Kushan

Kushan, 23 hours ago

It didn’t require using arcane commands just to sign up and log in. I love IRC and will always remember it fondly, but it wasn’t easy for a novice to use and that’s why things like slack and discord took off.

Kushan, 1 day ago

We just got forced to ditch slack for teams despite a massive effort from myself and a few others to justify the cost of the platform.

Kind of glad we didn’t get sign off now because this would have been egg on my face.

Kushan, 1 day ago

I wouldn’t mind the performance issues if the experience was even just slightly better. I can never find what I need on teams, messages just get lost in the ether.

Kushan, 4 hours ago

You can at least turn that off, thank fuck

Kushan, 2 days ago

Another recommendation for tdarr, set it up in January and let it transcode away, going to h265 for all my media - saved me over 40TB of space so far and I haven’t noticed a massive drop In quality or had any playback issues.

Kushan, 2 days ago

RA2 was from 2000 but otherwise accurate.

Kushan, 5 days ago

It looks like he’s smoking a load of meat, given the smoke and the dangle of temp proves at the bottom. It’s not likely for the BBQ to be that hot, relatively speaking - maybe 250F but probably lower.

Kushan, 7 days ago

Underrated pun, good work

Kushan, 12 days ago

People make mistakes, even intentional ones. I’m a big believer in recognising when people admit to their mistakes because otherwise why even bother to right any wrongs you have made?

Kushan, 15 days ago

I doubt many of the commentators here used any of the deprecated methods to contribute to openssl.

It’s one thing to talk about what’s good for open source, it’s quite another to practice it.

Kushan, 14 days ago

Your analogy would fit if the deprecated methods didn’t have a higher barrier to entry than using GitHub.

This is less like removing the wheelchair ramps and more like removing the steps at the back of the building.

Kushan, 12 days ago

And yet no actual contributor to openssl is losing sleep over this.

Kushan, 16 days ago

Yeah I love nano. I can use vim a little, enough to make a change and save the output. I can even exit vim!

But 9 times out of 10 if I need to edit a text file in a terminal window, I’m just making a quick config change - I need the terminal equivalent to notepad, not the terminal equivalent to an IDE.

Nano is exactly what I need, nothing more and nothing less.

Kushan, 16 days ago

Those keybindings are prevalent outside of windows though, Ctrl+C is almost universally copy and Ctrl+V is almost universally paste - it might have been popularised by windows at some point in history but it’s well beyond that.

There’s an argument for consistency, especially with basic functions.

Kushan, 17 days ago

Yup I watched this for the first time recently as well, it’s in the top 50 films ever made yet I don’t know a single person that actually thinks it’s a good film.

Kushan, 27 days ago

They were clearly trying to piggyback on the success Battlestar Galactica, but I think they massively missed the mark by being boring.

BSG was dark, gritty and at times ruthless but it never really felt slow, there was always plot development or character arcs worth following.

Universe was just boring half the time, it felt like you had to persevere through 40mins of filler each episode before getting to the next part of the story.

Kushan, 27 days ago

However, they usually own the house they live in, so don’t quite get sympathy from younger folks who are struggling just as much and can’t even get on the property ladder.

(Yes there’s exceptions to both sides and would you believe it, the truth is somewhat more nuanced).

Kushan, 1 month ago

I’m guessing this is hellblade, but the same criticisms were fired at Horizon Forbidden west as well

It’s fucking dumb.

Kushan, 1 month ago

I understand where you’re coming from, but you’d have to really go out of your way to ignore a lot of stuff in the game to just get the gameplay without any of the dialogue or text that is absolutely dripping with satire.

Kushan, 1 month ago

And according to the article, some of these are going on sale later this year.

Kushan, 1 month ago

The airplane was small, not the crash.

Kushan, 1 month ago

You make money by both selling more and spending less.

Think about it, you can have none money left over at the end of the month by working extra hours at your job or by spending less money on something - but what if you can’t work extra hours because there’s none available? And what if you need that extra cash at the end of the month? The only thing you can do is spend less.

Phil is kind of saying the same thing you’re saying here, but it’s not easy to just “sell more”, not when everyone else is struggling to have that extra cash to spend.

The games industry right now, as a whole, isn’t growing. That means companies are selling less. Phil end everyone else would love to sell more, by all means if you’ve got some solid ideas on how to do that then every games industry veteran out there will happily listen to you, but the sad and shitty reality is that sales are down and when you’re a business, if you can’t increase sales you’ve got to cut costs.

And that means job losses. It fucking sucks and we can have debates all day long about the merits of capitalism and all that, but that’s the reality of today. That’s the game. Phil is being honest and up front here, it’s a shitty game but he’s playing it and if he wasn’t playing it, someone else would.

Kushan, 1 month ago

I think the argument about “for accessibility” is missing the point a little bit and a common mistake most developers make.

You should endeavour to make your interface accessible by default. You shouldn’t be thinking in terms of “okay here’s the design and here’s the design that’s accessible”, you should be considering accessibility in all of your designs.

Now that’s usually a bit harder with games because you have styles and themes that you don’t want to detract from, but if your interface causes accessibility issues, it’s generally going to be bad for people that don’t have accessibility needs as well.

Accessibility benefits everyone.

Kushan, 1 month ago

A Simpsons reference?!

At this time of year?

In the part of the lemmyverse?

Localised entirely within this post?

Kushan, 1 month ago

Actually no, I think it’s a well enough known thing though. But for sure he was a right cunt.