Just to expand on this. The app likely isn’t always running in the background listening (since that’s what it seems the op thinks). The push message causes the android system to wake the app to deal with the message. Otherwise it’s not actively running (and you can limit background running in android settings per app).

I had this on the commodore Amiga. It was an absolute classic.

Sir, this isn’t a Twitch.

“Gamers”? Who else do they think is even going to encounter their shit? If the people that are forced to endure your shit aren’t happy, seems like a you problem.

I like the idea of AI. But I want it to be optional.

I’m going to be honest, I’m not a fan of talking to my phone. So I’d not want to use this so called feature. If they force this change this will be my last Samsung phone.

I just hope the other manufacturers don’t follow suit.

They problem is, one company leads and other’s follow. It’s hard to say for sure that this will remain a Samsung “feature”.

This is the answer. If you don’t like live service don’t buy live service games. If the majority have the same opinion there won’t be profit in it.

Games publishers are businesses and they want to make money.

Now in reality I think they make more money from those that are buying microtransactions and so long as that makes them more money than selling a plain single player game, it’s a no brainer they’ll keep making the.

That’s weird. I’m getting to the age where I wouldn’t see the point in 4k, I’d need to have my head on top of the screen to see it. But refresh rate can be felt in fluid scrolling etc and definitely even if only on the unconcious level, improves awareness in games too.

7 digit steam ID and only level 15. Clearly, my life took a wrong turn somewhere…

I would say older than that (well maybe not elite), as much as the tech could handle it you should include:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Esprit

Here you had several town maps, including dual carriageways, main roads, side roads, one way streets. And you could just drive down any of them. They were all nondescript, but the amount of memory really limited what could be done.

There was also the games using the freescape engine. Driller, Darkside and Total Eclipse. These were all about as open world as you could achieve on the hardware of the time.

In terms of “open world” the definition is open to interpretation. I’d argue that text based adventures were open world too in their own way. So it really depends on what features people agree makes an “open world” game as to what the first game that contains all those features was.

There have been “open world” games since the 1980s. Just of course, memory limited how big that world could be, and how much you could do in it. The genre as a whole is ancient.

This was normal back in the days of CS 1.5/1.6. People would play at 640x480 on a monitor that could handle 1280x960 because they could drive 640x480 at like 150+hz.

I would have thought the plastic screwdriver was more likely to be able to adjust variable inductors/capacitors with minimal interference? Using a metal screwdriver you have to adjust, move it away check result since the presence of the screwdriver adjusts the result too.

So between 0 and 20. 😛

EA Ads, they’re in the game!

So if you mind sharing your data, don’t get the shiny. You know it will become like that shiny pony back in wow’s wrath expansion. It told you more about the person than anything else.

I really don’t see the problem, provided it is cosmetic. If you don’t want to link, you don’t get a glittering, whatever in game. If you don’t mind sharing your datas, then you get the shiny thing (and everyone knows you don’t mind sharing your datas).

I think that’s entirely fair and similar to store loyalty cards. You get something in exchange for your datas at least.

I’ve not found many instances where performance in terms of frames per second is worse. If anything on linux it’s more stable with less dropouts.

But, for whatever reason there’s definitely more latency (NVidia 3080 here) when playing for example CS:GO (not tried since CS2 though) on Linux compared to Windows. Not sure where it is being added (possibly the compositor?) but it is definitely noticeable. If I move from playing on Linux to windows I’ll overshoot when aiming for example.

I am not sure activity has changed much. I’m getting around 8 messages on my instance (that’s not actual posts or comments, just inter-instance messages about any form of activity) per second and this has been the case that it ranges between 5-12m/s depending on time of day and day of week. This is not too different to when I started this around a year ago.

Kinda the same, and it’s almost an irony since I’m on my own instance. I must have manually subscribed to this community myself, and I think this is the first post I’ve ever seen on my front page from it.

You can already “tip” aspiring developers, it’s called kickstarter, or just buying their games.

If by developer they mean employee of a game studio, that’s called a salary and it’s the job of the studio to pay. If they mean studio as developer then. Just a second let me get my reply just right. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha no.

OK buddy, I’ll leave you to your online persona :)

Well, in the first line they reference an article from yesterday which made it very clear.

I’m not too sure why the response was so defensive. That point made up a miniscule part of my overall comment and wasn’t even close to the primary subject matter.

Read the article. It’s the UK (which still has most EU employment law active). Now, I don’t think it’s illegal to do what they’re doing. Effectively, I can bet I know exactly how they’re framing this, and it’ll be totally legal.

The calls were almost certainly initiating the redundancy process. That is, technically EVERYONE (probably below management) is being made redundant. As part of the redundancy process, an employer is expected to attempt to find internal opportunities for the employees to be culled, and this new position is what they are likely offering as said opportunity. I suspect this is working around a bit of a grey area in redundancy law. But, I don’t think they’re falling foul of any law. But, I’m not a legal expert.

