Anyone have any reccomendations for a decently priced IR camera that isn't dependent on a phone app? Don't want something that will just stop working because the manufacturer can't be bothered to keep updating the app later on.
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Yeah, there's something about the physicality of a record player and records that changes the experience. At least for me it encourages more focus on the listening. Even if you just put something on while you do something else, you're going to be interacting with again before super long.
The record, the part you interact with, has size and weight. It's definitively a "thing". And choosing a record is a choice. You can't just press some buttons on a remote and change to whatever else (unless it's a full music system setup).
Plus the beautiful art on the sleeves, and the time it takes to get the record out forces you to spend at least a little time with that art.
With a CRT TV, you're using a remote and there's a lot more abstraction and layers between the physical object holding the content and your actual consumption of it.
VHS tapes are physical, but the moving parts that make it all work are hidden away in the VCR and the magnetic tape isn't really touchable. Playing one on most TVs required another device plugged into the TV and pressing some buttons on one or two remotes that could just as easily bring you other content without ever leaving your seat.
There is art on the VHS case, but it's not like it takes time to get the tape in and out, so you're not as likely to look at it for long.
Most importantly, people are still making new record players and records. There was a long while where it was a very niche thing, and there weren't a lot of new records coming out, but there were still new players coming out. And the technology is simple enough that the average person could at least keep a player in working order or fix the most common issues themselves. Enthusiasts could even "fix" an old machine with modern parts that are readily available, as long as they function the same. It's not like people are going to stop making electric motors anytime in the next century.
CRTs simply aren't manufactured anymore. Depending on the issue they aren't end user servicable for the average person, or even most enthusiasts. Maintenance is potentially dangerous to the person doing the work. The parts have limited lifespans with no replacements available for the main bits. If the electron guns start to go, you can potentially rejuvanate them with special equipment, or you can end up breaking a damaged one entirely (see 10:32 of this video about restoring an old arcade cabinet).
It's the same (sans danger to the person doing the repair) for VCRs. No new stock, specialized parts that can't be swapped for more readily availble modern components, you get the picture.
And that's also not considering the fucking weight of a good size CRT compared to a record player.
Don't get me wrong. I love CRTs. Pretty sure I still have my childhood one in my basement, complete with some discoloration from when my 8 year old self had some fun with magnets.
I was legitimately distraught when my wife talked me into only keeping one of the three CRT TVs we had gathering dust, and I think I still have one or two CRT monitors stashed away somewhere.
I spent multiple weekends years ago looking up and configuring the best CRT shader for emulators so it looked like an idealized version of that childhood TV.
But I entirely get why records and record players are such strong and well thought of "nostalgia bait" and CRTs and VHS tapes are not.
My cheapo one has a short gap where it will start spinning before the speakers catch up and I can listen that way guilt free. You can also just turn the volume of the speakers all the way down, but that's not nearly as disorienting as hearing a half second of the audio all small and tiny and not coming from the right place.
I've been thinking for years now about picking up one again that can run RockBox. Used to live out of an iPod nano with that, and didn't have to carry flash drives. Just plug the usb cable into a computer and use it as one. A lot of modern music apps still aren't as fully featured when it comes to on the fly playlist creation.
I once binged IT Crowd using an old CRT monitor as my second screen. Definitely a vibe.
Yeah, I hope he does a part 2 where he gets some help to get it working, summarizes how, and re-runs the benchmarks.
Those stuffed shirts in DC aren't giving Americans what they need, that's why Trump had to come in and kick them into gear!
How are we ever supposed to feel safe when these people can be walking around with concealed weapons, drugs, gang affiliation signs, and tattoos that we can't see because they hide them under clothes? You see these people, they're not from here. They don't belong here, and you can never know what they're carrying or what they'll do!
We need our lawmakers to step up! If these people could be hiding weapons dangerous to the American people under their clothes, then they shouldn't have clothes!
They come in here with their drugs, poisoning the American people, with their knives and guns hurting the American people! Hunting us for sport! You know, some very smart people have told me- the smartest people, well traveled people who know the world- there are towns out there where these people mount the heads of what they've hunted on the walls!
Horrible, evil people coming here, hunting us for sport, desecrating our bodies, and taking our heads as sick twisted trophies!
Using weapons and drugs they hide under their clothes!
That's why we need DC to pass this law: for the safety of the American people! No longer will we allow these foreign criminals to wear clothes on our soil!
This is way too easy to do, and honestly pretty fun. I can totally see how someone with no ethics or morality could see this as an attractive way to make money. 🤮
It even open and close like book!
Similarly, Jerboa tries to make @indie-ver.se in the post body into a link to a user profile and also stops at the hyphen.
You might like Horizon's Gate.
I've never played Sid Meier's Pirates! but if you've ever played Uncharted Waters: New Horizons for the SNES, it sounds like Diet Pirates! Trade routes, mapping the world, discovery of exploration sites on the shore (lost cities, tribes, etc), ship and captain battles (and some small RPG elements in character progression and story). No weather systems, or real city growth. Trade will effect prices of other trade goods in a port, and you can flood a market, so you have to rotate where you're selling between a few to let markets recover.
Anyway, Horizon's Gate takes all of that stuff from UC:NH, expands on it a little bit, adds Final Fantasy Tactics style on foot combat using your crew. FFT style equipment, classes, levels, abilities, can mix and match when you reach a certain job level.
Actual RPG style dungeon crawling with the ability to use party combat techniques during on foot exploration. Freeze water to cross moats and rivers, electrify magitech equipment in abandoned labs, use your jumping attacks to cross gaps, burn away overgrowth to get through jungles to lost temples, use the floaying movement tech to get over pressure plate traps, etc. Reminiscent of Golden Sun in that way.
