Narishma

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by Narishma 5mo ago
Unless the old drivers have security issues, then you're stuck with the nouveau driver which sometimes only has very basic support for some GPUs.
122.
by Narishma 5mo ago
They're talking about Microsoft's gaming marketshare.
123.
by Narishma 5mo ago
The UI is unreadable due to low contrast and tiny text.
124.
by Narishma 5mo ago
I think you overestimate the number of people who care how the software (or any product really) they use is made.
125.
by Narishma 5mo ago
I'm a bit like the parent poster and I scored 0 on your test. It's not like I can't tell the difference if I see hi- and low-fidelity products next to each other. It's just that I don't care enough to pay the price
126.
by Narishma 5mo ago
> I assume you mean "orders of magnitude" and not "out of memory". I mean they mentioned Jetbrains, it could be either.
127.
by Narishma 5mo ago
Why not both?
128.
by Narishma 5mo ago
You are still the product with commercial OSes. Paying doesn't stop them from shoving ads and telemetry wherever they can.
129.
by Narishma 5mo ago
An even worse, or at least equally bad, UI fail in that Lightroom screenshot/gif: I can't even tell which buttons are supposed to be clickable and which are disabled/grayed out.
130.
by Narishma 6mo ago
It's subtle but they aren't the same. The list makers are now to the right of the text entries as they should. But it's hard to see because it's somewhat hidden by the glaring issues the rest of the page still has.
131.
by Narishma 6mo ago
Not even Wolfenstein 3D, since it doesn't have textured walls. It's more like Hovertank 3D.
132.
by Narishma 6mo ago
That's not confusing enough. It should be just Copilot.
133.
by Narishma 6mo ago
> there's no documentation (in the sense of common wisdom), so you can't ask stack overflow or AI. you have to do it like in old days: learn from examples (that have bugs in them ;) and read those few books on turbo vision agai
134.
by Narishma 6mo ago
This is one of many Turbo Vision ports/clones. There's also this one in C++: https://github.com/kloczek/tvision The one that comes with FreePascal/Lazarus is written in Pascal. There's even one in R
135.
by Narishma 6mo ago
Youtube and Gmail take ages to load for me. Patreon is another one.
136.
by Narishma 6mo ago
That's called wine and dosbox.
137.
by Narishma 6mo ago
The original Raspberry Pi had a 24 GFLOPS GPU for comparison.
138.
by Narishma 6mo ago
Windows 3.0 and 3.1 were very popular and made use of the 286's protected mode.
139.
by Narishma 6mo ago
Your paperwhite will soon become paperweight.
140.
by Narishma 6mo ago
I'm not sure that's the reason since Doom and Wolfenstein 3d before it also had such demo systems but they didn't use a client/server model.
141.
by Narishma 6mo ago
> having a real risk to lose my project after days and weeks of work is not something I am able to afford Clearly you can, if you are currently using Premiere.
142.
by Narishma 6mo ago
It's been ages since I last tried Blender, is it still unusable without a numpad?
143.
by Narishma 6mo ago
> Of course in 1987 a Macintosh II with a fully expanded "Toby" framebuffer could not only do 256 colours, it could do it in 640x480 mode where as a PS/2's VGA could only do 16 colours at that resolution. If cost is n
144.
by Narishma 6mo ago
GNAT was too late to the party.
145.
by Narishma 6mo ago
That's a decade too late.
146.
by Narishma 6mo ago
I don't think there's much difference between C and C++ (and Rust, etc...) when it comes to this.
147.
by Narishma 6mo ago
> The visuals feel a little ugly and dated: it’s blocky, the font isn’t great, and the colors are dull. I don't get this at all. I find the screenshot clear and beautiful if anything.
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by Narishma 6mo ago
Demo parties usually have a category for games.
149.
by Narishma 6mo ago
Even on 8-bit systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SdGkkp1aq8
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by Narishma 6mo ago
VGA was pretty common on 286, I even had an SVGA card on my own back in the day. And it also had protected mode but was still 16-bit.

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