New teaser out for the FFVII Remake. The trailer indicates more info in June. Looks pretty amazing. As to be expected though, the voice acting is shit.
Source: [H]ardOCP – FF VII: Remake. New news/teaser trailer
Monthly Archives: December 2019
10 Ansible resources to accelerate your automation skills
This year saw a wide range of really helpful Ansible articles. Whether you are just starting out with Ansible or a seasoned pro, there is something for everyone here to learn from. A good number of these articles are worthy of your bookmarking and perhaps a cron (or maybe a Tower/AWX job) reminder to reread them periodically.
Source: LXer – 10 Ansible resources to accelerate your automation skills
How to Find the 'What Disney Character Are You?" Filter on Instagram
If you’ve looked at Instagram Stories over the past week or so you’ve probably noticed at least one friend showing off who they might be if they were a cartoon character.
Source: LifeHacker – How to Find the ‘What Disney Character Are You?” Filter on Instagram
Guy Goes Nuts In Theater After Somebody Checks Their Phone During Opening Of New Star Wars
This is a video from a Vancouver, Canada movie theater of a guy having a meltdown after somebody checked their phone during the opening of the new Star Wars movie. Admittedly, can you even call yourself a Star Wars fan if you wouldn’t have done the same thing? Per the person who recorded the incident:
“This dude lost it when someone checked their phone screen during the opening of Star Wars. The theatre was forced to restart the movie.”
I, uh, I really don’t even know what to say. On one hand you absolutely shouldn’t use your phone in the movie theater (and that person should have also been kicked out like it warns during the previews at my local theater), but on the other, this man should have just Force-choked that nerd out and resumed watching. Instead he got booted from the theater. Honesty, I just wish I was as passionate about anything as this man is about movie theater etiquette.
Keep going for the video while I invite this guy to watch that Sonic the Hedgehog movie with me then try to talk through the whole thing.
Source: Geekologie – Guy Goes Nuts In Theater After Somebody Checks Their Phone During Opening Of New Star Wars
Tech that defined the decade
2020 is just around the corner, and another decade will soon come to an end. A lot has happened over the past ten years, and not all of it was pleasant: 3D television came and went, the headphone jack slowly died and the intersection of tech and poli…
Source: Engadget – Tech that defined the decade
Thunder Force IV Was One Of The Best Shooters Of The 16-Bit Era
Thunder Force IV is the ultimate adrenaline rush and hands down one of the best shooters on the Sega Genesis. It also had one of the most depressing endings on a 16-bit era game.
Source: Kotaku – Thunder Force IV Was One Of The Best Shooters Of The 16-Bit Era
Oculus Quest – Chromecast
Having an issue where my oculus quest can only see my chromecast ultra if its on my 2.4ghz channel of my router, and not if i set everything up on my 5ghz channel… Anyone else experience this? I…
Oculus Quest – Chromecast
Source: [H]ardOCP – Oculus Quest – Chromecast
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Check Out Google Maps' New Star Wars-Style Hyperdrive Planetary Travel Animation
You have to hand it to Google, despite any misgivings you might have towards the company as a whole, it delivers some interesting products and services. One of them is Google Maps. I personally think it is an underappreciated service, though Google continues to improve it all the time. It also sprinkles in some fun features, the newest of
Source: Hot Hardware – Check Out Google Maps’ New Star Wars-Style Hyperdrive Planetary Travel Animation
Buzzkill Take-Two Reportedly Puts A Bullet In Fan-Made Red Dead Redemption PC Project
Take-Two has a long history of being heavy-handed with projects based on its franchises. The most recent legal battle is with developer Jonathon Wyckoff, who was working on Red Dead Redemption Damned Enhancement Project. The goal of that project was to enhance the graphics and visuals on the original Red Dead Redemption game and to make the
Source: Hot Hardware – Buzzkill Take-Two Reportedly Puts A Bullet In Fan-Made Red Dead Redemption PC Project
The 100 Most Popular io9 Posts of 2019
Another year has come and gone and with it so, so, so many nerd blogs. Here are the ones you, dear io9 readers, clicked on the most. A big thank you and a Happy New Year to all of you.
