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They care so much for open source that they instantly killed OpenSolaris even if that led to much of the team quitting.

They also very much care to create an open and competitive environment, that's why their reps repeatedly refused to sell us licenses to have Solaris run under VMWare ESXi, demanding we replace our ESXi deployments with... VirtualBox (no, really).

Masto hosts already chose emigration once, that's why they are on masto. I don't see the mastodon crown adapting.

What do you mean by your first statement? Since like 5/6 years if not more, MS has started using "console exclusive" to mean "Xbox/Windows" for their exclusives. All their biggest hits (Forza, Halo, Sea of Thieves, etc.) have been coming out to Xbox and windows at the same time. I think part of it is the pressure from Apple in the computer space, part of it might be envisioning their console as a "cheap gaming pc" rather than its own platform.

.net micro framework was also an interesting attempt

I built a TOTEM[1] (same creator) and it looks stunning. Was a breeze to get manufactured (both PCB and resin printer case from jlcpcb, in my case) and assemble too!

The build guide is very informative and quirky, it has everything from tips in how to solder smd diodes to "use a sharpie to paint the PCB sides black so it looks nicer", way better than some expensive kits I've bought in the last few years!

1. https://github.com/GEIGEIGEIST/TOTEM

They don't get caught when using SMS of all things, I don't think they worry about encryption at all at this point

in most games, sure, but some games really benefit from rumble and some experiences might only work properly with rumble.

ex. 1: Global game jam game where one player has to only use rumble to achieve thier goal, the dev then went to make games for blind people, and rumble is still very much part of them. It definitely feels gimmicky but it kinda opened my eye to the fact that people perceive different parts of games in different ways, depending on their disabilities

ex 2: in Beat saber, rumble tells you when your controller hits something, it becomes such an important part of the experience that when my index controllers lost rumble I had to quit playing. Without being able to watch everywhere at all times, the haptic feedback becomes vital to knowing if you hit that note you were aiming for while focusing elsewhere.

I can understand some of the skepticism, we JUST finished having every company try to pivot to blockchain and NFT and now it seems history is repeating with AI.

However, I also totally see the point, as an example: the biggest reason I like Google Photos is the automagic tagging on the pictures, I can just write any random description and it usually finds them across 10+ years of photos I have stored (not perfect, but good enough), I can see AI replicating if not even augmenting such functionalities.

Valve is probably one of the few companies that can allow itself to not cater to publishers. They have tried to cut Valve in multiple occasions but the community never accepted alternative stores like Origin or Uplay no matter how much it was shoved down their throat. Even the Epic store hate is still fresh in most of my friend circle.

I found Google Translate to be quite poor at translating nowadays, so I'd say GPT wins hands down. A worthy translating tool to me is deepl.com. Here's a diff between DeepL and your previous GPT one: https://www.diffchecker.com/jMgSgidy/

That said, all 3 do a decent job at translating, it's really hard for me to say which got closer (I can say GTranslate sure didnt, but it's not far behind) those kinds of docs employ legalese that's sometimes way removed from colloquial italian (e.g. "ovvero" almost always means "that is" in italian, but always means "or else" in legal documents).

I may look into that, especially now that I've upgraded to a platform where I have both dedicated and integrated graphics. My current worries are:

- I have a VR headset, how much work and how functional is it to use under a VM? I heard you'd have to passthrough the entire USB controller which is.. not great

- Anticheat still isnt happy about VMs right? That would cut a couple games I'm currently into

- How annoying is it to share files? Affinity Photo/Designer not running well in Wine/Proton is one of my blockers to move to Linux, and even if I virtualized I fear it might be incredibly tedious to use because of them being in a VM (unless modern KVM/Vbox/VMWare has flawless copy/paste sync etc)

Patreon shows VAT and total price in the checkout page, I've yet to use a service that didn't. (EU person here)

2.x to 3.x was like that too, I basically had to start over.

If you're starting a new project (like I am) I think 4.0 is the only choice. 3.x has awful 3D and even worse presets, GDScript can only be used realistically without the static typing features since they break all the time (for 4.0 they rewrote the whole thing just so they could fix static typing). C# really feels like something that was bolted on even years later.

It's not hard to see why 4.0 is such a breaking upgrade, many of 3.x problems aren't surface level, since those were ironed out long ago.

Man I was looking for something like this but Mac only means I have no realistic* way to run it, is it finally time for a "Wine but for Mac apps"?

