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hydroel,

Yeah it’s always that: “I want to buy the new shiny thing! But it’s expensive, so I’ll wait for a while for its price to come down.” You wait for a while, the price comes down, you buy the new shiny thing and then comes out the newest shiny thing.

hydroel,

I think it’s even simpler than that: they want a share of Google’s data, and more control about what ads they can show to their customers constantly. Their hardware platforms are okayish and sold for a quite low price, but they monetize it on ads.

hydroel,

Looks like it could be on of the 2008 GOTY!

hydroel,

If they’re playable on the Deck they’re playable on Linux, or am I missing something?

hydroel,

Oh, that! Yes well that argument doesn’t hold up anymore but Windows has been successfully positioned as the only gaming OS for years (deservedly, too), it will take a while to fade off. Besides, many games on Linux still require some tinkering (although that’s probably not the case of the 12000 verified and playable games on there).

hydroel,

When has DRM prevented modders to work on a game?

hydroel,

Maybe OP works in noisy environments, or his device is a recent phone which doesn’t have a jack input and using a adapter is not very convenient?

Anyway, passive noise cancellation (typically, a closed back or in-ears) is more efficient in the higher frequencies: physically blocking short wavelengths is a lot easier, as any obstacle will act as a dampener. On the other hand, ANC is a lot more efficient on lower frequencies (on the opposite, it’s easier to be precise on lower frequencies, longer wavelengths). On ANC devices, both are used in tandem. And I don’t know if you’ve tried any good, recent ANC headphones these last few years, but they’ve become surprisingly good! Nothing to be compared with passive noise blocking.

but im sure there are wired headphones with ANC

I’m sure there are (although I don’t know any), but ANC requires digital processing, which is performed by the headphones itself on the signal. If you’re plugged in with a jack, that means you’ll be needing a digital-to-analog-to-digital conversion, which is objectively a loss in quality, which would have to be handled by the headphones… Besides, ANC headphones usually have several modes which can be selected from the app. Anyway, all that to say that now that we have quite to very good Bluetooth audio codecs, there’s no real upside to having a wired connection for ANC headphones, which is why most makers have moved to that.

hydroel,

The list of supported devices is there (and too short, none of my wireless devices work).

hydroel,

I’ve looked if I could do it myself as well, but there’s basically nothing but “look at how it’s done on similar devices”. It’s fantastic to build an app to support all those devices, but it’s a bit of a shame not to provide guides so others can contribute to support it.

Mortal Kombat 1 Players Are Furious With Inclusion of Paid Fatalities (comicbook.com)

Mortal Kombat 1 players are finding themselves quite upset this week following the announcement that paid Fatalities will soon be coming to the popular fighting game. With the last few Mortal Kombat installments, NetherRealm Studios has added paid content that players can choose to purchase outside of the main game. Not only has...

hydroel,

No no no I’ll stop you right there as you don’t seem to get it: it’s shitty in either case and must be called out, it’s just that it’s more recent for MK1. You don’t get to sell a game 70€ and expect players not to complain when integral parts of it are held behind paywalls.

hydroel,

I’m kind of in favor of that, but unless you can emulate x86 on ARM with reasonable performance, all our game libraries will be useless.

hydroel,

I get my comics on getcomisc.org or Soulseek. The first one has good sources and a few collections, although nothing I’d call an actual “bulk”. With Soulseek you can download the batches of your choice.

hydroel,

Your explanation is interesting (and I learned a thing or two), but it fails to explain how such a term as Taco Tuesday could be considered a trademark in locations where the owner of the trademark is implanted.

hydroel,

It’s a really solid Metroidvania, with beautiful design, music and story. It’s not the best Metroidvania (my vote would go to Hollow Knight) but the game is really good. The sequel is great too!

I don’t know how far in you went: the first half-hour or so is just slow storytelling. And just like all Metroidvanias, your set of powers at the beginning is very limited and isn’t so interesting. However, the game is well enough paced that as soon as you’re comfortable using your current power set, the game unlocks a new mechanic, and it never really stops until the end. It especially shines if you’re a completionist IMO, as being able to go back to each area to explore it to 100% with the whole power set feels really great.

hydroel,

I would go as far as to say that this is for sure an opinion.

hydroel,

I didn’t get how this could be news but as it happens, this is the sequel of the game also called Lords of the Fallen released in 2014. Why they didn’t think it was a bad idea to give it exactly the same title is beyond me, however.

hydroel,

You might not know that because this “spice” only exists in the US and I just learned it myself, but pumpkin spice has nothing to do with pumpkin flavor. It’s called that way because it’s the mix of spices used in pumpkin pies: cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, ginger and cloves.

hydroel,

It looks better, sure, but marginally better, which is to say something as HL2 was released in 2004. I replayed it last year (the “update”) and it still holds up so well: models and textures are old, sure, but animations, face animations in particular, barely show their age.

