Not to mentiom that Fandom rejects any attempts by the admins of their wikis to move offsite. If you put up links to the new wiki, they'll erase them. If you start deleting your contributions, they'll revert the edits.
Okay, the responses here are kinda disappointing because folks here seem to be unaware that (1) Mozilla has already added "AI" info Firefox a few versions ago (to provide machine translations of pages), and (2) the way they did it is very responsible (the whole thing is 100% local, no info is sent to other servers).
I understand that we're all tired of this whole trend of language models being put where they don't belong, but from what I see, Mozilla is actually the company I'd trust the most to do it right. (AFAIK, one area where the FOSS world is severely lacking and where Mozilla works to solve it is speech recognition with the Common Voice project, and if they start working on an LLM-based program to do that, I'd welcome it.)
Very yes. Not only are Steam and Proton usable on distros aside SteamOS, improvements from those regularly flow upstream into Wine, DXVK and also the Linux kernel itself.
Not really. . and .. are the only standard directory entries that are added by the system.
Some shells may extrapolate from that by adding ... to go two directories up, but ... can just as well be the name of an actual file or directory.
That's not the actual GTA VI logo, but some fan creation. The logo in the actual trailer seems to consist of the standard GTA logo with a colorful "VI" in a bold sans-serif behind it.
Seems like more of a human mistake -- like one of the designers used a stock image of a clock spiral that was AI-generated...
I heard that in the late 2000s the western gaming press had a very strong dislike for JRPGs, which led to Japanese developers treating the term as derogatory. And while I still think that ideally we'd have better terminology that would try to capture the differences between the games rather than their place of origin (the most famous distinction being that "western RPGs" usually let you create your character and treat them as a blank slate in the story, whereas "JRPGs" usually put you in control of a predefined character with their own motivations and actions in the storyline), I think it's nice that nowadays there are developers who are actually proud of the term "JRPG".
Cinny is the closest to Discord in terms of UI, it even has a feature where you can show subspaces within a space as if they're categories of a Discord server.
These days "games I can play on Linux" is, like, almost every game released on Steam. Install Steam via your package manager or Flatpak, set up your account, and the vast majority of both native and Steam Play-based games will install and run very well. (The only thing worth noting is that while Windows and Mac versions of games are indicated by Windows and Apple logos, Linux native games are indicated by the Steam logo for SteamOS.)
In addition to that, there are free and open-source games that may be available for installation straight from your package manager (or Flatpak). Here are some:
OpenTTD is a clone of Chris Sawyer's Transport Tycoon Deluxe series, but with massive improvements to both UI and game logic. Run a transportation company, move people and cargo from one place to another, make money, expand, compete against AI or human opponents in online multiplayer.
Xonotic is an original Quake/UT-style FPS. I don't play it much, but I have friends who really enjoy it.
"The Battle for Wesnoth" is a turn-based strategy game with gameplay reminiscent of console/handheld titles like Advance Wars, but redesigned to better suit PC gameplay. Has both singleplayer missions and online multiplayer.
Yes, the mobile app supports third-party servers, though I wouldn't call it complicated.
If you want to join a room, all you do is type/paste the full URL to it instead of just the name. "Open in App" functionality will also work regardless of the server.
If you want to host one on a third-party server, you just go into the options and replace the "https://meet.jit.si" address with one of the third-party server. Then when you create a room, it will use that server.
Oh no, yet more work for the Asahi Linux team...
It seems like on Invidious, the default setting is to still have the end user load the video directly from YouTube, whereas Piped defaults to proxying the video through its server as well. I would imagine this makes Piped servers a lot more noticable to YouTube.
For comparison, I wonder how vulnerable Flathub (flatpak's primary repo) is to these kinds of manipulations... Seems like every app manifest there is publicly available and is compiled on their servers, presumably making it easier to spot shady apps and updates, and the submission process requires manual approval.
To be more specific: most often a game would run its physics calculation at the framerate it's designed for, like 30 or 60 fps, and in case it displays with a higher framerate, try and interpolate the graphical data based on the physics calculations. It's possible to make the physics run faster as well, but carelessly adapting things may make things go wrong (a good example is Quake 3, where your jump height changes based on the com_maxfps value).
A racing game that runs its physics at 60 frames per second can, at best, calculate time in 0.016666... second intervals. To have a precise 3-decimal-points clock, a game would need to run its physics calculations at 1000 frames per second.
(It is also worth noting that a game developer can try to interpolate a more precise finish time by looking at the last pre-finish frame position of the vehicle and the first post-finish frame position and calculating at what point "between the frames" the finish line would be crossed, but I don't know how difficult and/or buggy actually implementing that would be.)
Sounds cool, though I'm a bit confused as to why that is such a big priority given that ReactOS currently aims to replicate Windows NT 5.2 (XP x64 / Server 2003), which did not provide graphical set-up*...
* Technically all Windows versions up until, IIRC, Vista had their install process in two stages: a text-based stage where you'd input the most basic info (what filesystem to install onto, what Windows directory to use, etc.) and a graphical stage once the basic files are installed (where you'd be asked what devices the computer has, whether it's networked, date/time, etc.). From Vista to the present day, the first stage is graphical as well. ReactOS' latest release uses the pre-Vista model, but the latest blog posts indicate a move to the more modern one.
I bet this is also why old-timey phone numbers encoded the first digits with letters. The US had the famous ABC2/DEF3/... system that's still displayed on most keypads, and the former Soviet Union mapped the first letters of the Russian alphabet (skipping З to avoid confusion with 3)...
