They’ve also had a partnership with iFixit for a while now, allowing them to sell genuine replacement parts.
The process still isn’t what I’d call repair-friendly, but I’ve been able to replace the screen of my Pixel 5 without much trouble. What bothers me most is the use of adhesive and too many parts being bundled together so they can only be replaced in bulk.
register hours in Windows. We also all have iPhones that we only use for 2FA.
Without background information that sounds kind of insane. Switching to alternative time tracking software and getting YubiKeys or alternatives instead for 2FA would’ve saved so much money as well as time every day.
Even the stats from last year would’ve already impressed me, but this year is just completely insane. Just a tiny bit more and next year Godot might already be the preferred engine of choice for game jams.
Well, in the case of Silksong specifically, an early announcement was all but inevitable, as it was originally a stretch goal that got turned into its own game. Even with their apparent preference towards minimal communication, they had to explain what’s happening if they didn’t want to appear like fraudsters.
Generally, I wouldn’t even be opposed to early announcements, as long as the devs were transparent about the status of the project and made it clear in which capacity the game is currently being worked on.
Just to give a bit of context: This comes after two months of outright refusal to do even the bare minimum, like transferring the Steam Store listings for games where the devs had full ownership of the IP.
So yeah, it’s nice to see that this will seemingly be resolved somewhat nicely, but that’s about it.
Unlike the article suggests, I really hope that the option “only vibrate when unlocked” means that it doesn’t play a notification sound when the phone is unlocked. Also that it’ll be enabled by default.
So annoying to hear tons of notification sound from a person who’s actively chatting, holding the phone in their hands, making the sound completely pointless.
As a German I have to admit that the ANSI US layout is the one American standard that’s superior to the European ones. That said, I still need some Umlaute and accented letters from time to time, which is why I use the EurKEY layout, which adds all of those keys back and many morek, most of them accessible without having to use a dead key.
Exactly. If anything, I’d much rather like to see a secondary USB-C port, preferably on top of the device. That would be an actual benefit for almost everyone.
the time limit should be way longer given how long previous versions of Windows have been supported.
The lifecycle of Win10 is actually pretty similar to that of the previous versions, which is about ~10 years. The only difference with Win10 is that it went without a successor for so long, that they’ve basically skipped one major release, leading to this relatively small timeframe between a new Windows and the EOL of the previous version.
I agree though. Given the circumstances they should’ve made an an exception and increased the lifespan for at least one or two years.
Yeah, it’s kinda telling when I explicitly ask if there’s a commonly used term yet and I get like a dozen of different answers.
Was led. He left after the license fee catastrophe.
I particularly like that, just like their current Gnome extension, it supports both tiling and floating, with a quick toggle between them.
This’ll be a pretty interesting year for people interested in DEs.
On a semi-related note: Is there a commonly agreed upon term for games like ‘Vampire Survivors’ yet and does it have its own tag on Steam?
So far, I’ve only found ‘Action Roguelike’, but that one has a lot of games that are, well, action based Roguelikes, like ‘Binding of Isaac’ and ‘Risk of Rain’.
Since the end goal is to post a video to YouTube, you will have to create a video file. Personally I would probably just be lazy and upload the large file, since YouTube is going to reconvert the video anyway.
That said, to optimize the file you need to know how videos work, specifically key frames. Speaking generally, when a video gets encoded, it doesn’t add the whole image for each frame. Instead, it only does that when the current frame is a key frame, and then only stores the difference to the previous frame for every regular frame. There’s a lot of different strategies when placing keyframes, like every X seconds, when the scene changes, or both. This is usually you can change somewhere in the encoding settings of the application you’re using. You will need to use a codec/format that supports interframe compression though, so avoid AVI and MJPEG.
So the TL;DR is: Try to decrease the amount of key frames as much as possible, maybe even down to only one if possible.
It’s a completely different game and genre, but that’s exactly what made the space exploration Outer Wilds so great: One seamless solar system, fully handcrafted with literally zero filler content. Not even a single location. No matter what you find, it’s always meaningful and connected to other things in the game.
Of course, that doesn’t mean it’s the only way, but it really highlights the limits of procedural generation.
Same. I’m sitting here with a RTX 3080, so upgrading makes even less sense. I haven’t really encountered many problems, at least on X, but Wayland support is still a mess and I’m really missing VRR, which isn’t really a thing when using a multi-monitor setup on X.
Given how things have been increasingly picking up speed lately I’m hopeful that it’ll only take a few more months until I can say goodbye to X and hello to Wayland and VRR.
Annoyingly, this doesn’t mean that you can register without a phone number. I hope that this is only the first step towards making that happen and not some sort of compromise of the original goal.
I still use Signal because I think it’s still the best tool so far (that has people I know using it), but I’m always iffy about services using phone numbers as their primary identifier.
Yup. I’m actually a bit baffled by how much negativity/misinformation there’s around 2FA even in a place like this, which should naturally have a more technically inclined userbase.
On the other hand, the time spent uploading/downloading much smaller files probably more than makes up for that, although even that difference might get pretty small with modern internet connections.