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swilliamsioon Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark

Made the switch to Mint recently. Steam says that of 750 games on my account, 748 can run on Linux, and I've had no problems with the dozen or so I've played lately.

swilliamsioon The HTML review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web

This is great. I wish there was an RSS feed or newsletter I could sign up to - I'm not going to remember to check this in 12 months time.

Also they have a lot of other cool sites linked in their about page: https://thehtml.review/about.html

swilliamsioon Nobody cares about your blog

It piqued my curiousity too so I had a little look. It's called an Impressum. I think OP is incorrect that personal websites need to list a phone number and address - it seems to just apply to commercial entities.

https://law.stackexchange.com/a/23395

https://www.ionos.co.uk/digitalguide/websites/digital-law/a-...

swilliamsioon Internet Archive expands Flash support

A shockingly large amount of music used in old flash games and in old YouTube videos is by Kevin MacLeod, whose released thousands of high quality tracks of all styles under CC-BY.

https://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/music.html

swilliamsioon New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable

Reference books are the best candidates for being digitised. Why would you want to physically search a real physical library for hours to find a dusty forgotten book about a forgotten piece of equipment when you could just Ctrl+F and instantly find what you seek?

Any other kind of book I do much rather prefer the paper version though.

swilliamsioon Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

https://www.swilliams.io/

I should write more.

swilliamsioon I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated

Bicycles are something like 99% efficient though so anything will look ludicrously inefficient compared to them.

swilliamsioon Teaching ChatGPT to speak my son’s invented language

On the free ChatGPT, I got it to play hangman with the prompt:

> Let's play hangman. I'm thinking of a word: _______

It made a variety of guesses generally in the form of

> Based on the pattern you provided, I will guess the letter "I". Is there an "I" in the word?

My response was either "No [letter]" or an updated state of the word: "_RE_IE_".

swilliamsioon I use cheap notebooks

If you want a source, Steam Hardware Survey[0] somewhat agrees with what you're saying, especially when taking in to account that gamers would have better specs than average.

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

swilliamsioon Ask HN: Are there things that Flash did that we still can’t do with today’s web?

itch.io is massive for games if you want a new Newgrounds. The tech stack has moved on from Flash to use Unity or GameMaker or Godot or Construct. It's feasible for someone not knowing how to code to use most game engines to create something - not uncommon in Game Jams to see teams like that.

swilliamsioon Stripe laying off around 14% of workforce

Bless your heart.

swilliamsioon One store’s decision to leave San Francisco over crime

Physically placing police officers outside literally every store in a city seems very impractical and expensive.

swilliamsioon The sum of all knowledge and the sorry state of the web

The timing of birth does at least slightly influence a child's development through the relative age effect - the oldest kids in each academic year get a few benefits over their peers.

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

swilliamsioon Old jokes

It was called Punch Buggy when it was for beetles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch_buggy

I definitely also played the yellow car variant. I assume it's the preferred variant nowadays given how rare bugs are.

swilliamsioon Wikipedia: Long-Term Abuse