Basic crafting system where you can use different materials with unique effects to make different weapons and armors, then slot in gems to further augment properties.
Ship equipment with passive effects and different ship weapons with different effects, including magic cannons that can do stuff like freezing tiles so boats can't pass them or wind cannons that blow other ships around.
Can have multiple ships in your fleet with different specialties.
Kingdoms with different specialties, unique equipment, unique ships, and unique character classes that you can pledge to and do various quests and research stuff for to earn kingdom favor.
RPG style rumors in town that can lead to dungeons and little side quests, mysteries, and the like that aren't always tracked.
Not really weather "systems", but there are things on the overworld like headwinds, roving sea monsters, stuff that can give similar sorts of effects I guess.
Graphics obviously inspired by SNES era Final Fantasy. To the point that I'm pretty sure there was some tracing.
And a small but deep and impressively well polished modding community with a lot of really polished additional content. More randomly generated and hand crafted dungeons, more classes, settlements, questlines, recruitable characters with character specific stories and dialog, expansions to existing systems, entirely new gameplay systems and elements that almost always blend and interact seamlessly with each other and the base game.
With all the different ways to customize character builds and equipment, there's a ton of depth to combat and a lot of ways you could probably make overpowered setups. Unfortunately this game has taught me that I suck with this combat style. I use a mod to give me two or three extra crewmates than you can normally bring into each battle.
So... it wouldn't have the same depth for the sailing, city building (outside of a few modded questy towns), or weather systems. But it's a fairly unknown indie game that I can't reccomend enough, especially if you like Final Fantasy Tactics.
Remember Jack Thompson?
Right? Like absolute ages ago, I actually seriously cared about ethics in game journalism. I still do, but recognize it's a very minor issue in the scheme of things.
It's absurd that there were industry mailing lists/chatrooms where people were asking other journos to cut their friend's game a break, people reviewing games built by their drinking buddies without even mentioning the personal relationship in passing, and (game) companies using their (often piss poor) representation of marginalized groups to try and silence valid non-bigoted criticism.
So I fell into GamerGate for a while. For a bit despite the behinning, they seemed to be primarily focused on getting journos to use responsible disclosure. I'm glad that trend mostly caught on.
It's so frustrating that it ended up being a vehicle for "anti-woke", racism, and misogyny to become openly acceptable to a whole chunk of people.
For what it's worth, AC Black Flag is generally considered to be different enough to be worth l it. I loved it, but it's the only AC game I played.
It's probably more like two uncut diamonds sitting together in a mound of dirt though, to be honest.
I really love that analogy by the way.
Toss some rooftop park/garden/green spaces up there as well and they'd be pretty damn great, as far as skyscrapers go.
You don't have to store them in intune, as far as I know. I'm not a desktop engineer, but I know at my workplace they historically are stored in AD.
Why do you think he's wearing long sleeves?
We can safely assume that anyone wearing clothes is only doing it to cover up international terrorist organization tatoos. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear.
Sounds like useful post-install steps that should be made clear for the nVidia release of Bazzite ;)
Yeah, the video's length is absurd. I enjoy his content, but an hour of watching clips of the same damn benchmarks isn't particularly interesting. Definitely should have been cut down further, imo.
Anyway.
I think as people with technical background, we need to understand that for Linux to eventually overtake Windows it needs to work for the average knuckledragger.
Wade didn't have to google how to install the driver on Windows in advance (as far as we know, that's some important clarification that's needed).
Bazzite is supposed to be the distro for minimum hassle gaming, and they even have specific distro releases for these old nVidia cards, which he used.
What is the point of having a specific release for that hardware if it doesn't work? If users have to take extra steps after the install, there should be something that pops up on first boot to direct them to it, or a warning about this when you download the iso.
It shouldn't be on the user to have an issue first, then guess at what they need to search to get useful info.
I get that Linux maintainers are loathe to turn the experience into "Windows Lite" where it reminds you to wipe your own ass with their proprietary paper, but at some point I think we need to accept a bare minimum level of hand holding can be useful for user experience.
How hard would it be for a message box to pop up: You're using NVM/llvmpipe and you may not be getting the full support for your GPU. Click here for more info. Click here to never show this again.
I kind of hate that it isn't making a bigger point of the artist that made the "piece" in the first place and their incredibly unhealthy relationship with AI.
The guy was using it as his therapist, experienced what they self label as a psychosis, at some level see that it's a bad influence on them, despite that used it to make a piece they got put in a gallery, and haven't actually cut it out of their life. I don't think it would be entirely unfounded to call it an addiction.
Someone needs to get the "artist" some actual, licensed psychological help.
It's definitely a waste of time that he should have stopped after the first one or two where they obviously weren't working.
I still think it's an important demonstration of where things could (and should) be made clearer to the end user.
Like a lot of technical stuff, there's kind of an absurd expectation that caveats can be completely omitted and it's on the end user to figure out. I make tons of documentation at my job as a sysadmin. I get that you can't possibly catalog every edge case and caveat, but from what I can tell, this issue with the Bazzite images was known and happens often enough that the cause is well known. It's a failing by the maintainers that they don't have a basic warning mechanism built in for this scenario.
A warning on the download page. A warning in the updater. Better controls in the release tools so the nVidia release can stay on the last supported version until the new drivers work.
Anything besides just expecting the end user to magically know that the thing labelled as working for their situation does not in fact work at the moment.