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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • Skimmed your history to see if there was any indication of what your hardware/setup was. Slim on details beyond “Linux mint with an old/underpowered CPU”, but I happen to have a Linux Mint machine with an astonishingly bad CPU (Pentium Gold 4425Y, 2 cores, 1.7GHz) and only 4GB of RAM, so I decided to give it a spin.

    Downloaded the demo from steam, changed nothing, hit play, game launched just fine and got to the main menu, but crashed to desktop trying to actually start the game. Tried a bit of tinkering, no dice.

    Did run just fine with no tinkering on two other more powerful machines though.



  • I realised this a while ago, and it’s frankly baffling to me that anyone can pretend it has any direct relationship to how well a company is actually performing. It literally doesn’t matter how well a company is performing, if people buy the stocks the price goes up, if they sell the stocks the price goes down. There is no other factor that matters.

    The fact that people buying and selling usually correlates with a company doing well or poorly doesn’t actually mean those two things are inherently connected.

    See also: GameStop




  • vithigar@lemmy.catoComic Strips@lemmy.worldHey there
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    18 days ago

    Many anesthetics actually have an amnesiac effect as well. If you’ve ever been under general anesthesia then you likely had a minute or two of talking with the anesthesiologist that you will never remember and that last “this is just oxygen” moment is not actually the last moment you were conscious.


  • Alternative read. They’re into watersports and do this at home. He’s holding it because he wants to wait to get home so he can relieve himself that way. She’s teasing him about being unable to make it home to enjoy it. It’s not actually a matter of being uneasy about public restrooms, just the much more understandable discomfort with that sort of activity in public.








  • The default behavior of the Deck in game mode is to output a native resolution signal to the monitor but still run games at 1280x800 and upscale with FSR.

    You can alter the resolution the games will run in via the properties for each game. Naturally what resolution you can run a game well at is going to vary wildly by game.

    In desktop mode it will behave more like a normal PC and just output at the resolution you select just like on any other desktop PC.






  • vithigar@lemmy.catoHumor@lemmy.worldThe writing process
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    2 months ago

    I can get really annoyed when writers get stuff like that wrong.

    I was reading a science fiction novel and just about every time a gun was fired in a vacuum the author included some detail about how the weapons were “vacuum sealed” or some such thing, so that they would fire without oxygen.

    …except guns work just fine in a vacuum already. All modern firearm propellants (and many historical ones) are self-oxidizing and don’t rely on atmospheric oxygen to burn.

    It snapped me right out of the book every time I came across it.