the problem isn’t electron, the problem is that A) html is the only truly cross platform UI framework and B) that html (and the web stack in general) has way too many features and is way too complex, because Google’s been bolting features onto it for decades.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are brokenEnglish
8·2 months agoI’ve been using windows 11 for six months. when I hover over the taskbar, a phantom windows explorer window appears, but it’s not clickable and it disappears when I move the mouse away. my right hand monitor has a white box with a small ‘no’ symbol in it stuck in the middle of the screen. it doesn’t seem to derive from any running application and I cannot get rid of it. on the windows 10 install I ran before, the task manager totally stopped working, it just froze every time I opened it. I run Linux on all my other machines and stuff does go wrong, but it goes wrong in ways that make sense to me and which I can fix. on windows people just tell you to run sfc scannow and reinstall if it doesn’t work. that’s no way to live your life.
every programmer I’ve seen who says their code is self documenting writes dogshit code
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Games@lemmy.world•'Disaster Day of Crisis: A Search and Rescue Game' - MandaloregamingEnglish
4·3 months agodisaster: day of crisis is spiritually a Dreamcast game. it’s dogshit. it has a special place in my heart
I’m confused at all these comments saying podman is hard to use, I used it a bunch last year and found it a drop in replacement for docker (though I didn’t set it up).
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Technology@lemmy.world•Spotify to raise prices in SeptemberEnglish
27·6 months agospotify pays me half a cent per stream, the profit margins for them must be fucking insane. and the music sounds like shit. I’d much rather people pirate it than support these leeches
if you want to support artists you like, buy the music, ideally on bandcamp. if you do have to steam it, Deezer at the very least won’t vandalize the audio
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Technology@lemmy.world•PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you)English
920·9 months agoPewDiePie is the most basic kind of cryptofascist hiding behind a veil of edgy humour and he should not be welcome in the open source community
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Technology@lemmy.world•Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of ChromeEnglish
2·10 months agothe browser itself doesn’t matter. Google have had 10 years to do what they want with the specs for html, CSS and JavaScript, to define everything from browser extension APIs to the http protocol itself. they have won. not only have they spent a decade architecting the web in a way that mostly benefits them, they have made those specifications so bloated and complicated that nobody can develop a competitor from scratch. it took years to undo the damage wrought by ie6’s stagnation but this is different. this shit can’t be undone. it’s fucked forever
in my opinion the market is too segmented. Facebook took Oculus and refocused them onto standalone vr instead of pcvr, and secluded away a bunch of releases as Oculus exclusives. psvr is in a similar state. there isn’t enough vr software being made to support two separate walled gardens plus steamvr. in their rush to establish a vr monopoly, Facebook killed it. that’s my opinion
I’ll be hanging onto my vive cosmos for occasional games of beat saber but I think vr at this point has become an expensive novelty
Kath & Kim is one of Australia’s finest cultural exports
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News@lemmy.world•Google unveils 'mind-boggling' quantum computing chip
333·1 year agojust a few years away bro just a few more years just give us £500k for a new quantum computer bro just a few more years
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Self-hosted music streaming (and me giving up on it)English
3·1 year agoI’m probably not going to pay $10 a year with additional fees to have my music on a website unless a lot of people are already using it
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Games@lemmy.world•What types of math games are ideal for children?English
4·1 year agoyou can still get the logical journey of the zoombinis on steam (and on android/ios). no joke, I think that game taught me deductive reasoning
the number of people willing to bat for this on Lemmy is truly disturbing. what do they think these ai models are trained on?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Huge internet emulation website ROMhacking changes to news only and releases entire 11GB of files onto Internet Archive for preservationEnglish
8·1 year agoI understand that this is a big loss for the emulation community, but as someone who did a bit of romhacking during COVID, I found their moderation to be terrible and arbitrary.
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Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube looks to be testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockersEnglish
322·2 years agoas an occasional creator of internet videos,I would much rather host my own videos, because bandwidth is actually very cheap. but YouTube has a complete monopoly on internet video, so I have to host my video on their website, subject to their weird and arbitrary conditions, their trigger happy copyright system, and their general terrible treatment of their creators. they pay an absolute pittance for impressions, which is why most professional YouTubers use other revenue streams
the company, Google, that you are paying, didn’t make the videos, doesn’t fairly compensate the people who did, and they are effectively holding them and the very concept of internet video hostage
people on Lemmy mostly support a free, non-corpo, decentralised internet instead of the parasites at Google because Lemmy is free and decentralised and non corporate
get real
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News@lemmy.world•Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas out of Olympics after losing legal battle
1414·2 years agothis is not correct, on average trans women don’t perform any better at competitive sports than cis women
check the results section of this review paper for more info: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10641525/
I picked up a radxa zero last year and have been quite enjoying it. the hardware is better than a pi zero but costs less. same with a lot of other SBCs
but raspberry pi has a lot of inertia behind it, a lot of software and hardware support. people will keep using them, just like they keep using Ubuntu, even though it’s a soulless corporate husk of what it one was
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Games@sh.itjust.works•AMD confirms Radeon GPU sales have nosedivedEnglish
4·2 years agoon the one hand, cuda is vendor lock-in and if we’d all just agreed on an open standard decades ago then we wouldn’t be in this mess
but on the other hand, rocm is crap and adaptivecpp is very half baked right now, at least in my limited experience



I hope souja boy plays it