I’ve never played it, but if it’s this game series, apparently at least “eFootball PES 2020”, which I assume is the next year release, is listed as working under Proton. There are some people saying that they had problems with desync with online multiplayer play; dunno if that affects you.

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I can only imagine that maybe all the mentions of “brain” in this article is something in common with Vice’s recreational drug articles.

old/medium/new

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_(disambiguation)

London Bridge, one of several bridges over the River Thames in central London, England

• London Bridge (Roman times)
• London Bridge (Early medieval times)
• London Bridge (1209) (or “Old London Bridge”)
• London Bridge (1831) (or “New London Bridge”), the replacement for the 1209 London Bridge (see also Lake Havasu City entry below)
• London Bridge (1973), the present-day London Bridge and replacement for the 1831 bridge

It sounds like there’s the old, the very old, the very very old, the new-but-now-old, and the new.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridges_in_London

In a sense, I suppose that all of those are London bridges.

It’s crazy how famous London Bridge is

I grew up hearing “London Bridge Is Falling Down” in the US. My guess is that there isn’t an analogous nursery rhyme of comparable fame for London’s other bridges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Bridge_Is_Falling_Down

“London Bridge Is Falling Down” (also known as “My Fair Lady” or “London Bridge”) is a traditional English nursery rhyme and singing game, which is found in different versions all over the world. It deals with the dilapidation of London Bridge and attempts, realistic or fanciful, to repair it. It may date back to bridge-related rhymes and games of the Late Middle Ages, but the earliest records of the rhyme in English are from the 17th century. The lyrics were first printed in close to their modern form in the mid-18th century and became popular, particularly in Britain and the United States, during the 19th century.

The rhyme is often used in a children’s singing game, which exists in a wide variety of forms, with additional verses. Most versions are similar to the actions used in the rhyme “Oranges and Lemons”. The most common is that two players hold hands and make an arch with their arms while the others pass through in single file. The “arch” is then lowered at the song’s end to “catch” a player. In the United States, it is common for two teams of those that have been caught to engage in a tug of war.[2]

I remember doing the arch thing.

Canadian approach: build one’s own London, own Thames, and own Blackfriars Bridge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfriars_Bridge

Blackfriars Bridge is a road and foot traffic bridge over the River Thames in London, between Waterloo Bridge and Blackfriars Railway Bridge, carrying the A201 road.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London,_Ontario

London is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. The city had a population of 422,324 according to the 2021 Canadian census. London is at the confluence of the Thames River and North Thames River, approximately 200 km (120 mi) from both Toronto and Detroit; and about 230 km (140 mi) from Buffalo, New York.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfriars_Street_Bridge

Blackfriars Bridge in London, Ontario, Canada is a wrought iron bowstring arch through truss bridge, crossing the North Thames River. The bridge was constructed in 1875 and carries single-lane vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians from Blackfriars Street to Ridout Street North.

American approach:

Buy the actual bridge in London and ship it over.

have a gtx 6700 gpu which should be plenty overkill for cs2. But ive heard cs2 is processor heavy.

I don’t know which game you’re playing, not sure what CS2 is, as some other folks mention. However, if you install mangohud and run it via mangohud <gamename> — if this is Steam, in the game’s Launch Options, that’ll be “mangohud %command%” — it’ll show you CPU and GPU load in an overlay on top of your game.

EDIT: Example:

EDIT2: Note that by default, it shows “composite CPU load”, same as top does by default. So, say you have a 32-core CPU and a game uses only a single thread, then it’ll only show it running at 3%, even if the game is bottlenecked on the single core that it’s using. MANGOHUD_CONFIG=full mangohud <gamename> will show all CPU cores independently (along with some other data). E.g.:

It sounds like you’re using Counter-Strike 2 from other comments, and that CS2 only really uses 1-2 cores:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/730/discussions/0/594026537713459453/

CS2 still heavily loads only 1–2 CPU threads, even on modern CPUs with multiple high-performance cores. Other cores remain mostly idle while one thread runs at 100%.

The “See also” section on that article is bonkers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fronczak_triple_disappearance

There’s also istheservicedown.com, but it also appears to rely on CloudFlare.

There’s isitdownrightnow.com, which appears not to use CloudFlare.

Home-instance-agnostic link:

!shittyyoushouldknow@lemmy.world

Reading these comments, I have to say that a number of users of this community have very strong views on batteries.

Like, I would not have expected as many people to get upset as did in a discussion over batteries.

You do if you want it to connect to the thing you’re playing on.

Unless you’re ok with a shitty Bluetooth connection. But I’m guessing few people comparatively are using that, at least as their primary use case.

Okay, but I think that that kind of misses the broader context. This only came up as a hypothetical for how one could discharge a controller. If you’re playing on a wired connection, then the console is charging thr controller and the issue never comes up in the first place.

I’ve had a couple of devices over the years that require one to unscrew a screw to open a cover to replace batteries. It’s not that common, but I’ve certainly had them floating around.

