mox

@[email protected]

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. View on remote instance

mox ,

I love this instance in principle, but it has had recurring technical problems since before I joined, and I don't have any reason to think that will change. I suppose they just don't have the resources to keep up with lemmy issues. I'm using a different instance now.

mox ,

It could probably use a review comparing with Planet Coaster 2.

mox ,

FWIW, you might also consider Firefox's built-in reader view, which can be configured to use a dark theme.

mox ,
mox , (edited )

Qt is still the only excellent cross-platform desktop GUI framework.

It's a pity that its current custodian's commercial licenses:

  • are subscriptions
  • are painfully expensive for a solo developer or small group
  • have a reputation for triggering legal threats and badgering from The Qt Company if one ever wants to end their subscription or (separately) use the open-source license for a FOSS project

This situation makes me afraid to use their commercial offerings, which in turn means they won't get any money from me at all; I feel that I can safely use their libs only in open-source code. Their business model is their decision, of course, but I can't help wondering if their whale-hunting approach actually nets them more money than a more accessible, lower-cost, one-time (or one-major-version) license option would. In many other industries, high sales volume reaps more profits than high price.

Thank goodness for the KDE Free Qt Foundation.

mox ,
mox ,

I noticed a change in your titles a few days ago. What happened to "until l forget to post Screenshots"? I don't think you forgot, did you?

mox ,

I'm with you.

Also great: Willow, Tombstone.

mox ,

I'm partial to a prickle of porcupines.

More here

mox ,

I wish we had generic links for posts and comments like we do for communities. It's problematic in several ways to have to follow an URL like this one:

Skavau : What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? in [Moved to Piefed] Television

Looks like others have noticed the problem as well:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1901

mox ,
mox ,

Verified or not, I hope it doesn't require a year's salary of hardware and a nuclear power plant to run, like the first PC port did.

mox , (edited )

That misses the point. The Last of Us Part I is Steam Deck verified, but it consumes far too many resources.

Do note that I'm not just talking about the Deck. Some hardware can run it smoothly, some can't, but in all cases, it's an insultingly bloated pig of a port.

mox ,
mox ,

Sure.

You might want to subscribe to newcommunities@lemmy.world icon New Communities , and browse here once in a while: https://lemmyverse.net/communities

mox ,

Yes, this is the way.

mox ,

"A prickle of hoglets."

YSK The uncensored library: The digital home of press freedom ( www.uncensoredlibrary.com )

In many countries, websites, social media and blogs are controlled by oppressive leaders. Young people, in particular, are forced to grow up in systems where their opinion is heavily manipulated by governmental disinformation campaigns. ...

mox ,

Disappointing that it doesn't show anything at all without javascript.

[Thread, post or comment was deleted by the moderator]

    •
    mox ,

    I don't follow Meta services, but for the record, I think you're talking about the EU Digital Markets Act and its interoperability requirements of gatekeepers.

    https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers_en

    https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/questions-and-answers/interoperability_en

    mox , (edited )

    You had cassettes? We had to manually transcribe machine code from printed listings.

    mox ,
    mox ,

    Long ago, I solved all of the ways in which PHP made me sad...

    ...by abandoning it.

    Nowadays we have better languages that can do the job at least as well.

    mox ,

    if the FDA is dismantled to syncopats

    Did you mean sycophants? Psychopaths? Something else?

    Zelda: Breath of the Wild is a Masterpiece, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is an Indulgence

    I was a huge fan of Breath of the Wild when it came out and played the hell out of it. At a certain point, it felt like I hit the logical end point and there wasn't much else to do. When I started playing Tears of the Kingdom, I got exactly what I wanted which was more Breath of the Wild. I'm still playing ToTK and really ...

    mox ,

    Breath of the Wild: Beautiful. Mysterious. Inspired.

    Tears of the Kingdom. Big. Shallow. Boring.

    I found the first dozen or two hours of TotK exciting, as I encountered new mechanics and a darker side of Hyrule. But it wasn't long before the new and exciting became endless expanses of copy/paste encounters and terrain, forgettable characters, and annoying enemies. Nothing felt clever or interesting. I lost interest in exploring, and wandered away from the game.

    Then I went back to the first game for another run.

    mox ,
    mox , (edited )

    Also, units of fun earned while watching other people play.

    One nice thing about an arcade is that you can see regular people (not streamers/professionals/actors) interacting with a game, and notice subtleties that aren't represented in a bullet list or trailer video.

    mox ,

    Do these accept cash, or only ATM cards? (The latter would link your transaction to your bank account, of course.)

    What do they give? A printout of a wallet address?

    mox ,

    Or a projector, or a gaming console display.

    mox ,

    SomaFM uses shoutcast/icecast streams, so just about any half-decent media streaming device or software can play it.

    mox ,

    You are not alone in feeling it's overblown.

    Well-done ray tracing can be beautiful, but realistically, it doesn't matter to me. I'm not Narcissus; I don't play games to stare at my reflection in a puddle. My time and attention are almost entirely devoted to things that move too fast for ray tracing to matter, or reading text, or the geometry of a scene as I plan my approach to whatever I'm about to do.

    If all other things were equal, I would gladly take the extra eye candy. But to me, it's not worth paying significantly more money for real-time ray tracing hardware and higher electricity bills.

    Please wake me up in ten years or so, when every GPU does it well without measurably increasing power draw.

    mox , (edited )

    I just referred them to 5 because it was almost as good

    Why do you consider Civ 6 better than 5?

    Edit for anyone else wanting to answer: Please specify whether you're including Brave New World (or Gods and Kings) in your comparison, since those expansions significantly improved upon the original Civ 5 release.

    mox ,

    Are you including Brave New World in that comparison? I've never played Civ 5 without it.

    mox ,

    Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: Denuvo Anti-tamper

    Requires 3rd-Party Account: 2K Account for Online Interactions

    Somebody please wake me up when these atrocities are gone. (And thanks, Steam, for making them easy to discover.)

    mox ,

    Thanks for the perspective. :)

    mox ,

    Do you know who made the port?

    mox ,

    I don't think so. There's no mention of it on their site.

    mox ,

    What makes you think that? It's possible that they did it in-house, of course, but there's no precedent for it. No previous Civ had a linux version done in-house.

    mox ,

    I think the quote was, "I’m an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git."

    mox ,
    mox ,

    The article refers to the pandemic as though it's over, which doesn't exactly help with the problem. Sigh.