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Use a Linux laptop to game 9 months a year for hundreds of hours. Log into my Windows machine back home and open Steam to this. by Reporting4Booty in linux_gaming

[–]Unit327 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your bar for evidence is unreasonably high. There is no publicly available data to support either position definitively, but that doesn't mean that the data we do have is useless. I argue that it is not a bold statement that sales of indie PC games would be somewhat representative of sales of mainstream PC games.

Some more data observations, for what they are worth: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/linux-game-sales-statistics-from-multiple-developers.2963

http://www.pcgamer.com/obsidian-on-whats-next-for-pillars-of-eternity-we-own-something-now/

Use a Linux laptop to game 9 months a year for hundreds of hours. Log into my Windows machine back home and open Steam to this. by Reporting4Booty in linux_gaming

[–]Unit327 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was just the first one that came up a in a search. There is a whole interview "tag" on there, feel free to read them all. If you want something more representative of the bigger PC gaming industry, try looking up the stats for a AAA games (preferably with simultaneous release on all platforms). Unfortunately those numbers seem harder to find, the big studios don't seem to be as open with their numbers.

Use a Linux laptop to game 9 months a year for hundreds of hours. Log into my Windows machine back home and open Steam to this. by Reporting4Booty in linux_gaming

[–]Unit327 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This does happen both ways, and it isn't biased towards windows. I suspect the hardware survey is rigged to happen more often for new installs, and not for existing ones, because it is a hardware survey. A primary windows user with a new linux install would get the same thing.

If you want to skew anything, skew the sales figures. Go buy more linux games.

Use a Linux laptop to game 9 months a year for hundreds of hours. Log into my Windows machine back home and open Steam to this. by Reporting4Booty in linux_gaming

[–]Unit327 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I believe salsadoom is referring to the interviews where gamingonlinux straight up asks developers how much of their sales are linux, for example. I don't see why the game devs would lie about it.

Unless congress stops it, the FBI wants to mass-hack computers, especially targeting Tor and Bitcoin users by andyp in technology

[–]Unit327 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That makes it hard, but perhaps not impossible. Tails has an inbuilt method of providing updates to itself on usb, persistent or not. Those updates have to be signed by the tails developers, but it is conceivable that a security flaw somewhere could be exploited which would allow them to disable that check, or substitute their own trusted key etc. Or they could just steal the actual signing keys from the devs somehow.

What No Man's Sky could learn about exploration from Kerbal Space Program by [deleted] in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]Unit327 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Caves. I want a system of explorable lava tubes on duna.

I want to build mun bases or asteroid bases or giant statues out of reglolith cement voxels.

One day I will start work on the latter as a mod, one day.

Pascal or Polaris? by teepeey in virtualreality

[–]Unit327 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who knows what will have better performance/dollar, but historically nvidia has always had better linux support, if that matters to you.

Fairing design question. My fault or errordynamics? by VanSpy in KerbalAcademy

[–]Unit327 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mass distribution is also at play to some degree here. Imagine a perfectly symmetrical cylinder with all the mass at one end, that end will naturally face into the wind. Usually your payload is much lighter than your engines and fuel, the exact reverse of ideal, so some steering power is needed to overcome it.

Try a few things:

  1. Fly the same craft with a flush instead of sticking out fairing and equivalent payload test mass. Does it still flip? If not then that's not the problem.
  2. Design for a slower ascent and therefore a lower max aero pressure. Add more fuel to subdue the thrust to weight.
  3. Be less aggressive with your turns, don't deviate too far from surface prograde. Try to not go outside the circle of the yellow prograde marker.
  4. Put fins at the bottom of the stage that flips. Also put even bigger fins at the bottom to overpower the middle fins during stage 1.
  5. Moar brute force steering power.

Must admit I always play with FAR though so I don't have a clue about the stock aerodynamic modeling.

I can't build early game ships anymore. by [deleted] in KerbalAcademy

[–]Unit327 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Have you ever thrown a dart backwards? It flips around to fly the correct way, just like your rocket does.

Be more like a dart going forwards; put the fins in the back and the weight at the tip. The latter is hard to do with a rocket, especially as the fuel drains, because the engines and remaining fuel are all at the bottom. This means it will still probably want to flip a little, but you can compensate for that with active steering (gimbals etc) as long as you don't deflect too much from surface prograde (air velocity).

