AllNewTypeFace

joined 1 year ago
[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 16 points 1 month ago

The economics of consoles made more sense when computer power was expensive, and the choice was an underpowered home computer with so-so graphics and sound or a dedicated game machine optimised for drawing sprites and scrolling the screen responsively, with the extra costs subsidised by the price of (uncopyable) software. When PCs caught up, the consoles started looking internally like x86 PCs with souped-up GPUs (and, of course, draconian amounts of DRM baked in). Now with devices like the Steam Deck (and similar form-factor devices running Windows in game-console mode), there’s no real reason to buy a dedicated game-playing machine.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 34 points 1 month ago (6 children)

IIRC, they do forbid third-party clients from their network. You can build it from source, but you won’t be able to connect to production Signal servers.

Third-party clients would not necessarily be a bad thing. Signal has limited resources, and as such has to cut corners. I for one would love a native desktop client that’s not Electron bloatware.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 17 points 1 month ago

I wonder why

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 16 points 1 month ago

4chan anon in shitty attitude to relationships shocker

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 13 points 1 month ago

Also, my friends and acquaintances are a perfectly representative sample of the population

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What prompted that disclosure? Could she smell the horniness emanating from Anon? Did he, as he noticed she was a woman, give off a vibe like a starving cartoon wolf imagining the main character as comprised entirely of sausages?

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Going by Apple’s transition from Intel to ARM, an ARM-based Steam Deck would be a no-brainer. They could make it a lot less bulky, ditch the cooling fans and still bump up performance.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 7 points 2 months ago

ARM64 is already here (Apple have replaced Intel with it, and Windows PC vendors are following suit), it’s just, as William Gibson put it, not evenly distributed. Mainstream high-performance ARM devices are imminent in a way that RISC-V isn’t yet.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 9 points 2 months ago

30 years on, that guy still had all those gadgets dangling from his belt, but now he’s the crazy old guy who lives in the junkyard

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 15 points 2 months ago

In a sustainable world, energy can and should be cheaper than raw materials. We are only harvesting a tiny fraction of the solar energy hitting the earth, to say nothing of wind and geothermal power. Rolling out more renewables and energy storage and using some of the surplus power to switch from extracting new resources to recycling our waste would greatly lower our footprint.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 10 points 2 months ago

They elected a right-of-centre minority government which depends on the local neo-Nazi party (the “Sweden Democrats”) for votes and so panders to them. They’re halfway into their term, and polling suggests that it’ll be a 1-term government, with a left-of-centre coalition almost certainly taking over in 2026.

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