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It is made in lua using love2d. That helped the developers and comes with a cost in minimal requirements (even if they aren't much for a game released in 2024).

In my case I bought it because LG makes appliances that fit under the counter if you don't have much space.

It bothered me the AI BS, but the price was good and the machine works fine.

The user tolerance has changed as well because the web 2.0 "perpetual beta" and SaaS replacing other distribution models.

Also Microsoft has educated now several generations to accept that software fails and crashes.

Because "all software is the same", customers may not appreciate good software when they're used to live with bad software.

I use DDG, but mostly with the bangs, so I search in the place I'm likely to get the answer I want. Which can be limiting, because I'm always using the same sites (e.g. imdb for media information) and won't discover new ones, and sometimes I don't know where I can find what I'm looking for.

For more general searches, depending on the topic, DDG is close to useless because link farms, AI slop, and returning results that aren't really what I'm looking for (some of the keywords weight too much). But I suspect this is a common problem in all search engines, so I'm not looking for a replacement. It is frustrating though. I can't believe the information doesn't exist, is just that it is unreachable.

I don't search using AI. Generally I'm not looking for information that can be distilled into an "answer"; and there's also that DDG is not feeding me AI answer (I think? May be I'm not paying attention).

I've seen it in some Spanish newspapers and those are subject to the regular GDPR.

You get tracked when you subcribe as well. The Guardian is far from perfect, and that bothers me more when I'm paying a subscription.

Thank you, this is essential!

Reading mox FAQ, it looks close enough to the ideal: https://www.xmox.nl/faq/#hdr-how-do-i-stay-up-to-date

I'm currently running a more classic setup with postfix and dovecot, because the updates and security fixes are managed by Debian. Once things are configured, I don't need to do anything using unattended upgrades (other than upgrade Debian itself when the LTS version goes out of support, that is!).

At this point it is easier for me to not touch what I have, but in my next mail server I will consider mox!

I moved to Waterfox on Android and, in a couple of small things, it works better for me than Firefox; but being a soft fork it has some of the problems of LibreFox.

As the post is saying: I'm disappointed, but there is no technical reason to drop Firefox for now. Yet I feel like I must do something when the ToS is still hot, although I don't expect any change from Mozilla.

In my experience it is usually something related to cookies that work on Chrome and not in Firefox, and in those cases I find hard to blame Firefox.

Yet, sometimes you need to use those websites fore a reason. Firefox should perhaps make it easier so users don't need to fall back to a different browser.

Also consider checking your local public library services.

You can request physical books (inter-library loans) and they often offer ebooks as well, although the service is likely to be cumbersome and hard to use because DRM (but if is too complicated you can still borrow the ebook legally in your phone and read a copy from "piracy" sites anywhere you want, with the benefit that the author will get royalties).

It isn't perfect, as in you may not find what you want to read or when you want to read it, but if it works for me, it may work for you as well.

It seems based on OneChipMSX, that is from 2006. Just with that I wouldn't really know what I'm buying.

I find frustrating that this type of product (like the MSX VR some years ago), don't specify clearly what are they selling. Is it an ARM SoC? Does it have a Z80? Is it implemented with a FPGA?

Yes, it says "OneChipMSX" https://www.msx.org/wiki/1chipMS but IMHO it could be clearer.

If you go to http://www.8086cpu.com/MSX/103.html there's more information, but it definitely puts me off when considering one of these devices.

You need to provide the firmware, because they aren't free to distribute. There's an open source one, but it doesn't boot to BASIC and can only be used to run cartridges.

And it is because is not an MSX, it emulates one with an FPGA.

I was reading the post and pop-up on the bottom appeared:

An error has occurred. This application may no longer respond until reloaded. Reload

The death of the web, indeed.

I'd like to know as well. I live in Bristol and is alright, but it may depend on which part of Bristol are we talking about ;)

That was me for 7 years (using vim instead of Emacs), and it was working fine with Python and Go. I used ctags for navigation, some shortcuts for pydoc, and that was essentially it.

Then I started working with Scala and, until metals (the language server for Scala) and LSP support was good enough (first vim, now I'm a happy nvim user), it was awful.

So I'm certain it depends on the language. My take before Scala clicked for me was that I didn't want to use a language that required an IDE (or IDE-alike features) to be productive. And I think that opinion was mostly because my bad experience with Java.

I still write C without LSP, and I'm fine.

Been there, done that. Feels painful, but that's because you're learning. My favourite, too small /boot in Linux that prevents updating the kernel if you keep more than 3 versions, and autoremove doesn't seem to happen automatically.

I had to install a new Debian last night. Manual partitioning and I'm quite happy with the results. I couldn't do that without all my past mistakes.

> It may not be mainstream enough for a daily driver, but I think it's the ultimate UNIX to put on a spare, underpowered machine.

Kind of my feelings when I run OpenBSD on an old desktop back in early 2000. It was a Pentium 133MHz IIRC and I had it as a text only (although it run X11 with WindowMaker just fine), for text things, learning, tinkering with services, and things like that.

It felt UNIX, whatever that really means.

As a Haskell noob, I had the same problem a few times. Essentially: there's a function to do what you want to do, but good look finding it!

Someone thought "words" was the perfect name, and it wasn't me!

It all depends. For a quick script that I can write in 15 mins that uses an HTTP client, JSON and joins two APIs together, the standard library is OK.

To be fair, it could be almost a bash script (using curl and jq or something like that), but I'm more comfortable with Python.

So for one-off (or almost one-off) scripts, the standard library is worth avoiding dealing with dependencies.

Sometimes when I'm reading a paper book I miss the easy access to a dictionary that I get on my ebook reader, but I have found I can just keep reading and infer enough to not interrupt my reading. I keep notes on a post-it and I check those later.

I'm not suggesting you do the same, is just that I felt identified with your comment.

For a second I thought you were talking about Google and their search engine.

I agree with you, but I'm sure most people won't care.

I like haskell. Actually, let me rephrase that: I like GHC2021.

And I have found that's one of the tricky bits with Haskell, together with the language being in very active development, wich makes upgrading your compiler a thing.

My first PC was an Olivetti Prodest PC1, and it felt a natural design back then coming from the "wedge" design of the 8 and 16 bit machines of the time, as in "the computer is the keyboard".

http://www.seasip.info/VintagePC/prodestpc1.html

I appreciate now how different the design was!

Also Cassette Beasts.

May not be as much as Unity, but there are enough success stories.

But in the case of Bevy, can you tell a game is made with it?

In that case you won't do well in the interview because "bad attitude" or "lack of soft skills".

Does it? so if the content can't be auto-upgraded to HTTPS, will be blocked.

I rather have a padlock with a warning that... a broken website because missing content?

A few times I got spam with all the text in the signature. And I thought, weird: and it makes the email look funny because the signatures are shown on a different color in my email client.

Now I'm thinking if there was some smart idea behind that trying to fool some filters.

My point was that those emails can wait until I'm on my desktop and I can decrypt them.

I should have used "urgency" instead.

Yes, this is true.

I never felt comfortable having my private key on my phone, so I can't read encrypted email on the go.

I get one or two encrypted emails on a good year, and they are rarely important (or require encryption really).

Yes, you're probably right. It was quite blunt :)