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Only if they make use of the same version of electron. Also apps tend to statically link their libs nowadays to reduce the amount of runtime dependencies from what I've seen. And I…

I understood it as them turning down an offer despite the lucrative salary, not because of it. Probably because the circumstances were not quite what they were hoping for.

Considering Meta presumably wouldn't be able to advertise alternative sources for downloading their app inside the app store (which is also the case on the play store) I simply can…

There is a shortage of primary driver-ready mobile computing devices which respect the user's privacy. The choices here are Android devices with custom ROMs + microG and daily pray…

> And no sandboxing isn’t the solution here. Facebook will just find ways around it. They did some pretty egregious bullshit and had consumers side-loading privacy-violating apps v…

Yes, they should. (Obviously not but OP's argument is moot anyways as waterproofing and a replaceable battery are not mutually exclusive, we already had phones and other devices wi…

Not everyone does everything with the expectation of seeing their bank account inflated in return. Sometimes people work on things just for the gist of it and I always appreciate s…

Not sure I understand. Zram allows you to store pages in a compressed fashion to memory to prevent or at least delay until the OOM kicks in and to keep hold of cached files for lon…

You are right. I've heard similar stories about BattlEye in the past which I assumed might just have been a decision they've reverted since but could've very well been an option up…

The common ones such as EAC, BattlEye and VAC don't prevent you from running the corresponding games in a VM.

The fact that we have normalized that behavior to the point of having to explain the concept of not wanting to give out data like candy is so wild to me

I agree. It's hard for me to get excited about anything tech companies output nowadays as more than likely it will be surveillance, ad, upsell and subscription-driven with growth a…

> But Apple does ship powerful GPUs. In fact, the M2 Max is probably the most or second most powerful GPU on laptops. But games aren't optimized for Metal nor ARM, so they run slow…

There is a pretty big gap between only letting children play games all day and allowing them to participate in high risk labour unsupervised and without special protections.

The nix store in of itself should be highly compressible. Here's the output of "compsize -x /nix/store" on my BTRFS root with compress-force=zstd:6 Processed 974464 files, 327323 r…

To not force every user to build (potentially all) derivations which is very time consuming, especially considering the way Nix derivations work which requires a rebuild each time …

Which I'm glad has been the case here since it results in the most stable and trouble-free Linux distro and package manager I have ever used. Complete with full source reproducibil…

> I joined a gym 4 years ago, and a lot of my friends now I've met through that gym. Is it common for strangers to actually approach each other in the gym? At least here everyone g…

They're currently on sale for a few bucks on Steam too.

Not particularly easy when they're the only ones who have even the slightest bit of respect for the privacy of their users in the mobile market. The other choices that come to my m…

Also /usr/bin/env bash is required on NixOS and Guix, neither of which have /bin/bash.

The entire point is that yes, all of them are doing it and Apple isn't this golden savior among them that some make them out to be. They trump everyone else in certain aspects like…

Considering Valve's track record with the Index and its build quality issues I'm not sure I fully trust them to build something that's lasting either. It's only been a year, guess …

I was not aware this was the case, TIL!

It's what allowed me to make the jump to NixOS without having to give up much - every userspace program that isn't packaged up or has quirks along with anything gaming related wher…