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New comment by jamesgeck0 in "Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler"

jamesgeck0 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:22:30 +0000

It was basically forked into RubyMotion, which is closed source but actively developed.

New comment by jamesgeck0 in "Linux 7.1 Removes Drivers for Bus Mouse Support"

jamesgeck0 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:16:07 +0000

That date feels a little bit late. The PS/2 devices that superseded the bus mouse started appearing around 1987. There were certainly still bus mice around in 1995, but they were thoroughly obsolete.

New comment by jamesgeck0 in "Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)"

jamesgeck0 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:33:41 +0000

None of those are modern. There's been A LOT of new ideas in board game design in the last eighty years.

New comment by jamesgeck0 in "Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)"

jamesgeck0 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:29:14 +0000

Well, a lot of the early examples of this style aren't very good. ;-)

New comment by jamesgeck0 in "Modern Board Games: and why you should play them (2022)"

jamesgeck0 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:40:37 +0000

Dominion has a fair amount of depth, but it seems common for individual player groups to get hung up on a particular play style and decide that they've found the ultimate strategy.

New comment by jamesgeck0 in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

jamesgeck0 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:53:09 +0000

Please accept my apologies. Stable LOVE ships a pretty old version of LuaJIT; I didn't realize it'd been resolved upstream.

New comment by jamesgeck0 in "Not buying another Kindle"

jamesgeck0 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:42:41 +0000

I dunno about the Kindle 7 specifically, but replacing the battery in many models is pretty easy.

New comment by jamesgeck0 in "Not buying another Kindle"

jamesgeck0 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:38:03 +0000

> The big problem is that Amazon no longer allows you to download books from their site to your desktop

I've bought a number of books on Kindle that were explicitly marked as being sold without DRM. Does this mean I've lost access to any DRM-free downloads that I haven't already backed up?

New comment by jamesgeck0 in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

jamesgeck0 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:58:14 +0000

I dunno if this is what you were seeing, but LuaJIT has some serious performance issues on ARM.

https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=94760

It's unfortunate as Love2D is generally VERY snappy on x86. I used it on a 300MHz laptop back in the day.

New comment by jamesgeck0 in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

jamesgeck0 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:54:32 +0000

People talk about the stuff they use, and there are _a lot_ of fantasy consoles.

https://github.com/paladin-t/fantasy

New comment by jamesgeck0 in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

jamesgeck0 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:45:45 +0000

Tables are kinda-sorta hashes that can hold anything, not unlike JavaScript objects. The array use case is just a table with automatically assigned numeric keys.

New comment by jamesgeck0 in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

jamesgeck0 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:52:16 +0000

Or Headscale, which has the blessing of Tailscale and contributions from some of their employees. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

New comment by jamesgeck0 in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

jamesgeck0 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:42:44 +0000

One of the DRM circumvention methods for the Xbox 360 involved precision drilling a specific depth into one of the chips on the board. Microsoft was very aware of the nature of physical access while designing this, haha.

New comment by jamesgeck0 in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

jamesgeck0 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:39:24 +0000

Xbox One homebrew has effectively always been supported. Anyone can register a development account and boot the system into dev mode. IIRC in a talk about console security, a Microsoft developer noted that this was an intentional deterrent against hacking. An effort to split the community so that pirates and homebrew enthusiasts wouldn't have a reason to collaborate.

New comment by jamesgeck0 in "OpenSUSE Kalpa"

jamesgeck0 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:31:02 +0000

It's closer to the "sealed system volume" model that macOS uses. The core OS filesystem isn't (normally) writable, although you can finagle it to add drivers and such.

New comment by jamesgeck0 in "The window chrome of our discontent"

jamesgeck0 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:28:54 +0000

> Alternatively, you become "they" by forking the project.

This doesn't make sense for the vast majority of people.

Linux desktop doesn't have the vast majority of the niceties that living in the Apple ecosystem gives you. If I was going to rebuild any one of them for Linux, it would easily become a major project that would suck up all my free time.

New comment by jamesgeck0 in "MacBook Neo"

jamesgeck0 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:53:06 +0000

It's less stress on a frequently used port. I've got an early M1 MacBook Air where the USB-C port I always used for charging is starting to get flaky, presumably because it's been used so much and because of the weight of the cord + dongle hanging off the side of the machine.

New comment by jamesgeck0 in "MacBook Neo"

jamesgeck0 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:48:22 +0000

Those old 2011 machines aren't really getting macOS security updates anymore, and compatible apps are dropping; I wouldn't recommend using anything but Linux on them. And even with a non-15-year-old battery, you'll be lucky to get half the battery life of Apple Silicon with a 2nd gen Core i5 CPU.

New comment by jamesgeck0 in "Debian Removes Free Pascal Compiler / Lazarus IDE"

jamesgeck0 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:22:26 +0000

Is this the sort of thing that Flatpak would be useful for? Or are there sandbox-related complications when using it to package a compiler?

New comment by jamesgeck0 in "Intel will start making GPUs"

jamesgeck0 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:15:47 +0000

Any official source? YouTubers have been saying that Intel is shuttering Arc at every minor setback for years.