[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 minute ago

Ah, the good old days of PS1 and 2.

On PC, it was insert the disc, install (takes a while), keep disc in, run game, crash, troubleshoot, give up.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 12 minutes ago

Money (power) corrupts and people with lots of money rarely want to part with it. Also, money protects money, so the rich often deal in the shadows to protect themselves from us.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 23 minutes ago

Instructions unclear, claude formatted my hard drive in FAT12 and deleted all my backups

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 23 hours ago

Sometimes I feel like believing the conspiracy theory that the heads at mozilla are google flunkies, who only keep the browser around so google can't be called out for monopolistic behavior with Chrome. Firefox is the only alternative to V8, the Chrome web engine. Safari doesn't really count

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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/Bside@fedia.io

Undertale Yellow is a fangame and "prequel" to Undertale. If you liked the original game, chances are high that you'll like UY. It's free and you can get it on the link below

https://gamejolt.com/games/UndertaleYellow/136925

The game does a great job in keeping its universe believably canonical by sidestepping most characters from the original game. You interact with Toriel for a very brief moment in the starting 2 minutes, then you're out to explore another side of the underground. Only Flowey will follow you around and, if you've played the original game and understands how and why he did the things he did, everything he does in UY will make sense. The game doesn't spoil any of the revelations that happen in the OG and only mentions the important characters (Asgore, Toriel, etc) sparingly and without extrapolations, so it really does a good job of acting as a prequel that respects the canon and doesn't extrapolate.

The new characters really feel like they belong in the OG, with a neutral/pacifist run showing how silly, dorky and lovable they are, this is true even for the background NPCs and enemies you fight. Not every such NPC is lovable, some are kinda assholes, and that's a good contrast.

Perhaps most important, the soundtrack is fucking awesome (the Gamejolt link above also lists the soundtrack for listening. 77 - Meltdown, for one of the later areas, rocks). Some are references and/or homages to original tunes. Boss themes are super memorable and really fit the respective characters.

One thing that I loved is that every enemy has a "hurt" graphic, which shows once they're under 1/3 of health, which also lets you spare them. Seeing them hurt like that does make me feel kinda bad.

Oh, a genocide run won't be a cakewalk like the OG, you'll be up against a number of alternative bosses that will give your reflexes a workout (I've died on the first genocide-exclusive boss 8 times, and that's after a 0-death, up to the final boss, neutral run).

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

So, how is cross compatibility between Haiku, AROS and Linux?

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

Hello, this is the Arch police, btw. As you have not stated you use it btw, your license to use Arch has been revoked, btw.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

It's not like anyone didn't know it made perfect sense in an economic standpoint. "Buying" software and downloading it straight from the internet is much, much more convenient than buying physical copies, I know that, you know that, everyone knows that. People that cling to physical media are minorities, we know that.

"You will own nothing", but we will be fucking miserable

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 16 points 1 day ago

Most solutions require engineering the building for little to no use of AC and relying on better ventilation.

One example that can be applied to a house is a central shaft with a fan on the bottom, which will pull in air closer to the ground and blow it upwards - remember, cold air tends to stay down while hot air tends to go upwards. The house will need to have a small elevation, or the central shaft will need some ducts for the air to come in.

There's also the Persian Windcatchers, which they have used for centuries, towers that receive hot air from one side, bring it down to an underground channel and blow off cold air from another side.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Dude can't even suck his own dick in peace without old timey medics calling him out

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago

Microsoft has a responsibility to support decades-old software, which is why you can download an app or game made for Windows 95 and still run it on Windows 11.

Eh, debatable, some titles of the 90s might not run, even if you set the executable to run in compatibility mode.

My other concern is that WinUI surfaces have historically paid a cold-start cost when loading the runtime. Even today, File Explorer’s WinUI context menu gets criticized for exactly that. The WinUI-based Home tab in File Explorer is slower than “This PC,” which does not use WinUI.

M$ wondering why people are pinching their noses when near w11 when they've been slopping all over it. Release something broken, "fix" it later, only this is going way, way worse than XP (which needed 2 service packs to "feel good" and be safer), Vista (which needed W7) and even 8 (which needed W10)

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago

If you ever worked on any big corporation, it becomes crystal clear why things suck. Megacorps value money first, second, third, fourth and fifth. Sixth comes avoiding being caught by their crimes.

