hamsterkill

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[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is TwinAphex still involved in Libretro? Can't seem to find evidence of them from the last few years.

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The founder is a well-known Christian "pro-life feminist" from Australia.

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

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It's easy enough to fork the code as it existed under GPL3. Violentmonkey did that when they forked from Tampermonkey.

This dev also doesn't sound like he wants to put much effort into enforcing his license in the first place.

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 days ago

High likelihood this just some AI bot with no oversight fucking up than something malicious. Outlook.com's support system is atrocious and devoid of humans at this point unless you're an enterprise.

I tried to go through their support to tell them their junk filter was fucking up (bank alerts being marked as junk with no way to override) and got nowhere after like two months. Had to change the email I use for banking.

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 3 days ago

Very little gaming still requires Windows since the development of Proton. The main compatibility problems that remain seem to involve kernel-invasive anti-cheat systems.

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 3 days ago

They know. The PKGBUILD they provided is exactly the kind of thing that's in the AUR. The dev's PKGBUILD wasn't in the AUR because they didn't want it to be — instead hoping arch users would go to the repository and use their maintained one. Arch users continued to try to use AUR instead, leading to the dev's frustration.

I don't expect this will help anything. If the AUR maintainer is active, they will probably just patch that restriction out.

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The main advantage of 5g was never really speed, but rather spectral efficiency. It allows the same speed to use less spectrum.

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

~~Swipe typing~~ (and word suggestions) are on the roadmap for Florisboard 0.6 I believe (EDIT: Swipe typing is mapped for 0.7). Though, they were also on the roadmap for 0.5 until recently...

Florisboard used to have swipe typing, but it just wasn't really useful without a working suggestion engine, so it's been disabled.

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 3 weeks ago

EU is also the second largest economy after the US in the world. Vacating the region would cost way more than compliance.

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

Some sloppy copy-paste editing in the article. It still references president Biden.

The bill never made it to a vote last time. I expect it will have a similar fate this time —especially with legislative attention focused so much on budget issues. Feels like something they did so they can put it in an election ad.

I hope i'm wrong and it makes it further, but i'm not holding my breath.

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nokia switched to Windows Phone in 2011, just before the N9 came out. They weren't bought by MS until 2014.

And yes, I know about Symbian. Meego was their intended replacement for it.

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I had a similarly high opinion on Meego's future at Nokia and then they suddenly went all-in on Windows Phone.

I also had a somewhat high opinion of Windows Phone before MS killed it.

No one wants to maintain an OS for any less than like 25% of the market — which pretty much only leaves room for Abdroid and iOS... and KaiOS I guess, though I don't know how much effort the put into maintaining that. webOS and Tizen (resting place of Meego) are now pretty much only in TVs.

 

Rant incoming:

This was spurred by having just read https://www.androidpolice.com/google-tv-streamer-questions-answered/ , particularly this bit:

When I asked directly, a Google representative told me they couldn't confirm which chipset powers the Google TV Streamer — essentially, Google declined to answer.

I've been noticing an increasing trend by device makers to not disclose the SoC their devices run on. I've been seeing it with e-readers, network routers, media streamers, etc.

It's incredibly frustrating to have devices actively exclude important information from their spec sheet and even dodge direct questions from tech news reporters. Reporters shouldn't have to theorize about what chip is in a released device. It's nuts.

If you're wondering why this infomation is important, it can be for several reasons. SoC vendor can have significant impact on the real world performance and security of a device. It also carries major implications for how open a device is as SoC vendors can have dramatically different open source support and firmware practices.

I've had to resort to inspecting the circuit board photos of FCC filings way too much lately to identify the processors being used in devices. And that's not a great workaroud in the first place as those photos are generally kept confidential by the FCC until months after the device releases (case in point the Google Streamer).

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