Leaving discussion of emacs and systemd (though I run a systemd distro) aside, I did have to comment on this:
although personally I prefer vi
vi? What are you, some suspender wearing greybeard who still uses an ASR33, and calls bicycles "velocipedes"?
vi is archaic and arcane. What you should be using is....vim.;-) In fact vi users these days probably are actually using vim-minimal.
Yes I know, vi as vim-minimal is installed by default, on Linux anyway, and vim-enhanced isn't./me waits for a low 4 digit UID guy to extoll the virtues of "ed".
Because flip phones like my Audiovox 8610 don't do email, and a text is laborious to compose with T9 and switching to multitap for unknown words. Or is a cell phone that doesn't cost $400 a year to run also "ancient hipster technology"?
Geebus, that thing is 12 years old, it IS hipster tech. My last pre-smartphone phone was more capable than that thing. (Razr V3xx)
Why haven't you put your pay-as-you-go sim into a smartphone?
Someone like GoG could in theory design and build a front-end client for their games just like Steam has, and not be required to add any more DRM than they already have.
1. links to a comic where a woman's opinions are considered shit 2. said woman in comic resembles Anita Sarkeesian 3. comic is "antifemcomics" 4. you bring up atheism
Is that you John Bain (TotalBiscuit)?
Guys like you are part of the problem.
1. You get offfended when some woman comments about some part of culture that you think of as "belonging to guys"
2. Therefore you don't even listen to her and denigrate what she says without actually reading it.
3. Get an army of your dudebro buddies to make death/rape threats, all because a woman dared to comment on "guy stuff"
Shakes head just a tad. There ARE game genres other than those two "dudebro gamer" genres.
I've played several RTS with a controller. Basically you move the pointer with the D-pad with an extra acceleration button for faster movement. The RTS's I played were "lasso the group" types, not the "you have to micromanage individual units so only a teenager hopped up on Adderall is fast enough to play" types of recent RTS's.
Also, every one of those console RTS's has mouse support. Sadly...they're all PSone games.
I could not imagine me trying to torture myself with trying to play them on a console controller.
It takes practice, and time to develop the small movements you need. If you've been playing on PC, you simply will not be able to do it well. I remember trying to play Quake II with the dualshock on the PSone. When I first started I couldn't hit the broadside of a barn because I was used to the right stick being camera control, not aiming. I got better, but it took time, and I discovered I'm not really a big FPS fan.
When you can attach keyboard+mouse to a PS4 (and it even gets supported properly by games), we'll talk again.
You CAN attach a keyboard+mouse to a PS4 (and the PS3 and PS2 before it), that's not the issue, they have USB ports for a reason. I've hooked said devices up to PlayStations many many times since 2001. Any PS3/PS4 game that uses the standard text input UI can use a keyboard text input. Chatting, naming items, naming planets.
But I know what you're wanting is PC style keyboard control, that is less common becasue the TRC's require designing for the default controller And developers have limited time/manpower so since they're console titles they don't usually include such support.
Notice I said "usually". There are games that DO have such support, they're not common but they do exist. I have had some over the years:
Deus Ex Half-Life Both Final Fantasy XI and EQOA Dirge of Cerberus DCUO Dust514 Onigiri War Thunder
Though I wouldn't want to play most console games with a keyboard. Really...keyboard for movement? I know it dates to back when PC players became less likely to have joysticks after the death of the true home computers from Atari and Commodore, but WASD is sub-optimal. At least use something like one of those Nostromo speedpads or Razr Tarterus things to move, even if you want to keep the mouse. I can understand wanting to keep the mouse.
But you have to realize that not everyone wants to play games with keyboards and mice and that they are NOT the perfect control scheme for every genre and every game.
Maybe there is, but nobody has found the one guy in the basement of the one building on that one planet with an ! over his head to start the quest chain.
There is a..sort of...quest line, the Atlas Path as it is called, but you might not know about it unless you interacted with an object at your starting crash site.
It always was a PS4 centric title so why buy the thing for PC at all, since they're were going to optimize for the PS4's DualShock, fast GDDR5 RAM, fast internal busses, and the fact that it runs a proper Unix-like operating system that isn't that piece-of-crap Windows.
To me, gaming on PC/Windows is a masochistic annoying experience. I know some people like it, but I am in general opposed to gaming on PC except for titles that are PC-only, even then they should be played on non-windows if at all possible.
Why do either of us have to hold to confirm? Why am I dragging around a mouse cursor with an analog stick instead of being able to D-pad around the menus?
That's what I want to know. Though I'm guessing the "hold" to confirm is to prevent players from accidentally confirming decisions they might not want to. It is...weird, for example you don't need to hold to select say the lifesupport to recharge, but you DO have to hold to confirm you're using the Plutonium.
