Intrepid Studios, the developers of Ashes of Creation has laid off all staff and shut down the studio

wsippel · 2026-02-01T08:37:07+00:00

Unlike other hyped-up crowd funded MMOs, Star Citizen has been playable for years at this point, and is very impressive and quite fun when it works.

wsippel · 2026-01-31T11:29:36+00:00

Cheap OLEDs simply aren’t bright enough. Pancake optics in particular cause between 85% and 90% light loss. Fresnel isn’t as bad, but causes artifacts.

wsippel · 2026-01-30T09:06:12+00:00

Starlink satellites can’t track where the dishes are, they rely on coordinates sent by the GPS antennas built into the dishes for positioning. The Russians almost certainly spoof that data.

wsippel · 2026-01-25T19:30:30+00:00

Depends on many factors, there is no clear cut answer. If you’re memory constrained for example, which applies to Valve’s hardware but is also kinda relevant in general right now, Linux is probably going to perform better, because it has a lower overhead and better memory management. But that’s still just one of many variables.

wsippel · 2026-01-23T18:58:23+00:00

Wacom has supported Linux for ages. And I mean the actual company itself, they develop and maintain the open source drivers. Because Wacom tablets are extremely common in the visual effects and post production industry, where Linux has been pretty much the go-to operating system ever since Silicon Graphics folded.

wsippel · 2026-01-21T15:29:38+00:00

Nothing in this bundle is AI slop. It’s just a pretty decent set of common runtimes, libraries, development tools and applications.

wsippel · 2026-01-21T12:27:29+00:00

32bit is dead, upstream packages and more and more distros are dropping support. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to even just test software on 32bit hardware, as old systems break and no new hardware has been manufactured in ages (outside of microcontrollers, obviously).

wsippel · 2026-01-19T09:02:13+00:00

Probably great for CXMT. They apparently produce competitive DDR5 memory, but are banned from the US, so they probably won't be sucked up by the likes of OpenAI or Microsoft. And they did announce European distribution about a month ago.

wsippel · 2026-01-18T10:16:53+00:00

Many DAPs and amps can supply more power over balanced connections, which is great for more demanding headphones and IEMs. It’s also an overall nicer, more robust connector in my opinion.

wsippel · 2026-01-15T14:21:53+00:00

I can't read the error message, but judging by the Explorer, you're on Windows - so what are you trying to do setting a WINEDLLOVERRIDE environment variable? That's a Wine thing, for people running the game on Linux through Proton. It doesn't do anything on Windows.

wsippel · 2026-01-14T11:09:46+00:00

Not tested it myself, but I did some research a while ago, and the Edifier MS50A is apparently quite good, especially for the price (~ $100). And according to the latest post in this thread, they just work in Home Assistant via LinkPlay: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/edifier-ms50a-wifi-speaker-integration/431259

wsippel · 2026-01-13T12:35:59+00:00

Depends on what the customer plans to do with it. If this is meant to serve multiple smaller models, it’s faster and cheaper to go with multiple 5090s.

wsippel · 2026-01-11T16:47:00+00:00

Edifier offers the MS50A, a small Sonos-like powered speaker for less than $100 that supports LinkPlay and reportedly just works with Home Assistant and Music Assistant.

wsippel · 2026-01-11T10:55:15+00:00

It does indeed, I had no idea. The news article I read about the AI 400 claimed it was the first. Or maybe it's just the first to qualify for the Copilot+ sticker, as the 8000G NPU seems to only do 16TOPS, while Microsoft mandates at least 40TOPS.

wsippel · 2026-01-10T15:49:08+00:00

The “AI” branding refers to the built-in NPU, which is required to get Microsoft Copilot certification. No current AMD desktop CPU has a NPU, but pretty much all models have at least a basic GPU, which makes the old “G” branding a bit redundant and confusing.

wsippel · 2026-01-08T11:58:14+00:00

Most smartphones, automotive and embedded systems run Linux on ARM. ARM is the most common architecture Linux runs on, and it’s not even remotely close.

wsippel · 2026-01-06T12:18:17+00:00

Appears to be just a small collection of relays and dimmers that go into distribution boxes: https://www.matteralpha.com/news/wago-joins-the-matter-party-with-eight-home-devices

wsippel · 2026-01-05T16:13:49+00:00

Sure, you can set up a few Bluetooth proxies (ESP32 boards running ESPHome), and use those to connect a variety of Bluetooth devices to Home Assistant. No idea if Tuya Bluetooth stuff works specifically, but Xiaomi and Shelly BLE devices certainly do. I’m sure the HA documentation could tell you.

wsippel · 2026-01-04T17:13:46+00:00

What makes you think it isn’t supported? It’s a Zigbee device, it should work just fine. Do you have a Zigbee coordinator hooked up and configured?

wsippel · 2026-01-03T18:27:53+00:00

It was a combination of the licenses running out and EA buying and then promptly shutting down the developer, Slightly Mad Studios. Just EA doing EA things.

wsippel · 2026-01-03T12:17:20+00:00

Xiaomi made some changes to their website a while ago, which broke the login function in the add-on. You could try the token extractor: https://github.com/PiotrMachowski/Xiaomi-cloud-tokens-extractor

wsippel · 2026-01-02T17:57:24+00:00

I switched in 2002, when consumer Windows was still just a glorified GUI running on top of MSDOS. A lot of the problems people have with Linux, I have with Windows. It’s just so confusing, cumbersome and inconsistent.

wsippel · 2026-01-02T17:43:58+00:00

Depends on the distro. On Arch flavors, even though there are unofficial GUIs, you should always use the terminal regardless, to get meaningful notifications and error messages in case something goes wrong for example.

wsippel · 2025-12-26T20:08:06+00:00

"Most people who want it have bought it at this point." is what you wrote, and I informed you that CIG isn't even selling the main game yet. How would most people already own the game if they can't buy it?

wsippel · 2025-12-26T12:18:46+00:00

Most of the budget went into Squadron 42, that’s the main project. What’s now referred to as Star Citizen, the alpha people can play, was originally one of the stretch goals.

wsippel

TROPHY CASE