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17·12 hours agoIs this what I think it is?
click, control-f, entanglement
Yep. The core discovery is not exactly news if you’ve been following this stuff, but still very cool.
Elite Dangerous, because it can be as intense or chill as I want, it’s a remarkably good space sim, and I can easily opt out of PvP while still affecting the state of the galaxy.
Sadly, they didn’t include this graph for people who played exclusively on Linux, unless some of it was on the Steam Deck.
3·3 days ago20 year club checking in. Let’s
gokeep going!
A step toward freedom!
621·3 days agoThe recent trend of tariffs could have a silver lining.
Removing dirt-cheap goods from the market will make it more difficult to ignore the underlying problem: People are not being paid enough for their labor to afford the things they need at home. Instead, they are expected to depend on subsidized/sketchy foreign manufacturing, while corporations and the super-rich are being allowed to extract a disproportionate share of the world’s wealth from everyone else, hoard it, buy favorable legislation and policies, and avoid paying their fair share in taxes.
This is already unsustainable. I suspect tariffs will make it more obvious.
I hope it will lead to positive and long-overdue changes. Unfortunately, I think it’s likely to make things worse for a great many people before it makes things better.
4·4 days agoIn unix terminology, “display server” refers to the user-facing input and output devices. That typically means the keyboard, video display, and mouse. I’m glad they didn’t stuff all those words into its name, or call it something cryptic and confusing like “KVM server”. ;)
In any case, I think putting an optional key combination in the keyboard options makes at least a little sense. I would guess that it didn’t end up in the shortcuts section because it’s not implemented by the same component(s) as those shortcuts. Control+Alt+Backspace to kill the display server has historically been a lower-level feature, not even requiring a desktop environment at all.
Yeah, they stopped updating the legacy PC client, too. I suspect it’s in the same game world as your console, still alive and playable, but with no new content.
The new client is free, but also more resource-hungry; I guess they didn’t have the budget to get it working on consoles.
I’m a little disappointed not to see Elite Dangerous nominated for Labor of Love. The game is ten years old, and the developers have recently been bringing in new features like it was still new.
Thank you for linking directly to the relevant segment of the video. Steve and his team do good work; I just wish they would make more of their findings available in text format.
9·5 days agoNo, it doesn’t have to work that way, as we can see by the existence of messaging platforms with end-to-end encryption.
I suspect the person to whom I replied understands this, but their comment could have been misinterpreted as implying that Discord messages are private, so I wanted to clarify.
1·6 days agoIf you’re looking for something inexpensive and aren’t picky about the size of the analog stick dead zones, the Logitech F310 might be a good fit. Its D-pad works well in my experience.
Just in case anyone reading this gets the impression that direct messages sent on Discord are private from Discord itself, they aren’t. If you were to send your face to a mod, or send anything to anyone there, then Discord would have it, too.
This is not about technology. It’s about a corporation buying political favour.
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36·6 days agodeleted by creator
It is true. I said can retain data indefinitely, not will retain data forever.
(And in any case, being pedantic here misses the point.)
Perhaps because they still work?
And, unlike flash storage, magnetic media can retain data indefinitely when stored without power.
The entire galaxy is shared by everyone playing the game, in real time. You can encounter each other, fight, team up, or avoid each other, and your actions influence the state of the shared simulation. Definitely an MMO.
The most recent thing you probably missed was the thargoid war, culminating in a battle with the titan that parked itself over Earth and took over the Sol system. You might compare it to a fantasy MMO raid, but at a much larger scale.
Colonisation is coming soon.