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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Does anyone have any suitable "alternatives" in podcasts which are similar to the WAN Show in atmosphere? (As in: longer conversations about tech-adjecent topics) I don't feel comfortable wanting to go near LMG's content (my only consistent watching was the WAN Show to be frank) after these discoveries.

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cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/495710

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This year's charity is the Netherlands' MIND (Dutch website), a Dutch charity that strives to prevent mental health issues and supports those who suffer from those.

Donations are currently broken on the site because of a PayPal issue - Prime subs are used for BSG themselves for future events.

 

Schedule | Donate | Prizes | Discord

This year's charity is the Netherlands' MIND (Dutch website), a Dutch charity that strives to prevent mental health issues and supports those who suffer from those.

Donations are currently broken on the site because of a PayPal issue - Prime subs are used for BSG themselves for future events.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'll suggest Lemmesee as a word play on Let Me See and Lemmy. Some alternate possibilities regarding styling/spelling: LemmeSee, Lemmysee, LemmySee, LemmySy

Will definitely keep an eye out on the icon contest.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Gotta go for ProtonMail. Have been running it for a year and I kinda like how it's doing.

An additional feature is SimpleLogin's "Hide My E-mail" Aliases, which are "burner" e-mail addresses to use with pre-determined SimpleLogin domains (you can add your own domains as well to go around Proton's custom domain limit). Those are included in the full suite and Family subscriptions. (10 a month when subscribing for a year)

There's also a cheaper variant for 3.50 a month but it lacks the SimpleLogin feature. You can get SimpleLogin seperately for 30 a year, however.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Any thoughts on overhauling cross-posting, to allow more interaction with the source interaction?

As far as I'm aware: currently when you cross-post, only the recipient instance gets all interactions (comments, upvotes), instead of duplicating to or having the origin solely receive those.

The current implementation hampers the growth of smaller instances when reposting something to a bigger one. Discoverability is still there due to seeing from which instance the post originates from, but that's arguably not enough.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I used to have this issue, but 0.0.8 is now out. Obtanium pulls in that release just fine!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Try Obtainium, helps if an app isn't on F-Droid or Google Play Store.

 

Also available on Amazon, HMV etc. but only in non-4K form. DVD separately and DVD+Blu-Ray (no 4K) available.

Limited time 20GBP discount on the 4K version through ATA/Anime Ltd. directly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You're welcome! Keep in mind that the base "VCR"-sized Xbox One (not the S or the X variant) only accepts 1080p Blu-Rays, not 4K UHD Blu-Ray discs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A player burner combo would require a PC and special software to be able to play commercial Blu-Rays to begin with.

I'm sadly not as up-to-date on Blu-Ray players as I'd like to be, but Sony has a small one although that misses 4K Ultra HD support (it upscales DVDs and regular Blu-Rays to 4K, which isn't the same as 4K UHD releases on their own). If you already own a "modern" video game console, starting with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One they got Blu-Ray player support, if you're also into video games. The PS4 Pro and Xbox One S and later got 4K UHD support as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Do you refer to a player+burner combination for a PC, or a regular player for TV's?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm honestly disappointed at the hardware:

  • 8 GB RAM for a SKU is definitely fine by me
  • Android 13 from the get-go is good, though I do wonder how fast 14 and up will come, and how many system upgrades it'll get.
  • The Snapdragon 782G is simply the worst of this phone. It is a decent improvement over the 4's Snapdragon, but it's worrying to see a Fairphone being sold at mid to early-premium pricing while budget phones got the same power for much less. I am aware of the Degoogling and Fair Trade Gold and the repairability parts of Fairphone. But I don't see why they can not try and match some actual mid-performance phones nowadays.
  • Haven't heard anything about the display, but I would not be surprised if it will remain stuck at 60Hz - another pain point but this is arguably less of an issue and more of a wish I would had loved to see.

As long as other phones will have removeable storage (microSD slot) and are cheaper while beating FP's performance, I'd rather stick with them. Really a shame, hoped to see a much better phone this time around. But there'll be even more fierce competition with the EU law on replaceable batteries forcing others (including Apple even) to change to a better repairability model.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The Prevue channel definitely wow'd me with using an SQL database for the data and SDL to render that.

 

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/194017

Spotted this on the Hackaday blog. This project really impressed me at the effort it must've taken to get this right.

"Irish Craic Party" made a "RetroTV" television network running on a Raspberry Pi 4 with an external 2TB hard drive filled with films, series and commercial bumpers and the like to recreate the older 80's and 90's TV networks, with each own recreations or original (derivatives) of actual TV channels from back then.

Sadly, he does not seem to be willing to open source the project, according to the video description:

"Even without: this is a one-off bespoke project with time / effort exceeding what people would likely be willing to pay, DIY media servers are niche, certain omissions would be made to avoid legal clashes and I don't have time to maintain an open-source project. Most of all, I'm ready to move on to new things."

Regardless, this project piqued my interest into wanting to create the same experience for films and series I've even have yet to watch (to combat the "analysis paralysis" his video mentions) while also putting rewatchable stuff on there as well, to keep it fresh and try to actually re-enjoy my favourites.

A suitable and mostly feature-similar to "RetroTV", is the ErsatzTV project, built by an engineer working at Disney for streaming technologies!

