Damn. Wing Commander II on the Miggy is one of my favourite games of all time, and I really wanted to love this - but I just watched the trailer and the Gee-Whiz Top-Gun Yankee Navy Saves The Universe aesthetic is just nauseating. That’s a hard pass, then.
You guys need to learn nobody thinks you’re The Good Guys any more.
It’s the wrong way round.
If someone said “I’ve had a bad day, but it’s really been my year” you wouldn’t say “oh poor you”.
If they said “I’ve had a rough year, but at least it’s been my day” you’d say “thank Cthulhu for small mercies I guess”.
I use Signoz and OTel collectors to bring in everything from Kubernetes (and also SNMP-to-OTel for the network and NAS stats.)
That covers dashboards and basic alerting. Then on top of that I have an n8n workflow that runs every morning - it pulls all the main stats out of Signoz, as well as issues and their status from my infrastructure repo in Gitlab, and feeds it all into a local LLM (Qwen-3.8-Flash-Next at the moment), which emails me a report on overall cluster health. It also automatically opens a ticket in Gitlab for anything that might need fixing.
It works really nicely, gotta say.
It’s the place opposite /ursa major/ (the great bear constellation, in the northern sky.) The name has nothing to do with actual bears (that’s just good luck.)
I just finished Pragmata (had to speedrun the last few levels to fit in Control: Resonant, which I feel bad about - but I’d had C:R preordeted for ages and love anything from Remedy… Anyway, I digress.)
Pragmata I thought was good, and Capcom deserve some credit. An actual new IP, a genuinely fun and different game mechanic, visually looks good - and is bright and striking rather than regulation brown - and was just good fun to play. My only criticism would be that the dialogue/plotting felt like it was kinda rushed - like they skipped a couple of chapters and you go from “just met” to “devoted partners” in one scene and missed the plot/character development needed to get from A to B. I feel bad saying it though, because it’s a decent and topical plot and has some genuinely affecting moments.
Credit where due; I hope it does OK because God knows it’s hard enough to find games doing anything new these days.
Battery cages are illegal in the EU, and the minimum provision for caged hens is 750cm^2 per bird.
The US has no such law, but “industry standard” is 430 to 550cm^2 per bird.
Because washing the eggs allows you to cover up the fact that the hens are crammed so tight that the eggs are covered in shit by the time they’re collected.
Making it illegal to wash the eggs forces farmers to maintain some semblance of sanitary conditions.
Well, all credit to you!
Sometimes Lemmy can be surprising in a good way :^).
The patent is not on haptic feedback. The patent is on a very specific means of implementing haptic feedback using ferrofluids and electromagnetic actuators that it is claimed (and Apple deemed it good enough to copy, so presumably truly) allows for both a smaller implementation than typical mechanical haptic feedback (i.e. the off-balance-flywheel approach of phones of old), while also allowing for low- or zero- noise compared to “speaker or piezo” based haptic feedback.
There are a lot of shit patents in the world, but on a surface reading at least this seems sufficiently novel that I don’t see why it should be invalid. One also presumes that if Apple had any grounds to invalidate it on prior-art they would have done so.
Euro Truck Simulator is a great shout. My team bought me a steering wheel/pedals/gearshift as my leaving gift from my last job, and I can happily lose a whole afternoon trundling to and from some Greek island in my pimped-up Volvo…
I love loads of games, old and new - I feel really bad that Uncharted, MGS, Alan Wake, Control, Death Stranding, and a load of other brilliant games aren’t on that list, but I feel like those 5 are the ones that were most epoch-defining for me for the kind of games I love.
Thank you!
Well, now I feel old.
I do feel like anyone who hasn’t had to write multiple-hundred-page technical documents in Framemaker on an HP-UX C100 workstation with a couple of hundred MB of RAM shouldn’t be allowed to complain about any modern office software.
And don’t get me started on “automating the secretarial pool for fun and profit with WordPerfect DOS macros.”
Kids today…
Europe has had electric trucks from Volvo, Mercedes, MAN and Freightliner for years; forgive us if we’re not overly excited about the arrival of that ugly ass PoS…
Aww, how sweet!
The kids get bundled into the boot of a car and renditioned by ICE?
Here in Romania most of the local delivery companies (the big internationals usually hand off to a local affiliate once it’s imported, so that covers your FedExes and the like) have drivers who you’ll get to know by name and have their number in your phonebook - typically I’ll get a quick “hi, I’ll be there in 5 minutes if you’re in?” courtesy call before delivery, and if you’re not home but in a coffee shop round the corner or the like they’ll happily divert to you or make another arrangement.
It’s one of those weird areas (and I’m in no way claiming this across the board) where quality of life can actually be better in a poorer economy than a rich one - when labour is cheap enough that you can employ actual people to do actual jobs, you just get better stuff (like delivery drivers that know your name, or parks that actually have park keepers and litter pickers, and all those other little things that as a country gets richer become just too expensive.) I welcome that the country is getting wealthier obviously, but you can already feel some of that slipping away and there’s a tinge of sadness.
Back on topic though - ugh, DHL though are the one I dread. Not that their local delivery guys aren’t fine, they are, but my God the amount of paperwork they demand you complete before they’ll actually release an international shipment for delivery is nuts. Very Germanic (bless them.)
It’s a tale as old as time… Or at least as old as navies.
For example, Portsmoiugh football club fans are known as The Skates in honour of the Royal Navy base in Portsmouth; apparently, sailors swear that the humble Skate is a particular tender lover.
Safari introduced private browsing in 2005.
Granted, Chrome eventually innovated by coming up with a catchier name.
I’m not sure that makes me feel better about the game - it sounds like playing a role in a Hegseth wet dream - but I do appreciate the additional context, thank you!