as long as it’s related to technology.

In that case, I suggest you define what fields of technology you mean, because practically everything is related to one technology or another.

you are better served by subscribing to a topic under the technology umbrella(Cyber security, hardware, software,… etc) , rather than the general technology community.

I do subscribe to such communities, but no, I am not better served by them. There are relatively few active ones, and most are about computer hardware or software. That leaves out a vast array of other kinds of technology, each of which might not have enough daily news to support an active room of its own, but in aggregate would make for a genuinely interesting community distinct from the flood of tech-stock drama that dominates so many others.

In any case, thanks for clarifying. I now know that your new community does not appeal to me.

After being on !technology@lemmy.world for a while, I find it overwhelmingly tiresome due to so many posts that are not about technologies, but instead about business drama, the stock market, and politics. The most frequent posters there seem to think “technology” means “tech stocks and the executives behind them”. Any article about any organization that happens to use a technology (especially computers) is accepted, and since that means all businesses, the result is practically no filtering at all. The community is flooded with noise that clearly fits better elsewhere.

If I wanted my feed filled with business drama, I would subscribe to a business or stocks community.

People gently complain about this from time to time, often garnering lots of upvotes, but the moderator(s) do nothing about it. A few examples:

https://lemmy.world/post/22514253

https://lemmy.world/post/24137271

https://lemm.ee/post/17164656

The posted rules remain vague, and the problem persists. The moderators seem to view quantity as more important than quality.

I wish there were a community where the bar was high enough to filter out most of that stuff, instead favoring news and discussions of technologies and their effects on the world. If one were to gain traction, I would gladly abandon the lemmy.world one and all the noise that it produces.

Will !technology@programming.dev be it?

I think my favorite part of Cyberpunk 2077’s open world was that it was full of activity. The encounter variety might have been a little disappointing, but I was impressed with how they made the city feel dense and populated. It was much more convincing than the miniature towns full of locked doors and fake windows that are passed off as “cities” in so many other games.

It depends on what aspects of an open world are important to you.

Exploration is at the top of my list, and Skyrim is a good example of doing it well. Its world is full of unique things/places/characters to find, whether through an NPC’s directions, or a roughly sketched map picked up while adventuring, or following your curiosity toward an area that looks interesting, or chasing a fox, or simply by wandering off the beaten path.

Map markers appear after you’ve already been somewhere so you can find your way back again, but since most of them are hidden until then, they don’t spoil the experience of discovery.

And, when you find something, it’s often genuinely interesting. Not yet another copy/paste monster fight or “hold the button to follow your witcher sense to the lost thing” quest. Not just checking off a task list item (or pre-placed map marker) so you can rush to the next one. The experience itself is rewarding.

Mind, I have criticisms of Skyrim, but it did exploration and environments (including sound) very well, and I wish more open world designers would learn from it and build upon its strengths.

EDIT:

I would love to play a game that reached or exceeded Skyrim’s bar for exploration and environmental immersion, Breath of the Wild’s bar for freedom of movement and wildlife, and The Witcher 3’s bar for characters and story.

Yet before posting, I searched for words in the headline and got no results in this community. I guess Lemmy doesn’t always work right. Oh well.

IMHO, its gameplay is mediocre at best:

• Sluggish controls
• Character movement that is unrealistically limited without offering anything to make up for it
• Fiddly object interaction problems (e.g. candles often getting in the way of more important things)
• Bland combat mechanics
• “Open” world populated almost entirely with copy/paste combat encounters
• Little reward for exploration, since practically everything worth finding has a map marker
• A tiny handful of side quests re-used over and over with different mini-stories to make the quests seem distinct while the tasks to perform are mostly identical

This game’s strengths are not the gameplay, but the lore, characters, and story. (All the things that could be had from reading the books, or maybe watching the live action adaptation.)

Oh, and Gwent. Gwent is remarkably well-designed for a mini-game within another game.

You might be able to prevent a particular touchpad from affecting the desktop with an xinput disable command. Run xinput list to show the available device names and IDs, or man xinput for more details.

Another approach, assuming you’re using an X11 session (not Wayland), would be to disable the device in xorg.conf.

A custom udev rule could also do the trick, although it might be more complicated than an xinput command.

Have a look here:

https://rpcs3.net/quickstart#supported_devices_pcs

AMD GPUs have better all-around compatibility on Linux, but if you’re mainly gaming, Nvidia GPUs can be made to deliver good performance as well.

I don’t trust Meta to actually delete all copies of my data if I “delete” my accounts, but I will lose access to any privacy controls if I do it.

So, I have been deleting my posts, comments, photos, etc… stripping the account down to a mostly empty shell. Sometimes you can find browser scripts to help automate this.

I might add some junk data to the account later.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

Sure, but most YouTube streams aren’t delivered as a single webm or mp4 file, and the language & subtitle selection you’re referring to aren’t implemented by the browser (but instead by a JavaScript application downloaded from Google). So it’s not what OP asked about.

I’m not suggesting that it’s outrageous. Merely that it’s probably not a high priority.

Maybe webm and mp4 files with multiple language tracks are usually played with a media player, not a web browser?

GNU Taler requires exchanges in order to function, and hasn’t had any so far. What exchange now exists for use in Switzerland? Is it Taler Operations AG?

It depends on wire transfers to move money into and out of a Taler wallet. Wire transfer fees are typically around 30 USD. That’s not practical for most people’s needs, even if covering batches of transactions. Are there plans to support a less expensive means of funds transfer?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/analyzing-kosas-constitutional-problems-depth

:(

A flimsy band-aid over the real problems:

• Locking an open-source project’s community behind a corporation’s private service & license terms.
• Using a real-time chat platform for long-lived information storage.

I imagine it’s hard for devs to fully bypass.

Why do you imagine that? All a developer needs to do is choose a platform other than Discord. I have never found that to be hard.

Okay, what’s the biggest and most active gamer community on Matrix?

I don’t know, and don’t really care. I play games mostly with friends. Listening to a large chat room full of random people doesn’t appeal to me at all.

Regardless of social preferences, I think you’ll find that there is no Discord alternative with public chat rooms as big and active as Discord’s, nor will there be any time soon. The network effect is strong there.

Nevertheless, we can choose tools that serve us better, and invite others to join us when it’s practical. Ex-redditors have been doing this with Lemmy. Ex-Windows gamers have been doing this with Linux. Shifting away from an entrenched platform is usually slow and gradual, but not impossible.

I guess you haven’t checked recently, then. :)

https://element.io/blog/introducing-native-matrix-voip-with-element-call/

https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/blob/livekit/README.md