CerebralHawks

It’s not cheap enough. Also doesn’t have enough headphone jacks. Though, I think more phones should use Thunderbolt — and more phone users should understand that Thunderbolt is not an Apple protocol, but an Intel one, Apple’s just the one most known for using it, since they slap it on everything, because it’s awesome.

Give me a phone with Thunderbolt 5 and I won’t complain about the headphone jack or an SD card slot, because then you’re going to see phone docks with USB, Ethernet, SD/microSD, HDMI/DisplayPort, internal M.2 SSD, etc, most of which won’t be necessary, but imagine if your phone could just be your computer and plug into a dock. We have the technology but no one puts it on phones. Samsung is close with Dex, but it’s not very good and it isn’t automatic (and their ports lack the bandwidth). With as much as phones are going up, it should be a given that they could double as computers.

Obligatory “fuck EA” but this is good news for Wing Commander and Ultima fans.

I hope they get ported to Mac and Linux without DRM, though.

So it runs on a Mac that costs twice as much as a perfectly capable gaming PC. Congrats.

I’d be curious to see how it runs on a base M1 or M2. I wonder if it will run on those or if it’s just M4 (note: M4 added ray tracing, so it was an attractive target for hobbyist gamers, and its launch was when Cyberpunk was released on macOS).

I have a base M2 MacBook Air (16GB RAM/1TB SSD), I’m sure I could spare a couple hundred GB of space for a SteamOS partition. But I wonder what kinds of games would actually run. M2 is very capable (I think my machine is roughly equivalent to a 12th gen Intel i3, but with a better iGPU, though let’s be real, an iGPU isn’t gonna rival a dedicated one… I had a Radeon 280 with 3GB of VRAM in my last PC, and it benched better than both my Macs (M2 base, and M2 Pro for the desktop). Even though “technically” the M2/M2 Pro GPU can tap into any of that 16GB RAM that the system isn’t using. Still got smoked by the 280, and it wasn’t close. The only way the Macs won was on CPU against my 4th-gen Xeon. But, duh. And even then, the Apple chips didn’t “smoke” the Xeon. Xeon is good shit. There’s a reason Intel Mac Pros used Xeons. If I were building today, I would really want to use a Xeon again, but AMD is kicking Intel’s arse on value these days, and there are some great AMD chips. I just don’t know what model numbers and whatnot.

Music.

Sound travels along a wave, and a waveform kind of looks like a key. A key works by aligning tumblers in a specific way. This sounds like a shitty analogy, but, bear with me a bit. Or, as the young ones say, “let me cook”.

Your mental health is like a lock, and each of the tumblers are a problem. You go looking for a solution to each of the problems, but each ideal solution will only fit one tumbler. It won’t open the lock.

Finding a song that turns the lock should be one of your goals with music. The world throws a lot of popular music your way, and some popular music can work. I think that’s why it’s popular, it appeals to the most people. I grew up with rock and metal, but right now, Taylor Swift’s latest album is one of my favourites. I never thought I’d say that, but I just love that album, especially the first half. *Opalite *in particular really makes me wanna move, but I’m not a dancer. Starting with popular music is fine, but you should dig deeper. Full disclosure, I run a music comm on the instance I’m on, and I’ve posted over 100 songs that all meant something to me.

There’s a music community here on lemmy.world, too, but I’m not involved with it. Like me, they post songs of the day. I’m not sure why they pick what they pick. I kinda focus on mine, but I do try to listen to new music as it comes across my feed. Not all the time, but some of the time. In the last year alone, I started listening to Norwegian singer Aurora, and I just discovered the (coincidentally similarly sounding named) Spanish singer Au/Ra. The former is like faerie pop; the latter, quite the opposite. Not quite “demon pop” but she definitely has a darkness around her that I dig.

Right now my favourite song is a Japanese idol (pop with multiple singers in harmony and/or duet) song called Hyacinth by 22/7. If you’ve seen Kpop Demon Hunters, you have a basic idea of what 22/7 actually is. They’re a cartoon band that was made for an anime series. The series never got translated to English, and it wasn’t picked up for a second season. However, the girls stayed together, continued to make music, and now they make music for other anime series, as well as just release music just because. So like, if HUNTR/X were a real band that released music outside of the film. The song is absolutely insane with all the overlapping vocals, and they went and mastered it in Dolby Atmos, so it sounds incredible on AirPods Pro (or, really, I’d imagine, anything else that can do spatial audio). As someone who doesn’t know more than 50-60 words in Japanese (which does sound like a lot, but I’m not conversational, nowhere near fluent, and I can’t read kanji), the song feels more like a tech demo for spatial audio and what can be done with it, but I’m all about the engineering of the sound

But going back to the lock. It’s not real. Or maybe it is, but music as a key isn’t real. Music won’t actually solve your problems, unless your biggest problem is how to expand your music library. That would be an interesting problem to have. It just makes you feel better for a while. Which is sometimes all we really need to focus on what’s important.

There’s more to this. They won’t name the person, and comment wasn’t sought from this person. They also don’t want a witch hunt. But it sounds like this person is trying to destroy the project from the inside out?

So in general, for those who don’t want to read the article, the project is being worked on by several (unknown number of) volunteers. One person joined, and made contributions. That person then left, and demanded the team remove their contributions. The team did so. They are still threatening to sue, which would expose the identities of everyone involved.

Sounds like sabotage to me.

I’d be interested in hearing from this former team member and what they are actually trying to accomplish, though. Because as far as I know, Bethesda is fine with this project as long as they don’t use any official assets. And it sounds like they aren’t. So, who stands to gain from the project being killed (i.e. if the developers get doxxed)? Steam/Valve, because they sell the PC version of the game? I don’t buy it. Sony? That’s an even greater stretch.

Working in customer service. Everyone should work either at retail, and/or in a restaurant as wait staff. Male or female. You will get treated like crap. The idea is that you won’t later do the same to other retail/service workers.

At the very least, you should, if you ever intend to frequent such establishments, anyway.