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Rentlar ,

What better place to use this meme:

https://i.imgflip.com/41ki2p.jpg

Rentlar ,

Starcraft 2 has the best control scheme out of all the RTS games that I have played. I wish Age of Empires 2 could put the map on the left, then I would be way better at using it.

Fog of war

Just play Terran and scan, hurr durrrrrrr. Interestingly, AoE2 has a game option of letting everyone see each other by default.

Electric Aviation is already better than you think - Volts with David Roberts (www.volts.wtf)

Electric vehicles that can take off and land vertically, but then fly like a plane, are already being sold and used by hospitals and shipping companies. These vehicles have 5 batteries that give it a range of over 350 miles using current battery technology, though the batteries are intended to be swapped over the life of the...

Rentlar ,

Flying a VTOL aircraft seems out of reach for me as most are either helicopters or military, but an EVTOL seems like something that could be in reach for me within my lifetime.

Rentlar ,

Apple’s may start being salty and blame everything on anti-trust from now on.

Why were your beans cold this morning? EU’s DMA.

Why did you get delayed to your event? EU’s DMA.

Why did it rain on the one day you were planning to take a trip? EU’s DMA, of course.

Rentlar ,

I select the most proximate lever in each cluster, using any criteria that would produce a beginning of a discrete order (so no ties for first). If I get infinite “tries” then even if it is an infinitesimally small chance of selecting the functional lever, at some point I will expect to get it.

Rentlar ,

Right now I just play with things at a level that I don’t care if they pop out of existence tomorrow.

If you want to be truly safe (at an individual level, not an institutional level where there’s someone with an interest in fucking your stuff up), you need to make sure things are recoverable unless 3 completely separate things go wrong at the same time (an outage at a remote data centre, your server fails and your local backup fails). Very unlikely for all 3 to happen simultaneously, but 1 is likely to fail and 2 is forseeable, so you can fix it before the 3rd also fails.

Rentlar ,

Secret child-man? Or conspicuous man-child?

Rentlar ,

Trrra… Tut tut! Tut! Trrra… tatatut!

Rentlar ,

Reminds of that post a month ago…

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/48b850eb-00c9-44ef-8da8-6964d64ee82a.jpeg

Rentlar ,

Azure needs him to care for Microsoft’s Golden Goose at his farm.

Rentlar ,

Having heard him make a deposition, Lindell’s the kind of guy I could see insisting on representing himself against better judgement.

Rentlar ,

Hush, little wagie, don’t say a word.

AI’s gonna show you a photo of your kids.

Rentlar ,

3DS with broken off top screen ❌️

1DS ❌️

Newly minted Gameboy Super Advance ✅️

Rentlar ,

Song for Denise begins playing

Rentlar ,

Workers at three Station hotel-casinos ― Red Rock, Boulder Station and Palace Station ― voted 627 to 534 against joining the Culinary Workers Union in 2019. But the board, which referees private-sector labor disputes, found that the company broke the law several times by making threats, punishing union supporters and promising new benefits so that employees would reject the union.

This is great and the first news I heard of the Cemex decision taking affect. Now employers will think twice before doing anything it takes including illegal stuff to coerce a “No” vote.

Rentlar ,

Depending on how extensive the official modding toolchain is, this will truly cement BG3 as a timeless game of this generation.

Rentlar ,

Do ah look lack ah know hwat a Onedrive is?

Rentlar ,

Maybe next year Xbox cloud gaming should team up with Outlook and Onedrive for the “Ultimate” cloud computing conversion feature:

When you drag and drop a file into Outlook, Windows mail, or Exchange, the file bounces around like in the window like in the game Breakout. You can only attach a copy if you hit every word in your email message. If you let the file fall past the signature line, it makes a Onedrive link automatically.

Rentlar ,

Pressure Congress and State Legislatures in the next session to Make Buybacks Illegal Again (MBIA) for publicly traded stocks.

Rentlar ,

There is a 3rd party tool that gives you some GP functionality even on home edition: PolicyPlus

Rentlar ,

Youtube 2026: you are no longer allowed to skip ahead in videos in order to blend the video and ad “experience” together.

Rentlar ,

What you don’t understand is that if YouTube manages to get enough people by the balls with their anti-adblocking efforts, the next step is to start jacking up the subscription price year after year to see how much people are willing to pay.

