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  • For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big?

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  • It is too big when the density of reasons to go there and explore becomes to little.

    Personally, I don't really care for games that have huge maps just to pass through while traveling around. There needs to be a reason in the story for every place to be there.

    Every village, town or city needs to be filled with quests and stories, and the space between them as well to a lesser extend. They serve as immersive distractions. They need to be alive.

    The map is too big if it cannot be filled with enough stuff to explore and experience. And I don't mean climbing yet another tower, or doing yet another variation of the same puzzle.

    TBH, I am not much of a sandbox game player and the JC 2 and 3 maps looked nice, but didn't really invite me to stay and explore a single area for a while, because the areas didn't have much depth. I prefer a much higher density of things to do. Each village should have a couple of hours of content, exploring it and the neighboring area. And larger towns or cities even more.

    I want to minimize the 'just cruising through' parts of maps.

    Cyberpunk as well had too much dead space when it comes to stuff to do in many parts of the city. Some parts of course act as just the background for other parts, which is fine. But other parts where beautifully handcrafted and interesting, but there is not much to interact with or people to talk to there.

    To me it is important to have enough content and depth that the player learns to get to know their way around a place, and gets to know characters and develop relationship with each place.

  • What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you?

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  • If you like sassy AI, take a look at ADA from satisfactory. She is insulting the player ins some way on every upgrade.

  • Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA?

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  • I don't know what you mean by that. No country or federation in the world is self sufficient. Everyone needs global trade.

  • Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark

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  • On a separate note, the BG3 native Linux version is so strange. Larian is threating the SteamDeck like a console. As if it is a bundled OS+HW system with only one available game store and only one useable OS. So they are only releasing it in steam, not on any other store. As if that means it can only be installed on SteamDeck and not on other Linux systems on different Hardware. They forget that anyone can install other Linux distributions or even windows in SteamDecks or use other game stores.

    This decision is so strange, because it disadvantages people that bought the game for PC elsewhere and own a SteamDeck.

    Like will they make performance patches to their games gated behind which which store the game was bought from?

  • What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading

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  • I echo the criticism of the term 'sideloading', before it started to mean just installing software, I assumed it meant using a separate device or software on the side, like a PC with a debug interface or memory inspection tools, to inject custom code into a running system or software.

    Similarly to preloading libraries into games or other software to replace functions in order to change or enhance the game or software. For instance used with script extenders or game mods. There it is 'pre' because the software is not running yet. 'Side' would be on running software.

    But installing applications (the distribution doesn't matter) is in no way side loading.

    And I really hate that the press or whoever picked this term up from apple or google and ran with it without question.

    And now, because that term is so strange and useless in that way, its definition keeps getting changed into whatever the industry needs in order to squeeze out more money and personal data, while taking away the freedom and rights of the owners.

  • Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With

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  • Apart from questionable quality of the result, a big issue to me about LLMs is the way it substitutes human interaction with other humans. Which is one of the most fundamental way humans learn, innovate and express themselves.

    No technological innovation replaced human interaction with a facsimile, that way before.

  • Donald Trump sued over east wing demolition

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  • Sure, but we are talking about the US here.

    Or are you all busy building tunnels and bunkers over there? Organise in your neighborhood and build local groups?

    Pretty sure that if the media starts calling these guerrillas terrorists, anti-american, instigators of violence, Communists, Antifa, and so on, they will loose public support and without broad local support in the population, guerilla fighting will not work.

    Afganistán and Vietnam fought guerilla against a foreign invasion. US would have to fight 'guerilla' against their neighbors and other Americans, against people like them... I don't think this is comparable.

  • Donald Trump sued over east wing demolition

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  • In an all out war, (which I doubt will happen) all these guns in the population don't matter against drones, aircrafts, tanks and trained snipers or other soldiers. If the military and all other agencies decides to support Trump, all these weapons will be useless. The pentagon surely has plans for a civil uprising in their own country.

    I don't think the US has enough ordinary citizen that would actually risk their lives for democracy, to make a difference. Media and social media is controlled by the oligarchy, and even the progressives don't seem to want to cut themselves loose of twitter, Facebook/Whatsapp, google, bluesky, discord and so on. Where would they even organize?

