AllNewTypeFace
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- Comment on Developers keep Spotify Car Thing alive with custom firmware 3 weeks ago:
If they were doing so in bulk, probably. As a one-off for one’s own use, doing so with the fit and finish of the commercial product would cost a lot more.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 3 weeks ago:
10% is being generous. The parts of “AI” that aren’t just an expensive way of getting exciting-looking but unreliable results are mundane things like autocorrect, image upscaling models, handwriting recognition and such: unglamorous statistical learning in narrowly constrained domains nobody would claim is on the verge of becoming sentient and spawning the Singularity.
- Comment on Valve still waiting on a 'generational leap' for Steam Deck 2 - but it's coming 5 weeks ago:
Presumably this will mean a high-performance ARM CPU (comparable to the Apple M series), along with the dynamic recompilation technology Steam have been experimenting with. (It’s unlikely that Intel or AMD will deliver the generational leap they’re talking about.)
- Comment on Get ready to collect some Rabbits in Usagi Shima: Bunny Island 2 months ago:
So, a bnnuy-themed Neko Atsume?
- Comment on You won’t be seeing the Balatro IP used by casinos or gambling companies - the developer has forbidden it in his will 3 months ago:
They’ll just have to file the serial numbers off, give it a new name and wait for the gambling dopamine boost to have it eclipse the original
- Comment on No Man's Sky - Worlds Part I is out now and drastically transforms the planets 4 months ago:
You can dogfight with pirates or slug it out with monsters to harvest loot, and there are stealth missions around Sentinel pillars. Though if you want constant quests and action, you might prefer a different game.
- Comment on Newspaper Drops Paywall, Moves To Reader Patronage, Generates 37% More Revenue 5 months ago:
The Guardian (based in the UK, though with editorial operations in the US and Australia) made this decision some 10 years ago, and has stuck with it. So far, they seem to be going well.
- Comment on Instagram is testing “unskippable” ads that you can’t scroll past 5 months ago:
They’re about to test the load-bearing capacity of all your normie friends and all the cool celebrities/hot thirst traps being on there. The end goal is a slot machine which shows only ads almost all the time, occasionally delivering a payoff of social or parasocial connection to someone you care about, but only enough to keep the majority of users hooked.
- Comment on Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives 5 months ago:
Only if it were bound handsomely in leather with gilt lettering, as befits its divine purpose.
- Comment on Nightdive Studios confirm Linux and macOS ports of System Shock are cancelled 5 months ago:
Given that a common subset of the Win32 ABI is now a reasonably efficient virtual machine for running PC games on Linux and (soon) macOS, we can probably expect “do Mac/Linux ports” replaced with “make sure the Windows .exe runs on Mac/Linux”
- Comment on SuiPlay0x1 is a upcoming handheld that is going to run Playtron OS a Linux based (NOTE handheld is being made by blockchain company and with a potential price around $500) 7 months ago:
It’s the cryptocurrency of handhelds: futuristic-looking, impractical to use, and quite possibly a scam.
- Comment on Russia Is Making Its Own Gaming Consoles 7 months ago:
It’ll probably be a shanzhai Steam Deck clone, made largely if not entirely in Shenzhen, with a version of Linux modified to not run unapproved games (and to allow the FSB to monitor any subversive activities). Also, it’ll probably be hacked within two weeks, disabling the surveillance features and making it run a full complement of warez and emulators.
- Comment on Meet Palmsy, the fake social network where your posts stay on your device forever 7 months ago:
They’re going to have to come up with some sort of protocol for integrating these fake services, so you can post pictures of your virtual pet and have your virtual girlfriend comment on them.
- Comment on Playtron plans to launch PlaytronOS, a Linux-based OS for gaming 8 months ago:
Sounds locked down, and the main people involved have a crypto background. I might give this a miss.
- Comment on Steamdeck setup without PC 9 months ago:
The Steam Deck generally does not use an external PC to set up. It is a PC, and can be put into a (Linux-based) desktop mode, which is generally what you’d use for any configuration beyond what the Steam menus give you.
- Comment on Developing a Game with Steam Deck in Mind - The Steam Deck is a Dev Dream 9 months ago:
Calling the Steam Deck a handheld sounds a bit odd.
- Comment on Protective case or not? 10 months ago:
I bought a thin case with a protective front panel that clips on magnetically. That is enough to protect it when thrown in a backpack without adding noticeably to bulk.
- Comment on Valve To Steam Deck Owners: Stop Huffing Its Vent Fumes 11 months ago:
Steam Deck Steam Deck with OLED screen Steam Deck with aromatherapy cartridge slot
- Comment on Sdrawkcab suseJ 11 months ago:
Say “Lord Jesus” backwards and you get “sausage roll”
- Comment on Broke into the Hot 100 Billboard 11 months ago:
The word “tortoise” comes from Tartarus, i.e., Hell, because the ancient Greeks at one point thought that tortoises came from there.
- Comment on Woman who threw bowl of food at Chipotle worker sentenced to work 2 months in fast food job 11 months ago:
How will the logistics of this work? Are there fast-food restaurants that would accept a privileged Karen with anger management issues as a member of their team? After all, they have a business with tight margins to run, and this sounds like a huge liability.
- Comment on Why do some Spanish/English words share the same multiple meanings? 11 months ago:
I’m guessing that in texts in right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew, graphs would be drawn the other way around, the X axis increasing leftward.
- Comment on Why do some Spanish/English words share the same multiple meanings? 11 months ago:
Meanwhile, the French word for left is “gauche”.
Which leads to a famous quip from a Canadian conservative politician some decades ago: “the Canadian left is more gauche than sinister”
- Comment on No one will ever be as cool as Jimi Hendrix reading MAD Magazine 11 months ago:
Caption:“What, me worry?”
- Comment on should i?? 11 months ago:
Gamer culture in the 2020s is wild
- Comment on moist 11 months ago:
it’s called “erotica”
- Comment on True shit 11 months ago:
Put the magnet inside the cup.
- Comment on True shit 11 months ago:
Surely using a powerful magnet would be more effective
- Comment on Free sex... (party)*… Become poor dog 11 months ago:
They should improve the quality of food in sewers so that those who bought sex and thus reincarnated as rats and cockroaches can get a second chance in their next lives
- Comment on Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’ 1 year ago:
I wonder whether, when the faster Steam Deck 2 comes, it may have ditched the x86 architecture altogether and leapt to a high-performance ARM CPU, yielding more power per watt and generating less heat. If so, that would presumably require Proton to be supplemented with a Rosetta-style translation engine that can convert x86 machine code into ARM.
Currently, outside of Apple’s proprietary M/A-series CPUs, there don’t appear to be high-performance ARM CPUs that would fill such a role, though this probably won’t still be the case in a few years.