An amazing set of games. Myst and Riven always captured my imagination and I spent hours and hours playing them back when they first came out. Obduction was a really cool throwback, too. Glad to see the series getting the attention it deserves with newer gamers.
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“Planned obsolescence”? Like where the iPhone 7 and on have received 6 to 7 years of software updates?
Yes the Usenet is still a thing. Sign up for server access, sign up to an indexer, set up Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr/Mylar/etc and Sabnzbd, and away you go!
HomeAssistant and OpenHAB are good places to start. I don’t know too much about OpenHAB, but for HomeAssistant you can do almost everything locally.
ESPHome is a good example of a project that they fund where you can use ESP8266/ESP32 devices to create several sensors and other devices for local IoT. They also have a number of ways to bypass cloud requirements for Tuya based devices, Phillips Hue, etc.
Plus this year is “Year of the Voice Assistant” and they’re working on enhancing a locally accessible and hosted voice assistant that doesn’t require cloud access.
Edit: If you’re a DIY kind of person like I am, HomeAssistant offers compatibility with a number of other projects like presence detection via ESPresence, custom firmware for ESP32Cam via Tasmota, WLED for controlling RGB lightstrips and matrices, lots of 3D printing opportunities too. I found it a lot of fun to go through my home and find ways to make things work. Blinds, accent lighting, automations based on time and other factors, etc.
Plus the hardware requirements for HomeAssistant aren’t that high. You can run it on an RPi4b with 2/4/8GB RAM (I would suggest at least 4), a VM that you can expand later and so forth.
It's amazing seeing 2TB M.2 NVME drives being sold for less than what I bought my original 120GB SATA SSD for.
Considering the Steam Deck accounts for a huge portion of Linux installs, I think flatpaks are going to be here to start and only grow in popularity.
I have to ask though, why do people dislike flatpaks?
We’ve known about the X everything app for months now. Elon hasn’t been hiding the fact that he wants to compete with all major forms of social media. Twitter’s acquisition was only the first step. Soon it will be YouTube and Twitch competition, then Instagram, etc.
Growing a community and making it easier for folks to contribute is a critical element of success. We are excited by the interest in working with the CentOS project.
Since Spring 2023, the CentOS Board and members of the community have been working on a set of guidelines to help define what success means for CentOS and its deliverables. Building community and contribution has been a part of the guidelines from day one.
We are excited by interest from new contributors and look forward to working with them to improve the CentOS project, our collective SIG communities, and the Linux ecosystem overall.
The CentOS Board of Directors
They could have fleshed this out a little bit more. This doesn't really say anything.
I don’t have time to maintain an open source project
So just upload the files and let people fork it on GitHub. I don’t understand this attitude. I’d love to have something like this.
Depends on the game. Older games and 2D games I expect 60FPS at native resolution with a lot of the graphical options enabled. Morrowind, Stardew Valley, Doom 3, etc.
Newer games I don’t mind turning down the graphical options to try and score that 45-60FPS. Cyberpunk, Jedi Fallen Order, Skyrim, etc.
I assume they’ll discount it again during either the autumn or winter sales. Maybe both.
Nov 21 - Nov 28, 2023: Steam Autumn Sale Dec 21, 2023 - Jan 4, 2024: Steam Winter Sale
I disagree, but I also don’t have a problem with people or companies being wealthy enough to make or own them, either.
Great to hear. The Intel NUC series was great for some power efficient devices for homelabs and self-hosting. Great upgrade options, too.
I would definitely be happy with that. Some great gaming to be had on the Nintendo 64.
Has anyone seen anything on the DODI release or is it clean?
Very good point. HomeAssistant offers a paid service called Nabu Casa that provides you a secure way to access your entire HomeAssistant instance, including cameras, sensors, you can set up mobile push notifications, and more.
I never knew that was the original author. The game and the book are just an awful (in a good way) experience that left me feeling so gross and hopeless after.
Well there was no such thing as the “iPhone 3”. There was the iPhone 3G or the iPhone 3GS, but no “iPhone 3”.
And this doesn’t prove anything lol an iPhone 3G can still connect to a 3G network and make calls and browse the internet.
Sometimes I forget that Skyrim is that old.
Yes. I would say it was a good game but my heart really belongs to the old school pre-rendered environments and FMV cutscenes.
“Hey! This guy believes people should be allowed to own nice things that they enjoy! Get him!”
Great stats. Thanks for posting!
They also released a version that included all the DLC and then walked back that promise.
I’m excited to see the M3 and what it can do, especially with the rumours from March about the M3’s benchmarks on GeekBench.
Perfect Dark, Goldeneye, Conker's, Mario 64, Mario Kart, Mario Party, just so many bangers to list off. I loved the Nintendo 64.
Also thank you for the reply. I finally got to test out this instance to make sure it's working properly. I appreciate it.
Is there a reason they’re only offering AMD CPUs and GPUs? Why don’t they offer Intel and Nvidia as well?
I’m using Memmy for iOS. Guess I’ll have to reach out to the developers.
So you’re angry that a Google service doesn’t have longevity on an Apple product?
Your argument makes no sense. Who even cares if these ancient paperweights work? That’s not “planned obsolescence”, that’s just hardware and software getting old.
I bought the 8800GTX because it was the first DX10 compatible GPU available, and that thing was an amazing powerhouse. No need to fiddle with SLI profiles, just raw graphical power.
I’m pretty sure that the game has a slightly different ending to the book, as well. I didn’t know he did both. Very few things have made me feel as uncomfortable and unsettled as the book/game.
Hmmm I haven’t tried linking anything yet. Might as well here:
Edit: it didn’t do anything…
Grim Fandango (and Monkey Island) are definitely staples of the genre.
Is there any risk of getting banned by installing it using this method?
I looked for this integrity check file and ran the power shell script and I don’t see it listed anywhere on my system’s roaming folder nor in the list of applications with cpu usage.
I finally picked up Graveyard Keeper and all the DLC. Really fun game and plays great on the Steam Deck.
That I did know. I played through a few of them and each of them were as bad (in a good way) as the others. I think evoking that type of emotional response was the idea of the series, book and game, however. They’re not meant to give you good feelings, but cause conflicting emotions.
Stellar series, like I said before. Absolutely enjoyed it.
Cool story, bro. You hate boats and the people that enjoy them. We get it.
Sir, we’re talking about boats.
Electric boats seem like a great idea, especially with all the pollution the really large cruise ships put out. I’m happy to finally see this become mainstream. On the water there’s nothing to really get in the way of solar panels, either, so it makes sense to have them for charging.