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[–] xep@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago

I believe those are games made by other studios with the League IP and published by Riot. AFAIK there's no reason for them to have anticheat.

[–] xep@fedia.io 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I do everything important like banking etc on a separate device that isn't my gaming PC. This has been quite liberating since I worry less about invasive anti-cheat, drm etc. I realize not everyone wants to do this but it's been a nice compromise.

[–] xep@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Are there Riot games on Steam?

[–] xep@fedia.io 6 points 3 weeks ago

The point of anti-cheat is to create a substantial barrier for cheating. If you have to go the extra mile to run an external hardware cheat so as to be "undetected" then surely this means the anti-cheat is working. If it were as ineffective as you imply, cheaters would be cheating on their main accounts.

[–] xep@fedia.io 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

NOT ONLY WOULD I DOWNLOAD A CAR, I WOULD THEN WORK ON A WAY TO LET EVERYONE DOWNLOAD CARS

[–] xep@fedia.io 108 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The DMCA is a curse.

[–] xep@fedia.io 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hopefully Servo gets a good UI soon.

[–] xep@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I've found it remarkably difficult to replace a battery in a modern smartphone, even as someone who's quite handy with electronics. Any improvement is greatly welcome, and I wish we'd do more to make it easier.

[–] xep@fedia.io 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's about usage patterns. If you know you only need 60% of the battery, charging it to 100% will degrade it more, for little utility. The newer Google phones get 7 years of updates, but without due care the battery will reach 80% of its capacity before that. On an aside, a battery is considered to have reached its end of life at a capacity reduction of 20%, and not 40%.

If you 100-0 the battery every day, then there's not much you can do. But if you're a lighter user, then using the 20-80% (or 40-60) part instead of the 40-100% part of the battery makes it last longer. And that's good in terms of environmental sustainability, reduction of e-waste, and you can use the phone for longer, too.

[–] xep@fedia.io 7 points 3 weeks ago

Pragmatically speaking, for battery health you should charge only as much as you need the battery, so it sounds to me that in your case that's 90%. Also, here's a paper about battery charging:

Strategies to limit degradation and maximize Li-ion battery service lifetime - critical review and guidance for stakeholders https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/154859/Woody_Maxwell_Thesis.pdf

[–] xep@fedia.io 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do you mean to say that this achievement had something to do with AI?

Fermat PRP testing with proofs instead of Lucas-Lehmer testing with full double checks

Looks like pure mathematics to me.

[–] xep@fedia.io 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah it's more like a Starbucks

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