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[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 180 points 1 week ago (39 children)

What is often overlooked

Those benchmarks compare Wine NTSYNC against upstream vanilla Wine, which means there's no fsync or esync either. Gamers who use fsync are not going to see such a leap in performance in most games.

Ntsync is great and there will be performance improvement. But not exactly massive

[–] henfredemars 82 points 1 week ago (1 children)

XDA was not always this sensationalist. With that said, I always welcome performance improvements.

[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 119 points 1 week ago (4 children)

My old ass remembers when XDA was a place where you learned how to put Android on your windows phone

[–] db2@lemmy.world 62 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or hacked up your own android rom because even knowing jack and shit you could.

[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah I remember getting the G1 weeks before it came out because the local TMobile store was just sick or me asking every fucking day. I remember rooting it, loving it, then moving to the n900 and thinking "I want this forever" only for fucking Microsoft to buy Nokia and tank Meego

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm still hunting for leftover stocks of the N950... would love that phone.

Imagine if we got a refresh of that - tilt screen, full QWERTY, modern, large, high resolution display, modern hardware and battery tech, bundled with open bootloader and pick your poison OS...

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

This would be lovely. I loved the Nokia phones, it’s such a shame it was all ruined by Microsoft.

[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

It's my dream phone honestly. I really should have grabbed one years ago.

As much as I HATED the way the company put out this phone, you're describing the FXTEC pro 1

[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That was the XDA forums, I never found their site very usefuly, but maybe that's just me.

[–] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Oh I know, but for a long time that was the only reason to visit the site.

[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah the forums are a treasure for old phone hacking

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

seriously. their stuff now is borderline clickbait! so. many. listicles.

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not borderline, they're literally a clickbait farm now. There's an almost daily release of the exact same articles rehashed (e.g. "these are the main Docker containers I run on every server" title changed up a little and it's literally always the same 4-5 containers).

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 1 week ago

i mean this article about wine 11 and ntsync is at least relevant and somewhat technical, not just "i tried out 5 different self-hosted ai butthole identifiers on proxmox - number 4 will surprise you!"

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

putting Android on the HTC HD2. Man college me wanted that phone so badly. And a lot of HTC's phones tbh

[–] washbasin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

HTC Incredible was my first. XDA was my place shortly thereafter.

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