Especially when most games that've come out this year run like shit, and a new graphics card is nearly a rent payment

[-] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 months ago

It seems like since my generation had "If you put something on the Internet it'll be there forever" drilled into us as kids, many of us feel entitled to "the internet" preserving our data for us. Most people don't realize how much labor and resource usage goes into preserving data forever.

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I have a couple of TVs that I use HTPC appliances with. One's a shield TV and the other's a roku. I'm not super happy with either of them. The shield lags like crazy and apps crash constantly. The Roku is stable, but can't decode h265 or av1. Both at riddled with ads. Does anyone have a solution they're happy with? I mostly watch content from major streaming services and stream media from my NAS. I have a raspberry pi 4 that's not in use right now, I tried to get it working as a set top box, but couldn't get DRM content to work so I went back to the shield.

[-] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 23 points 7 months ago

The main issue I have with rust is the lack of a rust abi for shared libraries, which makes big dependencies shitty to work with. Another is a lot of the big, nearly ubiquitous libraries don't have great documentation, what's getting put up on crates.io is insufficient to quickly get an understanding of the library. It'd also be nice if the error messages coming out of rust analyzer were as verbose as what the compiler will give you. Other than that it's a really interesting language with a lot of great ideas. The iterator paradigm is really convenient, and the way enums work leads to really expressive code.

[-] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 22 points 8 months ago

This is basically just a way nicer, more flexible cron syntax being dressed up as something ridiculous. There are legitimate reasons for wanting something like this, like running some sort of resource heavy disk optimization the first Friday evening of every month or something.

[-] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 months ago

I've been happy with Qwant lately, they have their own index so using them doesn't support the Google + Bing hegemony. They're also EU based and regulated by the gdpr.

[-] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 29 points 11 months ago

Hopefully articles like this get more companies contributing to steamos/proton

Tbf, does anyone actually "like" C++?

Pretty crazy to reccomend Java as a secure alternative.

[-] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 years ago

Now it'll go to some private equity vampire who will really ruin it

[-] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 years ago

They can't, even suggesting they'd think of making such a move would've ruined them. No one in their right mind would do business with a company that's willing to even entertain retroactive changes to payment structure. Just an insane risk to take.

[-] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 years ago

If your cloud provider decides to screw you you're gonna have to put physical infrastructure together no matter what license their software is distributed under.

[-] ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works 72 points 2 years ago

I don't understand why you'd be fixing unit tests he broke during his pr. It seems like he might be bullying you? Maybe discuss with your manager.

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