Artist: Scott Mitchell

Painting in question can be seen on this page.

You can watch a timelapse of them painting on YouTube should you not believe this is an oil painting.

I think you’re probably right. Microsoft seems less invested in winning an operating system battle at this point. They’re positioning services and abstractions that care less about the end device’s operating system, more so that they’re at least on that device.

I wouldn’t be surprised we see Microsoft “embrace” Proton and Wine in the next 5 to 10 years as it’s far easier to let “the community” predominantly handle supporting legacy Windows versions that have to handle it themselves.

They can’t suddenly lose that entire OS revenue machine however and would need to transition. But I doubt that Redmond are naive to the disruption Wine and Proton are having and how technical users are starting to jump ship.

I thought the drivers were already merged into the kernel as hid-sony or hid-playstation?

Have you tried removing ds4drv and just trying to connect the pad via USB? If that works, you can try pairing via Bluetooth.

It could be your Mint kernel is old and doesn’t have the drivers. I’m on Arch so I’ve had no issues and the pads just work and Steam handles them with no issues.

He’s crazy good at assimilating accents so a lot of people don’t realise. Here’s his real accent (apologies for the YouTube link).

Christian Bale is English. His accent in Reign of Fire is not far off his normal accent.

You should delete your account on this instance and create a new one over on hexbear.net. It’s the easiest way to get access.

Depends where you live. Just look up regional PC builders and see if they do laptops. They pretty much all sell Clevo, often unbranded or you can request they don’t brand it.

eBay might be another option. Or a laptop refurbisher. I’ve picked up several refurbished Clovos over the years that were ex workstations of some big enterprise.

Custom PC builder in a Clevo case or something is my guess. Chomsky but far easier to get better parts in them and since they’re for custom builders, they’re easy to open and upgrade etc.

What’s crazy is that while I used to know countless Maya / 3DSMax people, everyone seems to have switched to Blender. It’s crazy how fast the industry switched to Blender after that UI revamp.

And that’s the bottom line… ‘cause Stone Cold said so!

That’s because it is. I worked at a place that did this kind of photography for businesses years back. That steak probably got 20 seconds on each side to sear, the grill marks and caramelization painted on, the juice around it some colored glue, the steam some guy’s vape; those sorts of things.

You’d never want to eat the photography subject afterwards.

Repeating old Reddit memes seems to be a bit of a faux pas around here.

That changed on June 27, 2024. You can now have dual citizenship with any other country.

I thought it just allowede easier debugging, sorry

Fuuuuck. I wouldn’t eat a sandwich made by this person let alone a web browser. Forking and mucking around in a code base they clearly don’t understand. I get the feeling they’re one of those chmod -R 777 people.

I went wild and started using it for servers about 5 years ago and I shit you not, it’s far more stable than I would have thought. I parse the blog for update notes if there’s any big changes to anything I’m using but given most stuff is offloaded to containers, I pretty much yolo a yay -Syu every week. Zero issues.

I had more issues with Debian and Ubuntu due to bugs in stale packages or weird default configs than I have running bleeding edge vanilla via Arch.

Run Docker containers on it, one for media server, one for DNS sinkhole etc.

Firefox’s codebase is of the scale of an operating system. I don’t think people realise just how complex web browsers are. If you took the drivers out of the kernel, Firefox dwarfs Linux.

It’s not something someone casually just forks and carries on.

Agreed. They’re also solving problems that may not even exist, building a tech stack that needs to be maintained in addition to the game itself and adding all the baggage of supporting users who have needs that aren’t catered for with that stack (for instance a specific Windows-only tool).

The game engine should abstract most of these problems away. The rest can be solved with standards like what linter/formatter for code, art asset formats and specs, etc.

Solve problems as they arise. Time is best spent writing the game.

Apple do have a history of putting “Ad” next to anything that is an advertisement so hopefully they continue with that design pattern.

AI is a magical black box that performs a bunch of actions to produce an output. We can’t trust what a developer says the black box does inside without it being completely open source (including weights).

This is a concept for a system where the actions performed can be proved to those who don’t have visibility inside the box to trust the box is doing what it is saying it’s doing.

An AI enemy that can prove it isn’t cheating by providing proof of the actions it took. In theory.

Zero Knowledge Proofs make a lot of sense for cryptography but in a more abstracted sense like this, it still relies on a lot of trust that the implementation generates proofs for all actions.

Whenever I see Web3, I personally lose any faith in whatever is being presented or proposed. To me, blockchain is an impressive solution to no real problem (except perhaps border control / customs).