<Drowning Pool playing in the background>

Take your money out the bank…

Take your money out the bank…

Take your money out the bank…

Take your money out the… BAAAAAAAAAANK!

pub fn main() void {
    const stdout = std.io.getStdOut().writer();
    stdout.print("Hello, World!\n", .{}) catch unreachable;
}

That’s it. No macros. No build.rs. No Cargo screaming about outdated crates.

I’m not far enough in to say anything on memory safety, but in nim-lang it’s just:

echo("Hello World!")

(or even just echo "Hello World!")

I don’t know if anything else compares on simplicity unless maybe script languages with JIT are actually effective (Python no-gil etc), but even then I think I’d probably miss the flexibility that UFCS offers (maybe the standard library as well, at least I assume they wouldn’t be as powerful).

Aside from results, it’s also when you run into some issue that wastes time/effort at best and needs to be actively resolved (materials or other process stuff) at worst. Lots of ways that make it worse, too (lack of help, energy, money, transportation etc).

Scroll-wheel rolls up windows for me on XFCE (labwc). I can understand it that might not be what you’re looking for, though.

Yeah I tried it for XFCE yesterday*, noticed a few things I wanted weren’t there (because XFWM isn’t ported over) and promptly switched back. Didn’t seem to me like it was more responsive or anything like that**.

But I am still using a 1050Ti, so who knows. That also kind of kills my interest in the idea even if I didn’t have fixed-if-you-use-this-specific-DE type issues. I also don’t really like the idea of CSD.

* after looking up that labwc not being installed was why the session wouldn’t launch before

** entirely possible it is better in very specific scenarios, but the screen tearing that I see on X11 is diagonal (like the screen is 2 triangles, desynced) and honestly I don’t even know the exact game to test (as I don’t see tearing in videos or any other usage as far as I know)

Yeah, I don’t want anything that needs internet or some sort of AI model.

I don’t even mind older methods, so I guess DECtalk is probably the best option there is (because newer simple TTS is just as robotic but with worse aesthetic on the default voices) unless there are newer speech synthesis projects I don’t know about.

Plaintalk is quite the aesthetic too, but I imagine IP law keeps it out of free software.

Ideally I’d like a synthesis system that has a mix of different types of voices. Old-style robotic, more sleek robotic, semi-human sounding etc. Sounding good is more important than realism though, a non-convincing voice that can still pronounce things is better (some of that may be down to phoneme input as well, but it would be nice to have normal text input 90% of the time).

Obligatory: Distance yourself from any IP as much as possible (even if you think a company is “cool with it”) especially on anything that can be scraped (names, descriptions, screenshots, video, text in files), and either way you should probably shut the fuck up about it until it’s done and you’ve released it.

That said, this site burns my eyes.

There is the other meaning, too. Not a slur, but also not safe either.

And there was this art from 2.7.2:

Still gotta pay rent, for food, maybe more. The closest place to me isn’t near (for me) and charges $50 for a tour. EDIT: Can’t even seem to find that visit info online now.

Do you want me to get Moby Dick out again‽ Does anyone want that?

Today, stuff gets exported in 4k and that’s it. No need for anything more.

I don’t think it’s as ubiquitous as you think. 1080p is pretty much standard (aside from old videos), 4K is still high-end and most uploading to that on YT are probably more tech-leaning channels who actually do use it. I even see new stuff from TV corps that’s still only 1080p.

4K if you’re using a full-raster workflow is taxing at every step. Display, CPU/GPU (for software stability, filters/effects), RAM and storage, internet upload speed, also camera (and fast storage there too) where relevant. Also backups, and maybe even higher-res workflow to allow room to crop/re-frame if needed.

I imagine it must be a disappointment to actually buy a 4K monitor for content viewing, stuck watching 1080p on new videos because the creators can’t afford that workflow or just don’t care. Even stuff that is 4K might have issues with encoding quality due to cost-cutting (or requires higher subscription cost).

8K is a thing too (but even more impractical), so the problem is repeated there too.

So yeah, I would say it is a meaningful difference that vector doesn’t have this problem.

A video has sound, can be exported from the animation software to a single file, and it can be played in a standard video player.

Animated SVG does not sound like it does that, and needing new paid* software isn’t great for adoption either. And honestly, I’ve never even heard of animated SVG (I’m well aware of SVG and that it probably could be animated with CSS or JS but that alone does not make it a thing).

