While it’s possible to handle it better on your own, the point is that you shouldn’t have to. It had better uptime before Microsoft purchased it. The fact that one of the largest companies in the world can’t manage it is ridiculous.
Cethin
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Cethin@lemmy.zipto
Linux@programming.dev•Anti-cheat incompatibility on Linux is unacceptable from game developers and publishers — and Rocket League just proved whyEnglish
3·7 days agoYou can use Heroic to manage Epic Store games. It’s not that hard to use on Linux. I rarely do it, but it’s easy. I don’t see why anything would prevent Linux users from playing it.
Cethin@lemmy.zipto
Linux@programming.dev•Anti-cheat incompatibility on Linux is unacceptable from game developers and publishers — and Rocket League just proved whyEnglish
8·7 days agoThe alternative is to create a solution that checks to ensure players aren’t doing something that they aren’t supposed to do. Sometimes this is easy, like ensuring they don’t move too far in a single server tick, or their velocity doesn’t get higher or change faster than it should be. Sometimes this is more difficult, like not transmitting the location of enemy players unless they’re actually visible to that player. No matter what, it’s custom.
Other AC solutions are mostly plug-and-play. They still require some effort, but not nearly the same amount. It’s much more appealing to a studio to spend time on developing the actual game, and pay for an AC solution, than to hire people to just handle AC.
There’s one more example, that’s even more expensive, of using AI detection, which I think Valve still does a lot of. They’ve been adding this for much longer than the current AI movement has been happening. It takes a lot of data and tagging that data for cheating or not. It’s not a perfect solution (Valve does other solutions in addition to this), but it can work really well.
Cethin@lemmy.zipto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•lemmy.world is gone. who wants to sword fight?English
141·12 days agoFor the same reasons Reddit sucks. They got too large and they think they’re in charge of Lemmy now. The staff there have a lot of issues, and they think they can use their power to control Lemmy. I’d recommend leaving, because users being spread out is what makes Lemmy resistant to the issues that made Reddit horrible. It’s fairly easy to change instances.
Cethin@lemmy.zipto
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•lemmy.world is gone. who wants to sword fight?English
213·12 days agoPeople have pretty valid issues with the way the team runs Lemmy.world. It’s nothing against the users though. They were just lazy or whatever and just chose the largest instance, giving the staff there power, causing them to behave as if they run the fediverse. It’s honestly an issue that people don’t spread out more. If you’re a Lemmy.world user and reading this, you should consider migrating. It isn’t that hard and keeps Lemmy from becoming Reddit 2.0 by ensuring no instance has too much control.
Cethin@lemmy.zipto
Climate@slrpnk.net•Republicans introduce extreme bill to ban lawsuits against Big Oil forever | Shouldn't Democrats... be saying something about this?English10·15 days agoThey framed it as a way to “protect American energy from leftist legal crusades punishing lawful activity.”
Aren’t lawful actions already protected by, you know, the law? By definition, the only legal punishments that could happen are for illegal actions. This doesn’t even make the slightest bit of sense as reasoning. They didn’t even try to manufacture justification.
Anyway, when the justice system no longer can be relied on to provide justice, extra-legal methods must be taken to ensure a just society. Them doing this could be either of two things, or both. It’s them actually protecting dirty energy companies, as it sounds, or it’s them requiring vigilantism to stop it, which gives them justification to crack down on “the left” and anyone else who stands against them.
Edit: Also, they consistently say that climate change isn’t real, and yet they feel the need to pass a law that explicitly is there to protect against the harms of climate change. Either it’s real, and they should pay (especially since they knew about it and mislead the public, which this also explicitly protects), or it isn’t real, and this law is pointless.
Cethin@lemmy.zipto
Climate@slrpnk.net•Republicans introduce extreme bill to ban lawsuits against Big Oil forever | Shouldn't Democrats... be saying something about this?English5·15 days agoThis isn’t really true, though some are. It’s just that both Democrats and Republicans are almost all owned by the owner class, so support any corporate protections. That isn’t anything that Republicans own. It’s both parties.
A few years ago I purchased an NVMe SSD, and an adapter, without thinking much of it. I try to use it, only to find out it isn’t recognized. My motherboard didn’t support it. I had to manually download files for it and patch in support to the motherbord’s firmware. You haven’t lived until you do this.
