it’s insane how you’re getting hit with downvotes.

Older Hardware can be pretty decent if you know what you’re doing. However, many projects (even FOSS that are more hobbyist) are making decisions that make their software harder to use on older hardware. For example, everyone’s desire to switch to zstd is terrible for people on older hardware, since it was designed around more recent CPUs. It’s noticeably slower for little gain on older hardware, yet they love to parrot the “That’s just how progress goes”-line while shoving highly curated benchmarks into people’s faces to “prove” that $LATEST_THING from silicon valley is “superior”.

Arch Linux used to be really snappy on all of my Hardware out of the box before they went all in on zstd. Now I have to go out of my way and put in a bunch of work just to get back at least most of that performance.

But I have started to run into a few games where it just straight up won’t play the game at all because it doesn’t support dx12 or something

Seems arbitrary. In WINE you have the option to use VKD3D which translates DX12 calls to Vulkan calls. You may be able to get more mileage that way.

Even if Lemmy was run by a piece of shit, anyone could just modify the source code and make their own version. Plus, Lemmy is an implementation of the ActivityPub Protocol, and there are many Projects out there that speak ActivityPub: https://fediverse.party/

You can think of ActivityPub as being similar to E-Mail; It’s not like Gmail Accounts can’t send messages to Accounts on Outlook or vice versa, they can, because they both speak a common Protocol that predates both of those Providers.

People on Mastodon or Pleroma Instances can follow Communities on Lemmy and can read, favorite or repost Posts like this one.

There is no way that User isn’t just some Internet troll. Lol.

Obligatory: https://fediverse.party/

Packaging legacy drivers isn’t really a solution. I have a literal stack of older NVidia Cards (some are even Quadros) that are just Paperweights because:

• NVidia’s Proprietary drivers suck dick and were never really good.
• Since the NV Driver is Proprietary, you’ll be stuck on an ancient version of Linux or FreeBSD (the Kernel version that NVidia compiled it for).
• Forget Vulkan, OpenCL, Wayland and decent Hardware Video Decoding support unless you’re lucky and your “legacy” card is recent enough for the driver to support at least some of those.

I’m really annoyed by how FreeDesktop/Nouveau developers only keep chasing the “latest and greatest” when there is a lot of existing Hardware out there that has only had half-assed support for at least a decade, but for some reason no one cares. Seriously, everytime I read about updates related to Nouveau or Mesa it’s never about older Hardware anymore.

Does anyone out there still use a 32-Bit Computer as their daily driver? The most recent 32-Bit hardware I’ve used as a Desktop was an RPi3 and running a modern web browser on that thing would almost cook the chip.

I’m really disappointed by how bloated the lemmy frontend has become. Like, if they just cut the hyperlink preview/embed features that nobody needs it would already be a good bit lighter. There used to be an alternate lemmy frontend that emulated being a phpbb forum that was unfortunately abandoned: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB

Also there is lem.el for emacs which works but it’s kinda basic and rough around the edges.

Honestly, if I was in charge of lemmy it would look basically like the site linked in the OP. And I’d also think about making it accessible from gopher/gemini.

Hmm Good argument, but does Vim also have the ability to support a lemmy client?!?

https://codeberg.org/martianh/lem.el

Honestly a major reason I like emacs better is because most features/programs in it are written in lisp, and I rather write lisp than lua.

s/VIM/EMACS/

They were never down completely, they just temporarily disappeared from the clearnet for a bit. They have their own Onion service.

It’s so funny to me how they always word it as if they’re a corporate entity or some sort of “competitor” on “the market” when in reality it’s just an implementation of a common protocol. I have yet to see other ActivityPub Projects being acknowledged by journalists. Focusing only on Mastodon is like focusing only on Gmail while completely ignoring the existence of E-Mail.

I pretty much share the same experience. I avoid using docker or any other containerizing thing due to the amount of bloat and complexity that this shit brings. I always get out of my way to get Software running w/o docker, even if there is no documented way. If that fails then the Software just sucks.

If only manufacturers would release low-level documentation with their devices so anyone could just build their own OS and make the most of their general purpose pocket Computers, but that would be devastating for the economy.

Unofficial American Province tries to become more independent? Looks like Washington will have to set things straight again.

Years ago I wrote a VN engine from scratch in C++ that never got finished, for a project that never came to be. It had some developer tools (some of which never got fully realized): One where you could manage your Assets in the Game’s Pack file and one where you could create and edit GUIs. I made my own basic scripting language for it which I used not only for scenes but also for all the UI. It was kind of powerful, but in my script I didn’t have any nodes only “functions” which were really just a set of instructions for the engine, and branching decisions would just call out to other “functions” (which could live in other files even).

Not sure what to think of the more data-oriented approach here, I feel like it could get a little messy with the “choices” array. I would make the “type” an Integer instead of a String, and the “character” and “speaker” seem a little redundant, unless one is supposed to be like an ID, in which case I would come up with a better naming convention (like “main_anna” or something like that).

The US really is the New Holy Roman Empire.