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The peace-Cybermen should arrive going: The swarm is coming, we are just about keeping pace as an advance-wave. There's only light-days to go! - Your atoms are going to be turned into computronioum in orbit of the star when the swarm gets here. We can save you! Join us in the mission of more...

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The thing about the very first time that The Doctor met the Cybermen, is that the Cybermen really did think they were here to save the humans. Time-coded Youtube Link: youtu.be/TNBtBY2XMuE?t=545 They're like, You're all doomed, it's inevitable, unless you come join the collecti more...

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I love that I can check on the charging progress while it's in the bedroom by the fast-charger, by sshing into bash there and running upower -d, to see how full the battery is and how fast its charging and all the detail you can't get from a 5-bar battery indicator. When it reaches 80% th more...

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Now they should build a phone which should be expensive yet clunky and barely functional and only lasts the night if you charge it at lunchtime, but has a keyboard and doesn't constantly spy on you and can stream Grand Theft Auto from your home machine. more...

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Been mostly playing Unloop, which you would think is a pretty simple game requiring not a lot of performance. But the headset has not been performing well with it. It gets by. Slows down and drops frames as it gets latter in the loop with more actors acting. So compared to the Quest, the more...

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Battery life on the Steam Frame is really rather poor for sure. Barely getting more than an hour from it. Fast-chargers are going to be be an important thing, coz all the chargers I have lying around are taking 4 hours to charge it up for an hour of a game? Something like that. Better c more...

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In fact, the system was not back to normal after that factory reset (but keep user-data mode). The file zz-steamos-autologin.conf was now in /etc/sddm.conf.z/ containing instruction to boot into Plasma instead of into Steam.[Autologin] Session=plasma.desktop Which is why the dashboard h more...

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This month's digest/newsletter is on it's way to the email inbox all the amazing and wonderful people who asked for it. The rest of you scum can read it here and sign up from the blog: dalliance.net/blog/sep26 Containing: exploring Steam's Frame VR headset, ranting about direct more...

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Played Unloop for a bit. Pretty fun game, working with your own prior iterations in a time-loop to open all the doors at the right time to get through to the next room/loop. Many times your job is done within a few seconds so might as well shoot yourself in the head really and get the ne more...

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Well I do not recommend trying the beta channel. After trying that it booted into a VR KDE desktop without Steam running, and without internet. And without SteamVR package installed. Only rescue was holding the headset button during boot, using the volume keys to select the prior boot sy more...

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dalliance.net @dalliance.net · 06/10/2026

If you turn on Developer Mode, and set a user password, then you can ssh into the linux machine strapped to your face. Now that is the kind of thing I'm talking about. Oh yes. #steamFrame #vr more...

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Google Earth is too much though. Crashes about 40% of the way through 'building the earth'. #googleEarth #vr #steamFrame more...

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Don't really need a Jellyfin player of course if Chromium is there. Just point it at the house media-server. The player works fine and I can put multiple of them around the 3d-space at will. Could even leave one running while a game ran. Watch TV in the corner of your Serious Sam game. Th more...

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Serious Sam! Oh yes. What fun. Fast and smooth and speeding around shooting demons. One of the first VR games I ever played. Runs perfectly other than can't type the name of a save-game for some reason. And now the battery needs a charge. more...

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No Man's Sky takes a long while to install, being so huge. Surprising that it runs at all on this stand-alone headset really but five frames a second or so isn't going to work for me no. So we need the Vive there still until streaming can work at least. #noMansSky #steamFrame more...

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Oh, here's nice: You can stream from the Frame to the Steamdeck, or desktop. So it's windows display what the Frame player can see. more...

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The crucial question really is: Can it replace this aging vive with broken pixels and lighthouses on the edge of mechanical failure for Godot dev on this machine? Yes. It will stream VR well enough from this machine even over 5G wifi for me to at least put on the headset and check if a th more...

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So streaming ain't gonna work well until I can upgrade the OS kernel, or get to the front of the Steam Machine queue. Streaming a flat-screen game from the gaming PC to a theatre-screen in the headset seems to work fairly well though. Not much actual point in my room that already has a m more...

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The Steam Frame arrived. Not a great experience so far really. The Wifi-dongle that brings 6G streaming doesn't currently work on Linux V6 kernels. Which is what Debian has. Apparently Windows is the only thing fully supported really. Internet doesn't even sound that optimistic about th more...

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dalliance.net @dalliance.net · 02/10/2026

Content warning:#greenParty #zionism Zionism is indeed racism, this is a true fact and yet writing that fact into the party policy seems like a tactical error. We don't generally list all the things which are racism, and don't generally try and tell people in countries thousands of miles more...

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And lo, there were inhabitants of the tunnel, and they did swim along it's length, and Adam did look upon them and say that they were good. Or, you know, will do for now at least. Proof of concept. Bullets bounce off them like nerf darts though. Suppose next is to make the bullets explod more...

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With a rolling-nomination rather than periodic-election-from-selected-candidates you also might get some long-term plans and coalitions instead of this everyone-out churn three times a decade. The public could respond in real-time to unwanted wars or the repercussions of black swan events more...

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Now, I'm not insane, and I would not recommend switching to an OfGov type situation at the next election. Clearly it needs a trial-first sort of thing and the ideal way to do a trial of a new democratic system is to run it as a second house in parallel. I think it should replace the lord more...

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I get quite frustrated at this because people defend the local-representative thing as though it's good that your MP comes from your area of the country above all else. But I see the local-first rule as a divide-and-conquer technique. It is designed to prevent people uniting across the co more...

