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nivenkos,

I bought a new PC just to play Starfield (and BG3 with less issues).

It looks alright overall. But it’s pretty crazy that even 30xx cards can’t run it well (I had a 1070 though).

nivenkos,

BG3 has the same too.

nivenkos,

Imagine a realistic KSP with AAA graphics, like replicating historic missions and planned ones, etc.

Looking for games with strong female leads for my daughter (even just to watch as I play). Came across this link, but they're a bit age-inappropriate. Any suggestions from the community? (gameranx.com)

Edit: Daughter is only 5 so she’s unlikely to play much but she watches me and as long as it’s not too violent, it should be fine

nivenkos,

Baldur’s Gate 3

nivenkos,

Also the original X-COM was so far ahead of its time - a voxel-based LOS system, destructible environment, z-levels, natural elevation on terrain (deforming the isometric grid), reaction fire, etc.

nivenkos,

In terms of games that were so advanced they almost feel like they were made by time travellers:

  • Elite (1984) - procedural open world space sim
  • Ultima VII (1992) - full NPC schedules, open world and day/night system so you could rob stores at nights, follow people, etc. and awesome exploration. In 1992!
  • X-COM (1994) - a voxel-based LOS system, destructible environment, z-levels, natural elevation on terrain (deforming the isometric grid), reaction fire, etc.
  • Daggerfall (1996) - a faction system, procedurally generated areas and quests, a lot of options to get to different areas (climbing, levitation, etc.)
  • Thief (1998) - a full sound simulation with different materials having different properties, the ability to extinguish torches (dynamic lighting!) and cover metal surfaces, a light system for visibility too (now commonplace).
  • Baldur’s Gate (1998) - a semi open-world AD&D2e implementation - with co-op multiplayer! (most modern games don’t manage this)
  • Deus Ex (2000) - a branching FPS/RPG campaign where choices matter with a basic stealth system and lots of approaches to each level. It was basically a completely modern game out of nowhere in 2000.
  • Runescape (2001) - one of the first major graphical MMORPGs with a full player economy.
  • Morrowind (2002) - a fully 3D open world with a lot of options for magic (including custom magic) and exploration.
  • Hitman 2 (2002) - first stealth-focussed game with a full disguise system, map, etc.
  • Oblivion (2006) - like Morrowind but with some NPC schedules (like Ultima VII), a stealth system (based on Thief) and Havok physics based traps.
  • Red Faction: Guerrilla (2009) - fully destructible buildings and environments in an open-world campaign.

Those are the ones that really stick out (also Super Mario and Zelda on consoles, especially the SNES, N64 and recently on the Switch handheld). It’s a shame that the rate of progress seems to have slowed down a lot at least in terms of ground-breaking features and simulations.

But who knows maybe Baldur’s Gate 3 and Starfield will both be on future lists like this.

Ultima VII really sticks out as just crazy though, that game could have released 10 years later and held up.

nivenkos,

It’s more than a re-master though, Laser Squad was independent missions IIRC? No geoscope

And it also didn’t have elevation, etc.? That said, Laser Squad released on the ZX Spectrum so it’s incredible as is.

nivenkos,

The regulators are on their side… government is not your friend.

nivenkos,

In theory it’s easy to monetise - allow some targeted ads to communities and/or occasional relevant boosted posts, or paid awards like Reddit, etc.

The issue is greed / growth. They always need more and more - so you end up with more irrelevant ads, political ads, more boosted posts than natural ones, etc. - most companies aren’t happy to just do one thing well with a skeleton crew maintaining it and keeping costs low - they need constant growth.

Just look at Reddit and Twitter for example.

nivenkos,

How would this work? What about people that need to contact their parents?

We need to move away from schools just being prisons for children while parents are at work, and encourage learning and more autonomy over what to study. Imagine having full access to Coursera and EdX and being able to choose what you wanted to study and collect credits like that - building your own syllabus from some of the best educators in the world.

Let kids program video games together at school, build sensors and robots, do basic genetic engineering (e.g. plant patterns), simulate and build model bridges, etc. like stuff that is actually fun but requires basic skills. So you’re not just memorising the trigonometry equations but really learning it because you need it in your projects.

And have zero tolerance for disruption and bullying with cameras, etc. It should be a place for collaborative learning, not a prison. It should feel like a much better place to learn than anywhere else.

nivenkos,

And images in general.

It’s funny cause it led to a whole type of meme (where the bottom of the image is shockingly different) that never works anymore.

nivenkos,

&TOTSE:

Q: What is TOTSE all about, anyway?

