Auster
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Bats•This is Salamander the red flying fox wearing the fashionable sock of shame
2·54 minutes agoSock of shame
Asmei
(Pun between “asma”, “asthma”, and “amei” , “I loved it”)
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Games•Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not?
1·58 minutes agoNot a deciding factor but it certainly tips the scale, usually in a positive light when it has relevancy.
Unity nowadays usually just works on Linux, despite usually feeling somewhat detached from any environments. Games made on RPG Maker, Scumm or to a lesser degree, Ren’Py, are super portable thanks to wrappers made for them. RPG Maker and Unity both also make it pretty obvious when a game was cheaply made. Unreal Engine’s graphics to me are anywhere between an ugly plastic/rubber appearance (but I could list some games I recommend in spite of that) to straight up and literally nauseating. Game Maker and Godot/Redot I’ve never had any major issues, so spotting them warrants a “nice, I guess” at most. And so on.
Auster@thebrainbin.orgOPtodatahoarder@lemmy.ml•Backing up bluray discs as ISOs with ddrescue?
1·3 hours agoYou do you, but what about my question?
Auster@thebrainbin.orgOPtodatahoarder@lemmy.ml•Backing up bluray discs as ISOs with ddrescue?
1·3 hours agoAgreed it takes quite a lot of space, but I care for the ephemera just as much as for the main content, thus I am fine with the space taken.
Btw, the list of communities was meant to be a bulleted list, but I see Piefed passed it as a plain paragraph "<.<

Welcome!
About technology in the fediverse, personally, I’d suggest avoiding the more general tech communities. People there seem to often hyperfixate in a given subject.
Plenty of tech communities for more specific niches though, and also for coding.
About photography, some communities I like:
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected]
- [email protected] (apparently there was [email protected] too)
Also, if Piefed now supports microblogging (yet to check; been a while since I last did), I could list some people from Pixelfed, Mastodon, etc. I follow which are mainly posting photos.
Slight tangent, but remasters dramatically increase the risk of the previous version to be delisted, so maybe worth getting it soon.
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Soulslike - Discussion, News, Memes@lemmy.zip•[Discussion] Is Soulslike combat getting too fast-paced?
4·21 hours agoHaven’t looked closely at recent releases, but it sounds like natural evolution of the genre, or even a potential split forming, like metroidvanias and 3D platformers coming from 2D platformers, the 3 still being around, however.
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Selfhosted•My 15-year old panasonic toughbook is hanging in there as a proxmox server
4·1 day agoThanks too! Was in a similar situation as B0rax.
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MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works•US space travel only supports "whitey", and we should never do any of it until society is completely equal. Chinese space travel is cool tho
1·2 days ago“Global south”
Been a while since I heard that. Seemed like that agenda had been put in the fridge. Did anyone get peckish?
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Selfhosted•My 15-year old panasonic toughbook is hanging in there as a proxmox server
12·2 days agoIf it still turns on, it still has an use!
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Firefox, Mozilla, Thunderbird @crazypeople.online•Waterfox will include Brave’s adblock engine, & allow search ads on by default for revenue
5·2 days agoWelp, time to look for an alternative, again. Hopefully one that takes only direct donations.
“Why make it simpler when you can make it harder?” 😬
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Reddit•Yeah, and Reddit actively tells its users to hide their posting and comment history, called "curation".
2·2 days agoWouldn’t doubt intelligence services from who knows how many countries are keeping an eye here, or even companies such as Meta (even if in their case, without Threads). Maybe an ill-intended individual or a monitoring entity doesn’t even have their own instances.
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Reddit•Yeah, and Reddit actively tells its users to hide their posting and comment history, called "curation".
2·2 days agoAbout profiles being public on the fediverse, everything’s possible with enough will. And if someone’s willing to chase another someone down, I’d imagine there’s enough will to track down everything that is shared by this other one. And I can think of some rather feasible ways that tracking can be done anonymously.
Face of “self-control waning, urge to eat skyrocketing…” 🤭
Things won’t be bad always, and the character is trying to succeed. That seems to be the idea of the comic.
Dunno the specific purpose to why people tag communities in comments, but since it got mentioned and from what I can see, the community there could use some movement, crossposted there =)






















Imo, to do something like SNK or Digital Eclipse do, releasing the game/games emulated or partially rebuilt, and having the emulator / wrapper painted in a way the technical side is masked, to be as resistance-free as possible.
Also, some people would whine if they found a ROM can be extracted/rebuilt from the game files, sure, but if the final product looks and feels decent and seamless, and from my experience talking to people like those, usually saying things like “why should I buy something I can download for free?”, I’d say they’re not the developer’s target audience.
As for tools for wrapping or rebuilding C64 games, I’m not familiar with any, but I’d check if the emulators available have licenses that allow commercial use, if they require official firmware files - which would mean having to license those if they do require, and if the game can be launched from terminal/command prompt commands - which then I’d make a binary / executable file with the command for launching the emulator with the ROM and needed settings.