Rentlar ,

It’s true that Steam is in a dominant market position so I do agree they should be kept in check. At the same time, their value-add is quite reasonable, so I wonder what the “correct” charge is for the service they provide. Or perhaps some system they need to make more open to competition like Steamworks or the Workshop?

Rentlar ,

Private companies can have shares and shareholders too, fyi. They just aren’t traded on a public market and aren’t beholden to a public mandate of profit or share growth above all else.

Rentlar ,

So long as Valve remains private, the experience getting shittier in the name of more profits is a pressure that faces Valve but not necessarily an inevitably.

If Valve breaks the trust they have built in ways that Google and Microsoft have and continue to do, of course I will stop using them where feasible. Assurances mean nothing, I will respond to action with action of my own. Support more games for Linux, I will buy more of their games. Support bad practices like kernel-level anticheat, launchers in launchers in launchers, PSN, I will buy fewer of those games. I have an account with GOG (I have spent a little bit of money, I would more it Galaxy was available for Linux), Epic (I have spent $0 there because of Tim Sweeney’s aversion to Linux) and Itch.io (has a Linux client). I can move platforms if Steam has a sudden change of heart tomorrow and becomes hellbent on screwing customers over.

I think that there is regulation to be had re: the ownership of games or minimum availability of service for what is paid on both the seller and consumer side. But “I’m paying too much for games because of Valve’s monopoly” wasn’t really on my radar of things that Valve is doing wrong.

Rentlar ,

I had made a reply for this user here: lemmy.ca/comment/9780622 but I guess he wanted to give me a copy paste reply for a reply I was giving to someone else…

The comment can be boiled down to: Everyone is sucking up to Valve like usual, they could just as easily become evil like Google did, despite their old motto and everyone in tech loving them in the past. Being private is the one thing keeping Valve from enshittifying themselves so they are just as bad as any company.

Rentlar ,

Security by Obscurity = FBI backdoor, almost guaranteed.

The Curious Case Of The Underselling Arena Tours (www.stereogum.com)

“Who can afford to go to multiple shows?” says the anonymous tour manager. “Two tickets to a show, you’re talking probably about $200 with fees and everything. You go to a meal around the show, you’re talking at least $100 or $200 for a nice dinner. Then you got parking and babysitters, then you add the VIP stuff to...

Rentlar ,

It’s a vicious cycle. More groups are skimming artists’ revenues off the top. So ticket prices rise. Then customer’s demand more glitzy superficial features to justify the value. That adds cost and raises prices more. Rinse and repeat.

The best artists to listen to live are your local sounds at your neighbourhood stage.

Just Cause 4 only runs well with Lutris

As the title says, I want to play the Epic Games version of Just Cause 4. I have got the same version of wine as the version Lutris uses - wine-ge-8.26 - and I’ve copied the wine prefix to get the same files exactly. I run Just Cause 4, and on Lutris is runs at an easy 60fps on High, but from the CLI it runs at about 20fps on...

Rentlar ,

Check what environmental variables and launch options Lutris is using, and if stuff like gamemoderun is being used, which can help with performance a little or a lot depending on your hardware.

Rentlar ,

Musk the Butthurt Billionaire whines again. More news at 11.

Rentlar ,

The news to me is that Tony Soprano got a new gig as a truck driver.

I mean this is what ya voted for, people who wanted Brexit. To keep the foreigners that bring food and stuff to your table out.

Rentlar ,

It’s like a public library that lets you borrow and read books from other cities’ libraries!

Rentlar ,

You can pick up a payphone anywhere that still has them and most of them will play a dial tone, though those are starting to dwindle.

Rentlar ,

Setting for an infinite set of sequels…

Age of Mythology: Granny tells this same damn story again Part 3

Rentlar ,

I’ve been playing Civ 6, with and without the mods. Custom Leaders and many combinations of mods tend to make the game desync after 100 turns on quick speed, but I enjoy it.

I’ve enjoyed civ 5 too but just haven’t played as much I guess. The DLC being so numerous, my rating of Civ 6 against 5 would depend on which “edition” you have. It bugs me that it doesn’t show which civs you didn’t own don’t appear until after you select them in the menu.

Rentlar ,

Sigh… sucks that right wing populism is still gaining steam despite it not being actually helpful for themselves or their country.

Rentlar ,

Has native Linux support, but if you are playing with friends or other online multiplayer I would recommend the proton version as sometimes updates lag behind.

