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lichtmetzger , (edited )

Censoring in computer games. Here in Germany, a lot of games were censored aggressively when I was young, because God forbid the youth is able to play games in their original form! They will turn to the dark side when they see some red pixels! Politics got even worse when we had a school shooting incident (not that regular here) and the attacker played a video game.

A lot of games where either not available at all or we had robots, green blood or missing assets in them.

I also liked to listen to electronic music (still do), but I grew up in North-East Germany and the only radio stations here played pop, rock and old people music. Couldn’t tape techno music, was too poor to buy it (and too far away from a good store anyway), so I looked on the web and found a lot of great stuff.

I still remember the first online music stores, with horrible DRM and 128kbps WMA files…it was not a good time.

For a while I had Netflix and Spotify, almost didn’t pirate anything anymore. Then Spotify started draining my phone’s battery, they didn’t shuffle properly anymore and I got recommended songs that were definitely sponsored (fuck you, A State of Trance). Netflix lost a lot of content and we got many more streaming services in return. So here we are again.

lichtmetzger ,

Just use smplayer as the frontend for mpv and you’re all set.

lichtmetzger ,

Had a similar experience, but it was a video of a guy who got run over by a truck, or in more accurate terms…smushed into its radiator. There was not a lot left that could be recognized as a normal human body, but he was still alive and crying for help.

I’ll also never forget that, fucking traumatizing thing. I believe the Nokia phone camera quality which was usual back then made it even worse, because there were missing details you couldn’t see, only imagine.

lichtmetzger ,

That was the first thing I learned when training for that job. They really drilled that into all of us.

lichtmetzger ,

Yes, but it’s actually an “It’s Thursday!” feeling.

The four day work week is amazing.

lichtmetzger ,

I see more people in my profession (programming) doing the four-day work week, but we’re still in an extreme minority. Outside of this field, it’s even worse. The liberal and conservative parties are actively pushing against it. Almost every day there’s an article where some rich CEO whines about young people being lazy. Added to that: Our aging population and a general lack of workers paired with aggressive anti-immigration politics - they also don’t help this cause.

So yeah, more people are doing it (especially in IT), which makes me hopeful. But I still don’t see it getting rolled out in a big fashion anytime soon, unfortunately. Especially because salary levels in Germany are already very low and not everyone can afford the loss of pay switching to a four-day work week.

I just know I’ll never go back. The amount of energy I gained by just having a day more to myself per week is extraordinary.

lichtmetzger ,

I wonder how The Unknown will fit into this.

lichtmetzger ,

Bring back Asbestos!

lichtmetzger ,

There’s a curated list of no-bullshit mobile games which are real fun, without any microtransactions: nobsgames.stavros.io

Mobile Gaming can be fun. :)

lichtmetzger ,

The nightmare PS2 dirty disc screen

To be fair, PS2’s are so damn rock-solid new generations can experience this for many years to come. They just gotta get one.

lichtmetzger ,

Well I got incredibly lucky so I have a [email protected] address. Why would I ever give that up? 🥰

lichtmetzger ,

It’s quite frightening to see how fast these AI models have improved during the last few years. You can still spot errors in the videos, but how long will it take until you can’t do that anymore?

It sounds terrifying to not know what’s real or not anymore. And also, these videos will put a lot of people out of jobs, especially in the creative industry. Who needs someone following a car with a drone anymore, when you can just generate that footage on the fly?

lichtmetzger ,

Even current German events are replicating the rise of Nazi Germany. But many people are too blind to see…

lichtmetzger OP ,

An example of what I see when I run dmesg when Wayland is active:


<span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181604] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00008100] Failed to ioremap_wc NvKmsKapiMemory 0x00000000c73546fd
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181622] ------------[ cut here ]------------
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181623] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1902 at drivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c:1526 dma_buf_vmap+0xf0/0x100
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181626] Modules linked in: nvidia_drm(POE) nvidia_modeset(POE) nf_conntrack_netbios_ns nf_conntrack_broadcast nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nvidia_uvm(POE) nft_ct nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nvidia(POE) nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 ip_set nf_tables nfnetlink qrtr bnep sunrpc intel_rapl_msr intel_rapl_common sb_edac x86_pkg_temp_thermal intel_powerclamp coretemp iwlmvm kvm_intel snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event mac80211 kvm snd_hda_codec_hdmi libarc4 snd_usb_audio snd_hda_intel irqbypass snd_intel_dspcfg snd_intel_sdw_acpi snd_hda_codec vfat snd_usbmidi_lib rapl snd_ump fat snd_hda_core iwlwifi snd_rawmidi mc snd_hwdep btusb snd_seq btrtl snd_seq_device btintel iTCO_wdt btbcm intel_cstate btmtk intel_pmc_bxt snd_pcm ipmi_ssif iTCO_vendor_support cfg80211 snd_timer bluetooth intel_uncore snd mei_me pcspkr video soundcore mei lpc_ich i2c_i801 i2c_smbus ioatdma rfkill acpi_ipmi ipmi_si ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler acpi_power_meter acpi_pad
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181662]  joydev loop zram crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel polyval_clmulni polyval_generic mxm_wmi ixgbe ghash_clmulni_intel nvme sha512_ssse3 ast sha256_ssse3 sha1_ssse3 nvme_core i2c_algo_bit mdio dca nvme_common wmi fuse
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181672] CPU: 1 PID: 1902 Comm: kwin_wayland Tainted: P S      W  OE      6.6.13-200.fc39.x86_64 #1
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181674] Hardware name: Supermicro X10DRi/X10DRI-T, BIOS 3.4a 08/16/2021
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181675] RIP: 0010:dma_buf_vmap+0xf0/0x100
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181677] Code: c0 01 89 43 28 48 85 c9 74 1c 48 8b 43 30 48 8b 53 38 49 89 04 24 49 89 54 24 08 eb c3 0f 0b b8 ea ff ff ff eb bc 0f 0b 0f 0b <0f> 0b eb b4 b8 ea ff ff ff eb ad e8 10 36 4b 00 90 90 90 90 90 90
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181678] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000835fae8 EFLAGS: 00010282
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181680] RAX: 00000000fffffff4 RBX: ffff88812076dc00 RCX: 0000000000000027
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181681] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff88885f861580
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181682] RBP: ffffc9000835fb10 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffc9000835f938
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181683] R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffff88907ff42c28 R12: ffff88810e7c9898
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181684] R13: ffff88810e7c9898 R14: ffff88810e7c9898 R15: 0000000000000000
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181685] FS:  00007fb77685aec0(0000) GS:ffff88885f840000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181687] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181688] CR2: 0000563fd8fb62d8 CR3: 0000000120dbe004 CR4: 00000000001706e0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181689] Call Trace:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181690]  <TASK>
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181691]  ? dma_buf_vmap+0xf0/0x100
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181693]  ? __warn+0x81/0x130
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181695]  ? dma_buf_vmap+0xf0/0x100
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181697]  ? report_bug+0x171/0x1a0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181700]  ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x80
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181702]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181704]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181708]  ? dma_buf_vmap+0xf0/0x100
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181710]  ? dma_buf_vmap+0x81/0x100
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181712]  drm_gem_shmem_vmap+0x2b/0x1b0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181715]  ? dma_resv_get_singleton+0x46/0x140
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181717]  drm_gem_vmap+0x22/0x50
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181720]  drm_gem_vmap_unlocked+0x2a/0x50
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181722]  drm_gem_fb_vmap+0x41/0x120
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181725]  drm_atomic_helper_prepare_planes+0x17a/0x210
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181727]  drm_atomic_helper_commit+0x78/0x140
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181729]  drm_mode_atomic_ioctl+0xa57/0xc70
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181733]  ? __pfx_drm_mode_atomic_ioctl+0x10/0x10
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181735]  drm_ioctl_kernel+0xd6/0x180
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181737]  drm_ioctl+0x26d/0x4b0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181738]  ? __pfx_drm_mode_atomic_ioctl+0x10/0x10
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181742]  __x64_sys_ioctl+0x97/0xd0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181745]  do_syscall_64+0x60/0x90
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181748]  ? __x64_sys_ioctl+0xaf/0xd0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181750]  ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x2b/0x40
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181752]  ? do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x90
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181754]  ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x2b/0x40
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181756]  ? do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x90
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181758]  ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x2b/0x40
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181760]  ? do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x90
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181762]  ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x2b/0x40
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181764]  ? do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x90
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181766]  ? do_syscall_64+0x6c/0x90
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181769]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0xd8
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181771] RIP: 0033:0x7fb77b52f17d
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181775] Code: 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 45 c8 31 c0 48 8d 45 10 c7 45 b0 10 00 00 00 48 89 45 b8 48 8d 45 d0 48 89 45 c0 b8 10 00 00 00 0f 05 <89> c2 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 1a 48 8b 45 c8 64 48 2b 04 25 28 00 00 00
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181776] RSP: 002b:00007ffd48b3ca20 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181778] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000563fd9356ac0 RCX: 00007fb77b52f17d
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181779] RDX: 00007ffd48b3cac0 RSI: 00000000c03864bc RDI: 0000000000000014
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181779] RBP: 00007ffd48b3ca70 R08: 0000000000000007 R09: 0000000000000002
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181780] R10: 0000000000000002 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffd48b3cac0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181781] R13: 00000000c03864bc R14: 0000000000000014 R15: 0000563fd92bee30
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181783]  </TASK>
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[   18.181784] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>
lichtmetzger OP ,