The fact that vector works at resolutions (even if they don’t exist yet!) without the author even needing to think about it (let alone re-export) is an advantage. It can be great for many 2D aesthetics (many cartoons even used it!), the biggest complication is Adobe (and whoever is selling a subscription to what you mentioned).

Also that people are still developing things with Flash (even if it has to be ran via Ruffle) tells me again that the issue isn’t vector, it’s that replacing a format with ingredients is not an effective strategy if you actually want people to use it.

* yeah I know Flash was expensive as well (except y’know… other ways), but communities were already using it

You keep saying ‘better’ like if heavier solutions have no downsides, like saying raytracing or gaussian splatting make all older rendering tech obsolete.

For individual animations sure data doesn’t seem to matter, but if you want to binge/download something like Homestar Runner at 1080p+ that data adds up when pre-rastered. The internet in the US isn’t always great (esp. rural, cost), even worse with upload speed.

Flash also had frame animation, with bezier curves and vector blob drawing… both of which are the big thing missing from modern solutions. Alternatives in modern engines aren’t quite the same and must be intentionally sought out, and also I don’t think that’d even be well supported by platforms (itch doesn’t even have an animation section) unless you’re fine with it being in a games section.

Newgrounds also still does Flash Forward jams. I wouldn’t say “better” things killed Flash, just that support was ripped away. There isn’t much of a choice. If you want Flash-style animation (and I don’t mean skeletal-only), it’s just Ruffle or maybe Wick Editor.

the internet moving away from

I see this as an implementation failure.

WebGL doesn’t have a container format, and a vector video format could exist (on Youtube, or played with an HTML5 video player) but doesn’t. The internet “moved away” because the key players who killed Flash didn’t implement things that would bring HTML5 to closer parity with what Flash did.

I could also see parallels made to other parts of life where the choice has been made for you many years ago.

Neat idea, but the branded items and subscription service are off-putting.

I’ll keep using a ruler.

I had some (but not much) issue back when I used Chrome (although IIRC just as much was a mime-type issue not letting them play in the browser) and still use the standalone player without issue.

I don’t think anyone is defending Flash used for websites, aside from some personal blog or portfolio maybe.

They do have Ruffle on their site (a bit slower to load IME, but functional) even for new animations (click on the HR icon, not the Youtube icon).

There are the orginal .SWFs for that, disjointed in their own way. I wish they (or someone) would’ve merged things so the old menus actually worked, if not further like each file being a season.

EDIT: they did make the games linked together on the website. And now I do see one of the main pages that links too, though the loading screens make it a bit cumbersome (it seems to be tweaked for Ruffle, or at least only the main page seems to work when the .SWF url is loaded in the standalone player …unless it just can’t do linked swfs).

I wouldn’t say it died, I remember years of people calling it dead but it still seemed to have communities up until support was forcibly removed in 2021. I’d say it was killed, in a very “bring out your dead” (“I’m getting better!”) fashion.

Like OP is saying, it wasn’t really* replaced. If vector video was in HTML5 spec to the point you could watch (non-prerastered) vector animations on Youtube (or former Flash sites similar to what Ruffle does, but with less overhead) that would still be abandoning the interactivity but I’d at least see the argument that there was some attempt to replace it.

Needing a local server and the lack of container format also makes preservation messier.

* sure, a subset of it was replaced for popular usage and even some of it is still technically possible, but good luck with that. I’m pretty sure communities around that are more dead than Flash was before the end, and maybe even still (for instance, NG with Flash Forward jams).

Ah, sorry.

If you can’t get any hud running, you probably could just see GPU utilization from your GPU settings thingamajig.

Though yeah, if you’re running at a low res already you’re probably right and FSR would only really be a visual thing (assuming your desired games support it so GUI can be native-res).

Are you aware of the big Newegg Fantastech II sale tomorrow? I made a cheap Ryzen 2700 build with the one in 2019.

I might be getting my hopes up, though. EDIT: yeah, probably

i struggle to reach that fps in CS2, which is the main game i play. I read that its a CPU game, so i guess its time to update the 2600

Might help to actually confirm that your GPU has near 100% utilization in that case.

Also, is that already with FSR and other similar tech?