FPS players are also not liking having sprint on R3 instead of L3.
You know what keeps tripping me up control wise? Using square to exit the ship instead of say...circle.
But the thing that bothers me the most is the compass and the destination icons. They're not differentiated enough, and they tend to jumble too close together so that you can't see the labels and distances.
I too am enjoying the game, though I haven't even left the first system. I've been exploring for upgrades. I've found several drop pods, am on my third multi-tool and my fourth ship.
I know OUYA does, and in my opinion, inability to share gameplay videos was a significant part of what caused OUYA to fizzle out.
Significant? In what fantasy world do you live in. The real reason Ouya failed is that the masses don't want a microconsole to play sucky android games and emulators.
I see you're a PCMR guy who knows his Playstations
In his defense, if he doesn't have Playstation Plus and is still using a PS3, he's limited on what automatic stuff he can do. The PS3 still a touch annoying in regards to updates. The PS4 on the other hand is more user friendly in this regard.
And since the PS3/PS4 are Ethernet/WiFi only, no dial-up. He should be upgrading whatever 768k crap DSL he has. Unless he's got some kind of external dial-up modem that lets you connect devices via ethernet (which exist)....or is using his PC to share his dial-up connection (more likely).
Even with the PS2, where the commercially released network adapter supports Ethernet/Dial-up, only two games that I know of support dial-up: EQOA and FFXI. (There is another version of the PS2's Network adapter that is Ethernet only, that version came with the PS2 Linux kit)
I once ran into a "dad" at the local enormo-mart who was looking over the PS3 while I was looking over games. He asked if I knew anything about PS3's...which I do, and asked about the online functionality and mentioned that he had only dial-up. Sadly, I had to explain to him that a PS3 really needs a fast network connection for full functionality and game/system updates.
lots of e-mailing is done using web clients and even shared computers.
Which is totally unnecessary in 2016.
Securely exchanging public keys with everyone you want to talk to, that's another hard part (how can you be sure that you get the correct key, and that the key server is not performing a MiM on you?).
Compare the key as acquired from different sources? Make sure the key matches the email address you want to encrypt to? Check the fingerprint confirmed out-of-band?
And besides, if you encrypt to the wrong pubkey, the "right" receiver won't be able to decrypt
But how could this ever work securely for webmail clients?
Simple, don't use webmail via a webrowser. Access it with a REAL e-mail client (either desktop or mobile) via IMAP or POP3. For example, I can access gmail via IMAP and send/receive encrypted messages on either my desktop or phone/tablet.
What is this "bae" thing you speak of? Some bastardization of proper English? I actually had to look it up a few weeks ago. It apparently can either mean "before anyone else" or it can be used as short for "baby".
Language Philistines, BAH! Inamorata or girlfriend/boyfriend are good enough for anyone.
The word is Grandmother or Grandma, Johnny Reb! Only NASCAR and Bible addled Southrons use MeeMaw. Around here you can always tell an immigrant from the South by their Dale Earnhardt bumper sticker on their pickup truck, socks with crocs in the winter, and use of words like MeeMaw.
Which Vita model? My OLED Vita charges relatively quickly. Maybe it's the charger/AC adapter? I've got a Lenovo tablet that has a decent battery but charges SLOWLY.
That's why Steam has Big Picture Mode, why steam machines exist, and why Steam Link was created.
But the thing is, consoles do BPM BETTER than steam does and have been doing so for YEARS.
A windows Steam machine basically has all the drawbacks of Windows, printer queues, system services, Firewalls, antivirus/antimalware etc etc.
A SteamOS machine is still Linux. For example Steam has built in game streaming on windows, but that doesn't work on Linux/SteamOS. If you want to gamestream on SteamOS it is back to the command line you go to fiddle with ffmpeg x11grab scripts or install OBS.
The Steam controller already makes life easier for many keyboard + mouse games.
Considering I first hooked up a keyboard and mouse to a console in 2002...the Steam controller is a solution in search of a problem that isn't really a problem. Which could describe Steam boxes as a whole.
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Leaving discussion of emacs and systemd (though I run a systemd distro) aside, I did have to comment on this:
although personally I prefer vi
vi? What are you, some suspender wearing greybeard who still uses an ASR33, and calls bicycles "velocipedes"?
vi is archaic and arcane. What you should be using is....vim. ;-)
In fact vi users these days probably are actually using vim-minimal.
Yes I know, vi as vim-minimal is installed by default, on Linux anyway, and vim-enhanced isn't. /me waits for a low 4 digit UID guy to extoll the virtues of "ed".
[You can use a smartphone on AT&T with no data plan by buying the GoPhone SIM separately and activating it online.]
Or buy a retail phone package, or bring over a sim from a feature phone.
