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No WAN Show this week. The streak has ended.
  • Does anyone have any suitable "alternatives" in podcasts which are similar to the WAN Show in atmosphere? (As in: longer conversations about tech-adjecent topics) I don't feel comfortable wanting to go near LMG's content (my only consistent watching was the WAN Show to be frank) after these discoveries.

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    The Problem with LMG
  • His comment didn't address two key issues for me:

    • The "crunch"/tight scheduling of projects which led to sloppiness to begin with
    • The constant need to correct, ranging from simple mistakes to very problematic methods.

    I've been enjoying solely the WAN Show, but hearing about constant mistakes in benchmarks while praising "We want to show factual information on benchmarks for once.", is rubbing me in the wrong way. You can't rush benchmarking without QA and publish those results as fact. You get to choose for accuracy, or fast to churn content.

    And Linus not mentioning something concrete on the first issue is worrying to me, not showing a clear intent to ease on rushing those benchmarks.

    Not to mention, it's worth taking down a video if benchmarka are wrong even if the conclusion is "most likely to remain the same", which one cannot conclude with certainty without redoing it. It would be better transparency wise to either not knowingly publish wrong information, or put a more clear notice on said videos besides the description and a pinned comment.

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  • www.twitch.tv ESAMarathon - Twitch

    [🔴Live] BSG Annual 2023 || Benefitting MIND || 13-19 Aug | Intro by @shadowfrost

    cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/495710

    > Schedule | Donate | Prizes | Discord > > This year's charity is the Netherlands' MIND (Dutch website), a Dutch charity that strives to prevent mental health issues and supports those who suffer from those. > > Donations are currently broken on the site because of a PayPal issue - Prime subs are used for BSG themselves for future events.

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    www.twitch.tv ESAMarathon - Twitch

    [🔴Live] BSG Annual 2023 || Benefitting MIND || 13-19 Aug | Intro by @shadowfrost

    cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/495710

    > Schedule | Donate | Prizes | Discord > > This year's charity is the Netherlands' MIND (Dutch website), a Dutch charity that strives to prevent mental health issues and supports those who suffer from those. > > Donations are currently broken on the site because of a PayPal issue - Prime subs are used for BSG themselves for future events.

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    [Discussion] The future branding of the app
  • I'll suggest Lemmesee as a word play on Let Me See and Lemmy. Some alternate possibilities regarding styling/spelling: LemmeSee, Lemmysee, LemmySee, LemmySy

    Will definitely keep an eye out on the icon contest.

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    I just wanted to take a minute to appreciate interchangable batteries
  • Don't get me wrong - I think an included battery that's rechargeable through USB is fantastic. Less customer inconvenience. But they should either go with a standard that's easily reproducible or go with regular rechargeable batteries.

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    What's a good alternative to Gmail?
  • Gotta go for ProtonMail. Have been running it for a year and I kinda like how it's doing.

    An additional feature is SimpleLogin's "Hide My E-mail" Aliases, which are "burner" e-mail addresses to use with pre-determined SimpleLogin domains (you can add your own domains as well to go around Proton's custom domain limit). Those are included in the full suite and Family subscriptions. (10 a month when subscribing for a year)

    There's also a cheaper variant for 3.50 a month but it lacks the SimpleLogin feature. You can get SimpleLogin seperately for 30 a year, however.

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    I just wanted to take a minute to appreciate interchangable batteries
  • Since I got those from Ikea, I just want devices to go back to those types of batteries instead of internal battery packs. Still got to appreciate the Xbox controllers sticking to that principle (for now).

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    We're the creators of Lemmy, Ask Us Anything. *Starts Monday, 7 Aug, 1500 CEST*
  • Any thoughts on overhauling cross-posting, to allow more interaction with the source interaction?

    As far as I'm aware: currently when you cross-post, only the recipient instance gets all interactions (comments, upvotes), instead of duplicating to or having the origin solely receive those.

    The current implementation hampers the growth of smaller instances when reposting something to a bigger one. Discoverability is still there due to seeing from which instance the post originates from, but that's arguably not enough.

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    What’s one of your favorite game soundtracks?
  • I'm honestly a bigger fan of the classic DOOM I/II (199X) soundtracks. Despite being obvious parodies of existing rock/metal songs, they had a certain appeal. Especially when someone makes a very good cover.

    I get why people like 2016's DOOM's more "metal" approach, but for me nothing beats an adrenaline-rush song when ripping and tearing those damned demons.

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    What’s one of your favorite game soundtracks?
  • Super Mario Galaxy (1+2). Orchestrated music should be a must for main Nintendo games at this point, outside of Zelda (and the Pokémon anime, although that one's not strictly Nintendo or used in actual games, sadly).

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    [Not My Own] "RetroTV" - A self-made linear TV network for watching films and series
  • Exactly my thoughts. I was looking to see if he had any possible contact options to ask him to consider that, but haven't been able to find any to this date.

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  • cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/194017

    > Spotted this on the Hackaday blog. This project really impressed me at the effort it must've taken to get this right. > > "Irish Craic Party" made a "RetroTV" television network running on a Raspberry Pi 4 with an external 2TB hard drive filled with films, series and commercial bumpers and the like to recreate the older 80's and 90's TV networks, with each own recreations or original (derivatives) of actual TV channels from back then. > > Sadly, he does not seem to be willing to open source the project, according to the video description: > > > "Even without: this is a one-off bespoke project with time / effort exceeding what people would likely be willing to pay, DIY media servers are niche, certain omissions would be made to avoid legal clashes and I don't have time to maintain an open-source project. Most of all, I'm ready to move on to new things." > > Regardless, this project piqued my interest into wanting to create the same experience for films and series I've even have yet to watch (to combat the "analysis paralysis" his video mentions) while also putting rewatchable stuff on there as well, to keep it fresh and try to actually re-enjoy my favourites. > > A suitable and mostly feature-similar to "RetroTV", is the ErsatzTV project, built by an engineer working at Disney for streaming technologies!

