u/Buddahriffic

I think that user is assuming that a "phone soc" means "eveything that a phone comes with" and therefore the cameras are free or something.

Define "beat it". Because I've reached endings in that game but wouldn't say I've beaten it either.

I looked at the picture for a good 10 seconds trying to figure out what kind of steam generating device it was before realizing it wasn't a shitpost.

But do offer them a carrot they can never quite reach but seems worth going out of their way for.

Plus hardware preorders actually still make sense because it can't just be digitally copied and a key generated without anyone even needing to press a button. Which was also the case for games at one point.

I predict this will increase a lot of software support required as people start figuring out that their setup is bad for their hardware. Pretty sure I'm not hitting the framerates my hardware could.

The connectors on the back of the TV can be oriented horizontally (like parallel to the screen, not perpendicular), which at least changes the pull force to a torque force, which isn't ideal but easier to hold on to.

Yeah, a lot of programs will likely run fine. The common issues will be solved. But the subtle ones will be frustrating. Plus I worry about a situation where apps target x64 and run on ARM but aren't supported on ARM, kinda like what we've got with games on linux right now.

This problem is far more difficult to solve than x64 windows apps running on x64 linux.

While x64 and ARM are both turing complete and thus anything one can do, the other can also do, there can be subtle differences to the way they do them.

Like one I'm aware of is the atomicity of loading memory using a co-processor register, which is required for accessing thread local storage, and introduces a subtle race condition if someone uses user mode multithreading (which can be way faster than kernel mode multithreading) without handling the case where they get preempted between moving that register's value and doing the load, and end up running on a different kernel thread when they get back (because you need one kernel thread per core). That thread would end up with the pointer for another thread's thread local storage, which tends to break things pretty badly.

That's just one that I'm aware of. There's probably tons of other subtle differences that mean you can't just have a map of "x in x64 means y in ARM" and use that to generate a compatible binary. It would probably run, but it would have bugs that the original doesn't that are only seen in rare edge cases.

Not that I want to discourage this effort, but this is a problem an order of magnitude or two more difficult than the one proton solved, which was essentially just a bunch of wrappers that convert one API or OS behaviour to another equivalent one.

I don't think that's a special feature these days. My Linux desktop has a suspend shut down mode and though I usually close down whatever I'm playing, I believe there have been a few times where I've forgotten that I had a game still running minimized but it resumed fine and the game was still running fine.

The funny thing is, those power bricks you plug into the AC outlet convert that back to DC and various voltages (including 12v).

I've wondered for a while if we'll start seeing more DC input electronics designed for setups like yours because there's efficiency losses for both the DC -> AC step and the AC -> DC step.

That child might conform! Only when they don't bow to the powers that want to use them is it ok to kill them!

Feels kinda like a game of crusader kings iii where you've gained some territory but worry that your opponent's allies might send a large army at any time, plus your vassals are rumbling about revolt, so you want to get that war finished asap but don't have enough of an advantage to force them to accept your terms.

Except it's OK when it's crusader kings because that's just a fucking video game and people aren't really dying on both sides for your ego or power hungry imperial bullshit.

With the 9/11 reference above, it had a similar effect on airport security. The TSA has been making traveling hell ever since and I'm not sure if they've actually stopped any real threats (cursory search says nope).

I'm going to be flying from Canada to Canada later this year and want to make sure the flight path stays inside our airspace.

You realize Russia asked their Hapsburgs to leave quite a while ago, right? During one of those big family fueds. They were quite insistent about it, too, even more so than the French.

And every year, sand takes the trophy.

Is there a playability list for AAA games that shows which ones are worth playing?

Though it makes me wonder why they don't use actual wings to maintain control over the boat when it goes too far out of the water. Why isn't the ideal basically a plane that has a propeller sticking down into the water?

Anti cheat notification on the store page is effectively an anti buy for me.