domi

domi, 2 days ago

They are working on their ingame overlay for Ghost of Tsushima right now. Which also requires a PSN account for the coop mode.

Probably followed by a PSN launcher for PC and then paid online multiplayer.

domi, 2 days ago

Probably not for Helldivers but they sure as hell gonna pull the GFWL on us if they release a big multiplayer game on PC at some point.

domi, 3 days ago

I refunded anyway because of their new ingame overlay. Those are just the first stages to a full blown Sony launcher on PC. No thank you.

domi, 4 days ago

That’s a shame because ionity is absolute trash.

0.69 EUR/kWh is a robbery and requiring a subscription to fill your car cheaper is a scam. They are doing it with taxpayers’ money as well.

Imagine a publicly funded gas station with those conditions and people would lose their mind.

domi, 6 days ago

I also really like GNOME the software but I moved away a few months ago because of this.

As is, the current GNOME is unusable to me without extensions because they refuse to implement support for appindicators. You literally cannot use applications that minimize to tray on vanilla GNOME right now. They have been talking about adding their own protocol for years but that is of no use when things are broken right now.

Important features and bug fixes are always stuck in merge request limbo for years. VRR for Wayland got merged recently after 4 years and it’s still experimental. DRM leasing is still missing on Wayland, KDE added it 3 years ago.

The final straw was when KDE announced HDR support last year I switched over because I knew GNOME would probably lag behind by months or even years.

domi, 6 days ago

Or, use KDE. Which does it all without any extension, even if the current API sucks.

It’s not acceptable to me to require a third party extension to achieve a basic useable desktop environment.

domi, 6 days ago

I’m aware of their reason for dropping support but it’s not sensible to drop a functioning system and replace it with nothing and then talk about how to do it better for years. That post is from 2017, it’s 2024 now and there is still no replacement in sight.

domi, 6 days ago

I have been using this for a few hours now and it’s pretty great, so far my favorite of all the players I tried. Left the dev a few bucks on GitHub.

domi, 9 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

I’m not OP but NIST is a very shady institution for various reasons:

• They actively work with and for the NSA
• Leaked papers have shown that they included a backdoor for the NSA at least once ( en.wikipedia.org/…/National_Institute_of_Standard… and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG#Weakness:_a_po… )
• Many cryptographers are suspicious of the NIST and their selection process, e.g. Daniel Bernstein (the guy who made ED25519) is currently suing the NIST for various infringements ( blog.cr.yp.to/20220805-nsa.html )

Use anything NIST related with care. Use ED25519 or if not available, RSA with large key sizes (4096+).

domi, 10 days ago

So, what did they break this time?

I don’t think I have seen a single SteamVR update on Linux that didn’t break something.

domi, 11 days ago

There’s nothing in most of these AAA games to truly love. They’re a sea of merely “alright”, and they’re all way too long.

But why bother with alright when there’s thousands of highly regarded indie games out there for a quarter of the price?

domi, 10 days ago

Meanwhile, AAA studios can spend thousands of dollars on marketing.

I don’t really get the notion of listening to some marketing department lying through their teeth. It’s not like AAA games ever deliver on their marketing promises.

Unless an indie game goes viral, there’s very little chance that I’ll ever hear about it in order to consider buying it.

You don’t have to go dumpster diving in order to find awesome games, somebody already did. A good starting point is the top rated games list for Steam: steamdb.info/stats/gameratings/

90% of them are indies and there is something for everyone on those 3 pages.

domi, 11 days ago

There are games with no DRM at all on Steam as well, it’s up to the developer.

See also: pcgamingwiki.com/…/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games…

domi, 11 days ago

You can also use steamcmd or DepotDownloader. It’s not DRM just because no website download is available, once they are downloaded they are yours to keep.

domi, 13 days ago

Is he such a bad writer or what’s the problem?

domi, 14 days ago

If they weren’t so expensive.

I could probably swallow the 200 bucks but I’m not going to pay another 90 bucks for shipping/taxes/customs.

domi, 14 days ago

Batteries degrade pretty quickly, I hear around 4 years!

My car is 5 years old now and battery capacity is at 93% of original.

domi, 15 days ago

OP didn’t ask for unpopular languages but for languages you want to be more popular.

I also want C# to be more popular, it’s a fantastic language.

domi, 17 days ago

Check out Picard, I switched to it when I switched to Linux: flathub.org/apps/org.musicbrainz.Picard

domi, 18 days ago

Video hosting is a money sink, I wouldn’t hold my breath that somebody else comes along.

domi, 18 days ago

You can root the Gardena gateway and control their mowers locally with this: github.com/andrexp/gardena-local-control

I don’t think they have mowers with GPS though. Also, some of their mowers don’t use the gateway.

domi, 18 days ago

So OP is correct, it does apply a measure of security. Port scanning someone behind NAT isn’t possible, you just end up port scanning their crappy NAT router provided by their ISP unless they have specifically opened up some ports and directed them to their internal IP address.

You end up just port scanning their crappy router on IPv6 as well because ports that are not opened are stuck at the firewall either way, no matter if you use IPv4 or IPv6.

Just because every device gets a public IP does not mean that IP is publicly accessible.

An advantage that IPv6 has against port scanning is the absurdly large network sizes. For example, my ISP gives me a /56 prefix, that is 4,722,366,482,869,645,213,696 IPv6 addresses. Good luck finding the used ones with the port open you need.

Even with just a /64 prefix you get 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 addresses, way outside the feasibility of port scanning.

domi, 20 days ago

It’s twice as funny in this game because they added Denuvo a year after release. Meaning all pirates got the game DRM free on day one while paying customers got Denuvo patched in.

Absolute waste of money.

domi, 21 days ago

It does, but Sony didn’t go through the crash and burn phase on PC yet so they need to add their own fancy overlay before killing it in a few years.

domi, 21 days ago

They should stop incentivizing this behaviour then.

Currently there are 0 reasons for higher level players to go after the objectives instead of extracting with as many samples as possible.

You can’t earn any money because of the limit, there is nothing gained by leveling up and medals become useless after you have unlocked everything that interests you.

The only thing left to do is gather credits and samples by visiting any POI you can find.

It doesn’t help that ship upgrades are unreasonably expensive either compared to everything else.