  • Power bricks and wall warts for EU market must include detachable USB-C cables by 2028 — New legislation also adds power rating labels for cables

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  • True. As aren't USB-C extension cables.

    But, AFAIK, the issue is about the power rating. I buy these adapters that are rated for 120W, on devices that use 65W max, and hope for the best.

  • Power bricks and wall warts for EU market must include detachable USB-C cables by 2028 — New legislation also adds power rating labels for cables

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  • Yeah... I started using magnetic USB C adapters, because I fear that I accidentally damage them, or that I just wear it down. But those are a bit flacky...

  • I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider

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  • If it would run a open source firmware or be open source hardware, it would be nice. But they are using a non-OSI/non-FSF license, so it is not open source.

  • Do I dare say it 🥺

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  • I would argue that it depends a lot on what kind of beginner you have. If you have someone that only uses basic desktop PC functions, like browser, email and maybe stuff like video, photos and documents. You can set it up once, and then have a system that updates itself reliably and has minimal maintenance overhead and isn't easy to break.

    In my experience that system is more robust and gets updated than a generic Debian system.

    Of course there are downsides, and those include issues caused by apps running inside flatpak, like system themes are disrespected, opening files in one app, doesn't respect the xdg-mime settings for the file type and open them in unexpected apps, printer does not work... But those are just bugs, and they need to get reported and fixed.

  • GrapheneOS could break Pixel exclusivity in 2026 with major OEM deal

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  • Well, good to know.

    I was thinking more about the way of Android security models, and that it would make sense for GOS to restrict available storefronts to stay consistent with their way to implement them. But good to know that it will not automatically happen just by updating the google services.

    And I would also think that people would likely complain if they where to implement it in a different way.

  • GrapheneOS could break Pixel exclusivity in 2026 with major OEM deal

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  • Well... The Android security model, as it is implemented in stock android and GOS, is about top down control, the full trust is given to the system vendors, not the end users. No rooting for instance. From this perspective not allowing installation of apps that cannot be blocked by the system vendor, fits well with that model.

    TBH, I am not a fan of that security model. And this is my critique of GOS. It doesn't allow the user full access to their device, so that they can check and control what each application is storing or sending to third-party servers. Instead it is on full security and allows apps to store and transfer information to which the user has no access to.

    But the system vendor/developers would have that access, because they control the whole base system.

    The focus of the Android security model and in turn of GOS is on security, at the cost of privacy or freedom.

  • GrapheneOS could break Pixel exclusivity in 2026 with major OEM deal

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  • TBH I would actually expect GrapheneOS not to disable these checks. GrapheneOS devs pride themselves to have the best implementation of the official Android security model, and enforcing signature checks is likely part of that...

    They might add additional certificates I guess, to allow their own apps, and maybe a selected few others.

  • Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?

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  • Probably all of them... I mostly play single player games, which I either mod, and/or edit memory/save games to skip grindy parts. I am there for the story, exploration and puzzles.

    By the most different way I play, would be Beyond All Reason, where I mostly just spectate public matches, since I am pretty sure I would be stomped, and to get good at it, might be out of my abilities. But watching is fun.

  • VPN Comparison 2.0

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  • Once it passes inspection, the F-Droid build service compiles and packages the app to make it ready for distribution. The package is then signed either with F-Droid’s cryptographic key, or, if the build is reproducible, enables distribution using the original developer’s private key. In this way, users can trust that any app distributed through F-Droid is the one that was built from the specified source code and has not been tampered with.

    https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html

  • VPN Comparison 2.0

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  • The issue there AFAIK is that some app builds aren't fully reproducible, because if they were the developer signature would still apply and be used. In the reproducible case the security of the build infra wouldn't matter, because the same app would be produced the same regardless were they are build.

    Without reproducible builds, you cannot really trust the software anyway, because the Dev could hook some hidden code only for the released binary app and sign that.

  • VPN Comparison 2.0

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  • Na... The likelyhood of installing some bad or fake app from google play store is much higher than on fdroid.