Brewchin

competitive multiplayer

I feel it should be added that this is one use of anti-cheat, but it also gets used on noncompetitive single player games, too.

Usually if a game has micro-transactions, but also to “protect our IP” as has been seen with a number of older non-MTX single player games recently being retrofitted with it.

As others have said, it comes down to people not enforced on/off switches. You can’t (well you can, but should you) stop people living their lives.

I was out with 3 friends tonight (all middle aged), meeting first for coffee, moving elsewhere for dinner and drinks, and ending with tabletop games (the place we eat/drink is happy with it). One of our group couldn’t stop looking at his phone throughout the time we were together, and the rest of us didn’t pull our phones out of our pockets once. (None of us were on call, contacted by family, or anything like that).

Just as some people have their phone ping them for every notification (often loudly, every few minutes), some feel they can’t live without the dopamine hit of a meaningless social media interaction from a stranger. 🤷‍♂️

I encounter this mostly with manga. (I’ll not rehash what others have said).

FWIW, and in that use case, I deal with it by renaming x5 to x5.0 so it will sort before x5.5. And then usually put both into an x5 directory and then zip that into a CBZ.

Hosting your own email server is a challenge, as DMARC, SPF and random hand waving by email companies (who should know better) make it needlessly problematic.

There’s also the issue of whether your home ISP allows inbound email ports (25/tcp, etc). A lot don’t.

It’s possible(?) a hosting provider can do decent email, but I tend to think of that like 1990s-era ISPs who provided email: liable to be discontinued at any time with little/no notice and not portable.

But it’s your call. Good luck.

Many email providers have an inbuilt tool that will handle all this for you.

Fastmail, for example. I switched to them 4-5 years ago, and the process of migrating over a decades worth of mail was straightforward and pretty quick.

https://www.fastmail.com/blog/migrate-to-fastmail/

I think it’s cultural differences. In the west, we abhor pay to win and predatory aspects. But in Korea, China and other countries in that region, players demand it.

So then it comes down to which market region you’re targeting. If you’re not a NA/EU mobile developer, how do you choose? 🤷‍♂️ Can’t keep everyone happy.

As with every legal topic on the Internet: depending on your (international) jurisdiction.

Nice. Thanks for sharing that.

As much as I’d like it to be, it doesn’t have the network effect/popularity that Reddit does. It covers maybe 70-80% of my Digg+ needs, but there are many topics/subs I want that Lemmy just doesn’t have.

“Be the change you want to see” is always there: if a topic/sub doesn’t exist, you can always create it yourself. But no good deed goes unpunished, so you’re now the owner/moderator…

I have Netdata running in a container, which has a useful all-in-one-pane view, and it does a good job of auto detecting other containers and the host OS. Its essentially zero config.

It also has alerting capability, which is not zeroconf (configuring it properly is a bit of a chore). 😅

They try to push a pro/paid version, but it’s subtle and completely optional (a bit like the way Portainer does it).

I asked this question many years ago on a Usenet group, and the answer was along the lines of what we’re seeing is many millions of years after those orbits began, and that they all eventually flatten out due to the gravity of the other objects in orbit.

So you could have 2 objects at roughly the same orbital distance but perpendicular to one another (eg. one orbiting the star’s poles and the other around it’s equator), and over time the small amount of gravitational force they exert on one another will bring them roughly into the same plane.

Hopefully someone better versed in the topic can come along to explain it better than I can.

TIL that version appears to be on the AUR: MicroEMACS/PK 4.0.15 customized by Linus Torvalds.

Last updated in 2014, it probably has serious cobwebs now. Even the upstream hasn’t been touched in 6 years.

Yep, with the desktop versions of Signal, Matrix (Element) and Steam chat.

I’m yet to try out gamemode, which may help. But I typically close Signal and Element when I’m gaming, so it’s usually not an issue for me.

Edit: I’m on EndeavourOS, KDE, i7, 16GB, Nvidia 2060.

It’s a net positive, not a negative: using ESDF means you have a bunch of keys available to the left of your movement keys.

Sure, it can be a pain if a game forces WASD, but otherwise you’re not the person having to lift your hand off the movement keys (or buying an MMO mouse) to have the same flexibility. 😄

Had no idea about this. Very useful, thanks!

I second this, as it’s my use case.

Providing you lay out each note correctly with appropriate frontmatter, Dataview’s DQL and DataviewJS give you all the SQL-like functionality you could want.

Plus a load of useful functionality beyond a plain DB.

Staggering that Myst is at that price. Sure, it’s great, but it was one of the first CDROM games and its gameplay reflects that.

I mean… what kind of person tells another that they’re having fun the wrong way? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Great advice. For me, it’s the irreplaceable data first, and then stuff like configs and credentials/keys.

My borg-backup (to my NAS) config is “My Documents” type files, /etc stuff I’m likely to customise, and home stuff except the stuff like “*Cache”, “*Storage”, assets/icons/history/recent/blah. It’s tedious to fine-tune, but I figure too much is infinitely better than too little.

If I want to be able to do an image-based restore, then I’d use a different tool. But life’s too short for that.

Thank you. My laptop is EndeavourOS+KDE6 - which is solid - and I’ve spent today preparing to nuke my gaming desktop PC (Ubuntu and an Nvidia RTX card) to rebuild it with Endeavour tomorrow, and the only doubt I had was Wayland and Nvidia with Lutris/Heroic/Proton gaming.