The Halo Anniversary collection shines on SteamDeck. It was my first purchase after getting mine, I think.

We’re in a “fuck around” cycle where they pretend that the problem was we didn’t have “copilot”, and not that all of our development managers are wildly unqualified.

The “find out” part comes next.

Which is fucking impossible to fathom, because my fucking grocery store’s app can’t even implement search reliably, today.

I’m not sure how they’re going to manage to make things worse.

Actually, I’ll make a guess. My guess is we will go under the critical skill level needed for building safe hospital equipment, and we will get a rash of that stuff killing people due to lack of programmer skills.

I hope the asshole CEOs are the ones that die, but there’s not enough karma in the world for that.

I hope I’m rocking that hard at 84.

My next non-alcohol bubbly drink will be in your honor, Larry.

Great summary bot, as ever. But missed this absolute gem from the comments:

“Thanks for helping me wardrive and steal the WiFi from that dentist, Larry.”

and how we could have achieved it all with no written records.

Our religion prevented using doc strings or code comments of any kind. What little software we had that actually worked correctly probably was aliens, come to think of it…

Yep. This is the way.

constrained in order to not break the game.

While that’s true, I suspect that whoever gets there first will get a free pass in the court of public opinion, so long as it’s a single player game.

“Look how awful my Sims are” is already a recurring gag hobby, anyway.

Good point.

I’m willing to accept a reality where the science magazines are constantly excited about every development in helicopter technology.

In the pull down area where flashlight and Bluetooth toggles go, GrapheneOS has options for disabling the camera and microphone.

Sounds great, but I can’t find “bouncer” on either the F-Droid or Google Play stores. Anyone got a link?

And virtual reality gets a free revival every other technology, while we’re at it.

I’m predicting VR coming back into the limelight, try again, shortly after everyone loses interest in AI.

Also, I’m still pissed that flying cars aren’t in the limelight more. I was promised daily updates, and I’m not seeing them. That’s the biggest proof that the media is completely disconnected.

I’ve seen this sentiment before, but I’m waiting to switch until I learn how to add the microphone and camera quick toggles included in GrapheneOS to LineageOS. Is there a project for that?

An LLM pointed at various (local) public sources of data, that can answer (local) voter questions, could be pretty cool.

I.e: "Summarize X candidate’s voting record on tax increases/education/walkable cities/unionization/etc…

Switch 2 is coming which I have no desire for.

I was hyped for the Switch 2 until the latest round of bullshit lawsuits. Now I’m going to pass.

I’ll be sure to buy an emulator from China pre-loaded with every Switch 2 title in about a decade, though.

So you only play indie games?

Pretty much.

More specifically, I only play new games that I can verify the author is receiving a fair wage. That tends to be pretty indie.

In the rare case that I’m somehow caught up on my indie game library, I also play open source games and AAA title abandonware.

Moving from “patient gamer” to “gamer with a strong stance against Nintendo’s and EA’s bullshit” honestly wasn’t a huge deal. And it continues to be easy on my wallet.

Yup. This is also why I stopped buying Nintendo products.

Yep. That’s a good clarification.

“Apps within the same profile can communicate with mutual consent and it’s no different for sandboxed Google Play.”

If GFS is installed on a profile, any app in that profile can use it to phone home.

I suspect that aspect is mostly mitigated, for me. by my not using a Gmail account to sign into any apps. Theoretically, it doesn’t stop them from fingerprinting, in other ways.

Except:

“Google Play receives absolutely no special access or privileges on GrapheneOS as opposed to bypassing the app sandbox and receiving a massive amount of highly privileged access.”

and

“As with any other app, it can’t access data of other apps and requires explicit user consent to gain access to profile data or the standard permissions.”

Means that GFS is going to be denied it’s usual fingerprinting solutions.

Source: https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play combined with professional experience with privacy technically, and a decent amount of (educated) speculation.

TL;DR:

Using separate profiles is better, particularly when using GFS.

But as someone who doesn’t sign into any Google account and just wants a banking app to work, GFS on the main profile is still way better than stock Android.

be sure that google can’t access anything else

Last time I read the GrapheneOS docs, my understanding was that this has been taken care of for you, even when using a single profile.

Civ6 was buggy as hell on Switch. Anyone know if it’s stable on PC?

I want the hours I played back before it corrupted my game save, so $3 is still be too much to ask, to me.

This is the best privacy policy.

Just a bit more perspective for you:

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#technology-most-popular-technologies

More than half of professional developers use at least some JavaScript, and almost half of us also use Python.

So both of those are likely to be worth the effort to learn.

That said, as a diehard Python programmer, if I was forced to pick a single language to focus on, it would be JavaScript. JavaScript runs almost everywhere, and it specifically is the only decent option in a few places, such as Web app browser code.

But also, while I’m fluent in a couple dozen languages, my preferred go-to language is still Python.