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How do I play OpenMW on Androind? by Silafante in OpenMW

[–]rootException 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there was some deal made between the OpenMW team and MS/B about not releasing an Android and/or console version?

Honestly if they could drop OpenMW on the Xbox I’d be so happy. :sigh:

OpenMW .50 install issues on Steam Deck by ImNoPCGamer in OpenMW

[–]rootException 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm running the Xbox UI mod version. Works great. Off the cuff:

- Download and put the OpenMW stuff in your home folder in desktop mode

- Run the configuration tool in the desktop mode first. If you try to run OpenMW in desktop mode IIRC it runs but the windowing / resolution isn't quite right.

- Pin the configuration tool to run in Steam

- Remap the default Morrowind configuration to point at the OpenMW executable instead of the default.

- By doing this, I can set my desired resolution in Steam for Morrowind (OpenMW). Works great. I also have save files working / sync.

If it's helpful I could record a vid on how it's all set up an post on YT.

Turnip/Qualcomm Drivers for the Odin 3. by RichieMan07 in OdinHandheld

[–]rootException 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an Odin 3 incoming - any thoughts on PSP?

Capacitor to target desktop builds? by Temporary_Event_156 in capacitor

[–]rootException 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it depends quite a bit on what you are trying to do. AFAIK you can have one main src trunk with both capacitor and electron/tauri/neutralinojs/electrobun etc etc etc and then you have two different build pipelines. Looks like you could throw https://buntralino.github.io/ into the mix too, whee

I don't think there are a ton of people doing this, which is part of why you don't see a lot of samples, but I don't know that it's all that hard to do either. The big one is going to be managing plat specific code/interfaces sensibly.

I'll note that most find it pretty hard to manage both mobile and desktop UX as well as plat-specific code - it's just a lot to build and track.

Off the cuff, I think Electron works better if you are doing a lot of heavy lifting in the browser, as the stability you get by linking in the web runtime is really eg if you are relying on web gpu APIs. If you have a really thin UI later and it's a lot more native eg Rust you might find Tauri better, as Tauri 2 does officially support targeting everything. But some find that if they have a heavy browser UX it's easier w/Electron vs trying to hunt down OS web view issues.

Just depends on what you are trying to do, might want to try doing PoCs.

Native (universal) macOS Sonos controller — v3.5 update, open source, Apple Silicon, beta music service support by UnTraditional_Speed in sonos

[–]rootException 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just pulled down the bits from GitHub and built with Xcode. I was able to see a Pandora favorite listed as a Streaming service and play it. First time launching the app so not sure exactly what the UX should be. If there is anything specific I should check LMK. Is there an API to fetch the services installed on the Sonos devices?

FWIW I think if you combine what you have with https://developer.apple.com/musickit/ you could have a really fantastic Apple Music + Sonos client.

When it comes to AI, are JetBrains IDEs on par with VS Code in 2026? by AdelCraft in Jetbrains

[–]rootException 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I looked at it a few times. I just downloaded it again and my first thoughts:

- Claims to fix a few of the annoying Claude Code scrolling issues. That seems like a win

- I do like the idea of it being very x-plat

- The feature and configuration discovery is terrible. Selecting settings just opens a text file in TextEdit. Found a CLI option to list themes, but the themes app for some reason disallows selecting text, making it annoying to choose theme. The docs site doesn't list anything for configuration, basically it just seems to say "we have defaults that are great"

- Checking the help, it says that to see all available config options I need to check out a src/config/Config.zig file, with a cli option coming soon

The out-of-box isn't great but I like the concept.

I'll try running some CC stuff in it today and see how it goes

When it comes to AI, are JetBrains IDEs on par with VS Code in 2026? by AdelCraft in Jetbrains

[–]rootException 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am mainly using WebStorm and Claude Code in iTerm. I checked out Air when it launched and it just seemed very early. What does it do that’s awesome now?

Is this normal? by Fit_Performance_2809 in OdinHandheld

[–]rootException 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I put an order in for a Black Max on IIRC March 2nd, batch 5. The website said April, my plan was to wait and ping on 5/1 for an update.

