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by benoau 2y ago
http://www.oldversion.com/windows/netscape/ It seems like by the late 90s the Netscape installer was already around 15 megabytes.
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by benoau 2y ago
That was the fastest a dial up modem could be, many modems were a fraction of that speed. And this was Netscape, not Firefox, you need to go back about ten years further. Edit: redoing the maths properly makes the 15 megabyte download in
903.
by benoau 2y ago
It’s also worth noting at that time downloading an alternative browser probably over “dial up” was likely to take a couple of hours when you also had usage quotas and fees based on connection duration!
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by benoau 2y ago
That would be fascinating!
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by benoau 2y ago
I think the most important ingredient for me is a combination of solitude and queuing up some good albums.
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by benoau 2y ago
In the coming weeks or months the judge in the Epic case will decide if gacha games can link directly to their own payments without Apple, that threatens 70% of spending on the App Store in Apple's worst-case scenario (per the Epic cas
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by benoau 2y ago
I think more importantly: anyone who looks at the Switch as another computer they can buy will see it is worse than the Steam Deck by basically any metric including the Switch's own games running much better with higher resolutions
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by benoau 2y ago
There's already a ton of options ranging from extremely powerful + expensive ROG Ally ~$800 to the Steam Deck ~$400 and much smaller/weaker Android and Linux handhelds like Retroid's products from ~$100 - $300. The PC handhe
909.
by benoau 2y ago
These days you can load up almost the entire history of gaming on a dozen different PC handhelds, choose from a thriving Android ecosystem of less-powerful but cheaper handhelds, and run emulators on iPhones and Android phones. Their walled
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by benoau 2y ago
Representing himself sounds like a mistake, where is the EFF on this??
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by benoau 2y ago
I wonder if it isn't handheld PCs that are scaring them, because I would never buy a Nintendo device for my children when unencumbered and repairable hardware is becoming abundant. Aside from their litigious nature against emulators th
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by benoau 2y ago
That's true but we also have a lot of simple solutions for charging cell phones: powerbanks, solar and hand winders, transfer power from a laptop, small generators, and on top of that is charging from vehicles. Electric cars might n
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by benoau 2y ago
How will we ever get good peripherals and good use-cases if everything can only ever be USB 2.0?
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by benoau 2y ago
Apple lost trying to argue that iOS shouldn't be emulated too. https://www.engadget.com/apple-loss-lawsuit-corellium-120347... > Apple sued security start-up Corellium last year, accusing it of violating copyright l
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by benoau 2y ago
There have however been many major disasters where congestion or service impaired or shut down cellular internet access, so I think we do still need that lifeline... although I'd rather the radios be in cell phones since they're m
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by benoau 2y ago
Eventually you run out of work to distribute across cores, but it doesn't really matter there are lots of resources not being used to their fullest potential: NVMe drives offer little benefit to games because the drives are mostly idle
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by benoau 2y ago
The gaming industry wants to bring their existing marketplaces and platforms and even when that's not explicitly prohibited Apple wants 30% of their gross revenue and requires each game implement their in-app purchases to collect it, s
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by benoau 2y ago
Your ideas are explicitly illegal in the EU and, if the law ever passes, would be illegal in the US too. Frankly I think we are past having to figure out ways for Apple to tax software usage in all circumstances, just wait for the law to c
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by benoau 2y ago
+1 This was my favourite Sierra game for a long time, and the VGA remake was beautifully-done.
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by benoau 2y ago
An obscure PSP-only game called Jeanne d'Arc, which I see now has actually been re-released this year for PS4/PS5! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_d%27Arc_(video_game)
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by benoau 2y ago
It's triaging the support so the people who are best-capable of answering specific things don't waste all their time answering the stuff a new hire can take care of after one week training.
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by benoau 2y ago
They've had 14 years to get it. I remember ages ago there was a startup Path who famously justified uploading your contacts without permission (before dialogs were implemented) as it being an industry-norm! https://techcr
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by benoau 2y ago
You can go all the way back to when Facebook was the dominant gaming platform to realize how much leeway there is: what actually got Vostu in trouble - privately settling that is - was copying so blatantly they "inherited" bugs fr
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by benoau 2y ago
One possible reason they didn't address it sooner was Apple was receiving a cut of google's ad revenue on iPhone that had grown to 36% share, until Google's own antitrust case deemed the arrangement illegal earlier this year.
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by benoau 2y ago
It is very dirty, and they just dump load after load right on the tip.
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by benoau 2y ago
I don't even click unsubscribe links anymore, I just CC straight to my government's spam complaint line and report how my contact information has been misappropriated if I actually provided it, or accuse them of acquiring it witho
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by benoau 2y ago
Too much stuff in the nodejs ecosystem is based around the premise that there is something fundamentally wrong with node and npm. They have room for improvement sure but they're not so broken I'm going to bother swapping out core
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Apple requests Epic anti-steering injunction be tossed given new precedent(appleinsider.com)
19 points by benoau 2y ago|15 comments
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by benoau 2y ago
This all pertains to whether Apple is, per court order, no longer prohibiting developers to link to their websites containing billing information that is not using their In-App Purchase system and thus bypassing their 30% fee and competing
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by benoau 2y ago
I remember reading this article years ago and admiring it a lot. I wonder how it holds up today with so much more complexity both in their ambitions and experiments, vast dependency trees etc?

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