Cethin@lemmy.zipto
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•We need more cranksEnglish
4·1 month agoPartially probably yes. However, there’s also the issue of dealing with dynamic information. If you just need volume and AC controls, use physical buttons please. If you need GPS, media library controls, phone controls, texting, etc, which you don’t need at the same time, they can all use one screen, and that screen can have dynamic controls. A touch screen makes a whole lot of sense for that.
I love physical controls. There are some things that should never be replaced by touch controls. There are places where touch controls make sense though. Anyone who doesn’t realize this is choosing to be ignorant.
Cethin@lemmy.zipto
Linux@programming.dev•Birthdate field under discussion also in Arch LinuxEnglish
10·2 months agoA slippery slope isn’t always a fallacy. Yes, that is a specific name of a fallacy, which people commonly point out, but it is also the form of a valid logical argument. If there is support that this will happen, it isn’t a fallacy.
I this case, a user-entered field is useless to “protect children” (being generous and assuming this is the actual reason for the laws). Children will just lie, as they have been doing for decades. The state will point to this as the law not fulfilling its stated goals, so they’ll need to verify age through other means. Even if the goal isn’t surveillance of people, this is still likely to be the result logically. This means the slippery slope argument is valid.
Cethin@lemmy.zipto
Linux@programming.dev•The Free Software Foundation Europe was cancelled by their payment provider after refusing to hand over personal account data!English
11·2 months agoNexi S.p.A. (“Nexi”) requested access to private data, which we understood to be specifically the usernames and passwords of our supporters. …relating to a general need for risk analysis.
I think they passed the risk analysis portion. Isn’t it more risk if they hand out usernames and passwords? That’s insane. They shouldn’t even have access to passwords.
Mine lasts several weeks. Also, it has a little light that turns red when it’s low (as in, needs charging within a few days). It can also be used while charging without much issue. When I see the red light, I just plug it in while I’m not using it or doing something like watching media. It’s really convenient. I have a mouse bungee, from when I had wired, and the cable just sits there waiting until it’s needed.
I don’t know, but I knew someone with alopecia and she got eyebrow tattoos. I believe that’s a pretty standard solution.
The question was specifically about home hydrogen. Yes, it makes sense for utility companies, as well as large vehicles, as I said before. It’s a great solution to turn renewables into a shipable commodity. Home use though doesn’t make sense. A regular battery has much better properties for home use.
What do you mean it isn’t true? It’s a well known fact. It’s just a proton and an electron, so it’s absolutely tiny. There is almost no way to seal it perfectly, especially in gaseous form. It’s always going to leak. Even for rockets this is an issue. You can make that amount relatively small, but it pretty much always has some loss.
Caverns may make sense for large-scale solutions, because the quantity is so large compared to the loss. Most people don’t have massive caverns under their house though, nor do they have a need for that large of a quantity.
Hydrogen gas is really hard to store. It is tiny, so it’s basically always leaking, no matter how good your seal is.
Technically it could work. However, traditional batteries make a lot more sense. Hydrogen makes some sense for a vehicle because it can be more energy dense (it actually only makes sense for large trucks). However, it has to be stored at cryogenic temperatures. In a place where you probably don’t care about mass or space much, other battery technologies are far better, without the added cost of cryogenic cooling and having to deal with hydrogen, which leaks through anything.
It’s important for full conversion of the grid, but for just cost of energy, it isn’t needed. While 100% of the generated energy is used during the day there’s nothing left to store. I think a lot of places are still in this situation. But yeah, the more solar you build the more important that cost becomes.
Cethin@lemmy.zipto
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name@lemmy.world•He's a literal terroristEnglish
6·2 months agoThe title of this isn’t great when DS9 also has terrorist who are heroes, fighting against that fascist regime. It goes out of its way to show that terrorism is a tool, not a condemnation. It’s not the most precise tool, and it’s not the first you should reach for, but it is there. However, when the state commits these acts it isn’t considered terrorism, so Dukat likely wouldn’t be considered a terrorist, at least not while he was performing those actions.

If this were made in a way you could attach to any knife, I think it’d be cool. Sharpen your knife and add this module. I’m certain it’s instead made to not detach, and you can only get the blade from them. If you sharpen it, you’ll have to buy a new one from them at full price eventually. If they stop existing, it’s just a dead product.