[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 32 points 21 hours ago

I don't agree with this at all. I'm sure there are projects where it wasn't a great choice, but I've had no consistent problems with UE5 games, and in several cases the games look and feel better after switching -- Satisfactory is a great example.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 43 points 1 day ago

The fundamental problem is that a web engine is one of the most massively complex pieces of software that we currently use. There are a ridiculous number of standards and behaviors that a modern web browser needs to implement, as well as a whole host of security implications that need constant updating. It's not like the majority of other software projects, where a determined solo dev or even small group can strike out on their own. It really requires a team of dozens or hundreds of developers putting in consistent effort, which basically means a corporate entity.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah fair I was just assuming this was standard library, I see your point now.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Being able to get the line number is very different from comments being parsed.

Edit: didn't realize this was custom code built to be cursed.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

hey where's that meme about liberals fantasizing about republicans hurting trans people again?

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

XFCE or LxQT > MATE in my opinion, but if I was trying to make a lean system I would just use a tiling wm, probably sway.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 20 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I'm definitely in favor of banning the edgy kids who use fascist imagery on the platform, but Pepe is not and has never been that. Just because some assholes tried to appropriate it for a few months doesn't mean everyone else should just surrender it to them.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 134 points 2 months ago

Good God I hate linkedin types. Imagine thinking writing an app that literally just displays a single notification is worthy of making a whole post about. They basically wrote a Hello World app for Android TV. And I'm sure they got paid like 40k by some poor school district to do so.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 217 points 5 months ago

Still the best browser to support, still the best hope of defending open web standards from Google. Call me when they implement the ads in an onerous way.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 84 points 6 months ago

Stop using GitHub. Especially if you're working on anything that corpo interests will frown on, but just generally, there are plenty of alternatives (both git and non-git) that aren't owned by Microsoft.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 83 points 8 months ago

This concept is the "third space" -- a social space other than work and home where people can congregate, socialize, and relax. Parks and libraries are some of the only remaining spaces in capitalism where people can be humans without paying for the privilege to exist by the minute.

[-] verdigris@lemmy.ml 96 points 11 months ago

Yeah it's not that we don't want to use the train, it's that the train has been successfully turned into an objectively worse option in every way thanks to decades of lobbying and underfunding. If there even is a reasonable train route between your destinations, it would likely take 2-4x as long as driving, be 4-10x more expensive than the gas for the drive, and would be an uncomfortable and unpleasant experience that would still require a pickup and decently long drive (or further use of the barely functional public transit system) to get to the final destination.

If you're not a shipping container, there basically is no public transit infrastructure in the US. It only exists in cities that have chosen to make significant investments in it, and even then in most places it's like one arterial light rail and then some busses with crappy coverage. For anything between cities or states, it's nearly the same price as flying to get a charter bus or train ticket.

The only thing that would solve this problem is extremely aggressive and unpopular legislation, or some benevolent trillionaire to actually do a hyperloop type project without immediately coopting it into just a shittier highway. Market forces and city governments will never create real interstate transit networks. Less aggressive legislation making it more expensive to keep and especially buy/make new cars would help, but it's political suicide to say "I'm going to tax the good that almost every voter, and especially the ones with money and influence, have and use every day".

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