Zangoose
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- Comment on suggest me some games!! 1 day ago:
Late response but now that I think about it the AMD Vega iGPUs actually have a decent chance at running it at like 720p if the switch can run it. Yeah the switch has an Nvidia GPU but it’s also integrated graphics on a tablet processor that was already a generation old in 2017 when it came out. Most of the fancy gaming handhelds like the Steam Deck and the ROG Ally basically just use clocked down laptop CPUs with only the iGPU anyway. A 3500u is pretty old at this point (and windows 11 eating RAM will probably be an issue) but you should probably be able to get ~30-60fps on a lot of indie/AA games if you run them at 720p/1080p with lower settings
- Comment on Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O. 2 days ago:
Somehow this post has negative down votes and I’m all for it.
- Comment on suggest me some games!! 3 days ago:
Should’ve clarified, I think blind forest (the first one) should run fine? The second one would probably cause issues though.
- Comment on suggest me some games!! 3 days ago:
Not exactly story rich but 2D platformers like Celeste, Hollow Knight, Nine Sols, and Ori will definitely run on your computer and are probably among my favorite games of all time (haven’t played much of Nine Sols yet though so I can’t really speak for that one)
There’s also emulated games, PS1, PS2, pretty much any Nintendo system up to the Wii/3DS etc. which will work on slower/older generation laptops.
- Comment on GitHub - LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Truly independent web browser 1 week ago:
Isn’t servo mostly a Mozilla-led project? I thought servo would probably just replace gecko as the engine firefox used if it ends up succeeding
- Comment on Bluesky Social surpasses 19 million users as more celebrities leave X 3 months ago:
I like the idea of the local feed, especially for smaller, less generalized instances, but the default should definitely be federated and the wording could also be changed if only because the word “federated” would probably be confusing to non-technical people. Replacing it with something like “All” might be a better idea
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 3 months ago:
Piggybacking off this comment because I completely agree with it.
Did we not learn anything from CrowdStrike? If a comparatively simple fix was able to wipe out half the world, how would something that requires an active choice (where to get certs from) not completely cripple all of our infrastructure?
- Comment on Three Mile Island nuclear plant set for restart on Microsoft AI power deal 5 months ago:
Given that it was running until 2019 when it closed because it wasn’t profitable enough, I think it’s probably fine
- Comment on Mozilla is going to shut down their Mastodon instance 5 months ago:
Kagi is no better than Mozilla though. They even bought a T-shirt factory lol d-shoot.net/kagi.html
- Comment on Why did the Lemmy instances stopped upgrading the version they use? 6 months ago:
Pretty sure they’re talking about the devs, not the users
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 6 months ago:
Steve Jobs was bad enough that his daughter wrote a whole book about how bad of a person he was several years after he died…
- Comment on Private voting has been added to PieFed 6 months ago:
Not familiar with how piefed handles it specifically but aren’t posts/comments self-upvoted by default?
You could probably figure it out pretty easily just by looking at a user’s posts, no?
(This is unless piefed makes it so the main actor up votes their own posts, and the anonymous actor upvotes others’ posts, but then it would still be possible to do analysis on others’ comments to get a pretty accurate guess)
- Comment on Current best lemmy clients 6 months ago:
Try Raccoon, the UI feels very similar to what I remember from liftoff, imo it’s worth trying. It’s still a little bit beta and I’ve run into formatting issues a few times but the UI is so much better than Jerboa’s and has a lot of nice features (like linking cross-posts within the app) that Jerboa doesn’t.
- Comment on Current best lemmy clients 6 months ago:
I normally just use Jerboa but I’ve been trying Raccoon recently and it’s been really good. It’s definitely still beta and some formatting doesn’t work but each update has made it significantly better so it’s definitely worth checking out because the UI is the best of any of the apps I’ve tried imo
- Comment on Current best lemmy clients 6 months ago:
Jerboa is by dessalines, the same dev as Lemmy and the admin of lemmy.ml so it’s basically just all of the drama inherited from that.
- Comment on 6 months ago:
Honestly at this point threads federation probably won’t even be able to get the first 2 E’s because it’s opt-in on the Threads side. Most Threads users don’t know what ActivityPub is and aren’t going to go digging through settings to turn it on. Aside from the POTUS Threads account I legitimately haven’t found a threads account I’d remotely care about that bothered to turn it on, even among some of the more tech-oriented ones
- Comment on Is there a Mastodon app (for Android) that allows for anonymous browsing? 7 months ago:
I think the question was meant in terms of Mastodon, not the connected web browser. I.e. are there any apps that let you look at Mastodon posts without signing into Mastodon? Something like Jerboa’s anonymous mode.
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent 7 months ago:
Apparently (from another comment on a thread about arm from a few weeks ago) consumer GPU bioses contain some x86 instructions that get run on the CPU, so getting full support for ARM isn’t as simple as swapping the cards over to a new motherboard. There are ways to hack around it (some people got AMD GPUs booting on a raspberry pi 5 using its PCIe lanes with a bunch of adapters) but it is pretty unreliable.
- Comment on Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw 8 months ago:
If he was counting his money in $100 bills it would still take him about 40 years
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 1 year ago:
Anything that touches the internet can be scraped. Mastodon DMs aren’t encrypted, and public posts are obviously public. There’s nothing stopping someone from using the API or any web crawler to harvest data on mastodon users anyway.
Not arguing for/against threads, tbh I don’t even use mastodon much because I don’t really like the idea of microblogging to begin with
- Comment on the myth of type safety 1 year ago:
Exactly this. I’d rather use TypeScript than regular JS, but I enjoy using almost any other statically-typed language more (except maybe C++) because TS has the potential to be just as bad as JS for codebases where it isn’t being used correctly (this is true for other languages as well but it’s usually a lot more obvious).
Not that it isn’t possible to have good typescript code, but rather that code becomes a lot harder to maintain because of problems that could’ve been prevented at a language level (truthy/falsey logic, ‘any’ type being allowed by default rather than ‘unknown,’ etc)
- Comment on the myth of type safety 1 year ago:
In theory I’m a fan of the inferred but static typing systems that most modern languages use (kotlin, rust, TS, etc.) where most local variable types can be inferred and only return types/object fields/parameters need explicit types.
I just despise typescript because it feels more like someone put a bandaid over JavaScript and all of its oddities instead of making a properly fleshed out language, and allowing the option for an ‘any’ type to be used freely by default emphasizes that.
- Comment on the myth of type safety 1 year ago:
If I had the willpower or time to go through a multi-thousand line (not including the html templates) legacy Angular 6 codebase where almost every property is typed ‘any’ then I assure you I would have, it’s driving me insane 🙃, also why I prefer backend
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