I mean, you will almost certainly be able to build machines that outperform the Steam Machine 2 in bang-for-buck if Valve isn’t subsidizing it, which they said that they won’t. If not at release, then a few years in, because a console-style periodic hardware release model will lag whatever’s at the bleeding edge.

The desktop I’m typing this on isn’t gonna be cheaper than the Steam Machine 2, but it is unquestionably going to be more powerful.

But that’s not gonna be what the Steam Machine is for — you could always build a DIY gaming PC, unlike with consoles. It’s an open platform. I had a media PC plugged into my TV with a TV interface card a quarter-century back. What Valve is gonna be aiming for is going to be ease of use, the “you plug it into your TV, plug it into power, turn on gamepad, play games that target Steam Machine 2” thing. That’s where consoles have been able to pick up users that haven’t done the PC.

I don’t have a YouTube account, and have no interest in getting one. I hid shorts with this browser add-on:

https://github.com/Vulpelo/hide-youtube-shorts

Oh, nah, that’s the same function; it’s not bound to something else. Either I’m misunderstanding what you’re seeing or…oh. You were talking about writing function names.

The next thing is, that my function names include underscores, which in orgmode translates to making the following text lowercase.

Do you only see this behavior when writing function names or source code or something? Like, when you’re writing ordinary text in org-mode, hitting “_” doesn’t make the text lowercase?

Like, do you have a snippet of text that causes the problem for you? I can look at that.

I also se the latest version of emacs (30.2)

I’m using 30.1, but I think that I’m probably just misunderstanding what you’re hitting.

QUIC works hand-in-hand with HTTP/3’s multiplexed connections, allowing multiple streams of data to reach all the endpoints independently, and hence independent of packet losses involving other streams. In contrast, HTTP/2, which is carried over TCP, can suffer head-of-line-blocking delays if multiple streams are multiplexed on a TCP connection and any of the TCP packets on that connection are delayed or lost.

SCTP was going to do that too. It hasn’t seen much uptake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Protocol

Features of SCTP include:

• Delivery of chunks within independent streams eliminates unnecessary head-of-line blocking, as opposed to TCP byte-stream delivery.

checks the sidebar

I mean, the community rules do explicitly permit NSFW comics (it does say that they should be flagged NSFW, which this isn’t).

• Any comic that would qualify as raunchy, lewd, or otherwise draw unwanted attention by nosy coworkers, spouses, or family members should be tagged as NSFW.

I just…I kinda have a hard time looking at that and saying that someone would get in trouble over viewing it at work, and in any event, I don’t think that “sexed up” is inappropriate, given the rules that the mods have written; they’re clearly fine with lewd material.

From what I’ve seen, the series constantly has fan service, but I must say that I really don’t hold with trying to drive the guy off for posting them.

That being said, like I said, if there are enough people who enjoy them and enough people who are upset about them, maybe doing a new community would make sense.

Are people complaining about the actual submitted content in the comics or just about the author’s personal views? I mean, if it’s the content in the comics, I…guess I could understand having a !sexycomics@lemmy.world or something if some people consider the above to have too much skin — I don’t think I’d call it NSFW. It doesn’t bother me, personally.

Honestly, a lot of people are probably posting in !selfhosted@lemmy.world when their questions really are better-suited to another community. Not just on hardware, but on other technical questions. I don’t think that it’d be a bad thing if they posted in the other places.

However.

End of the day, you need to split up a community when either (a) the traffic is too much of a firehose of content to be able to identify the most-interesting stuff, which isn’t the case for me for this at all or (b) there’s too much unrelated stuff showing up and people are getting a lot of stuff that they don’t want thrown at them. I think that there’s enough overlap between the interests and knowledge of most of the subscribers here and what’s covered that it’s probably not producing a lot of stuff that they aren’t interested in or where their knowledge isn’t relevant.

Like, we have a handful of video-game-specific communities, but they see so little traffic that just using general-purpose video gaming communities like !games@lemmy.world still works pretty well. Maybe some genre-specific communities, like !shmups@lemmus.org.

I think that if we, say, grew the Threadiverse userbase by a factor of ten, then some of the higher-traffic communities that exist now really should split up. But as it is, I personally am not too fussed about having more-centralized stuff from a user standpoint. As things stand, I tend to say “I’d like to have more traffic in the communities I’m in” than “there’s too much traffic and I need help in filtering it down”.

