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nottheengineer,

It was already discovered that that was a big and game devs need to fix it manually for now.

nottheengineer,

The solution is simple: Create lobbies by ping and then split the teams by skill. I think titanfall 2 does that, I’ve been playing for a long time and if I meet another veteran, they are usually on the other team.

nottheengineer,

If you’re bad at a multiplayer game, you’ll die a lot. That’s just part of it. Any good game will give new players a way to fight good players (TF2 has the anti titan weapons for example).

Poorly designed games will punish bad players for being bad (like unavoidable COD killstreaks for example).

SBMM is just a band-aid for a problem that lies much deeper.

nottheengineer,

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Win is one of the most windows things that could happen. You just press some keys that should do nothing and boom, microsoft ad. I hope the EU version of windows will be stripped of that crap.

nottheengineer,

Can you Alt+F4 with one hand? If not, it’s a yes from me.

nottheengineer,

Both full size, right?

nottheengineer,

But it’s nothing special, those things were built like absolute tanks. You could kill someone with an early model M and then go right back to typing.

OLED Steam Deck Announced, Pre-Orders Begin 16 November @ 10 AM PST (store.steampowered.com)

64/512GB LCD models are being phased out and are permanently on discount until sold out. Seems the 256GB LCD will remain while 512GB/1TB OLED are the other new SKUs. There is also an extremely limited limited edition 1 TB OLED that has a new color way, exclusive to the US and Canada.

nottheengineer,

I’m tempted, the screen is 0.4" larger and that’s my main gripe with the deck. I’m surprised that it’s a bit faster and also a little annoyed because they wanted to keep the hardware around for a long time to make a stable target for game devs. Now that target will be the OLED and devs won’t care much about the old one, so early adopters will get more stutter later down the road.

nottheengineer,

They chose a 90hz screen and put that in the fine print? Alright that’s it, anyone want my old deck with gulikit sticks and a jsaux backplate?

nottheengineer,

I don’t get why cyberpunk is consistently that high on the list. It barely runs playably on the deck.

nottheengineer,

1% lows below 30 is what I call unplayable. Consistent 30 is my absolute minimum.

In fact, 1% lows below 30 would disqualify almost any other game from even being rated playable by valve. But having cyberpunk run on the steam deck when it doesn’t run on a PS4 is a good sales pitch, so it’s clear why they verified it.

I wonder how different the list would look if it wasn’t verified.

nottheengineer,

What a shame, I wish they had some spare money to pour into elite. It’s a great game that deserves some love.

nottheengineer,

It’s an MMO, you can’t just go out and mod that. You could mod it visually, but that would eat into their profits from the store so it makes sense to not allow that as long as the game gets updates.

nottheengineer,

But that’s how politics work nowadays. You need to assume that every group is homogenous and when someone from that group points out that it isn’t, you call them a hypocrite.

ROCKSMITH 2014 LEAVING STORES - Ubisoft (www.ubisoft.com)

You may want to know that Ubisoft’s Rocksmith® 2014 Edition will be de-listed from Steam and other online stores after October 23rd, 2023 which is one week from this post date. This is a game that makes learning to play the guitar like Guitar Hero/Rockband, which can score you or let you slowly practice a part with scrolling...

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And that’s what makes this bad. A game that’s perfectly playable and even has a community is taken away by greedy Ubisoft. This should be illegal.

nottheengineer,

No, it’s morally obligatory.

nottheengineer,

They shouldn’t be required to keep selling it, but they should be required to strip it of any DRM when they do stop selling it.

That way everyone wins. They can get out of the market at minimal effort and players can still enjoy their games.

nottheengineer,

The package name is correct, but signal was never on F-droid.

Do you have a third party repo that might be compromised?

Edit: Package name isn’t correct, so that’s almost definitely a compromised version. Get rid of it ASAP.

nottheengineer,

I missed that, thanks for pointing it out. The one without S is the correct one.

But that makes me wonder, how did OP not end up with two signal apps then?

nottheengineer,

VScode is the epitome of the EEE strategy. The core product is open-source, but it’s filled to the brim with tracking and the official extensions have DRM. Yes, there’s DRM on your python LSP.

Anyone who gives a shit should look for alternatives right away. The problem is just that there aren’t any that are as easy to set up.

nottheengineer,

Why would union members ever vote against authorizing a strike?

nottheengineer,

Thanks for the genuine reply. I thought union members trust their union to manage the strike fund well and decide when an actual strike is necessary, but that’s apparently not the case.

nottheengineer,

I never noticed, ublock origin seems to be doing its job.

nottheengineer,

If you’re just soldering switches, any iron will work just fine.

If you’re buying a bare PCB and plan on soldering all the components onto it, you will definitely want a beveled tip.

Louis Rossmann explains why in this video: m.youtube.com/watch?v=F05DvDJ4roM&pp=ygUXbG91…

nottheengineer,

They had three days of load testing and the infrastructure still failed on launch.

