Porting always increases code quality.


But in the end, if you're not developing all platforms together, in the same codebase, with continuous testing, you'll end up with diverging code and a mess that is difficult to fix.

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I'm currently playing https://beta.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/all-the-mods-gravitas but yeah. Usually I don't play modpacks for old versions (this runs on 1.18.2), but I made this an exception.

But vanilla? Well, for me right now there's not enough https://beta.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/create in it...
(If you don't know what that is, well, watch the intro there. Yes, that's all done in-game).

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So they've been sued and convicted for privacy-violations, and they decided to add another one?

Hint: If your behaviour is violating the privacy of kids, the solution is not to ask for a birthdate (which, by the way, already violates the privacy of kids) to only violate the privacy of adults.

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Probably too late to convince anyone to a Tesla, as people are now looking for alternatives, where the company boss hasn't gone over to the Dark Side #DarthMusk

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Nice. There was https://vennt.twodaemon.co.uk/ before, which could do that (and obviously display it as diagrams too), but that appears offline.

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Quoting: Linas

Quoting: LinuxerUmm what is a .pak file? I see that for a download at itch. Do i just run that?

It's a data file for the Quake engine, sort of like a plugin. You'd have to copy that into your existing Quake installation.

Either copy it into your id1-dir, then quake will be block-quake until you remove it, or copy and rename pak2.pak into a subdirectory of your quake-dir, as "blocks/pak0.pak" and then run "darkplaces -game blocks" (or whatever engine you use).

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Hm, well. Trouble is, it usually hasn't either anything to do with real locks (See here for a nice introduction http://locksport.com/index.php/discover-lockpicking/l-i-guide/) or even worse, it has -- in medieval fantasy settings. Where locks don't have tumblers, and thus any fiddling with a tension wrench is utterly useless (you only need one tool, a skeleton key/lockpick).

As an example: https://www.historicallocks.com/en/site/h/articles/the-history-of-padlocks/swedish-middle-ages-1050-1520/ (This is, by the way, the definitive site for historical locks).

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Quoting: TheSHEEEPI am stuck between "Wow!" and "Why?!".

I can explain. Nothing is ever complete until it can run DOOM.

Like Minecraft: https://twitter.com/gegy1000/status/1469714451716882434
(the real thing, this is because of a log4j exploit)

Or a voting machine:
https://www.salon.com/2019/08/14/hackers-can-easily-break-into-voting-machines-used-across-the-u-s-play-doom-nirvana/
(Jup, exploit. Don't ever use voting machines without paper trails)

There's of course a reddit for it https://www.reddit.com/r/itrunsdoom/

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Hardware updates? I wish. A better GPU of course, but the bitcoin bros drove the costs of them too high.

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Quoting: GeoGalvanicI can't even begin to imagine testing out that many games, especially re-testing every new release of proton

I don't. Well, I did, but I don't retest.

It's more like, when I have a new game, I try to run it, if it doesn't I categorize it as "CrashesOnProton" and try later. Nowadays I usually check protondb.com first before I buy, but sometimes I buy bundles from HumbleBundle, and then this happens. I also submitted a lot to protondb.

Also, I did some work with wine, so I was actually specifically interested to have some windows games for testing. https://github.com/Seegras/wine it's completely behind master now, and the stuff I worked on would need to be totally reworked, as wine has completely changed the way internal dlls are supposed to work. It's this code, by the way: https://github.com/Seegras/wine/tree/master/dlls/xlive (the wine project didn't want it in main ... thinking of it, maybe proton would like it, especially since GWFL is discontinued now?).

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