jordand

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by jordand 6mo ago
I'm running GrapheneOS too and while I've experienced the same, I'm dreading the day any of my banking apps update and suddenly start demanding full Play Integrity API support (GrapheneOS only has Basic) causing them to fail
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by jordand 6mo ago
M3 support nearly at alpha is fantastic news, and I'm really looking forward to M4 in the future. I am not looking forward to whatever Apple has planned this year for macOS, or next.
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by jordand 6mo ago
For Thunderbolt 4/5 docks, I've held off from buying a high-end Thunderbolt 5 dock as many still have 2.5GbE Ethernet and other limitations with displays. The CalDigit TS5 Plus is one of the only options with 10GbE and its $500 (a
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by jordand 6mo ago
Linux drivers and certification is a whole lot of extra work and complexity compared to FreeDOS. Years ago, Nettops were sold with FreeDOS where the components didn't support Linux that well.
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by jordand 6mo ago
There's a lot of interesting projects and even innovation going on making new games for old PCs/consoles. James Lambert and Kaze are doing fantastic work in the N64 space as one example (watch their videos on Youtube)
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by jordand 6mo ago
Yeah all of that is always going to be true across hobbyists, indies and small studios. But for commercial game development at scale, where there's multiple studios or outsourcers/co-devs brought on, there's real expectations
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by jordand 6mo ago
Yeah I understand what you mean. For bad code in that sense, I'm mainly thinking back to games work colleagues have worked on (in the era when patching wasn't possible) where horrible one-time hacks and weird workarounds get quick
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by jordand 6mo ago
The LPCAMM2 memory is both the biggest plus for me, and the biggest challenge for it given how rare it is to find in stock, and the premium price over LPDDR5 and crazy prices of it.
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by jordand 6mo ago
I've been using Bevy myself and I think its only good right now for a niche of experienced enthusiastic hobbyist game devs. Documentation, tutorials, and community are crucial for a good engine and it's not there yet.
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by jordand 6mo ago
You've not read about or had the Calculator memory leaks on macOS Tahoe, have you?
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by jordand 6mo ago
There's numerous studios across the games industry that have high coding standards, mandatory code reviews, and expect upskilling. Game complexity keeps increasing, and live service games in particular need to be stable and well mainta
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by jordand 6mo ago
Unconsciously and consciously yes, and this new awareness means others are now consciously avoiding the use of them so their writing is less likely to be perceived as AI generated junk
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by jordand 6mo ago
Accessibility is really important as well, as there's different laws and regulations covering people's rights here too. Modern cross-platform GUI frameworks (as heavy as they can be) have no issues supporting screen readers and Hi
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by jordand 6mo ago
SideFX have some compatibility flexibility around this with Houdini but they're the exception. Autodesk have very tight annual release schedules for Maya (and other DCC), where the actual feature development only has months allocated (
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by jordand 6mo ago
Yeah and even Unreal Engine 5 has RHEL/Rocky 8 as the minimum supported OS. With the Py 2->3.x and Qt 6 migrations now in the past, things are thankfully/mercifully stable and boring across Game/VFX pipelines, and will be
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by jordand 6mo ago
Autodesk have been the same with Maya on Linux. The 2027 version has just been released, and it still doesn't have full Wayland support. The VFX Reference platform doesn't mandate Wayland support. And strangely enough, Maya versio
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by jordand 6mo ago
The entire school system, even going through to University league tables (graduate employment/earnings), is geared around this. Everything is increasingly difficult for young people, and there's very little we can do to improve th
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by jordand 6mo ago
And regular subscription price increases. They never forget those!
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by jordand 7mo ago
There's sadly loads of older Apple and Android devices out there holding back AV1 adoption for years to come. Hardware AV1 decoding only just arrived in the Apple M3+ and A17 Pro onwards, and software decoding has its own big trade off
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by jordand 7mo ago
"Storage is not possible" Interestingly, the reality is that the "free market" is making this happen and its already here. 'The UK grid-scale battery storage market grew 45% by operational capacity in 2025, with 4GW
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by jordand 7mo ago
The previous government was in power for 14 straight years. The current (useless) government only came into power in July 2024. Yes, I think the previous government should have some of the blame. Just to add, wind turbine factory investment
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by jordand 7mo ago
Labour and the Conservatives are no different from each other. The Tories back then expected the "free market" to take care of everything. And that "free market" has clearly failed British people given where we are. They
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by jordand 7mo ago
Exactly, and the Tories banned onshore wind, and refused to really invest in offshore wind. We've got the North Sea and its perfect for wind farms we should have had for decades
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by jordand 7mo ago
Yeah I'm in the UK and for electricity, I'm on the green Octopus Agile tariff, which tracks the wholesale price updating every 30 mins. Given the abundant green energy today, and peak times between 3-7pm, right this second I'
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by jordand 7mo ago
The full 16bit support here is a big thing especially given 64bit Windows (now everywhere) dropped it. With old games, there's thousands that are 16bit, and even odd cases where the game is 32bit but the installer for it is 16bit.
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by jordand 7mo ago
Yeah I've investigated this before and found as well those old Intel dual/quad 10GbE PCI-E cards have quite a high idle power consumption just on their own
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by jordand 7mo ago
Even MikroTik routers have a supply chain scattered around the world
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by jordand 7mo ago
WPF scales and works perfectly with HiDPI displays, and (from what I've read) WinForms support for HiDPI has improved in recent years.
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by jordand 7mo ago
Win32 programming has been reduced to a small niche now. Even 20+ year old Win32 books don't cover things in-depth (or practical use cases) let alone the 32bit->64bit migration
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by jordand 7mo ago
Yeah that's the bulk of the work for migrating small Win32 apps. Things escalate when someone has built their own dynamic GUI framework over Win32, used a range of GUI controls, and then built event-driven apps on top of that, it'

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