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I know this is probably not as easy as it is in my head, but doesn't xbox have a .net runtime? It would completely take away the portability aspect, but if the original 360 port was handled in house I could totally see them using that weird Java on .net thing in at least some capacity

At least for libraries, Java was actually pretty good for game development at the time iirc (Admittedly, I wasn't there, so I could be misled). It was kinda your only option if you didn't want to use C++

The developers are used to Java, and as someone who's worked with both Java and C++, Java is simply better for the kind of iterative development minecraft seems to do. From what I've seen (which admittedly isn't much more than the public facing history and the minecraft live/minecon events), there isn't really a strict roadmap and they seem to value messing with features a lot. Also, the game was only rewritten in C++ to support multiplatform ports, and bedrock isn't even the first time they did it (though, the other C++ versions, also known as legacy console, weren't handled in house). The existence of a windows version is a strange curiosity stemming from the microsoft buyout and their ability to do so since that codebase is insanely portable.

Also, mojang (not microsoft) really appreciates modders, which java edition is strictly superior for

(eh, most people I know occasionally touch the snapshots for new features. Way back when the nether was updated, nobody I knew was on the release version because the nether was simply so much better that it was hard to play the older versions)

You've clearly never been saved by a random .patch from pastebin, have you

That and Webkit on unix is almost entirely worked on by GNOME people

I mean, at this point Kagi could probably start their own, and there are plenty of smaller indexes (Mojeek, Yep, and Marginalia come to mind)

I feel like even this simplifies the issue somewhat. While we can argue for days on whether or not this war is justified in any way, anyone with any glimpse of sanity can see that this is not an appropriate reaction to any such circumstances that may have contributed to the war. That's not to mention the actions of the russian military itself

I really, really hope they release the source for this, if not just the code for extensions so Epiphany can finally be usable for more than basic websearch

Oh FFS no it isn't chinese propaganda or whatever, people are just fed up with slop

Nintendo will always exist, which I'm mostly okay with

On a small display that I usually want to watch digital movies on, it's fine. 720p is the minimum for anything I actually want to watch/enjoy watching. Like I said, a lot of stuff I have on DVD is stuff that is good to have that I'll probably never watch regularly

no, I've found many an album on youtube that isn't anywhere else and was uploaded by a random guy 10 years ago

Give me a break. CDs aren't compressed and sound flawless if the mixing is good. it also isn't dependent on things like the quality or age of the disc. And sure, a bad player might sound a bit worse than a high quality one, but that mostly comes down to the DAC in it, whereas with vinyl depends on the player a lot more by virtue of being a mechanical format

This! The only album I consider perfect (Regional at Best by Twenty Øne Piløts) is only available on I think Deezer?

not to mention minidisc, which was pretty much exclusively used as a format to copy your CDs to

Please do! New releases aren't exactly cheap, but places like goodwill are practically giving them away. Make a list of albums you want, spend a day going to charity/pawn shops, and get what you can. If you can't find it, see what it costs on discogs, and buy it there if it's reasonable. I've gotten to the point that the only albums I have exclusively digital are those that cost an arm and a leg otherwise

I still borrow CDs to rip, lol. Half my digital music library comes from my library having a way better library of music than books (at least for my taste)

Still why I like DVDs. Smaller in size, easy to rip, and 480p is good enough that I don't mind the quality loss. Blu-ray is great, but if I'm buying something I'm not sure about or just want to have because it's worth having, DVD all the way

Obviously it stands for Ghat Phat That. Obviously

People with too much money to burn and not enough brains to use it on something better

Or a microcontroller and some buttons for 10

To be fair, it is a relatively weak one that people claim has medicinal benefits

You've never been to Japan then, have you?

Figure out a less slavey way to deal with addiction

Adafruit has a pretty cool esp32 based board with a circular touchscreen and dial

It's dumb anyway. Iirc the -gotchi part comes from the Japanese transliteration of the english word "watch". Unless your program's a pocket watch of some kind as well as a virtual pet, it's just a tama

It is a possibility, just not one I see as likely to happen. Could the EU fund a public phone company? Probably. Will it happen? Most likely not

I've done the same. I have a 4G flip phone from some brand (I think it's AGM?) and it's fine. I've recently thought about going back to a 2G phone while I still can, as my phone carrier still has 2G where I live (they've talked about shutting it down many times, and have begun doing so)

I don't disagree, but the eu needs their own mobile OS alternative in general so if they absolutely need to rely on a private company, it isn't an american one