mort96

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by mort96 9mo ago
I like Steam as a user. It syncs game saves between computers. It takes care of game updates. It has a decent launcher UI that I use on my living room computer so that I can launch games using an xbox controller. It makes Windows games work
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by mort96 9mo ago
Really? You think a git commit message in a C project is the right place to document how to install make and gcc on arch linux? That's not better suited as part of a readme file?
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by mort96 9mo ago
It was, and those PRs should be banned too...
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by mort96 9mo ago
As a user, I can not allow users to control their hardware. It is not up to me. I get to choose between Apple and Google, and neither is in the business of allowing users to control their hardware.
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by mort96 9mo ago
Being a victim and being an oppressed group are not the same thing...
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by mort96 9mo ago
I would like nothing more than for a third viable competitor to show up. I don't think you calling me an idiot will make that happen faster, is the point.
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by mort96 9mo ago
Running your words through ChatGPT isn't making you clear. If your own words are clear enough to be understood by ChatGPT, they're clear enough to be understood by your peers. Adding ChatGPT into the mix only ensures opportunity f
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by mort96 9mo ago
These days, Google has foolproof ways for an app to query and check if it's running on a "genuine" (read: Google-controlled, locked down) system. I'm not switching to Sailfish.
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by mort96 9mo ago
I don't think I can send or receive money to and from my friends or pay my public transport fare from Sailfish.
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by mort96 9mo ago
I have read a lot of bad grammar from people who aren't very good at the language but are trying their best. It's fine. Just try to express yourself clearly and we figure it out. I have read text where people who aren't very
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by mort96 9mo ago
This is counterproductive. The only alternative to letting Apple exploit you is letting Google exploit you. There are differences, Google is somewhat better on this specific point, but there's enough things Google is worse at (such as
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by mort96 9mo ago
A large enough difference in degree becomes a difference in kind. Chat bots have vastly inflated the amount of shitty PRs, to the degree that it needs different solutions to manage.
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by mort96 9mo ago
I don't agree at all. There's a huge difference between "someone wrote this code and at least understands the intention and the problem it's trying to solve" and "the chat bot just generated this code, nobody u
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by mort96 9mo ago
Why would you want to use a chat bot to translate? Either you know the source and destination language, in which case you'll almost certainly do a better job (certainly a more trustworthy job), or you don't, in which case you shou
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by mort96 9mo ago
I'm not sure why you're counting the years of support for a version of the OS and not the years of support for a computer. The interesting thing is: if you bought a computer at year X, does it still receive updates at X+Y? There&#
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by mort96 9mo ago
They also provide security updates for those old OSes for quite a while, AFAIK.
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by mort96 9mo ago
There's a ton of outdated guides out there because Microsoft has been patching out workaround after workaround. It's likely that the simple solution you used doesn't work anymore.
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by mort96 9mo ago
I'm happy Epic hasn't influenced your goals yet . It's only a matter of time.
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by mort96 9mo ago
This is slightly off topic, but do you know of a graphics debugger on macOS which supports OpenGL? ...or a graphics debugger on Linux which supports Wayland? We used to have the Apple OpenGL Profiler etc on macOS, but all of Apple's to
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by mort96 9mo ago
It usually takes some time for an acquisition to result in significant cultural shift in the acquired company, but it always happens in the end.
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by mort96 9mo ago
Valve doesn't own RAD though
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by mort96 9mo ago
Yes actually: plenty of companies don't care where the money comes from, they're happy as long as there's money. Unity, the other big ad- and IAP-peddling game engine company, has pretty good Linux support. It's weird fo
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by mort96 9mo ago
The readme talks about plans for Linux support, but I'm guessing that's no longer on the table after the Epic acquisition? Sweeney is the single most publicly anti-Linux CEO I'm aware of.
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by mort96 9mo ago
So this article isn't about a kill switch, just blocking downgrades and custom ROMs. But to answer your question: we know iPhones have a foolproof kill switch, it's a feature. Just mark your device as lost in Find My and it'l
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by mort96 9mo ago
I've concluded that this can't be the reason. It'd only result in an error where the size reported by 'du' is smaller than the apparent size (aka number of bytes reported by 'wc -c') of the file. What we
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by mort96 9mo ago
Turns out that these numbers are caused by APFS weirdness. I used 'du' to get them which reports the size on disk, which is weirdly bloated for some reason when compressing in parallel. I should've used 'du -A', whi
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by mort96 9mo ago
Turns out that these numbers are caused by APFS weirdness. I used 'du' to get them which reports the size on disk, which is weirdly bloated for some reason when compressing in parallel. I should've used 'du -A', whi
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by mort96 9mo ago
Ross Burton on Mastodon suggests that it might be deduplication; when writing sequentially, later files can re-use blocks from earlier files, while that isn't the case as much when writing sequentially. That seems plausible enough to m
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by mort96 9mo ago
Interesting! It doesn't seem to be only about overwriting, I can be in a directory without any .zst files and run the command to compress 55 files in parallel and it's still 45M according to 'du -h'. But you're righ
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by mort96 9mo ago
'zstd --version' reports: "** Zstandard CLI (64-bit) v1.5.7, by Yann Collet **". This is zstd installed through Homebrew on macOS 26 on an M1 Pro laptop. Also of interest, I was able to reproduce this with a random binar

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