Sounds like the devs knew it wouldn’t work but management insisted on launching anyways.

nottheengineer,

It’s sad that this is necessary. And given that it took less than a week for modders to get actual performance gains means that bethesda could’ve easily done it themselves.

nottheengineer,

They are sabotaging their own sales by not doing it. Starfield is such a hyped game that many people who don’t usually game much will want to play it and those people tend to not have the most up-to-date hardware. The PC I built in 2018 for about 1100€ is pretty much exactly the minimum spec for starfield. And given that minimum specs usually target 30fps for some reason, I’d need this mod if I wanted to play it at a reasonable framerate.

nottheengineer,

Agreed, but it’s easy to understimate how ignorant most people outside the hobby are. Hardware Canucks once made a video about the basics of it and a third of it was just plain bullshit. The comments were full of praise, not a single criticism in the first 200.

I honestly believe some people will take this article at face value because they don’t know any better.

Thumbstick/joystick for gaming

I’m currently designing a hot-swap hub+spoke keyboard, and I’m thinking a little ahead about the gaming keyboard module. I’m considering using a thumbstick instead of what would be the WASD cluster, alongside ample surrounding keys for RTS and other such games that have big hotkey configs....

nottheengineer,

WASD needs three fingers to operate, a stick just has room for one. There’s also a reason why controllers have them set up for the thumbs at not for any other fingers.

I’d say it makes a lot more sense to put one in the thumb area and leave the WASD area alone.

Searching for a Budget Numpad Kit

I’ve been interested in trying a custom mechanical keyboard, but I already have a 60% (maybe 65%?) keyboard that I don’t have any issues with, so I thought making a numpad or macro pad would be a good (and maybe cheaper) alternative. I’ve been having a hard time finding any that don’t require a soldering iron and are...

nottheengineer,

There are some smaller ones on aliexpress for reasonable prices, but still much more expensive per key than keyboards.

you can also get a pinecil soldering iron and some beveled tips (important for SMD soldering), some solder wire and some flux for about 50$ combined.

nottheengineer,

I’d recommend against drop keyboards, they are bad value and their support is said to be terrible, just like their QC.

Keychron is the way to go for wireless boards.

nottheengineer,

Keychron and nothing else. None of the gaming branded keyboards even come close, the value is insane.

nottheengineer,

Akko boards are nice too, but keychron has consistently been better at the same price for all the ones I tried.

nottheengineer,

Having it feel exactly how you want and being able to use something you built yourself is a big part of the mechanical keyboard community.

I can definitely see it for MIDI controllers, but a piano has that smooth press and satisfying bottom-out that I don’t think is possible to replicate easily. You also need to sense how hard the key is pressed and the only way keyboard switches could sense that is with something like hall effect and a polling rate that is high enough to detect how fast the key is pressed down.

nottheengineer,

Great work, looks like it could be a commercial product. I’m still not sure if I want choc V1 or V2, but if I go with V1, this might very well be the build I copy.

nottheengineer,

Implementation probably. Checkpoints are easy because you don’t have to save the entire game state, just the progression.

nottheengineer,

That’s already a thing on the steam deck and it works with almost any game.

Microsoft could implement it for Windows too, but people will want still use their computer when pausing a game so it’s a lot harder to do.

nottheengineer,

Now all we can do is convince as many people as we can to use firefox instead of putting up with this bullshit.

nottheengineer,

With that mindset, nothing will ever get accomplished. As Louis Rossmann often says: We, the people, are who can change the culture and that’s what matters most.

nottheengineer,

It’s a rather small business. I bought two things from them and while they took a bit to ship, they arrived without issues.

The best place to contact them is - sigh - discord.

nottheengineer,

mod-DH is the best invention ever.

nottheengineer,

I honestly think that touch typing on QWERTY is a bad idea, those contortions you need to go fast will just give you RSI sooner or later.

I also learned touch typing with colemak mod-DH and that kind of works, but now I’m running into the fact that standard keyboards are very asymmetrical. Unfortunately I can’t seem to find a split board with an F row.

nottheengineer,

Colemak mod-DH puts D and H right below the home row so they are easy to reach with your index fingers. I’d say that’s the most reasonable way to go about it without going full custom.

nottheengineer,

Interesting, I find that curling the index finger is the most comfortable way to reach any key that isn’t on the home row. I guess it comes down to how you have your hands positioned. I use a standard column staggered layout and have a wrist rest that sits about 1.5cm below the keys, what do you use?

nottheengineer,

Please see my reply to that. I disagree and I think it comes down to hand position.

What are your favorite video games that force you to pull out the pen and paper?

Ever since the language puzzle in Tunic that got me to fill up 6 pocket sized pages of notes over multiple days while trying to puzzle it out as I tried to and, eventually, succeeded at translating the in-game “paper” manual, I’ve had a craving for games that force you to pull out a notebook and take notes/puzzle things...

nottheengineer,

Elite Dangerous. People have guides on how to do things like earning money fast, but those methods usually require a lot of thinking and planning with a notebook.

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Congratulations, you made the rabbit hole within the ergo rabbit hole within the keyboard rabbit hole.

Does it ever end?

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