Good to see I’m not alone with this. I have multiple monitors with various resolutions (4K, 2K and an old 1600x1200 VGA screen) and I like the fractional scaling methods Wayland has. It makes it really easy to combine all of these screens into one useable area.

Fractional scaling on X11 can be enabled but it’s such a massive performance hit, that it doesn’t make any fun or sense to use it.

On my UHD 620, Wayland is rock-solid. Everything just works, it never crashes, I don’t have any glitches and the performance is great. On Nvidia, when it’s not just crashing it still feels laggy. Even moving around windows seem to be a struggle for the system and it’s so sad to see that.

Hopefully this will improve in the near future.

lichtmetzger OP ,

I tried upgrading to the 550 beta driver now and it just segfaults in libnvidia-glcore.so when I try to run anything Wayland-related. Can’t even get to sddm with it anymore and have to start KDE from a TTY. Of course, xorg still works fine.

lichtmetzger OP ,

Thank you for your valuable contribution. 😄 It’s just as good as Nvidia’s drivers.

lichtmetzger ,

Yeah unfortunately that Custom ROM scene is dying out

I feel like recent Android has gotten good enough for me that I don’t really need custom ROMs anymore. As long as I can still root the stock ROM and install AdAway, I’m fine.

lichtmetzger ,

The S8 is pretty nice, but only the Exynos variant. I hated the glass back, though. Shattered mine two times, one time the phone just fell 30 centimeters out of bed. Gorilla Glass only in the front was a deliberate decision by these bastards.

lichtmetzger ,

It’s the good one. As far as I know, Exynos phones are much faster than the Snapdragon variants. Custom ROMs like LineageOS are only available for Exynos phones, so those are the only ones still getting updates.

lichtmetzger ,

I used an Exynos S8 up to December of last year and it’s still blazingly fast. And the consensus on xdaforums seems to be that the Qualcomm variant from the US is terrible. :) Weird, but maybe I’m wrong and I just got used to a slow device. I mean, I had a Sony Xperia XA2 before and that thing was so slow, everything else felt like The Flash. :D

that's how it works, right? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Description: A three panel comic often referred to as “No take, only throw.” The first panel is a dog biting a toy with the caption “I want to be good at my hobbies.” The second panel is the dog looking angry and refusing to let go of the toy when a hand reaches out to throw it for the dog again, and it has the caption...

lichtmetzger ,

Great, my hobby is going to the cinema every week. Doesn’t need any practice, just sit ya ass down and watch.

lichtmetzger ,

Last year I started working less for even more money. Another company wanted to poach me, so my boss had to make me an offer. Went down to a 32 hour work week with Fridays off while also getting a significant raise, so I stayed at the company. He didn’t like it, but there wasn’t much of a choice because we’re severely understaffed.

Let’s see if I can do this again this year. Not working less hours (32h is fine), but getting an even better offer.

lichtmetzger ,

This. This is exactly it. I could earn a bit more money working 40 hours, but I decided to do a 4 day work week with only 32 hours and my health has increased drastically.