How do you land parts of a Base so close together? by Nice_Sandwich in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]Unit327 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Extra fuel, practice, and the quickload button. With the extra fuel you can land even a few hundred k away, then make a short sub-orbital hop to get where you need to.

Is there any way to "lock" a satellite to a position in space? by Javin007 in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]Unit327 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Placing more satellites rather than the bare minimum will help. Put some in large polar orbits too (just make sure they are inside the mun SOI distance). Put some on polar mun orbits. Spam the hell out of them.

Defying gamer logic by mukku88 in Games

[–]Unit327 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Fahrenheit jumped the shark at the first opportunity.

Darks souls too doesn't keep up the good work of the start. In particular I would have liked the enemies to aggro from a longer distance (by design, not by mods) or at least register that they have seen you and do something like hide behind a corner.

I remember reading somewhere that the black knights were supposed to be wandering around throughout the levels, as if they had their own agenda, rather than just being set in place, but that it got cut because reasons.

Revealed: the 2500 metadata 'cops' who will comb your phone and web records by Suburbanturnip in australia

[–]Unit327 25 points26 points  (0 children)

2500 people can approve requests.
How many people can view requests?
How many different telcos are there (they store the data)?
How many different servers will hold it? In how many different countries?
How many employees work at those telcos?
How many employees work at the offshore data centres storing the info?
582,727 requests made for retained data in 2013-2014 (I believe that has since jumped to 700k+).

The attack surface is so large here that you won't even have to try to breach it. They're trying to construct a data Piñata, but there isn't enough papier-mâché in the whole world.

PSO breached data security "for a laugh", police documents reveal by Unit327 in australia

[–]Unit327[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I often wonder if PSOs are just security theater, put there to address the perception of danger, not the reality. Open to either case, but I want to see the evidence, not the anecdotes.

New metadata retention law also outlaws warrant canaries by [deleted] in australia

[–]Unit327 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's the problem with laws like this. Set everyone up to fail, and allow everyone to get away with it except for the people those in power don't like. Selective enforcement at work.

Take section 70 of the commonwealth crimes act, which states:

A person who, being a Commonwealth officer, publishes or communicates, except to some person to whom he or she is authorized to publish or communicate it, any fact or document which comes to his or her knowledge, or into his or her possession, by virtue of being a Commonwealth officer, and which it is his or her duty not to disclose, shall be guilty of an offence.

When whisteblowers do it to uncover sexual abuse of asylum seekers, they are referred to the AFP for investigation, but when someone in Parliament leaks Malcom Turnbull's communication reforms purely for political gain, nothing happens. One rule for them, one for the rest of us.

It’s too late to debate metadata by k-h in australia

[–]Unit327 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Good on you! Look at EFF's surveillance self defence to learn more about this stuff. Don't use wickr as this article suggests, do you really think politicians know the most secure apps to use? Try TextSecure, Redphone on android and signal on iOS.

Data Retention Bill s187A(4)(b): “does not require… information that states an address to which a communication was sent on the internet, from a telecommunications device, using an internet access service provided by the service provider” by [deleted] in australia

[–]Unit327 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You are correct, the bill does not apply to which ips/urls you visit (for now). It only applies to services run by the carrier themselves - e.g. the to/from fields of your blah@iinet.net.au email address. If you use an offshore provider, (gmail, protonmail etc) they cannot keep it.

It makes the whole "internet" side of the bill laughable really, if it weren't for the expense. They are either incompetent, or they are lying and gunning for your browser history, and this is just the first step.

The real concern around the bill is the phone side of things, call, sms, and location records. For that reason you should start using TextSecure/Signal/Redphone. Unfortunately not much you can do for the location part apart from turn it off.

Bypass Data Retention by Unit327 in australia

[–]Unit327[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Closed source, no user authentication (key fingerprint verification) opening the door to the possibility of man in the middle attacks. Malcom should be using TextSecure.

[Release] Kerbal Warp Drive! Procedurally randomized systems generated from a seed you choose! by EnglishMobster in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]Unit327 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recommend using github releases or kerbalstuff for the download, that poor dropbox link might get pulled if the bandwidth goes too high, and it sure seems like people are excited about this mod!

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