Bought a gun. Have used them plenty, never figured I’d own one. Political violence by the American right is too commonplace. This administration is sweeping people off the street without due process. I’ve read history books. Might as well buy it and not need it than need it and not have it is how I feel.

And to anyone thinking about buying a gun who has never fired one, take a safety course and try it out first.

Genuinely curious: what’s the use case?

PS5 is supposedly no longer sold at a loss.

That said, the margin per console is probably not good enough for their required profit growth, hence this.

I’ve been using a Reolink Wi-Fi doorbell connected to my own Frigate server over RTSP. Frigate talks to HA via MQTT and everything works from there.

The Department of Homeland Security asked Naval Station Great Lakes for “limited support in the form of facilities, infrastructure, and other logistical needs to support DHS operations,”

Much as it pains me to say it, this is an on-the-books legal order so long as no active duty member of the military directly interacts with any arrested persons. Sharing of facilities and equipment is generally allowed and the only persons who can make rules to change this are the Secretary of Defense directly or Congress indirectly, and probably the President as well, perhaps by executive order nowadays.

That’s 1800 hours of the-device-that-watched-it’s electricity saved (minus whatever amount humans might have skipped manually)

Pretty sure the dollar weakened by 10% over it being harder to trade with the US.

Well, that’s tariffs for you. Completely expected, though a ~10% bump on the PS5 doesn’t adjust for all the tariff increase IIRC.

I use gitea for my personal projects, though if you’re not already using it, forgejo (a fork) may be better (I don’t know).

OpenMW is a full engine, not just a rendering engine. And as of the recent release, for those that may not know, it’s technically capable of launching levels and worlds in Bethesda games up to Fallout 4, though of course they’re just loading maps, not scripts or other non-MW logic. (Yet, we might see that in the future)

Feels like a lot of “not inventing the wheel” - which is good? There are plenty of good wheels out there.

Network effects are quite difficult to overcome. Lemmy’s largest influxes of users have been when Reddit does something unpopular enough to warrant people looking for other places. Same was true when Reddit became popular because Digg made bad decisions, or Facebook when MySpace did.

The answer is that Lemmy almost assuredly will never be as popular, but at least its future is not dictated by the profits of a company, or censorship imposed by or on that company.

The best we can do is make Lemmy a viable alternative (it is) and ensure it is of a high quality.

The Brave Little Toaster.

Yeah, I know. But the AC unit dying freaked me out.

The handheld PC and things like SteamOS have crossed the moat that console games used to have as a defense. The PC is coming to the living room, attaching to your TV, and playing games controller-first. The question will be how well will those games play and will they be exclusive.

The other defense, exclusive games, consoles themselves have given up. PlayStation has been publishing to PC to make up revenues thinking that it’s safe because it’s not their competitor Xbox, and Xbox bet on gamepass (and has now lost the console almost entirely, hoping to make its money back via Windows licensure).

Valve relies on Visa/Mastercard to process billions worth of transactions occur every year. They’re not going to rock the boat unless they want to risk the whole business.

Their (relative?) silence, to me, is indicative of just how bad this duopoly is, and that Valve sees no alternative worth publicly mentioning at this juncture.

Fairly certain the NPC in Morrowind could theoretically be killed by a combination of his own drain health spell reflected back at him and/or - once he’s out of magicka - dying to fire shield.

No. Distribution is left to the developer.

But the silver lining is that you’re outside of a walled garden and outside of a company’s control.

Dr. Pepper

Coke Zero

Technically just a neural net, but yes

BYD uses lidar, so yeah, Tesla