Always hear about how theres to much competition to make an indie game, but when at least half of them are obviously trite it starts to paint a different picture.

If you touch computers enough to install homebrew you shouldve touched computers enough to find the real download link, or at least install ublock.

Oh no I’m not saying I like the situation, I’m just saying its currently the only good option if you want something that works this instant.

I love the idea of desktop Linux in my pocket, I daily drove an OG Pine Phone for a year. After a year for daily driving a Cosmo communicator.

The support just isn’t there and I really really wish it was. I honestly think the federal government needs to step in and fund FLOSS development, but lmao good luck, they don’t even pay for cancer treatments.

Grapheme runs tests on googles firmware regularly.

If it was actively doing something it shouldnt, they’d notice.

You could argue there could be something hidden in the firmware for use by the state when they REALLY REALLY REALLY want to get into something, and are willing to blow a good backdoor on it. But that’s also something you deal with on any modern PC, unless you wanna party like its 2011 and run an old FX-Series AMD chip, or a librebooted machine with ME Cleaner. (See Intel ME/AMD PSP)

I just bought a pixel 10a open box for like $350.

Like I get some people are stuck on Walmart specials, but how cheap does it need to be before its not considered a purchase for the privileged by you?

Its almost like governments can step in and limit the amount a single entity or company is allowed to buy, or make things cheaper/more expensive for certain customers via subsidy.

The US government has totally never done things like this to help turn a profit for oil execs.

Abso-fucking-lutely-not it isn’t.

Art is anything made by a sentient being with the intent of making you feel or think something.

I can write software in a way that makes you feel or think, especially when it comes to interacting with games.

Just because you don’t respect the art form, doesn’t mean the rest of us don’t.

As someone who puts their hobbiest projects out under AGPL, having my licenses teeth kicked in even more has NOT been helpful…

Why not?

God forbid we get our fucking hobbiest programming communities back.

Everyone always says shit like “its okay if games use ai for programming just not art, its not like its something the player interacts directly with anyway.”

Guess what? Programming is a fucking art form, and you literally interact with the code every keystroke.

Code is an art asset, using an LLM to generate it is artistically bankrupt.

It didn’t really learn to play doom so much as it learned to react to some electrical stimuli that happened to be hooked up to doom.

Like it responded right, but it didn’t have visual input for what it was found, or any way to conceive of what that stimuli actually meant.

Not a biologist but that’s seems like instinctual action, not intuitive action.

I think your discounting the amount I save on my heating bill.

Id prefer it if they where liquefied instead.