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People think Proportional Representation is extreme. Or that constituencies should have multiple MPs for diversity. My visions are much more radical. Geography is bunk. If local people want a local MP they can appoint one. But if sea-side people around the cost want one? Or cyclists? Or more...

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☎️ ☎️ ☎️ ☎️ ☎️ ☎️ 💂‍♂️Hello, this is OfGov how may I help you today? 🚴‍♂️Oh hello, yes. I'm the MP for Cycling and Cyclists and I'm happy to get your letter saying we have received so much support that it's time to nominate another representative? 💂‍♂️Ah, yes, Mr Cinderford. Thank more...

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☎️ ☎️ ☎️ ☎️ ☎️ ☎️ 💂‍♂️Hello, this is OfGov how may I help you today? 🚶‍♀️Good afternoon OfGov. I've registered a hundred thousand nominations so I'd like to register for my job as MP please! 💂‍♂️Oh, congratulations madam. That must have been hard work! People are reluctant to care more...

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☎️ ☎️ ☎️ ☎️ ☎️ ☎️ 💂‍♂️Hello this is OfGov how may I help you today? 🏌️‍♀️Oh hi! You know I usually agree completely with my representative but I'm afraid he hasn't really understood the issues on taxing the homelessness so I'd like to override his choice on the vote on Wednesday. more...

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dalliance.net @dalliance.net · 30/09/2026

☎️ ☎️ ☎️ ☎️ ☎️ ☎️ 💂‍♂️Hello, this is OfGov how may I help you today? 🧙‍♂️Hi! Thanks. Its quite simple, my appointed political representative isn't actually representing my views or interests these days so I'd like to switch to a new one please. 💂‍♂️Okay, certainly sir. No problem. more...

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Until today the tunnel was the test tunnel of "just change all the shader parameters randomly every segment", but after today the tunnel is instead procedurely generated from an initial seed. Long straights, long curves, nicely twisting spiraling shapes, colours and noise-tuners all chang more...

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dalliance.net @dalliance.net · 29/09/2026

Content warning:UKPol Burnham If Burnham were to walk the walk as well as he talks the talk tody then the country might be in for a less bad time than I'd imagined. Pressure from the left appears to be working. People vote Green, Greens take London councils, threaten central London seats more...

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dalliance.net @dalliance.net · 27/09/2026

Oh no! I started making a new computer game again. Now I shall have no time or interests or friends and just spend all my hours engrossed solving puzzles pressing buttons in the dark. It's that tunnel shooter of my dreams, only now written also for VR, for in a spiny-chair, or for lying more...

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dalliance.net @dalliance.net · 27/09/2026

The Steam Frame is released. At a shockingly high price range, but that's RAM for you in these post-ai days. This means improvement on Linux VR in general with all the latest patches. The home-room is updated, the menus all looking fancy and new. Even if you got an old Vive. Even more ex more...

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But the maintenance workload really has increased here. These machines are producing a torrent of exploits, some fraction of which are real and serious. Certainly eyes-on every one of them, but if they are short, obvious, correct, and exactly what you'd have done anyway? 🤷 What do you more...

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They really are talking about piping claude directly into root access on the prod servers so it can run the upgrades though. Apparently adding "Oh, and really important: don't do anything bad without asking" to the prompt is a safe-guard! It'll ask before it deletes the database I guess, more...

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I might be in favor of an AI strike, but I don't really understand what the proponents wants us to do? That machine is finding security bugs that matter, and you can't run a repo that refuses those patches. What are you going to do? Just let your users /by default/ refuse those security more...

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dalliance.net @dalliance.net · 23/09/2026

RE: mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/11732… Eniko is correct and eloquent and sweary in the thread. It writes code approximately as good as Stack Overflow examples. Which scales about as well as that would. You only run into trouble when you want more than a few lines more...

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Content warning:Trump vs superintelligence The word "Superintelligence" is supposed to be applied to a machine that's even smarter than we are. Like, a Jupiter-brain, a dyson sphere enclosing a star and powering a single mind from the entire output of a sun. So I dunno if you can correct more...

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dalliance.net @dalliance.net · 21/09/2026

Nice to hear to that Firefox is getting rid of popup ads, but quite discouraging to see that Firefox has put a popup ad over the page telling me about how it's an end to popup ads. #firefox #advertising #adBlocker more...

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dalliance.net @dalliance.net · 19/09/2026

Popped into the Grant Museum of Zoology, which houses a collection of old bones and stuffed animals built and bequeathed mostly last century. Its most recent specimen was from an animal that died at the zoo and it's oldest is a half a billion year old fossil of a penis worm. They have a more...

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Yeah, weird, it came though in the column with the list were I follow on Mastodon, appears at lemmy itself, and yet not at Fedia. Even though Fedia seems to otherwise have everything. Replies here not directly mentioning the group are not propagated to the group. Good to know. Maybe it j more...

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Haven't tagged -doctorwho-lemmy.world before. Still not sure how federated groups are supposed to work. Looks like it takes the first line as a subject so starting with emoji was a mistake. Seems to have shown up on Lemmy, but not on fedia where I actually read the group. Hummm. You learn more...

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It's gonna be Xmas-27, some episodes in the year, and then Xmas-28 isn't it? Been enjoying some of the Big Finish stuff recently too. There's a lot of them with the 8th doctor who only got one TV-movie pilot. He's pretty good. Loved it when he traveled with Mary Shelly for a while. more...

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The BBC have released the Tender Document ( www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/news/do… ) for companies who want to make Doctor Who. They'll need to be registered (via Microsoft forms!?) by October 2nd. Which seems short notice. And then th more...

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