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by dismalaf 2mo ago
Real balanced article from Gnome there, changing the title of every of DHH's blog posts it links to...
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
Running your apps on the same OS you develop on... I mean, you could ask the same question for anything. What's the point? There is no point except someone wanting it..
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
> I don't think there has been anything close to Omarchy for Linux Desktop momentum Dunno, Ubuntu had a lot of hype back in the day. It just kind of died out when Canonical had to start making money. But yeah, it's nice to see
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
> You're espousing anti-intellectual BS that has no place on HN. ChatGPT write this? > Sure, my wondering "why are we burning billions in iran" happens to align with iran's interests So naturally you're agains
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
It's 1 part marketing and 1 part regulatory capture.
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
> The average joe in the US (and presumably the west more generally) does not care one whit about the causes of russia or iran. It's not about caring about Russia or Iran specifically. It's about the fact they're swayed b
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
You need to pay attention then. https://kyivindependent.com/pro-palestinian-activists-destro... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7x68jrdmlo https://time.com/6589923/nancy-p
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
Horseshoe theory still undefeated. Both right-wingers who consume certain content as well as left-wingers in the pro-Palestine/Iran camp tend to be sympathetic to the Russian cause, as the Russians and Iranians fund specific influence
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
Maybe it's a generational thing but in my country we were given (real) IQ tests during grade school. Wanting to take an IQ test as an adult is questionable...
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
So moving goalposts... Normies don't care about hardware decoding, they care that the thing plays. Also Windows doesn't have 100% codec coverage either: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps&#x2
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
> you need to first run some arcane terminal commands Not if you install Chrome, Brave, Vivaldi, etc... like most users...
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
> course nothing would run on BSDes Ummmm, Wayland runs on FreeBSD... https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wayland/
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
> codecs are (still) a mess on Linux They're a mess everywhere for legal reasons. The solution is what Chrome and many other apps do: just ship codecs with the app.
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
> Isn't the issue just the zoom desktop app? Yup pretty much. Desktop sharing on Chromium based browsers is fine (probably others but I can't vouch for them), it's fine on OBS Studio, portals work, etc... But there's
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
You've never been given a corporate laptop with MS Teams? Mine would literally prevent me from opening apps before it reclaimed memory from Teams...
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
You can't think of it as computers vs. family, but work vs. family. And working with computers is a pretty decent job to have in this day and age.
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
There's no such thing as a limit of "procedural generation". It's a limit of the choices they made. Look at something like DF or Rimworld - they generate pretty dense worlds with plenty of lore and things to see. Where
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
Tell that to Valve or the millions who use it as a desktop. Also, have you used Windows recently?
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
What does this have to do with anything? You do know that a bunch of American corporations are shipping RISC-V cores, right? Including Jim Keller's current company, Tenstorrent.
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
> but it is far from a solid pro-grade OS in a lot of areas... Insane take given all the things that run on Linux...
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
Most Linux devs have been corporate employees getting paid to develop it for a very long time. It's not the early 90's any more.
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
It's not just China that has an interest. Multinational corporations also hate being charged licensing fees (see Qualcomm vs. ARM). Here's a list of RISC-V members: https://riscv.org/members/
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
> Honestly, it should be literally built into the browser instead of being a mere extension Aaaand that's why I'm using Vivaldi over here (which has a built-in adblocker).
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
Yeah it's kind of ironic that the Witness and his new Sokoban game don't really need custom technology.
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
> Game engine used to mean the runtime that manages game state, Yeah Monogame doesn't do that. Pretty much every definition of framework vs game engine puts Monogame, SDL, Raylib, SFML, libGDX, LÖVE2D, etc... in the framework categ
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
Game engines typically provide a LOT more than Monogame. For example, an editor, 3D renderer, scenegraph, etc... Monogame and Raylib do a tiny bit more than, say, SDL, but neither does anywhere close to as much as Unity, Unreal, Ogre, Fil
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
> It really depends on your needs I guess. Not to undermine them in any fashion but If you just need some generic features and get something out quick, a pre-built engine can take a lot of the head ache out of it. I'm thinking stuff
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
> How many were successful in contrast that just used an off the shelf engine? Yeah there's successful games that used an off the shelf engine but saying very few roll there own is plainly wrong when a bunch have. And that's w
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
> "OGRE-based" or "MonoGame-based." You compared a full-on 3D renderer to something that's basically the same as SDL or Raylib. Ogre could be considered a game engine but XNA/Monogame definitely isn't
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by dismalaf 2mo ago
> Very, very few games roll their own Except a ton of successful indie games, including some of the best of all time: Minecraft, Braid, the Witness, Dwarf Fortress, Stardew Valley, Terraria, Fez, Animal Well, and probably a bunch I haven

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