As I've aged, my interest in competitive multiplayer games has waned. I find that I have no interest in fighting other players online, that I don't really care about the score I get, and that having those things present in a game tends to pair me up with players I'd rather not play with…

Updates that fix bugs come to PC far earlier than Xbox sometimes never coming at all. Games, when not on gamepass, even from Microsoft, are typically cheaper on other platforms. And sometimes they just don't even put content on the Xbox
Last fall was halo 2's 20th anniversary. If you only played Xbox, you could have forgotten it. Microsoft did nothing on the Xbox about it. But on PC, they promoted the released E3 demo levels
Finally there's the lack of investment in any hardware upgrades. The controllers still use the same crap alps stick modules, the vibration is still two big dumb motors, and the buttons are still just graphite pads on a PCB. Even on the $200 elite controllers. There's no single channel wireless headset available first party, just stereo ones, and the add on storage still remains horrifically overpriced years later

Then why are you treating us like second class citizens?

My only beef with Microsoft and Xbox is that they're not willing to open up these systems to any sort of macros or even complex rebinding.

Shame, because I used to actually admire how he handled layoffs. Was a far sight better (from outside looking in) than the "thanks, here's one extra paycheck, send your laptop back at your expense please" I'd experienced

People use mouse on Xbox. There will always be some

Any puzzle made by Oskar van Deventer. He's got a ton of them, they're all free, and he posts YouTube videos about them all

Wonder how many things they shit up
I was surprised to find that an old Plex feature, controlling any one player from any other instance, such as playing on a laptop and controlling with a cell phone, no longer worked. My wife and I used that a lot when traveling, as plugging a laptop into a hotel TV with an HDMI cable is generally far more bullet proof than any streaming stick
Course sometimes we'd stay in an Airbnb, and they'd have a Roku or Apple TV, where we'd just sign into a Plex app and use it there. But that's beyond the point

I've heard the song and dance from all the tech companies at this point. Google and Microsoft both offered a package that promised things like chart portability and whatnot. Each was shut down a couple years later, and charts and records remain as locked down as ever

I miss newsvine

And frankly, there's not really too much I want to do that the x1c can't presently do, so there's minimal need to go buy a big new expensive printer, or build one

Yeah I'm keeping eyes on the voron.
My next printer must have the following, else it's not much of an upgrade
- Multiple extruders or changeable tool heads
- 500mm^3 print volume
- Actively heated enclosure
- Lidar and auto tramming
- Ams like thing
- Full opensource
- Core xy. Not interested in a bed slinger

Apparently the h2d is crippled if you use offline mode. No cutter or laser support
This is what I was always afraid of. With the x1c they didn't really take away any hardware features if you put it offline and so the trade-off was acceptable. But locking you out of the physical hardware that you've purchased is a whole new story. Kind of like the dishwashers that require an app to do a rinse cycle.
For what the h2d costs you can get an awful lot of printer from a different brand

Fwiw the open source scene literally got started because of a printer

It's giving me serious pause when looking at things like the new Bambu printer
I really like my x1c, but I haven't upgraded it's firmware yet, and probably never will, because the local features are just too good. I know I can replace a lot of the bambu cloud features with octoanywhere, but I shouldn't have to

Data that Mozilla now happily collects themselves

MacOS has had caffeinate forever, and it works great

I've been using one for years. It gets some use. Not a ton, but some. Most common use is as media keys or as the modifiers. Oh and escape in vim

Did they perhaps confuse Tesla solar installs with the cars?

As long as the RPi foundation keeps messing around with their supplies, reserving the lions share for "corporate" customers, I'll stick to espressif devices. I can get a bag of them for the cost of one of these

Atlantic is available for hire. This feels like a pr article

Co-op campaigns are a rarity these days, and that should change

I made a Djot (markdown alternative) parser for Elixir
A fast Djot parser for Elixir. Contribute to paradox460/djot development by creating an account on GitHub.
cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/3061318
Djot is a markdown alternative, created by John MacFarlane, creator of Pandoc and spec author of CommonMark. It aims to fix many of the little issues Markdown has, and does a pretty good job of it, imo.

I made a Djot (markdown alternative) parser for Elixir
A fast Djot parser for Elixir. Contribute to paradox460/djot development by creating an account on GitHub.
Djot is a markdown alternative, created by John MacFarlane, creator of Pandoc and spec author of CommonMark. It aims to fix many of the little issues Markdown has, and does a pretty good job of it, imo.

CSS has been undergoing a quiet renaissance lately. Lots of big features which previously required an external tool to use, are now native parts of the language, and its growing more and more all the time. If you haven't used CSS in a long time, for whatever reason, now is the time to take a look ag...

Sass, Pug, Haml, Slim, Stylus, and their friends all aim to make writing various bits of your frontend easier. And they mostly deliver on this primary promise. But they are all victims to the vagaries of open software development, and seem to have mostly fallen by the wayside. I loved using these th...

Tailwind CSS, and the death of web craftsmanship
There's a worrying trend in modern web development, where developers are throwing away decades of carefully wrought systems for a bit of perceived convenience. Tools such as Tailwind CSS seem to be spreading like wildfire, with very few people ever willing to acknowledge the regression they bring to...

Ffmpeg guide, useful for building filter graphs

FFmpeg.guide is a GUI for creating FFmpeg filters and complex commands


The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Sequence Diagrams in MermaidJS

JPEG XL: How It Started, How It’s Going

Significance of Apple's support for JPEG XL and what this means for the widespread adoption of this next-generation image compression format.



These are not your normal docs, Elixir docs are actually useful!


Jose Valim - "I hereby officially announce the Elixir type system effort is transitioning from research into development"
Post content for those without an account:
I hereby officially announce the Elixir type system effort is transitioning from research into development: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/type-system-updates-research-dev/
A huge thank you to Fresha and Starfish for sponsoring this new stage. They are also hiring:

Some Elixir testing Tricks
ExUnit is wonderful, and the functional paradigms that underpin Elixir let us write extremely complex tests in a fraction of the code that would be needed in OOP testing frameworks like RSpec.
But it's not all wine and roses. Tests can quickly accrue tons of boilerplate and repetition.
Using some Elixir features, you can cut down on these, and make tests even nicer to write.

Fast post userscript for Lemmy
Allows command/control + return to submit posts on lemmy instances - paradox460/Lemmy-Fast-Post-Userscript
cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/4376
I got tired of hitting ⌘Enter and not having my post automatically go through, so I wrote a little userscript that enables exactly that.

Fast post userscript for Lemmy

Allows command/control + return to submit posts on lemmy instances - GitHub - paradox460/Lemmy-Fast-Post-Userscript: Allows command/control + return to submit posts on lemmy instances

I got tired of hitting ⌘Enter and not having my post automatically go through, so I wrote a little userscript that enables exactly that.

Spez talks to NY Times

As the social media site matures, its users and moderators have made their displeasure about corporate changes known, putting the company into a bind.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/481819