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Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. (mfkl.github.io)

Everyone can agree on VLC being the best video player, right? Game developers can agree on it too, since it is a great utility for playing multimedia in games, and/or have a video player included. However, disaster struck; Unity has now banned VLC from the Unity Store, seemingly due to it being under the LGPL license which is a...

deadcream,

Not just license. You also need to link to it as a shared library and allow users to replace it with their own build of the library. Meaning you can't use stuff like DRM and anticheats.

deadcream,

Lada doesn't really exist anymore. Before 2022 it was just assembling cheap Renault cars with Lada branding (and actually owned by Renault). Now it's nationalised and assembles some obscure Chinese cars (or plans to. Not sure if they managed to set it up yet).

deadcream,

I had been led to believe that one of Wayland’s strength was solving the correct window coordinates save-and-restore problem. Does someone know what happened here?

It's literally the opposite. Windows aren't allowed to position themselves on Wayland (because it's unsafe or something). Window state save restoration must implemented by the compositor itself. Not sure about GNOME, but KDE doesn't have that.

deadcream,

Sure, it's hard to craft a perfect solution. However the status quo for a long time was that applications were doing it themselves. And Wayland took it away without providing a replacement.

deadcream,

If you don't update your software then Linux will be even worse choice than Windows. I can guarantee that you won't be able to play modern Steam games using this year GPU on Debian 7 or Ubuntu 13.04 lol.

deadcream,

Either flat out deny that it's happened, or blame it on "unprofessional actions of Ukrainian air defense".

deadcream,

If they can built space rockets that can carry payload to orbit, they can build ICBMs. First space launchers were modified ICBMs after all.

deadcream,

It's a feature-rich text editor with LSP support. I suppose you could use it as a simple IDE, though I haven't tried it.

deadcream,

Dial the Gate. Series of interviews with people involved in making of Stargate TV show (not just actors bit people at every level). It's over 200 episodes now.

Tesla Cybertruck's stiff structure, sharp design """raise""" safety concerns - experts (www.reuters.com)

esla Cybertruck’s stiff structure, sharp design raise safety concerns - experts::The angular design of Tesla’s Cybertruck has safety experts concerned that the electric pickup truck’s stiff stainless-steel exoskeleton could hurt pedestrians and cyclists.

deadcream,

Does USA not have mandatory safety tests for vehicles?

deadcream,

They should have just put him in the electric chair and be done with it.

deadcream,

Well GTK does not have theming anymore, though it still needs some way to configure fonts and icon theme.

deadcream,

We just need spren to control our surgebinding and will be fine.

deadcream,

Nah, this is patented by Sony.

deadcream,

Google-certified Android TV devices aren't known to receive security updates either.

deadcream,

Does it really matter? It's the usual corporate intrigues/power struggle/backstabbing/whatever. Just for some reason leaked into public view instead of being behind the scenes like it's normally done, probably because someone is stupid.

deadcream,

Algorithm favors videos that are highly upvoted or downvoted. Anything that gets emotion/reaction out of you - doesn't matter whether positive or negative - is brought to the top.

deadcream,

Low effort tickets are ignored because they are bullshit.

High effort tickets are ignored because devs are lazy and can't be bothered to deal with complex and boring issues.

Well, at least that's how I roll as an open source developer lol.

deadcream,

Kaspersky is closely tied to Russian government. The dude himself (founder and CEO) has a government position as one of Putin's advisors or something. Also he believes that anonymity should be purged from the internet, and every user should be personally indentified, enforced by the government. In the name of "security", of course.

deadcream,

I wonder if they consulted Plasma devs about it. Sure they said that they aim to make Wayland ready for Plasma 6, but it didn't sound like it was an actual plan for 6.0. After all they got their hands full with Qt 6 porting, and there are still major roadblocks with completing Wayland support, while 6.0 is about to have its alpha release already.

Knowing Fedora devs however, I suspect they didn't. They switched to Plasma Wayland by default several Fedora releases ago, when it was in no way ready. I guess I will switch to a different distro when this time comes.

deadcream,

It's still not enough time for KDE devs to fix all major issues with Wayland. It requires at least another two years in the oven.

deadcream,

I don't mind them raising minimum requirements if they actually use features of newer hardware (cough unlike Windows 11 cough), but requiring upscaling is never a good sign. It's just a cost-cutting strategy that allows them to spend even less money on optimization work while reallocating that money to marketing budget or exec bonuses or whatever, at the cost of visual fidelity. It doesn't benefit customers in any way, quite the opposite.

Google Pixel 8's Tensor G3 GPU tests show weak performance but decent efficiency (m.gsmarena.com)

Google teamed up with Samsung once again to build the Tensor G3, the chipset that powers the new Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. It comes out of Samsung’s 4nm foundries and features a 9-core CPU (1x Cortex-X3 + 4x A715 + 4x A510) and an ARM Mali-G715 GPU.

deadcream,

I don't care about gaming performance on a phone, but battery life in Pixel 7 have been worse than in competitors like Galaxy S23.

deadcream,

Exynos Samsung batteries. Tensor is based on Exynos, and S23 has only Qualcomm variant. That's why Pixel 7 drains battery faster than S23.

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Thumbnail pic looks like public toilet to me.

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