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jamesthomson, (edited ) to random
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If you get an Apple Vision Pro today, and are looking for a native visionOS calculator, may I suggest my PCalc?

It's a universal purchase with the iOS version, so you might even already own a copy!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pcalc/id284666222?platform=appleVisionPro

#visionpro #calculator

Longplay_Games,
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@jamesthomson TIL people actually buy calculator apps

dgar, to random
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You matter.

Unless you moving at light-speed.

Then you energy.

Longplay_Games,
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@dgar If you're moving above light-speed, that's just tachyon

atomicpoet, (edited ) to random

Fascinating infographic about the growth of video games! Some thoughts:

  • Of course mobile gaming crushes everything. Everyone has a smartphone on them constantly, it’s how Gen Z prefers to game, and it’s more accessible in developing nations.

  • PC gaming is now bigger than console gaming, and I imagine it’s going to get bigger now that handhelds like the Steam Deck and ROG Ally are taking off. Nowadays, you can have that console experience on PC.

  • The infographic says handhelds are dead, but I question that: the Nintendo Switch is a handheld, and so is the Steam Deck.

  • I’m glad that VR/AR is continuing to grow, but they really are a pain to use.

  • Seeing how console gaming substantially lags behind mobile and PC gaming, can we please stop treating it like the “premium” way to game? Not only are fewer people on consoles, they don’t even offer the best performance.

  • I’m shocked that arcades still have life but it gives me hope for that one arcade in my town that still exists.

  • All this growth in gaming makes me even more upset about all those lay-offs that occurred in 2023. I hope all those creatives get back on their feet quickly.

Longplay_Games,
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@atomicpoet Doesn't surprise me that consoles (xbox/ps5) are falling so far off. When I was contacted by a porting shop about porting to console recently, they were pretty frank - consoles typically sell one copy of a game for 10 copies sold on steam in their experience.

So they recommended I lean WAY harder into the steam and steam deck.

kyonshi, to random
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Do Catholic priests in other countries do their rounds to collect money and bless flats at the beginning of the year?
It's a thing here in Poland.

I don't think it's a thing back home in Germany, but I come from a very equal Catholic/Lutheran area and maybe it's different in other areas.

Anyway, we pretended to be a good Christian family again on the off-chance that the kids want to have first communion.

Longplay_Games,
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@Tim_Eagon @kyonshi Same here in the US, even in the relatively religious zone of NM where we have posadas that still isn't a thing.

Longplay_Games, to random
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I wish I were more disappointed that Humble's new 'learn to code' bundle is almost entirely exploitive AI BS.

Unfortunately, that's just who humble has become over the last while.

Longplay_Games,
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@britt And as you say - AI is a much harder, darker force to evade than a bunch of suspiciously racist monke memes.

Longplay_Games,
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@britt I truly hate using the term AI for those bots, much like I cringe when crypto is used for bitcoin... but some words just get ruined.

I went to uni specifically to study AI lol. Or rather, expert systems, as they were back in the 90s.

Longplay_Games,
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@britt Rather than express my own limited opinions about jargon generators, here's a great paper on the actual science: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3442188.3445922

dreadfulsanity, to random

Why are people around the world mentioning the German train schedules in the same breath as punctuality?

Trains running late is a running gag in Germany. 🤷‍♀️

Longplay_Games,
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@grrrr_shark @dreadfulsanity Very true, If you wish to take a train between two of the larger cities in the US (Phoenix and San Francisco), there's only one connecting train per day, and the arriving train is often too late to catch it. By hours.

Happened to me twice.

ozoned, to lemmy EN

@owncast i'm even more appreciative of you now! Having started that #lemmy #owncast just a day ago, I've already been told by people obviously mich smarter tgan you or I how impossible owncast is. So now that we know that the software we're using, and you wrote, can't ever work, I guess we'll just pack it in huh? /s

Thank you again btw. People are insufferable and I'm sure you've already heard the garbage I'm getting and yet you trudge on. So thank you! You are appreciated.

Longplay_Games,
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@ozoned @owncast people saying: “It can’t be done,” are always being interrupted by somebody doing it.

k, to random

I get first class when I’m travelling by train in Finland cos there’s free coffee and the price of a first class ticket is a rounding error compared UK equivalent.

There’s no coffee on the last train to Tampere (oh noes!) but I’ve been refunded 8e of my 29e (wtf!) ticket due to VR being a national disgrace.