In astronomy, you first enjoy three or four years of confusing classes, impossible problem sets, and sneers from the faculty. Having endured that, you’re rewarded with an eight-hour written exam, with questions like: “How do you age-date meteorites using the elements Samarium and Neodymium?” If you survive, you win the great honor and pleasure of an oral exam by a panel of learned professors.

I remember it vividly. Across a table, five profs. I’m frightened, trying to look casual as sweat drips down my face. But I’m keeping afloat; I’ve managed to babble superficially, giving the illusion that I know something. Just a few more questions, I think, and they’ll set me free. Then the examiner over at the end of the table—the guy with the twisted little smile—starts sharpening his pencil with a penknife.

“I’ve got just one question, Cliff,” he says, carving his way through the Eberhard-Faber. “Why is the sky blue?”

My mind is absolutely, profoundly blank. I have no idea. I look out the window at the sky with the primitive, uncomprehending wonder of a Neanderthal contemplating fire. I force myself to say something—anything. “Scattered light,” I reply. “Uh, yeah, scattered sunlight.”

“Could you be more specific?”

Well, words came from somewhere, out of some deep instinct of self-preservation. I babbled about the spectrum of sunlight, the upper atmosphere, and how light interacts with molecules of air.

“Could you be more specific?”

I’m describing how air molecules have dipole moments, the wave-particle duality of light, scribbling equations on the blackboard, and…

“Could you be more specific?”

An hour later, I’m sweating hard. His simple question—a five-year-old’s question—has drawn together oscillator theory, electricity and magnetism, thermodynamics, even quantum mechanics. Even in my miserable writhing, I admired the guy.

— The Cuckoo’s Egg

Paul Krugman pointed out that opaque approval processes are fertile ground for corruption.

change the default SSH port

Any port scanner — take nmap — is going to turn this up. $ nmap -p0-65355 <hostname> takes a little longer than checking a single port, but what’s the threat that you’re worried about? Someone brute-forcing a password? That’s going to take a hell of a lot longer than that, and you use strong passwords that will make that wildly impractical, right? A zero-day remote exploit in OpenSSH’s sshd? If someone gets one of those, they probably aren’t going to waste it on you.

SSH is also trivial to fingerprint as a protocol. Here’s me running netcat to my local SSH instance:

$ nc localhost 22
SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_10.0p2 Debian-7+deb13u2
^C
$

It ain’t rocket science to identify an SSH server.

I personally think that port-knocking isn’t a great idea and just adds hassle and brittleness to something, but I’d do a port-knocking setup before I tried running sshd on a nonstandard port.

If you honestly don’t trust SSH, then okay, fine, wrap it with a VPN or something with real security so there’s another layer (of course, that raises the issue of whether you trust the VPN software not to have remote exploits). Or have one host that you can reach and bounce from there to another host or something.

There are ways that I’d say are useful to try and secure an SSH instance. Use keys rather than passwords. Whitelist user accounts that can be connected to remotely.

But anyone who is likely to be a real risk to your system is going to be able to find an ssh server running on a nonstandard port.

If it’s something other than org-self-insert-command — if you don’t mind sharing, posting what command it is running might help — you could unbind it. I used to use global-unset-key in old versions of emacs:

;; Emacs 21 uses M-g for facemenu, which I never use; better to make
;; it goto-line, as in later versions
(if (< emacs-major-version 22)
    (progn
      (global-unset-key (kbd "M-g"))
      (global-set-key (kbd "M-g g") 'goto-line)))

I’m not really familiar with keymaps, but I understand that there are a couple ways of binding keys, so that may or may not work.

But I think that that’s probably not actually what you want to do. There’s probably some other mode binding _ to another command, and it’d be better to ask it to not bind to it (and maybe not even to be loaded, if you don’t like that mode).

If you hit C-h k _, the name of whatever it’s bound to should give you some hint — usually, emacs commands tend to start with the name of the package, by convention. C-h m will also list your active modes, which might also tell you what the mode is.

