I don’t want a PC and all the attendant complexity
Not all that much complexity these days, unless you wanna do it on Linux - but even that’s getting easier and easier.
Mostly you just start Steam, install the game you want, and launch it. Done. EVEN on Linux these days for most games.
Best I can do is Strava with a one-time purchase instead of a subscription
Okay if all you want is the gps tracking and simple metrics like pace, I could probably knock that out in an afternoon and put it up for free. But IIRC, Strava does a lot more than that. I haven’t used it in ages though so not too sure.
More than likely they’ll just sunset Xbox the platform and rent you the ability to play games on the cloud using your phone, smart TV or computer. And all those franchises will be rentable first, then maybe buyable some day later.
Among other things they have huge data centers that are going to be unused come AI collapse - they just need to figure out how to run games on those GPUs, as they’re very very different from gaming GPUs.
Good on you guys for having balls. Here in Estonia we can’t even move off fucking Microsoft Teams in government services because they’re all too busy sucking American cock (I mean the decisionmakers, not regular employees lol), I can’t imagine we’d ever do anything to upset Trump at this point.
But KDE is and it has Kdenlive and Krita, in case you still want to give a fuck you to Adobe :) Don’t think you can give just to those two projects though, you can give to KDE and they distribute it among projects as needed
Organic Maps is a bit iffy.
It’s registered here in Estonia. Neat, a trustworthy European country, right?! Nah, we allow people from all over the world to register companies. The people behind Organic Maps are one Russian and one Belorussian individual.
Their LLC hasn’t exactly been making a lot of money from donations either it seems, so who knows how they’re actually making their money. They have to be making money somehow, right? My guess is that it’s not as privacy-focused as one may think. The source code available on GitHub is one thing, but who knows if that’s what they actually upload to Play Store and App Store? But then again, this is just speculation, it’s not like I’ve inspected the packets or anything.
It doesn’t if you disable TAA and shit, but by default it’s horrible
Ah to be fair I haven’t played Starfield or even watched too many videos. I also didn’t like FO4 much so I was pretty much running with the assumption that they hadn’t changed much since 2011
Still, they may not need as many engine programmers if they reduce what their in-house engine needs to do. Could free up finances to hire more people to work on the meat and bones of the game. Or they could just pocket the difference and not give a fuck about making a good game, that seems quite likely too.
It’s not entirely out of question that they’ll use Unreal for graphics while retaining Gamebryo for gameplay. That’s kinda how the Oblivion remaster works. And might be best of both worlds if they manage to make Unreal not suck in terms of performance and don’t fall for the photorealism trap
Tauri isn’t actually a language in this instance, it’s a framework to create WebView based GUI applications with Rust
AGPL is restrictive so actually having MIT is a backup option weakens the AGPL license. And in particular having the ability to ship closed source binaries if you wish to, under a commercial license, means AGPL means jack shit here to those who want everything to be copyleft
Wdym non FOSS? It’s MIT. That’s still FOSS even if it’s not the flavor of FOSS you prefer
Yea someone argued that “it’s not impossible to replace YouTube, [x] also stores massive amounts of videos” where I don’t remember what x was, but I’m fairly sure their massive amounts of videos is less than what gets uploaded to YouTube in a day, maybe an hour.
You’re not wrong. I don’t think a 99.whatever percent Muslim country would be a good culture fit. I would in fact say the same about majority-Christian or majority-Jewish countries if they’re taking their religion a bit too seriously. In fact I’m slightly worried about how religious some EU countries are, such as Poland.
The thing is that some of these Islamic countries still take the religion too seriously, much more so than most of us “westerners” (USA being a notable exception but hey I don’t think they’d be a good cultural fit for EU either).
There’s pretty liberal majority-Muslim countries out there and it’s quite possible that Morocco and Turkey will also get there.
My own native Portugal used to be pretty homophobic 30 years ago and there are still plenty of people around who think like that even though the country’s culture tends towards perceptiveness rather than judgement.
Same for Estonia, we’re pretty accepting nowadays (with exceptions of course) and hell even 15-20 years ago it was very different. And yes, this was when we were already in the EU.
But LGBTQ rights were just one example. There’s also insane laws surrounding alcohol (though mostly don’t affect you if you’re not born in Morocco and don’t consume in public, the laws are particularly draconian for Moroccan Muslims and yes, they discriminate by religion).
Overall I just don’t think any society that still lets religion dictate how people have to live has a place in the EU. Which doesn’t mean I dislike Muslims in particular. I don’t want people of ANY religion telling me their god has any say in how other people have to live. Religion is fine, but secularism is needed.
And yes, there are the other issues you mentioned. In fact once some of those are taken care of, it’s quite likely that their society will also become more liberal naturally.
Honestly, geographically I can see how they’d consider to be almost European. The strait of Gibraltar isn’t that wide, it’s a shorter distance for them to cross to Europe than it is for me to cross to Finland from Estonia!
I don’t think Morocco is super European culturally though. There are values they very much disagree with most Europeans on, such as LGBTQ rights.
I have no issue with Morocco as a trade partner, or easy travel between Morocco and the EU, but I don’t think we’d like the vibes they’d bring to the European Parliament, etc.
There’s something to be gained from diversity of course, but I do think their society’s values are a bit too different from most of ours.
It’s not so much a marvel of engineering as much as “if you make the tech as boring as possible, there’s less to go wrong”.
The Germans will sell you a luxury performance SUV with the same highway fuel consumption as the Corolla. Of course the Corolla will be more simple and reliable.
Sweeney is legit delulu tbh.
He literally said Epic’s launcher/store is ready as is, doesn’t need more development. It also runs in Unreal Engine, so you get Chromium (CEF) + Unreal Engine running just for one launcher/store.
At least on Linux you can run Unreal Editor without EGS (because it doesn’t exist on Linux) and if you’ve claimed any free games on Epic, you can use Heroic launcher to manage them easily.
You may want to look at the supported devices on this project. It’s an app to get data to/from wearables.
Two of the supported devices are bangle.js and bangle.js 2. These are open source smart watches with GNSS and HR, which have different apps available already that I believe can record data without your phone connected, and then sync later, either to your phone or computer (not sure on that one). And you can develop your own apps too of course.
I don’t really know much more than that. I do want to get back into exercising regularly, and would like to track my progress, so I may get one myself at some point.