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Riley

@ koncertejo @lemmy.ml

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  • Moss, One of VR's Best Series, Is Being Un-VR'd and Brought to PC and Consoles

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  • I've loved following VR the last few years, watching developers figure out in real-time what makes a good game in a headset, but it really does feel like it's really on the way out. Moss is one of the big successes of the VR years and it's now being excised from the medium. People are going to look back on VR in a few years time as a really weird niche of the games industry, like gaming's very own Galápagos of ideas that never took over the mainstream the way people thought they might in 2016.

  • Be honest: Do you still use mainstream social media?

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  • I use Facebook only for Marketplace, because it has completely replaced Craigslist in my area. I sell custom-built Game Boys.I check Reddit for news and hyper-specific hobbies that don't really have a place on Lemmy, but I don't have an account.I use YouTube often, but lately I've completely blocked shorts and I've started downloading all the videos I'm watching to my hard drive so I can stream them through Jellyfin instead.

  • I used to love computing as a hobby, but now it feels like it's a source of evil in the world, how have you dealt with this?

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  • No you're absolutely correct. I've found it harder to have faith in other people as much as I did when I was a little younger, because of the state of the world and the lack of movement on the part of people around me. I think part of the struggle I'm having is that computers aren't a hobby one engages with in a vacuum. If someone was really into knitting and all of the sudden half the knitting community got into fascism for some reason, that person could reasonably go on knitting in the comfort of their own home without feeling like it is in any way contributing to or condoning those fascist knitters. But with computers, half the hobby is the joy of networking! Of these shared spaces created by tying computers together in new and interesting ways. Which unfortunately have now created a wicked gestalt surveillance apparatus. Hell is other people and their computers?

  • What's an interesting etymology for a common term?

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  • Goodbye is a contraction of God be with ye

  • What's an interesting etymology for a common term?

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  • Vi lernas Esperanton! Kiel vi faris?

  • Users Furious as Reddit Intentionally Breaks Its Mobile Website, Demanding Users Download Its App Instead

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  • It works really well for me actually. Every time that mobile app begpost comes up it's a great reminder that I shouldn't even be looking at Reddit at all. Cut down my doomscrolling on my phone immediately.

  • What Lemmy Client are you Android users using in 2026?

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  • My web browser lol

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    Instagram is getting rid of end-to-end encrypted DMs that ‘very few’ people used

    web.archive.org /web/20260313193957/https://www.theverge.com/tech/894752/instagram-end-to-end-encryption

  • (Roughly) how old are you and how did you come to be on Lemmy?

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  • I'm 26, used Reddit for a long time, but the primary way I came to find out about Lemmy was because I was already on Mastodon and a fediverse enthusiast. I was here before the API scandal.

  • Are apps such as Saily safe?

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  • I used it the last time I travelled, it worked just fine, and I assumed it did the regular amount of data harvesting my daily phone and internet service providers do.

  • Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

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  • The issue I had with my previous Lenovo Thinkpad wasn't that it wasn't repairable when it broke, it was. The issue was that the cost of just replacing the keyboard was prohibitively high. Higher than the cost of a new laptop. So it became e-waste.

  • Valve is about to win the console generation

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  • The Switch 2 having already outsold the Steam Deck at a 5:1 ratio shows that, as awesome as the hardware that Valve makes is, they simply aren't pushing it in a way that will capture the mainstream. They can certainly "win" the console generation by making a device that is better than the PS5, but they have 10+ years of work ahead of them if they want to win any console generation in terms of units sold.

  • Is it so hard to get Nvidia GPUs working with Linux?

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  • I had a 1060 for a good few years that I used primarily with Arch and never really had an issue. At the time it didn't play nicely with Wayland, so I was still using Xorg instead, but I think that's a solved issue by now. Nvidia just doesn't support newer features as readily as AMD does it seems. It really should have no bearing on your ability to play games.

  • Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account

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  • I'm so glad I don't use it anymore

  • SteamOS on my gaming PC?

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  • If I do opt for the Steam OS will my GOG Galaxy run on it or will I just have to launch the games directly? Most of the titles I play (other than the Halo games and Forbidden West) are using the Galaxy app.