Have you forgotten?
https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
Well, you could always sign up for a free shell account at sdf.org, that comes with e-mail.
http://sdf.org/?welcome
Because flip phones like my Audiovox 8610 don't do email, and a text is laborious to compose with T9 and switching to multitap for unknown words. Or is a cell phone that doesn't cost $400 a year to run also "ancient hipster technology"?
Geebus, that thing is 12 years old, it IS hipster tech. My last pre-smartphone phone was more capable than that thing. (Razr V3xx)
Why haven't you put your pay-as-you-go sim into a smartphone?
Someone like GoG could in theory design and build a front-end client for their games just like Steam has, and not be required to add any more DRM than they already have.
Nothing theoretical about it: https://www.gog.com/galaxy
1. links to a comic where a woman's opinions are considered shit
2. said woman in comic resembles Anita Sarkeesian
3. comic is "antifemcomics"
4. you bring up atheism
Is that you John Bain (TotalBiscuit)?
Guys like you are part of the problem.
1. You get offfended when some woman comments about some part of culture that you think of as "belonging to guys"
2. Therefore you don't even listen to her and denigrate what she says without actually reading it.
3. Get an army of your dudebro buddies to make death/rape threats, all because a woman dared to comment on "guy stuff"
4. Complain about censorship when this happens:
https://xkcd.com/1357/
My favorite genres being FPS and RTS,
Shakes head just a tad. There ARE game genres other than those two "dudebro gamer" genres.
I've played several RTS with a controller. Basically you move the pointer with the D-pad with an extra acceleration button for faster movement. The RTS's I played were "lasso the group" types, not the "you have to micromanage individual units so only a teenager hopped up on Adderall is fast enough to play" types of recent RTS's.
Also, every one of those console RTS's has mouse support. Sadly...they're all PSone games.
I could not imagine me trying to torture myself with trying to play them on a console controller.
It takes practice, and time to develop the small movements you need. If you've been playing on PC, you simply will not be able to do it well. I remember trying to play Quake II with the dualshock on the PSone. When I first started I couldn't hit the broadside of a barn because I was used to the right stick being camera control, not aiming. I got better, but it took time, and I discovered I'm not really a big FPS fan.
When you can attach keyboard+mouse to a PS4 (and it even gets supported properly by games), we'll talk again.
You CAN attach a keyboard+mouse to a PS4 (and the PS3 and PS2 before it), that's not the issue, they have USB ports for a reason. I've hooked said devices up to PlayStations many many times since 2001. Any PS3/PS4 game that uses the standard text input UI can use a keyboard text input. Chatting, naming items, naming planets.
But I know what you're wanting is PC style keyboard control, that is less common becasue the TRC's require designing for the default controller And developers have limited time/manpower so since they're console titles they don't usually include such support.
Notice I said "usually". There are games that DO have such support, they're not common but they do exist. I have had some over the years:
Deus Ex
Half-Life
Both Final Fantasy XI and EQOA
Dirge of Cerberus
DCUO
Dust514
Onigiri
War Thunder
Though I wouldn't want to play most console games with a keyboard. Really...keyboard for movement? I know it dates to back when PC players became less likely to have joysticks after the death of the true home computers from Atari and Commodore, but WASD is sub-optimal. At least use something like one of those Nostromo speedpads or Razr Tarterus things to move, even if you want to keep the mouse. I can understand wanting to keep the mouse.
But you have to realize that not everyone wants to play games with keyboards and mice and that they are NOT the perfect control scheme for every genre and every game.
Maybe there is, but nobody has found the one guy in the basement of the one building on that one planet with an ! over his head to start the quest chain.
There is a..sort of...quest line, the Atlas Path as it is called, but you might not know about it unless you interacted with an object at your starting crash site.
It always was a PS4 centric title so why buy the thing for PC at all, since they're were going to optimize for the PS4's DualShock, fast GDDR5 RAM, fast internal busses, and the fact that it runs a proper Unix-like operating system that isn't that piece-of-crap Windows.
To me, gaming on PC/Windows is a masochistic annoying experience. I know some people like it, but I am in general opposed to gaming on PC except for titles that are PC-only, even then they should be played on non-windows if at all possible.
Why do either of us have to hold to confirm? Why am I dragging around a mouse cursor with an analog stick instead of being able to D-pad around the menus?
That's what I want to know. Though I'm guessing the "hold" to confirm is to prevent players from accidentally confirming decisions they might not want to. It is...weird, for example you don't need to hold to select say the lifesupport to recharge, but you DO have to hold to confirm you're using the Plutonium.
FPS players are also not liking having sprint on R3 instead of L3.
You know what keeps tripping me up control wise? Using square to exit the ship instead of say...circle.
But the thing that bothers me the most is the compass and the destination icons. They're not differentiated enough, and they tend to jumble too close together so that you can't see the labels and distances.
