netweirdo

joined 7 months ago
[–] netweirdo@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Crushed In Time

A point and click in the same vein as There Is No Game by the same studio, that came out recently and that I haven't seen people talk about at all, unfortunately already past its introductory offer

[–] netweirdo@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Carbureted or not, it certainly helps if either the manufacturer or the owner doesn't put on a super loud exhaust, I own a bike with a relatively quiet exhaust to the point I've gotten multiple offers from family and relatives to have it swapped to a louder exhaust, and they don't understand when I tell them I absolutely despise that shit

[–] netweirdo@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

I don't believe that because this isn't about capacity calibration, but more so that the battery voltage is almost constant between about 20% and 90%, though varies by battery type, and no matter what, the controller can't exactly know how much the battery is actually charging and discharging so it has to guess the current state. I've seen this happen on a Dell XPS laptop I have from work, I manually set it to limit charging to 80% since the built in "Primarily AC Use" mode cycles it around 95%, and it doesn't do the occasional recharge to 100% by itself, so about once a month it would jump from whatever percentage it was at to 7%, even from 80%.

[–] netweirdo@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

I'm not sure if I'm weird or what but for me it only complained about me having a non-standard name and address and that I didn't have enough funds in the Steam wallet it kept trying to use.

I guess I just got super lucky that I got the transaction to go through after only a minute of trying, a literal minute before the announced 10 am Pacific time opening.

[–] netweirdo@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

I'll add since to me it feels like that's your misunderstanding, that mileage actually means fuel efficiency, not how much distance you actually drive, and so you'd ideally want as high of a mileage as possible.

[–] netweirdo@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago

On their own homepage? still won't stop me tho

[–] netweirdo@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

That actually probably explains why bikers do it the most since there it seems like on most bikes the swap can be done in less than 30 minutes as the exhaust system is small and self-contained and easily accessible

[–] netweirdo@lemmy.zip 70 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Apparently PRS already took it to another level by threatening an employee for singing to herself at the store she worked at

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8317952.stm

 

The Performing Right Society (PRS) has "commenced legal proceedings" against Steam owner Valve over the use of its members' works on Steam "without permission."

The organization claims that while games right across the spectrum use music to "transform play into emotional, immersive experiences," Valve has "never obtained a licence for its use of the rights managed by PRS on behalf of its members, comprising songwriters, composers, and music publishers."

PRS claims "many game titles which incorporate PRS members' musical works are made available on Steam," including "high profile series" such as Forza Horizon, FIFA/EA FC, and GTA.

PRS said that as it had sought to work with Valve about the licensing issues "for many years without appropriate engagement from Valve," it has now issued legal proceedings under the UK's s20 Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act 1988 and requires any game that uses PRS' works to obtain a licence.

"The litigation will progress unless Valve Corporation engages positively with discussions and takes the necessary license to cover the use of PRS repertoire, both retrospectively and moving forwards," the organization said in a press statement.

Dan Gopal, chief commercial officer, PRS for Music said: "Our members create music that enhances experiences and PRS exists to protect the value of their work with integrity, transparency, and fairness. Legal proceedings are not a step we take lightly, but when a business’s actions undermine those principles, we have a duty to act.

"Great video games rely on great soundtracks, and the songwriters and creators behind them deserve to have their contribution recognised and fairly valued."

[–] netweirdo@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Alec in his own video mentions that the issue isn't that the Americium decays, but that the electronics themselves age and fail, which applies to both the ionization detectors and photoelectric detectors.

This is one of the things you just don't wanna mess with, as such a failure is completely unpredictable, and from what I know some manufacturers are even beginning to make detector units with non-replaceable batteries, intended to be replaced whole when the battery dies after years of runtime, to make it impossible to keep using a detector after its rated lifetime.

[–] netweirdo@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 months ago

The Reddit hug of death is when someone posts a link in a big community and thousands of people visit it, generating so much traffic at once that, while legitimate, ends up having the same effect as an actual attack does of overloading a website and causing it to become unavailable. Has nothing to do with the Reddit app being hot garbage.

[–] netweirdo@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago

While Wine by itself won't have that support, there is work being done on Wine-on-FEX to run x86 Windows apps on ARM Linux, being funded by Valve as they plan to use it on the Steam Frame, so it's closer than you might think.

[–] netweirdo@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 months ago

I highly doubt it's going to need a supply that can do at least 9V to exit shipping mode, at least I haven't yet seen a device behave like that. I more so think that's what power supplies Valve suggests to use if you want to play and charge simultaneously, that being said I believe actual power usage is going to be somewhere around those 27W at max so the battery doesn't discharge, with 45W being a buffer to charge the battery while in use, though that's still just a wild guess.

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