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WolfLink

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  • Apple TV+ Being Rebranded as Apple TV

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  • The term Apple TV is getting kinda overloaded though. It refers to:

    • Apple’s streaming service
    • Apple’s smart tv box
    • The app on iOS that lets you watch movies you purchased through iTunes ages ago and any home videos (or “home videos”) you put on your phone

  • 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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  • New Super Mario Bros. (For the Nintendo DS), in the multiplayer battle mode.

    There is a multiplayer mode where you fight over collecting stars in 6 different maps, using the main game’s mechanics and powerups.

    In one of these maps, there are bullet bill launchers. One of the powerups is a mini mushroom that makes you tiny, and when you are tiny you just harmlessly bounce of enemies when you jump on them instead of killing them. That lets you ride the bullet bill, repeatedly bouncing off it. The multiplayer maps loop, so you do this indefinitely, and every time you get back to the launcher, it will add another bullet to your train.

    My brother and I would deliberately avoid collecting stars, and instead try to make the longest bullet train and try to stay in the air as long as possible.

  • 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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  • Many games that have multiplayer and singleplayer options run singleplayer by hosting a server and then joining it.

  • 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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  • Cyberpunk 2077 is also good for this IMO. Sometimes I deliberately avoid fast traveling and just drive to my destination to take in the sights on the way.

  • 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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  • If V didn’t have the chip in their head they’d be dead already

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    People aged 25+ How often do you hang out/see friends?

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  • Virtually at least once a week.

    In person, about once a month.

  • Play to your strengths

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  • Trump might not have a conscience but certainly at least some of the soldiers who were ordered there will.

  • So I told that librul teachin' lady that the only letters I need to know is U-S-A

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  • Because OP is doxxing themselves

  • Can Reddit corporate executives hurt Lemmy ?

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  • They could undo some of the enshittification that Reddit has undergone over the past few years.

  • I am attempting to get into Selfhosting after a shockingly frightening experience, but I am very lost.

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  • As the result of a single misconfigured security setting on my Android, I was locked out of my Google Account on my phone AND all of my PCs.

    Just a heads up on what you are getting yourself into, if you fuck up your self hosted setup badly enough there is no recovery.

    That isn’t necessarily intended to scare you off from self hosting, just that the first and most important lesson to learn is to have a good system of backups that are backed up automatically, are easy to recover from, and are separated enough from other copies of the data that if something goes terribly wrong one copy will survive.

  • framework doesn't rule

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  • That blog post is quite racist, or at the very least, xenophobic.

  • Any swifties here to verify this?

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  • The bottom line is simply a lamer line IMO

  • People who don't like math, why?

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  • Who cares about solving lost and unprovable theorems — how do these help anyone?

    I moved this one first because it’s the most important to answer. A lot of esoteric math does end up leading to useful results in science, engineering, or computer science. A lot of breakthroughs in physics, especially historically, came from breakthroughs in math. A lot of computer science, such as error correction and encryption, came from what was previously esoteric mathematics.

    Why does the 3-4-5 triangle work out cleanly, and yet π and e are irrational?

    There kinda isn’t a satisfying answer to this; it just turns out that’s how the world works. Some important questions have nice integer answers, and some don’t.

    How can 0.999… and 1 be exactly the same number?

    0.999… == 1 because there is no number in between 1 and 0.999… therefore they must be the same number.

    For any two numbers that aren’t equal, you can find numbers between them (specifically do something like a0.5 + b0.5). You can’t define 0.999… as something like “the largest number less than 1” because there is no such number, because if you found such a number, you could find another number between it and 1.

    However, there are some situations where the idea of “0.999…” might have some meaning, if you interpret it as “taking the limit of something as it approaches 1 from below”. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-sided_limit for some examples. These examples are mostly centered around 0, but if you moved it to be centered around 1, you would get a function where f(0.999…) ≠ f(1.000…1) with f(1) not having a well defined value.

    But because 0.999… is not the commonly accepted notation for that limit, some people reading your work would be confused. In the end it’s a matter of language: agreeing on a meaning for symbols so you can communicate your ideas clearly.

  • People who don't like math, why?

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  • Sounds like you might be dyslexic.

  • Punch Time

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  • Earlier today I was playing the new Final Fantasy Tactics remake, and I encountered the line: “Then we’ll have two birds… and one stone!” (Referring to capturing two characters and retrieving a magic stone).

    That struck me as a particularly witty line in English to the point where I’m wondering if that saying is as common in Japanese. I wonder what the Japanese version of that line is.

  • Free Software Foundation Turns 40, Unveils LibrePhone

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  • I’d love to try it, but I imagine it will take 20 years for something like this to come even close to usable as a daily driver.

  • The amount of mental gymnastics to come up with (and justify) this is insane

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  • You do need the Apple ID to download any apps though (maybe not in the EU these days?)

  • What version is the third minecraft entry?

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  • Aren’t Bedrock and Pocket Edition the same?

    When Pocket Edition reached loose feature parity with Java they ported it to Windows, and called it “Bedrock”, as I understand the history.

  • Computer Update

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  • Microsoft does this too.

    Also Ubuntu does this now.