MouldyCat @ MouldyCat @feddit.uk

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Bethesda (and other companies) don’t owe anything to the very small community of modders

Disagree. I bought Skyrim VR (even though I already had the non-VR version) only because mods exist which make the game worth playing in VR. Same for Fallout 4 VR - would not have bought that without mods.

God the UK is desperate if getting a shitty company like this on the books is something to be celebrated.

why do you say that lol the ads def seem to be for paid positions?

yes we can make an assumption that that is indeed what they think, but that's not actually what they said with the sentence "This wouldn’t hold up in modern court let alone Victorian age court". So perhaps they accidentally used incorrect phrasing, but even so, the logic doesn't follow - if something doesn't hold up in modern-day court, that tells us nothing about whether or not it would hold up in Victorian times, when standards of evidence were indeed lower.

But once you leave Steam [...] it gets a lot worse

Heroic Games Launcher is pretty great for games from GOG and Epic. You can run games with Proton just fine.

The other posters seem to have bad experiences, so I'll chip in with my more positive report @Kraiden@kbin.earth. TBH I was expecting VR not to work all that well, but I was keen to try so I bought a second-hand HTC Vive, the very first model. Picked one up for €280 on ebay, which is a typical price or was two years ago.

I was pleasantly surprised by how well most VR titles work. TBH I pretty much only play VR now. I always check ProtonDB before buying any game, which is a good idea in general but especially so for VR. The VR games I play most are Elite: Dangerous, Skyrim, Dirt Rally 2, Half Life 2 (a free VR mod is available on Steam), IL2 Sturmovik (a WWII flight sim) and Pistol Whip. VRChat works great as well. I've got a little way into HalfLife Alyx, but put it down because reloading guns in the dark is too much to handle whilst simultaneously being attacked by zombies with headcrabs. That's not a Linux issue, just me struggling to remember the reload process under pressure. I have played a fair bit of No Man's Sky, but performance is pretty awful. I'll be trying it again after reading this news about improved support for it, but I'm not expecting much TBH as VR apparently has poor performance under Windows too. I've got about 5 or 6 other VR games which all work fine but just don't grab me.

I can't think of any games that have issues - only thing I can think of is the free VR Labs "game" made by Valve, which has an "Item Shop" zone which has never worked. Every other part of it works perfectly though.

Of course, the OG Vive is definitely showing its age, with a very noticeable screen-door effect - it's like playing games in really low resolution. So I will probably upgrade soon - there have been rumours about a new headset from Valve - the Deckard - if that does make an appearance it might be my cue to reach for the wallet, because the other well-supported headset is the Valve Index, which is getting kinda old now (it'd still be a lot better than my Vive of course). Well, actually there is also the gen 1 Vive Pro.

No other headsets have native support in Linux - you have to mess around with Monado or ALVR - this may well be why the other posters have had poor experiences. To reiterate, your best bets for VR on Linux are the OG HTC Vive, the gen 1 Vive Pro or the Valve Index.

I think everything is expensive in the Nordic countries

I want to add my tuppence worth as well. Even if one day we have a justice system that can be 100.000% certain of guilt AND 100% certain that there is no chance of rehabilitation, I think we should still not have the death penalty, because I don't think spending the energy and time killing individuals in cold blood is a healthy way for a society to behave. This Rudakubana guy may be some kind of monster, but that doesn't mean that acting monstrously towards him is somehow acceptable.

If you'd have left it @caboose2006@lemm.ee, it would've become a mighty oak. You Westerners are weak. Who wouldn't want a mighty oak growing out their dick?

Sadly this doesn't work reliably - an increasing number of sites still manage to block it. Also it prevents other sites from working properly.

My impression from when I’ve encountered this is that it is an attempt to repel bots.

hmm bots don't use keyboard or mouse copy & paste so I don't see how that makes sense?

my impression is this is just stupid product managers who don't understand why it's a bad idea to force all your users to manually type out their passwords or email addresses just because of the 0.1% of people who would copy and paste one with an error in.

Yes you're right, sorry I went off on a tangent about the reasons for the intense negativity in the Lemmyverse about LLMs. I've been using lemmy for four years, and definitely don't think there has ever been any positive feelings towards LLMs here, especially as ChatGPT's arrival predates the first surge of users on Lemmy (and the subsequent appearance of all the instances we see today). On reddit, yes, and there are still many people there who still think OpenAI is great.

I think it's another example of "internet bubbles" - people with similar views tend to congregate together and this is particularly true on the internet, when going elsewhere is always just a mouse-click away.

When ChatGPT first launched, Lemmy was still pretty much a ghost town, and it did cause a lot of optimistic excitement e.g. on reddit. Lemmy got a big surge in numbers when reddit did its infamous API changes - enshittification driven by spez's and other reddit executives' insatiable lust to exploit the site for more and more money.

Perhaps for this reason, people on Lemmy are more averse to the enshittification trend and generally exploitive nature of large tech companies. I think this is what people on Lemmy object to - tech companies' concentration of power and profits by ripping off the general public - not so much the concept of LLMs themselves, but the fact they could easily be used to further inequality in society.

It's interesting isn't it? "Guys" can include women, and can even be a group of only women, but you can't talk about a single woman as a guy - "I snogged this gorgeous guy last night".

I'd say these books are important for anyone studying American literature - and probably essential for anyone studying American literature of the 20th Century.

They're not so important for Welsh pupils and don't need to be included in a general English literature syllabus for 15-year-olds in the UK. The reasoning outlined in the article for choosing not to include these sorts of works in the list of required and optional texts for this specific qualification is pretty convincing IMO and I completely support it.

No books are being banned from schools or anything like that. The article headline is I suspect just trying to get clicks from the anti-woke crowd.

The book hasn't been banned, it's just not been selected as a required or optional text in a new English qualification for Welsh schools. Steinbeck is a wonderful author and story-teller, and his stories provide a useful insight into America's difficult recent past in regards to racial segregation (as well as other issues such as oppression of the poor). America is an important country, and it's useful to understand why it remains such a damaged society with deep racial divides even today, but it's not Wales is it.

And coconut milk. We now have to call that "non-mammary coconut secretion"?

I'm planning to buy this game this weekend. There's a community mod for it that brings it up to date with enhanced graphics, QoL fixes and VR support - https://www.xwaupgrade.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=13107

Only a couple of quid on GOG right now - https://www.gog.com/en/game/star_wars_xwing_alliance

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