Raptor

@jblue@mastodon.world @cassolotl@toot.wales it's wildly expensive and extremely inefficient compared to standard systems, the largest they made so far is 14"x20" and require special wired frames, so they don't really replace big glass panels (at least as they currently have them), they did a few test installations which work but are kinda underwhelming, 2% efficiency that really only produces in full early morning and late afternoon isn't much, they were able to light a single room's LED lighting using this array

@ApostateEnglishman @inthehands people from the UK and Europe can definitely directly help more than you might think!. If you still have them cancel your US based streaming services, close amazon accounts, apple accounts, etc, get your friends and family off twitter/facebook. These billionaire owned services are all directly funding tump and this chaos for personal profit. Europe could make a HUGE impact by canceling accounts on Friday en-masse.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social It's crazy how many terrible laws managed to quickly sneak through the system while everyone was getting shot at and protesting. Here in MN they also snuck in opening up mining in state parks and BWCA while half our population was literally choking on tear gas and out on the streets.

@gsuberland@chaos.social @friedrich@vis.social @halcy@icosahedron.website never underestimate the power of walking into a microcenter and looking for sales on the cheapest, slowest barracudas, you can generally get the 4tb ones around $50.

@glassbottommeg probably spring after the young spiders have at least hardenedr. (I guess also in winter if you're careful to not harm any egg sacs, or just move them to a safer place) orb weavers will also rebuild their webs daily so it does vary by spider. I'm pretty sure i've domesticated my house spiders at this point, I can pinch off the web they're hanging on and carry them, stick it to a wall and they instantly start rebuilding, they're massively chill with me moving them around.

@gsuberland@chaos.social @friedrich@vis.social @halcy@icosahedron.website for <$50 per drive and at worst a lifespan of a decade even under moderate loads it barely matters, especially for something like this that's going to be mostly write-once then read only at a moderate rate for 1-2 users you'll get WAY more bang for your buck just going as cheap as possible. Don't forget the second version of the RAID acronym...redundant array of INEXPENSIVE disks

@glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place haven't touched it much in the past year (my friend does the sprite art which is the point at which we were at in decorating the levels and getting combat set up, and she's been busy, plus it's weird how "attend the weekly protest" just becomes a part of life....but that did eat a lot of my time) https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@raptor85/112554666974306138 https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@raptor85/112597265731995869 https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@raptor85/112554657053789307 https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@raptor85/112529050389693707 https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@raptor85/112525066115996421 https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@raptor85/112679753497388180

@susankayequinn "solar power threatening to overwhelm electricity grid" is such bunk too, solar power plants and even rooftop solar have the exact same control capability of any other power plant, better actually than many others which is why they get curtailed before other plant types. The inverters only produce what they're commanded to produce up to the limit of what the panel input currently allows, and it's precisely controlled to manage frequency and voltage on the local grid.

@glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place @jens@social.finkhaeuser.de yeah, i think they coded them with high armor as way to effectively make it like they counter most attacks. Though TBF if they were squishy wandering nukes like they were in other games they might actually be worse in UUW :P

@glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place No real trick, normal weapons hurt it, but it's massively strong and really hard to hit, you're intended to avoid it and level for a while before coming back. It's also in somewhat of an annoying area where most sword attacks will hit the wall and damage your sword instead. (the gazer itself also damages your sword no matter what, so lower stats = more hits = more damage to your gear)

If anyone needs whistles or other safety gear in the St. Cloud area (or nearby) of #Minnesota let me know, I have a fast accurate printer and loads of sealed PETG, among other stuff. I also have plenty of server space and bandwidth if anyone wants to set up web pages for organizing, posting meeting schedules, etc (to get all that stuff off facebook!), I don't mind setting up more complicated tools/servers either. (matrix/masto/lemmy/etc) #iceout #fuckice #stcloudmn

@gsuberland@chaos.social @friedrich@vis.social @halcy@icosahedron.website CMR drives are fantastic, don't get me wrong, but the cost difference doesn't really amount to any benefit if you don't need to constantly be writing large amounts of data to them.

@regendans@todon.eu I still have some CD copies of staroffice, was so much better than MS Office in every way even then.

@a@852360996.91268476.xyz @geerlingguy@mastodon.social I would honestly skip and buy a different one at this point. While you can still do what I did (disable all online features on the printer and never let it register online) there's no guarantee that will be easy on future firmwares and the software is a ticking timebomb that will stop functioning at some point in the future, it may be years, but at some point it'll be so out of date it would need to be run in a VM. I do wish other printer software had better editing though....

