Man, imagine how hard people worked to make sure that perfectly good hardware would turn into a useless paperweight one day.

It Follows

I like that it’s such a simple concept for a horror movie, but it’s still highly engaging for the audience.

Yeah, on the one hand it seems pretty clear that they’re trying to prevent competition/disruption and protect domestic car manufacturers’ sales. On the other hand, I don’t think I want China to end up with a monopoly on EVs.

Between a rock and a hard place, as they say.

narrator told me there’s a star—which might be a stone, which is also a goddess. A goddess of destruction, even! She’s bad, but she was shattered, and some people have pieces of her, which could be good—but maybe only if you’re bad?

Elden Ring sweats profusely

I think it’s great to see forks of Godot start happening, so we can see what out-of-the-box additions the community can think of.

But I will be floored if this repo gets a single feature of substance submitted to it.

Make sure to check out the params on it. I noticed by default it disables the ability to switch tty via the keyboard shortcuts. Seems the main use for it is in “kiosk mode”, so they don’t want users to be able to escape the app easily. There’s a param to disable that so you can still pop over to another tty (I forget what it is off the top of my head).

I’ve found cage to be really convenient when you want to run a single app from a tty. 5s to start gnome + ff is pretty good, though. Not sure how cage would compare.

https://github.com/cage-kiosk/cage

What wayland compositor do you use for that? Have you tried cage?

Sounds like a creature that would have a lot of creepypasta written about it.

Best to wait until the last second and switch cold turkey. What could possibly go wrong?

It’s only insane if you have them all running at once.

If you don’t like something, that’s fine. They made the product they want, they’re free to do that, and you’re free to not like it.

Just know that art has always driven social discussion, and it’s always been met with heavy social opposition, just usually in the form of outright censorship. So historically artists had to be subtle in order to be critical without being censored. In order to see more edgy stuff you had to go to small, barely funded art house shows.

But then the internet happened, and suddenly artists weren’t beholden to a small number of elite entertainment corporations. Art containing more openly progressive ideas can now be shared directly with the masses, the masses are now preferring progressive ideals more than ever before, and naturally corporations making entertainment products now have a financial incentive to cater to that demographic (often called “virtue signaling”). Today you see a mix of corporate pandering and actual art, even within the development teams of a mainstream product like Dragon Age or Disney. Some messaging feels honest, others feel ham fisted because it’s pride month.

But the censorship of the pre-internet days existed for a reason. A lot of people feel uncomfortable seeing things that challenge their status quo. People tend to seek comfort, and they just want their entertainment to leave them be. But now that corporate censors are less of a barrier, and now that progressive ideals are proliferating, the people themselves are backlashing. They say things like, “it’s way too much woke agenda, I’m tired of it. I want to watch a show without having the story be about woke issues.” I think that’s also normal.

I think the backlash is two fold: On the one hand, real art challenges the viewer, which can be exhausting when you just want to be entertained before you get a few hours of sleep and go back to work in the morning. But on the other hand, you do have what offen feels like a disengenuous layer of progressive pandering coming from corporations that you never saw before. And no one likes being pandered to, let alone not being pandered to.

I think this corporate pandering towards progressive ideals is new, the terms we use to describe everything are definitely new, but the tendency for art to expose people to progressive ideals and the tendency for the masses to be conservative and resist change are as old as humanity. And I view the two as a social evolutionary yin and yang, keeping each other in check.

“Sorry, we can’t work on your machine unless your story goes viral. Just policy, you understand.”

Whole article? It’s 10 sentences.

Haven’t tried it myself but Tiny Glade just came out and looks like something that might fit that vibe.

Or Dorfromantik

I would agree with you if we’re talking about something like the ability to search a car, where the cop is not allowed to without the owner’s permission (assuming no probable cause or warrant). In that case the cop usually figures out a loophole to manufacture probable cause or manipulate the owner into agreeing to a search. And then there’s nothing a lawyer or judge can do later, because it’s the cop’s word vs yours.

But if we’re talking about a law that actually says the cop cannot take your phone no matter what, and they do, then any public defender would be able to point it out and the judge would certainly have to enforce it. I can’t think of a way the cop would abuse their power because, in this case they don’t have it.

I could be convinced based on the actual wording of the law, though.

It’s much more worrying how often face unlock works with a simple photo.

Bought a Pinecil a few weeks ago. No problems.

Goodwill asside, their games just aren’t even fun. They’re all the same game loop:

• walk around listening to an unskippable dialogue
• climb to the top of something to clear out part of the map and place a bunch of markers on it
• go to the various markers to collect pointless garbage
• fight some trash mobs with a very generous parry-based combat system
• complete the next main questline
• get a weapon upgrade you’ll immediately forget about
• repeat

Ooo I just found out element added support for drop-in/drop-out voice and video rooms. That’s the real killer feature they’ve been lacking I think. Will have to try it out.