It seems like a weird point to bring up. How often do y'all convert your measurements? It's not even a daily thing. If I'm measuring something, I either do it in inches, or feet, rarely yards. I've never once had to convert feet into miles, and I can't imagine I'm unique in this. When I have needed to, it's usually converting...
I’ve never once had to convert feet into miles, and I can’t imagine I’m unique in this.
100% this. Look, imperial may be silly, but some of the arguments for changing to metric are also very silly. Things are usually at a mile scale or a foot scale, and I don't really need to go between the two.
And sure, converting between different units is convenient in metric, but how often do you have to do that? So you can easily tell me how many liters of water would be needed to fill a giant, square kilometer fish tank, but who needs to do that?What grade school math problem are you living in?
Systemd founder and lead developer Lennart Poettering announced the creation of a new company called Amutable. The Amutable company being led by Chris Kühl (CEO), Christian Brauner (CTO) and Lennart Poettering (Chief Engineer) will be focused on delivering determinism and verifiable integrity to Linux systems.
How does a company like this make money? Like, is it basically a consulting firm that plans to do development on core Linux features? Custom dev work that they are also able to open source? They already have quite a few employees on the about page.
Unfortunately, the only open source physical media player I'm aware of is the Tangara. Their most recent blog post is from July, 2025, and mentions some tweaks they want to make before doing another production run. So there might be more units coming, but there will be a wait.
What a coincidence, I just saw someone playing a 3DS (not XL I think) on the train on the way home today. I haven't seen someone playing a dedicated handheld console in forever. I should've struck up a conversation about it.
I also saw someone using an MP3 player last week. Single-purpose electronics making a small comeback this year?
Had my learner's permit at 15, and regular license at 16, which is pretty standard in the US. The driving school for me was literally the high school. Like, the driving class was one of the classes you take in your regular school. That is also pretty common in the US.
Oh interesting, maybe it's just more of a western US thing and I assumed it was the whole country. I live in Utah now, and every high school has it here. Also every high school (from what I remember) in California also had it.
My opinion about Far Cry 2 did a complete 180 over the last few years. When it first came out, all I remember thinking was that it was less technically impressive than Crysis. (I was just obsessed with graphics in 2008. There were many of us like that. I have changed.) Now I see it as the most distinct entry in the series.
They definitely do! A very distinctive look for FC2, another thing that sets it apart from the rest of the series. (I mean, OK, Blood Dragon is very distinct, too, but that's kind of another thing.)
Unfortunately, there are still no computers that can run Crysis well. Some things are outside the reach of current science. Maybe in another ten years or so, we'll get there. It's still worth playing, though.
Collabora shares with us today a new project that lets you install and run the Debian GNU/Linux operating system on the open-source OpenWrt One router....
I just tried to make a post on Mastodon and tag a community in it so that my post would show up in that community -- something I've done many times before....
I think that's just a way of getting a link to the community, but it doesn't actually tag the community in your post or make it get posted into that community. I just tried it, and the post does not show up in the community that I mentioned with !.
That's interesting, I'll try to learn more about that.
So, in this case, the community I was trying to post to was [email protected]. There is also a user with that name on lemmy.world. If I search "[email protected]" on Mastodon, does that mean both of them should show up? And what would their names be? One would start with ! and the other start with @?
I got my moonlight/sunshine rig running with fedora on the server and my AppleTV as the client. My DualShock 4 controller works but isn’t mapping right and it’s old enough that it’s probably time I bought something new rather than bother fixing it anyway....
I have a Sony Dualsense controller and haven't had any problems with it as a game controller. However, I'm always launching games through Steam, or letting Steam run in the background (so that it's handling the controller input remapping). I don't know if that's what you plan on doing; I've never tried it without Steam handling the inputs.
My one complaint about it is that the trackpad isn't good enough to use as a mouse when you're navigating the desktop. So I ended up switching back to my original Steam controller.
Oh cool, glad to know that Returnal takes advantage of it. I don't have any games that take advantage of the haptics right now, but I've been wanting to try one. And I was already wanting to check out Returnal at some point.
