Prophet Zarquon @ FordPrefect @startrek.website

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Godot is not bad for 2D & 2.5D, & it's a lot better at true 3D than it used to be, but as far as speedy usability, I'd compare it to UnrealEd 2.1 in many ways.

I really think the main reason anyone uses Godot, is the licensing & cross-platform support.

If Unreal 5.1 would run at all on any of my machines, I couldn't even really begin to make any kind of objective comparison between it & Godot; it's like the difference between having a bunch of clever hand-tools, versus having a bunch of really well-made power-tools.

Try making a mountainous landscape, sprinkle a handful of different trees, then carve out a tunnel that loops under itself with a ledge overhead. Anyone proficient with both the Godot & Unreal toolsets, seems to get good (& stable) results in moments using Unreal compared to minutes or hours, using Godot. Unreal's interface & free assets have set such a high standard for so long, that I find Blender is the only thing I could compare it to, but Unreal's workflows make Blender look like Maya.

Steam is even helping to push more people to Linux, by ending Steam support on WIn7, this January 2024.

I would probably have left Win7 running on several older machines, but like XP it's become so widely unsupported that I can't really condone using it online anymore even if the app-services allowed it. Unlike XP, there's a lot of apps that would run fine on Win7 if supported; but like XP there's just not much incentive for a dev to support such an old OS except as a pet project.

Win ≥8 is awful; I've helped Win10 users recover from the most insanely unacceptable issues I've ever seen in ≥35 years of using computers, with absolutely useless official responses made in each case. I will never poison one of my own machines with something so heinous as Win10, just for the sake of a game. And other than games, I don't see a compelling use case for Windows anymore.

So, Linux, & holding out hopes for decent Steam action on Linux, I guess!?

Aw man, that's just enough difference to make me notice.

Now I've got a weird question purely out of curiosity: Do you know of any makers of black denim cotton work jeans, in loose fit that isn't stretch knit?

Wrangler & Levi seem to have decided that black jeans which fit over one's thighs, are not important enough to make in all sizes anymore... ?

The fact that no one in these comments, seems to have had a really decent FOSS IDE \ engine to recommend for 3D game development, makes me sad.

Like, Unreal is pretty great, but it's not FOSS (& won't run on any of my machines anyway).

Is there anything FOSS that really streamlines 3D game development?
(I want to say Vulkan but I feel like that's some sort of perennial "gotcha!" joke, at this point?)

Shotcut crashes unexpectedly, on all the machines I've tried it on. Not frequently though, & it was so good I used it anyway.

I'm pretty sure that the masking features of OBS (potentially even VLC) could be paired with a camera aimed at the display, to crop interlopers out of a projected image, so that they don't get painted\blinded with projected light. Very niche utility, but I'm not aware of any hardware-only solutions for it, & its potentially show\life-saving

Yes, OnlyOffice has been my choice for a while now; not that I need it much anymore, thankfully

The number of times I've needed to do something, then realized VLC already did it... Wow

Even had use for the video wall options, a few times.

I do get annoyed, setting the hotkeys & seek distances, to something actually useful, every time I install VLC

Option 3 is the usual method, & it works quite fast on almost any machine that's even capable of decoding high bitrate video fast enough to keep up with its framerate, in the first place. On a HDD, that previous frame may briefly require seeking to get back to, but no such delay occurs with flash storage.

Of course, it doesn't need to be done fast; we're talking about long looks at single frames!

For best results, frame-capture apps use cross-frame interpolation with motion estimation (& these days, AI).

I don't remember the last device I saw, that would struggle with this in any way. It's basically just been dismissed as unimportant, by the VLC devs, rather than actually being all-that-difficult to implement.

I'm shocked that VLC doesn't offer reverse playback by now, given the absolutely enormous video resources & random access storage, we're all blessed with now.

What annoys me, is that I inevitably end up having both installed eventually, due to one app's dependencies or another's, & due to lack of experience repacking\compiling to avoid them

Literally squeezing the last months out of a Win7 laptop before services abandon it this January, & then it'll get Linux on its cramped little SSD

Can you suggest any RSSifiers, for sites/services lacking an RSS API?

I can't speak for anyone else, but yes, mine is.

I've never had Prime though. The reason my life is boring and empty, is (I think) because I avoid participating in things I don't wholeheartedly approve of.

Viewing media, is an insidiously passive form of participation, so I do intently watch plenty of TV\movies (recently figured out it's about 6-8 things a week).

The rest of my life is just household chores, bicycling, & traveling when I get the chance.
Doing Things makes me feel like Ged.

Yeah, where my Mom lives, the food options are:

• Walmart
• An erratically pricey local grocery, that rents its building (which has a leaky roof, requiring them to move product when it rains)
• Dollar General
• A farmer's market that's open once a week for a few hours before the afternoon heat, a few months a year, if no events have pre-empted it, having an inventory of which about 30% is bulk-bought supermarket produce with the labels (sometimes) removed
• A 90 minute drive; no trains, no buses (literally, no buses) to the next largest town

And she lives in a town people drive to, to get food, clothes, medicine, etc.

She gets as much as she can from the local grocer, for whatever that's worth; the inventory is frequently poor, & about on-par with Dollar General so far as brand-representation, goes. When tourists ask if the store has something, they get pointed to Walmart.

Cable internet? I agree. Nowhere near using all its last-mile capacity, yet.

Well, not just because a company, did...

The Kademlia network (eMule, Kazaalite, etc), did indeed use a global P2P Distributed Hash Table, to resolve which IPs hosted which content, which the torrent protocol also does ... some of:

Unlike the mainline torrent protocol, Kademlia's DHT (like the modern-day Tribler DHT), also resolved filenames to content, allowing in-app search.

With torrents, one needs to consult a DHT crawler, or an index site (which sucks; centrally operated sites are fragile, compared to DHTs), whereas eMule & more contemporarily Tribler, have two layers of DHT, enabling decentralized search without relyiance on someone having created a listing at some particular site & that site being online to search its index.

They're still happy to accept food-stamp revenue though, if you get Amazon Prime, of course...

Indeed.

• Ad-blocking (before anything online)
• DHT crawler, or index sites if DHT has too many results
• right-click/long-press on magnet URL
• copy link
• paste magnet link
• remove tracker URLs (not needed)
• go
• enjoy

Hm, 8 steps, is one more than the 7 stages of grief; but I'll take this over yet-another subscription service that continually degrades in quality for the dollar.