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gwheel 69 points 3 years ago

This past year in particular has really hammered it in for me that even if you can never truly delete something from the internet, it doesn't mean it'll still be there when you're looking for it. Saving a link to something is not saving it at all, and I'm starting to become a data hoarder.

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gwheel 47 points 2 years ago

They're completely caught in the misinfo and still cheering him on. Anyone getting hurt must have deserved it and if they're getting hurt it just shows how important it is to hurt the others back.

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gwheel 43 points a year ago
  • Immich backs up photos from my phone and camera with tagging and search
  • Archivebox is like a personal internet archive, I use it to save youtube videos and important memes
  • Homeassistant does home automation stuff, currently I only use it to turn the speakers on/off with the tv
  • Forgejo is a git host like Github, and can regularly pull external repositories to keep a personal mirror
  • Actual budget is a budgeting app, nice for tracking expenses across multiple accounts
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gwheel 20 points 3 years ago

I like being to leave a pair of headphones in my bag without having to worry about charging or pairing when I switch devices.

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gwheel 19 points 2 years ago

Wreckfest

This is my go to racer, the handling leans realistic but the damage model is very gamey in just the right way. It's a ton of fun dragging across the finish line in a car that's missing a wheel and most of its crumple zone.

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gwheel 19 points 2 years ago

Forgejo has an option to mirror a repository and update on a regular interval. It won't get wikis or issues though. I've got mine set up to mirror a bunch of decomps.

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gwheel 18 points 3 years ago

You can find this newspaper in Half Life Alyx, specifically

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gwheel 15 points 2 years ago

I'm not on Twitter and neither are you, but here we are reading it anyway.

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gwheel 13 points a year ago

Maybe the tooth fairy is like a vampire needing an invitation: the tooth must be willingly offered.

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gwheel 11 points 2 years ago

I don't reencode anything, I keep the raw bdmv rip and remuxed mkv for jellyfin. Even if the difference is imperceptible, as long as I have the storage space there's no reason to spend time fiddling with conversion when it can only make things look worse.

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gwheel 11 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure if the author's point here is "A lot of games emulated Half Life's scripted sequences but in a worse way and that is Half Life's fault" or "Half Life's style of immersion overshadowed immersive sims and sandbox games and that was bad". I could maybe get on board with the second but you can't then go praising Naughty Dog because they mixed cinematics with their scripted gameplay.

As the author says, scripted sequences are a tool alongside cinematics and anything else. In the case of COD (I haven't played a new one in around 15 years, so I'm talking from the perspective of COD4 and its derivatives. I don't know how anything recent is structured) the briefing screens during loading are literally cinematics delivering narrative in a stylistically appropriate way. They do take away agency via QTEs (which act as resets for the gameplay and limit dynamism) or extended 'you can jiggle your camera' cutscenes, but those aren't inherently bad, and Half Life doesn't do them anyway.

Outside of maybe two moments in Half Life you have all of your weapons and abilities available, so those scripted sequences are not a cutscene you are forced to jiggle your camera at, but environmental set dressing or one-off combat scenarios. A cutscene showing a tank smashing into the room through a wall would break the flow of the firefight, and having it there from the start would take away the player's ability to set up an ambush with tripwire mines or one of their other tools. A good scripted event doesn't reduce interactivity, it is a stimulus for the player to interact with.

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gwheel 10 points a year ago

If your goal is to ensure the video can be watched for as far into the future as possible you're better off uploading to as many sites as possible, even if they aren't stored at original quality.

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gwheel 7 points 2 years ago

My hope was we would see a slow shift after he was out of office like with Bush, but now I'm convinced he'll be the next Reagan. Decades from now we'll still be feeling the consequences while they talk about how he was the last great president who you could really trust.

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gwheel 6 points a year ago

But it won't show up on new instances, which means instance churn will erode it away from the broader fediverse. It could become a centralizing force if new instances can never access historical posts.

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gwheel 6 points 2 years ago

It's minimally functional, I'm dual booting for vr. It felt like there was a frame of tracking lag which got me motion sick in a static scene. I found a forum post suggesting it was a vsync timing delay that steamvr normally accounts for, but you can workaround by playing with numbers in a configuration file. I gave up there, but I ran into some other issues too.

  • Motion smoothing is not supported
  • It doesn't automatically switch audio output
  • Base station sleep mode doesn't work
  • Performance was generally worse than windows, pistol whip had regular frame spikes

I've got the gen 1 vive and a 1070, so other headsets or better gpu driver compatibility could fix that.

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gwheel 6 points 2 years ago

I tried recovering a bad bluray with aaru, it was able to create a partial dump but I wasn't able to fully read it. After about a week of churning it was still picking up more sectors but even if it might have gotten it in time I didn't want to work my drive that hard.

I ended up finding a working copy of that movie at goodwill, but I still have other discs not reading. I decided it isn't worth going beyond what you described, at some point the disc is just genuinely bad.

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gwheel 6 points 2 years ago

Check out GUN4IR, I put together a two player setup last year and it's a ton of fun. The accuracy and response time are basically perfect. They also support solenoids for arcade games, but I haven't had the time to put that together yet.

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gwheel 6 points a year ago

Looks like a fun brainrot themed idler, gonna give it a go after work. Universal Paperclips has always been my favorite.

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gwheel 5 points 2 years ago

The less wealthy the neighborhood the more likely private schools do better.

That's because private schools act as a filter for the families that can afford them. Kids from poorer families are more likely to have an unstable home life, insufficient access to meals outside of school lunches, and other things which are the biggest factors in educational success. The voucher system takes funding from the public schools used by the poorest kids and gives it to the private schools used by families that could already afford to go elsewhere.

Private schools can also arbitrarily accept/reject students which gives them an advantage in outcome metrics.

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gwheel 5 points a year ago

I'm expecting the biggest difference to be a removal or de emphasizing of the disguise system. Disguises are a core hitman mechanic but Bond very rarely uses them. (unless I'm forgetting stuff, and I haven't seen all of the movies) I'm not sure what would fill the gameplay void left by them, vehicles could do it if handled well.

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