ShaunaTheDead

I think upgrading the RAM as you mentioned is going to make a big difference. While the physical RAM might be soldered to the motherboard, you could buy a fairly cheap SD card or USB and set the system up to use that as virtual memory. It won’t be as fast as actual RAM but it might help and large SD cards are honestly really cheap these days.

Gitlab is quite good and used by a lot of open source developers.

My biggest concern with Epic is their insistence on kernel level anti-cheat which is just ridiculous overkill and probably being used as spyware let’s be honest. They have many ties to China’s Tencent which has a 40% stake in the company and is known to basically just be an extension of the Chinese government.

There’s also the very odd fact that just having the Epic Games Store open in the background will deplete your laptops battery life by up to 20%. Is it just horribly optimized and uses all that battery even when idling, or is it doing something nefarious in the background? We don’t know.

As for exclusives, they have bought exclusives that were mostly crowd funded from the start which is quite the kick in the teeth to the early investors that helped get the project off the ground. And there were even some exclusives that were already listed for pre-order through Steam, forcing everyone to need to get a refund.

Plus, any good will that they’ve purchased so far is just in service of making a good name for themselves. They’ve been losing around $400 million per year since 2019 just to bring in new users. They’re going to suddenly turn around and start being cut-throat as soon as they think they can.

They are not consumer friendly, they want to dictate trends in gaming. Valve is already the king of that throne and they’re fairly benevolent and have pushed trends that are good for gaming and consumers overall. I have serious doubt that Epic would be anywhere near as good for gaming as Valve has been if they should actually become profitable, and an industry leader. Especially when it’s projected that they won’t be profitable until 2027, which means they’ll need to recoup their investment of nearly $3.2 billion since 2019.

There is HDMI CEC which allows a single remote control to control all of your devices, so it must be possible for devices connected by HDMI to receive a signal back from the TV.

You can. Just install them through WINE or Valve’s Proton compatibility tool.

Well if you’re tired of Microsoft, you can install any of the many Linux distros completely free

I get what you’re saying, but it’s not like we’re just taking that water and blasting it off into space. It’s going to be used and then make it’s way back into the ocean eventually. Either through evaporation and precipitation, or directly through rivers that feed into the ocean.

Of course, if there hasn’t been already, there should definitely be some extensive studies into whether there are any blockades as far as that water returning to the oceans in a reasonable amount of time.

And he constantly deadnames and misgenders her because he’s such a huge piece of shit, even to his own daughter.

Get out of here with this racist bullshit

Uh oh, if Foxconn is in charge of an AI factory then we’re sure to see our first AI suicide attempt in no time.

I don’t really get it either. My best guess is it’s a reference to a recursive function that calls itself with a return statement?

At the very least you’d think they’d get C:\> correct, but I guess whoever made that was probably on iOS or Linux.

I wonder what the CLI for “They” does. Pretty odd that it takes 8 arguments, let alone starting with an uppercase letter.

What are you crazy? They’re completely different! You think ASCII code 01100100 is the same as ASCII code 01000100? COME ON!

Seriously though, if Linux would implement a fuzzy search for capitalized and uncapitalized letters that would be pretty cool. Like if you do cd downloads it should be able to pretty easily find that you meant cd Downloads

This is a pretty roundabout way of saying back-end vs front-end.

Tales of Maj’Eyal is a great little game if you’re an rogue-like fan! I played so many hours of that game a few years back, it’s seriously great!

I believe Discord is quite prolific for surveillance and data mining, but that’s just what I’ve heard. Tumblr, I’m not sure how they could really spy on you unless you’re using an app. If you’re using it exclusively through a web browser, as long as you have privacy browser extensions and/or are using a browser that enables privacy features by default then you’re probably pretty safe.

I think one of the most interesting applications of this technology is linking suspects to crimes. One of the key pieces of evidence used in convictions is proving that the suspect was at the scene of the crime. If they can’t provide a solid alibi, or reason for them to have been there, then they’re basically screwed.

It looks like it’s built with Electron which should run natively on mobile. Porting it as a mobile app wouldn’t be very difficult.

Edit: Upon further investigation, it actually has a built-in mobile frontend. You’d just have to run an instance on a server and access it from your mobile device.

There’s a good reason that even professional pilots working for airline companies need to submit a complete flight plan even thinking of entering the cockpit and taking off. Can you even imagine the billionaires playing with this toy are actually going to submit flight plans? It’s going to be a disaster. The first time a commercial flight is taken down by one of these things, they’ll be banned world wide, hopefully BEFORE that happens.