Zangoose

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[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

The problem is that it won't stop people from using Google. Most people probably wouldn't even notice aside from having to spend more time searching for local things, which incidentally will give Google more ad money.

The average person probably doesn't know that search engines other than Google or Bing (or maybe Yahoo if they're old enough) even exist. As much as it worries me that most of Firefox's revenue comes from having Google as the default search engine, regulating that practice might actually give other search engines a chance to be seen.

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 7 points 15 hours ago

Hey did you know that any JSON file is also a valid YAML file? I bet you'll love YAML a lot more now that you have this information

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I haven't checked back on it since I stopped using reddit (and I no longer use a surface pro) but there was a pretty active surface Linux community there as well with some good resources. For a lot of models you'll need a USB keyboard/mouse to actually install the distro but once you can load the custom surface linux kernel things worked pretty well for me.

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

here questions right the asking

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Gold Silver and Crystal also! Pokemon OSTs in general are pretty good.

I was actually listening to the Gold/Silver surf theme when I clicked into this thread, it's pretty relaxing.

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

It's probably the government-subsidized corn syrup but wheat works too

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Is that... a countdown to the next holiday?

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The point of the game is to shoot people with actual guns until you're the only person (or team) left. Is the word "kill" really where ESRB draws the line?? (not that I think fortnite should be rated R)

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

There are actually relatively easy (easy compared to building a nuclear reactor) ways to deal with the waste that involve mixing it with concrete and glass so it can be safely stored in a way that won't impact the surrounding environment. Kyle Hill has a great video about this on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4aUODXeAM-k

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

7/10, that was too coherent

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I completely agree with that take, I was just making a joke about how the first sentence reads like the start of a comment that's about to defend Nintendo

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

AFAIK the Yuzu accusations of containing code from the Nintendo SDK haven't been proven and also didn't come out until well after Yuzu had already shut down (it was drama surrounding the Suyu "devs" that tried to succeed them). The whole case was about them profiting off of their patreon and optimizing their emulator for a game that hadn't been released yet.

It's not that Yuzu used stolen code, it's that they released updates that optimized for the leaked copies of Tears of the Kingdom, and charged money for it. If they waited to release builds until after the release, or if they had been doing it for free, they probably wouldn't have been shut down. You might think this is a small difference, but it really isn't because having the binary file of a game is not the same as having the code that made the binary. Realistically, if you are good enough at reverse engineering binaries that you can figure out the code well enough to make optimizations for it in the 2 weeks that the game was leaked for before it came out, you are probably getting paid enough that steaking your income on a community-driven emulator would be unthinkable.

Either way, Ryujinx, which didn't profit like Yuzu did (and is written in a completely different programming language from Yuzu, with a completely different set of developers) still got shut down. Nintendo isn't doing it because of stolen code, they're doing it because it's an emulator that exists.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Zangoose@lemmy.world to c/meta@programming.dev
 

My bytes.programming.dev's main feed is erroring again. It looks like everything else is loading fine, I just can't see anything on the timeline for some reason. Is it the same DB issue that was happening last time?

EDIT: I just checked and it seems like it's back

 

Not really sure if there is a better place to put this, but is bytes.programming.dev having issues for anyone else? I can log in but my timeline doesn't load at all.

 

Credit to https://lemmy.world/post/18689927 for the original post

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Me: mom can we have (Linux penguin)?

The rest of the meme is scribbled out and over it is one word, "Yes"

 

I'm trying out NixOS on my laptop right now and I'm loving it so far, but I was thinking of setting up distro box for ubuntu (mostly for a few developer environments dependent on it) and arch (for packages that aren't on nixpkgs yet). I was wondering about the battery life hit on a laptop and I couldn't find anything definitive on google/ddg. Has anyone here noticed a difference?

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Good luck web devs (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Zangoose@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
 

Alt text:Twitter post by Daniel Feldman (@d_feldman): Linux is the only major operating system to support diagonal mode (credit [Twitter] @xssfox). Image shows an untrawide monitor rotated about 45 degrees, with a horizontal IDE window taking up a bottom triangle. A web browser and settings menu above it are organized creating a window shape almost like a stepped pyramid.

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Alt TextA screenshot of a file manager preview window for my ~/.cache folder, which takes up 164.3 GiB and has 246,049 files and 15,126 folders. The folder was first created about 1.75 years ago with my system

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