monotremata

joined 3 months ago
[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

I dunno, I think you may be underestimating ARM here. I've heard that the overhead from translating the machine code is a lot lower than you might think, because so much X86 code is optimized down to a RISC-like subset of the instruction set already. And if that overhead isn't too daunting in the common cases, the more robust power management on the ARM side of the chip market might be able to make up the difference in a handheld environment for most users. Obviously it's a huge amount of work to nail the software, and it would be on top of the work they were already doing on Linux, so I'm not saying it'll definitely be in the next iteration, but I could definitely imagine it happening eventually.

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

Same with The Mysterious Benedict Society. I did find a site that would sell it to me on a disc, but once I received it, it became clear to me they didn't actually have a license to do so and just sold me a bootleg. Oh well. I dunno why Disney just didn't want my money in the first place.

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Capitalism is already a superintelligence, and its goals are misaligned with those of humanity.

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Kinda feels like moving out of America ought to be covered by my health insurance, really

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Maybe they should patent it, to protect their TCP IP.

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

I don't think it's most yet, but it's improving fast thanks to the Valve Steam Deck. Bazzite is probably the distro to look at for a machine that's primarily for gaming; it's based on the Steam Deck OS, but works on more machines. There are some high-profile games like Fortnite that won't run on it, but a lot of stuff will, especially if it doesn't rely on any fancy anti-cheat stuff.

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Definite "Friday was the name of his horse!" energy here.

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I believe they were already required to use reflectors. Back in the 80's when I was sometimes in Ohio with my parents we used to pass Amish buggies sometimes, and they always had an orange triangle retroreflector thing on the back.

[–] monotremata@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Honestly it just reminds me of the moral panic over "cock ring Ken."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earring_Magic_Ken

(also amusing in this context to note that his earring is in his left ear, so I'm not sure even the homophobes were consistent about this)