I find that it's good enough for things like the main menu or the pause menu. But I don't find it usable if I'm having to accurately click something while gameplay is happening. And if I want to minimize the game and look something up on the web, it'll take me five attempts to click a link with it.
The King of Fighters. This fighting game series still has some of the original marketing sites up for its earlier
titles.
KOF 98 "Unlimited Match". I'm not sure when this was made. This is for the 2008 re-release of KOF 98. The copyright date says 2007 and there's a Wordpress logo for the favicon. However, everything else about the website screams <marquee>"1998."</marquee> It's using tables for the layout and font tags for text colors. I'm wondering if there was an existing site for KOF 98, and they gave it an update for 2008 without changing the way it was written.
KOF 2000. A great example of how a site would sometimes have completely different layouts for each page.
Seeing major projects move away from GitHub is so encouraging, I love it. But hopefully people also see that codeberg can use some donations to be able to handle the new traffic. (Which reminds me, I need to do that...)
Well, I'm sure most know by now that I've been reviewing handhelds for a good while. Anbernic sent over the 12GB/256GB 'RG 477V' handheld they released (this stands for 'Retro Gaming' - 4.7" Vertical and the other 7 denotes their higher tier set inside), which runs Android 14, for me to review. And...well, I did so....
Great review! And wow, this thing looks fantastic. After using a horizontal retro emulator, I wasn't sure if I would ever want a vertical one again. Horizontal just immediately felt so much more comfortable for me. But this one definitely looks tempting. Also, the vertical handheld I have, a Miyoo mini, is really small, so maybe that's part of my ergonomics problem.
I have a couple of questions, one about this device and one for anyone just in general:
For Android games, does this have the actual Google play store? Or do you need to use the Aurora store? And if so, do you use a throwaway account because Google might decide that they aren't OK with that someday?
This is available with 8 GB or 12 GB of memory. I've never played PS2 games on one of these handhelds before -- would 8 GB be fine for that?
It's amazing just how much better games have been from indie devs and smaller publishers. I don't see a single game from EA, Ubisoft, or Activision on there.
Im probably in the very very small minority of people who still love and go to arcades. Its such a great place to meet like minded nerds. We are lucky to have 2 really awesome ones in town, one of which has a lot of good old machines, and they repair them too. They have some new ones that are OK too....
I haven't been to one that uses cards, but I would prefer tokens or actual coins over the card. The only arcade near me is a bar arcade, and all of the machines take quarters. I love it.
I'm looking for a self hosted Kanban board where we as a exteded family can track things which have to be done. Since my parents are getting older and me and my siblings live all in different countries there is more and more to do to help our parents. But it's difficult to keep track who is doing what and what status things are...
I just accidentally clicked the "clear all" on the browser URL and wished that it was a bit harder to click but was still there. If it took three clicks to make happen, its still useful in most circumstances but would drastically drop the mistaken clicks...
OK, that one is only unpopular on specific, Linux-heavy parts of the internet. (Like... right here.) And even then, there aren't that many people who disagree with me. But there are definitely a few people who have this idea that we'd all be using super fast, powerful command line applications for all of our tasks, were it not for big tech pushing the graphical interface on us.
I get it; I'm a command-line person myself. And big tech has pushed a lot of anti-user changes. But the truth is that most users want to use a mouse, they want to have a GUI, and the shift from keyboard to mouse wasn't simply because Microsoft wanted to limit the users' capability.
Gmail is the best (worst) example of this. They literally have EVERY possible icon for "settings" on the page at once.
There's a hamburger button. There's a three dots button. There's a NINE DOTS BUTTON. There's a cog. There's a slider icon. And you click your profile picture for "manage your account."
I went to a bar to get a beer after work, and ended up talking for a little bit with the guy sitting next to me. Then we ran into each other again at a coffee shop. So now we get a drink after work on purpose every once in a while. It's great.
So recently been spending time configuring my selfhosted services with notifications usint ntfy. I've added ntfy to report status on containers and my system using Beszel. However, only 12 out of my 44 containers seem to have healthcheck "enabled" or built in as a feature. So im now wondering what is considered best practice for...
Same here. I'm the only user of my services, so if I try visiting the website and it's down, that's how I know it's down.
