vithigar @ vithigar @lemmy.ca

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It's impossible for an ISP to guarantee speeds though, because it's not just their connection that's being used.

Do they use this to weasel out of reasonable expectations of connection quality? Yes, absolutely. But they also can't do anything about the speed of the server you're downloading from.

You might be interested to know that when connected to a PC and using Steam you can turn off the controller quickly with PS+Triangle.

It's literally how their wealth is calculated, but okay. Even if I'm incorrect and it's not already the case they can easily dodge such a tax by buying a bunch of non-liquid assets and making it the case.

Billionaires aren't sitting on billions in currency held in banking accounts. They are holding billions in assets which are valued at those numbers. You couldn't just take all of Bezo's "wealth" above $1b without liquidating most of Amazon.

Not that I disagree with you in principle, it's just not as simple as your proposed solution requires.

She's also an android. Looking slightly off may well be intentional.

I was there for both of them, and never bothered them with any of my issues (because I could handle my own at that time).

This might actually be a factor.

It's counterintuitive, but generally speaking favors build feelings of friendship more strongly for the person doing the favor than the ones who are being helped. By never asking for anything in return you may have unintentionally undermined yourself.

I'm in my mid 40s and have about a dozen friends and many more acquaintances that I see regularly for reasons exactly like this. In person Pathfinder with local friends, online D&D with some remote friends, and earlier this year started going to local fighting game community events which has caused a huge influx of new friends.

They have fairly reasonable guides on their site on how to host for others.

https://foundryvtt.com/kb/

Depends on what part of "set up" you're referring to. Getting the software itself up and running is extremely easy. They have versions available for the full swathe of experience levels from "here is a packaged Electron based Windows application" to "here are the node.js source files". All prior versions are also available if you have specific needs for an earlier version.

Now, if you mean how difficult is it to set up and run a game, that's going to vary wildly depending on the system the game uses and how complex of a scenario whoever is running the game wants to deal with. There are lots of off-the-shelf one shots or campaigns you can run where that setup is already done for you though.

Couple of things I have running on my home server no one has mentioned yet.

FoundryVTT is a self-hostable platform for playing tabletop RPGs online. It supports a vast selection of game systems and user/community developed mods making it extremely versatile.

Pihole is probably something you've heard of before and despite the name is hostable on a wide variety of systems. In case you haven't it's a network level ad blocker that works by taking over the role of DNS server on your LAN and blocking queries to domains used to serve ads or track telemetry.

I'm one of those deranged few who actually used em dashes in my normal typing habits. Not super often the way LLMs are prone to, maybe once a month tops. Alt+0151 or Compose, dash, dash, dash.

Now a find myself reluctant to use what I felt was a useful bit of punctuation out of concern people might think what I'm typing was LLM generated. It sucks.

Eh, no skin off my back. Pretty sure if you search my comment history for the word "grok" this comment chain is the only time I've ever used it. It's not a regular part of my speech, I just never interpreted it in the way you were saying.

or you have such trouble being understood, or understanding neurotypical people, you think you need a new word.

My background pretty heavily leans toward comp-sci and hacker culture, and "grok" in those circles is almost never used in the context of people, so I find it a bit odd that this is what you seem to be focusing on. It had very little to do with the difficulty of understanding other people, and much more to do with the understanding of a language, or nuanced hardware interactions, or programming techniques.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok#In_computer_programmer_culture

For what it's worth, I agree on your specifics, and if someone is frequently making statements about being unable to grok others, or others not being able to grok them, than it's at the very least off-putting.

It's a useful word with no direct equivalent in English. You don't need to integrate the cult aspect of the book into your identity to understand that.

The issue with just using the geometry from the 3D engine/api and rendering it as stereoscopic is that not everything occupies a specific location in space.

Most notable are UIs which are going to vary wildly in exactly how they're drawn. Also anything that works on screen space or per pixel basis is going to behave in strange ways.

None of it is unsolvable, but it's definitely nontrivial.

Because names mean nothing Nvidia has also labeled their frame generation as "DLSS".

Spears don't cut by slicing, they come to a point and are used to thrust/pierce. You can do a lot of damage without being "sharp" when you push with hundreds of pounds of force into a tiny area on the scale of a single square millimeter.

I'm in my mid 40s and still have a big gathering for my birthday every year. It's a great time.

Oh, my bad. I wasn't aware that lane splitting was addictive, a symptom of depression, and a vector for the exploitation of vulnerable people.

There's a reason lane-splitting is illegal in many jurisdictions. It's still a tragic loss, but your friend made the active decision to operate a vehicle that was already more dangerous in an even more dangerous way.