We need better alternatives

We’d need a quantum leap in storage and bandwidth first - orders of magnitude better, if we want competing to be financially sane 😮‍💨

Maybe when Google is (hopefully eventually) shattered into a million pieces by some US judge, YouTube could be splintered into several smaller companies, each with some portion of the infrastructure and channels/videos - thus forcing competition. Vaguely similar to the Bell divestiture.

I’m not well versed in the machinations of the Chinese government, but if a relatively “normie” VPN like Nord works in China… it’s probably controlled opposition (i.e. they’re logging everything to a government server.)

set timers

This broke for me a few months ago. It just randomly… won’t start, despite saying otherwise.

That sounds like more effort than just… writing the code.

Too late, already moved to Garmin after my third dead Charge 5 in ~1.5 years.

$0.26/hour is pretty good!

Good, I would like to avoid interacting with the hallucination machine.

Wow, I can talk to the hallucination machine! What an innovation!

… God, imagine if this all this effort went towards fusion power or space infrastructure. What a waste.

I don’t know about dangerous, but case-insensitive Unicode comparison is annoying, expensive and probably prone to footguns compared to a simple byte-for-byte equality check.

Obviously, it can be done, but I guess Linux devs don’t consider it worthwhile.

(And yes, all modern filesystems support Unicode. Linux stores them as arbitrary bytes, Apple’s HFS uses… some special bullshit, and Windows uses UTF-16.)

Yeah, no thanks. My third Charge 5 in 1.5 years “randomly” died a few days ago - I’m not that gullible.

Care to clue me in? I spend my time far, far away from the web dev sphere :p

After seeing the various forms of black magic Nintendo devs have pulled off with what is essentially decade-old tablet hardware… yeah, fine by me.

In before one of them starts stripping or firewalling the phone-home code. What’s Unity gonna do? Valve hasn’t signed any contracts with them!

But an extra fee will be charged if a user installs a game on a second device, say a Steam Deck after installing a game on a PC.

Actually asinine.

Unicode versions (what this is talking about) and encodings are different things.

Encodings kind of by definition don’t really change. Unicode versions add new codepoints (such as emoji.)

Bevy is definitely nice, but it’s probably a bridge too far for (say) an indie team moving off Unity. (Rust learning curve + ECS learning curve + no editor yet + still pre 1.0)

Love it for personal projects though.

I wonder if distributors could get away with doing that automatically. My gut instinct tells me that Unity isn’t stupid enough for that to be feasible long term, but… like you say, the C-suite bozos clearly aren’t listening to the engineers.

Every other engine is smelling blood in the water it seems

For the sake of your sanity, I hope there’s a resolution to this that doesn’t involve a rewrite.

I can’t decide if they’ll get away with this or if they’re committing corporate suicide.