First off, while I like using org-mode for my own private documents, I’d recommend against it for use with other people for pretty much anything other than maybe emacs software. The problem is that org-mode is a continuously-evolving format that only really emacs fully implements, though there is some partial implementation by, say, vim and some other packages. That’s not great for an interchange format, since one can’t really expect other people who might work with the document to be emacs users.

I’d be more-inclined, if one wants a pure-text-friendly format that will be exported to some sort of formatted form, to use something like AsciiDoc.

But, okay. Set that aside. Say you definitely want to use org-mode. I don’t know how you’re doing the export, but you might try using Pandoc instead of emacs, which has its own implementation of org-mode and can export to PDF; people using Pandoc could use other editors. My guess is that Pandoc’s implementation most-likely doesn’t support executing code in the first place, which might indirectly avoid the problem in the first place.

I’m not sure what you mean by underscores making text lowercase. I regularly type underscores in org-mode.

EDIT: Maybe you have some other mode you have active making underscore do something special? You might hit C-h k _ in org-mode to see what the underscore key is invoking. On my system, it’s org-self-insert-command.

You probably want visual-line-mode. You can flip it on with M-x and then visual-line-mode to try it out.

C-h f for visual-line-mode:

visual-line-mode is an interactive native-comp-function in
‘simple.el’.

(visual-line-mode &optional ARG)

Inferred type: (function (&optional t) t)

Toggle visual line based editing (Visual Line mode) in the current buffer.

When Visual Line mode is enabled, ‘word-wrap’ is turned on in
this buffer, and simple editing commands are redefined to act on
visual lines, not logical lines.  See Info node ‘Visual Line
Mode’ for details.
Turning on this mode disables line truncation set up by
variables ‘truncate-lines’ and ‘truncate-partial-width-windows’.

This is a minor mode.  If called interactively, toggle the ‘Visual-Line
mode’ mode.  If the prefix argument is positive, enable the mode, and if
it is zero or negative, disable the mode.

If called from Lisp, toggle the mode if ARG is ‘toggle’.  Enable the
mode if ARG is nil, omitted, or is a positive number.  Disable the mode
if ARG is a negative number.

To check whether the minor mode is enabled in the current buffer,
evaluate the variable ‘visual-line-mode’.

The mode’s hook is called both when the mode is enabled and when it is
disabled.

16.23 Visual Line Mode
======================

Another alternative to ordinary line continuation (*note Continuation
Lines::) is to use “word wrap”.  Here, each long logical line is divided
into two or more screen lines, or "visual lines", like in ordinary line
continuation.  However, Emacs attempts to wrap the line at word
boundaries near the right window edge.  (If the line's direction is
right-to-left, it is wrapped at the left window edge instead.)  This
makes the text easier to read, as wrapping does not occur in the middle
of words.

   Word wrap is enabled by Visual Line mode, an optional minor mode.  To
turn on Visual Line mode in the current buffer, type ‘M-x
visual-line-mode’; repeating this command turns it off.  You can also
turn on Visual Line mode using the menu bar: in the Options menu, select
the ‘Line Wrapping in this Buffer’ submenu, followed by the ‘Word Wrap
(Visual Line mode)’ menu item.  While Visual Line mode is enabled, the
mode line shows the string ‘wrap’ in the mode display.  The command ‘M-x
global-visual-line-mode’ toggles Visual Line mode in all buffers.

   Since word wrap and line truncation (described in the previous
section) are contradictory, turning on ‘visual-line-mode’ disables line
truncation.

   In Visual Line mode, some editing commands work on screen lines
instead of logical lines: ‘C-a’ (‘beginning-of-visual-line’) moves to
the beginning of the screen line, ‘C-e’ (‘end-of-visual-line’) moves to
the end of the screen line, and ‘C-k’ (‘kill-visual-line’) kills text to
the end of the screen line.

   To move by logical lines, use the commands ‘M-x next-logical-line’
and ‘M-x previous-logical-line’.  These move point to the next logical
line and the previous logical line respectively, regardless of whether
Visual Line mode is enabled.  If you use these commands frequently, it
may be convenient to assign key bindings to them.  *Note Init
Rebinding::.

   By default, word-wrapped lines do not display fringe indicators.
Visual Line mode is often used to edit files that contain many long
logical lines, so having a fringe indicator for each wrapped line would
be visually distracting.  You can change this by customizing the
variable ‘visual-line-fringe-indicators’.

