greenskye

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[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 4 points 4 hours ago

The recent trifold phone prototype by some Chinese company was the only version that interested me. It actually expanded to true tablet size and the proportions and thickness while folded matched the standard phone proportions. That actually felt useful and I could get rid of my tablet, so I wouldn't mind the extra cost too much. The big issue obviously would be if it could have decent battery life, which I assume will be its critical flaw.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's the next executive's problem. These executives will jump ship with their golden parachutes before any of that affects them.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 35 points 5 days ago (5 children)

Steam is untouchable until Gaben dies. Then God help us all.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 11 points 5 days ago

90% of the games I play are now made by indie or medium sized studios/publishers. I've bought several AAA games in that time frame, but almost universally they've failed to hold my interest and I typically regret my purchase. I can't remember the last AAA I bought that I would consider a 'favorite'.

Also I'm growing more and more detached from what modern, AAA games even feel like. Opening up a game like fortnite or COD where they've shoved dozens of different game modes into an all in one program is confusing and overwhelming. It's off putting to me and I feel like having a 'get off my lawn' moment.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

There's usually a hardware level power off function for when the device freezes and stuff. Can usually hold the power button for ~10 seconds will power off the device without needing to look at the screen

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The US will quickly follow if the EU passes it I bet

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

I dunno, this feels like the whole 'infinite growth' problem of capitalism. Sure that's been true so far, but it can't continually result in more jobs forever. At some point they'll just automate too much and it'll be a tipping point.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For cuddles... right?

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

See this game documentary for more details: Cricket through the ages

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's because AI is still stuck in the mimic phase. Once we figure out how to actually get it to learn in a structured manner, that's the birth of the singularity. I don't think current tech, even if taken to the extreme will get us there though. Needs to be something new, some different approach. Like how we went from faster and faster single core processes to multi core ones.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Maybe pay people who's only job it is is to talk to the researchers and write the proposal for them? Someone smart enough to get stuff explained to them, but with the communication skills to boil that down into something the money people can understand?

It's a pretty common position in software engineering because programmers and business people are pretty bad at communicating with each other.

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was crazy taxi and no other game could use the mechanic. And telling you where to go is pretty darn important to a lot of games

 

Anyone have any current working solutions? There was a discord and an extension that used to enable exporting chapters, but it's been broken for a while and the discord ('Secret!' is the name) no longer updates with any new content.

Honestly I don't necessarily care about getting it for free, I just want to put the books into a proper epub instead of using their website or shitty app.

 

I've acquired several lemmy accounts now and I'd like to reorder the list. My main two accounts are at the bottom while my alternates are stuck at the top

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