Rentlar ,

Media

There is a new functionality for users to list all images they have previously uploaded, and delete them if desired. It also allows admins to view and delete images hosted on the local instance.

When uploading a new avatar or banner, the old one is automatically deleted.

Instance admins should also checkout lemmy-thumbnail-cleaner which can delete thumbnails for old posts, and free significant amounts of storage.

This is great news, and addresses what was until now a big shortcoming… a user had no way of managing uploaded images and admins had to crawl through the DB to manage or delete them.

Rentlar ,

An interesting scifi plot could be where said fungi start hungering for the microplastics within us…

Rentlar ,

It’s the GUI software manager, I think the LM developers should get a pass at curating selections for users who wouldn’t know any better.

I personally think they can make it a total non-issue if they put in “some unverified results hidden, see settings to change”.

Rentlar ,

Here are the Call of Duty series games that are on Steam:

  • Call of Duty
  • Call of Duty 2
  • Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
  • Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 2 (the older one)
  • Call of Duty - World At War
  • Call of Duty - Black Ops (and notably, there is a separate game ID for the macOS Edition)
  • Call of Duty - Black Ops II
  • Call of Duty - Black Ops III (which has very good Steam Workshop Support!)
  • Call of Duty - Black Ops Cold War
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (the newer one)
  • Call of Duty - WWII
  • Call of Duty - Vanguard
  • Call of Duty - Modern Warfare Remastered
  • Call of Duty - Advanced Warfare - Gold Edition
  • Call of Duty - Ghosts
  • Call of Duty - Infinite Warfare
  • Call of Duty - Modern Warfare II, Modern Warfare III (both the newer ones), and Warzone
Rentlar ,

Biden’s going to need everyone’s help. Turn the Senate and the House super Blue. Even if you hate Biden because of Israeli support, vote for your Rep and Senator that can deal with this corruption. Add to the bench until the traitors Thomas and Alito become irrelevant. Revise the number of Senate and House seats.

Rentlar , (edited )

…wikipedia.org/…/List_of_members_of_the_Congressi…

In terms of which progressive candidates are running to beat incumbents that varies from state to state.

Rentlar ,

I’ll be counting on you as a Canadian :)

It’s easy to fall into a defeatist attitude with how fucked up everything is, but change starts with a belief that things can be changed.

New Louisiana law will criminalize approaching police under certain circumstances (apnews.com)

Critics of a new Louisiana law, which makes it a crime to approach within 25 feet (7.6 meters) of a police officer under certain circumstances, fear that the measure could hinder the public’s ability to film officers — a tool that has increasingly been used to hold police accountable....

Rentlar ,

If this is allowed to stand, Americans’ first amendment rights end at 25 ft away from a police officer, in Louisiana.

Rentlar ,

nypost.com/…/hamas-official-vows-to-repeat-israel…

People in Hamas leadership positions like Ghazi Hamad from this article, who can talk a big talk from the safety of outside Palestine and ignore their people’s suffering.

I don’t give a rats’ ass about Israel’s lies and deception calling everyone and anyone that disagrees with their genocidal tactics as a Hamas sympathizer. Yeah and I’m of the stance that Israeli has had no business being in there for months and are actively commiting genocide, killing a massive excess of civilians and disrupting humanitarian aid.

But make no mistake, just like there are hardcore religious evangelicals in the US there are emboldened religious warmongerers in Palestine who are equally blind to Palestinian suffering for a higher cause as the Israeli extremist government is.

Rentlar ,

You wanted names of someone spouting violent rhetoric on the Palestinian side, I gave you one. Has nothing to do with UNWRA, World Kitchen, MSF or journalists. All reasons and justification are set aside.

Many did protest the disproportionate response to 9/11, and Americans still face many repercussions today in the privacy of their daily lives.

I agree with you on what you’re saying. In my eyes the Israeli military’s actions are very, very far from justifiable at this point in time. I’ll remind you that it has been 8 months from when I wrote the original comment in October, before the WCK event in April, UNRWA defunding in January and several bombings of refugee camps between November and May. I don’t see a reason to continue to have an argument over this.

Rentlar , (edited )

I did not ask for that at all.

Who, specifically, in Hamas leadership is a monster? Name some names.

I apologize if I interpreted this question from you incorrectly. I’d tried to respond in good faith to you in this months old thread, but after 3 argumentative replies my patience has run thin. Have a good day.

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