I really enjoyed the writing in 4. And the DLC for 3 was genuinely very good, it’s just the core story that sucked. Gameplay was lovely, aside from the overabundance of legendaries.

4’s gameplay is decent, the story is much better than 3, but overall it doesn’t have the same replayability and it feels like they’ve hurt the variety of the weapons. Overall I liked the game, but the DLCs will need to be pretty good to have me buying into it before they inevitably bundle it all in together for cheap

Wait, is this talking about the movie game for M Night’s AtLA game? Or is it talking about the movie game for James Cameron’s Avatar?

I hate playing this on a N64. I own it, I’ve tried, it’s a miserable experience. I largely chalk this up to it just being the N64 controller though.

With a proper controller, it controls very nicely imo. Inputs are precise and it takes some work to get good but it’s overall still one of my favorite Mario games, next to Odyssey.

Nah, Fakespot was a Mozilla effort. They shuttered it recently, which might be what you’re thinking of

This is also from a period of time where manufacturing genuinely got cheaper over time. Die sizes shrunk for the CPUs, so you could make the system smaller with less waste heat. There pretty much haven’t been those kinds of revisions for modern consoles

I don’t think that’s really the main appeal, honestly. The main appeal is just that it isn’t Apple. And were I someone who didn’t care about the installation of third-party applications, I wouldn’t be running to buy an iPhone. Android is just plain more customizable and if you need a quality of life feature, you’re probably going to find some way to have it.

Pretty much. My bank imposes transfer limits on the web portal vs the app, since there’s purportedly more security in the physical device rather than a web page accessible from any system.

While I don’t necessarily disagree with this, it means those apps also have to be searching for things like “Is USB debugging on? Is this running in an emulator? Is the device rooted?”

None of these are bad checks to make from a security perspective, but by relying on the app on a single device as a defacto MFA hurts the ability to manage personal finances when you’re in a position like this, with Google defining the security requirements of their ecosystem at a higher level than any single app.

I feel like it was the right length so as not to overstay its welcome. It’s a nice narrative experience, with a unique dialogue, but had it kept going I think I would have grown tired of it

I suppose the other missing piece for me is the idea that you need your phone in your hand while pumping gas. It’s a 30 second task that should generally keep your attention anyways.

Turn off your cellphone? Is this a thing you’re supposed to do? The car, I understand. Filling a running vehicle is just plain dangerous, but what does a phone interfere with?

If I remember right, that post wasn’t designed to highlight a practical use-case, but rather to set up a simple task as a “how could I apply this?” type of experimentation. The guy got roasted for it, but I think it’s a very reasonable thing to try because it’s a simple task you can see the direct result of in practice.

The cost problem was highlighted as well, because if such a simple task is a problem, it can’t possibly scale well.

Audio hasn’t worked for me or my friends across Linux or Windows. Been kind of a pain.

It also seems to suffer the XWayland issue in Linux that Discord did for quite some time where it just flat out fails to get screen capture in the desktop app, but works in the browser. Electron pains

Paying for journalism is ideal, but unfortunately makes it difficult to cite/link to a source the way Wikipedia needs as a way to ensure the information remains open and accessible.

Admittedly, I’m not familiar with these outlets enough to know if those paywalls are significant, but the problem with direct article links is that those links can change. Archival services (I suppose not archive[.]is) are important for ensuring those articles remain accessible in the format they were presented in.

I’ve come across a number of older Wikipedia articles about more minor or obscure events where links lead to local new outlet websites that no longer exist or were consumed by larger media outlets and as a result no longer provide an appropriate citation.

It’s frustrating that there isn’t stronger enforcement by the USB-IF about how these standards can or can’t be implemented. The savings of a few pennies for the sake of not including basic fast charging hardware is ridiculous.

The idea that adopting the connector is more important than adopting the standard generates infinitely more confusion than if the connector matched the standard.

The standard is a collection of mostly optional features, with the only real requirements being USB 2.0 speeds and 5V1A power delivery.

However, USB-PD, the actual fast charging standard in the USB-C spec is pretty universally implemented at this point across mobile devices. At the very least, it will always fall back to the standard 5V1A if the device is stupid enough not to support anything better.

PCBWay, the Raid Shadowlegends of electrical engineering projects

I wouldn’t expect that to change. Their primary intention is in building out a suite of tools for use within their own government institutions, rather than a wider audience. If you’re interested in self hosting though, the Github documentation is pretty much all in English

“Visio” is their internally developed video conferencing platform. It’s part of their “La Suite Numerique” suite of software, most of which is open source in large capacity

It is. Currently their code is published under an Apache 2.0 license. There’s links to it on the website, but the whole suite is on Github. It would be nice to see them migrate that codebase elsewhere down the line though

They’ve been building an entire open source suite of software tailored to their needs. If I had to guess, Jitsi isn’t performant enough for large (100+) user meetings in a way they can scale easily. It’s a great tool, but it seems better geared towards smaller loads. Video conferencing at scale is a pretty big challenge.

Between this, their new Docs platform and some Matrix-based chat platforms, I think this is something they’ve put a fair bit of thought into how they want to build. Overall, it’s a cool initiative, but I think it’s pretty clear that it’s open source as a means to be transparent as a government organization rather than to form a platform for broad use by everyone. They do have some self-hosting instructions on their GitHub though.