So, Microsoft doesn't have a vision for Windows as an operating system, it sees Windows as a way to maintain a stranglehold in office computers the world over. It doesn't matter that most people on lemmy will say "switch to linux", they're not companies, they're not bosses - these are the vast majority of Windows users and South America + Asia + Africa make up a fuckhuge market. Sure, Europe and USA have more money, but the rest have sheer numbers.

Another thing that matters a lot is that many decisions come from the top and are enforced. If Satya Nadella or the director of whatever bullshit says something, those below have to comply. If the order from above is "cram bullshit ads in Windows Explorer, this has the highest priority", that has to happen.

Regarding resources, having them and allocating them in a decent manner are not the same thing. The same could be argued about USA having trillions of tax dollars and having so many people living in poverty without healthcare or even basic education. Lots of that money go to keeping their armed forces. Microsoft is not too different, they have to pay people who keep their datacenters up, pay for the energy of said datacenters, maintain several other apps they have - oh, and the CEOs bonuses, because he's such a great leader who totally deserves billions every year!!!!! Of those 300bn, how much are they diverting for Windows in general? 50b? 20b? 1b? Of that, how much is going straight for security, bug tracking and quality assurance?

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The CD case was all warped due to heat, the CD didn't survive either :/

How long was it there? Some years, i think

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I don't know if this is stance specific, but whenever I create a new post and start typing the title, it'll list some "posts that might be related", limited to the community if it's already selected.

The problem is that the posts are almost never related to anything I'm writing in the title or might even write in the body at all. For instance, I just posted a question on how to poison videos against AI, the "might be related" posts were about Donald Trump and Epstein, with another post being about WoW Mists of Pandaria.

It seems to look for the post body for all the words in the title first instead of looking for any similar title first

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Ideally something that wouldn't leave viewers complaining about obvious artifacts or effects, but I'm willing to make some compromises

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submitted 2 weeks ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/til@lemmy.ca

Back in 2020, Brazil launched the PIX system of instant money transfer between any and every bank within the country. Meta was already trying to implement Whatsapp Pay in Brazil around late May, but was being held back by regulation agencies, on purpose, in order for PIX to rollout first. PIX started working around November 2020, while Whatsapp Pay was allowed to resume work in March 2021, but it fell flat and was scrapped away some time later.

For context, some 98% of Brazilian phones have whatsapp and it is the 2nd largest market for the app, only behind India. Had Meta gotten its way, a huge number of Brazilians would've had their finances controlled by Meta.

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submitted 3 weeks ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/til@lemmy.ca

The photo in the article shows the kind of webbing I used to think was made by spiders. The silk strands are usually around 90-100nm, or almost 100 times thinner than human hair

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I recently found out that you can get up to 3 free .eu.cc domain from GNAME, which also claims that you can renew for free when its within 90 days of expiring. So I got one to check it out.

Obviously, the next step is making one of my local machines act as the target destination for any queries to the address, so it becomes accessible for the wider web. I'm not entirely sure, however, what to configure on GNAME (there's the option to setup A and AAAA records, which I suppose I should just point to my IP, but there's also CNAME, TXT, NS, SRV and what configurations/programs my local server (rPi 3) needs to have running besides a webserver (Apache2 or Nginx)

My intent is to have it run a single-user fediverse server, possibly friendica, as it seems to have the best support for seeing all sorts of APub posts. If that proves too heavy for my old pi, I'll try one of the lightweight APub alternatives

I know I'll also need to do some configurations on my router, so I'd appreciate help on this, too.

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It's something that I often wondered. Acetone, even diluted as nail polish remover, does a great job of cleaning prints and, unlike IPA, doesn't leave the piece with an awful smell.

Is it mainly price, or are there other reasons?

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Title. I'm looking for resins with the lowest Shore hardness, the lowest one I've found (that I can buy on aliexpress) is Resione F39, with Shore 60-75A. Ideally, I'd want to get something closer to Shore 30-40A.

So, failing that, anyone with a higher understanding of chemistry can explain what additives are usually added, resulting in a cured resin with greater elasticity?

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Sauce - https://retrocdn.net/images/2/2e/EGM_US_086.pdf , page 96

"[Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain] is expected to offer at least 120 hours of gameplay."

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