   By default, Emacs only breaks lines after whitespace characters like
<SPC> and <TAB>, but does not break after whitespace characters like <EN
QUAD>.  Emacs provides a minor mode called ‘word-wrap-whitespace-mode’
that switches on word wrapping in the current mode, and sets up which
characters to wrap lines on based on the
‘word-wrap-whitespace-characters’ user option.  There's also a
globalized version of that mode called
‘global-word-wrap-whitespace-mode’.

   Only breaking after whitespace character produces incorrect results
when CJK and Latin text are mixed together (because CJK characters don't
use whitespace to separate words).  You can customize the option
‘word-wrap-by-category’ to allow Emacs to break lines after any
character with ‘|’ category (*note (elisp)Categories::), which provides
better support for CJK characters.  Also, if this variable is set using
Customize, Emacs automatically loads ‘kinsoku.el’.  When ‘kinsoku.el’ is
loaded, Emacs respects kinsoku rules when breaking lines.  That means
characters with the ‘>’ category don't appear at the beginning of a line
(e.g., U+FF0C FULLWIDTH COMMA), and characters with the ‘<’ category
don't appear at the end of a line (e.g., U+300A LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE
BRACKET).  You can view the category set of a character using the
commands ‘char-category-set’ and ‘category-set-mnemonics’, or by typing
‘C-u C-x =’ with point on the character and looking at the "category"
section in the report.  You can add categories to a character using the
command ‘modify-category-entry’.

I have something like this in my init.el:

(defun my-text-mode-hook ()
  (flyspell-mode t)
  (visual-line-mode t))

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'my-text-mode-hook)

So that when I’m in text-mode, visual-line-mode also comes on automatically by default.

It doesn’t do so in things like programming modes, where one doesn’t want that sort of thing.

(I also turn on checking for misspelled words in text-mode, and highlighting of them, which is what flyspell-mode is for.)

I’m rather concerned about what I do when my Surface Pro 7 dies

Well, most of what I’ve seen expects memory prices to be coming down in 2028. So if it’s got two years of use in it, you’re probably good.

If you’re desperate for a laptop sooner and cheaper, you can get used laptops on eBay (well, maybe somewhere else if you’re not in the US; dunno what the used PC market is like globally).

Looks like he’s right about the Aussie ones being cuter, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalangeriformes

Phalangeriformes /fəˈlændʒərɪfɔːrmiːz/ are quadrupedal marsupials with long tails. They are a paraphyletic[1] suborder of diprotodontia, consiting of about 70 species[clarification needed] of small to medium-sized marsupials native to Australia, New Guinea, and Sulawesi.[2] It includes possums,[3] gliders, and cuscus.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Phalangeriformes.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opossum

Opossums (/əˈpɒsəmz/) are members of the marsupial order Didelphimorphia (/daɪˌdɛlfɪˈmɔːrfiə/) endemic to the Americas.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f8/Baby_opossum.jpg

EDIT: !opossums@lemmy.world has cute American opossums

Yeah, I thought about changing it, but…the problem is that while the base game is playable now for $0, the overwhelming bulk of the game’s content is in expansion packs. Like, I don’t think that people really buy and play just the base game; it’d be more like a demo.

EDIT: A similar game might be DCS. I mean, yes, technically the base game is free, and you get (checks) a WW2 fighter and a Soviet ground-attack jet. But…basically that acts as a demo, and everyone is going to go out and get at least their favorite aircraft, and most of those aircraft cost about as much as a full-priced video game does. Hell, a couple of them are $80 each.

Yeah, but thanks for the heads-up!

I should totally put release date on there too. Just a sec, will add on a column with that.

I think that a bigger story there is the dominance of F2P games.

EDIT: Added release year after @Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world mentioned age.

EDIT2: And country of origin, while I’m at it.

EDIT3: Note that the release dates on some of these are a bit apples-to-oranges. For example, Escape From Tarkov only had its 1.0 release in 2025, but had been widely-played well before that, so maybe “availability” would be more interesting than “release”. World of Warcraft Classic only split from World of Warcraft in 2019, but both games have an origin in World of Warcraft, which was released in 2004.

Followed by a lot of Jira.

It was clear that more use of Bugzilla would cure many of society’s ills.