Nils

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[–] Nils@piefed.ca 6 points 3 months ago

Love how you organized them by proximity. Also, great bike picks.

[–] Nils@piefed.ca 0 points 3 months ago

Cool interview, interesting format, felt very personal. Thanks for sharing.

I was horrible at asking people for money, because I know people’s financial strains, constraints…

Good to see he is not a psycho. People that can ask for money with a straight face like most politicians and YouTubers ickys me.

I like that he came from a Union background. I feel like most political parties abandoned the labour movement around the world (small farmers too) and are only focusing on big corporation and major centres.

[–] Nils@piefed.ca 4 points 3 months ago

What a sweet episode, thanks for sharing. I like how the Tiny Desk songs hit different.

[–] Nils@piefed.ca 2 points 4 months ago

People should avoid Udemy in general, both as teachers and as students. A lot of shady practices akin to MLM/pyramid schemes. The quality of the courses are also terrible and most of the time the content was copied from some website / youtube that you can access free.

Devs I heard of in Japan are only getting into Godot recently, TGS2023 had some talking, we might see more commercial games soon. But nonetheless, you might find knowledgeable tutors there.

Learning Godot will depend on how familiar you are with Game Dev, or Coding anything in general.

If you know nothing about programming and human computer interaction, taking one of those online free courses from universities that merge coding with games might be a suitable starting option. Like this one from Rice you can enrol for free (choose to audit the course) https://www.coursera.org/learn/interactive-python-1 That will give you some basic imperative programming skills, and also learn how coding for games work.

The most important game dev skills you learn are easily transferable between engines, language, etc... So do not worry, it is Python.

If you are experienced with coding, Godot has a bunch of documentation and sample projects you can check.
Either from their repos, or others. My favourite and most recent is Dogwalk from Blender Studios. It is open source and there are some materials explaining what they did. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3775050/DOGWALK/

Find a sample repository of the style you like: infinite runner( flappy birds, canabalt), last-stand/survivor, asteroids, platform, or anything that would be close to the project you have in mind. Find a project and try to understand it. https://godotengine.github.io/godot-demo-projects/ or https://github.com/gdquest-demos/godot-4-new-features have plenty of those.

I remember, back in the day, kids wanting to learn game dev because they wanted to make an open-world survival craft with stealth elements. That is a terrible way to start, find something small or break a big ambitious project in parts and build it from there. For the example I mentioned, first try to learn how to move the player in a small area of your world of choice (platform 3D or 2D).

Once you know what you are lacking, then find a course, video, forum discussion ... that will help you with that. I found more valuable information in specialized bulleting boards than any course and YouTube videos combined (but this only kicks in when you are comfortable with the basics).

If you just want to follow courses in general, https://www.gdquest.com/ is your best bet, like the other comment said. They are partners with Godot and are frequently featured in their website https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-0-sets-sail/. They have plenty of open-source projects and youtube videos (also paid classes). - This is a good start if you like 3D games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlgZtOFMdfc

Let me know if you have anything in mind, I might be able to point you to a better direction.

 

It seems that you have a better playing experience by installing Bazzite on the Xbox Ally (except for Witcher 3 for some reason).

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Edit: Add an image because the link shows black/broken symbol on the small preview window, not sure if it will fix

 

I hope they do this bit with a flight company next time.

It is YouTube, should I tag it as NSFW because of the gimp suit and the sexual theme of this sketch?

 

It is messed up that number spoofing is legal in Canada for ridiculous reasons - clearly the telecom cartel here lobbied to make this legal and extract more money from Canadians. I had some friends (yeah, plural) who received threats because someone spoofed their numbers to rob old folks, and they had to ask help from the police. With me, the spoofing was not so severe, someone missed the scammers call and called me asking why I was calling them, soon we realized what happened, and I asked them to report the case (I also did it).

I noticed that when a number is not spoofed, it is provided by the same company: Iristel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iristel After getting a bunch of spams/scams today, I decided to use one of those services to reverse search. All, not spoofed, scams calls/sms I got this year came from that same company, while none of the legit calls came from them.

I hope there is a way to block this company numbers from reaching me. If not, at least I raise awareness.

