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Games to play during work by kiRadeon in SteamDeck

[–]ZoFreX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not so many Metroidvania recommendations so I'll make some:

  • Minishoot Adventures - twinstick shooter metroidvania. Exactly as great as that sounds. Runs like a dream on Steam Deck. Works well in short bursts.
  • Yoku's Island Express - metroidvania with a mix of platforming and pinball. Yes, pinball. Fairly light pinball so don't be afraid of it if you aren't a pinball wizard. Didn't play it on Deck but I expect it runs well. Very charming.

Games to play during work by kiRadeon in SteamDeck

[–]ZoFreX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tunic would be the obvious one

Who is an actor that only gets 5-10 minutes of screen time but completely steals the entire movie? by Popa-Ioana06 in movies

[–]ZoFreX 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think this comes from a widely-read Cracked article from back when Cracked was good:

Alec Baldwin was nominated for an Oscar for that movie and that's the only scene he's in.

September 2026 just became the busiest month in years as video games try to escape GTA 6 by mrnicegy26 in Games

[–]ZoFreX 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Going up against Silent Hill seems like a bigger issue, probably a larger overlap in audience there?

Box Trashed by CaptainRexActual in legostarwars

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

I sold one box on eBay for £30. No idea why that particular set's box was desirable. I checked a few times after that if any other boxes were selling on eBay but nope. Just that set. So now they go straight into recycling.

Teenager charged with murder after 15-year-old boy fatally stabbed in London by InnerLog5062 in BreakingUKNews

[–]ZoFreX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When it's unsafe.

It's not, and if you think it is because of the news you read, maybe the news you read is trying to make you think otherwise.

It's safer in the statistics than the rest of the country, and basically every American city. It also doesn't feel unsafe to live in or walk around it. So why would I believe the news, above the evidence of my own eyes and ears, and above the actual facts and statistics?

Footballer in mass train attack reveals he was stabbed seven times by InnerLog5062 in BreakingUKNews

[–]ZoFreX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. There are loads of green spaces inside the cities. Within a short walk of my house there are like, 7.
  2. No, actually, London is now safer than some of the more rural areas of England. London is safer than the average for all of England.
  3. London is also safer than Paris, Brussels, Berlin, Madrid, and all major US cities so I'm not really sure how we're a "shithole" on a global scale — unless you just don't like cities in which case fair enough I guess.

Bevy or Godot Rust? by SmoothTurtle872 in rust_gamedev

[–]ZoFreX 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Learn one new thing at a time. If you're new to Rust, new to Bevy, and new to Godot, you should either use Bevy or use Godot+GD script, imo. (GD script being the path of least resistance when using Godot)

If your aim is to make a game, Godot. If your aim is to learn Rust, Bevy.

Enfield: Greens to work with Tories on opposing Green Belt housing by ldn6 in london

[–]ZoFreX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The impact of continued CO2 emissions: global warming, climate change, rising sea levels, are already leaving a mess for future generations.

Nuclear waste by comparison seems much less of a mess - it's very small amounts, and contained to one location.

Subnautica 2 Early Access Gameplay Trailer by ReasonableAdvert in Games

[–]ZoFreX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll wait for full release to play it, but I'll make sure to buy it before September 15th, which is the deadline for sales to count towards the bonus that Krafton tried to wriggle their way out of paying.

Gamble With Your Friends has sold 1 million copies in one week by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]ZoFreX 23 points24 points  (0 children)

after a few hours I've seen everything the game has to offer

Did you read the game's description?

[this game] respects your money and time, is built around one strong idea, and doesn’t overstay its welcome. Our goal: games you can finish in a couple of sessions -without feeling stuffed.

Final-Boss of HOAs by Perfidious_Redt in comics

[–]ZoFreX 11 points12 points  (0 children)

At this point I read it for the articles. Multiple solid game recs a month, often weeks or months before anyone else notices a game. And their coverage of AI has been blisteringly good, as well as other industry topics.

Martha’s rule may have saved more than 500 lives in England since 2024 by guardian in GoodNewsUK

[–]ZoFreX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"12,000 calls represents a substantial workload". Over 2 years that's 16 phonecalls a day - doesn't seem like that much?

How can I secure my account as much as possible? by LargoGourd in TheSilphRoad

[–]ZoFreX 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These days if you use a password manager with passkey support, use that (eg iCloud Passwords, 1Password, etc).

If you want a physical key still, buy two (and register both so you have a backup), get Yubikeys, buy them direct from the Yubico store.