    What GOG support will there be from SteamOS, if any?

    You'll be able to access those games through the Heroic Launcher, it should be able to handle any GOG games you have just as easily as Steam will handle Steam games.

  • Free Software Foundation Turns 40, Unveils LibrePhone

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  • I've got a Google Pixel 3a with postmarketOS installed on it right now for testing, and it really is a two-pronged issue with both hardware and software. Because it's an older phone the battery drains within a few hours, nowhere close to all-day use. Because most of the software is designed for the desktop certain things are just impossible to use (the big pain point for me is Anki, but on the other hand it's impressive how many GTK apps conform very nicely to the screen). The keyboard still feels pretty rough.

    Hopefully the FSF dipping their hat into the ring will help existing projects like this in a rising-tide-raises-all-ships sort of way. Would be a shame for them to put effort into a software stack that goes nowhere (GNU Hurd), and pour $$$ into a hardware project that doesn't make it to market or doesn't do its job better than a cracked smartphone from 5+ years ago.

    I think it is possible to switch to it now and have things mostly work out for you, but it will make your life harder. I remember switching to Ubuntu around 2010 and it's almost to that level of experience. You'll be giving up a lot, apps you "need" won't work, but it's at the point where it is a complete usable experience. For those that are willing to suffer for FOSS, I mean.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    Default Settings Are Eating The World

    audiovalentine.com /2025/09/default-settings-are-eating-the-world/

  • Been seeing a lot of posts about replacing Spotify and such, so I wrote up a guide on how I did just that

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  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    Pandora's Vox: On Community in Cyberspace is over thirty years old now and still just as relevant

    folksonomy.co

  • "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint

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  • > Vitalik Buterin

  • is Lemmy the most popular 'Reddit Alternative'?

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  • Touching grass probably has us beat

  • The live-action "Legend of Zelda" film will feature Bo Bragason as Zelda and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth as Link

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  • Not Hunter Schafer. I'm out.

  • Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'

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  • My biggest issues were that the world building felt so lazy, in that every faction essentially boiled down to Space America in various aspects. You got the Space American Liberal Authoritarian State, you got the Space American Cowboys, the Space American Technocrats, and the Space American Religious Fundamentalists. I found all of these factions kinda repugnant for one reason or another, and uninspired to boot, and so I never felt a pull to experience the world on a deeper level once I had gotten tired of the regular gameplay.

  • Games @lemmy.world
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    Marathon | Save the Date Trailer

  • Games @lemmy.world
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    The Half-Life Delusion

    remapradio.com /articles/the-half-life-delusion/
  • Games @lemmy.world
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    Bigscreen Announces the Beyond 2 VR Headset

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    It Might Be Time to Admit the Great VR Experiment Has Failed

    www.howtogeek.com /it-might-be-time-to-admit-the-great-vr-experiment-has-failed/
  • Games @lemmy.world
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    Is anyone else playing Avowed? What are your thoughts so far?

  • Vinyl and LPs - Analogue Music Goodness @lemmy.world
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    Death to Spotify: a Survey of Alternatives

    audiovalentine.com /2025/01/death-to-spotify-a-survey-of-alternatives/
  • Music @beehaw.org
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    Death to Spotify: a Survey of Alternatives

    audiovalentine.com /2025/01/death-to-spotify-a-survey-of-alternatives/
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    PixelFed has increased the Fediverse's monthly active users by over 40% in the last few weeks, how do we feel?

  • Games @lemmy.world
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    What are some great games that require you to bust out a notebook and pen?

  • Godot @programming.dev
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    Has anyone experimented with metaballs in Godot?

  • Godot @programming.dev
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    Building VR with Godot, Inside of VR

    fiera.social /@riley/113254328983880536
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    FTC Says Social Media Platforms Engage in 'Vast Surveillance' of Users

    gizmodo.com /ftc-says-social-media-platforms-engage-in-vast-surveillance-of-users-2000500840
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves: Cohost and the Fate of Centralized Platforms

    audiovalentine.com /2024/09/the-beatings-will-continue-until-morale-improves/
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Riley @lemmy.ml

    What do you think the fediverse/threadiverse will look like in five years?