TopHat

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[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 6 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.

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

His comment didn't address two key issues for me:

  • The "crunch"/tight scheduling of projects which led to sloppiness to begin with
  • The constant need to correct, ranging from simple mistakes to very problematic methods.

I've been enjoying solely the WAN Show, but hearing about constant mistakes in benchmarks while praising "We want to show factual information on benchmarks for once.", is rubbing me in the wrong way. You can't rush benchmarking without QA and publish those results as fact. You get to choose for accuracy, or fast to churn content.

And Linus not mentioning something concrete on the first issue is worrying to me, not showing a clear intent to ease on rushing those benchmarks.

Not to mention, it's worth taking down a video if benchmarka are wrong even if the conclusion is "most likely to remain the same", which one cannot conclude with certainty without redoing it. It would be better transparency wise to either not knowingly publish wrong information, or put a more clear notice on said videos besides the description and a pinned comment.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TopHat@compuverse.uk to c/gaming@beehaw.org
 

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

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.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TopHat@compuverse.uk to c/games@lemmy.world
 

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

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.

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 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.

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Don't get me wrong - I think an included battery that's rechargeable through USB is fantastic. Less customer inconvenience. But they should either go with a standard that's easily reproducible or go with regular rechargeable batteries.

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 1 points 1 year ago

If it was so easy to replace them, with each Li-Ion battery being different for every type of device.

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Since I got those from Ikea, I just want devices to go back to those types of batteries instead of internal battery packs. Still got to appreciate the Xbox controllers sticking to that principle (for now).

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 23 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.

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

 

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.

 
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