With what money? If you haven’t been paying any attention, there’s almost zero investor interest post-COVID contraction in gaming unless its massive controlling buyouts. The little there is requires sacrificing yourself on the altar of gen AI. No one working in games has enough money to self-fund the initial funds for a studio unless they have rich parents (Sandfall) or are one of the problem executives.

Lidarr can’t even get a reliable metadata provider or allow people to define their own without forking the project. It’s pretty mismanaged.

Using Electron for something that should be lightweight like a music player should be an automatic disqualification.

For music library management and playback? Why would they mention it? Just because it can play audio formats doesn’t mean it’s suitable for every use case or they’d have to mention every FFmpeg frontend too.

I asked my coworkers what sleet is called here in Germany - Schneeregen (lit. „snow rain“). Seems much more straightforward than sleet/wintry mix.

It’s also just bad AI slop.

Yeah the trials were mostly for show. NSDAP members remained in power for decades after the end of WW2. The Red Army Faction/Baader Meinhof gang were a direct consequence of the lack of reckoning there.

Music production if you’re using sampled virtual instruments (i.e. Kontakt) just isn’t viable. The VST bridges work fine for most stuff and there’s some great open source effects plugins and Linux-supporting synths around. Reaper works great, and JACK mostly works once you figure it out how to set it up. Sampled instruments though…

The big red flag here that should warn away anyone from interacting with the project is that the maintainer clearly wasn’t using a standard library for time functions. Arrogant stupidity is a given in that situation.

Fluggaenkoecchicebolsen

Nah „sceptics“ were instrumental in starting the modern TERF movement. They’re as bad as the fundies.

Jecklenburg-Jorpommern

Have you talked to people who use LLMs regularly? They’ll acknowledge hallucinations but will downplay them as much as possible - saying they’re low frequency and they can spot them, while telling you about how they’re using it in an area they’re unfamiliar with. Dunning Kruger strikes again.

It was more that graphics hardware got a lot more flexible. Less fixed functionality meant that DXVK (DirectX 8-11 to Vulkan translation layer) was a lot more viable as you were able to emulate old behaviour on the GPU through Vulkan.

Graphics APIs are a lot more „thinner“ these days as well. Creating a Vulkan renderer from scratch is like „first one must enumerate the universe“. But it means that DX12<->Vulkan translation is relatively straightforward, and all the crazy stuff is done in shaders which can be recompiled for different APIs.

Speaking of carbon, did scientists give up on lengthening carbon nanotubes at some point? They were supposed to be a miracle material as well.

Never stopped hating being forced to use that piece of monopolistic trash ever since I was on dialup when HL2 released. I buy everything I can on GOG.

I especially resent how closed off the Steam Workshop has made the mod ecosystem for a lot of games.

Quantum computing can’t achieve better outcomes for general computing problems than classical computing can. It’s just possible to do particular kinds of algorithms with it (like Shor‘s Algorithm for factorising prime numbers) that classical computing can’t do. It’s still a lot of smoke and mirrors at the moment though.

Paint huffer surprised when other paint huffers are happy to accept any old solvent.

Why the defensiveness? They didn’t accuse you of anything, just made you aware.

If you have ever been on any kind of film.