Pxtl

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[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've never even heard of this before. Is it mostly a rendering library or is it a full game framework like Godot or Unity?

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Wait they're still there? How the hell are they still there?

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago

And thanks to the AI customers you can't afford it anyways.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, likewise. I'm upset about the terrorism of Hezbollah or Hamas, but Israel has quite obviously decided that two wrongs make a right and so is using this nightmare as an excuse to land-grab and settle scores, and the civilians in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon are suffering for it.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Honestly the 2nd analog stick I didn't mind too much because the face-buttons made a decent D-pad for the tiny handful of shooters on the DC. The bigger flaw was the lack of 2nd shoulder-buttons.

Also that putting a screen into a controller has always been a solution looking for a problem. It was on the DC, it was on the Wii-U, and there's a good reason they abandoned the idea to put a screen on the PS4 touchpad controller.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

Don't worry, Ontario voters are still overwhelmingly supporting the pcpo, I'm sure things will get better.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I can't help but notice the stark contrast between the rate of improvement to Lemmy vs the glacial pace of work done on Mastodon. Lemmy seems to embrace the "move fast and break things" ethos so much better than Mastodon which just crawls at implementing critical functionality. Which is funny, I follow Dessalines and Gargron on various platforms; Gargron seems like a much more sensible and reasonable and decent person so this is kinda disappointing.

This is a social network. It's recreation. I want you to move fast and break things. That's how Facebook won. You're not going to chase down the gazelle by walking.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 6 points 5 months ago

So after everybody saying the Liberals were going to lose this fight, Google flinched.

I mean, I'm still not sure this is good policy but it is nice to see the haters proven wrong.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

Source? That would be exceptionally bone-headed messaging to say out loud, and while the Liberals are masters at cramming their feet in their mouths (Freeland in particular) that level of pooping-out-toes is beyond even her.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This feels like a workaround for a core problem: Media (particularly games) are no longer transferable goods.

What's needed is a proper legal standard WRT resale-ability and server support. Clear requirements on what a piece of software must be able to do without its private and impossible-to-acquire cloud server, and clear requirements on allowing transfers of ownership of non-recurring-subscription-based digital goods.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago

The PM should make more than the people who run crown corporations. 80 of Canadians are wrong.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I have a gwatch 4 and the hardware is fine. The flaw is Google's half-assed android fork WearOS, and then the layer of Samsung software that somehow makes it worse.

You could have infinite memory and processor in there and it wouldn't solve the jank.

 

(note, Title copied from Global's Twitter post on the article, which more clearly explains the concern, unlike the Headline).

 
 

Well, the dryer has been disassembled and vacuumed, the dead coil removed, the new coil swapped in, ready to reassemble as soon as the new belt arrives. I was surprised how much of the brown shmutz in the heater was just ash from the coils - it dusted off quite shiny after I replaced the coil.

Before

busted heating element before

After

repaired heating element

I'm a little worried about the visibly duller part of the heater assembly, hopefully that won't absorb too much heat - I tried to cluster the coils a bit looser there to compensate.

It's even visible on the reverse side.

dull area where burn happened

Either way, I'm reassembling tomorrow when the new belt arrives.

dryer interior

 

I feel like I have a moral responsibility to attempt to repair anything before making it waste. So I'm trying my hand at the dryer. Sadly I didnt' realize that the whole tub joint pops upwards so I detached the tub from the join and then found the join comes off pretty easy anyways.

Anyhow, everything is made of garbage these days:

Photo of disassembled Kenmore stackable washer

Photo of broken heating coil

But I think I can replace that. But while I'm in there: any recommendations on how to lubricate the tub joint? Anything else I should be replacing while I've got it apart? I noticed the tape sealing up the exhauste has disintegrated so I figure I should replace that with a strip of aluminum duct tape.

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