Not despite… Because of and accelerated by

No… this is a human problem. Anyone with attention can wield it, people with agenda covet it

The core problem is if you have people’s attention that is worth money, and it will always be a corrupting influence in any medium.

A wonderful writeup, I love the detailed photos!

Not lost, you boost their active user numbers

Maybe there are hairs to split about blame.

But the review tells you if a game is worth buying, and if it doesn’t work - it’s not worth buying. Doesn’t matter who is responsible. The negative reviews are valid.

If only a multibillion dollar gaming company with 20,000 employees could afford to signing to the MSDN and evaluate prereleases.

That was surprisingly difficult.

I don’t have any opinion about what phone you want to have. Be happy.

https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

I’m satisfying the OPs question, with real actionable data. I’m not running around down voting people because they like things I don’t like.

However if you, or someone with your same attitude, wants to pick up the DivestOS repos and builds, I will applaud and cheer!

https://grapheneos.org/build#build-targets

you could always build GOS yourself and use the older targets (and get the vendor files from the aosp)

It’s more elbow grease, but its not too much

GrapheneOS is a similar philosophy as divest, remove as much risk surface as possible. Only pixel phones getting security firmware updates are supported though

It really is an exclusive Android feature.

But if you can load open source apps without using the Apple app store, I’d love to learn how.

https://support.google.com/android/answer/2865483?hl=en

Pin a app to the screen, so if you need to let someone use their phone they can’t get super nosy.

owner account can have a work profile, separate apps, have two versions of the same app, or just put some apps behind another fingerprint/password (can be different then the main phone unlocks)

Multiple user accounts (totally different accounts, totally different apps) : great if you want to let a kid play games, or let someone search the internet, or if you want to be really clean and keep work apps totally different. Mostly useful on tablets to let multiple people share the tablet.

The ability to run open source apps from fdroid, newpipe is an amazing game changer for anyone who watches youtube. (no ads)

It’s a game I only really enjoyed when I played with friends. And then the creativity, and the collaboration, it was amazing.

https://steamdb.info/sales/?min_discount=80&min_rating=80&min_reviews=500

Steam sale items with a 80% discount, 80% rating, and 500 reviews!

Stolen from @[email protected] 's autumn sale post

FDroid still has it

Lawsuit against steam granted class action status.

Factorio, it can be casual, but eventually it will steal your sleep

The one thing I really want from my rpg is less role play

Fuck Comcast with a rusty spoon.

Verizon sells you a service, and doesn’t care about you

Comcast actively hates you - it’s like going into a business relationship with your ex-wife while your still fighting in court over the divorce settlement

https://steamdb.info/app/315210/charts/

790 concurrent

20 hours in and I just learned the basics of the backstab mechanic! I’ve been playing my rogue like a fighter!

for normal users they get a improvement in security!

Microkernels by having a reduced risk surface provider better security, less vulnerabilities, and more compartmentalization. Programs simply have less privileges

Harmony OS is closed source, and run by a company in a country that has done some… flexible things with data security… but at least with a microkernel its less likely third parties will violate your security, only second parties here!

Thanks for this, here is my steam sale haul! only a few hours left

Downside: closed source

Upside: microkernel

The apple walled garden is still really bad for users

Gli-net and others, are built from the ground up explicitly for openwrt. Banana too I think

The point is, if they are lying in the headline, what else are they lying about?

Gli-net predates this

The critical path for a lot of game adaptation is joining friends in a game. So that means your first game is time critical, your friends are already playing, you just downloaded it, the most important thing is to join your social group and have a good time. Immediately.

Anything that gets in the way of the critical path, causes people to switch games, or to refund the game (i.e. they were not able to join their friends)

So even if the first game is a stuttery potato, it’s better to have it work immediately, then delay until it’s beautiful

Most video game developers are not great computer scientists. I’m not saying this with any dispersion, but it’s true. If you’re going to have a distributed agency model simulated, you have to deal with cross-processor, cross thread, or even cross machine, data structures. Either a lockless data structure, or some locking mechanism that doesn’t have a tremendous critical path. It could be outsourced to a database outside of the game engine. But it gets computationally complex

Something like this https://aeplay.org/citybound

Or even dwarf fortress

Shenmue looks neat!

in the video they use witcher 3 as an example; and it works as long as you dont focus on it, but if you follow someone around, their schedule breaks down (like washing clothes in every water basin they come across)… i wonder how well the sims does it?

Great video. I would love to have a fully simulated video game city, I know it would be horribly inefficient… But still it appeals to me

employees should refrain from speculation and sarcasm and “think twice” before writing one another about “hot topics.” “Don’t comment before you have all the facts,” they were instructed.

There is one core aspect of humanity that is missing in the modern world, ephemeral communication. If two people physically meet and talk. That conversation only exists for the length of the breath in their lungs.

It makes sense for businesses, to establish standard recording practices, including those for ephemeral communication. Think of signal and the auto expiring messages. As long as it’s your standard business practice, that’s okay. If you turned it on when you’re trying to be sketchy, now you’re not following business practice, and that’s wrong…

This is the same reason lots of companies will have email auto delete after 3 months if not archived manually.

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None of this has to be inherently evil, any lawsuit will include discovery, which means every little textual conversation in the company chat will be examined and published to slander the company. Even if the company did nothing wrong. There will be some a****** in chat who says some s*** that looks bad as a headline. And that’s exactly how it will be used

The margins on GPUs are lower than the margins on their AI dedicated CUDA products.

They’re basically saying, it’s not worth their time to produce GPUs, so they produce just a few and sell them for a markup. But not at scale

It’s a good opportunity for Intel/amd to eat into the graphics market share… Except everybody’s competing for the same fabrication capacity at the chip foundry, so we will see

I think it’s a great option to warn people about. Or even force switching of the keyboard for that one app. But it shouldn’t require you to set a system sitting.

It would be nice if people just said what they were thinking.

We wanted to juice our PSN subscriber numbers, so we’re forcing everybody to make a PSN account, so hopefully they spend more money with us in the future

true… but you could say that about anything, just trying new strategies

factorio, hell let loose, zomboid, skylines I

Its kind of live action, and you do roleplay whatever you want to be. But yeah I agree it’s not the perfect use of the word.

Cyberpunk is a role-playing game in that you have a role to play, but it is not a role-playing game where you determine your own destiny and have significant impact on the outcome.

I don’t know if there’s better ways to express that thinking, ARPG versus CRPG? But that lacks nuance as well