odbol

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[–] odbol 3 points 2 years ago

Heck I would settle for just seeing a post from a person once I my feed, instead of seeing the last reply, then other posts, then the second-to-last reply, then after a lot more scrolling finally seeing the original post.

The problem with chronological feeds is that prolific posters in your timezone just take it over and you never see stuff from people in other timezones or infrequent posters.

[–] odbol 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's wild that shared ptr is so inefficient. I thought everyone was moving towards those because they were universally better. No one mentions the performance hit.

[–] odbol 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I used to write a lot of performance-critical Java (oxymoron I know) for wearables, and one time I got a code reviewer who only did server-side Java, and the differences in our philosophies were staggering.

He wanted me to convert all my code to functional style, using optionals and streams instead of simple null checks and array iterations. When explained that those things are slower and take more memory it was like I was speaking an alien language. He never even had to consider that code would be running on a system with limited RAM and CPU cycles, didn't even understand how that was possible.

[–] odbol 9 points 2 years ago

I'm flabbergasted we're getting no metroidvania love in here so I'll list my two favorites: Hollow Knight and Blasphemous. Both with sequels coming out this year which I'm so excited about!

[–] odbol 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I like that idea. A twist on it would be to divide the votes on a post by the total vote count or user count for that instance, so each instance has the same proportional say as any other. e.g. if a server with 1000 people gives 1000 upvotes, those count the same as a server with 10 people giving 10 votes.

[–] odbol 1 points 2 years ago

I've never played Bloodborne, but your description reminds me of a game I just played: Blasphemous. The art direction and story is sooooo cool and gory and medieval. It's a metroid-style platformer, and the voice acting and script is really good. The second one is coming out in the fall and I am so stoked to get it

[–] odbol 1 points 2 years ago

It's good for Thread users because they will have an open API where they can download all their content and/or move to other instances freely. Cory Doctorow talks a lot about how Interoperability is the most important part for truly open social networks.

[–] odbol 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does it have a feature where you can feed fake GPS locations and contacts to apps that require those permissions to work? Loved that in some old Android ROMS

[–] odbol 51 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Is this an ad for something or just trying to spread general fear and panic?

[–] odbol 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's the offical Android app for Lemmy? I've only tried the web app on Lemmy.world which has a pretty awful UI.

[–] odbol 2 points 2 years ago

My Roku stick doesn't seem to have ads. But I recently switched to a Google Chromecast TV and like it the most. Better interface and more features than Roku (e.g. Bluetooth). The one thing that's worse is the remote.

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