I prefer phrasing it differently, though. "With my current uptime monitoring strategy, all endpoints serve as an on-demand healthcheck endpoint."
One legitimate thing I do, though, is have a systemd service that starts each docker compose file. If a container crashes, systemd will notice (I think it keeps an eye on the PIDs automatically) and restart them.
I don't find shame in cheating in video games. It was a stigma to hear about growing up, that cheating in video games meant you prefer the shortcuts in life or that you didn't know what earning anything was. When, that was all just bullshit talk....
Finding cheat codes for Sega Genesis games was my introduction to the internet. It was so fun getting to tell other kids at school about cheat codes that you knew about for their games.
These days I don't, mainly because they don't seem to have them anymore, and also because if I'm not enjoying the game with its base mechanics I have plenty of other games in my backlog that I can check out instead.
The only one I've played is Dead Cells, and it's fantastic. I haven't even bought any of the DLC, the base game is already endlessly replayable. I also listen to the soundtrack at least once a week.
I definitely want to get around to playing Hollow Knight and Animal Well at some point.
I've always thought it was both. I'm definitely no expert on Metroidvanias, since I've only played the one (if Dead Cells counts as one). I actually thought the term "Metroidvania" was about the movement and combat -- today I just learned that it's about the exploration and finding things. You do at least have to do that in the bank level, if I remember right. And the castle level.
I was just thinking "Hey, this kind of looks like Dark Messiah." And then he kicked an enemy off of a ledge and I thought "Oh it's 100% a sequel to Dark Messiah."
Just minutes before it was set to deliver its financial results for the first half of its 2025-26 fiscal year, Ubisoft mashed the brakes on the whole thing, postponing the release of its results to an unspecified future date. The company also requested that European exchange Euronext halt trading of the company's shares and...
Yeah, and honestly I'm OK with it, even though I've never actually paid for OED. (I do plan on buying a physical dictionary soon, though.) OED has always maintained that theirs is a service worth paying for, whether it's a physical book or an online account.
And with the increase of AI-generated content, I completely agree with them. Human-created content, or human-curated content, is valuable. If we want it to exist, we'll have to pay for it.
Subscribe to an independent news source. Send your favorite video creator a few dollars on Patreon. Buy a dictionary. This is actually how we resist enshittification.
edit: Another commenter pointed out that their pricing is ridiculous, though, and that is also true. $10/month or $100/year is way too high.
M+ 1m has been my daily monospaced font ever since I found it, which is about eight years now. I don't see it come up often when people talk about monospaced fonts.
Today's game is some more Max Payne 2. I was kind of dreading doing the Construction Site again, as last time it was a struggle. Surprisingly though it was a easy time. I guess my experience from my first play through carried over and made this a cake walk. I found this room full of explosives and a pile of chairs. I let myself...
This is making me want to replay this game. I don't really remember much about the story of this one, but I do remember than the slow motion mechanics were much better than those of the first game.
Peter Thiel gives himself blood transfusions with the blood of younger people in order to slow the aging process. It is a procedure that scientists call "not working."
Anyone Have Memories Of This Game?
Why do people who try to convince others to switch to metric focus so much on the conversions?
It seems like a weird point to bring up. How often do y'all convert your measurements? It's not even a daily thing. If I'm measuring something, I either do it in inches, or feet, rarely yards. I've never once had to convert feet into miles, and I can't imagine I'm unique in this. When I have needed to, it's usually converting...
Systemd Founder Lennart Poettering Announces Amutable Company ( www.phoronix.com )
Systemd founder and lead developer Lennart Poettering announced the creation of a new company called Amutable. The Amutable company being led by Chris Kühl (CEO), Christian Brauner (CTO) and Lennart Poettering (Chief Engineer) will be focused on delivering determinism and verifiable integrity to Linux systems.
Advice on music player devices?
Hello fellow lemmings
Bought a 3DS XL last year
I bought a 3DS XL sometimes last year. It was under $200....
How old did you get your driver's license? Did you learn driving from a driving school or from parents? (or some friend or relative?)
I feel so trapped without a driving license... can't go anywhere......
