ghostalmedia 1y ago • 100%
Weird thing is that Fillion is back as Cayde in the final shape promos.
ghostalmedia 1y ago • 100%
Lots of weird incorrect answers in the comments. MS 100% has changed CPU architectures and needs to emulate old games. The 360 was basically a PowerMac.
My guess - the Xbox One’s launch catalog was trash, and MS doubled down on emulation to build it out. Then they never stopped. They kept plugging away at it, and now they have a giant asset for GamePass.
MS got a head start because they were desperate for good games in the early days on the One.f
ghostalmedia 1y ago • 100%
Or you do what MS does. Put the old games in your subscription service. Make money with monthly fees from people who don’t have the disks or don’t have an optical drive.
ghostalmedia 1y ago • 100%
Many suspect this one has been trapped in licensing hell.
ghostalmedia 1y ago • 100%
As other noted, this is not true. The early 360 development kits were literally PowerMac towers purchased from Apple.
360 games require emulation, and MS has been slowing plugging away at expanding its emulation library for years. None of this was easy.
ghostalmedia 1y ago • 100%
The original Xbox, Xbox One, and S/X are all basically x86 PCs, but the 360 was basically a Power Mac. Microsoft was literally using PowerMac G5 towers as early development kits for the 360.
Supporting 360 games is pretty time consuming and requires emulation. MS has been slowly chipping away at it for years.
ghostalmedia 1y ago • 90%
Why do people keep saying the NIF experiment was a net gain? People focus on the laser input at the end of the line, which was 20MJ and produced 25MJ. But the input power to charge the capacitors was 422MJ.
The whole experiment produced 5% of what was put in.
ghostalmedia 1y ago • 72%
None of the above.
I’m the humble contrarian.
You might have a good point, but you’re being self-righteous and smug. I’m ordering a turkey sandwich because your lack of humility irritates me and I want to piss you off.
ghostalmedia 1y ago • 100%
Love - auto health or shield regen. When I first experienced that in Halo it made me instantly hate other games that didn’t have some form of that mechanic.
I hate managing health inventory items. It breaks gameplay flow with tedious bullshit that isn’t nearly as fun as focusing on the a combat mechanic.
ghostalmedia 1y ago • 100%
Pay wall mirror?
ghostalmedia 1y ago • 100%
What type of engineer?
If you’re a software engineer, then you can probably start to look around for remote work. You will also have the luxury of looking at tech companies that also have nice offices and campuses that aren’t soul sucking cubicles.
ghostalmedia 1y ago • 100%
Not great, but here is a bigger version.
ghostalmedia 1y ago • 100%
To be fair, often times that question is code for “how can someone contribute to that platform while also paying rent, feeding their kids, etc.”
I think that’s a fair question and IMHO, for a fedi project to succeed, we need some people who can get paid a reasonable wage to focus their full attention on the work.
We’re likely going to continue to see folks who ask for Patreon donations and set up fedi hosting businesses, like Ruud at Lemmy World. We’ll also probably see more folks like the Tapbots gang selling fancy clients for a price.
Individual people will make money so they can live life, but cash cow corporations likely won’t be a thing.
ghostalmedia 1y ago • 100%
According to Apple
Such as racial or ethnic data, sexual orientation, pregnancy or childbirth information, disability, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, political opinion, genetic information, or biometric data
ghostalmedia 1y ago • 100%
Exploding heads is a good example of a far right instance. A lot of folks have defederated from them. The biggest instance, Lemmy.world, just cut ties and they’re furious.
ghostalmedia 1y ago • 100%
Not a great day for social media. Twitter down, Reddit has not 3rd party apps, Lemmy is being hugged to death by people bailing Reddit and Twitter.
I guess I’ll go outside.
ghostalmedia 1y ago • 100%
Thing is, beehaw is pretty loud about being a safe space the neurodivergent and or folks with different gender identities and sexualities. That stuff is race agnostic and those people will likely fall in line with national percentages for race.
Given that most of folks are from the US, which is about 75% white, and another big chunk is from nations that are 80-90% white, I can’t say that I’m surprised buy the numbers. If anything, given the users from Canada, western Europe, and Australia, Beehaw is probably a hair more racially diverse than the general population.
ghostalmedia 1y ago • 100%
Hiding subscriber counts is intentional at join-Lemmy.org. They were being displayed about 2 weeks ago, but new users saw them, viewed actively as a form of social proof, and only signed up with large instances.
Problem is, those large instances are starting to break now. They can’t scale fast enough to meet demand.
Moreover, if you signup for a small instance, you can still subscribe to communities from another instance. Communities are shared between instances.
IMHO, we should be displaying stats like response time and integration with the federation network. That’s what is actually important for most folks. If you only focus on local activity, you’re going to have a bad time.
ghostalmedia 1y ago • 100%
That’s what promotions are for.
Mobile web for beehaw support is a page and a half of stickies. It’s not a particular great user experience. 😬 I feel like, Lemmy’s default sorting would've naturally given many of these posts some organic prominence.
I’m honestly super confused about what you can and can’t do when federation ties have been cut.
Over the past few days many admins have been stickying giant posts, which makes scrolling through Mlem a little rough. Any plans to have a feed that truncates or completely hides the body of posts?
They also regained control of a second village https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-06-11-23/h_09db2c8defadff8de0ebea5fa48542aa
For example, I would love to create a community about home automation in Apple's ecosystem. How would I do that?
Two words. Midi bagpipes