* at least afaik my hardware is not hackintosh compatible

Yes, the article doesn't mention it since it's posted on the Framework forums

I just add "reddit" at the end of any query of sort and the results get 100x better instantly. It's a flawed approach but I feel normal searches are plagued by overly specific websites (wouldnt be surprised if chocolatecakerecipes.com exists) with lowly paid people to just be human ChatGPTs so they can fill articles with ads and affiliate links

The current tech industry really needs a big change, I'm dead tired of all these companies putting profitability as "some VC's problem down the line". We keep seeing companies offering products at a loss, then dying and leaving their users in the mud as they scramble to raise prices above reason.

Why do I, as a customer, need to worry if the company providing me a service is making enough money?

The average person doesn't care about this ofc, or how they're being emotionally manipulated to reach some engagement metric.

Here's my counterpoints:

- I always found the big problem with small email servers was the setup (ask your friends how easy it is to spin one up), not the rest. I run my own mail server and haven't had problems in years, plus Mastodon and Pleroma are much much easier to run.

- I've experienced the "instance is dead, pls migrate" pain, but thankfully it's been getting wayyy better, some of my follows have migrated and I just got a nice notification going "hey X migrated to Y" with the follow updated to the new address. This makes the platform much less of a walled garden than your Twitter/Facebook of today.

I understand the downsides of the platform, but I genuinely think they are a bit overblown. Meanwhile everyone keeps thinking of AP as a strict Twitter replacement without understanding all the possibilities that federation unlocks (esp. with the integration with different but compatible services like Peertube/Writefreely) and how those extra integrations would push everyone to keep their doors open.

They might try, but the beauty is that in most instances the leadership is not motivated by engagement metrics and advertisements but just people wanting to stick together. Kinda like the glory days of IRC.

I almost exclusively use Deliveroo (Italy) because their customer support is top notch, their monthly plan works well for me and every other delivery service treated me like shit[1]. I also have heard from a rider that they're the least worse we have when it comes to treating riders.

If they were to quit I probably just switch to a local service (we have one and it's based on Facebook Messenger, ugh). Uber One has no appeal here cause there's no Uber in Italy anyway.

[1]: Glovo in particular I had experiences where I was outright left without any food after long delays because of the rider's ineptitude and was told "oh that sucks, well better luck next time :P"

This is lunacy, why would you ever think people choose software platform over which political beliefs they maintain. I am on a predominantly LGBT+ instance and they run pleroma cause it's everyone's preference. It's there any other platform where such a thing occurs?

Whoever read XKCD #1085[1] and decided it needed to be a real thing is my hero.

Now the problem is how much it will be politicized and cherry-picked

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1085/

I live in a modern central European nation.

All our contracts are managed by unions and you can't just fire someone out of the blue, there's notice periods on both sides (unless there's just cause for termination)

They're probably spending that money setting stuff up for their LTTStore stuff (see backpack, screwdrivers etc) so they might as well do a video about those things. I'm sure other manufacturers don't get the luxury of making money out of every business expense.

And it depends on existing verified pages (you get verified by.. having two other verified social network accounts). If you can pay to get one of those, that's half of the job done for 20$.

Pro tip: If you shop on Humble for videogames, you can select Internet Archive as your non-profit target in most* occasions!

* some bundles/deals are locked to specific charities

Probably meant "Source available" since neither Elasticsearch code licenses are "Open source" (going by OSI approval).

In blitz, 5 minutes totally would work, in classical chess I have my doubts.

The Sinquefield Cup (the tournament where the drama started) added a 15 minute delay which would be much more noticeable and less forgiving.

> Why do people think it is a good thing to have this enforced by law is beyond me.

It's not, we're glad SOMEONE is forcing them to take this direction, but it's really sad (and potentially damaging) it had to come to this.

> As to lightning port limitations, I question whether usb-c will give average iPhone users any other advantage other than charging their phone. What are people gonna do with it other than charge their phones or transfer files?

Lightning itself is also used for audio (analog audio dongle) and video. The one benefit USB-C could bring to the table is higher transfer speed since Lightning is stuck on USB2 speeds, USB-C doesn't imply USB 3 but they might as well try.

As someone who is in touch with a lot of people acting as VTubers in order to keep privacy while being able to express themselves, I'm very happy to see this!

EbSynth gave Joel Haver a trademark style[1], and I feel this might be the next step.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq_KOmXyVDo