 

Spotted this on the Hackaday blog. This project really impressed me at the effort it must've taken to get this right.

"Irish Craic Party" made a "RetroTV" television network running on a Raspberry Pi 4 with an external 2TB hard drive filled with films, series and commercial bumpers and the like to recreate the older 80's and 90's TV networks, with each own recreations or original (derivatives) of actual TV channels from back then.

Sadly, he does not seem to be willing to open source the project, according to the video description:

"Even without: this is a one-off bespoke project with time / effort exceeding what people would likely be willing to pay, DIY media servers are niche, certain omissions would be made to avoid legal clashes and I don't have time to maintain an open-source project. Most of all, I'm ready to move on to new things."

Regardless, this project piqued my interest into wanting to create the same experience for films and series I've even have yet to watch (to combat the "analysis paralysis" his video mentions) while also putting rewatchable stuff on there as well, to keep it fresh and try to actually re-enjoy my favourites.

A suitable and mostly feature-similar to "RetroTV", is the ErsatzTV project, built by an engineer working at Disney for streaming technologies!

 

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/11222

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/11221

EXCLUDED TITLES: Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Big recommendation on my part, these either have been good emulations for the Switch console or amazing ports/remasters (Fantasy Zone, Virtua Racing). Some of the emulated titles even got bonus features like a moving border based on gyro along with sound effects to make it seem like you're using the real fancy arcade cabinets.

The series has been developed by M2, a popular Japanese development studio responsible for many emulation collections like that of Castlevania, but also the Virtual Console emulators of the Wii U for the DS, GBA and TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine consoles. Not to forget the SEGA Mega Drive (2) Mini and the PC Engine Mini have its emulation done by them.

 

EXCLUDED TITLES: Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Big recommendation on my part, these either have been good emulations for the Switch console or amazing ports/remasters (Fantasy Zone, Virtua Racing). Some of the emulated titles even got bonus features like a moving border based on gyro along with sound effects to make it seem like you're using the real fancy arcade cabinets.

The series has been developed by M2, a popular Japanese development studio responsible for many emulation collections like that of Castlevania, but also the Virtual Console emulators of the Wii U for the DS, GBA and TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine consoles. Not to forget the SEGA Mega Drive (2) Mini and the PC Engine Mini have its emulation done by them.

 
  • Razor Chroma, reactive to button inputs
  • Optical switches + plate is swappable
  • Will have default black, Cammy and Chun-Li editions available at launch
 
Game Lowest Tier Highest Discount + Store (IsThereAnyDeal) OpenCritic / MetaCritic Scores ProtonDB Rating / Steam Deck Compatibility Notes
NBA 2K Playgrounds 2 First Tier ($US/€9,36) 85% off (Voidu) 70 - [Xbox One / Switch / PS4] 62/69/73 ProtonDB Gold / Not Compatible Bundled 3 times before ProtonDB: Workaround is to use Proton 5.13-6, otherwise game will crash pretty early on.
WWE 2K Battlegrounds First Tier ($US/€9,36) 86% off (GameBillet) 58 - [Switch / Xbox One / PS4] 56/58/60 ProtonDB Platinum / Not Compatible Bundled 5 times before ProtonDB: Works out of the box, albeit with small looking text.
Lethal League Blaze Second Tier ($US15/€14,04) 40% off (Fanatical) 81 - [Switch] 82 ProtonDB Native Linux build / Gold / Verified Bundled 7 times before ProtonDB: Native Linux build should work out of the box.
Wave Break Second Tier ($US15/€14,04) 34% of (Steam) 63 - [Switch] 54 ProtonDB Native Linux build / Pending / Verified ProtonDB: Should work out of the box through native Linux build, or via Proton 6.3-4.
OlliOlli World Second Tier ($US15/€14,04) 55% off (GameBillet) 86 - 87 ProtonDB Platinum / Verified Rad Edition has been bundled once before in Humble Choice (January 2023).
NBA 2K23 Second Tier ($US15/€14,04) 88% off (eTail.Market) 79 - [PS5 / Xbox Series S|X] 78/80 ProtonDB Gold / Verified
Tape to Tape Third Tier ($US20/€18,72) 10% off (Steam) Steam Rating: Very Positive (91%-93%) ProtonDB Platinum / Verified Game is in Early Access.
 

It posts every time a link + first few lines of text of any new Steam Deck update blog post that is published, polling from the RSS feed Valve officially provides!

If there's any feedback, I'm all ears to improve the bot further.

 

Xbox Games Showcase and the Extended Showcase will air at the following time zones:

  • 10:00 (AM) PT (West Coast United States)
  • 13:00 / 1:00 PM ET (East Coast United States)
  • 17:00 / 5:00 PM UTC (GMT +0)
  • 18:00 / 6:00 PM BST (Most of the United Kingdom)
  • 19:00 / 7:00 PM CET (Most of West Europe)
  • 2:00 (AM) JST (Japan)
  • 3:00 (AM) AEST (Oceania)

You can watch the streams at:

  • Twitch (with and without American, British Sign Language and English Descriptors)
  • YouTube (It is confirmed YouTube will have its broadcast available in 4K)
  • Facebook
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