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by amlib 2y ago
And yet most popular games on phones (both ios and android) are complete shit full of predatory practices with appalling gameplay and simple graphics, which barely benefit from those fancy graphics API anyway and could be reworked within we
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by amlib 2y ago
About 10 years ago I went on a massive retagging of my library and decided to use the "Grouping" tag as a high level genre tag, while the actual "Genre" would contain all the messy/impossible to normalize subgenres.
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by amlib 2y ago
Thanks, I had no idea what my password was but trying one of the old ones I constantly used back in the day worked :) I also didn't remember my ICQ# but luckly I found it on a backup from an old website I used to have. There was also a
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by amlib 2y ago
I've been using for many years now the unhook youtube[1] extension to hide any distracting nonsense on youtube, you can select piecemeal what to hide, like the recommended trash in the sidebar, cards at the end of the video and even th
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by amlib 2y ago
I was expanding on your comment, I'm sorry if I sounded a bit harsh and dry :(
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by amlib 2y ago
All proprietary systems have been protecting the system from the user for a good while now. It's what they mean when they say "the system is more secure". It's not for your security, it's for securing their interest
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by amlib 2y ago
My main issue, at least here where I live, is that you can only have a single phone paired to your bank account. If anything happens to your phone, that's it, you are locked out of accessing your bank acc. You used to be able to access
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by amlib 2y ago
It's not that hard to come with ways to circumvent system restrictions, after all, advertisers are a fierce adversary and have shown many clever ways of invading users privacy in web browsers and mobile apps. In the case of eye trackin
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by amlib 2y ago
In my experience the backup is very limited and most app data is lost, specially annoying are banking apps that require you to go to a physical bank branch in order to re-pair your restored phone and restore full access to your bank account
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by amlib 2y ago
The video also makes it clear that only games using a certain microcode works for now. I imagine there are many parts of HLE emulation that gets added to the recompiled software as wrappers and compatibility code to make it all work, so in
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by amlib 2y ago
Couldn't this be considered more like an en-bedabble HLE emulator? The high level aspect is much more sophisticated than we've previously seen which allows for all those enhancements and better integration with the host system, p
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by amlib 2y ago
The best solution for these cases of mild inconvenient noise is to mask it with more noise, ideally a fan or a pink/brown noise generator, or even sounds of rain or a waterfall. You want the noise to be indistinct enough that your mind
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by amlib 2y ago
You will eventually succumb to peer pressure. Just like it's hard to participate in society without using a smartphone nowadays, in the future I bet you will for example have trouble doing any job, let alone get one, without using thes
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by amlib 2y ago
I was thinking more in terms of the Wall of Sound as shown in the article. Were they also doing vertical stacks per channel/instrument or were they doing arrays of speakers arranged in a grid per channel/instrument? From what I ta
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by amlib 2y ago
I wonder how do they deal with the phasing over so many speakers? Wouldn't an array of speakers require you to do something about that? Specially so if you are stuck with 70s tech.
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by amlib 2y ago
Just like I don't want an umbilical cord hanging out of me just to perform the full extent of my bodily functions, I also wouldn't want a dongle hanging off my tablet for it to be deemed usable.
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by amlib 2y ago
Sure, but is there any other mature and complex (or even more complex) database software easier to hack then Postgres? I imagine something like Microsoft SQL is just as hard and Oracle is known to be a complete mess, much worse than Postgre
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by amlib 2y ago
I remember having to jump trough a series of silly hoops just to get audio encoded in Opus to play on Safari browsers. They do indeed drag their feet on seemingly arbitrary things.
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by amlib 2y ago
I've been using fedora for the last year and a half and been enjoying it much more then when I gave it a try 9 years ago. Not only did it get much needed improvements everywhere, but software availability has improved by a lot. The off
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by amlib 2y ago
GNOME 46 also brought massive improvements to Nautilus (the file browser) performance. It used to feel a bit laggy even when navigating between small directories but now it feels snappier and a big directory full of thumbnails for photos an
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by amlib 2y ago
The difference here being that those enhancement carts would likely cost less then 20$ to manufacture and would either cost a little more then that when sold individually or cost a little bit above the price of a full game when sold bundled
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by amlib 2y ago
I also wonder why they couldn't provide a second cartridge slot for the enhancements. Sell enhancement carts separately or bundled with some of the games that require it (mostly the first game to feature such enhancement) and then all
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by amlib 2y ago
Ads, sponsoring and SEO spam were also very unobtrusive for a while. A few decades passed and we have to sift trough all the garbage to find anything relevant in our searches, it's very likely that search engines will push harder and h
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by amlib 2y ago
Does it work in WINE?
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by amlib 2y ago
Well, Facebook has the excuse that Mark Zuckerberg isn't human... considering the lack of empathy maybe all other big tech CEOs aren't either.
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by amlib 2y ago
The disc could then just be a caddy for a micro SD memory card, which when inserted on the disc slot would promptly launch a game stored in there. Selecting games from a virtual library never has the same kick as when you insert a cartridge
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by amlib 2y ago
Yes, but some implementations or edge cases (like putting some TVs/monitors in it's max brightness/dynamic mode) can have the PWM frequency drop to as low as 120hz with god knows what duty cycle.
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by amlib 2y ago
You will never visually see flicker on an LCD unless it's malfunctioning or you have activated black frame insertion. But the flicker is still there on PWM equiped ones, only visible with special equipment or slow motion cameras. The p
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by amlib 2y ago
Even tough LCDs sample and hold (so, no refresh flicker like a CRT) many employ a PWM to modulate the backlight brightness which will cause it to flicker in excess of your refresh rate, with the pattern varying according to the set brightne
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by amlib 2y ago
The base color also had an off-white beige tone to it. To this day I'm curious if this was made as an attempt to counter balance the usual white balance of pc monitors at the time, which where set at or above 9300K, producing a blue-is

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