[-] TopHat@compuverse.uk 6 points 1 year ago

Does anyone have any suitable "alternatives" in podcasts which are similar to the WAN Show in atmosphere? (As in: longer conversations about tech-adjecent topics) I don't feel comfortable wanting to go near LMG's content (my only consistent watching was the WAN Show to be frank) after these discoveries.

[-] TopHat@compuverse.uk 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

His comment didn't address two key issues for me:

  • The "crunch"/tight scheduling of projects which led to sloppiness to begin with
  • The constant need to correct, ranging from simple mistakes to very problematic methods.

I've been enjoying solely the WAN Show, but hearing about constant mistakes in benchmarks while praising "We want to show factual information on benchmarks for once.", is rubbing me in the wrong way. You can't rush benchmarking without QA and publish those results as fact. You get to choose for accuracy, or fast to churn content.

And Linus not mentioning something concrete on the first issue is worrying to me, not showing a clear intent to ease on rushing those benchmarks.

Not to mention, it's worth taking down a video if benchmarka are wrong even if the conclusion is "most likely to remain the same", which one cannot conclude with certainty without redoing it. It would be better transparency wise to either not knowingly publish wrong information, or put a more clear notice on said videos besides the description and a pinned comment.

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cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/495710

Schedule | Donate | Prizes | Discord

This year's charity is the Netherlands' MIND (Dutch website), a Dutch charity that strives to prevent mental health issues and supports those who suffer from those.

Donations are currently broken on the site because of a PayPal issue - Prime subs are used for BSG themselves for future events.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TopHat@compuverse.uk to c/games@lemmy.world

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/495710

Schedule | Donate | Prizes | Discord

This year's charity is the Netherlands' MIND (Dutch website), a Dutch charity that strives to prevent mental health issues and supports those who suffer from those.

Donations are currently broken on the site because of a PayPal issue - Prime subs are used for BSG themselves for future events.

[-] TopHat@compuverse.uk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll suggest Lemmesee as a word play on Let Me See and Lemmy. Some alternate possibilities regarding styling/spelling: LemmeSee, Lemmysee, LemmySee, LemmySy

Will definitely keep an eye out on the icon contest.

[-] TopHat@compuverse.uk 18 points 1 year ago

Gotta go for ProtonMail. Have been running it for a year and I kinda like how it's doing.

An additional feature is SimpleLogin's "Hide My E-mail" Aliases, which are "burner" e-mail addresses to use with pre-determined SimpleLogin domains (you can add your own domains as well to go around Proton's custom domain limit). Those are included in the full suite and Family subscriptions. (10 a month when subscribing for a year)

There's also a cheaper variant for 3.50 a month but it lacks the SimpleLogin feature. You can get SimpleLogin seperately for 30 a year, however.

[-] TopHat@compuverse.uk 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Any thoughts on overhauling cross-posting, to allow more interaction with the source interaction?

As far as I'm aware: currently when you cross-post, only the recipient instance gets all interactions (comments, upvotes), instead of duplicating to or having the origin solely receive those.

The current implementation hampers the growth of smaller instances when reposting something to a bigger one. Discoverability is still there due to seeing from which instance the post originates from, but that's arguably not enough.

[-] TopHat@compuverse.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I used to have this issue, but 0.0.8 is now out. Obtanium pulls in that release just fine!

[-] TopHat@compuverse.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Try Obtainium, helps if an app isn't on F-Droid or Google Play Store.

[-] TopHat@compuverse.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Super Mario Galaxy (1+2). Orchestrated music should be a must for main Nintendo games at this point, outside of Zelda (and the Pokémon anime, although that one's not strictly Nintendo or used in actual games, sadly).

[-] TopHat@compuverse.uk 2 points 1 year ago

The Prevue channel definitely wow'd me with using an SQL database for the data and SDL to render that.

[-] TopHat@compuverse.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Exactly my thoughts. I was looking to see if he had any possible contact options to ask him to consider that, but haven't been able to find any to this date.

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cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/194017

Spotted this on the Hackaday blog. This project really impressed me at the effort it must've taken to get this right.

"Irish Craic Party" made a "RetroTV" television network running on a Raspberry Pi 4 with an external 2TB hard drive filled with films, series and commercial bumpers and the like to recreate the older 80's and 90's TV networks, with each own recreations or original (derivatives) of actual TV channels from back then.

Sadly, he does not seem to be willing to open source the project, according to the video description:

"Even without: this is a one-off bespoke project with time / effort exceeding what people would likely be willing to pay, DIY media servers are niche, certain omissions would be made to avoid legal clashes and I don't have time to maintain an open-source project. Most of all, I'm ready to move on to new things."

Regardless, this project piqued my interest into wanting to create the same experience for films and series I've even have yet to watch (to combat the "analysis paralysis" his video mentions) while also putting rewatchable stuff on there as well, to keep it fresh and try to actually re-enjoy my favourites.

A suitable and mostly feature-similar to "RetroTV", is the ErsatzTV project, built by an engineer working at Disney for streaming technologies!

[-] TopHat@compuverse.uk 13 points 1 year ago

Thanks for letting us know! Here's the code repository, for those wanting to self host it: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym

I showed this to my friend (an instance owner) and he immediately went "Let's self host this". Really looks great. If someone could make it work somehow with RES, then it would be a total replacement.

[-] TopHat@compuverse.uk 1 points 1 year ago
  • Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (Refunded as it got cheaper during the sale - then got it for even less than the original sale price with the soundtrack on GOG)
  • Caesar 3 (Got that recommended along with my earlier purchase of Pharaoh + Cleopatra)
  • Deus Ex™ GOTY Edition (Literally 1 buck + I've heard it got a great modding community)
  • Lollypop (Had my eye on it since it launched on GOG - looks like a neat DOS game)
  • Yakuza Complete Series (Already got Yakuza 0 on Steam, but couldn't pass this. Especially at the all-time low price point. Funnily enough, I believe these games are one of the first to use GOG's new Steam SDK wrapper to make it easier to port. Denuvo was already ripped out before by SEGA, and only having to recompile the game once to point to GOG's own .DLL probably made the release a hell lot easier than before.)
  • Hypnospace Outlaw (Indie game that's been on my Steam watchlist for a while.)
  • Cuphead with The Delicious Last Course and its Soundtrack (Double-dipping because I got the base game on Switch and the soundtrack through Steam. But didn't wanna rely on Switch emulation to play the DLC after buying it. So GOG release it is!)
  • True Love '95 (An older Visual Novel that got recently re-released on GOG. Seemed interesting enough to give it a shot.)
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