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- Comment on Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse 2 days ago:
Imo people should start with C first since it is a lot simpler than C++ while still providing a lot of what you mentioned. C++ adds a lot of things like name mangling, templates, L & R value references that can quickly make things a bit more daunting for beginners.
I also generally find error messages for C a lot more parsable for beginners than C++ ones.
- Comment on Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse 2 days ago:
I’m so grateful for Kotlin, it gets rid of so much of the annoyances in Java.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 4 days ago:
It’s only better imo if you set it to native resolution for the AA. If you set it to anything below that, there’s definitely still artifacting. It’s not crazy obvious but no way it’s not noticeable, especially if you have a larger screen.
- Comment on Alien Isolation VR is finally here with immersive motion controls and much more 6 days ago:
Downloads are distributed via Discord.
Who the heck thought this was a good idea?
- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 1 week ago:
Drivers possibly? I don’t mean it as a dig at SteamOS, I’m just curious where the discrepancy is from.
- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 1 week ago:
Do we know if it’s entirely coming from SteamOS? Iirc the advantages it had over Windows on the Steam Deck were not even anywhere remotely this pronounced.
- Comment on Toei Animation To Apply AI to ‘Various Processes of Animation Production’ in the Future 2 weeks ago:
Haven’t watched anything Orange or Ufotable have put out have you?
- Comment on Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets 2 weeks ago:
Like they did so the past few times which still led to this happening again?
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 weeks ago:
I’m not American, but my country has largely moved off phone and SMS but we still get spam messages on WhatsApp and Telegram. The spam and scam will chase you wherever you go, if they haven’t, it just means those platforms aren’t popular enough in your region for them to switch to.
- Comment on Apple adds red exclamation mark warnings on EU App Store listings for apps using third-party payment systems, not Apple's “private and secure payment system” 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t they get fined or something by the US for lying about policies related to this issue? I can’t imagine the EU wouldn’t be even more strict on this considering existing precedence.
- Comment on ‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game 2 weeks ago:
Plenty of singleplayer games are from indies, those more or less support the developer.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 3 weeks ago:
Contrary to what Lemmy would like you to believe, some of us actually like using Windows. Is it annoying sometimes? Yes but Linux can also be really annoying and a pain. I’ve wasted days trying to get a GPU to show up properly among other smaller issues for work purposes. I’m not gonna even try to bother with it when I just want to get home and relax.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 3 weeks ago:
Sometimes all I need a small compact SSH machine when I’m at a client’s site. This is a perfect use case for it.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 4 weeks ago:
Well there’s that, but I was talking more about how they were selling it when hey first announced it. My point is that they’ve lied before. I’ll believe it when I see it.
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 4 weeks ago:
So like how Huawei was hyping up their new mobile OS which was really just AOSP?
- Comment on Several phone brands rumored to be planning a major shift away from Android 4 weeks ago:
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic here. I hope you are. If not a quick search on Wikipedia would show China’s aggressive behaviour towards its neighbouring countries.
- Comment on Game preservationists say Switch 2 Game-Key Cards are ‘disheartening’ but inevitable 4 weeks ago:
I’m willing to bet that the majority of people don’t really care about this. If they did, you’d see GoG do wildly better than Steam does. People like DRM and the convenience with having your library digitally available with the ease of installation, they just don’t like badly implemented DRM.
- Comment on Ubisoft patch Splinter Cell Blacklist after 12 years to add achievements 4 weeks ago:
Yea I get that, just wanted to say that EA has the same issue too.
- Comment on Ubisoft patch Splinter Cell Blacklist after 12 years to add achievements 4 weeks ago:
EA’s games that released on Steam after Origin was a thing still launch a mini EA launcher when you press Play on Steam, much like how Ubisoft’s does on Steam. That’s at least how it seems the last time I tried it with Fallen Order.
- Comment on Apex Legends and Star Wars: Jedi Dev Respawn Cancels Another Incubation Project, Lays Off Unknown Number of Individuals 4 weeks ago:
I’m still playing it and it’s still pretty fun. Seems to be a controversial take but I do like that they’re constantly changing mechanics since I don’t really take the game seriously.
- Comment on 'Stories are our bread and butter': Larian is building a special team to lay out the plot of its games years in advance 5 weeks ago:
Ubisoft always had such a team for AC at least. AC Origins had a pretty good story and AC Odyssey was alright. Haven’t finished or played the newer ones yet so I can’t judge those yet but if there’s one thing Ubisoft does right, it’s that.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 5 weeks ago:
Not nearly enough of them. Too many frameworks or libraries have their QnAs on Discord instead of a dedicated forum.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 5 weeks ago:
If Discord is going to be abandoned by people, I wish we’d go back to proper forums that’s much more accessible and searchable. Continuing down this road is just going to lead to the continued burying of useful information behind these services.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 5 weeks ago:
The same Google that’s been constantly trying to add features that deter 3rd party app stores?
- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 5 weeks ago:
My point is more that what they wrote didn’t make sense talking about Japanese corporations when more American companies are listed. The entertainment industry is simply awful, nationalities aside.
- Comment on Nintendo issues Switch 2 supply warning in Japan: 2.2 million people have applied to buy the new console in Japan so far, which ‘far exceeds’ Nintendo’s expectations. 5 weeks ago:
Personally I think it’s a much fairer system than letting bots scalp all units on their website. Unless you’d prefer that?
- Comment on Sony Music Among Parties Pushing To Cut Off Internet for Pirating Customers — Supreme Court Asked To Intervene 5 weeks ago:
UMG and Warner Bros are Japanese? Lol
- Comment on Nintendo lawyers want to force Discord to reveal Pokémon Teraleak source 5 weeks ago:
It’s god awful for any development discussion too. Used to be you could at least find someone taking about something on Stack Overflow even if it wasn’t solved, now it’s buried in Discord and you have no way of even searching it out to see if anyone has even had that problem before.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 1 month ago:
Perhaps but I haven’t encountered that myself. I’m ethnic Chinese that’s a citizen of another ethnic Chinese majority nation so I’ve encountered this specific type a lot more.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 1 month ago:
The reverse, however, isn’t true. It may be somewhat understandable but not entirely reasonable to assume someone who is Chinese is from China which is what I’m trying to say.