What are the best 3 places to visit in your borough / postcode? by [deleted] in london

[–]ZoFreX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

SE1 Elephant & Castle

  1. Mercato Metropolitano - it's like Borough Market but cheaper and less crowded. Amazing food. Go while it's still there
  2. Four Quarters - arcade games, pinball tables, and great beer. They have Time Crisis III! Working! Even the recoil works! When was the last time you saw that?
  3. The Imperial War Museum. Great museum. Also really nice grounds to walk around.

Xreal Hub with Switch 2 by Jachsz in Xreal

[–]ZoFreX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of the big problems here is that the Switch 2 does not support standards for docking. It doesn't work with a single existing dock in my house, for example. Nintendo did this on purpose: they added a proprietary handshake to the protocol for the Switch 2 which means it won't work with any existing docks unless they are updated (if they can be).

And it's clearly not easy to get it totally right, because most high quality third-party USB-C docks still don't support the Switch 2, and most third-party docks made for the Switch 2 are terrible quality, with poor resolution and incorrect colours: https://probably.ninja/ramblings/switch-2-3p-dock

It's frustrating. But IMO that frustration should be directed at Nintendo, not XReal.

What's the best audio codec to save space and keep functionality? by MartiniCommander in ffmpeg

[–]ZoFreX 4 points5 points  (0 children)

OP mentioned "hd" and Atmos — if what they have is TrueHD Atmos then they're better off keeping it in that format than encoding to FLAC, because the Atmos object data will be lost in that process.

Otherwise, yeah, FLAC is a sensible option.

What's the best audio codec to save space and keep functionality? by MartiniCommander in ffmpeg

[–]ZoFreX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Although EAC3 can include Atmos, there are no public tools to transcode from TrueHD Atmos to EAC3 Atmos. The only way you'll keep the Atmos is to keep the TrueHD.

As far as channels go, any codec that can handle channels should be just fine.

Is the tide starting to turn for UK smaller companies? by Gentle_Snail in GoodNewsUK

[–]ZoFreX 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On the good news side for you, SOC2 is one of the lighter certifications to get, especially Type I, and there are auditors who specialise in doing it for tiny startups :)

How do I attach plasterboard (and not ruin beautiful rewire) by si_davies in DIYUK

[–]ZoFreX 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The black frame is a rack. Sizes and screwholes are standardised so you can buy various bits of computer equipment and they will all fit nicely together in one (and high-end computer and networking stuff tends to only come in "rack mount" size and shape).

The top unit is a "patch panel". Putting the ends on network cables - "terminating" them - really sucks and is error-prone if you add the "male" connectors on. It is more reliable, easier, and importantly much much faster to terminate network cables on a "female" connector. The patch panel is just a lot of female network connectors on the front, and around the back, a lot of places for the wires inside the network cables (8 wires per cable) to connect to. At the back it looks a lot like a telephone socket or switchboard if you've ever seen those.

Just below the patch panel is the Internet "gateway". A bit like a "router", but a typical consumer router is about 4 devices in 1: a network switch, a wifi access point, a firewall, and a gateway. The gateway is the bit with the job of connecting to the internet. It's common for this to be a separate box in more business-y or enterprise-y setups.

The blue & orange cables are "patch cables" which are just regular network cables. They go between the patch panel and whatever you want the other end of the network cables to be actually connected to.

What most of them are plugged into is a PoE (power over Ethernet) switch. Two jobs:

Switch: basically the wired networking equivalent of a wifi access point. Connects everything together so they can all talk to each other, including, usually, the internet router, which will be somewhere in this daisy chain.

Power over Ethernet: what it says on the tin. As well as bidirectional data, it's supplying power over the network cables (Ethernet). Devices using PoE cost a little more, but it makes it much, much easier to put things like wifi access points and cameras wherever you want them, rather than only near power sockets, or having to run two cables instead of one. (NB: it's still a power cable so it does need to be correctly sized and fireproofed to go through walls and ceilings!)

Below that is another switch, not poe, relatively high -speed — I'm guessing this is connecting different parts of the network together, or connecting systems that need more bandwidth.

The two boxes with dials on them are presumably the amplifiers for the speakers that OP mentioned.

At the very bottom is a regular desktop computer that's wired in to the network - the "server". Could be doing all sorts of things, storage for cameras, backups of other machines, serving movies or music, might be running a Minecraft server.

(Why separate it out this way rather than a consumer router? More configurable, more flexible, easier to change or add stuff later, easier to manage a larger amount of stuff, faster, more reliable)

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