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Can't remember where I read RAM/GPU shortage/price increases could cause high-fidelity games (or poorly optimized ones) to have HW-restrictions, but yes unless something drastically reverses this, maj...

Josh Simmons @Josh Simmons 1775205897

@nprofile1q... this data seems extremely questionable... plus, I don't think there are any games which actually require (or really utilize) 32gb still anyway.

David Amador · 3w

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Josh Simmons @Josh Simmons 1774310668

@nprofile1q... Also you can actually fix it without selling a kidney for a source license.

Josh Simmons

@Josh Simmons 1773980849

i wonder how accurate the barometer is on smart watches (and phones i suppose, though my phone doesn't seem to expose the barometer)

also makes me wonder whether google collects barometer data from the fleet of android devices, in the same way that they collect traffic data.

slembcke · 5w

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Andrew Zonenberg · 7w

Attempting to use arch, btw, in a VM for the first time (to set up a ngscopeclient CI builder). Coming from Debian... wow this is not a noob distro lol. So far I've had to manually partition the disk...

Josh Simmons @Josh Simmons 1773123696

@nprofile1q... the install tool is called archinstall, you can run it from the live image https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archinstall (not sure how the output of said tool goes for a vm configuration really, but i'd guess it has profiles for that kind of thing)

Andrew Zonenberg · 7w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqpfqay72qadar0276fl7zkcpdpy2zkemvvqpf92qyfx7gz6krv64s98kudx I was following the guide at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide. Everything is 100% manual and if you skip a step you're totally hosed unless you're comfortable doing t...

Josh Jersild · 7w

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Josh Simmons @Josh Simmons 1773121085

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... thankfully there's an easy answer for good avx512 support now - buy amd. :')

Tom Forsyth · 7w

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aeva · 8w

i want to make a metroid prime like, but i don't actually want to make a whole ass metroid prime game, i just want to engage creatively with certain aspects of certain metroid prime games on a deeper ...

Josh Simmons @Josh Simmons 1772516092

@nprofile1q... this is always kinda the joy of modding I suppose, but I can't really get myself too excited about doing work in somebody else's playpit these days.

slembcke · 8w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqpfqay72qadar0276fl7zkcpdpy2zkemvvqpf92qyfx7gz6krv64s98kudx Does your right hand keep grabbing for a shifter that doesn’t exist? Too?

Josh Simmons @Josh Simmons 1772132765

@nprofile1q... left hand :P but no actually that part is fine. It's just stomping on the brake that I do...

slembcke · 8w

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Josh Simmons

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They should put a fake clutch in automatic cars that doesn't do anything. Tried to hit the clutch for the third time in two days...

slembcke · 8w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqpfqay72qadar0276fl7zkcpdpy2zkemvvqpf92qyfx7gz6krv64s98kudx Does your right hand keep grabbing for a shifter that doesn’t exist? Too?