I too am enjoying the game, though I haven't even left the first system. I've been exploring for upgrades. I've found several drop pods, am on my third multi-tool and my fourth ship.
hasn't crashed for me, not once.
I stream but rarely, but when I do, I tend to stream to Google. Why?
The streams are archived youtube style. Twitch deletes videos after 14 days for free users.
Do the major video game consoles use HDCP on their output?
Yes, but you can disable it for games, why did you not know this already? Do you not know how to google?
http://manuals.playstation.net...
I know OUYA does, and in my opinion, inability to share gameplay videos was a significant part of what caused OUYA to fizzle out.
Significant? In what fantasy world do you live in. The real reason Ouya failed is that the masses don't want a microconsole to play sucky android games and emulators.
Routers have been handling PPPoE for years now and there IS no proprietary PPoE. an ISP may "claim" that you need their crapware, but you don't.
Obligatory JIra Jr:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
"Are we doing any usability testing?"
"No time!"
I see you're a PCMR guy who knows his Playstations
In his defense, if he doesn't have Playstation Plus and is still using a PS3, he's limited on what automatic stuff he can do. The PS3 still a touch annoying in regards to updates. The PS4 on the other hand is more user friendly in this regard.
And since the PS3/PS4 are Ethernet/WiFi only, no dial-up. He should be upgrading whatever 768k crap DSL he has. Unless he's got some kind of external dial-up modem that lets you connect devices via ethernet (which exist)....or is using his PC to share his dial-up connection (more likely).
Even with the PS2, where the commercially released network adapter supports Ethernet/Dial-up, only two games that I know of support dial-up: EQOA and FFXI. (There is another version of the PS2's Network adapter that is Ethernet only, that version came with the PS2 Linux kit)
I once ran into a "dad" at the local enormo-mart who was looking over the PS3 while I was looking over games. He asked if I knew anything about PS3's...which I do, and asked about the online functionality and mentioned that he had only dial-up. Sadly, I had to explain to him that a PS3 really needs a fast network connection for full functionality and game/system updates.
lots of e-mailing is done using web clients and even shared computers.
Which is totally unnecessary in 2016.
Securely exchanging public keys with everyone you want to talk to, that's another hard part (how can you be sure that you get the correct key, and that the key server is not performing a MiM on you?).
Compare the key as acquired from different sources? Make sure the key matches the email address you want to encrypt to? Check the fingerprint confirmed out-of-band?
And besides, if you encrypt to the wrong pubkey, the "right" receiver won't be able to decrypt
But how could this ever work securely for webmail clients?
Simple, don't use webmail via a webrowser. Access it with a REAL e-mail client (either desktop or mobile) via IMAP or POP3. For example, I can access gmail via IMAP and send/receive encrypted messages on either my desktop or phone/tablet.
What is this "bae" thing you speak of? Some bastardization of proper English? I actually had to look it up a few weeks ago. It apparently can either mean "before anyone else" or it can be used as short for "baby".
Language Philistines, BAH! Inamorata or girlfriend/boyfriend are good enough for anyone.
I do drive a Prius though.
Every boy wants his MeeMaw around!
The word is Grandmother or Grandma, Johnny Reb! Only NASCAR and Bible addled Southrons use MeeMaw. Around here you can always tell an immigrant from the South by their Dale Earnhardt bumper sticker on their pickup truck, socks with crocs in the winter, and use of words like MeeMaw.
Which Vita model? My OLED Vita charges relatively quickly. Maybe it's the charger/AC adapter? I've got a Lenovo tablet that has a decent battery but charges SLOWLY.
You've made some good points there, I admit.
That's why Steam has Big Picture Mode, why steam machines exist, and why Steam Link was created.
But the thing is, consoles do BPM BETTER than steam does and have been doing so for YEARS.
A windows Steam machine basically has all the drawbacks of Windows, printer queues, system services, Firewalls, antivirus/antimalware etc etc.
A SteamOS machine is still Linux. For example Steam has built in game streaming on windows, but that doesn't work on Linux/SteamOS. If you want to gamestream on SteamOS it is back to the command line you go to fiddle with ffmpeg x11grab scripts or install OBS.
The Steam controller already makes life easier for many keyboard + mouse games.
Considering I first hooked up a keyboard and mouse to a console in 2002...the Steam controller is a solution in search of a problem that isn't really a problem. Which could describe Steam boxes as a whole.
decent mobile gaming has already got a choice of dozens of devices that also do more than just play games.
Like the Vita and 2DS/3DS? They're the only decent mobile gaming around.
Hell, Sony's PSP is probably a more "decent" game machine than tablets and phones with all the F2P IAP crap.
Nintendo has basically made a psp That can stream the image to your tv.
Or basically recreated the combo of a Vita and Playstation TV in one device.