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[ssokolow]

Wow. Say you've never developed a game without saying you've never developed a game.

I say this as someone who is working on a game as a...

[ssokolow]

I stand corrected. I've read far too many things which partly assigned responsibility for its performance to the specialized offload engines, but then...

[ssokolow]

The majority of customers want games that don't suck, same with how the movie industry is discovering that you can't lazy out on making a good movie and...

[ssokolow]

I have no particular love for X11... I just have work to do and Wayland is currently unsuitable for it.

I have high hopes that, when I run...

[ssokolow]

First, QuickTile is written in Python. I'm responsible enough to recognize that I shouldn't be writing C outside the context of retro-hobby programming...

[ssokolow]

It says it's a Root of Trust, so I assume it's what UEFI Secure Boot would sit on top of....

[ssokolow]

I think, in a twisted way, they're saying that Apple Silicon is fast because Apple has the power to push app developers to code their apps to take advantage...

[ssokolow]

I'll sometimes go months without playing a single game because I'll be hobby-programming or reading instead... doesn't change the fact that I insist on...

[ssokolow]

My argument is that, while I'd love to have better security, I'm not willing to sacrifice my workflow to get it.

(I run as many apps as possible...

[ssokolow]

You're not disputing the "fragmented ecosystem full of proprietary APIs" part of my original statement.

Do remember that I'm the...

[ssokolow]

The introduction of the conception of a concept of "creation time" in the POSIX world wasn't that long ago. For the longest time, you just had...

[ssokolow]

You've got it backwards. Buy yourself a PC so you can run all your console games on the same commodity hardware, using open-source software as a longevity-preserving...

[ssokolow]

Like I said, "the ad-hoc, incomplete nature of replacing xdotool and wmctrl".

For example, as someone who considers the incomplete...

[ssokolow]

It's satisfying to see one of my reasons for sticking to X11 (the ad-hoc, incomplete nature of replacing xdotool and wmctrl) showing up in a Wayland pain...

[ssokolow]

You have my sympathies. That's too new. ;P...

[ssokolow]

Where does it say anything about this being to ensure things can cool themselves?...

[ssokolow]

As a UI guy, I have to say that flood of log messages fails the "Hey, NTFS, if you recognize there's a problem, then fix it already" and "Never...

[ssokolow]

Probably because it's a whole-system thermal budget sort of thing and you need something that can see the big picture to identify which things to throttle...

[ssokolow]

The point is that, just as you can't tell rocket scientists to design vaccines and expect anything useful, you can't tell people who want to (or are being...

[ssokolow]

Better efficiency than Electron, better at being a GUI than GTK, and bearing features that less major toolkits often pass on (eg. they often have worse...