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woelkchen, 1 hour ago

a prequel chapter available free on Steam

I’ve seen this approach to a demo a few times recently. I really like it and prefer it over a cutout from the full game where it may or may not be possible to transfer progress.

woelkchen, 11 hours ago

It makes sense. He’s not stellar but OK. He brings Chinese sponsors and he’s not a rookie … both things Gene Haas likes.

woelkchen, 10 hours ago

Haas signs Zhou.

China invades Taiwan.

Gene Haas: “Not again!”

woelkchen, 11 hours ago

Hier ist der eigentliche Link. Man muss es ihnen lassen, sie wissen wie man einen Link in einem Text versteckt.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/DasErste.de/unsereFluesse ist nicht der eigentliche Link. daserste.de/unsereFluesse hingegen ist.

woelkchen, 10 hours ago

Hyprland session

Wayland compositor

RTX 4070

Nvidia GPU.

https://i.imgur.com/hdJi6r9.jpeg

woelkchen, 10 hours ago

I heard netbsd runs on anything, even toasters.

Does that mean it runs well on laptops too?

It runs as well on a laptop as it runs on a toaster.

woelkchen, 10 hours ago

The Mach kernel started as a derivative of a BSD kernel. Years later the XNU kernel was created by combining the Mach kernel with code from newer BSDs, therefore it’s totally fair to describe macOS as a BSD. From my very limited exposure to BSD conferences, using Macs is pretty common there as many developers see their community-developed BSDs more for headless use they SSH onto.

woelkchen, 10 hours ago

!haiku

21 subscribers, zero activity. I don’t get such communities. Not even the mod posts anything.

woelkchen, 2 hours ago

Would be more if the community creator were to post content instead of just hogging the community name. It’s what I do with my community.

woelkchen, 21 hours ago

What confuses me: Why would the “Russian law” not cover Russian funding of media influence?

woelkchen, 19 hours ago

It’s called Russian law because it is from Russia (both content and the directive)

But Russian influence would be banned, too, no?

woelkchen, 18 hours ago

I see. Thanks.

woelkchen, 11 hours ago

If we are to learn from experience, Russia should start invading Georgia days after the end of the Paris Olympics. Mark my word

Russia invaded Georgia in 2008 and since then occupies parts of Georgia. You’re a bit late with your prediction.

woelkchen, 1 day ago

Bungie arranged to use Aleph One’s code for the free Steam version.

Bungie isn’t even listed on the Steam page as developer or publisher. I don’t think Bungie arranged anything here. They just promoted the release via a tweet.

woelkchen, 21 hours ago

Let me guess, bungie also blocked this from being used on the steam deck

Bungie blocked nothing. They aren’t involved with the Steam release. The Marathon games were released as freeware ages ago and the engine under an open source license as well. The Steam release is by the open source community that maintains a continuation of the engine.

woelkchen, 9 hours ago

Nürburgring would have just kept going with a local 60kph speed limit. They don’t have safety cars at all over there.

woelkchen, 12 hours ago

The code compiles 1:1 back into a unable ROM but isn’t made just using a source code leak. It is reverse-engineered just like the SM64 decomp

Decompilation means it’s still derived from copyrighted source code. It’s not a clean-room implementation where one person analyzes the engine, writes documentation about details of that engine, and a completely different person writes a new engine. It’s not even a grey area. The correct procedure is clear ever since back in the day “IBM compatible” were created.

If it were up to me, copyrights would work like patents: After 25 years they’re void and people would be completely in the clear to decompile, modify, and redistribute old games. Sadly that’s not the reality.

woelkchen, 12 hours ago

Nintendo has not taken action on the massively popular SM64 Decompilation and PC ports (and ironically switch ports) in the past what…3 years?

Nintendo hadn’t taken action against ROM sites for even more years (I was able to download NES, Game Boy, and SNES ROMs in the 1990s) and then decided to make an example of only one in 2019. Just because something is not on the radar of lawyers in Japan right now, doesn’t mean a law suit over millions could not come any day.

woelkchen, 12 hours ago

It looks like the project is really careful not to include copyrighted materials in their distribution.

Source code automatically generated from copyrighted binary code is a derivative of copyrighted code, though. It’s like taking a copyrighted book and running it through Google Translate and then clean up the sentences manually. You could be lucky that a publisher might not care about a translation into Icelandic but if you were to auto-translate a French version of a book into English and try to distribute it in the US, you’d probably get in trouble even if you leave out all graphic artwork.

woelkchen, 20 hours ago

Novel idea: make a car, not a cloud service. My phone is better at navigation etc anyways.

woelkchen, 21 hours ago

Für Einzelpersonen oder Paare ist der Unterhalt eines Autos in eigentlich jedem Fall teurer.

Für Einzelpersonen und Paare, die wegen der Arbeit aber nicht auf die Launen der lokalen Verkehrsbetriebe angewiesen sein können (wird nicht einfacher, wenn man Verbundsgrenzen überquert), haben aber mitunter keine Wahl. Deswegen muss der ÖPNV ja auch besser werden.

woelkchen, 10 hours ago

Crazy… so much about the best Distro, huh?

IMO Fedora is still a great distribution, IMO even the best for beginners. Just because certain Gnome-affiliated people are insufferable doesn’t change that (at least not for now). From my point of view it would have been completely fine to discuss that, hold a vote, and if Gnome comes out on top, then fine. But with the changing landscape with Steam Deck and with it more development resources flowing into KDE technologies and also many more mainstream people having their first Linux desktop contact through Steam Deck’s Desktop Mode (=KDE Plasma), I think it’s totally fair to hold a discussion, similar to when Debian discussed Gnome vs Xfce years ago and Gnome came out on top because of offering the best accessibility features.

woelkchen, 10 hours ago

Lol GNOME vs XFCE, that was absolutely the right decision XD

GNOME is worlds better.

And that decision wasn’t about which is better liked by the majority. It was (I’m paraphrasing) “the default shouldn’t put up hurdles for people with disabilities. Gnome supports accessibility techs X, Y, Z. Xfce only tech X.” That’s an objective metric. The same metric could still hold up for Gnome vs Plasma. Gnome might be ahead in that regard. I don’t know the current state. I know that years ago (Plasma 4.x days) adding a Japanese IME under Fedora Gnome was super easy thanks to PackageKit integration of the IME settings of Gnome while under Fedora’s Plasma session it was pretty much all manual configuration. Best out of the box accessibility is a metric I would wholeheartedly support even though my personal interest would prioritize gaming performance over screen readers because I simply don’t need the latter.