change.org doesn’t like my mail address for some reason, and they tried trick me into subscribing to their newsletter :/

It’s more difficult in Europe. For example, when South Park: Post Covid released on Paramount+ in the US, there was no legal way to steam it in Germany or Austria AFAIR. And these are not exactly third-world countries.

I’ve used both self-hosted Nextcloud, and an instance set up by my school. I have the client on two different Windows machines, and I can confirm the update either tries to kill explorer.exe, which doesn’t work half of the time, or forces a restart, so you’re not alone with this issue! I also hate the client UI and how it displays conflicted files when multiple people are accessing the same folder. The whole file sync thing feels like a poor attempt to copy Dropbox. My school discontinued Nextcloud support last year because hosting/maintenance took too many resources, they switched to Microsoft i.e. OneDrive and it works much better.

Wasn’t OP complaining about the Windows desktop client? What has that to do with the server setup, Docker, etc? People can have the exact same issues on the client side even if the Nextcloud instance is professionally managed by a large organization.

Maybe their next console will have a very similar hardware architecture and it will be easy to adapt existing Switch emulators?

I wasn’t talking about job security.

That’s a good point actually. I would argue that most emulators didn’t get good enough during the lifetime of the console, and even Yuzu isn’t there yet. But you can see the potential, and that’s threatening to Nintendo’s business model.

The comments section here is pretty much an echo chamber of people defending Yuzu. I’m a game dev and I think this case is more ambiguous. Emulators like Yuzu have the potential to make Switch piracy go mainstream. You don’t need to hack anything, you just follow a tutorial and google “yuzu keys”, suddenly you can play all Switch games for free. And people don’t need to be tech-savvy to do that. Nintendo would be stupid if they would just ignore this. It doesn’t help that the Tegra X1 is old, almost identical with other Nvidia chipsets and therefore easy to emulate on a PC.

No applesauce? What about deep-fried battered bananas at the Chinese buffet?

What’s with the downvotes? They are trading for ~$80k a piece currently and have been around since 2017. I’m not saying it’s a solid investment, far from it actually. But I don’t believe they will be “worthless” any time soon.

CryptoPunks still going strong though.

I think this is a pretty good pitch for a twitch stream, you just need a way to record live footage of the poor person in the coffin.

The research is interesting, but I don’t appreciate the bullshit clickbait headline.

Wasn’t a good read for me. A boring intro and then some speculation about possible new laws in the future, and Google Topics API mayybe making cookies obsolete.

I’ve been a game programmer for >10 years and I would be fucking miserable if I spent most of my free time with video games as well. Isn’t that what we call work/life balance? And from my experience, most game devs either stop being “gamers” at a certain point, or they burn out and quit the video game industry.

That being said, almost everyone I know from gamedev is really excited about video games, and they have a ton of experience, even if they are not playing games in their free time anymore. It could be because I’ve only worked for indie projects and small publishers.

I concur. I’ve been in restaurant kitchens and most of them were more sanitary than the average home kitchen. They almost always have better ventilation, and they are cleaned regularly.

I use a folder structure in Nextcloud where each “album” folder starts with YYYY-MM-DD so I can sort them alphabetically. I delete the photos from my phone when I copy them to the Nextcloud folder. I can always look them up using the app. This is some manual work, but it has worked very well for long-term archival and it will still be organized and searchable on other platforms as long as they support files and folders.

I played around with Perl when I was still in school, almost 20 years ago. Even then it was pretty legacy. I remember fixing a bug in a Perl script during an internship, because I was literally the only person in the whole department who could understand Perl code. I suppose it was used for sysadmin and web scripting but has since been replaced by PHP, Javascript and Python. I wouldn’t bet any money on Perl being relevant in the future.

I don’t see how the gameplay helps with the programming tasks, and I don’t see how the programming tasks enhance the gameplay. Let’s assume the game is already finished, I think the game part would be improved by replacing the programming part with a simpler, more rewarding mechanic. And the programming part could be improved by getting rid of the gameplay, as it would remove distractions. Pulling off educational games that people actually want to play is notoriously hard because of conflicting goals. IMO you should aim for a more integrated experience with in-game “coding” and direct feedback.

Sorry I can’t help you, I don’t have any experience with Samsung phones. It could be that unlock codes don’t even work with this type of phone and you would have to connect it to a PC with a cable. But I don’t know. About your first question, the lock is usually put in place by the carrier, e.g. you get a “free” phone with a 2-year contract and they want to make sure you can’t use it with a different SIM. When the contract expires they want you to trade in your phone for a newer model, and renew your contract. It’s usually possible to have them unlock your phone at the end of the contract, sometimes for an additional fee. So it looks like you ended up with a phone that is still locked to a certain carrier and you can only use SIM cards of that carrier.