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:

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.

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.”

The “Totally Not Dune” warbond

Mozilla reviewed the privacy of a lot of dating apps. It isn’t very pretty, but there are some that are less bad than others. Article also gives some tips on how to improve your privacy while using them.

Privacy Guides also has a “Reducing the Risks while using dating apps” section in one of their articles.

Side note: I don’t think the commenters who are saying “go outside” have really dated in years. Like it or not, it’s by far the dominant way couples are meeting now, and unfortunately it’s becoming more and more of a requirement in the modern dating scene:

Sure, but it’s also about fun. I don’t think I’m alone in feeling like D6 is much less fun than D10

I’ve been playing mostly D10s for a long time and still only have ~half the warbonds completed

I love that video. One awesome solution he brings up is letting math draw the district lines, specifically the shortest-split line method. There’s also an updated version of the method called Impartial Automatic Redistricting, that uses an approach similar to SSLM, but will only make cuts along the boundaries of census blocks (the smallest geographic unit used by the Census Bureau) to avoid cutting towns/neighborhoods in half, although it can create some odd results sometimes.

However, I think both of these would currently be illegal in the US under the Voting Rights Act for not taking minority representation into account. That is one downside to these methods, even though they’re probably still an upgrade compared to the heavily-gerrymandered system in the US. So in the US’s current system, the algorithms would have to be updated to somehow take that into account.

There are also a few other neat district drawing rules on Wikipedia that he didn’t cover which are worth a read.

I think you will be relieved at how easy it is. A lot of games are flawless on Deck without the developers even targetting Deck or linux at all, since Proton has gotten so good. Here’s Valve’s guideance: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/3001070242218057029

I also miss the gritty, dark, isolated atmosphere that KF1 had. I still had my fun with KF2, but when they introduced robot enemies, sci-fi weapons, and generally goofier cosmetics, it killed some of what made the games feel special

Is that true? It looks like at least some people have gotten AMD GPU passthrough to work unless I am misunderstanding.

Also, as an FYI most VR games worked well for me on baremetal linux through proton. Half Life Alyx, Beat Saber, The Lab, COMPOUND, Walkabout Minigolf, and 2-3 more indie titles all worked. Although I guess you need to have the right headset - I think only the Valve Index and a few HTC headsets work with minimal effort on linux, others might work with a lot of tinkering.

AMD is ideal but Nvidia is fine. Basically any game that would work on AMD will work on Nvidia (only exception I know of is the VR mode of Phasmophobia edit: apparently this was fixed ~1yr ago). Gamepass still won’t work though - blame Microsoft for that one.

That said, Nvidia has more of a performance hit when switching. Ancient Gameplays recently did a video comparing Nobara vs Windows 11, with both the RX 7900XTX and the RTX 4080 Super. These were his average results across 20 games:

RX 7900XTX: 1080p +2%, 1440p +0%, 4k -2.2%

RTX 4080S: 1080p -13.8%, 1440p -13%, 4k -10.2%

So your games will work. They just might run 10%-15% slower until you can snag an AMD card. If you’re interested in fully committing, looks like most used 3080s are going for ~$500 on ebay, so you could probably get an AMD card and get most of your money back.

I had the same audio crackling issues in Helldivers on Pop!_OS too. What fixed it for me was following mmstick’s (Pop!_OS dev) instructions from his reddit post about audio crackling, particularly the headroom advice (I think somewhere between 256-512 worked for me):

If you experience audio crackling, try changing the ALSA properties in /usr/share/wireplumber/main.lua.d/50-alsa-config.lua. Particularly the period-size and headroom. Remove the leading -- from properties you are modifying. Log out and log back in after making changes. Note that any changes to this file will be overwritten on the next wireplumber update.

First start with changing the headroom to 1024, then 2048. Then try adjusting the period-size. Higher values increase latency and may reduce crackling. A lower period size decreases latency but requires more CPU.

Edit: also Pop!_OS uses pipewire by default for a few years now, not pulse audio

I know this is just a meme, but I think it’s an important clarification: The rule of thumb is ~6 months’ worth of expenses, not salary. It really is important to hold you over in case of sudden job loss, since it takes most people 3-6 months to find a new job (but it doubles as a fund for genuine emergencies too, which can save your ass for stuff like unexpected medical or vet bills).

But unfortunately, lots of people live paycheck to paycheck, so for them, a month’s worth of expenses is the same thing as a month’s salary…

When adjusted the way the article has stated, moving your head slightly to see the lines is trivial.

Plus, being parked slightly off-center or dinging a car in a parking lot is nowhere near as bad as causing a potentially deadly crash by merging into another car at high-speed.

I think OP’s wording wasn’t super clear. A bot created the original post on !technology@lemmit.online, but a human saw the bot’s post there, and decided to cross-post it here to !technology@lemmy.world.