Ottomateeverything @ Ottomateeverything @lemmy.world

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iOS is way worse when it comes to support for things like this. IOS started super restrictive and slowly allowed for slightly more background app support, but anything off the beaten path of "open app, view stuff, leave app" is not well supported on iOS.

Android would historically allow apps to do whatever the fuck they wanted, but in the past like 6 years started adding restrictions, and then started adding some mechanisms for users to allow exceptions.

It's very unsurprising for Android to support these cases better, but they're honestly both getting worse, because "battery optimization", and it really hurts "off the beaten path" applications.

I would also be skeptical of this theory - you say your hot water is worse than your cold - if it was your water source, it should be about the same.

Since you said you swapped hot water heaters, I'd be skeptical of the hot water heater. I've had a similar problem (mine was a sulfurous smell after not using the hot water for about a month) and you would still notice it in the cold water, but seemingly only because there was some lingering past the mixing valves etc.

Mine was mostly resolved by just running every hot water faucet in the house for about 30 minutes simultaneously. The idea is basically to try to "flush" your hot water heater and to try to "clean it out". Might be worth a shot, as it's not too hard and might help.

I mean, yeah, sure, but that doesn't change anything I said - even if he's using it to cater to Russia, he's still catering to Russia, playing god, pretending he's a general, and it's worse than the original quote of him criticizing the Ukrainian offensive.

I mean, yes, obviously. But why the fuck are we dancing around the "liability" here? Everyone knows what he meant. He should not be able to sue for defamation claiming that's false. His fucking bullshit scare tactics are the fascist mechanisms that got us here. We need to stop rolling over to this bullshit and return to zero tolerance for this nonsense.

It's 2023 and Nintendo is still churning out the same minimum effort bullshit Pokemon and Mario games, and they still haven't figured out online multiplayer.

True

The max resolution of the Switch is 1080p 30 FPS. Nintendo is a joke and a shell of it's former self.

Yeah, I wouldn't go anywhere near that far. The N64 is the only console that was ever really top of its class in raw specs. That's never been Nintendo's game, and they've never even tried. And, the FTC leaks have shown Xbox is considered 3rd behind the Switch.

Arguably the GameCube was the most complacent and behind the times console they've ever released and it did extremely well.

The Wii started a huge "motion controls" revolution, and even if it didn't stick around, it was fresh and everyone and their mother was trying to buy a Wii.

The Wii U was probably their biggest failure. They tried to do something new and misread the market.

The Switch also brought something entirely new to the market that has redefined the portable. It sold out like crazy and has done extremely well. I know people who own switches that have never purchased any console or handheld.

The Switch isn't trying to compete with Xbox / PS. It's competing with Gameboy and PSP but also allows you to play Mario Kart with the boys. And it has built an entire new device segment with Steam Deck and a million spin offs at this point.

Local couch gameplay has always been Nintendos bread and butter. They're not aiming for hardcore gamers. And they're still succeeding at exactly that.

You forgot car companies asking for subscriptions to use your heated seats.

This year was also Diablo 4. And they have been driving that one further and further into the ground. The OW2 lore shit is another turd on the pile. Dragonflight is continuing a "more of the same but we told it'd be different" trend, but is honestly their smallest fuck up in a list of fuck ups.

Was HotS dying last year? OW1 was basically on life support for the past two years in order to support the OW2 fiasco so I feel like that should count as it's own entity... Once we're into last year, there's Diablo Immoral

The list goes on.

I am well aware that my assumptions are probably wrong

No, no, this is entirely accurate. It's just that the Linux-a-boos would love to tell you otherwise. But it's all a bunch of circle jerking. The people who are willing to deal with that and have already dived need justification and will tell you it's simple.

Sure, some distros are a bit more hands off and "works out of the box". But you still have to find the box. And figure out how to open the box. And figure out how to get it out of the box. And then it just works. Until it doesn't.

It's not as hard as it used to be, but anyone telling you "any normie can just do it and never look back" is full of shit. It still has its hurdles and you'll still be occasionally troubleshooting your own PC. Most people don't want that. But the people who do are already running Linux.

No, everyone very much knows what that means. How every media outlet still gives him slack, plays dumb, and pretends along with his stupid games, is beyond me.

As someone else pointed out, his entire perspective of Twitter is skewed by his own usage. His following and crypto bs have resulted in all of his tweets being bombarded by bots trying to get attention. It severely impacts his ability to use Twitter, and he's been disillusioned into thinking this is everyone's experience of the platform.

When you look at it from such a narrow perspective, I'm sure yeah, bots are a pretty big issue.

