I fear that early access will kill this. Sure it will provide some money that might pay for the rest of the development, but streamers will play it now - der that it is literally work in progress in vast parts and maybe take another look once it finally releases, but the hype will be gone at the release.
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But Minecraft - even in the Beta days - worked as a complete game. They have been improving (depending on how you like the changes) on it since, but it wasn’t ever filled with literal work in progress signs like Hytale is…
I can confirm that the subscribed feed only loads correctly if you select it from the menu. If you have it as a default it will load … something else.
That is the cheapest option. Maybe the most convenient or most reliable option, but definitely the cheapest.
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Games@sh.itjust.works•Epic Games Store Users Have Grown by 173% in Six Years, But Revenue Only by 1.6%English
2·4 days agoOne of the reasons EGS fails is Fortnite in my opinion. In Fortnite they have done all these things: they created a platform with social abilities and all that. Fortnite still brings them lots and lots of money, but this shouldn’t be in Fortnite it should be in their launcher. It could be even more integrated than Steam does. Why not let games grant you skins you can use in other games as a character model (given the game supports it)?
I am thankful for any input. Maybe it helps someone else looking for a similar thing.
I think the collaborative part means sending PDFs from user to user and maintaining the ability to edit annotations. That may work for many use cases - a lot of businesses may be fine with that when email is still the communication medium of choice.
That’s not an option unfortunately. The actual use case is a non-profit sports club magazine which needs to be proof read by several people at the same time. There is a fixed release date and only a few days to proof read the PDF before it needs to be sent to print.
I have an installation of Stirling PDF, but in my short experiment it had no ability to collaborate on the same document.
Every edit created a new copy of the document downloaded to the user. The annotations weren’t tagged to the individual user and sending different versions of a PDF from user to user is not what I am looking for.
Stirling is a single user software in that regards. I haven’t tested the also mentioned BentoPDF but I suspect it to be the same as it is also trying to be a PDF toolbox like Acrobat. PdfDing has a slightly different approach it might be an option if OnlyOffice does not work out.
I have installed OnlyOffice Community Edition and it seems to work. I need to test it with a few others over a real connection (not just locally), but it seems promising.
I will look into these, do you know if they support collaborative annotations?
I tried that. It opens PDFs in Impress (their PowerPoint) and provides only a very basic annotation interface.I was wrong. I was using Nextcloud Office not OnlyOffice.
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DevOps@programming.dev•Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions
2·7 days agoYou can see the similarities. I really like the trust levels both systems use instead of the classic system of fixed user tiers.
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DevOps@programming.dev•Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions
2·7 days agoAnswering the easy dumb questions is now done by AI pretty good. I would say even better because the AI does not care about flagging your question for duplicate or mocking you for not being precise.
StackOverflow needs to refocus on those questions not answered by AI easily. They need to adjust their business to fewer questions that need thorough investigation and specialist solutions. That is a hard thing to do with only volunteers to answer these questions, so maybe they need to switch to a paid model which pays the correctly flagged answer a cut of the fee…
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homeassistant•Tip - you can create custom macro templates for things you reuseEnglish
4·9 days agoThat’s a great tip. I use that to format some sensor readings coming from an external source via REST. It is annoying though you have to import the template every time you use it - I wish this could be done automatically…
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Games•We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city"English
11·14 days agoAm I the only one who never realized it was supposed to be a futuristic city? To be honest my English wasn’t that good at the time I played it, but that information never clicked with me.
Do you really need that DDoS protection? I have been having my own webserver for decades now hosting public sites and I have only once been in the position that my server was not reachable because of a DDoS attack. And even then the attack was not targeted at my server but at my hosting provider at that time. Everything else was handled by fail2ban easily…
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Games•Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next yearEnglish
173·17 days agoI can somehow understand the people who funded it in the first place, but who invests now in a project which has already been in development hell for more than a decade and produced barely anything playable. Every whale has already been milked - what return of investment can an investor expect of Star Citizen?







My daughter has it on her phone and I always get it wrong, because I don’t have it on my phone. But I also hate the need to double swipe down to open the full quick settings. I think it’s just something to get used to.