I need your help. It's surprisingly hard to find a PC game (or port/emulation) that ticks the following boxes:
- generally easy, or with easy difficulty setting
- mostly linear, not open world
- story-driven
- ideally, controller support
You know what I mean? I'm looking for something relaxing for when my brain is exhausted where I don't have to make too many decisions.
#AskFedi
Characterization of latency and jitter in TSN emulation
\'Alex Gracia, Jos\'e Luis Briz, H\'ector Blanco-Alcaine, Juan Segarra, Alitzel G. Torres-Mac\'ias, Antonio Ram\'irez-Trevi\~no
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02133
A network of parametrically driven silicon nitride mechanical membranes
Luis Mestre, Suyash Singh, Gabriel Margiani, Letizia Catalini, Alexander Eichler, Vincent Dumont
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00850
Jams with More Song Structure
I continue to do morning jams, still with drum groove, synth, bass, and then guitar. The latest ones, however, have a bit more structure and a more defined melodic content. This one starts with chords from a John Prine song. The guitar is my Squier Starcaster and the synth is a Rhodes emulation from Dexed. I play lots of variations on the melody:
Replaced article(s) found for cs.NI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.NI/new
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- ECLYPSE: a Python Framework for Simulation and Emulation of the Cloud-Edge Continuum
Jacopo Massa, Valerio De Caro, Stefano Forti, Patrizio Dazzi, Davide Bacciu, Antonio Brogi
Small achievement: Managed to configure the Steam controller for #BattleForWesnoth, so now I can play it on the big screen. 🎮 (The tricky part was getting the controller's mouse emulation work under Wayland, but then it's great for mouse keyboard games!) BfW is still one of the greatest games of all time, if you ask me, and it simply never gets old. 🧝♂️
Extreme Learning Machines for Exoplanet Simulations: A Faster, Lightweight Alternative to Deep Learning
Tara P. A. Tahseen, Lu\'is F. Sim\~oes, Kai Hou Yip, Nikolaos Nikolaou, Jo\~ao M. Mendon\c{c}a, Ingo P. Waldmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19679
Posted here the other day about getting a #pinephone, so I guess I should update. As I was half-expecting, it's not usable for me as a main phone (though I should still try LineageOS before giving up completely).
I had the Linux skills to hack through a lot of the problems that came up, but the shaky state of Android emulation meant I'd never be able to run key apps I wanted to, and the battery life is abysmal due to fundamental OS issues (plus probably some hardware stuff).
Still a super interesting platform and I've got ideas for uses besides being my main phone.