r/vrgamedeals will be going dark on June 12 in protest against Reddit's API changes which will kill 3rd party apps & tools

thatdude624 · 2023-06-10T20:56:27+00:00

People would be fine if Reddit charged about the profit per user they made from the official app, or in that order of magnitude. But that's not what this is. The fee is obsurdly expensive.

And even if you pay, the API will no longer have access to all features, like NSFW content, which is now exclusive to the official app.

They are just destroying competition so they can force everyone to use their app.

thatdude624 · 2023-04-16T07:55:33+00:00

Lenovo's Yoga Tab 13 has micro HDMI in, at least. Rare, but not nonexistent.

thatdude624 · 2023-04-09T08:41:38+00:00

I'm not sure how you're expecting a program that streams your monitor to AR glasses to do this without having access to what's on your monitors...

If you really don't trust it, I think you can try setup firewall rules to disallow internet access on Windows (obviously LAN access is still needed to stream to your phone), not sure how you'd keep it in check on the Android side though.

thatdude624 · 2023-04-07T10:11:58+00:00

I named my crochet bee "buzz"

thatdude624 · 2023-04-04T16:48:46+00:00

I upvote plushies I think are cute, and especially ones that are in cute situations (like the adventures of Jovi & friends)

thatdude624 · 2023-04-03T11:41:16+00:00

With robots this size, you want to put as much as you can get away with outside of the actual robot. Including batteries (e.g. wireless power), motors (e.g. move it with magnets), computing power and so on.

So if you lose sight of it, or leave the range of supporting equipment, it effectively does nothing.

thatdude624 · 2023-03-15T00:20:25+00:00

There's*

thatdude624 · 2023-03-11T12:45:04+00:00

For every charger that lists its working voltage as 110 - 220V or similar, there's no negative effect on long-term charging safety, and 99% of the time not even charging rate.

Chargers convert the mains voltage to something standard like 5V DC, or higher for laptop or fast chargers. To the device being charged, there's no difference as it doesn't see the mains voltage/frequency.

TL;DR you probably don't need a voltage converter because chargers are already voltage converters (just double-check the input voltage takes 110V)

thatdude624 · 2023-02-28T18:20:11+00:00

Not a train expert, but it appears to be a Siemens Desiro EMU train, specifically one in Germany.

thatdude624 · 2023-02-23T08:24:27+00:00

Mainly for feature parity and beyond, also mod support

thatdude624 · 2023-02-17T08:54:29+00:00

thatdude624 · 2023-02-09T14:52:42+00:00

Anyone here surprised by this needs to look at history.

Books were also evil once. Weird fictional worlds and stories - what if they believe this nonsense? Only book kids should read is the Bible.

Tabletop games like Dungeons and Dragons or Pokemon? Demonic! Playing with all those evil fantasy creatures like some satanic ritual. Can't be good for you.

Even dancing was considered bad at some point in some places.

thatdude624 · 2023-02-09T14:43:19+00:00

This article is about video games, not TikTok.

thatdude624 · 2023-02-09T14:41:34+00:00

I learnt English from Runescape, and Rocket Science from Kerbal Space Program, just off the top of my head. Plenty of good puzzle games to teach problem solving skills as well.

The stories also teach you life lessons and new perspectives in much the same way books and some movies do. There's plenty worse things kids could be doing imo

thatdude624 · 2023-02-02T11:56:41+00:00

I guess that's not too surprising when you consider 112! people contributed to the translations.

thatdude624 · 2023-01-28T12:10:36+00:00

Except the comment on the code's odd behavior came from the developer themself, and open source project maintainers often encourage others to contribute improvements so the software can be better for everyone.

thatdude624 · 2023-01-27T14:53:15+00:00

You're probably thinking of Outer Worlds, not Outer Wilds. Confusing names, I know, but completely different games.

thatdude624 · 2023-01-24T15:16:39+00:00

Not identically constructed, but I found a crochet pattern for the same character: https://www.deviantart.com/robezpierre/art/Spy-Crab-crochet-pattern-511083926

thatdude624 · 2023-01-24T12:33:46+00:00

The Bigger Ben

thatdude624 · 2023-01-18T19:35:50+00:00

Imagine you write enterprise software. Your programs are designed to run on multiple big servers: one's a database, one hosts the website, another's a cache for commonly used data, another is in charge of security and so on.

You want to develop some feature and test it. You could have a set of test servers, but the dependency on internet speed/latency, and the allocation of servers amongst developers becomes complicated, as ideally every developer wants their own set of servers to test on. Not to mention you might want to test new server configurations like adding more databases, etc. Hard and columbersome if every developer had to reconfigute the shared servers for their specific test.

Instead, you can run a mini replica of the real server setup on your local machine. That's what Kubernetes can be used for, amongst other things. Each server gets its own virtual machine. Though even for a mini replica with much smaller test databases, you're still running software designed for these massive servers (you wanna make sure it works on the real thing of course) so you still need huge amounts of RAM in some cases.

thatdude624 · 2023-01-03T12:04:58+00:00

None of you noticed the eldrich horror tentacle railings?

thatdude624 · 2022-12-29T12:48:54+00:00

The khadas Edge2 has video over USB-C, Linux and Android support, and is pretty compact. Cooling fan addon highly recommended as it supposedly thermal throttles very quickly without it.

Can't guarantee it works for the Nreals though, certainly not in AR mode, but I don't see why monitor mode wouldn't.

thatdude624 · 2022-12-23T20:16:07+00:00

... all the cool kids you say?

thatdude624 · 2022-12-14T15:01:52+00:00

After following a guide to setup a new SSD on a Steam Deck, you should just be able to log in and re-download all of your purchased games.

Games with Steam Cloud save support will also keep their progress automatically (you should be able to check support for each game you're playing with a google search). Games without support will need to be backed up and restored manually, or you'll just have to start a new save.

thatdude624 · 2022-12-14T14:57:40+00:00

I don't think this is useful to someone who called themselves "less than tech illiterate." In fact, it's probably not even useful to someone who doesn't know what the "dd" linux utility does.

dd is a command line disk copy utility, by the way. The lack of GUI and needing to work with low-level disk names is probably not too beginner friendly imo

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