savvywolf

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[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 1 points 49 minutes ago

I mean, we came from banging rocks together to making those rocks think for us. Our entire modern world is so far divorced from ancient humanity it's hard to list all the individual accomplishments. Recently though has been the electrical grid, global logistics chains and the internet. In these times of medical doomerism, it's also important to remember that we banded together killed smallpox.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 27 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Sending memes back and forth is a love language.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago

It was working in Firefox and I happened to have a VPN running in it, so that might be messing with my DNS such that the cache was different. Hopefully all fixed now though.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 7 points 2 days ago

Compared to other platforms, they have a lot of good features and generally act in the public interest.

In regards to their DRM system, honestly some people are going to add DRM to their games no matter what. I'd much rather they use Valve's system than some insecure third party spyware.

People have also mentioned their 30% cut which honestly seems pretty normal for an online storefront. It's especially fair when you consider the fact that they provide marketing, hosting and payment processing for you. Not to mention things like achievements, matchmaking and workshop support if you want it.

There's also the fact that a lot of the anti-monopoly folks tend to be Linux and/or foss advocates, and Valve has been pumping a lot of resources into open source projects.

Honestly, in the Linux space, the only reason Valve has a monopoly is because the other players just aren't making any effort to compete.

Tl;dr Valve uses their market position for good (in general) and Steam is a good product.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Trying to get a clean home directory by trying to get apps to follow xdg and put config files in .config.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/ Is working for me, and they seem to have a post from 2 hours ago. Maybe just a temporary hiccup.

EDIT: Tried it in another browser, and it doesn't seem to work. DNS seems to resolve to 825610.parkingcrew.net. so maybe something happened with their DNS records.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

All three are web based frontends for git repositories; you use git to send and receive code to/from them for storage and sharing. They all also provide other things useful to developers such as issue tracking, wikis and such. They are different products that fulfill the same role.

what software does github.com use?

It's all proprietary software (presumably) written in-house. We don't have access to it.

whats the difference between them (pros/cons)?

Github:
Pro: Wider reach, everyone knows about Github.
Con: Proprietary; your code is hosted based on the whims of Microsoft.

Forgejo:
Pro: Open source, selfhostable. There's a big instance on https://codeberg.org/ which a lot of open source projects are starting to move to.
Con: It's smaller and not as well known as Github. In theory it may also lack features, but I've not seen any that have gotten in my way.

Gitlab:
Pro: It's... I guess in second place in terms of popularity? It's also selfhostable.
Con: It's one of those open source projects with paid closed source features, so not really appealing to either group. It's also had questionable management decisions recently.

what about self-hosting? Possibilities/Preferences?

If you want to selfhost a git server, I'd recommend Forgejo; it seems to be the most friendly towards the open source and selfhosting communities.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I know people have been investing a lot of work into getting Nvidia into a state where it Just Works, but if you don't need any fancy Nvidia features and are starting from scratch I'd honestly just recommend getting an AMD card just so you don't have to worry about it.

What games are you thinking of running and what resolution/frequency monitor do you have/want?

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 12 points 6 days ago

Daily backups here. Storage is cheap. Losing data is not.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 22 points 1 week ago

Mint explicitly goes out of its way to disable snap in favour of flatpaks.

https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 7 points 1 week ago

Here everyone under 22 gets a free bus pass as well. I think it's a great idea.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 5 points 1 week ago

I'm in the UK and that bill has caused me so much stress and anxiety. ;_;

 

So I'm over 100 hours in and I've just reached the point where I've made it above Aquilo's orbit.

However, I wonder if I spent too much time setting up a janky interplanetary logistics system rather than just using Nauvis resources for science. Also, Gleba spiders keep eating my base.

Figured I'd ask then... How long did it take before you touched down on Aquilo in your playthrough?

 

Got sent this, and the animation is actually quite well done for how simple it is.

 

It's fun, and well worth looking at if you like smash.

 

Been playing this game a bit. Can't comment on how good it is compared to actual battlefield, but I've been having fun.

Currently in (free) beta, not sure how long they are doing their playtest for though.

 

Interesting piece of webdev solving.

 

Stumbled upon this game and had fun with the demo. Might be up some people's alley.

 

Hey all, I'm British so I don't really know the ins and outs of the US healthcare system. Apologies for asking what is probably a rather simple question.

So like most of you, I see many posts and gofundmes about people having astronomically high medical bills. Most recently, someone having a $27k bill even after his death.

However, I have an American friend who is quick to point out that apparently nobody actually pays those bills. They're just some elaborate dance between insurance companies and hospitals. If you don't have insurance, the cost is lower or removed entirely. Supposedly.

So I'm just asking... How accurate is that? Consider someone without insurance, a minor physical ailment, a neurodivergent mind and no interest in fighting off harassing people for the rest of their life.

How much would such a person expect to pay, out of their own pocket, for things like check ups, x rays, meds, counselling and so on?

 

I recently played through a demo for a game called Pinball Spire on steam, and it put me in the mood for playing pinball games. Unfortunately, and I don't know if this is just due to me having bad google-foo, there don't seem to be that many on Steam that catch my interest.

So figured I may as well make a thread asking about what the "state of the art" of pinball video games is. Some of the ones I've played:

  • Sonic Spinball: Very janky, but very unique and I don't think I've seen anyone try to do anything similar to it.
  • Pokémon Pinball and Sonic Pinball Party: Fairly standard pinball games, tbh. They're both on handhelds so they can't do that much.
  • Demon's Tilt and Xenotilt: Just really fun feeling arcade pinball games with a really fun tilt mechanic.

So yeah, know any good PC or console pinball games?

Oh, and can someone help me: I vaguely remember seeing a stream of a pinball game for the Mega Drive/SNES where the ball goes through multiple tables. Does anyone know what that game was called, if it even exists?

 

So https://meow.social/@TwilightSaint/112810490753805813 popped up in my feed and I had to find the full version. Sharing here because it's really nice.

 

Hydration is important.

 

So another thread ( https://lemmy.world/post/17746018 ) got me wondering... How many people would want to move to another country?

Just to provide a concrete scenario, let's assume that in your current country you (magically) have a decent-ish job. They open up offices in another country of your choosing, and you have the option of moving there and work for an equivalent living wage.

They're able to get visas set up (however improbable that may be) for you and any family, but you have to go through the process of finding housing, physically moving your belongings and anything else you need to set up.

What countries would you take the offer to move to, if any?

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