Before your comment, I thought I recognized this person, but could remember from where. Then your hint referencing TwoSetViolin helped me recall this is Hilary Hahn. Haven’t seen that channel in while, hope she still does those fun informal guest appearances.

Are the two Linux devices on the same IP subnet?
Are any of the other KDE connect features working?

Are you subscribed to both comic strips and science memes as well? Great communities.

It feels like we’re finally, and thankfully, coming full circle. I remember buying my first digital camera in the early 2000s, specifically chosen because it was one of the many that included USB web camera functionality. Aside from downloading the photos on its internal storage, external storage was optional, you could also use the included software to serve as a webcam source.

I can’t remember if it included a microphone, I’m thinking it didn’t. It also ran off on those small stubby film camera batteries, and not off USB power from the cable you connected it to, which was kind of dumb, and made it expensive to use as a webcam. The video quality must have been something around 140p, and any kind of conference call software was garbage back then as well. Yet the premise of a single device having multi-use features was such a no-brainer, given you already had have the PC USB integration to use it as a point and shoot digital camera.

Modern smart phones have such excellent cameras, it felt really odd that you had to use a lot of hacky work arounds and reencoding over network streams to emulate the same functionality that some of the first affordable digital cameras on the market had decades prior. I spend some time looking into weather a custom Linux kernel could be used with Android to emulate the standard USB profile of a UVC camera device, but it’s really nice to hear that this kind of functionality is being pushed through Android mainstream development.

https://github.com/tejado/android-usb-gadget

Guess it only took a pandemic and Apple to showcase the same functionality to spur the core Android development into gear to match feature parity.

Oh, nice tip! Any good way of emulating that on a mobile Android keyboard? Or do you just copy and paste a lot? Perhaps this could be done with a custom autocorrect dictionary injury?

When keeping skeletons in one’s closet doesn’t immediately imply what you think it does:

• “Honestly officer, they’re only redundant backups. Just some copies of the homo sapien genome…”
• “Save it for the judge, you bastard.”
• “Alright, you can confiscate my closet, but I practice a 3-2-1 backup strategy, and you’ll never find them all!”

I wonder if they were specimens that were ideally fossilized, but only in a portion of a tectonic plate that was eventually pushed below the mantle and liquefied into molten lava.

Exotic skeletons from hundreds of hyper localized species, all pristinely preserved in so much detail miraculously for millions of years due, only to eventually turn into very hot rock just before ever returning to the near surface for paleontology discovery.

Time on earth makes for very lossy data archive. Ohhh, the entropy!

On a meta note, I just fell for your community link.

Yep, it was a lot of fun doing out maneuver and dropping spike strips at just the most opportune and inescapable moment. NFS3 also has split screen where players could even play on different sides locally during the dance race, or complete as both cops to catch the most races.

I really appreciate this patch to run NFS3 on modern Windows or Wine:

• Need For Speed III Modern Patch v1.6.1 [2016/10/28] (HD + Widescreen + Portable)
  • https://veg.by/en/projects/nfs3/

The author has sence redacted the torrent link for the original game files bundled with a previous patch, but anyone can just as easily go back through intent archive to find it:

• https://web.archive.org/web/20180309165043/https://veg.by/en/projects/nfs3/

I’d like to see the earlier Hot Pursuit and High Stake releases remastered. I loved those long scenic and rural tracks. I played a lot of NFS3, and then a lot of the 2010 reboot because the graphics where better, but I still miss that retro '90s hypercar aesthetic and soundtrack.

The 2010 NFS HP reboot helped supplement my nostalgia, but sometimes I’d just want to go back to that grippy arcade style of driving dynamics, but with modern graphical realism. E.g like this vision of NFS3 ported to use the Unreal 5 Engine:

https://youtu.be/JunHKINpbp4?si=g4V8aaKQUPgvbRb8

but only my modded communities, not ALL communities.

Ah, I see. That would be a cool view. I suppose any client could splice together that view by aggregating the logs for each separate moded community from the user’s profile, but this would be nice to support natively upstream via view filters or SQL APIs.

reddit style mod log, like a per sub

Checking the community sidebar, it does link to modlogs per community. E.g here is the modlog for this same continuity here:

• https://lemmy.world/modlog/22036

or all modded subs choice.

Could you expand on this?

Some one needs to take up the mantel and create that continuity to really hyperlink to. Then add it to the collection over on sub.rehab .

On your Lemmy account settings when logged into your home instance from the web, do you have “Show Read Posts” unchecked? That will insure any posts you’ve marked are read from any client won’t get sent to you again when you refresh your feed later. This is a double edge sword as it can make finding read posts harder when uncheck. Some clients may do some filtering on the client side, but also enabling this server side make hiding read posts a lot more consistent between browser and other clients from the same account.

I love the scale and aesthetic of the machinery in the background. Isn’t there another artist or genre of digital art that has this kind of gigantic scifi constructs roaming through scenic backdrops? I wonder if there is a community for it like there was on Reddit?

From their DeviantArt page, the artist sure loves lemons and all things citrusy. 🍋🍋🍋