>I don’t understand why people even use twitter at all at this point.
Because it hasn't really changed for me. Some things are better (less censorship), some things are worse (bots and spam). But the overall signal is the same.
All my friends are on there and haven't switched to another site. Some nice features are definitely getting removed from it though (like being able to hide a tweet so only a subset of your followers can see it).
That’s probably not it. I still have Twitter because the people I follow are on there (mostly music artists). I’ve never opened the algorithmic feed. There is also a huge chance that much of the activity you see are bots. I have 0 posts and 2000 followers somehow. No way they’re human
It's not it for you, but it sounds like you are more of an edge case. I think it is true for a lot of people.
I don't see any activity myself, I don't use Twitter any more. I had an addiction which peaked with the UK 2019 election and I had to quit after that. It's an awful drug which gives no high and terrible side effects.
Please be aware that the both of you don’t know, unless you’re not mentioning any studies on purpose. You’re both projecting your own subjective experience onto an entire community.
You're not the only one, I've had the same experience with matrix and there was a blog post at the top of HN a few months ago titled "The Matrix Trashfire".
What am I looking at? I can see it's a man page for some emulators but I feel like I'm missing some context. The site seems to be deliberately obtuse about what it is.
It's the man page for the Nintendo device emulators of 9Front. 9Front is a distribution of the Plan 9 operating system (most likely the most usable because it's the most actively developed one)
The link is interesting because these emulators seem to be part of the standard distribution of 9Front. Most likely those are written from scratch, given that Plan 9 is not a POSIX system (unless they are using http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/ape).
Without looking I'm going to guess that ape is A POSIX Emulator, so we have an emulator emulating an emulator.
Edit: it's A POSIX Environment, but it still contains features that are unnatural in Plan9 and could by bypassed with more work, so much like emulation.
Close. It’s ANSI/POSIX Environment. It’s been there since Plan 9 second edition. I think it was put there basically for TeX, but don’t quote me on that because I no longer remember where I read that and it isn’t in the original paper.
Which really means this is a terrible way to emulate games.
The bug list is pretty darn unacceptable for a usable emulator.
You can’t even emulate PAL region games.
It’s a nice novelty that this is built in to the OS but the Linux/Android retro handheld scene is so much more wildly sophisticated than a half-broken command line emulator. Just jump on YouTube and search for an OnionOS overview to see what I mean.
I’m pretty sure in the context of the manual it means PAL games don’t work.
Why can’t I compare them? If someone wants to emulate games they ought to compare operating systems. Like I said, cool that 9front has a built in emulator, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good use case of the OS.
I have been using matrix from time to time to chat with some folks who prefer matrix over other chat systems for reasons unknown.
Matrix is an absolute trash fire indeed. Every once in a while a chat session with someone just craps itself and my client is unable to decrypt received messages (both element and element x). The issue then usually fixes itself within a couple of days. The bad UX aside, a chat system should at let me reliably send and receive messages.
The other issues I had were related to the device verification. The last time I wanted to verify a new phone the verification request simply did not arrive on my other devices. At that point I gave up on matrix.
I have one of those and it’s exactly what I expected it to be. A fun gimmick but nothing I would use for more than 5 minutes at a time. It’s probably good for little kids.
> That's an interesting view. I tend to use Live Components whenever I'm rendering a list, because if you don't, you'll quickly notice how the entire list gets re-rendered and sent over the wire whenever one of the elements on the list changes.
The app probably uses something `navigator.language` to determine which unit to use. Unfortunately the browser doesn't expose any API to get the user's preferred measurement units. I assume it works for you because your browser locale is not en-us.
Downloading roms is certainly not illegal, sharing them is.
From my experience most older Nintendo games are not available for purchase. I would gladly pay to play classic Pokémon for example games on the switch (or on Steam).
And nintendo will later rerelease those classic pokémon games in some form and rake in money off people like you (and me). Waiting is part of their market strategy. The NES and SNES classic editions sold out quickly iirc; when the time is right, a gameboy classic might do the same.
