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Wales tourism tax: £1.25 per night charge could start in 2027 - BBC News
  • "Oh but it discourages tourism!" Good. Now take on the 2nd home owners and Airbnb landlords and let communities enjoy their homes without English families gawking at them and complaining about the dual language signage and 20mph speed limits

  • The community behind the PC port of Ocarina of Time have been secretly working on a native version of Star Fox 64
  • Did they? I've seen moreso that projects distributed methods to extract these keys from "real hardware" instead of actually distributing keys, or that projects "made money" from emulators, or that X or Y discord distributed pirated ROMs - Honestly I think Nintendo's goal was to make the takedowns vague so successors couldnt work to new guidelines without fear of being next.

    Ryujinx was supposedly even more strict with handling of proprietary info and community moderation, which only got it a few months of safety beyond Yuzu.

    It feels more like Nintendo knows they have capital to leverage against FOSS developers, but prefer to wait and scoop up a bunch in one go. Plus, it takes time to pick through usernames and dig up personal info to threaten enough people to kill the hydra before more heads can spawn.

    (genuinely though, if you or anyone has sources to the explicitly illegal stuff being done by Ryujinx and Yuzu, I'd happily retract my own comment which is only informed on speculation from the time)

  • KDE is working on an M$ Word alternative?
  • Libre Office and Only Office are the only real MS alternatives (which offer decent compatibility) at the moment but I'm excited for KDE expanding its own suite of software, which is something that GNOME has had over it for a long time now.

  • KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK
  • I used to work at KFC and it was someone's job every day to sort through the 'on the bone' chicken (stuff you get in buckets) to throw out broken bones, giblets, feathers etc.

    Firstly, only this kind of chicken came from the UK. The rest is from mainland Europe before being marinated and shipped, which seemed unnecessarily inefficient.

    Secondly, good god is the state of the chicken you get horrifying. I kid you not it set me towards becoming vegan. But compared to the chicken you get in a supermarket (say, an Asdas roast chicken) it is scrawny, frail, and so easily broken and poorly cleaned. The breading and frying process makes it look way more "full".

    Between farmers and businesses these birds are a source of untold horror AND a vector of our next potential pandemic, whether it be H5N1 or something else. Not even before we consider the totally unsustainable nature of farming poultry both ecologically and economically.

  • Probably the easiest boycott you could do, let's do it Lemmy!
  • On the upside, every time a .world community has these anti-federation wreckers cry and scream because they got banned for some repugnant views (but by design of federation they can just join a new site) I just block the whole community.

    Might not be defederation but you're only turning these Comms into lame Reddit discourse farms that does the opposite of your evil plan.

  • Probably the easiest boycott you could do, let's do it Lemmy!
  • I see the liberals who got upset at bluesky being a "tankie echo chamber" are right at home on lemmy.world where they year for nothing but a Reddit 2.0 where 90% of the content is fed through a handful of professional content astroturfers or bot accounts linked to three-letter agencies.

  • Windows VS Linux (part 2)
  • One thing that no one can argue is better on windows is app updates.

    On Linux, my apps update through the app store or a terminal command.

    On Windows, the app has to create its own auto-updater that usually means it bugs you for permission (sometimes if it's something like Adobe or Office it'll keep an update-checker service running!). Otherwise your app is just stagnant forever.

    It's not impossible for Windows to fix, there's chocolatey and winget but they're always going to be a niche alternative to the shitty systems Windows gives by default.

  • This game has a snowballing issue.

    NB: This was just a post of me venting about two shit games back to back where the same player absolutely rolled through even when half of our team was pre-warned, but I wanna note that in general this trend of "one player gets fat then rolls the other team despite their best efforts" is something I'm noticing on my own teams too.

    ***

    What am I meant to do when by luck or some other factor a player gets what you think is a meagre lead (1-2k) then spirals into an absolute seal clubbing?

    When there's not surrender mechanic you're held ransom to ensure the winning team extracts their "fun" from having you feed into them until they decide playing TDM is enough and play the objectives?

    I've had close games, equal games, games where we lose but it's a well fought, but recent updates have stuffed the MMR (or maybe cheating and smurfing is just common now?)

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    "sub" meshes vs one monolithic mesh - Which technique should I use?

    So I've done 3D modelling in 3DS Max and I'm currently learning blender, and I'm beginning to look at creating more detailed models and learning about stuff such as managing topology.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEj1uHSu1Bw

    I've noticed in videos such as this, instead of merging the meshes together and managing the topology of each detail/element, the modeller just creates a new mesh. Is this right? Or is there some benefit to combining these details into one "monolithic" mesh and then fixing any topology issues.

    Is there much performance or other downside to creating multiple separate meshes like in the video? Am I overthinking this?

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    64-core RISCV CPU and RX5500XT GPU running Witcher 3 at 15fps

    www.tomshardware.com RISC-V CPU runs The Witcher 3 at 15 FPS — 64-core chip paired with Radeon RX 5500 XT GPU deliver laggy gameplay

    At very low, choppy FPS for now— but that it can run at all without x86 bodes quite well for the future of RISC-V devices

    RISC-V CPU runs The Witcher 3 at 15 FPS — 64-core chip paired with Radeon RX 5500 XT GPU deliver laggy gameplay

    Incredibly impressive for a platform that hasn't even hit Debian stable yet.

    This is using box64, an ARM/RISCV translation layer for x86 apps on Linux, not unlike "Rosetta" on MacOS.

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