Zangoose @ Zangoose @lemmy.one

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yes, I haven't tried AptX low latency headphones (tbf those are incredibly uncommon) but every pair of Bluetooth earbuds/iems/headphones I've tried had a noticeable delay. If you want good latency you need to get 2.4ghz or ideally just a wire.

Java is reasonably fast though, as the JRE is pretty well optimized at this point. Languages closer to being fully interpreted like JS and Python (technically both python and JS still get compiled to a lower target and then interpreted) are still noticeably slower.

Edit: there's also the fact that JS/TS runs on a single thread, so it's inherently limited for applications intended to be scaled up.

If you're actually being serious, this is Gabe Newell, the CEO of Valve. If you're joking, internet sarcasm is hard :(

I think Boston got less snow than that image this entire winter season :(

Global warming go brrrr

Ngl Windows is more annoying to install than Linux Mint or Ubuntu. The average user can just click through most of the default settings just fine unless you're trying to have a fancy dual boot setup

It's a lot harder to go after homebrew since there isn't anything directly linking atmosphere/hekate/etc. devs to the promotion of piracy.

Since the Yuzu team had a whole company formed to manage their patreon funds and were clearly promoting functionality for a game that hasn't been released yet, they were an easy target for Nintendo. The same thing happened with Team Xecuter's switch homebrew/mods ages ago.

If Nintendo had definitive evidence to suggest the Atmosphere devs are profiting off of piracy, they'd do the same thing in a heartbeat. Same with Ryujinx, Luma3ds, or any other form of emulation/homebrew. The only reason they don't is because they know only way they'd stand a chance in court is if they make it about piracy, copyright protection, and stolen profits.

I think they made patches for ToTK and released them in the early access build before ToTK even launched (the game files leaked online around a week or two before) so Nintendo's argument was that they were directly promoting and profiting from piracy (different from profiting from legal emulation).

Luckily because of the way they settled I don't think this actually implicates any forks that pop up so hopefully projects like suyu and whatever pops up for Citra can still continue development (not a lawyer tho)

They made money on their patreon and Nintendo was going to go after the fact that they had a crazy increase in patreon subscriptions in May 2023 because the early-access builds worked with Zelda ToTK before it came out.

As a dev who works on both Java and C# code, modern Java (17+) and C# feel almost exactly the same (not sure if Java has extension methods though).

Bonus points for using Kotlin instead tho. I dislike both Java and C# just because they both allow any object to be null and that's usually a headache whenever a null exception shows up.

The only thing I like better about C# is the Fixture library for testing. I haven't found any mature libraries like it for Java yet.

I can tell this is going well for you even without downvotes federated to my instance. There might not have been an actual court case, but Yuzu just got pulled for offering a way to break the switch's encryption keys, not just because they profited. It pretty directly implicates Ryujinx and any other emulator that could show up just by the nature of the settlement.

It also effectively killed off the only reliable 3DS emulator. Sure Yuzu and Citra are gone, but Panda3ds (the only other 3ds emulator with compatibility even close to Citra's) is also screwed over because it relied on the same ARM translation layer that Citra/Yuzu used. Forks might show up, but quite frankly I doubt any of them will be seriously maintained because of the crazy complexity required to make an emulator along with the newly established risk of doing so. This isn't another Tachiyomi situation where a bunch of forks will pop up immediately.

Pretty sure the dev mentioned they were going to release the source code as well, so it won't really be proprietary anymore. Either way I still prefer melonDS but at least there are options

True, I'm more worried about Citra since interest has kind of died down for that project. I'm kind of hoping some forks show up soon that get popular enough to be put onto a package manager since there aren't many alternatives with the same compatibility/performance (from what I can tell Panda3ds isn't very stable yet)

Obviously every generation has its struggles, but I was never disagreeing with that. If you treat this as "just another generational problem," you are fundamentally missing the point. It's as you say, a whole different set of problems.

Micro targeted ads are hard to ignore because most of the time they're influencing our subconscious state. This isn't just another generational issue we're facing, it's fundamentally shaping the way people look at the world without them even being aware of it. It's not limited to just the current generation, because everyone interacts with technology. However, targeting inner psychology will obviously impact people with less developed brains more than it will impact adults, and we're beginning to see the effects of that already with Gen Z.

This uhhh.... Didn't age well :(

I agree with your point but imo the drama doesn't even just come from high school kids. I'm a year away from graduating undergrad and still wondering when (or if) people are going to grow up about it. Even then, full grown adults do it about as often as people my age in my experience. Honestly some of the worst offenders when it comes to green bubble shaming have been my family members on the older side who think everyone should just get an iPhone and refuse to use anything other than iMessage.

No, you didn't, or at least not at this level.

Sure, TV ads and even some old games had ads which were targeted to specific demographics (their audience), but modern digital ads are targeted to vulnerabilities of specific individuals (using location, search, purchase history, etc.). They're also shown much more often and baked into products which are specifically designed to target your subconscious psychology (using nudging, gamification, etc.) so you use them more.

The kind of data required for the level of ad targeting done now did not exist more than maybe 15-20 years ago.

Which costs an additional $100/yr for something that's free on any other platform.

Their 7 (?) years of software support is kind of misleading to me because they stop getting chip-level security updates after something like 3-4 years due to the specific Qualcomm chip they use. Not to mention the chip is on the slower side of today's phones, let alone phones 7 years from now.

I can see how others might be fine with that though, just my 2 cents.

To your first point, it isn't really an "offer." I don't think I've ever complained about having an Android phone, because I've genuinely liked my Android phones way more than my old iPhone. It pretty commonly comes up whenever communication is involved though because I end up being blamed for not having FaceTime, iMessage, etc. even though most of those problems come from Apple only supporting a messaging standard from the early 90s with Android phones.

To your second point, there are memes though. They're probably not as common on here because the demographic that uses lemmy (or even Reddit to some degree) is more likely to have an Android phone for various reasons. Look up "android camera meme" if you want a clear example of something that usually isn't even true.

I'm not going to go after anyone for using an Apple product, because I can see why someone would use one over Android. But Apple tends to attract people that will blindly defend their bad decisions (no headphones jack, no charger, slow refresh-rate screens on everything but the $1000 model, etc.).

This isn't to say there aren't similar people defending companies like Samsung, Google, etc. Apple just attracts these people at a whole different level. This meme is obviously hyperbole but to be fair you could make this meme about any obnoxious fan group and it would be just as true.

Edit: fixed a grammar mistake, clarified a sentence with italics

As an Android user, I'll offer my side to this:

If I had a dollar for every time a friend or family member asked, "Why don't you just get an iPhone?" I could probably buy the newest iPhone. Added pain that I'm Gen Z in the US where something like 80-90% of people my age use an iPhone.

I swear most of the time people treat having an Android phone as something that needs some sort of defense because they think there's no reason anyone would possibly consider buying anything other than an iPhone.