schmorptron

Funny, because that feature seems to be what inspired the entire Gnome 3+ desktop, and it's now wonderfully polished there.

Most of the social interaction in the games space happens on discord these days though, and has since about 2016. The only social network effect steam currently has is with game invites, since it'…

Slightly off-topic: 3Blue1Brown is such a treasure. I've been preparing for an exam for the past few days and only really discovered his LinAlg videos. They're incredible to get the reasonin…

We've reached the first point in recent history where we're really seeing products with actively anti-user features at scale. Coffe machines that only take proprietary coffe pods, printers t…

How would you feel about a, say 100€, fee to "unlock" your PS5 and turn it into a general purpose device that can run ubuntu? And I think if you put your xbox into development mode you can r…

To be honest, I haven't thought about that much, and don't have the mental capacity right now to really think about the answer. It's a good point. On the spot though I'd say that t…

Doesn't that still leave the problem with "using apple tools"? Currently, the only way I know of to compile apps that run on iPhones are xcode, on a macintosh. Even when using framework…

12% is the number Epic Games arrived at for their game store, which they heavily used to pressure steam. How realistic it really is for all of the services SteamWorks offers and how much of that 12% w…

Good point! If people are happy to pay 13€ instead of 10€ for the convenience of using the platform owner's payment system, that should always be an option.

Uuuh, things are gonna get interesting! Putting on my tinfoil hat here, if this goes through I forsee that we'll see a lot of fearmongering about malware in the near future, and even some well p…

Consoles are a super interesting comparison. In principle, I agree that they should have to be open too. On the other hand, consoles' hardware is nearly always subsidized by expected future softw…

Deezer exists, although I don't know if they have any differentiating features.

They also serve you ads by promoting music that they get paid to promote - or where the artists agree to even less royalties in order to be promoted more. Which, for a service I paid for specifically …

I wonder how much of this could be extended by phones just auto-limiting charging to 90% (current phones already time charging so when left on overnight it only reaches 100% when you wake up) most of …

Ah, same here. I really like the positives the iphone seems to have, but can't justify buying a phone that's as expensive as they are to myself, and then still be bogged down with consciousl…

Hopefully, that'd probably the best outcome in this whole thing.

This quote doesn't fit the context here. In the article, it states this was about entering the chinese market, not about how to design their game.

I wouldn't be too sure to be honest, only companies with a big game platorm can compete with Valve being able to subsidize these and sell them at cost or less, because most game purchases one the…

Maybe it's something to do with not having to provide support or warranty for additional, free downloads?

I'm loving gnome as well, especially since 40,but still can't help but imagine what unity would look like now had it continued development at canonical. One of my main gripes with gnome is t…

Right, thanks for the info!

Slightly Off-topic: As someone who really doesn't know much about this stuff legally but likes heavily sample based music: Empirically I don't think having short samples having strict copyri…

Does that work with flatpaks and snaps that store some app data in /home?

workaround for medium: open it in a private tab :)

Even though I don't use their browser, I've found brave search to be able to filter out a lot of the blog spam for simple programming languages compared to ddg and even google, has anyone el…

Merry Christmas, HN!

That is incredible.

Because the owner of the car would need to have an iPhone?

Awesome, thanks!