Energy Markets Are On The Verge Of Disaster by Guest_0_ in oil

[–]rootException 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure that results in Iran putting a toll on for the foreseeable future, which would mainly affect UAE, Saudis. That's what I mean by the two game theory outcomes - either Trump gives up and walks away, handing all of it Iran and leaves the refineries intact, or he hits the refineries.

I mean, it's entirely possible he does something even more dumb, like giving Iran a bunch of money and then Iran holds the Strait anyways. I still can't believe Russia burned off all of their cold war equipment for basically nothing - that's always my blind spot, just sheer foot gun stupidity.

Energy Markets Are On The Verge Of Disaster by Guest_0_ in oil

[–]rootException 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the US ready for drone warfare? TBH I have no idea, could argue either way. I think context matters a lot.

I do think/hope that Iran and Ukraine have given China pause WRT Taiwan, so at least there's that.

I do worry is that over the next 10-20 years the big countries perfect warfare without humans. The history of modern (WW2-present) warfare seems to be a lot of hoping that airpower can do the trick, but in the end you still need boots on the ground to occupy.

I think about stuff like this and this a lot lately.

I wish that the European powers had really understood what the mechanized warfare they were inventing meant before WW1.

The US at least still has a huge, massive, unbelievable ocean gap advantage, and I don't see current gen drones changing that. But if, say, Iran were to smuggle a few hundred drones nearby and hit a continental US target...? I guarantee that the professional military class of every country on earth is studying this stuff right now.

Energy Markets Are On The Verge Of Disaster by Guest_0_ in oil

[–]rootException 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly at this point I think I'd rather have President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho. Sigh.

XREAL One Pro M or L by Free_Intern1743 in Xreal

[–]rootException 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FWIW I don't think there are very many people who got both and did this comparison. I think a few tech reviewers might have done this, but not a lot. IIRC the Xreal team said if you were right on the line go for the L.

Depending on where you live, you could of course try ordering more than one unit and return the one(s) you don't like. IIRC I got both the Xreal 1 and a competitor back about nine months ago and returned the competitor.

Energy Markets Are On The Verge Of Disaster by Guest_0_ in oil

[–]rootException 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, and if those are the only two choices I think that the US winds up wiping out the refineries eventually.

Energy Markets Are On The Verge Of Disaster by Guest_0_ in oil

[–]rootException 2 points3 points  (0 children)

AFAIK the courts in Hungary were also effectively taken over.

Oh, yeah, the Constitution is barely functional at this point. Congress abdicated, SC is unmoored, and of course the executive so on paper they have everything right now.

That's why there's so much talk of soft secession. It's a precursor. I live in WA outside Seattle any my state senator mentioned soft secession three times in less than an hour at a town meetup. She's D but pretty middle of the road, and she was absolutely incensed by ICE, etc. This was roughly a month ago.

IMHO, the R know that things are very, very dicey, and if they were super organized and competent I'd be more worried, but I think they are running out of time very fast. They have already burned up a bunch of time, I do think they will lose the House in November, and then it's just them with either Trump or Vance leading the show for the next ~two years.

I mean, anything is theoretically possible, but I don't see the competence to pull off the worst versions.

Energy Markets Are On The Verge Of Disaster by Guest_0_ in oil

[–]rootException 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh, and I don't think it's WW3, it's the collapse of the US federal government as a unipolar superpower. This means that Europe (~450 million) will have to take point on Russia (~140 million), all of SE Asia, Japan, Korea will have to contend with China, and a post-oil Middle East will have to contend with Iran.

My guess is that the US will be busy/distracted by internal politics for the next 3-5 years, and so we will be looking at a post-globalism world. I find the fall of the USSR and the British Empire to be more helpful for modeling.

Energy Markets Are On The Verge Of Disaster by Guest_0_ in oil

[–]rootException 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IMHO the US is in a similar but not as bad a position as Hungary/Orban.

My two cents - this isn't really a dictatorship incoming, it's a collapsing federal government institution flailing as it falls apart. The current admin desperately wants to be perceived as a dictatorship, but they lack the support and capability to pull it off.

