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by bsimpson 10mo ago
I lurk in a bunch of Discords for things I'm not active in, but don't want to have to find an invite to if I need to ask a question in the future. I always have a notification badge on Discord, and I hate it. Too many servers hav
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
It seems like Linux's ethos is also its biggest problem. It's a bunch of free software people reinventing, not just the wheel, but every part of the bus. When someone shows up and wants to install a standard cup holder, it'
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
I only learned about glibc earlier today, when I was trying to figure out why the Nix version of a game crashes on SteamOS unless you unset some environ vars. Turns out that Nix is built against a different version of glibc than SteamOS, an
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
It's funny to see how communities shard. In the plastic instrument games genre, there are some Discords where any wisp of using commercial music will be met with a stern reaction and potential ban. There are others that will link you
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
I don't know what the right way to handle intersecting identities is. Most of my online identities were started when I was in college and was happy to have them tied to my real name. (This is also when Facebook was popular, still good
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
Does Signal scale? Until recently, I think the only way to join a Signal was to be explicitly added by a member. It doesn't have all the channels etc. of something like Discord. It doesn't have enough mindshare by normies either.
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
Slack had the ability to be Discord, but they explicitly decided they wanted to be business-only. React was the first open-source community I knew of that outgrew/got kicked off of Slack and moved to Discord. Now, it seems Slack is on
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
It's interesting to see how much of a behemoth Discord has become. Seems like there's a Discord for everything - from open source projects to hobbies and games to individual groups of friends/family. It's occupying the
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
I believe the root constraints are a security thing. They don't want you to charge your phone in a dodgy USB outlet in a public space (e.g. an airport) and be compromised. Making you flash your phone to get root is meant to prevent p
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
Physical media rots too. I don't watch my DVD collection anymore because I don't have access to a working DVD player, but I've read that a lot of those discs don't play anymore because the publishers cheaped out on mate
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
I have a Legion Go, which is basically a premium Steam Deck - playing similar games but on a nicer screen with a stronger GPU to drive it. I've been very happy with it - still playing nearly daily 2 years later. All this hubbub about
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If you're not interested in games, why the interest in a Valve tablet? SteamOS is probably the most commercially well-supported consumer desktop Linux, but it's still primarily a games storefront. If you only want to do desktop s
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The version sold in the Steam store runs the Windows build via Proton. (Valve's whole philosophy is you should build one version of your game, and their compatibility layers should be so bulletproof that it runs flawlessly everywhere.
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That's rad! Getting it to run in KDE was straightforward. I've gotta figure out why it instacrashes in SteamOS game mode.
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I recently happened into Balatro through a Game Pass trial. I fell deep down the rabbit hole of trying to get it to run on SteamOS. It's fascinating to see a commercial game whose source is easily read inside the application bundle, a
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That was originally what Dart was created for. Beside all the rabblerousing that it came from the same company as Chrome, there was a real concern about compatibility and spreading the platform too thin, if every engine had to maintain mult
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
I joined from the Webmonkey sidebar in like 2008. Lived in San Francisco for a while. Liked seeing you pop up in that sub, even after you retired.
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Amazon is the most famous example of making an alternative app store for Android. Guess what? Nobody cared.
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(In case you didn't realize it, you're replying to one of the OG reddit admins.)
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They've served 113 trillion: https://fonts.google.com/analytics They're entitled to take fonts seriously.
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Flex is the brand they use for their variable fonts. Roboto has Roboto Flex. Google Sans has Google Sans Flex.
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
I have my HN name @gmail.com. I've never actually used that account, because there are too many anonymous Bart Simpsons (and old people who don't understand email addresses) who use that one. The shitty thing is that I use Google
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
Generally speaking, if someone specifies "TypeScript," I expect the type system to be the interesting part of the writeup. Otherwise, it could say "JavaScript." (It could say "React," but still, the interestin
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
"The guy who did it sucked" is generally not a good justification. It's an easy trap to fall into (we all want consequences for shitty people), but it's also a blurry line to hold. "First they came…"
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I once had a flatmate who worked in IT at MIT at the time that happened. I don't remember the details, but it was a sad fluke that the feds even got involved - something like it was reported at the wrong time of day/when the pers
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
I get the point you're making (that standards evolve, and Apple will drag its feet again if it sees a profit), but that doesn't change that they've been gating functionality behind app-only APIs for decades to grow their wall
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by bsimpson 10mo ago
> I hope that the association makes protectionism politically taboo for decades to come. I thought it already was, before Trump. I still can't believe they ended de minimus and tariffed everything.
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How do you do italics in HN? I've been here for more than a decade and can never figure out the formatting syntax.
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It's cool that that exists, and also feels silly to spend $50 + need to buy/run an extra HDMI cable just to make your TV turn on when your device does. Real shame these gaming-tailored devices don't support it natively. I won
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I saw the Steam Machine bragging about CEC and being able to turn the TV on when it does, which made me wonder why my setup doesn't do that. Turns out that there's a special pin on your APU that has to be wired up, and AMD didn&#x

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