He repeatedly is stumbling into the same fucking roadblocks tech companies have struggled with for a decade or more, and he's walking through even worse thought processes when there's mountains of data and analysis and proof on what does and doesn't work.

It's like rewatching a train wreck in slow mo, but for some reason there's extra explosions added in.

How people thought, let alone still think, he's some sort of tech genius is absolutely beyond me.

Musk said he made the decision fearing that Moscow would retaliate with nuclear weapons.

I feel like this part is even worse. His opinion sucks and is fucking stupid, but he's literally saying he's making decisions (which have an impact on thousands of lives) because of his speculation on the Russian response.

He's not a fucking general, this shit shouldn't be his decision. He is not informed or educated on these decisions and he's playing with people's literal lives. He's literally trying to play god with his space toys.

I don't see how this is a defense. If it's scheduled, he knows it's happening. He could have just delayed the announcement until the day after his shares were scheduled to sell, and the intention is the same. Having a schedule doesn't exempt you from insider trading, it's a procedure that needs to be followed.

On the other hand, the better defense here is that he's a multi millionaire or billionaire, and he sold like $80k worth of shares. If he was really intending to dump, he'd be selling like 100x this amount.

if it takes an extra year to swap to Godot but as a result you get to keep 100% of your revenues (minus Steam's cut of course, if you're going that route) it may actually be worth it.

Not if that's a year you don't have income and can't eat - then it's not a choice at all.

If you're doing this as a side job, and it's extra income on the side, sure. But many small studios and indie devs do this as their primary income, and kicking their paycheck a year down the road is a non starter for many orgs. And with the demographics of unity devs, that's probably more than norm than it is the exception.

The features of Twitter vs mastodon is close to 1:1, but Godot vs Unity is not even close.

The amount of time to learn to use Twitter or Mastodon is a few minutes. The amount of time to learn Godot or Unity is months getting going, and years to become an expert.

Twitter is something people use for entertainment and communication. Unity and Godot are literally people's livelihood.

This comparison is just fucking awful. Your lack of empathy for people who have literally put months of man hours into projects based on existing tooling, business models, and licensing agreements, only to have a massive rug pulled out from under them is just pathetic. If you don't feel bad, you're a fucking asshole and that's on you. Stop trying to justify it.

they have made a pretty good effort to patch Pegasus vulnerabilities whenever they come about,

I mean, they kind of have to? What's the alternative, they leave it? Why are we applauding them for basically the bare minimum here?

Apple's investment in discovering these problems seems pretty poor. There are multiple instances of Google finding exploits for them and then Apple downplays and complains about Google being too alarmist.

Sure, they fix things. But they fucking better, or there's a very different problem. But their proactive investments in trying to discover them ahead of time seems pathetic.

Yeah, the argument that there's money in this business only furthers the point here - there's money in it because it's valuable to abuse systems. Therefore the people running those systems should be the ones fucking funding it. And then using that agreement to keep the exploit details behind closed doors until they are able to fix it.

It's almost like this should be an entire internal department. Maybe it could be named after the idea of keeping things secure?

If the company making massive profits off the sales of these devices isn't going to fund it, who is? It's fucking insane to me that Google basically funds the security of iOS for Apple, who's their direct competition in that market. We probably wouldn't even know this exists if it wasn't for stuff like that.

because In real life, when users see a huge performance drop, they complain

Yeah, true, and the dead people don't get to complain, so just prioritize performance because the dead aren't complaining.

/s obviously. I don't give a fuck how much performance you gain/lose by running an exposed system. Increasing road speed limits would help people get to work faster. But more of them would be dead. Road safety comes first, convenience and speed comes second.

I could understand people having a slightly different priority list 30 years ago when performance was shit and computers were obscure. But in this day and age, we're making increases in performance 99.9% of the populace won't notice and computers literally run our lives. The priority is security.

then you have situations like Intel's Downfall, which has sizable AVX2/AVX512 performance penalties.

Yeah, exactly. Most people don't utilize AVX all that much. And those that do likely have newer machines that are unnaffected. And Intel is patching it.

How much has single core performance really changed in the past decade? You might as well be comparing a 2016 i5 at that point.

Not to mention the i9-13900K is made for multicore performance, has lower single core performance than it's own alternate models.

Oh I totally get you, and it leads to more interesting perspectives and discussion for sure. I don't mean to insult your question by calling it vague - the person was just saying they didn't know what to believe among multiple answers and who was right, and I was pointing out that a vague question has multiple different answers. Didn't mean it to come off as insulting your question.