Readit Newspmx commented on Why console makers can legally brick your game console arstechnica.com/gaming/20... · Posted by u/speckx
I have a hard time accepting that this would fly in the UK. We have strong consumer protection laws in the Consumer Rights Act 2015 that I think this would run afoul of. Terms can't be unfair, and are deemed so if "contrary to the requirement of good faith, it causes a significant imbalance in the parties' rights and obligations under the contract to the detriment of the consumer." and a product must be fit for purpose for 6 years - if this ceased to be the case the consumer is entitled to a full refund or replacement.
pmx commented on Particle Life simulation in browser using WebGPU lisyarus.github.io/blog/p... · Posted by u/ibobev
Nice.
The only downside, is that I can spend so much time looking at this system where something seems to emerge, but not quite ...
Try looking at this system - lots of "lifeforms" emerge with several interesting behaviours https://lisyarus.github.io/webgpu/particle-life.html?particl...
This looks really interesting, and bitcraft looks cute.
I did hit a personal bias: when I saw "maincloud" as a phrase to do with pricing my heart sank because my brain went "they've wedged in some crypto shit!". Turns out no, it's just a naming thing for hosting credits.
I feel like they've been inspired by crypto for the way they handle billing. They sell you "Energy" which you use by running on their infra. Seems like a needless abstraction to me.
Professional multiplayer game developer here. I wonder what multiplayer games the SpacetimeDB folks have actually shipped?
This is theirs https://bitcraftonline.com/ - not "released" yet but they have alpha testers on it apparently.
pmx commented on Whisky is no longer actively maintained docs.getwhisky.app/mainte... · Posted by u/ahamez
Does something like Whisky work in the new macOS Apple Silicon world? I assume its quite a bit slower to simulate Windows while at the same time translating x86 to Apple Silicon. I ask because this would be a justified break from this project, it's kind of a nightmare setup, you're better off just buying a $300 Windows laptop at Walmart or something.
It runs incredibly well, I ran GTA5 on my old Macbook Pro M1 with it and got a respectable 60FPS on max settings. The apple GPTK is really very impressive.
pmx commented on Google begins testing AI-only search results arstechnica.com/google/20... · Posted by u/nreece
I’ve been quite happy with Kagi so far.
I second Kagi, its been very good for me to the point I don't use google at all now.
pmx commented on All Kindles can now be jailbroken kindlemodding.org/jailbre... · Posted by u/lumerina
my biggest fear from moving out of kindle is losing access to the store. they did a good job securing most of the authors and books.
what’s your source for books and how often it happens for the books you’re looking for to be unavailable?
You can browse the Kobo book store here https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebooks