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by bluescrn 3y ago
Are consumers confident about battery longevity, when most of them have had multiple experiences with phone and laptop batteries being significantly degraded after 2-5 years? And will that claimed longevity be achieved in all conditions (we
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by bluescrn 3y ago
There's a lot of rage about this game considering that most people didn't even pay full price and are playing via Game Pass.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
I read elsewhere that there's an issue with audio being loaded on demand causing performance hiccups, that might be improved with an SSD?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Not a normal 'EV catches fire' story. This is about an EV battery pack that was for some reason detached from the vehicle. In a car park.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The internals of the packs can vary over time, so long as they're a standardised size with standardised connections. Ideally, once a pack is degraded, maybe after a decade, you'll be able to buy less expensive replacements that ha
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Battery was detached from the vehicle?? Are people trying to steal battery packs now, then? - for what other reason would a detached battery be lying next to vehicles in a car park? (I've always thought that EV battery packs should be
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by bluescrn 3y ago
RIP Galant. I could really do with a couple of replacement Galant desks, or just the tops, but they're long-gone now. (And why the heck did they put big rounded corners on their new desks... did they never consider that people might pu
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Interesting video here (from 2015) on the development of the Dreams rendering tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9KNtnCZDMI
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by bluescrn 3y ago
When you zoom out there's lots of visible polygon edges that don't look like they should really be there, as if it's trying to draw soft 'blobs' but the texture coords aren't quite right? Is that a bug or an in
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by bluescrn 3y ago
'It's a private company, they can ban/block/censor whoever/whatever they want' Pre-Musk, wasn't that always the standard standard response to criticism of activism-driven social media censorship?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> I don't understand how they can make something as good as Procreate and sell it for $15. At $15, just about every Apple Pencil owner buys it. The one app basically justifies the existence of the Pencil. If it was a subscription, i
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by bluescrn 3y ago
To governments, big tech monopolies/monocultures are good. They're a single point of control. Want to have a back-door installed to spy on users? Want to silence a problematic dissident? - Much easier to get it done in one place t
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Or a 3D print: https://www.printables.com/model/126988-set-lego-duplo-train...
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by bluescrn 3y ago
But when the clicks are lagged by a noticable fraction of a second due to bluetooth headphones, they're probably worse than no feedback at all...
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The tricky bit is deployment to the Amiga. My only way to put files onto my Amiga at present is a CompactFlash card (or 3.5" floppies) I don't have ethernet hardware on my Amiga (and may not have enough RAM for that approach), but
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Those people out in nature are likely to be doing physical activities, even if just walking, and those extra calories will need replenishing too
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by bluescrn 3y ago
This. One day I'd like to revisit Amiga coding. I did a fair bit of Blitz Basic and a little bit of 68K ASM back in the day, but learning it was challenging as a teenager in the pre-Internet era. I'd definitely rather edit+compile
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Not the cheapest option, but the OSSC (Open Source Scan Converter) may be a worthwhile investment if you're into retro gaming/computing: https://videogameperfection.com/products/open-source-scan-co... You&#x2
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by bluescrn 3y ago
My guess would be that it uses some data, probably voiceover audio, from the original game, and extracts them from there rather than putting directly copyright infringing files up on Github?
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Looks like you need a PC copy of Portal: https://github.com/lambertjamesd/portal64/releases (There's some older releases below as a ready-to-go .z64 rom image, though, which should be ready to run on an Everd
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by bluescrn 3y ago
To 'save the planet' you want as many people playing video games, watching TV, or arguing on social media as possible. If they're doing those things, consuming digital entertainment (eventually powered by renewables), then th
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by bluescrn 3y ago
There's also a 2D demake for the C64: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK140z-ZX4Q
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by bluescrn 3y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/08/28/there-are-s... It's been strange/scary to see weapons of war running the same open-source software as flying toys that I've played wit
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> You do realize that while the artists, animators, and programmers you're talking about actually make a liveable salary on that, the voice actors mostly don't? They're working full-time, long hours (lots of unpaid overtim
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by bluescrn 3y ago
As somebody who's worked in games as a programmer, it's hard to have too much sympathy for voice actors, when all the (almost entirely non-unionised) artists, animators, programmers, QA, and more have put up with so much overwork
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by bluescrn 3y ago
> This rather heavily begs the question what do we mean by "freedom"? Freedom is what 'the bad guys' want, so good people must do everything they can to destroy it.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
Until you're hit by the next wave of mass redundancies through no fault of your own, and are kicked out into the 'real world', to discover how much further it has fallen.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
A 3x4 matrix (often 4x4 in practice) can represent any sequence of 3D rotations/translations/scales (and a camera projection from 3D into 2D). Then you just need multiplies and adds to apply the transformation to each vertex.
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by bluescrn 3y ago
The real release notes would probably be 'gather more analytics data, and show more ads, using 3rd-party advertising SDKs'
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by bluescrn 3y ago
If your business is not advertising and/or data-harvesting, then build websites, not apps. Phones have very capable browsers.

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