A: A lot of people have some weird idea that this web site is a Bad Place, a place for hackers, software pirates, and anarchists. The reason that they think this is that there are informational text files on here about hacking, piracy, and anarchy.
However, there are also text files on here that discuss politics; democratic, right wing, left wing, libertarian, communist, and everything in between, but this is not a political web site.
There are files on here that discuss Jesus Christ, Muhammed, Buddha, Crowley, John Smith, and “Bob”, but this is not a religious web site.
There are files full of short stories, science fiction, humorous articles, and great works of literature, but this is not a literary web site.
There are files with information on rocketry, radio broadcasting, chemistry, electronics, genetics, and computers, but this is not a technical web site.
This web site is about INFORMATION. All sorts and all viewpoints. Some of the information you will agree with, some you will find shocking, and some you will probably disagree with violently. That is the whole point. In this society we go to schools where there is one right answer: The Teacher’s. There is one acceptable version of events: The Television’s. There is only one acceptable occupation: The pursuit of money. There is only one political choice to make: The Status Quo.
On this web site you are expected to make decisions all by yourself. You get to decide who and what to agree with, and why. You get to hear new viewpoints that you may have never heard before. On this web site people exist without age, without skin color, without gender, without clothes, without nationality, without any of the visual cues we usually use to discredit or ignore people who are unlike ourselves. All of these things are stripped away and the ideas themselves are laid bare.
You will change. You will transform. You will learn. You will disagree.
You will enjoy it.

It’s a shame now the modern internet has switched from anonymity to identity politics, from freedom to cancel culture.

nivenkos,

Sending fake emails with Telnet before Gmail existed.

nivenkos,

Mainly because of the lack of exclusivity.

UMG once talked about making their own streaming service but fortunately that didn’t happen and things have stayed open with good catalogues on all services.

nivenkos,

A VPN / seedbox and a homeserver will cost you far more than the $1 per month difference.

nivenkos,

I don’t understand the argument about the artists’ payments - they agree to be on the platform.

And a stream will always be less value than a full CD sale - it’s also much, much less expensive for the customer.

nivenkos,

But resources like Coursera and EdX are incredible - why not let the best educators make courses like that and then teach millions of students?

It also allows them to have a freer syllabus.

nivenkos,

Yeah, it’s just not clear how scalable that is.

nivenkos,

Yeah, this post is like “Ghost of Kiev” levels of nonsense.

What foods can last 3-4 days without refrigeration?

I’m going to be camping for 4 days at a location without easy access to fire (hence no boiled water). As such, I’m going to be packing a bunch of canned stuff for my daily meals. The place is in England, where we’re expecting a few hot days this week and maybe some rain over the weekend....

nivenkos,

Cooked rice won’t last 3 days?

nivenkos,

It has outside the UK, like the oft-presented US graph of earnings vs. productivity.

The issue in the UK is the flood of cheap labour which led to a reversal in automation e.g. car washes becoming manual again instead of machines.

As they mention in the article - the UK is almost entirely dependent on American Tech companies for cloud services, etc. so all those numbers end up better reflected in the American economy.

Really you need policies that drive a high-wage, highly productive economy - free education, high minimum wages (to effectively ban non-automation), scrap in-work welfare like tax credits subsidising unproductive companies, etc.

nivenkos,

You’re selling the the rest of country short - there’s a lot of businesses in Seattle, Redmond, Portland, Austin, Dallas, Boulder, Chicago, Philadelphia, etc.

I think the main issue is that all the money pools in the US due to their big international businesses and monopolies, leading to higher productivity and salaries, and so all the investors in the US. And the US investors mostly want to invest in the US as they can use USD and their US bank account, and US legal protections, etc. with everything in English and so on. The US is also a much bigger consolidated market with one currency, one language and generally one set of laws (although some states differ depending on the industry) - making it easy to scale up an operation (although Sales Tax implementations are a complete disaster being at the county-level - wtf).

Countries (and economic blocs) need their own companies. I think in Europe we can learn a huge amount from China’s success with Baidu, WeChat, ByteDance, Huawei, Xiaomi, etc. and even Russia with Yandex, Mail.ru, VK, etc. - this helps keep the money in the same area and leads to re-investment.

Otherwise it’s just the same as being a banana republic - just serving as cheap labour for American corporations who send all the profits back to the US, and might even be outright hostile to democracy like ITT and United Fruit / Chiquita (both American corporations).

The over-regulation is a big problem too - we need to make it as easy as possible for people to take calculated risks and try start-ups, but here in Europe a lot of companies ban you from having your own side-work as an employee or contractor, you have to file taxes manually and some bureaucracy with the bank and accounting, etc. and then for Tech you have the GDPR and data privacy stuff to deal with.

nivenkos,

Here they mean economic productivity though - gross product / # employees.

It’s more industry based, but use of automation and machinery plays a big role too.

nivenkos,

Yeah, but maybe the issue is that people’s work doesn’t correspond to output.

Like the “Bullshit Jobs” phenomenon.

nivenkos,

therefore making them harder to intercept.

You mean far, far easier to intercept? You used to be able to just stick a coil around the wires.

The main issue is just a lot of countries governments’ don’t trust computers still. In Germany they insist on fax and post as it’s the only thing they can use as proof of signature in court, etc.