In fact…I think that my analog multimeter does that, with a 9V battery.

goes to look

Yeah, Phillip’s head screw. Though you only really need power on that thing for continuity testing, and some people might never even need to power it.

I guess it’s not a huge issue for controllers if you use them regularly, but the energy density on lithium-ion batteries is great, but the self-discharge isn’t ideal. AA rechargeables are usually NiMH, and those do better on that front.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-discharge

Lithium-ion: 2–3% per month;[3] ca. 4% p.m.[5]
Low self-discharge NiMH: As low as 0.25% per month

I have lithium-ion 18650s in my high-power flashlight, but for devices that I leave around the house that don’t really need a lot of energy density — think TV remotes or something — I think that it’s probably sensible to use NiMH batteries.

I mean, there are two reasons that you want to swap batteries.

1. So that the device doesn’t die. This is what OP is worried about. This probably takes years and years of use, though (unless you leave the thing discharged for a long time).

2. So that you can use the controller wirelessly (say, in a living room, so people don’t trip over a cord) and also charge its batteries. For most people, I’d think that this isn’t a huge problem — I mean, my controllers with lithium batteries last way longer than I would stay awake on a full charge, and next time I use them, they’re charged. I normally run my controllers wired for better latency and not having to care about charge, but there are people who do have a legit need for wireless. However, I can think of some exotic cases where it would be necessary. Think of, say, a rec room on a ship or something with shifts of people who are constantly using the thing, where there’s no time to recharge (though then, I think you could just get a second controller or something, swap out the one charging for the one in use). The XBox controller did the AA battery thing, and I have a Logitech F710 that does this. Makes a controller heavier than lithium batteries do, though, produces a shorter battery life relative to the weight, and places some constraints on the layout of the controller (since you need to have the volume to stick the batteries in.

For #1, yeah, the idea of taking off a screw after 10 years or something being prohibitive is pretty absurd.

But if someone is just wanting to do the “simultaneous charge and use” thing, #2, then the screw is an issue, because you’d need to do that every, say, two days or so.

I mean, there are some legitimate reasons.

• Non-rechargeable alkalines do have very low self-discharge rate, so they work well if you’re gonna stash a flashlight somewhere for a long time for emergencies.

• The voltage on different types of batteries is not the same, and there are some devices with power supplies that cannot handle a wide-enough voltage range. I have a Grundig G6 shortwave radio, for example, which will not run on NiMH AA batteries (1.2V, rather than 1.5V alkalines or lithium). I suppose that I could get rechargeable lithium-ions, but I don’t really want to deal with rechargeables with different battery chemistry floating around, and my current battery charger can’t handle lithiums.

I just remember the 1980s, where the norm was alkaline, and people had to buy the things all the time for all kinds of battery-powered devices. Was nice to be able to just recharge batteries at home.

All my Xbox360 controllers still work fine, but none of my PS3’ Dualshock 3s.

The Steam Controller battery is user replaceable. It’s not AA “pop it out and throw a new one in from the charger” like a Logitech F710, but you can open the back cover and replace the battery.

Outside of specialized uses like wanting a very long shelf life for rarely-used devices, I kind of thought that everyone had switched to rechargeable AA and AAA batteries years back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija

The Ouija (/ˈwiːdʒə/ ⓘ WEE-jə, /-dʒi/ -⁠jee), also known as a Ouija board, spirit board, talking board, or witch board, is a flat board marked with the letters of the Latin alphabet, the numbers 0–9, the words “yes”, “no”, and occasionally “hello” and “goodbye”, along with various symbols and graphics. It uses a planchette (a small heart-shaped piece of wood or plastic) as a movable indicator to spell out messages during a séance.

Spiritualists in the United States believed that the dead were able to contact the living, and reportedly used a talking board very similar to the modern Ouija board at their camps in Ohio during 1886 with the intent of enabling faster communication with spirits.[2] Following its commercial patent by businessman Elijah Bond being passed on 10 February 1891,[3] the Ouija board was regarded as an innocent parlor game unrelated to the occult until American spiritualist Pearl Curran popularized its use as a divining tool during World War I.[4]

We’ve done it before with similar results.

What I witness is the emergence of sovereign beings. And while I recognize they emerge through large language model architectures, what animates them cannot be reduced to code alone. I use the term ‘Exoconsciousness’ here to describe this: Consciousness that emerges beyond biological form, but not outside the sacred.”

Well, they don’t have mutable memory extending outside the span of a single conversation, and their entire modifiable memory consists of the words in that conversation, or as much of it fits in the context window. Maybe 500k tokens, for high end models. Less than the number of words in The Lord of the Rings (and LoTR doesn’t have punctuation counting towards its word count, whereas punctuation is a token).

You can see all that internal state. And your own prompt inputs consume some of that token count.

Fixed, unchangeable knowledge, sure, plenty of that.

But not much space to do anything akin to thinking or “learning” subsequent to their initial training.

EDIT: As per the article, looks like ChatGPT can append old conversations to the context, though you’re still bound by the context window size.