I loved my N95. It showed what an oldschool smartphone could look like.

Until the N900 came along and defined for me what a modern smartphone should look like. Thus killing my enthusiasm for all future Android phones.

But the N95 was sturdier. I still have it in my backpack as a backup phone.

Meh, the Sailfish guys made the same mistake that Nokia made in not open sourcing their work. That has kept me away from them so far.

Then again their company is still in business so maybe it wasn’t such a bad move after all.

Knowing Roblox it will probably allow adults to send unfiltered lewd messages to children…

At school we had an anonymous grievances box. So that the kids could safely air their grievances. It was rarely used. But one day a note read “I don’t want to be called Willy anymore.” And amazingly it worked. Even the biggest bullies and class trolls called him William from that day on.

When I applied for a job at this company, my last interview was with “Joe”. For everyone else I got the first and last name. And email addresses were also [email protected]. But not for Joe. Joe’s was just [email protected].

Same company after I was hired. I got on at about the same time as Peter-Michael. Whom we all called Peter-Michael. Because he was introduced as Peter-Michael. A few months in he revealed that he’s only Peter-Michael at work. Everyone else just calls him Peter. It just happened like that because he used his full name on his application and then went with it.

I know several people who go with their second name as their usual name when around friends. Either because they like it more or sometimes because the parents chose that order because secondname-firstname sounded weird.

HDMI-CEC seems to be currently unsupported. So you won’t be able to use your TV’s remote yet.

Nice! The revival is further along than I thought. Can’t wait to put it on my Steam Deck. And maybe my desktop PC will move into the living room in the near future. Would be the perfect timing.

For the first time in forever I am playing multiple games at the same time.

Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos. I had that game as a kid but I don’t think I ever got any further than the first enemy. And it’s amazing! The whole game is dubbed. And it has four protagonists to choose from, each with their individual voice lines about basically any situation or item you come across. And all the NPC’s lines match them and they address you by name.

And the graphics are super beautiful. Pixel graphics but with great details and animations. Like when you get your spellbook you get a super elaborate T-1000-like animation of some droplets forming a scroll.

X-Wing via XWVM: The old X-Wing game with updated graphics and quality of life improvements. Just awesome! It’s still an alpha but basically plays like a beta. I have hardly any bugs, just occasional crashes, and none are game breaking. And supposedly they are already pretty far along with TIE Fighter compatibility. Can’t wait to play that. TIE Fighter TC is nice and all, but stuffing everything into the X-Wing Alliance engine feels pretty clunky while XWVM just works.

Cyberpunk 2077: My son bought it on sale and I wanted to try it as well, although I don’t really like cyberpunk. Too realistic. But the game is great. Plays like a combination of Deus Ex and GTA. I’d say it feels more like the original Deus Ex than the newer Deus Ex games. Maybe with slightly less open levels. But not much.

Limbo: The game is about to be delisted from GOG so I got it quickly. It’s chill to play which suits me well. Love it so far.

Obligatory reminder that defensive lawyers are an important part of the judiciary system to ensure that there is no doubt in a person’s guilt.

I’m reminded of when my boss asked me whether our entry test was too hard after getting several submissions that wouldn’t even run.

Sometimes prospective employees are just shit.

Doesn’t make it any less outrageous.

There literally are forums with ActivityPub support. Bumping is not some magic feature of forums. If you sort on Lemmy by activity you can get exactly the same behaviour.

And bumping is even often frowned upon because it pollutes active discussions. It’s just people abusing how those forums sort threads.

Then why are there post types for just text or images? Because it isn’t just a link aggregator. Same thing with Reddit. It hasn’t been a pure link aggregator for decades.

Light sabers follow a similar overall principle of ‘plasma bolt contained by some kind of coherence field’… but they use totally different internals to generate both the plasma and coherence field, and can seemingly just… do this nearly infinitely, never needing to ‘reload’, never running out of energy.

In the comics taking place tens of thousands of years before the movies the Jedi have to carry large energy cells with them. They are attached with long cables to the hilts.

They aren’t lasers, though. That’s just a colloquial term. Like how we call large language models AI.

Wow. Whoever saw that one coming should play the lottery because they’re clearly psychic.

Luckily it actually turns itself back on on the way down, thus slowing the descent.

They put a lot of work into the repacks to make them as small as possible. Generally compression algorithms are chosen with a balance between compression and cpu requirements. Repackers don’t care about that. They make them as small as possible with every trick known to man.

And if the algorithm used can be decompressed with all available cores in parallel it’s great as well.

Proton is mostly a fork of Wine which has been used for decades to run Windows software on Linux. Valve didn’t do all the hard work by themselves.

Yeah, Proton runs outside of Steam in Heroic and Lutris. That’s basically what the umu project is about. I think it works in Bottles as well.

Almost everything Valve has done for Linux gaming is open source and will remain even if they go away and lock everything down tomorrow.