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[–] popcar2@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Looks great, I was never a framework believer because it was so overpriced (to an extent it still is), but this sounds way better and might actually be a good deal. Aside from the specs bump, they fixed almost all of the issues with the older frameworks (CEO talks more about it in this video).

Better build quality and less flex, better screen, better speakers, and a better touchpad. The biggest issue I heard about it was that it felt a bit cheap and wobbly because of all the moving parts, but if they manage to fix that, I might actually get it some day.

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

According to some analysts, it's because Call of Duty lost $300M in sales after being added to Game Pass. They raised the price to get that money back, people started unsubbing, and now they're backtracking on putting CoD on game pass as a launch title (so they're reducing the cost again).

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

I think the post might be talking about last month again.

 

I never cared that much about it, but it is a shame that another alternative is going down.

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oooh yeah, I actually considered the SP at first but it wasn't in stock where I live. That might've been a good thing though, because the H is very comfortable to hold whereas clamshells generally aren't. But yeah, it's really hard to justify buying more than one of these.

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yup, your handheld has the exact same internals as mine, I think the only difference is that it's bigger and vertical. Good choice.

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Normally I would agree, but Wi-fi on this thing adds a lot to it. It allows you to scrape box art and a short video that gets shown when you hover on each game you have, and it lets you connect to retroachievements as well as easily transfer files from your PC wirelessly with FTP.

It's definitely not needed but it makes things a bit more convenient for me IMO.

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/48277785

In the pic: Anbernic RG35XX-H playing Castlevania: Dracula X

I’ve been thinking about buying one of these for a while but finally bit the bullet now that companies have started raising prices due to the RAM/chip shortage…

And it turned out to be the best purchase I’ve made in a while! It’s a ton of fun gaming on this little thing. I flashed a custom operating system on it and am now playing Castlevania & Secrets of Mana with RetroAchievements support (which adds achievements and progress tracking to retro games).

I’m also playing a lot of random PICO-8 games since it runs on the device and I can easily browse and play free games on it. Low-key wish I had bought it sooner with how neat it is.

Anybody else have a retro handheld here?

 

In the pic: Anbernic RG35XX-H playing Castlevania: Dracula X

I’ve been thinking about buying one of these for a while but finally bit the bullet now that companies have started raising prices due to the RAM/chip shortage…

And it turned out to be the best purchase I’ve made in a while! It’s a ton of fun gaming on this little thing. I flashed a custom operating system on it and am now playing Castlevania & Secrets of Mana with RetroAchievements support (which adds achievements and progress tracking to retro games).

I’m also playing a lot of random PICO-8 games since it runs on the device and I can easily browse and play free games on it. Low-key wish I had bought it sooner with how neat it is.

Anybody else have a retro handheld here?

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So I asked each model where it (thinks) it is hosted/running.

[...]

Can we trust those responses, or is it more mirage with plausible-sounding responses?

Whoever wrote this doesn't know how AI works. They don't know where they're hosted. He could have asked Mozilla instead of panic-posting. This guy keeps saying his data was given to "third party hosts" but he has no idea who the hosts are, Mozilla could be the one hosting the models...

Mozilla says this was a flub; it will refine the onboarding around Smart Window to limit memory formation to post-opt-in activity only. That’s obviously the right fix.

So, false alarm. Try beta software, get software bugs.

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

The library in the post itself is pretty new, so I don't think there are any real examples out there aside from the website advertising it.

That said, its idea of sending HTML from the backend and showing it in the frontend isn't new - HTMX has been pretty popular the past few years and is basically the same thing. It's great for any type of website that doesn't update often, so anything that isn't a webapp or does a lot of things from the client side. There's a popular article of a company switching from React to HTMX which simplified the code heavily.

 

Not my project, but this was recently released and I thought it was really cool. It's only 5KB when compressed and feels a bit simpler/more automatic than HTMX.

Also natively handles prefetching on hovering links, has transitions, and comes with a loading bar.

 

This is really good if you're wondering what a publishing company's contract might look like. They published it to give gamedevs an idea of what they should expect.

They're also celebrating funding 24 different games! I wonder when those will start coming out.

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not sure where OP got that link, but the official one is https://godotengine.org/releases/4.6/

 

Hopefully we can get 4.6 by the end of the month!

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 39 points 3 months ago

The fact that fans might port TP to the Switch before Nintendo bothers is hilarious

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

Your comment posted 3 times so I'm guessing there's something with your internet haha

I'm still deciding how "serious" the project is going to be, but if all goes well I will definitely add support for other formats. I'm already looking at adding Pandoc for document conversions.

[–] popcar2@programming.dev 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have a whole blog post talking about using Godot for GUI development. The short of it is that it's surprisingly good but has a few drawbacks, and it doesn't have a bustling ecosystem like webdev tools. I've yet to try it on mobile, though.

 

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/41813614

I'm currently working on a file converter app that lets you easily convert your files in bulk without needing to mess around with 500 settings or confusing command-line apps. It's mostly a replacement for all those "convert X to Y" websites.

This is just a front-end for ffmpeg and imagemagick, but the goal is to make something so simple even my parents could use without uploading sensitive files to shady websites on the internet. I've looked around, and I found all the local GUI converters like Handbrake are unwieldy to use, especially if you just want to convert in bulk.

The project is still very early, but I'd like some feedback:

  1. Does anyone think this project is worth finishing, or are there too many GUI file converters out there already?

  2. What do you think about the UI so far?

Cheers.

 

I'm currently working on a file converter app that lets you easily convert your files in bulk without needing to mess around with 500 settings or confusing command-line apps. It's mostly a replacement for all those "convert X to Y" websites.

This is just a front-end for ffmpeg and imagemagick, but the goal is to make something so simple even my parents could use without uploading sensitive files to shady websites on the internet. I've looked around, and I found all the local GUI converters like Handbrake are unwieldy to use, especially if you just want to convert in bulk.

The project is still very early, but I'd like some feedback:

  1. Does anyone think this project is worth finishing, or are there too many GUI file converters out there already?

  2. What do you think about the UI so far?

Cheers.

 

Biggest WTF news I've read today. I'm not a web dev so this doesn't affect me, but this is bizarre.

We get a closer first look at what's around the corner for AI coding tools, and make Bun better for it

This incredibly popular tool is now going to merge with an AI company and shift gears to be turned into some forced AI hype machine. Yipee! Exactly what all the devs were hoping for! /s

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