Oh, I though those are the same. AFAIK the 2021 version was never on Steam.
From a quick check, it looks like they only added a DLC, but most of the game is the same. EDIT: And some QoL updates, endgame and the like, which is all content of the DLC, but you are right!
IIRC it has been on the Battle.net store (and consoles) for quite some time now. Wiki puts it’s release date on 2021.
I’ve seen a lot of technical recommendations, but what I found most fun to experiment with is visual/art/music stuff, so here are some recommendation if that’s also your thing. It’s not strictly programming, because most of it requires learning more skills than just that, but I see that as an advantage. YMMV, though.
The Book of Shaders is and extremely good introduction to some basic shader stuff. Especially thanks to the interactive editor they have in their tutorials, and web tools like Shadertoy, experimenting with shaders is easier than ever. It was the tutorial that made me finally get past the “super confused” part of learning shaders.
It’s kind of math heavy, especially once you get into 3D stuff, but I find it fun to learn, plus it’s a rabbit hole and you can do some pretty cool stuff once you get into it. In general, anything technical artist related is interesting.
Another thing I’d recommend is looking into Algoraves. Algoraves are live performances where both visuals and music is performed by people live-coding their tracks and projections in some kind of language that’s made for the task. TidalCycles, one of the libraries/languages that’s commonly used, has a web editor, and there’s also Sonic Pi, although I’ve never tried that one.
Processing is another language/tool used for making visual art. It also has a web edittor (with a lot of tutorials), and can make some cool visual stuff that can be fun to learn.
And one last recommendation, this time not about art, but about learning/building your CPU, your own assembly language, and learning to do stuff in it! Turing Complete is a puzzle game, where you will learn how to build your own CPU, starting from a single NAND gate, slowly combining them into registers, memory, adders, ALU, up until you have your own, complete and working CPU. You then create your own instruction set and use your CPU to solve a few puzzles.
It’s super fun and engaging, and I’d consider learning logic gates and building a CPU as kind of also programming.
I’m using https://freetubeapp.io/ and so far it mostly works. You have to stay on top of updates, and age-restricted videos can be a problem, but the feature I love most is that it can subscribe to creators without an account, and it just shows you time-sorted feed. It also has native sponsorblock baked in, and has support for downloading videos, or using an invidious as a proxy.
You can turn off autoplay, comments, recommended videos and other engagement-maxing bullshit, so it’s just a video player without distractions that I can use to follow stuff I’m directly interested in, that doesn’t force content on me.
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Turning off TVs with adds has been the only usage I’ve been getting out of my Flipper zero. Doesn’t work always, but I did have some success and I’ll always try whenever I have to spend time longer time anywhere.
Exactly!
I have the same relationship with ads as the OP, and even deeper hatred for fingerprinting to the point there is a lot of friction in my daily tech usage. Lot of stuff breaks, I have to fill captchas often, maintain self-hosted tech, get wrong time zone and language I don’t know on websites, etc. (On one hand it’s a boon, because it is keeping my pretty serious internet addiction in check and it has kept me away from most social networks and short form content).
They have just installed this annoying kind of LCD slideshow adds that are a long screen alongside underground line, and I’m actively trying to avoid and not look at it, same with any IRL ads. I really hope we’ll get some FOSS smartglases tech eventually, just so I can have an IRL adblock that replaces adds around you that I’ve seen a demo for.
But, I have seen (single instances) of adds over the year that I appreciated, because it’s more a clever art than an add. But 99% of adds isn’t that, and it’s just annoying intrusive attention grabbing slop designed to burn into your mind. Fuck that.
I highly recommend looking into Matrix Ansible Deploy, has an amazing documentation and actually works robustly. It will make the whole process of hosting it way easier, I only needed to change like 5 config values, give Ansible the SSH key for my server, and then basically run “just setup-all” from a Ansible docker.
That’s actually an impressive setup! I’ve been mostly gaming on desktop Bazzite, but usually just connect through Sunlight/Moonlight from a laptop in bed. Never really considered a proxmox setup.
I might look into it, that sounds pretty useful. Already have an old desktop I sometimes use as a server, with older GPU and some RAM, so it would make for a great test environment for this kind of things.
It’s extremely easy, the Matrix ansible deploy project is very simple to use (with at least basic tech literacy), is very well documented and as far as I’ve seen in the past few years of using it do deploy and update my Matrix instance - it’s also very robust. I haven’t seen it fail a single time, which tends to be a problem with larger Docker/Ansible projects.
I’m paying 7$ a month for a cheap server on Hetzner, you also need a domain name, and the whole setup took like an hour.
Looks like it might not be as serious, or rather - there have been latter developments that are trying to address it, and tbh my first comment wasn’t really a well thought joke.
There has been some drama about both him getting banned from Freedesktop, and also general problems with harrassment/transphobia in his community, and especially his behavior when Code of Conduct to prevent/improve it was in the works.
https://drewdevault.com/2023/09/17/Hyprland-toxicity.html
I have not really dug down into the situation, it was mostly relayed to me by a friend who was using Hypraland, but from what I tried looking up, it seems to boil down to a few blog posts and videos about it.
But, I’ve also found a blog post that was trying to sort it out, so it might not be as bad as it may sound. Don’t know how the situation turned out in the latter years, but at least there was an attempt. https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2023-hyprlandCommunityChanges
How is your Qubes experience, if you don’t mind me asking? I always loved the idea, especially since some of my work are different cybersecurity/pentesting projects, where both the separation of trust/data and the ability to quickly run templated environments per project sound super useful, but I never really got around doing it.
Do you daily drive it? I’m also pretty much a gamer, and while I could imagine it on my work laptop, I’m not sure if it’s feasible when gaming is one of my main focuses on PC. I can kind of imagine that a virtualization-based OS would be terrible for gaming.
Ah, TIL. Though I can’t really come up with much that would scale well to the modern world where technologies are involved. But that might be only because I’m not thinking local enough, since that’s what matters.
However, I’m sure there’s an anarchist zine about exactly that.
Is it even possible? I mean, you need to share the chat, and probably have it publicly joinable.
Keeping feds out is basically impossible. Sharing the group only in person could work a bit, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they had undercover agents at any major gatherings.
“Dario Amodei’s 19000 word essay”?
More like, " Dario’s ass model’s", am i right :D
You’re right, I did realize that it’s a pretty offtopic and no value comment a short while after posting, but too late to go edit it out.
Thanks for the video, Down the Rabitt Hole videos about EVE Online are my absolute favorites, so this will be a good watch.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/terry-davis
Haven’t heard about this piece of internet lore. It’s really tragic, and I shudder to think how differently would it go if he had access to ChatGPT.
Or rather, probably not much different, but there are already several cases of people nudged to the exactly same path solely thanks to AI, that they wouldn’t have probably ended up on so quickly. It sucks.
The companies are wastly overestimating how much I care about seeing their slop content.
The hatered for forced logins, age verification or prompts like these has been slowly curing my internet addiction. I’m not signing up or accepting your bullshit.
The fact that WinRar is very probably currently more proffitable than OpenAI by several order of magnitudes is my favorite funfact.
Yeah, I’m all against this kind of surveillance, i.e the whole stuff about Ring cameras, but this is not the case.
It’s the product working as intended. If I ever had a reason to install security cameras to my home, I would expect them to work especially when someone is trying to cut out my power.