Retroity

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I'm Retroity. I like making things.

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Comment · 7 years ago
Interesting, but not surprising considering all the pressure from governments regarding Libra. I wonder if Facebook will ever back down from Libra considering how popular it is, or if they're going to adopt a "rain or shine" attitude and go forward with it regardless of what happens?
Comment · 7 years ago
> ServeTheHome asked Oracle why it chose to create a cluster of Raspberry Pis instead of using a virtualized Arm server and one company rep said simply that "...a big cluster is cool."

Honestly that's a totally valid reason to make something like this. This is super cool.

Comment · 7 years ago
A very interesting statement. The Hong Kong ISP Association makes a number of very good points. Much of Hong Kong's economy relies on the open internet (like most of the world) and censoring it would do it much harm.
Comment · 7 years ago
I opted out of the redesign on my account. That way, I use the old design on my account, even if I'm not using old.reddit.
Comment · 7 years ago
It is the worst redesign I've ever seen on a major website like this for a number of reasons. It's needlessly heavy on resources, it's slow, it's difficult to navigate, it's filled to the brim with ads, it's uninspired and takes away all of the charm of the old design in favor of making Reddit look like a more generic social media, it doesn't work with the wayback machine, and that's just scratching the surface.

It's such a awful design. I've explicitly opted out of the new design on my account, and I use old.reddit.com whenever I'm not signed in.

Comment · 7 years ago
Samsung's SmartThings seems to be pretty similar. Not sure about it's security though.
Comment · 7 years ago
It's super cool that the game is being updated 10 years later to effectively remaster it AND make modding easier! I wish more developers were like this, but I can see why that might be difficult (which makes this all the more impressive)
Comment · 7 years ago
Just because you don't use or need those features doesn't mean that everyone feels the same.

Many people use any enjoy the features that steam provides. For example, I enjoy the ability to go to someone's profile and be able to instantly join their game. I enjoy the ability to organize events through events in steam groups. Many people I know use the Steam Workshop to share their fan-made content or the Marketplace to sell their items.

It's not just those features in the client though. Steam also has a number of integrations that developers can make in their games, such as achievements, integrating their multiplayer with steam (allowing for the aforementioned joining via profile), cloud saves, controller support, etc.

Right now Epic is missing many of these features and more. With that being said, what reason do I have to use Epic over Steam besides the fact that Epic has a few exclusives?

Comment · 8 years ago
It promotes athleticism, teamwork, and is generally enjoyable to those around it. Sure, some schools may invest a little too much into sports, but that doesn't mean that schools should drop sports entirely.
Comment · 8 years ago
This is a really bad post with a lot of completely needless personal attacks, with some coming right out of the gate.
Comment · 8 years ago
This is really cool! I've always dreamed of something like Google Docs for programmers.
Comment · 8 years ago
On one hand, this creates a platform that is more or less the standard of the web. On the other hand, this only gives Google more control of the web.

I really wish that instead of doing this Microsoft would just stick with EdgeHTML and maybe open-source it.

Comment · 8 years ago
> Find the one that is the most restrictive in what it protects and make that your policy. ;)

Pretty much. As an example, see how car manufacturers follow California's emission standards nationwide, because it's easier to just do it for every car than to make compliant cars just for California.

Comment · 8 years ago
The Internet Archive has been doing great work lately, between backing up arcade machines, to Winamp skins, and now this in addition to all the other cultural works they've backed up. I highly encourage donating if you have the extra cash.
Comment · 8 years ago
Exactly. There are often times where I get a blank page and have to refresh. Combine that with the fact that CPU usage is way higher on the redesign for me, and after about a month or so of testing it I reverted to the old design.

The fact that Reddit even considered making this the default design for logged out users is laughable.

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