Ubisoft Randomly Gives Far Cry 3 A 60FPS Current-Gen Upgrade ( wolfsgamingblog.com )
You Can Now Run Debian GNU/Linux on the OpenWrt One Open-Source Router ( 9to5linux.com )
Collabora shares with us today a new project that lets you install and run the Debian GNU/Linux operating system on the open-source OpenWrt One router....
If a Lemmy user has the same name as a community, how can I tag the community on Mastodon?
I just tried to make a post on Mastodon and tag a community in it so that my post would show up in that community -- something I've done many times before....
Shenmue II
Help me choose a controller
I got my moonlight/sunshine rig running with fedora on the server and my AppleTV as the client. My DualShock 4 controller works but isn’t mapping right and it’s old enough that it’s probably time I bought something new rather than bother fixing it anyway....
Video Game Websites in the early 00s ( www.webdesignmuseum.org )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/41252333...
Gentoo’s 2025 Report: Financial Health and the Push Away From GitHub ( linuxiac.com )
Gentoo closed out 2025 by publishing a comprehensive year-end report with two highlights that were mostly interesting. Here they are....
My time with Anbernic's RG477V
Well, I'm sure most know by now that I've been reviewing handhelds for a good while. Anbernic sent over the 12GB/256GB 'RG 477V' handheld they released (this stands for 'Retro Gaming' - 4.7" Vertical and the other 7 denotes their higher tier set inside), which runs Android 14, for me to review. And...well, I did so....
Among 2025 games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated
I still gotta beat Gerson and finish ch. 4 tho 🙃...
How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ?
Im probably in the very very small minority of people who still love and go to arcades. Its such a great place to meet like minded nerds. We are lucky to have 2 really awesome ones in town, one of which has a lot of good old machines, and they repair them too. They have some new ones that are OK too....
Self hosted Kanban board with good mobile support
I'm looking for a self hosted Kanban board where we as a exteded family can track things which have to be done. Since my parents are getting older and me and my siblings live all in different countries there is more and more to do to help our parents. But it's difficult to keep track who is doing what and what status things are...
What's an unpopular UI opinion you have?
I just accidentally clicked the "clear all" on the browser URL and wished that it was a bit harder to click but was still there. If it took three clicks to make happen, its still useful in most circumstances but would drastically drop the mistaken clicks...
What's your favorite OLD Youtube video? ( www.youtube.com )
(From the time when it was still full of random people posting for fun)
For those of you that made new friendships this year
How/where did you meet your new friend(s)?...
delicious wrap
How do you healthcheck your containers?
So recently been spending time configuring my selfhosted services with notifications usint ntfy. I've added ntfy to report status on containers and my system using Beszel. However, only 12 out of my 44 containers seem to have healthcheck "enabled" or built in as a feature. So im now wondering what is considered best practice for...
Do you cheat in video games?
I don't find shame in cheating in video games. It was a stigma to hear about growing up, that cheating in video games meant you prefer the shortcuts in life or that you didn't know what earning anything was. When, that was all just bullshit talk....
What is your favorite Metroidvania?
I haven't played a Metroidvania in a while and I'm looking for suggestions of some good ones to try. Some I would recommend:...
Fatekeeper - Official Gameplay Reveal Trailer ( youtu.be )
Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading ( www.pcgamer.com )
Just minutes before it was set to deliver its financial results for the first half of its 2025-26 fiscal year, Ubisoft mashed the brakes on the whole thing, postponing the release of its results to an unspecified future date. The company also requested that European exchange Euronext halt trading of the company's shares and...
While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago ( www.pcgamer.com )
Online Oxford English Dictionary puts definitions/meanings and usage behind paywall
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38632180...
What the fuck is a gentoo?
Godot Engine – 2025 Showreel ( www.youtube.com )
Day 477 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
Today's game is some more Max Payne 2. I was kind of dreading doing the Construction Site again, as last time it was a struggle. Surprisingly though it was a easy time. I guess my experience from my first play through carried over and made this a cake walk. I found this room full of explosives and a pile of chairs. I let myself...
The Palantir Stare aka The Thiel Razzle