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Narishma
4,087karma·2,386submissions·April 7, 2013
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"running on a M4 macbook and controlled by a raspberry pi"
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I got tired of that shit years ago and switched to PS5 for gaming and Debian for everything else.
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Another problem is the ratings. Everything there seems way overrated. You'll see a ton of 5-star or 4-star ratings for things that are barely readable.
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ANGLE is such a pain to build, I've never managed to do it.
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Starliner's competitor from SpaceX is Dragon, not Starship.
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Like in that Black Mirror episode.
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I don't think so. QuakeC was its own language. This is more like Quake 3 which used a general purpose VM that you could compile regular C to.
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The article you linked has a section about goats eating the argan fruit and pooping the nuts which are then supposedly collected to make argan oil. That's pure BS.
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It's argan, not argon. And the whole goat poop thing is just a urban legend guides like to repeat to naive tourists.
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And what about rogue services that come with the OS itself? Things like Windows Update, Windows Defender, the Phone app thingy, diagnostics policy service, the Xbox game bar or whatever it's call…
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I find that name even more baffling when the reason they apparently branded the previous one Xbox 360 was so that they wouldn't go against the PS3 with an Xbox 2. Somehow it was now fine for an X…
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> Even then, Turbo Pascal 3 felt like a toy. In the late 80s Turbo Pascal was already at version 5 or 6.
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It's not that mobile-friendly with the battery-draining background animation.
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I don't think that mod works on a normal Doom engine.
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See my reply to the other post.
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So basically the Steam Machines or the 3DO concepts. We know they don't work for the manufacturers because they can't be priced competitively against regular consoles that can subsidize hard…
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What would they get out of it?
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> Now a days they feel overpriced and underpowered They've been underpowered since day 1. That hasn't stopped them being successful.
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There was a Y windowing system. http://www.y-windows.org/
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Yes, I don't know why they changed the title to make it confusing.
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> But is it a problem that Microsoft is making and selling fewer of a certain kind of hardware unit? The problem for them is that PC players buy their games on Steam, not the Windows store, which m…
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I don't think that's relevant to that many people.
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I think this is the opposite. It's avoiding premature abstraction/generalization.
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More importantly, it allowed you to use some hardware that wasn't supported on Linux. I had a sound card that needed a DOS driver to provide Sound Blaster compatibility and this was the only way …
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IIRC the first couple of versions of the Unreal Engine editor were written in VB.
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Does that include the start menu search or cortana or whatever it's called these days?
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pulseaudio is already in the process of being replaced by pipewire.
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They are frequently used in games to run scripting languages.
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You don't need overlapping windows for a browser.