Anyway, this remake is apparently made by the same team that created the Portal: Prelude RTX mod, which (according to the Steam reviews) runs terribly. I wish I was more excited, but I can’t say I am.

hydroel,

Is this to make all the games available on Google Play also playable on PC? What is even the point?

hydroel,

Both are text editors, but VSCode’s plugin system and various config options can turn it a fully fledged IDE for the languages of your choice.

Besides, Sublime is exactly that: good, old.

hydroel,

There are simpler and better solutions than Sublime for that use case, IMO.

Using the WiiMote as a mouse

I am running Pop_OS! and want to set up an old WiiMote I have lying around as a mouse. I have a USB-sensor bar, and I don’t have any issues connecting the remote to the computer, and the inputs seems to register just fine when running xwiishow 1 after the remote is connected. I am also able to use it perfectly fine as a...

hydroel,

Might be enough for touch-based interfaces though, or fingers don’t have a 4K resolution either.

hydroel,

I don’t think it could have gone much horse

hydroel,

I feel like you’re intentionally missing your own point.

hydroel,

You’re comparing compiled executables to scripts, it’s apples and oranges.

hydroel,

The IPA is a lot more efficient in that regard! It’s international so it’s valid for all languages, whereas phonetic spelling is easier to learn but changes from language to language.

hydroel,

When OP conveniently forgets history under the guise of a joke. Germany was divided in two, remember?

hydroel,

Isn’t the Pi 3B still available for that kind of job?

hydroel,

But there already is a device that answer that specific need, so it wouldn’t make sense for the Raspberry 5 to replace it.

hydroel, (edited )

Oh so he likes to beat his meat as well?

hydroel,

Best UI out of all the clients I’ve tested! Snappy and the haptics make it feel really great.

Does it still have that bug where it disconnects you when it doesn’t find the network?

hydroel,

You just did!

hydroel,

I don’t understand if this is sarcasm or if some people are actually that dense.

hydroel, (edited )

I don’t get how this is discriminatory - to me it’d be like saying K-pop, K-pop or French fries is.

hydroel,

Then again, maybe the question can be raised about FFVII - Rebirth. But still, I would say that the question is raised anyway because it’s a FF (a series which largely contributed to cement the JRPG genre) and a remake of a game which is indubitably JRPG, not because it’s an RPG developed by a Japanese team.

hydroel,

It’s been this way for years, I think more than a decade. At least The Witcher 2 and 3 were available on GOG when they released.

hydroel,

Last update was from more than one year ago, last I checked. Has it been updated since?

hydroel,

Hah he said annulus

hydroel,

Isn’t Dishonored 3 Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, or is it more of a spin-off the second? Disclaimer: I’ve only played the first and part of the second, haven’t finished it nor played DotO yet.

hydroel,

Uh, I have bought the last 3 generations of Xbox controllers and the battery’s always been swappable. What’s new?

hydroel,

Microsoft Wall™

hydroel,

You may be more used to bash, but after having tinkered with both and converted some scripts from one to the other, I arrived to the conclusion that both are bad.

hydroel,

Added to the main post. I didn’t in the first place as I’m not so sure it’s relevant (outside of the GPU and supported resolution, which I specified)

Anyway: Tuxedo InfinityBook Pro Gen 7, DELL S3422DWG

hydroel,

Might be that Dell devs don’t give a damn about correct specs (which are usually implemented in Linux) and only test on Windows. Mine is connected in HDMI though.

Does this monitor work well with Windows?

hydroel,

I had checked the HDMI cable several times but never thought about checking the dongle: of course that was it. Good catch, thank you!

hydroel,

I haven’t, but what would they bring to the table? Would they allow specific tweaks like xrandr?

hydroel,

Depending on the complexity of your game or project, it may be very expensive to switch engines.

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