I thought people would miss the keyboard on smartphones. Turns out we are a small minority

Those pesky nationalists thinking they could nationalize oil just because they fairly elected a president that wanted to do that!!!

For the Iranians, yeah, different asshole, same shit

The democratisation effect is something I’ve been thinking about myself, as hiring developers or learning to code doesn’t come cheap.

It’s not really “democratizing” anything, since anything made that isn’t like a simple calendar or forum will come with more bugs than working features. Low and no-code development options have been available for ages, so “doesn’t know how to code” was never an actual barrier to making software. Not only that, learning to code could be done effectively for free for well over 15 years now, online resources have only gotten better. It was never about the (lack of) money, it was always about time needed. “I don’t want to/can’t learn this, yet I want the thing done” - that’s why we pay professionals.

However, if it allows non-profits to build ideas that can make our world a better place, then that is a good thing.

At best, they’ll get semi-working prototypes. At worst, they’ll try to sell said prototypes as end products. Besides, anything that is “a disposable utility, designed for the immediate “now” rather than the distant “later.”” is extremely unlikely to make the world a better place.

You mean it isn’t the folks at trap-o-mart?

I keep forgetting to check it every week to grab a game. Never installed a single one via EGS, but pirated a few later on, though it’s no longer piracy if it’s a game I legally own :)

The main advantage of not seeking profit at all costs is satisfied customers who are very likely to return, who’da thunk?

They can’t even fix their stupid engine to make it not shit on graphics anymore. Seriously, UE5 makes great graphics look like shit because of a bajillion forced effects and filters, like temporal antialiasing.

Singled them out because they’re the most used to seeing “autoplayers”, aka bots

When artists now are now asked, after years of being on social media platforms and these lackluster art sites, what their dream art website looks like.
They describe a store.
A store that is allowed to sell pornography also.

Capitalism and the greater opportunity to live off your art are definitely one of the biggest death causes of most community oriented sites. The moment money enters the equation, fun gets kicked off. Why show off your art around if there’s no profit to be had and the clout can’t be transformed into money?

The author finding Artfight and mentioning how it has no monetization further drives this point.

Already previous gen if you look at the mobile landscape, Sony’s just getting on with the times

Remember when the way to beat hard bosses was to either git gud or input a built in cheat code? Pepperidge Farms remembers

MMO veterans might be very interested in this kind of totally never seen before type of play automation

The fuck I’m looking at here?

Why so mad bro

device operating with only 32 Compute Units, a bafflingly low 300 MHz clock speed, and a virtually unusable 256 MB of video memory

Oh, so they’re going to sell like all those 2TB pendrives and 32GB RAM octa-core tablets

🇧🇷 Your buses have clocks in them?

NES roms were the way to go. You could pack the emulator + a couple of games in a single 1.44MB floppy no problem.

I’m sure the shareholders will be suuuuper happy to learn that Micropilot Copilot 365 Copilot Azure Copilot Copilot Teams Copilot is now on 111% of every WinCopilot install, which will totally mean great profits.

I learned a lot about the Amiga reading Ars Technica’s history of the Amiga series. Such a shame that that computer never reached Brazil

Or you could try KolibriOS or MenuetOS, both have images that allow you to install the OS from a single 1.44MB floppy