Honestly, with so many departures of staff, including Dan Houser, Lezlie Benzies and Lazlow Jones (who in addition to playing himself in almost every game also writes a lot of what you hear/see/read on the in-game radio, TV and internet), I don't have high hopes for the game.
It not only is still an option, it's the default option.
What are your opinions on Xonotic? It's a FPS that borrows many things from Quake and UT games, features a lot of modes and has an active online community, so I think it could provide a similar feel?
Looks very impressive!
I noticed a really weird variant of this while playing one of the RE Revelations games. From what I remember, the game was set on some fictional island that was supposed to previously have been under Russian or Soviet control, and one of the collectables was a coin with some text that was very badly translated and typed in a Japanese font (these usually have Cyrillic support, but the characters are drawn weirdly, like they're all borrowing from a copy of a copy of some early 20th century book). Then I heard a radio recording in the game, and it was in perfectly-understandable and well-spoken Russian.
So they got a good Russian-speaking voice actor for the game, who presumably could talk to the script-writers and figure out what he was actually supposed to say, but they didn't have anyone else to run the game's graphics through.
Ooh, neat... I remember watching the show as a kid, and the remake seems very cool. Reminds me of "Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap" in the whole "seamlessly switch between original and new graphics" feature...
For a moment I forgot that "lakh" is a number that means 10000 and was thinking "who are the Lakh Indians"?
Think you misunderstand me. Long before texting was a thing, landline phones (with rotary dials!) also had letters associated with digits. This layout was later transferred to keypads, which in turn became the SMS layout.
If you're learning Japanese, then "10ten" is very good. It adds a little "puck" you can use to hover over words and phrases to see their dictionary definitions, readings, etc.
(On desktop, it instead works whenever yoy hover your mouse cursor over a word, but on mobile, that's not a thing. Either way, it's easy to turn on/off based on your need.)
You can use notification settings to "Minimize" any unwanted permanent notifications -- in that way they'll not show an icon in the tray area. (You can also just disable any notification type, but Android is more likely to stop any background task that doesn't display a notification.)
If you're using Linux (or macOS or MinGW or CygWin or MSYS), you can do something like this in the terminal:
xxd -r -ps | base64
The first command will read the standard input and decode hex strings back into raw data, and the second one will do base64 to the output.
If I pass the hex string mentioned in your original post through this command, I get:
Z3nFNDK4ut8Em7nYkkpXhd2IckM=
What the heck is a "unicorn social app"?
Haven't used Chrome or Chromium in quite some time, but sounds interesting -- especially since fully open-source forks of Firefox, such as Fennec, can use Mozilla's sync service.
I guess this is an interesting contrast to Windows, where not only certain characters (like ? or * or |) are banned, but also entire filenames that used to refer to device files in DOS (con, prn, lpt1, etc.)
What you're describing sounds like an issue with either A-GPS (a mechanism by which sat navs can receive initial data over a cellphone connection, without which the initial location search can last up to 10 minutes, but afterwards it will be as smooth as always) or approximate location (a mechanism in which Google uses a huge database of cell tower and Wi-Fi data to quickly get your approximate position).
I would suggest checking the permissions on the OSMAnd app -- maybe it's lacking something that Google Maps has?
If you paste in the complete URL to a meeting ("https://example.org/FourRandomEnglishWords" instead of "FourRandomEnglishWords") or use the "Open in App" link that a meeting's web page shows, then there's no need to.
DuckDuckGo for me personally.
Personally I wouldn't get rid of my primary source of funding without having a ready replacement during a time of financial trouble, but they do them, I guess...
Most Terms of Service don't do that, instead asking you to provide a "perpetual" "irrevocable" "transferable" license for your content -- and while some absolutely stretch the terms to allow them to use it for things like language model learning or shifty monetization practices, such a license is also legally necessary for the website to function at all.
For "open-source" websites like Wikipedia or OSM, the terms are usually even simpler - you agree to license your posts under the same license that they use to distribute it.
As for Fandom specifically, they seem to mostly operate on the latter model -- though you still need an additional commercial use waiver if you want to submit to NC or ND-licensed wikis (which once again goes into the "legally necessary" box).
The same open-source license that lets people edit the wikis and fork them to independent websites without having to ask permission from every single contributor also lets Fandom admins reject attempts to delete or redirect pages.
Thers also the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive version of the soundtrack, which I personally prefer.
oh, sorry.
These days there are mods, such as SkyGFX, that let the PC version of GTA:SA match the PS2's graphical effects, but these obviously rely on GPU improvements that didn't exist back in 2005.
Browser integration works on my machine, which also uses Wayland, so unless you're, say, running Firefox from a flatpak or something, I don't see why it shouldn't work.
So, hexadecimal uses 16 characters. Each character stores 4 bits of data (2⁴ = 16).
If you use the 10 digits and 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, the resulting encoding is called Base36.
It is a rather impractical format for storing data, though, because for purposes of simple conversion, the number of possibilities should be a power of 2 -- that way a program can do (quick) bit shifts instead of (difficult, especially on big numbers) division to determine which character to use. That's why it's mostly used to encode numbers, and not large sequences of data.
Base32 is a slightly-smaller variant that can fit 5 bits of data into one character. (2⁵ = 32)
If you add up digits, uppercase and lowercase characters together (differentiating between upper and lower case), you get 62. This is also an impractical number for computer purposes. But add two extra characters and you get 64, which is another nice power of two (2⁶ = 64), letting one character store 6 bits. And Base64 is a common encoding scheme for data.
And when you know how many bits a character can fit, you can calculate how "efficient" the encoding will be and how many characters will be needed to store data. A Base32 encoding will need 20% fewer characters than hexadecimal, and Base64 needs 33.3% fewer.