pathartl

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by pathartl 4y ago
> A few years back there was this issue of MacOS apps launching with a delay because the OS was checking with Appe if you are allowed to use the app. IIRC, this was just a bug. If you're talking about Nov 2021 when Apple's Gate
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by pathartl 4y ago
Agreed. I'm also left handed and have my mouse to the left of the keyboard with the buttons swapped. It's amazingly effective.
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by pathartl 4y ago
I've only just gotten into film, being a total amateur with digital as well. Mostly because my parents were photographers for 40 years, so we have a Jobo ATL 2500 autolab and a FlexTight Precision II scanner. I'm honestly not sure
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by pathartl 4y ago
Wow, surprisingly these aren't too badly prices these days. I'm fortunate enough to be able to shoot with a Mamiya 6, but not paying an arm and a leg for lenses is mighty attractive.
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by pathartl 4y ago
Not that I know of. https://pinballbasement.com/ Looks like the 11 stuff is not finished or sold out atm. I believe he was running into supply chain issues last year.
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by pathartl 4y ago
Yep, friends with the guy from Pinball Basement who makes the System 11 boards. It was actually done by licensing the designs from Williams, so that's cool. They're still quite expensive, but it's great from a preservation pe
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by pathartl 4y ago
No reason to forbid cables when you can just remove physical ports.
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by pathartl 4y ago
And except for Edge having a compatibility mode
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by pathartl 4y ago
My home fiber connection is unfortunately behind a CGNAT. However, I was surprised the other day that somehow Valheim/Playfab was able to punch a hole through both my NAT and the CGNAT. I'm assuming this is some sort of UPnP trick
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by pathartl 4y ago
That's the problem, they don't want kids to actually learn. They view teachers as glorified babysitters.
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by pathartl 4y ago
Ah okay yeah that's a huge issue.
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by pathartl 4y ago
Does it need to be 64-bit?
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by pathartl 4y ago
100%. It's important to note that doing so also doesn't make you complicit. I have a general disdain for the "do your own research" type of people because often they're not trying to seek out actual education, they&
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by pathartl 4y ago
I remember first coming across the scroll at the beginning of the game. "Surely this isn't intentional? I have some sort of mod installed don't I?"
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by pathartl 4y ago
Yep, my first TES was Oblivion and I loved it so much that I tried going back to Morrowind. I don't mind having to read and I don't mind walking, but holy hell the combat makes the game almost inaccessible.
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by pathartl 4y ago
Control is such a great representation of what a modern game can be. For example, with newer games I have a hard time picking out enemies and items on screen. Control solves this by making the enemies a bright red.
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by pathartl 4y ago
Absolutely. I live in a completely different state and I'm pretty unaffected by this whole tragedy/negligence. I could sit and speculate about what actually happened, but what does that do other than spend energy on something that
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by pathartl 4y ago
I think it's a trait in the community. I remember the days sitting in an IRC channel listening to some bootleg live podcast/radio show broastcast over Icecast. It was sorta like pirate radio for a bit. Then podcasts started to sho
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by pathartl 4y ago
People get caught up on versions of the framework. Handy guide: .NET Framework (v1.0-4.8) - 4.8 Currently still supported, but don't build anything new in it. It only gets very minor updates. Not cross platform (Mono can help, but euuu
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by pathartl 4y ago
I think these are just growing pains. The migration from 6 to 7 to 8 is going to be more fully representative of how .NET is going to work. There was a lot of stuff with Core 2/3 that wasn't fully fleshed out and is generally why
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by pathartl 4y ago
We're in a rental for the month in Florida. We're from the midwest, so where gas is used for almost everything. The backlash against heat pumps and electric stoves, ovens, water heaters, etc is normally the ol' "gas gets
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by pathartl 4y ago
Duplicating = copy/paste digital binaries, replicating = reimplementing the codebase.
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by pathartl 4y ago
I agree. I think a lot of copyright/patent laws have gotten in the way of game preservation. What bothers me is many people in the industry have held onto old code/assets over the years, but have no legal way of sharing that with
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by pathartl 4y ago
I've been going through a bunch of old games recently for a project involving a regular LAN party some friends and I hold. If I can make a suggestion, bundle as much documentation as you can with the dedicated server. It's infuria
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by pathartl 4y ago
Games are this interesting medium of art where they're really not easily replicated, but very easy duplicated. There's practically no equivalent to a cover for a song that exists for a game. You can distribute a ROM, maybe swap so
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by pathartl 4y ago
A lot of your concern of older games has been fixed over time by the development of emulators and wrappers. Multiplayer (and live DRM) components of modern games can't be easily RE'd in most cases. Especially with services like Xb
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by pathartl 4y ago
This is what I struggle with. The most important things to me are performance and compatibility. Performance/watt means almost nothing to me if I get 80% of the performance and can only run a limited catalog. Yes, this will change over
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by pathartl 4y ago
The sticks take some calibration to work properly. I enjoy the small deadzones compares to stock.
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by pathartl 4y ago
While I realize it's not a solution to the issue you raised, it's worth pointing out that Microsoft does a decent* job of documenting the types of telemetry taken across the Windows platform: https://learn.microsoft.com
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by pathartl 4y ago
Consoles/PC gamepass. It doesn't really matter either way, once you run it in Proton with Vulkan there's almost no performance hit.

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