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  1. Comment on Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025 in ~tech

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    Something something pirated Enterprise LTSC, something something on the ethics of pirating Windows

    Something something pirated Enterprise LTSC, something something on the ethics of pirating Windows

    2 votes

  2. Comment on Reddit API Changes in ~tech

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    Since the day Teddit (which IIRC predates Libreddit) got announced, this was a worry I had. Both decided to rely on the API instead of scraping (scraping old.reddit would be pretty easy I'd...

    Since the day Teddit (which IIRC predates Libreddit) got announced, this was a worry I had. Both decided to rely on the API instead of scraping (scraping old.reddit would be pretty easy I'd assume)

    Of course, with old.reddit slowly inching ever closer to the chopping block, I'm not sure what could be done next. Maybe they could extract the API keys and whatnot from the official apps? Some "libre proxies" do that IIRC and it seems to work well enough.

    3 votes

  3. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I just (~4-5 hours ago as of writing) finished Persona 5: Royal. All I can say is, wow. My previous run I talked about somewhere here before died of me being massively underleveled near the end of...

    I just (~4-5 hours ago as of writing) finished Persona 5: Royal. All I can say is, wow.

    My previous run I talked about somewhere here before died of me being massively underleveled near the end of the vanilla story.

    So, I re-started a couple times, and this time had a run that went beyond the worst boss in the entire game, and while I had that going on I decided to do the requirements for the Royal-exclusive story as well.

    It didn't "hit" as hard as it could because I already spoiled myself on it, but it still holds up well. Especially saying all your goodbyes to everyone before leaving, after being invested in the game for ~3 months.

    It's sad, a fair few of these characters I won't see anymore (maybe aside from NG+, if I end up doing that), even in Strikers, if it ever comes to Game Pass.

    Well, for now I still have P3P and P4G to go though. I'm not sure what I'll do if/when I get through them as well.

    3 votes

  4. Comment on Steam Replay 2022, a highlight summary of your Steam gaming this year, is now available in ~games

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    i played it on game pass because it's quite unaffordable on steam, but yeah, p5r did that to me as well

    i played it on game pass because it's quite unaffordable on steam, but yeah, p5r did that to me as well

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Welcome to 2022. What are your predictions for this year? in ~talk

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    Since i posted this, i completely forgot to track anything on there, so I'll only be quoting ones I know (or bothered to look up) the result of: 1 USD = 18.69 TRY unfortunately Not surprised....

    Since i posted this, i completely forgot to track anything on there, so I'll only be quoting ones I know (or bothered to look up) the result of:

    TRY's value will continue to fall (sadly), maybe ending up stable at around 1USD=15TRY near the end of the year, probably higher

    1 USD = 18.69 TRY unfortunately

    A very big scam is going to happen on the cryptocurrency sphere (100%, free space)
    Elon Musk will say something stupid (100%, free space)

    Not surprised. Bonus points for musk buying twitter. i did not expect that

    Steam Deck released, a majority of people will install Windows on theirs to play their anti-cheat enabled games (70%)

    There are some that did it, but not as much as I thought there would be. I'll call this a fail

    Year of the Wayland desktop (40%)

    I can't remember anything big. Just some incremental additions. Maybe Nvidia supporting GBM would count? I'll call this a fail as there stilil seems to be a fair few issues out there. idk it Works On My Machine™

    Signal will do some more cryptocurrency adjacent bullshit (80%)

    After mobilecoin or whatever I can't remember anything new, surprisingly. Fail

    Discord will act upon their cryptocurrency bullshit and suddenly release it with no announcements (70%), this will lessen any backlash that might happen (60%)

    Fail

    Reddit will act upon their cryptocurrency bullshit (80%), nothing major will happen to them (95%)

    NFT avatars, correct

    There will still not be any way to embed Gecko as a widget outside of Firefox (95%), except for Android's GeckoView

    Correct

    April 1st will be mostly uneventful (75%)

    From what I remember, this is correct. Not entirely sure tho

    Overall it seems like I over-exaggerated some events and generally looked at things in a more pessimistic angle than how things really turned out.

    I also wrote things I can not verify, that one's kinda on me.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Signal’s president Meredith Whittaker on what’s next for the private messaging app in ~tech

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    I personally found it a great feature, because it means for non-technical people you can just "set it and forget it", and when their contacts also switch to Signal, encryption happens...

    I personally found it a great feature, because it means for non-technical people you can just "set it and forget it", and when their contacts also switch to Signal, encryption happens automatically & seamlessly instead of needing to check another app or (god forbid) needing to learn another username to enter to another app.

    Of course, this really only works in communities where SMS is preferred over, say, WhatsApp or some other way.

    3 votes

  7. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Persona 5 Royal Aside from one boss fight, the game is amazing. I'd play more of it but that would mean it would end. (Also my party is crap and I doubt I'd beat the final boss with it) I had to...

    Persona 5 Royal

    Aside from one boss fight, the game is amazing. I'd play more of it but that would mean it would end. (Also my party is crap and I doubt I'd beat the final boss with it)

    I had to watch the Royal-specific part of the game online, because I didn't do the things it needed at the right time to get it on my own playthrough, and it may just be even better than the original story.

    If that's how the other Persona games work, I should probably look into them too.

    7 votes

  8. Comment on Megathread for news/updates/discussion about Musk's takeover of Twitter – Part 1 in ~tech

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    i forgot :( english isn't my native language, and we don't have that many gendered pronouns here

    i forgot :(

    english isn't my native language, and we don't have that many gendered pronouns here

    11 votes

  9. Comment on Megathread for news/updates/discussion about Musk's takeover of Twitter – Part 1 in ~tech

  10. Comment on What's your unpopular opinion or idiosyncrasy about video games or games in general? in ~games

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    All PvP games suck, with no exceptions i could find. The phasing out of PvE or even good ol' singleplayer (outside most indie games) really saddens me. They were really the only non-toxic and...