But it’s government laws and regulation that is behind. It’s not so much of a technical problem (although E2EE email standard would be nice!).

nivenkos,

It’s the same though.

To intercept the email you need to be on a network that receives it (i.e. ISPs).

It being stored unencrypted is a totally different problem (and also for letters, faxes, etc.)

nivenkos,

Yeah, this is a pain with faxes and letters too though - I had first-hand experience in Germany unfortunately.

nivenkos,

This is why I don’t understand the people that really want more “AI regulation”.

I don’t want a bunch of 70-year olds telling me what I can and can’t do with computers.

nivenkos,

Because the videos are popular.

nivenkos,

The Samsung ones work fine, I got them from work.

I think it’d only possibly be an issue for rhythm games, etc. I was playing emulated games and noticed no lag.

nivenkos,

Reminds me of Microsoft with the ActivePlatform / Blackbird stuff in the 90s.

Awful to see Google turn into that.

nivenkos,

You need to post the errors. What is the function signature?

nivenkos,

Any of them I think.

One of my friends had the newer one and Calibre still worked fine.

I’ve had the 2 earlier models (original and paperwhite) and both worked fine.

Just make sure to download epub or mobi files as they’ll have decent formatting compared to PDF, txt, etc.

With the epub support on the new model you can even email epubs to it IIRC, but I never tried it, Calibre is the best.

nivenkos,

Why protect? This is huge boon for the industry that will allow all games to become more accessible and feature-rich.

There’ll be fewer voice actors in the future for sure, just like there’s fewer radio stars and telephone operators. The world moves on.

Even trying to control it seems hopeless when the voice generation is getting so good with just a minute of audio etc.

nivenkos,

If you can get away with it then do it for sure - the driving tests are mostly a scam anyway, where they fail you to try to make more money.

nivenkos,

Learning to drive has nothing to do with the driving test though.

It’s a monopolistic scam as they know they can deny a lot of people who have no option but to pay again.

nivenkos,

I think it’s a lot of Americans who don’t understand how it is in other countries, as it’s easier and cheaper in the US (I think some states don’t even have a practical test?).

Like even in Spain it is common for people to go and do it in a small town as in the main cities the failure rate is awful and you have to wait ~6 months between attempts. It’s not exactly outright bribery, but obviously in the small towns they kinda depend on that.

nivenkos,

There’s just a lot of people, and few slots. It was rough before and then Covid came and broke it completely.

nivenkos,

Could be a British Longhair - the eyes and tail especially.

nivenkos,

Splitters!

Can't figure out NFS file sharing

Sorry, noob here. I have been using Linux for a decade at least, but some basic stuff still stump me. Today, it’s file sharing: The idea is that the server is good at CPU and the NAS is good at storage. My NAS does run Docker but the services are slow; and my server runs a bunch of Docker containers just fine but has limited...

nivenkos,

I got it working following - wiki.archlinux.org/title/NFS

The main issue I had IIRC was making sure that the local user owns the share directory itself (e.g. on the NAS in your case) rather than root.

If you post more details (i.e. the error logs and configuration), I can take a look at my configuration tonight.

It’s quite a hassle at first (especially using IP addresses), but once you get it working it’s cool as you can even put it in fstab, etc. to make it all automatic.

nivenkos,

It’s just a shortened link, probably copied it for mobile.

nivenkos,

There’s always been a lot of bureaucracy - the eurocrats meme exists for a reason. Look up the precautionary principle which influenced an anti-GM and anti-nuclear stance.

It seems to be getting even worse under Von der Leyen though - with the Chat Control act, AI act, Cyber Resilience act, etc. - even parts of the GDPR and Digital Services Act introduce a lot of red tape for starting companies. Just look at Germany too, like all the CDU corruption with the masks - where they were effectively bribed by certain companies to then force all their citizens to buy those particular masks.

Ideally everyone would be able to easily try new endeavours - with no issue around filing taxes, bank accounts, filing trademarks, checking patents, data privacy laws, etc. and there’d be wealth and property taxes and a lot of investment in education and FOSS to level the playing field.

nivenkos,

Do that many people upgrade every generation?

I still use a 1070, so the GPU comparisons here aren’t relevant.

The main issue I hit was deciding between DDR4 and DDR5 RAM since we’re in an awkward transition phase - and that affects motherboard and so CPU choices too.

nivenkos,

The CPU becomes the real issue though - which then means changing motherboard, which means changing RAM, etc. and then you might as well get an NVMe too etc.

Plan on getting a Linux laptop: any suggestions?

I’m considering getting a laptop for Linux and want to know a few things before I do. Some important info before I start: I don’t plan on using the laptop for anything too intense, mainly writing, digital art, streaming, browsing, and maybe very mild video editing (cropping at least and shortening at most). I would also...

nivenkos,

The Asus Vivobook is a good deal.

But as an American you might be able to afford the Framework.

nivenkos,

This aged poorly…

Wish we had const floats too.

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