Although it may look like Windows is a platform for any-hardware, reality is MS can and does push manufacturers to shape hardware as it’s desire, like forcing all mainboards to have TPM.
To be honest, Windows Phone OS was a marvel in terms of user experience and design language. It was a fresh breath on interacting and utilizing the new always online world.
Calling it ‘Bad Software’ is not fair at all.
Too bad MS picked every possible bad decision to cripple it, starting with not putting it’s weight behind the OS at all.
I really, really miss the feeling of being in control of my whole digital existence with just a single glance.
The main incentive twirled around UWP mentality, “Write one app that works on Windows, WP and Xbox automagically”.
I think it was a fucking-a-star idea that could gather fresh developers to a big potential userbase. And surprisingly, it worked for a time as well.
But MS again cold-feeted the platform themselves in a short span and scared everyone.
I actually witnessed many brilliant developers wrote their very first C# code with UWP, only to spin out to other platforms later as WinPhone’s apparent neglect. PocketCasts and Flipboard are two that went very successful on other platforms.
Yeah, visually there are alternatives on Android, but there were a few features built into WP that Android doesn’t fundamentally support that made the whole difference.
Like having your SO’s all accounts merged under a single node, and seeing everything related to her, be it from WhatsApp, Mail, SMS, Photo Shares etc inside a single tile was awesome. Can Android do that in 2024?
One of mine is Commit This to Memory by Motion City Soundtrack. I basically took the title verbatim and know the album word for word. And while I would love if it did, the rest of MCS’s stuff just doesn’t hit the same way....
Producing a really high end CPU just be muscle flexing. Anybody can do that. Having apps run on it is a whole another story.
What Apple done right with M1 was not producing a powerful Arm CPU, but having old apps run on it so everyday people won’t be thrown into an unknown territory.
I’m too, looking forward to RISCV’s expansion though. MS could just skip ARM and adopt the better platform.
Prowlarr returns There was an error loading this page when I click on an app and other sites. When I disable proton pass, it works as usual. Any idea how to solve it?...
Ear as an organ is not a simple microphone though. It’s partially evolved in a way to help humans recognize ‘the music’ and ‘the speech’. The brain does the heavy lifting.
Yup. Both are possible, but if the game is addictive and you keep launching that exact same game among bazillions of other similar games, it’s 100% rigged towards manipulating your compulsive behavior.
Russia’s science and higher education ministry has dismissed the head of a prestigious genetics institute who sparked controversy by contending that humans once lived for centuries and that the shorter lives of modern humans are due to their ancestors’ sins, state news agency RIA-Novosti said Thursday....
Firefox launched PWA way too early, and abandoned it just before it gained some traction over Fediverse apps. I don’t like using an unofficial extension to enable PWA, yet not as much as have to use MS Edge for PWA.
Only thing I’m interested in these updates are Mozilla bringing PWA back.
Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy’s Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps...
I really get fatigued sitting in my chair playing steam games, I almost pulled the trigger on one of these the other day with the intent of installing moonlight, and sunshine to stream to my TV. Anyone have any opinions? I saw there’s 2 versions, does it make sense to get the pro version? Can I use my PS5 controller on it?...
I used Steam Link, Mi Box, Shield Pro, Apple TV and Steam Deck for streaming indoors. Latency-wise Deck beats all by 3 miliseconds, APTV and Shield ties in second (all three have latency under 16ms [1 frame in 60fps]). APTV + Moonlight supports wireless gamepad rumble and all other Dualsense features, also HDR. Shield is hit and miss especially with newer controllers.
Deck supports every combination, plus you can stream your Xbox (or Game Pass Cloud) and PS5 to Deck if you have either.
Despite strong reviews, Hellblade 2 is struggling on Steam (www.pcgamesn.com)
Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs (arstechnica.com)
RISC-V adoption predicted to get AI boost — forecast shows 50% growth every year until 2030 for the open-standard ISA (www.tomshardware.com)
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That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit (www.theregister.com)
When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless
What's a band that has one album that is just about perfect in your opinion, but rest of their discography misses the mark with you?
One of mine is Commit This to Memory by Motion City Soundtrack. I basically took the title verbatim and know the album word for word. And while I would love if it did, the rest of MCS’s stuff just doesn’t hit the same way....
Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple (www.theverge.com)
What is the scariest/creepiest theory you know about?
CFCs (mander.xyz)
Proton Pass breaks prowlarr on firefox since today (lemmy.ml)
Prowlarr returns There was an error loading this page when I click on an app and other sites. When I disable proton pass, it works as usual. Any idea how to solve it?...
How can sound be recorded into physical and digital media, what sorcery is this?
Also: can mp3s be totally represented as a text file?
Kingmakers - Official Announcement Trailer (www.youtube.com)
What is the strangest thing that you ever experienced?
Ha! I kill me! (lemmy.world)
Mobile game devs, is the animation deciding the results, or is the previously calculated result dictating the animation? (sh.itjust.works)
Dear mobile game devs. When I play games like that, I always wonder if it’s the physics engine that’s actually random and produces the result?...
Thunderbird's Devs: Rust Is Coming (linuxiac.com)
Planned work for the 2024 release of Thunderbird.: developer.thunderbird.net/planning/roadmap
Russia fires a top geneticist who claimed people could live to 900 before sins caused Biblical flood (apnews.com)
Russia’s science and higher education ministry has dismissed the head of a prestigious genetics institute who sparked controversy by contending that humans once lived for centuries and that the shorter lives of modern humans are due to their ancestors’ sins, state news agency RIA-Novosti said Thursday....
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Sublinks Aims to Be a Drop-In Replacement for Lemmy (wedistribute.org)
Seems like an interesting effort. A developer is building an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy’s Rust-based one, with the goal of building in a handful of different features. The dev is looking at using this compatibility to migrate their instance over to the new platform, while allowing the community to use their apps...
NVidia Shield For Streaming Steam Games Opinions?
I really get fatigued sitting in my chair playing steam games, I almost pulled the trigger on one of these the other day with the intent of installing moonlight, and sunshine to stream to my TV. Anyone have any opinions? I saw there’s 2 versions, does it make sense to get the pro version? Can I use my PS5 controller on it?...
Hayao Rulezaki (lemmy.dbzer0.com)