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by gigaflop 5y ago
I don't trust AAA studios, or any game studio for that matter, to implement NFTs in a responsible and ethical manner. Ubisoft has announced NFT integration via their own platform. However, unlike an actual "I can do what I want wi
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by gigaflop 5y ago
It's also an AWS-only tool, as far as I can see. As someone who's exploring more of Azure (due to choices of the company, where I'm mostly ambivalent on cloud choice), I have 0 use for something like this. I'm currently
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by gigaflop 5y ago
One of the first things I do with a fresh work inbox is set rules to push things into non-default folders. And then, I proceed to never look at them unless I'm digging for something. 61 unread notifications from Az Devops? Nah, I don&#
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Did you check to see if one of your transistors was twisted? You'd have to be blind to miss something like that.
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by gigaflop 5y ago
If they're 17 years old, there's no way they bought into BTC recently. 5 years ago, BTC popped up to around $20k, and then fell down to near $3k. It took until December of 2020 to get back up to 20k. If they were on Tor, they woul
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Fun fact, Tencent (Chinese conglomerate) owns about 40% of Epic. Ubisoft also tried adding blockchain tech/NFTs to their games to manage cosmetic items, which is stupid on multiple levels, IMO, especially since you can't actually
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by gigaflop 5y ago
AI usually starts off as a way to serve humans, but mostly benefits the humans who create it, as opposed to the humans who use it. After a while, things seem to slide towards the dystopian, as the AI optimizes(or is optimized by the owners)
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by gigaflop 5y ago
How early was this? My intro to Steam was via the Orange Box, which I bought from a physical store. I don't remember if Steam was mandatory for them. Either way, CD keys used to be totally shareable, before online DRM really kicked off
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by gigaflop 5y ago
EA and Ubisoft can try to have their cake and eat it too, but Steam has been better at showing what EULAs and online accounts are required before a consumer makes a purchase. The Steam Store page for Assasin's Creed: Odyssey (the las
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Steam has reaped the rewards of the first-mover advantage, but I feel like they deserves a bit of respect for it, since the problems they were solving were still 'new', and solutions allowed people to actually do new things/h
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I'm glad to see that Steam has more competition nowadays, but I'm just not a fan of the competitors. I feel like some of them have reduced the value they provide to users by creating their own storefronts/launchers/etc
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Piracy can often be discouraged by making the legitimate options more accessible. Steam served as a unified storefront for multiple titles, and made it easy to manage a library of content without flipping through a binder of CDs, a notebook
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by gigaflop 5y ago
The closest I'll get to that for a while is when my car payments finish, in about 18 months. I should have 2 complete months of my gross salary saved and liquid by then, so I can justify putting an extra $200/mo to investing, and
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I feel that having a certain amount of physical and liquid cash assets is almost mandatory for basic financial survival. I use credit cards for most purchases('selling' my data to the card companies for reward points, too), but cu
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Came across this while combing through my comments and thought I'd already answered, so pardon the delay. People have certainly tried [1][2], but the big issue in the design is that the switches don't operate as a standard on&#x2F
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by gigaflop 5y ago
It looks like the PCB supports both layouts (only one at a time, of course! Should depend on the firmware settings), and the differentiator would be the switch plate. If the cutouts on the top row are all the same, it should be True Fox (sp
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Looks like it's time to update the fantasy roster on pc part picker. A shame, since it had such a nice aesthetic! The Vision D looks so clean and well-featured By the time I get around to actually building it, there may be some similar
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I value my input devices, for they are the tools with which I interface to the world. If you want to dip your toes into custom keyboards, I'd recommend finding some 60%-ish board with hotswap switch sockets, since that will let you exp
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Are there still software features exclusive to Intel's chips? I remember my dabble in Android Studio was painful, since the 'simulated device' functionality was only available on Intel, while I had some FX-8??? AMD chip. I&#x
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by gigaflop 5y ago
The Nightfox was one of the first full-on build-it-yourself keyboards I drooled over, but they were already a limited-availability item at that time, and haven't been in production for years. A relic of the past, as it were: https:&#x
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I second the Magicforce! Linear switches (Red or Black) are probably best for it, but it's a nice balance of cheap, sturdy-enough, portable-enough and compact-enough. It has little in the way of layout customization (3 position DIP swi
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I got tired of trying to figure out which of the 'Print Screen -> PgDn' cluster to shuffle around, or have on the top layer, which is why I moved from a 65% to TKL. Plus, I feel like TKL is better-supported by aftermarket keyca
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by gigaflop 5y ago
Topre and other electro-capacitive boards are way harder to make 'special'. Their switches are not discrete, replaceable units like MX-and-friends. So, a custom board would need to have a custom-designed PCB, and would need custom
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I remember when I was younger, having gone through a few 'gaming' keyboards that were just standard rubber-dome type with extra lights, 'missing' some keystrokes because the dome had been worn out. Most notable, having t
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by gigaflop 5y ago
You've never drunk-purchased GMK Mitolet when it was available because your classic 'flat' SA Mitolet was starting to get shiny? You've never entered a raffle whose prize is the privilege of buying a single artsy keycap?
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by gigaflop 5y ago
It depends on your use case, and how you have your keys and layers mapped. Back when I used a 60% and was working in a physical office, I had mapped arrows to Fn + [i, j, k, l]. This allowed me to barely move my right hand, at the cost of h
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I have a Model M that's a few years older than I am. It's great, and it still works, but is not as good for long-term typing as the keyboards I've used as daily drivers. Clicky switches are a big plus for me, since they provi
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I hate to sound like I'm advocating for Sunk Cost, but this helps put numbers to a feeling I've had: The current cost-over-time of my (and apparently your) ICE car is not meaningfully high enough to want to 'upgrade' to
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I've seen stories of megayachts that have their own smaller yacht following them with the water toys, and other humans who help provide entertainment for those owning the larger yacht. The first entry on the link below says that some k
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by gigaflop 5y ago
I've started working on this, too. I first kicked myself into it by starting the Discworld series of books. Pratchett is a great author (imo), the text has a certain kind of easy charm, I don't need to go in sequential order, the

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