[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sure. You can fix frame rate drops, play with any controller you want, easier to play with mods, save states, speedup when replaying a game, easier to record video or stream. If you're playing a 3d game you can run in higher resolution with better anti aliasing and anisotropic filtering. For a 2d game sometimes one of the upscaling filters will look good. You can use CRT filter if you want and you don't have a CRT TV. You could do it on Steam Deck and cloud sync your saves with your PC, and even your phone (especially for turn based games)

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I still don't think the best solution to an under-staffed team is to try to make a competing under-staffed team. I think just contributing would be more helpful for all, especially with the plugin support coming soon to Lemmy

how long until Sublinks catches up to Lemmy?

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 18 points 6 months ago

Streetpass was fun, maybe someone could clone it as a mobile app

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm surprised they're still on 0.18.4. They made that big post complaining about moderation actions not federating, then the 0.18.5 hotfix came out and the only change was that fix, and they never updated anyways? I even put a comment on their post to let them know the hotfix for their issue. There's no database changes, it's the simplest update.

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 17 points 8 months ago

yes I think there can be a lot of power here, Reddit was really bad about this

sometimes I like to sort posts by "New Comments" so it's like an old style forum, Reddit couldn't do this at all and it was awful, Lemmy's "Active" sort is also pretty good for this

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 17 points 10 months ago

yea normally this isn't an issue cause you post from the community's page so it's selected by default, but this is a real problem when crossposting

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Texture healing works by finding each pair of adjacent characters where one wants more space, and one has too much. Narrow characters are swapped for ones that cede some of their whitespace, and wider characters are swapped for ones that extend to the very edge of their box. This swapping is powered by an OpenType feature called “contextual alternates,” which is widely supported by both operating systems and browser engines.

Contextual alternates are normally used for certain scripts, like Arabic, where the shape of each glyph depends on the surrounding glyphs. And they are also used for cursive handwriting fonts where the stroke of the “pen” might have different connection points across letters. Texture healing is a novel application of this technology to code.

basically fonts were already capable of using alternate versions of characters based on their nearby characters, so they used that for these fonts to allow for seemingly-dynamic sizing/spacing

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 18 points 11 months ago

Contextual alternates are normally used for certain scripts, like Arabic, where the shape of each glyph depends on the surrounding glyphs. And they are also used for cursive handwriting fonts where the stroke of the “pen” might have different connection points across letters. Texture healing is a novel application of this technology to code.

basically fonts were already capable of using alternate versions of characters based on their nearby characters, so they used that for these fonts to allow for seemingly-dynamic sizing/spacing

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 18 points 1 year ago

Monkey Island

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 20 points 1 year ago

lemmy.world really needs to close signups and the creation of new communities, until they can improve their uptime

or they should at least be removed from https://join-lemmy.org/instances maybe it could track the uptime and use that to build the list?

but Reddit actually does go down pretty often too

[-] Die4Ever@programming.dev 17 points 1 year ago

But we already have horizontal scaling in the form of separate instances. We just need to do a better job staying spread out. Making individual instances bigger is not a good thing, it makes everything more centralized.

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