@a@852360996.91268476.xyz @geerlingguy@mastodon.social I'm locked in an older version (and a P1S set to be offline) and it's a very powerful program that's super easy to create parts and do edits directly in. (everything else is pushing towards doing the editing in blender which is overwhelmingly more complicated and way more than I'd ever want to deal with). They were legitimately great for a LONG time and the printers are some of the most affordable for their quality, it just sucks they're pushing for online only/drm stuff now

@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net this doesn't affect that many people....until there's an emergency and the cell network is down or degraded and the app fails to notify, or the power grid is down and you can't charge your phone.

@ClarusPlusPlus that's only allowed if it's in bright 90's colors and properly post-processed. https://github.com/LMP88959/NTSC-CRT

@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place @archie4oz@misskey.io Admittedly I mostly know the AE86 and FD mostly because they're the two of the most prominent/ important cars in Initial-D, and this list just makes me want to re-watch it, lol

@ignaloidas@not.acu.lt @halcy@icosahedron.website @gsuberland@chaos.social @friedrich@vis.social a linear volume w/ ext4 cleans up pretty painlessly if a drive in the array fails, the nice part about that setup is you can just dump the torrent to it and not care, and since you can keep the entire torrent structure intact if files go missing or get corrupted you can just resume download on that torrent again. Is it the cleanest, safest way to do things? No, but it's cheap AF and easy, and failures should be rare since you shouldn't really be writing

@gsuberland@chaos.social @friedrich@vis.social @halcy@icosahedron.website oh, I've done worse. I also have some pretty large clusters of SMR disks that have been running for ages, unless you're doing some intensive tasks like using it to record 4k video streams from a security system you really barely see any reliability differences. I use enterprise disks when building large clusters for clients but tbh most of the difference you get in those for the price is the warranty, plus who am i to judge if they want to pay me more.

@glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place lol, my long-long term project's engine/mechanics could literally be described as what would happen if you combined UU, phantasy star, and SMT2. It's paused and I'm working on a smaller game while my artist partner finishes some other stuff but it's why I built a pretty neat raycasting engine I was posting about for a while.

@rr4idic@mastodon.online almost guaranteed still, if you put anything outside be ready to cover them at night, night temps will still dip to freezing for the next few weeks.

@sol_hsa didn't see this until your recent post, I wouldn't mind tossing in a few

@jens@social.finkhaeuser.de @glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place yeah, it's weird but STR doesn't just do raw damage in UUW, if it's too low compared to an enemy it affects your attack/sword/etc skill and your hits get effectively "blocked", so you need both a higher str and a higher skill for that weapon or even hits that "hit" may do nothing but damage your equipment. Gazers may look squishy but you're basically slamming your sword into a powerful creature with rock hard skin so your stats have to be high enough to pierce it's armor.

@glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place not exactly, if you're getting the message when hitting the gazer that your sword is getting damaged you're landing hits, but if you're too low level your damage is negligible and you're mostly just thrashing your sword. It doesn't really get the big blood streaks like some other enemies, you'll mostly see just a quick blip near the top sometimes (it doesn't always happen when you hit it). It's a long fight so you'll chew through equip if you're not hitting heard enough per hit

@EndicottAuthor@mastodon.social @greenpeace@mastodon.social which isn't even true, wind and solar are both extremely profitable and have the shortest turn around from investment to profit in the industry. It's why banks back loads of wind and solar all over the world. What they aren't is profitable specifically for the oil companies, and unlike oil it's harder to manipulate and mandate a global price per barrel to make a secondary killing off "investment"

@BaronessWinter yep! like the Jan ICE protests here we need to ride this into a general strike, shutting down for just a handful of days in mostly just one state caused enough of a panic from corporate America that they actually had to pull back and re-assess if it was worth it what they were doing here. Imagine what a REAL general strike would do. There's nothing they fear more than the loss of money.

@Houl@wetdry.world unfortunately that means it's no longer able to be enjoyed by anyone with disabilities or other accessibility issues but rest assured the waylandmas team has declared that's just intended operation, not an actual bug.

@ignaloidas@not.acu.lt @halcy@icosahedron.website @gsuberland@chaos.social @friedrich@vis.social just set the disks up as a good ol jbod, torrent doesn't need to be broken up then, and no striping so if a drive fails you only need to re-sync files that were on that part after replacing it.

