dinckel @ dinckelman @lemmy.world

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Was this not already common sense?

Still has an LCD panel, and still has regular sticks. I guess saving 0.10$ per unit adds up

It's not just effectively dead. A lot of people, who were core contributors to the project, declared it impossible to maintain, in modern scenarios. Does it still work? Most of the time. But it comes at a massive cost of having to deal with 40 years of tech debt, and band-aid decisions.

But even if you forget about that, this readme is a sign of major mental illness

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting that they should just say okay, installing instagram from a Limewire download is the intended path now.

Using AUR or Nixpkgs to install your stuff is perfectly acceptable to me, for these exact reasons. You have a choice, you’re choosing your preference, and at the end of the day you get a vetted source from a trusted repository.

Choice is what matters to people, and it’s being taken away from them. But even beyond that, if i wanted to install an “unsupported/untrusted” app on my device, that should fully be my choice

I still hate the term "sideloading", when used in this context. You don't "sideload" anything on your computer. You just install things, from wherever you damn desire.

They only started using the term here, to gaslight people into thinking that installing mobile apps from sources, other than the ones that give Apple money, is somehow insecure

I'm sure the game will be fun enough, for people who want this experience regularly, but the price is just outlandish. There's barely any innovation, version over version, and yet they are asking near double the money that Larian ask for Baldur's Gate 3 today

80$ for Mario Kart is absolutely mental

I use Nix on my M1 Pro machine, and it’s by far my favorite laptop yet. The company and their business practices absolutely do suck though.

That said, there is certainly a middle ground for software there. I hate windows as much as the next guy, but macOS is at least Unix-adjacent, so it’s not a complete pain

I understand that the overwhelming majority of people will still continue streaming at 16:9, or the vertical equivalent. It's not just about ownership of ultrawide displays. It's about support for such output format, for people who do want it. But even going by your own example, a ton of phones are 19.5:9, with some models straight up being 21:9

We’re getting vertical streams before 21:9 aspect ratio support. Come on

And we’ll just watch them either get slapped by an insignificant fine, or watch them weasel their way out of this again, by claiming they made you agree to some perpetual abandonment of rights, like they always do

Why is it never the other way around? I’m sick of EULA updates silently enrolling me into things i never asked for

That's just the reality of half of these companies. Inflated revenue reports, no actual work done, and at best they are just a shit chatGPT wrapper

Going from a GBC to a GBA SP was absolutely unreal. A backlit display, and a rechargeable battery? Say less

Doesn't even need to be dense fog. The other day I saw a video of a Tesla (on newest firmware, mind you) drove off the road into a tree, in broad daylight, with no visual impairments to the sensors. It's not ready for any kind of driving, let alone fully automated, not to mention that it's only really trained on American roads

A Deck will likely be a better purchase for you. Shared library, more sales too. The Cities Skylines situation you’ve described would have been enough to make that decision for me

I've never known about it until just now, but I wish I had, because my mom definitely needs something like that. Quite a shame

Sarasa Gothic + Iosevka for just about everything

I love OSS but I won’t sacrifice my experience just to go fully libre. Sometimes it just doesn’t make sense. I’m glad it’s an option for people who do want that though