At this point, making something that doesn’t work using Wine or Proton is actually kind of an achievement, so congrats EA, you managed to fuck up both Origin and EA app. The actual game runs flawlessly, it’s the launchers that are all kinds of broken.
The difference between Mass Effect Legendary edition working better than it did on my windows machine and hanging on the launcher forever is literally whether or not I have a controller turned on & connected. I don’t know if I would have ever figured it out if it wasn’t for a random poster on ProtonDB
Y’all, Helldivers 2 is just so much fun. I would not have assumed at the beginning of 2024, just after completing Baldur’s Gate 3, that I would be championing an always online squad shooter - but this game is just so damn enjoyable. Furthermore, the community has been so engaged and invested in the spirit of liberty that...
You get hollandaise’s name out your goddamn mouth. I would drink that sauce. Would it basically be drinking butter? Yes. Would I still do it? Absolutely
I don’t know, one of the reasons they’re decrying everyone running the APK is they claim they’ve made a bunch of “bespoke alterations” to the AOSP version they’re using
This video by CGP Grey goes into it a bit more, but split brain patients have even had their two halves disagree. For example the conscious hand picking out something to wear then the other hand batting it away and picking something else. It’s quite fascinating to read about.
The best thing I’ve ever done was get a phone plan with call control. Basically before my phone even rings the person on the end gets prompted with a random number they have to press on their phone to connect. My number of spam calls has gone from several a day to two total calls in the last month.
Maybe pig butchering scams? John Oliver did a piece on them recently that was pretty enlightening, but this wiki summarizes it okay: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam
I wanted to gauge interest in Tribler. It claims to be a tor-like p2p client created by privacy researchers. Has anyone had experience with Tribler? Did you get any takedown notices? What were speeds like?
The past and future of Nominative Determinism in sport (xkcd) (imgs.xkcd.com)
xkcd.com/2022/
Far Right Billionaires Are Waging a War to Capture State Courts (truthout.org)
This used book that I bought for 12£ on the internet was apparently previously bought from Oxfam for 1.99£ (jlai.lu)
I managed to run The Sims 4 on Linux after over 6 hours
At this point, making something that doesn’t work using Wine or Proton is actually kind of an achievement, so congrats EA, you managed to fuck up both Origin and EA app. The actual game runs flawlessly, it’s the launchers that are all kinds of broken.
Badonkadonk she's mine. (lemmy.world)
Professional Scientists of Lemmy: What is your field of study's, most complex unanswered question?
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By Jake Likes Onions...
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World’s top climate scientists expect global heating to blast past 1.5C target (www.theguardian.com)
Planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating with disastrous results for humanity, poll of hundreds of scientists finds...
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I just want to play this awesome game.
Y’all, Helldivers 2 is just so much fun. I would not have assumed at the beginning of 2024, just after completing Baldur’s Gate 3, that I would be championing an always online squad shooter - but this game is just so damn enjoyable. Furthermore, the community has been so engaged and invested in the spirit of liberty that...
Ontario's carbon emissions jump back to pre-pandemic levels (www.cbc.ca)
A cool guide on how to make mother sauces (i.redd.it)
cross-posted from: lemmit.online/post/2827545...
Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app (arstechnica.com)
Rabbit R1 AI box is actually an Android app in a limited $200 box, running on AOSP without Google Play....
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Steering Bullets - EXACTO Program (2008/2015) (lemmy.world)
Video of it in use [1:00] (no audio): youtu.be/YoOaJclkSZg...
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Tribler: Peer-to-Peer decentralized torrent client (www.tribler.org)
I wanted to gauge interest in Tribler. It claims to be a tor-like p2p client created by privacy researchers. Has anyone had experience with Tribler? Did you get any takedown notices? What were speeds like?