male is an extremely important distinction.

Incorrect reporting literally costs lives.

It should to be standardized, just like everything else that has significant consequences on well being.

Politics are ruining what should be completed apolitical…


And it looks like lemmy is just Reddit again, except at least on Reddit you can find an informed opinion before the bottom of the thread. This thread is completely devoid of critical thinking…

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It definitely is I think.

Imagine being raided for CP and all you did was federate your hobby self-hosted instance to an instance it was posted in.

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Isn’t there semi-automated tools that can detect CP?

Those might be an automated solution to at least cut down on the volume.

The same can go for banned images. These can automatically be identified with perceptual hashing, and automatically be denied when uploading.

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Depends on what the concrete is made of.

Not having rebar means it’s going to be significantly more stable over time since you no longer have to worry about de-alkelineization (spelling is hard), and rust causing expansive forces inside the concrete and cracking it.

The chemical composition of the concrete will probably be improved over time as budget allows, increasing its longevity quite significantly.

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That’s not how it works.

Since the voltage is half and the amperage is the same half the wattage is supplied to heat water. This means it takes longer not that it doesn’t work.

OP also said they received hot water in a kettle not that they received an electric kettle in which to heat it in.

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I mean the name is literally Leonardo, referencing Leonardo da Vinci, I’m not sure what you expect…?

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I mean, if you aren’t actually familiar with cats, sure. But that’s your own fault.

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I don’t think they’ve managed to put microtransactions into video format yet, but I guess here we go.

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Just shows that if you’re rich enough laws, regulations, and even the rules & procedures of private companies need not apply.

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Have they ever met my anxiety disorder?

Everything is a lie when I get anxiety about everything.

Can we please unpin the proprietary off-site/off-network promotion of discord

This is completely counter productive to growing Lemmy. I absolutely despise discord. Look at the network traffic it generates and tell me wtf they are doing. They won’t tell you. Their business model will leave you completely dumbfounded as to how they exist. Everything shared on the platform is lost in a black hole...

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Discord is a chat program that usually devolves into garbage memes and off-topic nonsense instantly.

This… Is somehow different from Lemmy other than the chat vs forum aspect?

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That’s a fucked up legal system…

The fact that you care about privacy means that you are hiding something which means that you are now a terrorist.

That sort of broken logic can apply to almost anything

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And here I am running NFS as the backing storage on an R720xd for 4 other M630 VM hosts.

Connected via SFP+ DAC. I get max bandwidth saturation, and ~65k IOPS!! NFS is great 😅

You could use things like AWS S3 or similar offerings from other providers like digitalocean. They have plenty of documentation that guide you through how they work.

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Isn’t lift entirely understood?

If you’re arguing that the underlying behavior and existence of matter isn’t understood, and by extension lift isn’t, then that applies to anything and everything.

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Understanding why I crave food, constantly and aggressively would do so much towards helping with weight loss goals.

I’m sure sugars and the like have lots to do with it, but even abandoning sugars (Which I did for a good 4 months) didn’t seem to change it.

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So, essentially, really poorly written malware? Given the number of assumptions it makes without any sort of robustness around system configuration it’s about as good as any first-pass bash script.

It’d be a stretch to call it malware, it’s probably an outright fabrication to call it a virus.

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You say this and are downvoted.

While we are coming off the tail of Def Con where there where a plethora or small talks and live examples of taking advantage and abusing just this.

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The joke one liners vs actual discussion really did transfer from Reddit didn’t they 😬😬

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There’s plenty of attachments these days that are powered if you have a vacuum that supports it.

Dyson for instance makes small little motorheads for cleaning small carpeted spaces that attach to their stick vacuums.

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