ozymandias117

@ozymandias117@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Prepares for Steam Frame Launch with Android Upload Options in Steamworks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, you typed more than I was going to :)

  Only note is FEX and the Android compatibility layer were two separate goals Valve put a lot of work into, so I wouldn’t classify it as a side-effect.

  One is to allow Windows games to work on the Frame, the other is to allow Android games to work on the Frame

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Prepares for Steam Frame Launch with Android Upload Options in Steamworks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  FEX is to allow running x86 programs on ARM, but they’re only targeting the Steam Frame (SteamOS/Arch Linux) right now.

  That VR headset uses a processor similar to phones, but they have not announced anything about moving to using these tools to allow you to play Windows games on Android

  There are several moving pieces, so I understand the confusion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Prepares for Steam Frame Launch with Android Upload Options in Steamworks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would call it Android emulator for Linux.

  The point is to be able to install and run an Android APK on SteamOS (which runs Arch Linux)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Prepares for Steam Frame Launch with Android Upload Options in Steamworks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  !null@lemmy.org

  No, other way around, Steam Frame runs Linux.

  The Meta Quest VR headset runs Android, so Valve has worked on an emulation layer for Android games on Linux, ideally allowing developers to just release current Meta Quest games on their headset.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Phone do you guys use?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  uses GrapheneOS on a Pixel 7 or LineageOS flashed onto a LG Tribute with zero Google apps, and everything backed up via nextcloud running on a headless Debian Raspberry Pie?

  Hey now, it’s a Pixel 8 and Raspbian.

  Two google apps in a separate profile with a different pin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft once tried to cut Windows 11 RAM usage, install size by 20%, now it’s trying again in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard Windows ME bad, but I’ve almost never heard someone call Windows 2000 bad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  UserDB does hold data connected to individual user accounts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You see it all the time in Disney animations, Pixar animations, you see it with sprites being the same for clouds and bushes in Mario…

  I don’t really see an issue with asset reuse, as long as the actions make sense in the new context

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Qualcomm exploit chain brings bootloader unlocking freedom to Android flagships⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Qualcomm and most phone manufacturers try extremely hard to make sure you can’t run your own operating system on their hardware.

  A bug in their security preventing you from installing your own operating system has been found on a specific Qualcomm chip - the Snapdragon 8 gen 5, which, at least for some Xiaomi phones, lets programmers load their own versions on the devices

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HP's ink-blocking firmware may violate new global sustainability rules⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The last time we tried using them, the computer came with Windows 98…

  They were horrible back then, not really sure how they are still in business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hadn’t noticed how closely Altman resembles Phelps until the side by side in this thread

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The moving parts are in the device rather than the cable with Lightning. The tongue on USB-C is required to be deep enough that you can’t torque it with the cable during insertion/removal.

  It’s not an obvious comparison, but the mechanical engineers where I work seem to have a mild preference for USB-C

  The expensive part of both is that you need a microcontroller in the cable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollywood is about to get real dark with all the vengeance porn they are going to start pumping out post-epstein.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US, I could count on a single hand the number of Hollywood movies my coworkers have talked about in the last two years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  2009 would be back when it was a native application, rather than just a web browser

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Glasses with an IR emitter to blind their cameras?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are TikTok and X tracking you across the internet? Our privacy tool can tell you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mostly an advertisement, but the issue being discussed doesn’t require you to have an account or visit X/TikTok

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want a phone I can actually fix, and Fairphone’s record growth shows the world does too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Graphene modifies AOSP for much more security.

  E.g.

  • you can disable USB data at a hardware level
  • Receives Kernel updates even faster than Google’s phones
  • uses a different memory allocator, hardened_malloc
  • changes the way zygote launches apps, so ASLR actually works
  • doesn’t allow apps to ptrace themselves
  • disables JIT per-app
  • disable network access per-app

  I dont think e/OS is as security oriented, more privacy oriented

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The 99 pricing messes with me the other way…

  I see like 399, and think it’s 400. Then when I think about whether I want it later, I remember the 4 and the 99 and believe it costs 500

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t send group texts over SMS

  I’d guess the group chat is stuck sending messages to RCS (basically Google Proprietary) rather than MMS

  This is the same problem iPhone users have dealt with for a long time when switching to Android and their number is stuck in Apple’s I message system

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like a waste of space on the taskbar, to me

  In the Start Menu/Finder/KRunner/wofi I want it to search, but I don’t need the text input box visible at all times taking space

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How/why does Microsoft teams exist?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I haven’t seen mentioned…

  Slack was taking a big market share over MS Lync

  Microsoft rebranded to Teams and gave it away /for free/ to companies, getting them to decide “well, it covers enough basic features… We can save x million dollars/year”

  Without thinking about what happens once Teams is the standard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside Xiaomi’s near-fully automated factory that assembles a smartphone in 6 seconds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially since it says 11 production lines…

  11 lines = 57.8 million

  57.8/~10 means their lines are down 38.5% of the time?!?!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New York Startup Builds Fridge-Sized Machine That Can Turn Air Into Gasoline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I would have expected worse than that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight Silksong is the perfect example of the project management triangle. It's good, it's cheap, but boy it sure didn't release fast.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Their point was Cyberpunk was announced in 2012, and the first playable build was 2.0 in 2023…

  Although cyberpunk is certainly harder to implement being a 3d high res game vs a 2d platformer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A cosmic bitflip is unlikely to lose all the data

  In a video, you’ll get one frame of distortion (if it’s a key frame, it may be several seconds of distortion)

  Similarly for a text file, picture, etc.

  99.999% of the time you wouldn’t notice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The number of times I’ve been debugging something and a coworker messages “I asked CHATGPT and it said [obviously wrong thing]” makes me want to gouge my eyes out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If WWIII broke out tomorrow do you honestly believe america would win?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If the US really tried to take Greenland by force, I think China would see the opportunity and try to align with the remnants of NATO

  Whether the other countries in NATO agree or not… Dunno

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re using the new SOCAMM standard, which current consumer hardware can’t use.

  It’s a different physical interface.

  Whether it will end up coming to consumer grade motherboards… 🤷‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, the last one is great.

  Now when I get asked “what do you think about Copilot,” I can just say, “I prefer LibreOffice”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Forgejo is a fork of gitea, because gitea was heading to the GitLab model