What’s funny about this, is that I’m also a coder and I used a lot of my spare time and regained power to learn new tools, frameworks and programming languages outside of work. Ultimately, these will result in higher paid jobs. Can’t do that when you’re constantly tired.

Amazon is working on a new paid subscription plan for its Alexa voice assistant (www.businessinsider.com)

Amazon is revamping its Alexa voice assistant as it prepares to launch a new paid subscription plan this year, according to internal documents and people familiar with the matter. But the change is causing internal conflict and may lead to further delay.

lichtmetzger OP ,

Tentatively called “Alexa Plus,” the paid version of Alexa is intended to offer more conversational and personalized AI technology, said one of the documents obtained by Business Insider.

But the quality of the new Alexa’s answers is still falling short of expectations, often sharing inaccurate information, external tests have found.

Do they really expect people will pay for a large language model making up results on-the-fly?

“If this fails to get revenue, Alexa is in trouble,” one of the people told BI.

I will not shed a tear when Alexa gets shut off, to be honest.

You're Not Imagining It: Google Search Results Are Getting Worse, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

For the past few years, a growing number of users, analysts, and experts raised alarms about a truth that feels obvious to a lot of people who surf around in web browsers: the quality of Google results is in serious decline. Google disagrees.

lichtmetzger ,

It’s gotten so hard to find authentic, useful results that people have started adding the word “Reddit” to search terms

I have definitely done that multiple times.

lichtmetzger ,

Oh hell no, I don’t want to go through school again. Teenagers are horrible to each other.

lichtmetzger ,

Bring back the Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro!

Optical sensors makes it very hard to fail, it basically lasts forever. Can’t have that in this day and age anymore, poor companies need to sell new crap every year.

lichtmetzger ,

Nice Rick&Morty copypasta you got there.

lichtmetzger ,

BearMcCreary used a Hurdy Gurdy to make the music for the TV show “Black Sails”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=utLXgOnIwdo

Might give you an idea how hard this instrument is to master.

lichtmetzger ,

Got a massive raise, switched to the four-day work week because I can afford it now, went to the cinema almost every week and watched a shit-ton of great movies. I even attended a marathon with all Harry Potter movies back to back and slept in the cinema.

No regrets.

lichtmetzger ,

vogons.org - we’re all stuck in the 90’s, tinkering with old computers.

lichtmetzger ,

Aliexpress search is just the worst in that regard. “Hey I want to buy microchip X123457” - “Sure, here are some other totally different chips and a few iPhone cases for you”.

Without site:aliexpress.com and search engines I would never find anything on there.

lichtmetzger ,

Na, that’s mostly due to corporate enshittification.

lichtmetzger ,

Despite the constant negative press covfefe

lichtmetzger ,

It’s very easy to sort by this format, makes perfect sense.

lichtmetzger ,

Dammit, I misread here. Of course, the US format is terrible.

lichtmetzger ,

We are very lucky, because he forgot that he is one.

lichtmetzger ,

Exactly. Lemmy is an anti-doomscrolling platform and that’s very healthy and amazing.

lichtmetzger ,

Exactly, and that the content eventually just ends. I didn’t mean that every post is positive news.

lichtmetzger ,

That seems to be standard practice, in my case they unbanned me instantly as soon as I added a telephone number.

Gotta collect that sweet, sweet user data.

Younger users of Lemmy: Did you ever love a game that you just really sucked at?

So I was watching a few youtubes and remembered how the vast majority (of like the ten) nes games me and my sister had were hard as all hell. I loved to play Little Nemo and Street Fighter 2010 but I am pretty sure I never made it past the third level of either. Let alone infamously hard games like The Lion King....

lichtmetzger ,

I love “Independence War 2: Edge of Chaos”. I even run its official fansite.

To this day, I have never finished the game because it’s hard. I mostly play it like a sandbox space pirate simulator. :D

lichtmetzger ,

Oh I got called that, too. Similar problems. Being a teenager was rough.

lichtmetzger ,

My Thinkpad T400 from 2010 has 8GB of RAM. This was wild back then. But this was 13 years ago. Stop milking your customers by putting insane margins on memory and storage, Apple.

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