You don’t get a refund for sitting in actual piss on the floor of a UK train, and the last coffee I attempted was from a fucking bag. (Toots passim)

Longplay_Games,
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@k And somehow everyone seems to admire the UK/US models of society.

Longplay_Games,
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@k That's certainly what cured my "american exceptionalism", spending any real time in actual first world countries.

aral, to random
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If you can’t do a job without being able to tolerate valid criticism of the corporation you work for, you’re not an employee, you’re a cultist.

Longplay_Games,
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@aral That's wild, most of the people I know are by far the most intense critics of the companies they work for.

aral, to webdev
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You’d think folks writing the HTML spec would know the difference between an HTML attribute and inline JavaScript but you’d be mistaken and that’s why we can’t open a modal dialog without client-side JavaScript in 2024.

🤷

PS. What would be great to have is:

<dialog modal open></dialog>

So that a modally-open dialog can be streamed from the server without requiring client-side JavaScript to trigger it open when it loads.

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/3567#issuecomment-373894397

Longplay_Games,
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@aral You'd think they could spell referrer, too

dgar, to random
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Y’all realise that money is the problem, right?

Longplay_Games,
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@dgar To paraphrase an excellent quote from Oyate:
"If we tried to set up a native butcher store to serve native buffalo only to natives, some agency would be here with guns and permits in 15 minutes to tell us why we aren't allowed to do that"

TheSpaceshipper, to random
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I played the new Star Trucker demo on Steam. And it's fun! It's basically "American Truck Simulator in Cowboy Bebop".

This game has potential. If you take the job seriously, you'd think you were there. Out there.

Star Trucker should be available in 2024.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2380050/Star_Trucker/

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Longplay_Games,
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@TheSpaceshipper I was amused by this one because it was made by a publisher we pitched Smugglers to, and they said they weren't interested in the idea.

Then made this :D

governa, to microsoft
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Continued Advancing , & Its In-House Distro In 2023

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Linux-2023

Longplay_Games,
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@governa I so called it - I knew there would be a microsoft linux distro :D

Longplay_Games, to random
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I mean, you can hate on Steam because of DRM, overhead, fees, asset-flips, hate speech, thinly disguised porn, AI-made games, or whatever - but there's also this:
https://luxurylaunches.com/transport/gabe-newell-luxury-yachts.php

30%. I am supposed to give this dude $100 + 30% + fees of every game I put on Steam.

Now you know why we promote Itch and Gog, where at least the cut is smaller.

Longplay_Games,
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Something non-devs may not realize is that while steam takes 30% off the top, publishers take their cut from the remaining, as do engines like Unreal and Unity. Don't forget all the subscription model tools that go into dev as well.

It's not uncommon for a dev to sell a game and realize only a small fraction of the price. In theory this is to reward these other companies for their investment and foresight, but this is also why we use

Longplay_Games, to bapcsalescanada
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Looking for something fun to play on your steamdeck while you hide from company?

Come join the !
https://longplaygames.itch.io/cygnus-pizza-race

Race a variety of ships on 20 tracks solo or against your friends in split-screen local multiplayer.
Collect toppings for score, or drop them to sabotage the other racers.

The unlockable champion ship racing through a snowy track

Longplay_Games, to random
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Really excited to see Oyate, the new documentary about the fight against the Dakota oil pipeline:
https://linktr.ee/oyatefilm

Longplay_Games, to random
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If job application sites could stop doing stuff like exploiting job seekers to train their AIs, that'd be greaaaaat.

Longplay_Games, to linux
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I know an SAP and Oracle DBA looking for remote work in the US - anyone looking for one?

Longplay_Games, to random
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Chapter 6 of the serial is now up for all backers:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/smugglers-of-6-94563676

Longplay_Games, to scifi
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Do you like games with relaxed vibes?
Interested in watching an early access game develop into the final version, but hate the idea of paying for something unfinished?
Come check out our early access alpha demo. Regular updates, feedback, and totally free.

https://longplaygames.itch.io/smugglers-of-cygnus-ea

One of the species in Smugglers of Cygnus in a space suit with a gas giant reflected in the face plate
Talking to an NPC to get a mission in Smugglers of Cygnus

Longplay_Games, to random
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The irony of a book about exploitation being DRM locked by Adobe...

Longplay_Games, to random
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I'd really love to see Hololens 2 side by side with the Apple Vision Pro.
Speaking as someone with some growing movement impairments making it harder and harder for me to do my regular work, I'd love to see which one (if either) would restore the most of my capabilities.

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