xan1242

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[–] xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

And that't the crux of the issue. Stenzek doesn't actually understand the reality of licensing.

The reality is this - you can't do anything without a lawyer. Laweyrs cost money (pro bono isn't a thing in the copyright world AFAIK, but IANAL).

If he wanted to avoid this, then maybe he should've kept it closed source from the beginning. Chinese sellers on AliExpress couldn't care less about licensing anyway, so that way he'd have at least some protection.

IMO his course of action so far has been wrong.

What he should've done is this:

  1. Cause a stir
  2. Get support from the community
  3. Open up donations for the project (or just himself, since you don't want a repeat of Yuzu)

He could even go after Arcade1up legally if he raised funds, but that's not even worth the time if you ask me.

[–] xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 hours ago

I'd recommend getting a proper controller for it. CTR is a dpad and shoulder button masher.

[–] xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 hours ago

Any Black Box made Need for Speed.

(Currently busy fixing Pro Street, so many bugs...)

[–] xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This is the real issue. This is one area that Windows, despite its historical hardships, handles much better.

(Mac OS too but they killed kexts for the public anyway)

I'd love to see a more dynamic approach (that doesn't rely on DKMS) someday.

[–] xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

C++ is at least backwards compatible (for 99% of code anyway, yes I know about some features being removed, but that's an exception and not the rule).

[–] xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

A friend of mine uses Tablacus Explorer (with a Webview2 extension)

https://tablacus.github.io/explorer_en.html

[–] xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

Yes but, in practice some of these things don't matter much at all. At that point you're looking at the performance stack a bit too deeply.

Look at the bigger picture. For example - an RTX 4090 can perform about as well on PCIe 3.0 as it does on 4.0 in most tasks that you'd likely use it for.

You don't have to care about some of these things as much as you used to before. Sometimes you can get too deep into hunting the best version of your system before you realize that it really doesn't make that much of a difference.

[–] xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago

Unrelated but this is totally possible on a PS4....

...after jailbreaking it and booting into Linux.

Which makes me even more mad at Sony removing OtherOS, but oh well.

[–] xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

To top it off, what matters at the end of the day js this - people generally don't care about graphics anymore!

Even if you end up with graphics that are worse than a console, you still have:

  • an option to upgrade later
  • options to configure graphics (generally games actually optimize themselves pretty well nowadays)
  • an open platform to do things the way you want

PS5 Pro makes absolutely no sense to me.

[–] xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[–] xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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[–] xan1242@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 2 weeks ago

It's just their ego showing through.

It basically now comes down to the current devs depending on new Rust devs for anything that interacts with Rust code.

They could just work together with Rust devs to solve any issues (API for example).

But their ego doesn't allow for it. They want to do everything by themselves because that's how it always was (up until now).

Sure, you could say it's more efficient to work on things alone for some people, and I'd agree here, but realistically that's not going to matter because the most interactivity that exists (at the moment) between Rust and C in Linux is... the API. Something that they touch up on once in a while. Once it's solid enough, they don't have to touch it anymore at all.

This is a completely new challenge that the Linux devs are facing now after a new language has been introduced. It was tried before, but now it's been approved. The only person they should be mad at is Linus, not the Rust devs.

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