@ignaloidas@not.acu.lt @halcy@icosahedron.website @gsuberland@chaos.social @friedrich@vis.social yeah, honestly the drives and array setup unless you're using expensive 20+ TB drives are less of a problem than physically fitting them, I have some nice 8 port pcie SATA cards that I use for some of my stuff but even on risers having 10 of those cards in a case is, at the very least, a wiring nightmare, lol

@jlw_the_jobber if you want to do any sort of gaming or even just have a wider array of applications you can run on it definitely FreeBSD

@hermannus@stegodon.nl @MsHearthWitch@wandering.shop @brennen@federation.p1k3.com In 45C weather the only clothing that would make biking not feel awful would get you very quickly arrested.

@elduvelle@neuromatch.social @dat@social.g33ky.de @infobeautiful@vis.social EV marketshare in paris is also up to around 20% of the cars on the road, 20% of the cars putting out zero emissions is a HUGE change, considering the scale is a 50% drop from red to green that accounts for most of the difference even before the bikes, especially considering that bike lanes and car restrictions were implemented after the 2020 data point, and covid also helped worldwide push away from commuting to office.

@codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org I have a 2nd gen Lenovo 100e that I installed arm linux on back around when it was new, I vaguely remember the process being really long and really stupid.

@hyc @noodlemaz @IanDSmith (also radio still exists and works just fine for free, local radio stations tend to still play plenty of new music and frankly they seem to have LESS ads than the streaming services do these days)

@lashman @helpsterTee on modern systems aside from GPU (unless you use passthrough) native instructions are basically 1:1 due to processor virtualization extensions, shouldn't see any noticeable slowdown in a vm. I run practically everything in a vm myself (hell, for my job on the industrial side we never do single servers independently anymore, we source bigger vm hosts and a NAS and run all the servers off one host with a file backup to the NAS.

@elduvelle@neuromatch.social @dat@social.g33ky.de @infobeautiful@vis.social most of the timeframe shown is when EV sales were ramping up, 2010-2017 EV sales were on a steady, growing ramp up, then 2017-2025 sales boomed and have doubled every year since significantly displacing gas cars, if anything the data parallels EV sales vs gas/diesel car sales pretty closely (slight benefits between 2010-2017 then exponential increase after)

@fell@ma.fellr.net I use xfce4 and run whatever apps I feel like.

@AngelaScholder@mastodon.energy @timixretroplays@digipres.club and continuing to support paying microsoft for this directly funds this behavior, it's only a matter of time before they raise the price and remove the option anyways.

@vyr@princess.industries @Moosader@mastodon.gamedev.place I like Raptor but it's a completely different type of game, bullet hell is generally more about music and patterns/bosses, raptor was more of just a normal schmup with progression. (not to mention that that's also comparing games made by two of the biggest AAA devs of the time to a one man indie release). Again the main difference is mostly just time, for it's time most of the touhou games stood out for their stunning graphics and music, the fan games are almost 20 years newer.

@vyr@princess.industries @Moosader@mastodon.gamedev.place my personal favorite still both music and gameplay-wise is 8 (i love the "time" mechanic that determines the ending), i even still have my recording of my first extra stage all-clear from 2010 (game was already 6 years old by that time, lol) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axOUY3VX75g&list=PL0E9A92197F85710F

@hyc @noodlemaz @IanDSmith (plus in context of this discussion if you're so far out you can't receive broadcast radio you're also likely not getting a steady enough 4g/5g signal for streaming)

@ryan well, at least now it'll be accessible and likely more searchable.

@kevinrns@mstdn.social @grimjfoot@mastodon.uno @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu @EC_DIGIT@ec.social-network.europa.eu @HennaVirkkunen@ec.social-network.europa.eu it's not a share link, it's just a link to their feed, all they'd need to post is a button with this url "@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu"

@CmykStudent nice! i missed those, made it so much easier to pick an option at a glance. The interface in Gimp 3.0 is just awful out of the box, between the new icons for tools and tool groups it's incredibly hard to tell one from another and which ones you need to select to pick other tools, thankfully they went back and let us toggle them back to the old style, well mostly. Just such a huge interface downgrade from 1.0...

@pollita makes me question why github needs to exist in this chain at all, if everything is going to be done by group/email collaboration again why not just eliminate github from the picture.

@glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place but...you'll also hit less if your dex is too low, and it's likely to kill you, so you really want to go get as much str and dex as possible, basically just ignore it until you have to come back to it and get str and dex levels if you intend to swordfight it.

@gryzor@androiddev.social @tauon@possum.city @fdroidorg@floss.social @bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com @wthinker @don_atoms@hostux.social @marcprux@mastodon.social one of the most annoying ones are parking meters in the city, as annoying as coins are to carry it's not even an option anymore, the newer ones are pure digital and operated by NFC and app so if I have to go downtown for any reason I literally can't park without an android app. That and two factor ident, everyone got rid of their SMS option and requires an app now....