    All PvP games suck, with no exceptions i could find.

    The phasing out of PvE or even good ol' singleplayer (outside most indie games) really saddens me. They were really the only non-toxic and non-overanalyzed-metagaming-do-this-or-you-might-as-well-not-play parts of gaming.

    6 votes

  11. Comment on What are the top five software apps you benefit the most from? in ~tech

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    Despite the name, AHK is essentially a complete automation suite (with weird syntax). Aside from re-binding keys & combinations, it can, for example, call into arbitrary DLLs because why not,...

    Despite the name, AHK is essentially a complete automation suite (with weird syntax). Aside from re-binding keys & combinations, it can, for example, call into arbitrary DLLs because why not, along with less interesting other stuff. And those are only the things it comes with by default. It also has a surprisingly large community that make it do other things

    3 votes

  12. Comment on What are the top five software apps you benefit the most from? in ~tech

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    I believe Krita is explicitly only focusing on drawing & other creation functionality instead of editing existing stuff. Which is a shame considering it's UI/UX is way better than it's competitor...

    I believe Krita is explicitly only focusing on drawing & other creation functionality instead of editing existing stuff. Which is a shame considering it's UI/UX is way better than it's competitor with the same functionality (that aren't paid closed-source stuff)

    4 votes

  13. Comment on Stadia is shutting down in ~games

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    AFAIK Proton/Wine support is a setting the developer needs to enable explicitly. At least for EAC though BattlEye probably has the same thing.

    AFAIK Proton/Wine support is a setting the developer needs to enable explicitly. At least for EAC though BattlEye probably has the same thing.

    4 votes

  14. Comment on What are some good ultra-low-spec computer games? in ~games

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    Also OpenTTD

    Rollercoaster Tycoon is a great one to revisit, and OpenRCT2 extends it without making things difficult to use.

    Also OpenTTD

    5 votes

  15. Comment on Is it possible to expand my Windows EFI partition? in ~tech

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    Shrinking the Windows partition (left, i believe) can be done pretty safely with Windows's diskmgmt.msc If the EFI partition is the first on the drive (it probably is), you need to move the now...
    • Shrinking the Windows partition (left, i believe) can be done pretty safely with Windows's diskmgmt.msc
    • If the EFI partition is the first on the drive (it probably is), you need to move the now shrunk(?) partition (and your Arch partition, if you don't have enough free space before it) to the right, which I don't think Windows's tool does. Gparted will do that, but I believe it takes a long time and I am not sure how well it keeps your data intact
    • If you did those, expanding EFI partition should be somewhat trivial, also with Gparted
    4 votes

  16. Comment on Summer Games Done Quick 2022, a charity speedrunning marathon, has begun in ~games

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    I'm surprised it started so soon, but then the runs I've been interested in don't start until day 3 or so, assuming the schedule is the same as it was a month or so ago when it was initially announced

    I'm surprised it started so soon, but then the runs I've been interested in don't start until day 3 or so, assuming the schedule is the same as it was a month or so ago when it was initially announced

    3 votes

  17. Comment on Introducing Zed — A lightning-fast, collaborative code editor written in Rust in ~tech

  18. Comment on Introducing Zed — A lightning-fast, collaborative code editor written in Rust in ~tech

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    I personally expect it to be opened around when they feel it's "stable enough" (Atom was Mac only for a bit, wasn't it?). I don't think the Atom team had any issues with it being open and I...

    But while that was a lovely open-source project, this one appears to be completely proprietary.

    I personally expect it to be opened around when they feel it's "stable enough" (Atom was Mac only for a bit, wasn't it?). I don't think the Atom team had any issues with it being open and I believe Zed has a lot of the same people

    2 votes

  19. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I've been attempting some Portal 2 speedruns lately. My last two full game runs were ~ 1 hr 35 minutes or so, which would put me at 475th or so in the No SLA leaderboards at speedrun.com if I...

    I've been attempting some Portal 2 speedruns lately. My last two full game runs were ~ 1 hr 35 minutes or so, which would put me at 475th or so in the No SLA leaderboards at speedrun.com if I submitted them. The video files are ~3 GBs per run, so I don't really want to submit one if I beat it a day after.

    My biggest problem so far is keeping the concentration to not botch the execution for an entire hour and a half. Every now and then, I accidentally hit my quickload bind (on a mouse side button), which throws me back a map or so and loses me time for no real reason.

    One of my other problems is not knowing all the skips. I am currently doing what I remember (and what feels easy to me) from watching runs, so I probably need to look up an entire tutorial for the run at some point (if it even exists and the knowledge is not just lost and doomed to be asked again and again, forever, on a Discord guild)

    edit: after this comment, i got a 1h 30m time. i'll likely publish this and maybe attempt to submit it to speedrun.com. also, no accidental quickloads happened

    6 votes

  20. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe If you liked the 2013 game or the free mod, you are obliged to play it. I'm sorry, but I don't make the rules. If you didn't play any, you probably should play...

    The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

    If you liked the 2013 game or the free mod, you are obliged to play it. I'm sorry, but I don't make the rules.

    If you didn't play any, you probably should play Ultra Deluxe. It has the previous game in it, so you won't be missing out on much.

    Unfortunately, I can no longer play it for the next 10 years.

    2 votes