So, at the end of the required redundancy period (it varies based on employment duration) they will either be let go (with whatever statutory redundancy pay they’re owed) or re-employed under the new zero hours contract.

Personally, I think this has the potential to blow up in their face a bit. It’s not allowed in the UK to employ someone on a zero-hour contract and not allow them to work elsewhere. Such a clause in a contract may be ignored. Now, this could well mean they say “Oh we need you on Wednesday” and you say “Well, actually I’ve already agreed a shift elsewhere on Wednesday” and there’s really not much they can do about it. I also hope the people working there just move on.

The worst thing that can happen is that the parent company benefits from this. It’ll just make other retail companies do the same in a race to the bottom.

Well, procedural when applied to generation of scenery/galaxies etc means to create the exact same thing using random values that are the same random for everyone. It just saves on storage.

But, I cannot tell you how this would apply to recoil. It would only make sense if there were an absolutely huge number of possible weapons.

I don’t know. I saw some reviews, and in the consumer space at least I’m not aware of a device that is putting stuff in shared space fixed in a location and can make virtual screens with the rest of your vision maintained. It’s these things I expect to be copied and homogenised pretty quickly.

That and the price is the problem, in my opinion at least. What it can do looks quite impressive I think and has some nice ideas not really done commercially at the consumer level before.

But, I suspect it’ll be another iPhone. It will rule the roost for a short time and then someone will come out with a comparable product, for noticeably less that will work with other hardware too and connect with other non-apple software.

But, I guess for those in the ecosystem (who already have big pockets already for this kind of thing) it looks really good.

RUSH B CYKA!!!111111

Later. Let’s play global thermonuclear war.

Yes. Counter-strike. Best of 5. 1 map ban each. Go go go.

The AWE32 was the best sound card ever change my mind.

Ah, the good old days of network troubleshooting. Wiggle the cable at the BNC connector until the whole segment comes back to life. Those huge repeater boxes with like 8 ports. Somehow 10Mbit to a Netware server being faster than a local hard drive. Smartdrv fixed most of that though.

Unity: Hold my beer.

No wonder there’s a media crisis that affects all serious medias, the way they traditionally did there job would lead to their death today.

This we can agree on. But the point isn’t so much why, I can’t do much more than pay what I always did for the BBC. It’s more just the annoyance that what used to be a great institution (some will argue) has been run into the ground this way.

It’s probably the same with the degradation of most services now. The race to the bottom is the result of the average person always buying the cheapest option.

The full service airlines for short haul are mostly now offering the same services as low cost for example.

It’s a strange time we live in, at least from my point of view.

This decline started long before 2017, but that’s not even what we’re discussing. If funding is being cut, all that does is shift some of the blame.

But who was at fault wasn’t the topic of discussion. The fact is standards are dropping and it’s noticeable.

I do pay for the BBC.

Actually I think journalistic quality has degraded overall. Not just in technical sites.

The BBC here in the UK I generally counted on well written (if not always technically accurate) articles.

Over the last 10 years or so (maybe longer) this has degraded to articles which have clearly not been proof read.

I put it down to the fact that they need to put out so much content now that proper proof reading isn’t possible. I also think in general there’s a reliance on spell and grammar checking in software.

It would be similar. But would actually potentially need even less power. Since it wouldn’t even need the web browser. Just enough to decode the live stream and encode hardware back. Which is generally included in a lot of SoCs and if not already, they would be.

The main difference is going to be that the entire desktop of everything will be hosted remotely.

They won’t make it illegal, there’s no point. But, it might become impractical.

Imagine this, you have your whole desktop online, you pay for space as you use it, you don’t need to buy drives, your space just expands for your needs. Do you want to play games just for a short time? Well, you can just pay for the time when using a vGPU. In fact, a game could even make requests for a certain amount of GPU power, and you get billed accordingly.

Everything is on the cloud. So, what happens then?

Well, people would instead of buying a PC just buy some low power ARM based terminal. In fact, it’s likely many cloud services would include one at no extra price in the contract.

When the majority of people are using this system. What happens to the now “niche” home computer builders? Well, first parts will become expensive. Making less of the home based stuff will make it more pricey. Choice will become limited. It will be prohibitive to build your own. But also consider that online games might well also prevent you playing on your own hardware. It’s far easier to cheat on your own hardware than it is on strictly controlled cloud hardware.

I don’t think it’ll come to this, or if it does, it won’t be for quite a time even though this is entirely possible now (look at shadow PC for example). But if cloud computing in this form did take off in a big way, this is how it’d likely be and there’d be no reason at all to prohibit home setups. They would just become less practical and affordable all the time.