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Zangoose ,

I'm guessing lemmy.cafe has .ml blocked but not the other way around, OP likely can't see your comment

Zangoose ,

The least expensive MacBook is still $1000, closer to $1500 if you spec it with reasonable storage/ram. It really isn't that much of a stretch to add $100-300 for a 1080/1440p monitor or two at a desk.

Zangoose ,

In the grand scheme of things the difference between C, C++, and Python isn't meaningful when operating over a network (edit: for a single-user system). It's very likely that the difference for thread OP is just caused by weaker connections to specific repos.

We're talking about a package manager, not a game, network server, etc. On a basic level the package manager only needs to download files from a network and install them (OS syscalls for reading/writing files, these are exposed C functions or assembly routines), or delegate to a specific package's build setup (which will also likely be written in a compiled language)

Zangoose ,

I think blocking downvotes is an option built into Lemmy servers that can be communicated through the API. I know there are a decent amount of instances that don't federate downvotes because of toxicity concerns.

Zangoose ,

Me during my exams this week

Zangoose ,

An unprompted steins;gate reference in the wild? Amazing

Zangoose ,

Suyu died though. Right now the only actively maintained Yuzu fork is Sudachi, which is only maintained by a single person.

Apparently there was some drama about the Yuzu devs using code which came from a switch SDK as a basis for emulator code, which kind of poisons the whole codebase.

Zangoose , (edited )

What makes you think so?

The devs said so. Check r/Suyu, that seems to be where a majority of the updates are being posted. I think there was a link to a pastebin post somewhere there as well.

The SDK mentioned was first party, presumably leaked but I'm not completely sure. And yes, that means it would be present in every other fork as well.

Edit: here are some of the links I'm talking about:

https://www.reddit.com/r/suyu/s/TqSWDlnsGs

https://pastebin.com/6FYdz9Sr

Edit 2: worth noting that the "founder" (as they call themself) still wants to continue on the project but I believe a majority of the devs left.

Edit 3: I found the archive link from someone on the Yuzu team showing they had access to a leaked switch SDK: https://web.archive.org/web/20210114104638/https://twitter.com/Slashiee_/status/1349557173970341890

I don't know how much of this evidence is real but if any of it is they're going to have a much harder time finding devs willing to contribute to Suyu, even if development does continue.

Zangoose ,

The DS did have an IR sensor but (I'm pretty sure, don't quote me too hard here) a majority of the local communication was using either wifi or a proprietary wireless connection using the wifi antenna/chip.

I specifically remember Pokemon Black/White having an IR quick-trade option where you had to put 2 DS's back-to-back and being really confused about it because it seemed useless since it took so long to actually work.

Zangoose ,

Isn't supporting 32-bit apps on a 64-bit OS a security concern though? I thought that's why some linux distros were disabling 32-bit repositories by default on their 64-bit versions

Zangoose ,

Thanks for the explanation! I didn't realize it was mostly a maintenance limitation, I thought maybe 32-bit instructions could be an extra attack vector on a physical CPU instruction level or something like that.

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    Zangoose ,

    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.

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    Zangoose ,

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

    Zangoose ,

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

    Global warming go brrrr

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    Zangoose ,

    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

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    Zangoose ,

    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.

    Zangoose ,

    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.

    Zangoose ,

    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)

    Zangoose ,

    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.

    Apple (slrpnk.net)

    I don't care if anyone has a Xiaomi, Oneplus, Samsung, etc. Each brand is using a modified version of Android, and they chose to be compatible with each other. But for example the "blue vs green bubble" drama is a thing specifically because of Apple locking their unsuspecting users into a closed ecosystem. And it sure isn't...

    Zangoose ,

    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.

    Zangoose , (edited )

    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

    Zangoose ,

    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.

    Zangoose ,

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

    Zangoose ,

    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.

    Zangoose ,

    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.

    Zangoose ,

    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.

    Zangoose ,

    I always knew those candies as jawbreakers (should be self-explanatory based on the above description) so it might be also be a regional/generational thing

    Zangoose ,

    I agree with this in general, and wanted to add onto it a bit:

    I'm Atheist but I honestly couldn't care less what others believe in. If believing in a god or an afterlife helps you get through your life easier, than why not? Why try to tell someone else what religious or cultural belief is right or wrong when we're all just making our best guesses anyway?

    Believe in whatever afterlife you want, so long as that belief doesn't make everyone else's lives worse. The moment you start trying to push religion and culture onto people, you're no better than any other form of cultural imperialism.

    Zangoose ,

    Western atheism and antitheism often exist as reactions to Christianity on a factual or ethical basis, while remaining within a Christian cultural and moral context. Historically, Christians and atheists have worked together to attack other religions, such as in the case of the stolen generations in Australia or the cult panic in America.

    You brought in atheism right here though??

    Edit: fix formatting

    Zangoose ,

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

    Zangoose ,

    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)

    Zangoose ,

    Note that a few of these are misleading...

    AngularJS no longer exists because the library switched to TypeScript (which can be used with JavaScript code) and is now just called Angular. For the non-developers, TypeScript and JavaScript are mostly cross-compatible, and having a typing system makes way more sense for what Angular tries to accomplish. They didn't actually kill the project.

    The Google Duo app also got more or less facelifted into Google Meet, so it's not like it's actually dead.

    Those things being said, the amount of things on that list is pretty crazy. Especially the ones that were straight up canceled and not rebranded/replaced.

    Zangoose ,

    This sounds like a problem that would be covered in an algorithms class.

    Something something knapsack problem, dynamic programming, something something

    Zangoose ,

    Gen Z unite! All 10 of us on lemmy!

    Zangoose ,

    I think they're saying religious people believe that if it isn't an enforced rule by either the law or some religion, people won't follow it.

    (I know it's the jesse meme text but internet sarcasm is hard so I'm putting my interpretation anyway)

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