Notices by The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 12

@fuzzybinary Caveat: I’ve only used the wireless version not the wired one but they’re generally known for decent builds

@fuzzybinary 8bitDo make better controllers than MS for less money https://www.8bitdo.com/ultimate-c-wired-controller-xbox/

@lisyarus I’m lucky that UE does a lot of the heavy lifting and is well proven in this area, but even so - dumb little things trip you up

A lot of my days are spent making something quite simple but which is rendered waaay more complicated because of multiplayer - and I’m not even making a competitive game so I don’t care very much about cheating (if you want to break the game you play co-operatively with friends, knock yourself out).

It can be quite frustrating that everything takes longer, but when testing, just the act of messing about in the game with another person makes it feel worth it

@jon_valdes it would certainly explain a lot

@demofox with LLM search engines scraping LLM blog posts it’s garbage all the way down now, time to start pivoting to the Mentat model

Yay, finally have confirmation that buying SUDS Pro on Fab actually works 😄🎉

@aras @nh @neilhenning not to mention Aliens

@neilhenning I just can’t do it, even in text, feels too weird for me to be saying it.

I usually go with “folks” but am working up the courage to use “chums” or “me hearties”

@GeekAndDad even when they’re not active - Merry likes to sleep on my feet some nights and makes me too hot

@YurkshireLad Galaxy brain move

Before we insulated the place it used to need so much more active heating. Cold walls, damp, it was not great. It’s an old block house with no cavity so we decided to externally insulate it; basically wrap the house in a warm blanket. The difference in cost between thicknesses was marginal once you’d decided to do it so we went for the thickest available. Totally worth it, it’s absolutely transformed both cost and QoL (damp is totally gone). The walls now act as a thermal battery

Still haven’t put the heating on even though it’s November. It’s still getting up to like 15C during the day here rn and not going below 11-12C at night so with the insulation we installed 10 years ago the latent heat from PCs, cooking, showers etc seems to keep the place topped up just enough. Helps that we WFH. Occasionally it gets slightly chilly (drops to about 19-20C in the house) but just put a PC on and you’re good 😄 Maybe in a week or two it might need to be on for an hour a day

@eniko the writing has been on the wall for a while, but still sad to see the hammer finally come down. I used to love macOS (or OS X, really) when they tried to be useful to devs but they’ve fully disappeared up their own asses now. Now I’m left with either being gaslit by Windows for an easyish life, or made to constantly fart about with technical nuances I don’t care about to run Linux

I have been to the new coffee shop that is literally 60 seconds walk from my house and can report that a) their coffee isn’t as nice as mine and b) their cake selection is a bit underwhelming.

Frankly I am relieved and my waistline may yet remain within the confines of three dimensional space

@SonnyBonds in the past I’ve done Qt, wxWidgets and “just write it twice” and sadly the latter was the best outcome. I don’t know if there’s a good answer which is why Electron gets used so much despite its problems

@dev_ric I mainly started with it to chill out more in the evening with nice mood lighting. However stuff like being automatically dimmer when you turn it on later has been really useful

@pmdj at this point in the timeline it’s very much a theoretical party

My kind of crowd

I feel like people who claim that the social network with the most people in it is inherently the best might not realise that some of us prefer to be in the kitchen talking to the cat at parties