On one hand, the Valve Index launched for $1000 in 2019. Adjusted for inflation, that is $1306.25. And you needed a powerful PC to be able to use it, where this can be used standalone. Only effectively costing an extra $194 for standalone processing is pretty impressive.
On the other hand, it is difficult to justify this price considering cheaper headsets on the market, like a $600 Meta Quest 3. Unless you dislike Facebook that strongly (justified).
It will probably be on sale during the summer sale, which starts on the 25th of this month. Up to you on if waiting 11 days is worth saving $30 per copy.
It's from the 2006 movie Monster House. In the movie, the guy just finished helping a kid, and then decided to steal the kid's snack and eat it right there in front of him. I think the face in the meme was originally supposed to be a kind of "what are you gonna do about it?" face, but people now use it for disappointment / dread / concern.
The version we see here is "AI enhanced" so it's somewhat deviated from the original.
This might work OK for simple period tracking, but for more advanced fertility tracking, it's not really possible to do pen-and-paper without being a huge pain.
For example, the open-source, local-only app Drip optionally uses a "sympto-thermal method" to estimate when a user is fertile; the app takes not just the days they are on their period into account, but also their body temperature, cervical mucus values or cervix values, and throws those inputs into an open-source algorithm for much more accurate results.
Doing all that on pen and paper might be possible, but it would also be a bit of a nightmare.
At the time of writing, it seems Drip is the best option on both iOS and Android. The app is free, open-source, and all data is completely local. Honorable mention to Euki as well
At the time of writing, it seems Drip is the best option on both iOS and Android. The app is free, open-source, and all data is completely local. Honorable mention to Euki as well
Other than Fedora Atomic derivatives (like Bazzite) and of course SteamOS, the only big one I can think of is NixOS? It's certainly not tailored to gaming, but it does look like 2.4% of ProtonDB users run it
Personally, mostly concerned about surveillance capitalism and mass surveillance. But I pose this more as a hypothetical for what "you" (the average lemmy user) would think is the lesser of two evils
Fraud is briefly discussed in the wikipedia page, but from the video, he's able to estimate that 75%+ of the coffee sold as kopi luwak isn't kopi luwak at all, it's just normal, cheaper coffee marked up a ton.
And of course, the remaining <25% that is real kopi luwak is ripe with civet abuse.
So please don't drink this coffee. If you're that interested in gut-processed coffee, do it yourself like that guy in Portland (but I still wouldn't recommend it).
Our testing shows that for the small percentage of players still using mechanical hard disk drives, mission loading times have only increased by a few seconds in the worst cases.
Only a few seconds difference?
Further good news: the change in the file size will result in minimal changes to load times - seconds at most. “Wait a minute,” I hear you ask - “didn’t you just tell us all that you duplicate data because the loading times on HDDs could be 10 times worse?”. I am pleased to say that our worst case projections did not come to pass. These loading time projections were based on industry data - comparing the loading times between SSD and HDD users where data duplication was and was not used. In the worst cases, a 5x difference was reported between instances that used duplication and those that did not. We were being very conservative and doubled that projection again to account for unknown unknowns.
Now things are different. We have real measurements specific to our game instead of industry data. We now know that the true number of players actively playing HD2 on a mechanical HDD was around 11% during the last week (seems our estimates were not so bad after all). We now know that, contrary to most games, the majority of the loading time in HELLDIVERS 2 is due to level-generation rather than asset loading. This level generation happens in parallel with loading assets from the disk and so is the main determining factor of the loading time. We now know that this is true even for users with mechanical HDDs.
To anyone wondering "what is First Past the Post, why is it bad, what are the alternatives, and how do they compare?", this is the best explaination I've read on it: https://ncase.me/ballot/
Doesn't bank account information have to be exchanged for an ACH transfer? Seems good between people you really trust (although definitely less convenient), but I'm not sure I'd be comfortable exchanging bank info with an acquaintance.
Thanks for the suggestion. At first glance it does seem "less bad" than most of the other options, assuming it works on custom ROMs. I think the problem will be finding others that also use it, since it doesn't seem as popular as the other options.