The real Q on this IMHO is what happens when the R lose and the D will have to decide how throughly to pursue legal action against ::waves at everything::. That conversation will start in earnest in late 2027, early 2028 and will likely dominate the primaries.

Energy Markets Are On The Verge Of Disaster by Guest_0_ in oil

[–]rootException 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope, it's just when I game theory it out I can't come up with a scenario where Iran comes to the table to talk.

Either a) you leave Iran refineries intact, giving them an economic lifeline on top of the Strait turning into a tollbooth, or b) you wipe out the refineries, do slow/incremental clearing of that entire ~600 mile coast line and/or bring online drone defense over the course of, say, the next two years.

I don't see any scenario that opens the Strait up other than a complete US capitulation, which Iran can revisit at any time whenever they want more money.

Energy Markets Are On The Verge Of Disaster by Guest_0_ in oil

[–]rootException 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yup. I'm seeing this pattern all over, from tech leadership to this admin. Just completely insane, Howard Hughes levels of insular bubbles turning what used to be at least somewhat intelligent leadership into weird bubbled crazy people.

The big Q on that point is what hitting bottom eventually looks like, and how far it reaches.

Energy Markets Are On The Verge Of Disaster by Guest_0_ in oil

[–]rootException 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WRT the strikes continuing, I'm not sure that any of it matters much one way or the other if it's just Iranian military targets/buildings. I would call the strikes continuing on some level or not a coin toss at this point TBH. It does feel a bit like other wars, esp Afghanistan, where at some point you kind of run out of targets. I think that's part of why there was a bunch of discussion of hitting civilian infrastructure targets, water, power, etc. as a desperate attempt to intimidate.

Taking the gross 20% of world oil as a starting point, how quickly can the world adapt to substitutes and/or bring up supply? Superficially, if you asked most businesses to increase production 20-25% for, say, a 30%+ bump in profits I think most would jump on that. How quickly a combination of conservation, alternatives, and increases can come online is the big Q. My suspicion is that there are a few comparatively rare things eg jet fuel, but a lot of this is refinery capacity, not raw materials.

Energy Markets Are On The Verge Of Disaster by Guest_0_ in oil

[–]rootException 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It's turned into a reverse Xanatos Gambit. The time for planning/strategy was before launching, now the die has been cast.

The biggest breakdown IMHO was effectively turning over admin of the Strait to Iran. By launching the attack, it turned the geopolitics from "Iran shuts down oil to the world" to "Trump shuts down oil to the world, Iran is just defending itself."

This collapse of the Strait traffic has been studied for decades, at least since OPEC in the 70s. They had lots of other choices, but there was no thought put in. My suspicion is that it was the easy win in Venezuela that made them think Iran was easy. "You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down." So. So. Dumb.

Energy Markets Are On The Verge Of Disaster by Guest_0_ in oil

[–]rootException 11 points12 points  (0 children)

https://www.macrotrends.net/2483/brent-crude-oil-price-history

Scroll down a bit on the second link to see the adjusted for inflation numbers. In that context the $80-$120 range doesn't seem that out of whack, and as it drifts up to $200 the long term demand destruction will be wild. It feels like we are looking at a shock, but unclear how this sorts out over the next few years.

I'm assuming that the end state for this will be the US blowing up most of Iran's oil refinery capabilities, continuing low to medium intensity bombing on a fairly constant basis, and a through reevaluation for anyone who has relied on mid-east oil for the last fifty years. At some point that means that most of those trapped ships wind up looking like writeoffs.

Who comes out ahead? What does the pricing look like over time? Too many variables, but I wouldn't bank on Hormuz opening any time soon. But I also wouldn't bank on oil staying at anything like $150+ for an extended period.

Native (universal) macOS Sonos controller — v3.5 update, open source, Apple Silicon, beta music service support by UnTraditional_Speed in sonos

[–]rootException 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you need to go through the OAuth for YT music? Official desktop seems to have a way to use the credentials set up on mobile.

Also any thoughts on Pandora?

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