Interesting. Invisible, Inc was fun, but I stopped playing it when the developer (Klei) sold the company to Tencent, along with access to our data.

This new game is from Trese Brothers, an independent studio. I might have to give it a try.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

That’s supposed to be very friendly? I think someone might be a bit out of touch.

I might have upvoted this post if it contained even a basic summary, rather than just a link to someone’s video.

0. Getting users to post text instead of screenshots of text.

USDA links:

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/cattle/ticks/screwworm

https://www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poultry-disease/cattle/ticks/screwworm/outbreak-central-america

The sad reality is that while there are a lot of great people on Lemmy, there are also some who use the platform to attack others, stir up conflict, or actively try to undermine the project. Admins are volunteers who deal with the latter group on a constant basis, this takes a mental toll. Please understand why our admins chose to step down, and be kind to the admins on whatever instance you decide to join.

Last I checked, archive.org usually didn’t work when articles are paywalled. Has that changed?

In my experience, it depends on when the snapshot is made. If made early enough that the paywall was not yet in place (probably because publishers want their articles to be indexed by search engines) then it will not have the paywall.

One nice thing about archive.org’s mirroring is that they list all their snapshots of a page by date and time, so if the latest one contains a paywall, you can sometimes go back to the first one and find it with no paywall.

A useful product can be nice, but I wouldn’t call this patent uplifting news.

There are also bluetooth adapters that plug directly into those older iPods’ accessory port (the slot on the bottom) instead of the headphone jack.

The main benefit of the one I used was being compact, with no wires. The main drawback was having to remove the adapter to charge the iPod. I guess a model with a USB charging cable might exist.

It looks pretty.

They say their performance target is 60 fps on a Playstation 5, but they didn’t mention a resolution.

If we are to allow them to hold positions of extraordinary power over us, then we must also hold them to an extraordinary level of responsibility, and their actions must be subject to extraordinary scrutiny and severe consequences for wrongdoing. That is the only way it can work.

None of those are examples of people using firearms to stand against tyranny. Not even at a small scale, let alone a meaningful one.

(Note that racist organisations are not governments. They’re awful, but they are not fascism and do not constitute tyranny.)

Perhaps AMD could convince game developers/publishers to spend some time learning optimisation. Many of the popular games I’ve seen in the past 5 years have been embarrassingly bad at working with RAM and storage specs that were considered massive until relatively recently. The techniques for doing this well have existed for generations.

In computer science, read-copy-update (RCU) is a synchronization mechanism that avoids the use of lock primitives while multiple threads concurrently read and update elements that are linked through pointers and that belong to shared data structures (e.g., linked lists, trees, hash tables).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read-copy-update

Can you share a meaningful number of examples showing Democrats with guns standing up to neo-fascists?

Because while your comment has an air of sensibility, the news stories that I’ve seen over the decades give the impression that the Americans who choose to own guns to protect their rights are overwhelmingly supporters of the very fascists that are in the spotlight now. I would love reason to believe otherwise, but since I don’t have one, I am skeptical of your argument.

The host’s intro made me laugh out loud.

“If you’re anything like me, you’ll prob’ly be fascinated by a brand new game called… [looks down at notes to read the name of the game…]”

Seriously, though, I’m thankful that he put a spoiler warning right up front. I’ll have to save this for later.

Yes, that’s part of the ecosystem. :)

I recently started it.

Gameplay-wise, I find it bland at best: A world traversed entirely on rails, and JRPG-style combat with timed dodge/parry moves. These mechanics don’t excite me, but I’m still playing anyway, because…

As a work of art, I find it gorgeous. The operatic soundtrack, despite being a genre outside my usual preferences, is captivating. The voice acting is nuanced and immersive like I don’t think I’ve heard in any other game (so much that I can mostly overlook the terrible lip sync problems in the animation). A few of the facial expressions are… disarming. The environments are so beautiful that I sometimes find myself just staring at them for a while instead of advancing the story.

It’s too early to be sure I’ll stick with it, but I suspect that I will, just as I would a film that indulges the senses.

In practice, I think that people gaming or doing workstation tasks would use more power on the 285k, because typically, that’s what these will be used for anyway.

People doing “workstation” tasks or gaming with desktop CPUs also spend a lot of time in editor tools or basic desktop tasks, and seldom turn off their systems in between tasks. (Some don’t even turn off their systems when they leave work or go to sleep at night.) And very few games will load up all the CPU cores at once. So idle power draw remains significant. Also, many/most real-world tasks have CPU cores constantly varying their power draw, not pegged at the package’s rated TDP. So using TDP as a proxy for overall power usage is unrealistic.

It might be interesting to study the proportion of powered-on time spent at low load vs. high load in a typical week, across a decently large sample size.