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Based on the general availability of 10gbit on consumer-priced hardware, I wonder if we'll actually get past 10gbit over the next 20 years. Hell, even 2.5 is only _just_ starting to pop up and usually results in only a couple ports on consumer switches/routers.

Boards with number pads on the left are called south paws. I'm a lefty and I've always thought the numpad is in a more convenient location on the right, but what do I know.

You are correct, that being said there are a few "Steam Emulators" out there (of varying levels of shadiness) and Valve hasn't tried to take them down. It seems like they rely on "the ecosystem" as some sort of DRM over traditional almost-rootkit-level DRM implementations. i.e. initial + update distribution, achievements, redistributables, cloud saves, workshop, key management, matchmaking etc.

"Hacking" like this is such an important skill that someone can develop. I've been working a lot with getting older games to run on modern Windows, and a good chunk of my time has been spent in a hex editor.

The other day for example I was trying to figure out why "Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth II - Rise of the Witch King" (boy what a title) was hard set on pulling out some registry key from HKLM's "App Paths". Between x86dbg and a hex editor I was able to patch the hard coded 0x80000002 DWORD value for HKLM to 0x80000001 to point it towards HKCU. Is this a lot of work to avoid needing admin privileges to install the game? Absolutely, but it can be fun and rewarding.

Are you stuck on the actual design of Fluent UI?

A friend and I run an in-person LAN party with about ~20 seats. We play generally older games that existed in a time before Steam. I wasn't happy with manually loading GOG installs onto a machine and often times duplicating or imaging Windows installs would break games.

I ended up writing my own game digital distribution "platform": https://lancommander.app

The client is an addon for Playnite. The backend is a Blazor application. It's been in development for a little over a year, but I'm insanely proud of how far it's come.

Yeah they don't give a single damn. They certainly won't release a fix for this.

I would question how many people this actually affects, but who knows, I'm also in the "Just use Windows 11" camp.

Seems like an overreaction to this bug.

I'd argue that it's unavoidable. These glyphs are meant for communicating to humans. Trying to reduce it removes the human element out of it, which can remove concepts like intent and context.

It's wild to me that they still offer the Mega 2560 Rev3 for nearly $50 with a USB-B port.

I have a problem identifying what hole tablets have filled, or even what devices they've truly replaced. When the iPad was released, many outlets were making silly claims like laptops will be gone within 5-10 years.

The touchscreen smartphone has almost entirely replaced the landline and dumb/feature cell phones. The iPad has possibly replaced laptops for some, but otherwise it's replaced the... portable DVD player?

I don't see VR headsets replacing the phone or the laptop or the desktop as long as I have something to strap to my head. It's a matter of form factor, longevity, and convenience.

Here as well!

I would imagine this doesn't open up the opportunity for other engines.

So the argument against not implementing it is... it's not implemented everywhere?

I'd also say this. The technical aspect of a game compared to the actual game design is a very different sort of problem. Specifically with Minecraft you could design a game using mods like Create.

For inspiration I would point to the creator TangoTek. Over the past year he designed a deck building dungeon crawler in vanilla-ish Minecraft using redstone. It's a great series to see how you can design a game in almost any environment.

This is a nightmare for people who produce actual print materials. My SO is a print designer doing mostly packaging design but also does some trade show materials. There is an incredible amount of thought in layout that can almost be considered branding for a company. Additionally, the static nature of print allows you to do complex layouts that wouldn't be translatable to HTML, let alone support different rendering engines, browser sizes, etc.

Many times even things like page or column breaks are extremely intentional. Having something "beneath the fold" or flowing onto another page can drastically change the way someone interacts with the piece of media. No PDF isn't great (my particular beef is with how there's almost no sense of a sentence, block, paragraph etc so it makes it almost impossible to copy or parse for text), but keep in mind that HTML/CSS only just reached near-parity in features in the past 5-6 years.

Actually, this makes a lot of sense. I've really been struggling with my ADHD over the past couple of years.

And yeah, this time it was a much higher dosage than I had done in the past... like 2-3x. It had been a few years since my last trip and I had forgotten what dosage I was used to. The residual effects from this last one left the impression that the entire thing felt like a nightmare that you just can't shake. Either way, I may revisit in the future, but yeah there's a lot of healing that needs to happen first.

And the only roads in and out of your neighborhood leads directly to a Kroger. And there's barbed wire fencing surrounding your neighborhood. Meanwhile, deliveries being made to Kroger from distributors may only use Kroger-branded trucks, which cost at least 20% more. Oh, and that truck may only be serviced by Kroger-approved mechanics. Those mechanics can only buy parts from Kroger. Any totaled truck can't be parted out by mechanics and MUST be recertified by Kroger.

Mine was actually initially triggered because I thought the house we were in was going to burn down. I absolutely had some other anxiety issues at the time, but I still wanted to highlight that people shouldn't minimize how much a bad trip can affect you.

My last was also a nightmare. There was a point about 3/4 of the way through where I started to have panic attacks and started sweating so much that it looked like I stepped out in a hurricane. This was while I was in a very cold basement in winter. It's absolutely wild how much your brain controls, and how fast it can lose control.

My dosage was much too high and while I'm not going to deny any of the benefits, it was a very traumatic experience for me that made me seek therapy. For a while I would have some lingering visual hallucinations (a few months past the incident) when I would close my eyes and it would trigger panic attacks. That's mostly subsided, but I wish people would put a higher emphasis on the mental damage it can do.

The content server is fine, but it's the managing of the library that is done in the desktop application. I have a home server that I use to host Jellyfin and such, and Calibre is the one application that wasn't really built to be managed from a web interface. In fact, the Docker container I use basically pipes an X11 environment to a VNC web client.

Being able to switch between multiple libraries under one application, and being able to assign those libraries based on a logged on user is sort of what I'm talking about. My partner and I have two very different tastes in books, and managing them under one library is a pain.

Love the project. Calibre is absolutely an amazing tool, but it never really adapted into the whole self-hosted era. I really like the focus on maintaining compatibility with the Calibre library. Personally the features I use the most are the folder watching and automatic book conversion.

Now if there was support for multiple Calibre libraries...

Absolutely. Reimplementation of some of the oldest Windows APIs really is a strength of WINE and sort of makes me want WINE on Windows :P

There's less of that in the Mac space I would agree, but in the mobile space there's a large percentage of iOS users that turn their nose up at Android users.

While it is incredible how far these compatibility layers have come, I've been working a lot with getting old games running on modern Windows and I'm continuously impressed at how few barriers there are. The amount of backwards compatibility built into the platform is staggering.

I would like to also shout out other projects like dgVoodoo, dxWnd, IPXWrapper, and the massive amount of work that's gone into sites like WSGF and PCGamingWiki. I've yet to run into a game I can't get working (and I've been going into some pretty obscure stuff) and the amount of work put into preservation is heartwarming to say the least.

Does the performance per watt on a mini desktop matter all that much at this scale? Don't get me wrong, it's impressive what ARM is able to pull off, but unless energy prices are crazy high in your area I've never really understood why it matters all that much. Also, the 5800U is 3 years old at this point. Hardly a fair comparison.

There are parts of the US that widely use your standard heat pump such as Florida. Here in the Midwest most single family homes use central air which is a combination of an outdoor air conditioner unit and a natural gas furnace. Heat pumps are a topic here because the natural gas furnace is just so prevalent.

There was a lot of lobbying by the natural gas companies in the 80's, so there's a pretty significant group of people that write off heat pumps not realizing that yes, fridges, freezers, air conditioners are all single-direction heat pumps.

I'd be willing to put up with it if it were free, like the good ol MSN messenger / AIM days.