Source: io9 – The 100 Most Popular io9 Posts of 2019
Our Top Posts of the Decade: A Dubious List for a Meaningless Timeline
As far as we can tell, the 2010s were nothing close to what most of us expected. Instead of flying cars, we got half-baked semi-autonomous vehicles. Instead of social media birthing kumbaya, it fueled genocide and helped erode the foundations of democracy and reality itself. Rather than tackle the impending doom of…
Source: Gizmodo – Our Top Posts of the Decade: A Dubious List for a Meaningless Timeline
3D TV Tells You Everything About This Decade's Tech
You don’t need special glasses to see what it looks like when smart people run out of ideas. From a column: The breakout hit of the Consumer Electronics Show in 2010 was a television set. Hard to believe now, maybe, but it’s true; for one shining moment, the Toshiba Cell TV was the most exciting new thing in tech. Its name invoked the overkill processors inside. It was one of the first sets to promise “Net TV Channels” that would let you stream directly from Netflix or Pandora. And it could show pictures in three dimensions. […] Five years later, 3D TV was dead. You probably haven’t thought about it since then, if you even did before. But there’s maybe no better totem for the last decade of consumer technology. It’s what happens when smart people run out of ideas, the last gasp before aspiration gives way to commoditization. It was the dawn of all-internet everything, and all the privacy violations inherent in that. And it steadfastly ignored how human beings actually use technology, because doing so meant companies could charge more for it.
What I remember most from those press conferences in 2010 was the assuredness that millions of people somehow actively wanted to have to put glasses on their faces in order to watch television. Even then, it made no sense. TV viewing has always been a large passive experience, something to do while you’re doing other things. And besides that, only certain types of shows — movies, maybe some sports — actually benefited from 3D in the first place. Or would, if the television sets were any good; most of the early ones stuttered and flickered even when you sat dead center in front of them. Stray a few feet to either side, and the viewing angle shot the experience altogether. It gets worse. Different manufacturers backed different 3D TV formats and technologies, meaning one set of glasses wouldn’t necessarily work on a competitor’s set. The simple act of watching in 3D caused eye strain in a significant chunk of the population. And the list of available things to watch never hit critical mass.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – 3D TV Tells You Everything About This Decade’s Tech
Everything Engadget played to wrap up 2019
Welcome back to Engadget’s Gaming IRL, a monthly segment where we run down what our editors are playing. For the most part, we spent the slow month of December catching up on the great games of the year, including Life is Strange 2, Astrologaster, Hy…
Source: Engadget – Everything Engadget played to wrap up 2019
WTS/T: Sealed 15 year World of Warcraft anniversary box and 15 year charity server blade.
I’ve already received my 15 year box with the rag statue in it. Its still sealed and I only opened the shipping box because I had no idea what was in it.
Looking for $170 shipped…
WTS/T: Sealed 15 year World of Warcraft anniversary box and 15 year charity server blade.
Source: [H]ardOCP – WTS/T: Sealed 15 year World of Warcraft anniversary box and 15 year charity server blade.
ProtonMail debuts an encrypted calendar app
ProtonMail is known for its encrypted email service, which it offers as a more secure alternative to products like Google’s Gmail. In recent years, the company started by CERN researchers has begun to branch out further, offering encrypted contacts t…
Source: Engadget – ProtonMail debuts an encrypted calendar app
I Want Out: A $305 Earring That's Actually The Card That Earrings Are Sold On
This is the White & Gold Single Tag Earring designed by French luxury fashion house Maison Margiela. It’s a single earring that looks like the little card that earrings are sold on, because it is one. Obviously, it’s everything that’s wrong with the world. Thankfully for those who disagree and are interested/tasteless, it’s recently had its price reduced from $305 to a mere $92, presumably because they’re not selling like the hotcakes they anticipated. *hocking loogie to spit at 2019* Good riddance! *spits, hits 2020* Well shit.
Keep going for one more shot of the ridiculousness while my girlfriend tries to calm me down.
Source: Geekologie – I Want Out: A 5 Earring That’s Actually The Card That Earrings Are Sold On
Excellent Utilities: exa – replacement for ls
exa is a modern replacement for ls
Source: Linux Today – Excellent Utilities: exa – replacement for ls
Samsung Is Making the Best Phones
Last year after a somewhat lackluster product cycle, I said Samsung couldn’t afford to hold back anymore. And in 2019, it seems Samsung took that message to heart because it released some of the most exciting phone tech we’ve seen in the last 12 months.
Source: Gizmodo – Samsung Is Making the Best Phones
Ringing In 2020 By Clang'ing The Linux 5.5 Kernel – Benchmarks Of GCC vs. Clang Built Kernels
One of the interesting milestones this year in the compiler world was the ability with LLVM Clang 9.0 to compile Linux 5.3+ for x86_64 without needing any extra patches to either the kernel or the LLVM/Clang compiler. That initial support in Linux 5.3 was not without a few issues, but on Linux 5.5 the experience is in great shape with the stable Clang compiler.
Source: Phoronix – Ringing In 2020 By Clang’ing The Linux 5.5 Kernel – Benchmarks Of GCC vs. Clang Built Kernels