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by benoau 2y ago
They're usually the same 30 - 50 watt processors used in x86 laptops, once we got past the "dual-core" ceiling they became extremely capable.
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by benoau 2y ago
> Apple wanted to block the walled garden of Flash for their own under any pretense possible for control. Just when it got to the point Flash could transpile to native iOS apps, Apple banned transpilation for six months or so at which po
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by benoau 2y ago
If you rule out publishing to the marketplaces where gamers are congregating you need to figure out another source of customer acquisition, like advertising or getting media sites to promote your game.
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by benoau 2y ago
Since you don't have a mechanism for bringing users to you you should take your game to the marketplaces where users are like itch.io or even Steam.
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by benoau 2y ago
The US identified much of the same issues, and even wrote similar laws to curb them although they became stalled in bureaucracy. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/6/21505027/congress-big-t...
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by benoau 2y ago
Project Zomboid on steroids
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by benoau 2y ago
It's such a suspicious target IMHO, there's got to be approximately zero financial value in attacking them, the vast majority of people are unaffected by its availability or lack of, it would be an inefficient distribution platfor
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by benoau 2y ago
It must be impossible to find an unbiased judge or jury that hasn't been annoyed by the practices they want to continue employing to deter cancellations!
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by benoau 2y ago
I remember getting the PSP, and this was the iPod and PDA era, the PSP was just absolutely amazing. It was better than anything else by far , even with the silly little UMD optical discs. Thanks to EU regulations pressuring Apple's
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by benoau 2y ago
I wonder which tech company will be the first to take this too far and implode because of some easily-avoidable cataclysm. I think in some ways you could say Twitter / X already did although they are still limping along for now...
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by benoau 2y ago
In addition to the direct impact Ubuntu had it also sits at the core of so many other popular distros which de facto standardized setting up and configuring so much consumer Linux software.
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by benoau 2y ago
There's the general risk of enshittification that is almost guaranteed to occur. There's specific risks based on your software or you. If your somehow prone to tripping their alarms then you will always be a hot target for bans e
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by benoau 2y ago
There's so much rent-collection in music streaming fraud almost seems inevitable because most of the pipeline is in competition with the musicians for that revenue AKA a massive conflict of interest. The outcome has been musicians g
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by benoau 2y ago
Conversely, revoking licenses is certainly stealing!
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by benoau 2y ago
GOG have also said they will help honour bequeathing your library if you leave it to someone and identify your username/email. Steam have expressed no such desire. https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/gog-will-
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by benoau 2y ago
The worst part about this sad status quo is as games are removed from sale they will probably never be able to be lawfully obtained again because the IP ownership fragments and gets lost through descendants and bankruptcies and acquisitions
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by benoau 2y ago
I've heard of using UTM + https://github.com/osy/Jitterbug to enable JIT.
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by benoau 2y ago
Emulation and virtualization have solved the longevity problem and continue to do so better than ever. There is no doubt at all that games will still work in the future, and other software, as long as they don't have a hard-dependency
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by benoau 2y ago
A lot of Steam customers simply haven't thought very far ahead: what happens when they die? As a twenty-year old company there is certainly a reckoning on the horizon as their users age-out and start passing in higher numbers. What h
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by benoau 2y ago
GOG has actually gone further than that: > "In general, your GOG account and GOG content is not transferable. However, if you can obtain a copy of a court order that specifically entitles someone to your GOG personal account, the di
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by benoau 2y ago
https://np.reddit.com/r/EmulationOnAndroid/wiki/index/
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by benoau 2y ago
It can or at least will: a driverless car that always stop, never speeds and never cheats will force everyone behind them to adhere to the rules they follow.
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by benoau 2y ago
You can tell from the "seeders" numbers on pirated games that piracy is in fact extremely niche. The fitgirl repack of "Dragon Ball: Sparkling Zero" has 3,400 seeders and 58,000 concurrent players on Steam. I remember w
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by benoau 2y ago
If you graduated this decade you should be applying for junior-to-mid-level positions to get that experience. It's not just alignment with the stack, it's the full spectrum of working on a team and software with lots of moving pa
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by benoau 2y ago
I agree consumers should have better recourse - but its absence is just another way online platforms maximize their profit, and taxpayer-funded policing their platforms for them would only exacerbate that.
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by benoau 2y ago
All children face a lottery of people and places to be born to and most of them are disgusting and unfair to the child…
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by benoau 2y ago
I think the concept of lifetime bans from big tech platforms needs to be reevaluated, but there is not much difference between Google's "trip wires" and Apple's "red lines": your app is not allowed to exist eit
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by benoau 2y ago
Yeah, and the important detail here is all of this happened years after the "browser wars", which saw Netscape rapidly free-fall from being worth billions to being discontinued once IE was bundled with Windows 95. And then year
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by benoau 2y ago
The weak-point is the shared USB device that copies from one machine to another which seems to defeat the whole purpose of being air-gapped - you could have printed-and-OCR'd data three decades ago so the air-gapped machine is never re
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by benoau 2y ago
Can't wait for the day companies are forced to provide support for decade(s) and/or provide (or support) an off-ramp so their withdrawal doesn't brick the device or endanger the users. I feel like my M1 MBP could be good fo

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