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    Joey for Reddit went down today
  • Thanks for letting us know! Here's the code repository, for those wanting to self host it: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym

    I showed this to my friend (an instance owner) and he immediately went "Let's self host this". Really looks great. If someone could make it work somehow with RES, then it would be a total replacement.

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    So how long until the Fediverse is monetized?
  • I could see both ads and subscriptions work (although, the former might be "useless" for those using adblockers, after all, so I'd see persistent/static sponsorship ads similar to how some FOSS projects do it to be more likely).

    Especially the latter, for certain services that focus on providing value. A friend of mine mentioned Misskey for example, apparently being used by some Japanese artists. Considering Twitter's on its way out by being harmful to commission artists, I could see someone spin up such instance and ask X amount for providing a marketplace for commissioned goods.

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    What is everyone getting this Steam sale?
    • Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice (Refunded as it got cheaper during the sale - then got it for even less than the original sale price with the soundtrack on GOG)
    • Caesar 3 (Got that recommended along with my earlier purchase of Pharaoh + Cleopatra)
    • Deus Ex™ GOTY Edition (Literally 1 buck + I've heard it got a great modding community)
    • Lollypop (Had my eye on it since it launched on GOG - looks like a neat DOS game)
    • Yakuza Complete Series (Already got Yakuza 0 on Steam, but couldn't pass this. Especially at the all-time low price point. Funnily enough, I believe these games are one of the first to use GOG's new Steam SDK wrapper to make it easier to port. Denuvo was already ripped out before by SEGA, and only having to recompile the game once to point to GOG's own .DLL probably made the release a hell lot easier than before.)
    • Hypnospace Outlaw (Indie game that's been on my Steam watchlist for a while.)
    • Cuphead with The Delicious Last Course and its Soundtrack (Double-dipping because I got the base game on Switch and the soundtrack through Steam. But didn't wanna rely on Switch emulation to play the DLC after buying it. So GOG release it is!)
    • True Love '95 (An older Visual Novel that got recently re-released on GOG. Seemed interesting enough to give it a shot.)
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    What is everyone getting this Steam sale?
  • Had a bigger haul at GOG, but for Steam I got:

    • Persona 5 Royal (through Humble because of my Choice discount making it just under 30 bucks)
    • Another World (double-dip on Steam because the GOG release doesn't have the original Amiga ROMs as bonus content)
    • Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum (a new NES homebrew game published by Digital Eclipse - always been a decent emulation publisher)
    • NOMAD (another classic emulated title)
    • Castle Crashers (one of my "indie titles to get" games on the old list)
    • Battleblock Theater (same reason as Castle Crashers!)
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  • [Nintendo Switch - Global Sale] SEGA AGES series 75% off!

    EXCLUDED TITLES: Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2

    Big recommendation on my part, these either have been good emulations for the Switch console or amazing ports/remasters (Fantasy Zone, Virtua Racing). Some of the emulated titles even got bonus features like a moving border based on gyro along with sound effects to make it seem like you're using the real fancy arcade cabinets.

    The series has been developed by M2, a popular Japanese development studio responsible for many emulation collections like that of Castlevania, but also the Virtual Console emulators of the Wii U for the DS, GBA and TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine consoles. Not to forget the SEGA Mega Drive (2) Mini and the PC Engine Mini have its emulation done by them.

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    [Humble Bundle] Summer Sports Spectacular: NBA 2K23 & More

    www.humblebundle.com Summer Sports Spectacular: NBA 2K23 & More

    Pay what you want for a collection of scorching sports games featuring NBA 2K3 and lots more, and help support The Trevor Project with your purchase.

    | Game | Lowest Tier | Highest Discount + Store (IsThereAnyDeal) | OpenCritic / MetaCritic Scores | ProtonDB Rating / Steam Deck Compatibility | Notes | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | NBA 2K Playgrounds 2 | First Tier ($US/€9,36) | 85% off (Voidu) | 70 - [Xbox One / Switch / PS4] 62/69/73 | ProtonDB Gold / Not Compatible | Bundled 3 times before ProtonDB: Workaround is to use Proton 5.13-6, otherwise game will crash pretty early on. | | WWE 2K Battlegrounds | First Tier ($US/€9,36) | 86% off (GameBillet) | 58 - [Switch / Xbox One / PS4] 56/58/60 | ProtonDB Platinum / Not Compatible | Bundled 5 times before ProtonDB: Works out of the box, albeit with small looking text. | | Lethal League Blaze | Second Tier ($US15/€14,04) | 40% off (Fanatical) | 81 - [Switch] 82 | ProtonDB Native Linux build / Gold / Verified | Bundled 7 times before ProtonDB: Native Linux build should work out of the box. | | Wave Break | Second Tier ($US15/€14,04) | 34% of (Steam) | 63 - [Switch] 54 | ProtonDB Native Linux build / Pending / Verified | ProtonDB: Should work out of the box through native Linux build, or via Proton 6.3-4. | | OlliOlli World | Second Tier ($US15/€14,04) | 55% off (GameBillet) | 86 - 87 | ProtonDB Platinum / Verified | Rad Edition has been bundled once before in Humble Choice (January 2023). | | NBA 2K23 | Second Tier ($US15/€14,04) | 88% off (eTail.Market) | 79 - [PS5 / Xbox Series S\|X] 78/80 | ProtonDB Gold / Verified | | | Tape to Tape | Third Tier ($US20/€18,72) | 10% off (Steam) | Steam Rating: Very Positive (91%-93%) | ProtonDB Platinum / Verified | Game is in Early Access. |

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