On one hand, the Valve Index launched for $1000 in 2019. Adjusted for inflation, that is $1306.25. And you needed a powerful PC to be able to use it, where this can be used standalone. Only effectively costing an extra $194 for standalone processing is pretty impressive.
On the other hand, it is difficult to justify this price considering cheaper headsets on the market, like a $600 Meta Quest 3. Unless you dislike Facebook that strongly (justified).
You don't have to use Gnome on Cachy or Fedora. Fedora has spins for nearly every DE, and Cachy also has an option for nearly every DE on install.
No. This company actually had a legal dispute with Meta when they rebranded from Facebook: https://www.the-sun.com/tech/3983498/facebook-meta-name-trademark-battle/
Not owned by Meta. This company actually had a legal dispute with Meta when they rebranded from Facebook: https://www.the-sun.com/tech/3983498/facebook-meta-name-trademark-battle/
Looks like it goes on sale for $10 every 1-2 months: https://steamdb.info/app/489830/
It will probably be on sale during the summer sale, which starts on the 25th of this month. Up to you on if waiting 11 days is worth saving $30 per copy.
It's from the 2006 movie Monster House. In the movie, the guy just finished helping a kid, and then decided to steal the kid's snack and eat it right there in front of him. I think the face in the meme was originally supposed to be a kind of "what are you gonna do about it?" face, but people now use it for disappointment / dread / concern.
The version we see here is "AI enhanced" so it's somewhat deviated from the original.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/reginald-skulinski-eating-disappointed-monster-house
If you put any stock in IMDb ratings, this may be useful to evaluate each season: https://seriesgraph.com/show/1399-game-of-thrones
This might work OK for simple period tracking, but for more advanced fertility tracking, it's not really possible to do pen-and-paper without being a huge pain.
For example, the open-source, local-only app Drip optionally uses a "sympto-thermal method" to estimate when a user is fertile; the app takes not just the days they are on their period into account, but also their body temperature, cervical mucus values or cervix values, and throws those inputs into an open-source algorithm for much more accurate results.
Doing all that on pen and paper might be possible, but it would also be a bit of a nightmare.
PrivacyGuides has a section about this on their website: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/health-and-wellness/#menstrual-cycle-tracking
At the time of writing, it seems Drip is the best option on both iOS and Android. The app is free, open-source, and all data is completely local. Honorable mention to Euki as well
PrivacyGuides has a section about this on their website: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/health-and-wellness/#menstrual-cycle-tracking
At the time of writing, it seems Drip is the best option on both iOS and Android. The app is free, open-source, and all data is completely local. Honorable mention to Euki as well
Other than Fedora Atomic derivatives (like Bazzite) and of course SteamOS, the only big one I can think of is NixOS? It's certainly not tailored to gaming, but it does look like 2.4% of ProtonDB users run it
Personally, mostly concerned about surveillance capitalism and mass surveillance. But I pose this more as a hypothetical for what "you" (the average lemmy user) would think is the lesser of two evils
Blade Runner 2049
There's an informative James Hoffman video about this.
Fraud is briefly discussed in the wikipedia page, but from the video, he's able to estimate that 75%+ of the coffee sold as kopi luwak isn't kopi luwak at all, it's just normal, cheaper coffee marked up a ton.
And of course, the remaining <25% that is real kopi luwak is ripe with civet abuse.
So please don't drink this coffee. If you're that interested in gut-processed coffee, do it yourself like that guy in Portland (but I still wouldn't recommend it).
It's not just for SSD users, it's for everyone:
To anyone wondering "what is First Past the Post, why is it bad, what are the alternatives, and how do they compare?", this is the best explaination I've read on it: https://ncase.me/ballot/
Doesn't bank account information have to be exchanged for an ACH transfer? Seems good between people you really trust (although definitely less convenient), but I'm not sure I'd be comfortable exchanging bank info with an acquaintance.
Thanks for the suggestion. At first glance it does seem "less bad" than most of the other options, assuming it works on custom ROMs. I think the problem will be finding others that also use it, since it doesn't seem as popular as the other options.
I think you missed the part of my post where I said "it isn't always a reasonable option to use cash or mail a check."