Nils
2024 is not a great year for VR, and I hope Valve pushes some more updates to imporve steam vr next year.
I imagine Metro Awekening is a contender for 2024. Name brand, and many reviews. I think others to qualify, for the same reasons, would be Metal Hellsinger, Maestro and Arizona Sunshine Remake.
Unless there is a x86 to ARM translation layer on Linux that I’m not aware of?
https://steamdb.info/app/3043620/
It appears Valve is working on Proton for arm64, I was wondering if this is to attend the mobile market, a new Index or maybe a smaller Steam Deck.
The problem is, who is the arbiter of that?
Intolerance is well-defined in many languages, and, so people do not confuse I am talking about milk intolerance, the hate crime is defined in many law codes across the globe, including Canada. There is no need for philosophical discussion of what is “intolerance”.
There is no need for a linguistic expert to realize someone’s discourse is ill intentioned, when the semantics of “the victim deserves to suffer” is the same as the call to action.
For countries that depend on common law, the account in question was already punished in other instances, creating precedent.
The modus operandi of these kinds of accounts are also well-know and documented. And popularity contests should not be a tool to define what is right in an online platform where there is no real accountability. How many upvotes do you think a single worker in a troll farm can generate in a couple of minutes?
We should not depend on admin humour for results (philosophies, as you suggest), but I agree that we should help when/where we can, their volunteer work is invaluable for the health of the instance.
I think that the discussions worth having in these kinds of posts are about methods, checks and balance to prevent bad decisions from people in power, and that people will be fairly treated.
Methods are many, and there are many examples out there.
- would twitter like community notes solve some of these problems or create more? Would lemmy repo accept such PR?
- the problem of twitter x Brazil: is it worth locking those accounts while an investigation is pending? One of them was instigating machete attacks in school/nursery. When would this lock be ok, or not ok?
- how long should people complain/report before a something (an investigation, a lock, or a conclusion) happens. - The account we both mentioned not in this thread (but in this post) went on it for 2 months before being banned - they did not leave on their own. …
I do not understand people here defending misinformation/intolerance as a merit of discussion. The dichotomy of naive or complicity.
People spreading misinformation and intolerance are not here for healthy arguments, you just need to check their history to see their dishonesty and ill temper.
In the meanwhile, accounts like the one OP highlighted are just creating trouble for mods of other instances to solve.
profits local
Depends on the profits you mean, I don’t think there is a single hardware built here, overall:
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Buy hardware used or refurbished from local sellers.
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Software that supports your local library borrowing system (Something like OverDrive).
open source drm free e-books
Most hardware supports them out of the box. For the ones that do not, there are some workaround (koreader).
On the profit part, there are some publishers in Canada and you can always connect to your local library.
kobo or apple
That is like comparing apples to oranges. I don’t think apple offers eBook readers.
You need to think if you like/need a few things.
Would you like e-ink display? Would you like colour? Is it just to read and annotations? Or you want to run apps available on your phone as well?
Once I started using e-ink for reading books I cannot use LCD or LED panels anymore for that task.
As e-ink eBook reader goes Kobo might be the best option in Canada, everything you need out of the box with the bonus of connecting to your local library.
I saw some online sellers offering Bigme and Boox in Canada, but I could not confirm if they have offices here.
I would stay away from Amazon unless you ok flashing used hardware (for safety) and with doing workarounds (to install koreader).
It depends on how it is implemented. There are many examples out there. wikipedia list of electoral systems by country
A pure proportional voting would have no ridding/districts, I think this is more common for municipal and provincial level elections.
If the countries are divided into independent-ish states or provinces, they can divide the population by the number of available seats - that means a province with 10% of the population, ideally would have close to 10% of the seats.
I am not a big fan of breaking down provinces further because the more you divide into smaller districts, more votes are thrown away, and you open it up for gerrymandering.
Canada seems to do a good job dividing seats per province, the problem is that the provinces break it down into districts and use first past the post voting to elect officials.
I feel like I mostly played old games this year, at least it helped me to pick Labor of Love: Cassette Beasts.
Cassette Beasts is made with Godot, devs are still releasing content, and they just added support for steam workshop.
There were so many good games for this category that it was hard to choose. e.g. I learned from Lemmy about Shattered Pixel Dungeon, that is open source and has been receiving updates for almost 10 years.
My other picks are: Shadows of Doubt, Tactical Breach Wizards, All Quiet in the Trenches, and Tiny Glade.
I also liked Star Fetchers : Escape from Pork Belly, but they released it as DLC rather than its own game.
I was thinking about Keep Driving, and Dice Gambit for the soundtrack, that was also when I thought about Cassette Beasts. But they are not from 2024. I will probably vote for the abbot rapping in Esperanto from Metaphor.
My favourite tool is GPU Screen Recorder - https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder/about/
This is a screen recorder that has minimal impact on system performance by recording your monitor using the GPU only, similar to shadowplay on windows. This is the fastest screen recording tool for Linux.
It works with AMD, Intel and Nvidia GPUs. It is also the one that performs better. Official repos AUR or Flatpak, or you can install from the source above. The flatpak already comes with the UI gtk https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder-gtk/
Other tools I used were OBS and Steam - you can enable Steam to record your games in the Settings > Game Recording > Record in Background
OBS was very laggy for me.
If you check the history of lemmy.ca, you will see that this intolerant propaganda/misinformation is cyclical. One user disappears and another comes in. Sadly, it usually takes a few months before something happens to them.
The mod of the community you shared, created an account and on the same day started to post propaganda and tiptoeing around the instance rules. Before, it was another user posting the same content from the same sources, with the same tactics, until they went a bit too far and were banned.
They always do the same thing, create an account, create a community with a “normal” name, like geopolitics, and start spreading stuff. I would not be surprised if it is an agency doing this kind of stuff: I cannot imagine someone being so evil to do it willingly, might be either coerced or depending on the money.
I do not mind when the propaganda is benign, like bots posting random video game or Canadian news, but I draw the line on intolerance.
Another of those intolerant people tactics (tiptoeing) is that they do not demand for people to get killed in their comments. They construct it as a consequence of the victims’ actions, they deserve to die. For me, that is just as bad, if not worse, because they know the things they are doing are wrong, and they are trying hard to no get caught.
I hope the instance comes with a better and swift way to deal with these kinds of problems.
Borg is arguing in bad faith, don’t give him more attention.
A good part of what the said about Apple is not even true, and nothing he said has anything to do with Steam vs Apple Store.
From the first line, recently Apple released an OS update that broke some software from the Apple Store, like MS Office. They made people call the support from the app developers, Apple did not help anyone with that.
Borg went on an unhinged rant about how bad they are at deploying software to specific hardware, and how little they know about the industry. Completely unrelated to what you are asking.
It is not worth spending time, please don’t feed the troll.
If you want to talk seriously about the industry, there are better places to do it.