[–] Nils@piefed.ca 0 points 5 months ago

In this video, doesn't Taliesin Jaffe misses the table, and they laugh at him?

op adding subliminal layers to the meme. 😅

[–] Nils@piefed.ca 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I don't know if it would work in Montréal, but I saw some public transit strikes around the world with similar problems and their union did some "compliance strike" instead.

They went to work, opened the gates and disabled the payment systems, so everyone would ride free. The service is important, but if you want profits, you need to talk to us.

[–] Nils@piefed.ca 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wow, I might be old, I guess language changes. Crackers used to be for hackers that focus in bypassing security, like in "code crackers". It seems it is still used for gaming scenes that reverse engineer DRM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_warez_groups - and the colour of the hat, just how they used their skills.

[–] Nils@piefed.ca 3 points 6 months ago (7 children)

There was some drama about FUTO here a few days ago, on the sense they were promoting fascism and using Rossmann credentials to validate it.

If I am not mistaken, this is one of the articles shared. https://drewdevault.com/2025/10/22/2025-10-22-Whats-up-with-FUTO.html

I think the user before mistook FULU with FUTO. Not sure. I cannot see any redflags on the FULU website, they do not see to be the same people. https://fulu.org/our-team

[–] Nils@piefed.ca 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Start with building a very cheap computer with your kid.

You can buy parts for cheap or sometimes get them for free from e-waste processing places. You can do the screws to the case, but let the kid put the parts in place while you explain what they do.

Parts are easy to handle, just make sure to not damage the components as they look cute and are a bit malleable, but put too much pressure you can destroy it (not sure a kid will be strong enough for that).

It is as easy as building Lego, or putting a cartridge on an old console. This will help to make the computer less scary.

Make sure that you can do it yourself and test the parts first before involving your kid, so they do not get too frustrated if it fails.

This will cover hardware.

You can also help them to install the OS.

After, make a list of the programs you want your kid to be aware of: calculator, place to write text, anything you think it will be useful. Take some time to explain them, and do some exercises with each - let's write a letter to a friend, etc.. Let them play around with it without judgment. (remove things you don't want them to use).

If you want to give the child some background in how software works, Logo was very popular with kids at the school.

Logo is this little turtle that you give orders, similar to imperative programming language used in most softwares.

Change colour to green, walk forward 50 steps.

And the turtle would draw a green line on the screen.

There are plenty of options for software that provides that, here is an option https://apps.kde.org/kturtle/

And, of course, try to break these in multiple days, building a PC, installing OS and playing with programs can be overwhelming for some kids.

[–] Nils@piefed.ca 59 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Wasn't there an experiment of farting in a lab and contamination of petri dishes?

Something in the lines that at least wearing one layer (underwear) is enough to prevent contamination.


Wow, there are plenty of studies, this is the funnies one I found:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1121900/

“Our deduction is that the enteric zone in the second Petri dish was caused by the flatus itself, and the splatter ring around that was caused by the sheer velocity of the fart, which blew skin bacteria from the cheeks and blasted it onto the dish. It seems, therefore, that flatus can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if he or she is clothed. But the results of the experiment should not be considered alarming, because neither type of bacterium is harmful. In fact, they're similar to the ‘friendly’ bacteria found in yoghurt."

 
[–] Nils@piefed.ca 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Back in the day I played on windows, most software companies troubleshoots and M$ MPVs recommendations were:

  • reinstall the game
  • reinstall the EA/Ubi launcher
  • reinstall windows.

Since I had to reinstall windows a lot, I set my user folder & friends in another drive during installation. This gif is just about the steps to get it done.

[–] Nils@piefed.ca 1 points 7 months ago

Depending on the sticks, you will not know it is hall-effect unless you open the controller or if after playing a lot you are drift free. If it is legit, you might want to share the seller with us, as it might a great place to buy improved joysticks.

Now, I just wish Sony or modders would improve the battery life of the controller.

 

Gamers Nexus have been working for the past 2 weeks on a Linux GPU benchmark suite.

As we're publishing this, we're about 2 weeks into setup, pre-testing, variable isolation, and calibration for a Bazzite Linux GPU benchmark suite. We don't have a firm ETA yet, but we are working on it every day right now! Very excited to run the numbers!

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