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@ takeheart @lemmy.world

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  • Steam Game Recording - Available Now

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  • Lovely, I tried the decky plugin for this before but it was somewhat unstable and also caused games to slow down while recording. I wonder what the storage requirements will be for recording, let's say, a buffer of three minutes at all times? 🤔

  • Steam Game Recording - Available Now

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  • had to rescue data via a live USB boot. turns out the USB image got corrupted too

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  • To those saying it's likely hardware damage: nope, luckily not. Booting into a different USB image doesn't produce this. But booting into tone same ISO produces these errors every time (it starts out normal and progressively gets worse over time).

  • the official dock is never quite plug & play when it comes to an external display (DVI)

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  • OK, thanks for the hint. I just found out that you will only be prompted to update if you:

    1. power everything off (shut down deck completely, don't just sleep it)
    2. remove all peripherals connected to the dock (except network cable if you use that for your connection)
    3. start the deck
    4. if there are any updates for the the dock, they should show in the options of gaming mode

    here's to hoping the updates will allay the display issues

  • the official dock is never quite plug & play when it comes to an external display (DVI)

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  • the official dock is never quite plug & play when it comes to an external display (DVI)

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  • I vaguely remembered it offering me updates when I first set the dock up (purchased the dock much later then the deck). I'll make sure I have the latest version.

  • What's a good gift for a 2-year old?

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  • Just ask the parents what (s)he likes.

  • TIL about Titivillus a medieval demon that would feed on misspellings, mispronounced syllables and mumbled words. He was considered a natural enemy and tempter of scribes.

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  • There was some degree of standardization. Especially for important legal and religious texts alteration, even if accidental, was considered a sin/vice.

    Scribes very often simply had to produce 1:1 copies of existing texts. So the standard was right in front of them.

  • TIL about Titivillus a medieval demon that would feed on misspellings, mispronounced syllables and mumbled words. He was considered a natural enemy and tempter of scribes.

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  • You wouldn't think how far clerical errors could go when it was laboriously copied by hand by exhausted monks in candlelight.

    The whole Mary was a virgin thing (aka immaculate conception) was started because someone mistranslated young woman as (sexual) virgin. In some languages those terms are really close (even today for example in German: junge Frau Vs Jungfrau).

  • TIL about Titivillus a medieval demon that would feed on misspellings, mispronounced syllables and mumbled words. He was considered a natural enemy and tempter of scribes.

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  • To be fair some languages like English or French have so horrendous and outdated orthography that I'm not going to fault the writers.

    Writers. Why is there even a W in that word still? Ridiculous, write?

  • TIL about Titivillus a medieval demon that would feed on misspellings, mispronounced syllables and mumbled words. He was considered a natural enemy and tempter of scribes.

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  • I initially wrote 'temptor' in the title but then double checked. Not today, Titivillus.

  • xkcd #2992: UK Coal

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  • It's quite relevant if you consider that coal mining is concentrated to a much smaller area really. Besides the destroyed habitat, the pollution, the dangers of sinkholes and the cost of renaturation you also have to contend with rain and ground water constantly filling in the mining pits.

    Don't know about the UK but in West Germany's Rhein-Ruhr area, a former coal mining hotspot, the energy used to operate the pumps that keep the water out will eventually be greater than the energy gained from burning all the coal. Can't find a source on the quick but I think it might have happened already. Of course it's not a simple subtraction as all that energy was used to generate more infrastructure and capital that can now pay for the pumps. According to this German source their operation costs around 300 million euros yearly which gives you a rough idea of just how expensive that is.

  • This is the state of Deseret, the original request for what ultimately became Utah.

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  • I recently learned that the Mormons settled and resettled in several states before finally staying in Utah. It's quite an interesting story, especially given that most religions are so ancient that it's very hard to track their origins today.

    Johnny Harris has great videos about it, this one for instance.

  • Do Not Tap the Glass [beetlemoses]

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  • Nice. I'm wondering how often this cycle has played out so far ...?

  • What is he? [Last Place Comics]

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  • That was a wild ride. Well done 👏

  • What's the difference between a proxy and a VPN

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  • Never knew about transparent web proxies. Neat. Do they play a part in commercial DDOS protection? I'm thinking of those please wait while we're evaluating your request messages that you get on some sites. But also about any methods used to prove that you are human.

  • Decky "Pause Games" plugin got rid of audio static I got resuming games from sleep

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  • Good to know. It was a common problem with XCOM 2 for me.

    Whenever possible I tried to get around this distorted audio noise after resuming from sleep by first opening a pause menu and then sending the deck to sleep. It seems to occur less the less audio channels are used by the game engine at the moment that you sent the deck to sleep.

  • Linux File System

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  • What's the difference between run time program data and temporary files? Is /tmp just for system level processes but not for user space?

  • Back to work! [Nancy]

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  • This has some real draw the rest of the fucking owl vibes, well done.

  • Harris pledges to appoint a Republican to her Cabinet if elected

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  • Listened to the entire interview. At no point does she pledge that. She simply doesn't rule it out and is willing to consider.

    That header is clickbait bullshit .