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You’re done with the useless discussion you started yourself? Oh no! What shall I do?

heterophobic.

My man just managed to write the dumbest comment I’ve ever read on Lemmy, congrats. I wonder how long it will take for somebody to overtake your achievement.

FPGAs can absolutely be used to provide cycle accurate hardware replacements.

And the sky is bright blue. Who said otherwise?

easier to achieve cycle-accurate execution than can be achieved with emulation.

Good thing my comment never claimed software emulation is easier then. Do if you are trying to “correct” somebody, I can do the same: FPGAs are still emulation.

I’m not claiming FPGAs are a magic bullet

Then your comment isn’t relevant, because the only thing my comment ever said is to be careful with the marketing and comments claiming FPGAs are instantly accurate and perfect hardware clones.

but when it comes to offering a retro gaming experience they offer a number of advantages

Thanks ChatGPT

accuracy that is incredibly difficult to achieve with emulation

FPGAs are emulation. Also, given an arbitrarily powerful CPU, there’s always a way to perfectly recreate the same result in software. It just obviously isn’t practical for complex systems.

on the accuracy of the core on the FPGA.

Or in other words, FPGAs aren’t miracle hardware clones and depend on the quality of their programming. Exactly as I said, got it.

Your comparison of GBA on dsi is kinda like saying “my dos games didn’t work well on my windows 2000 computer” same cpu sure, but OS and hardware ‘locations’ aren’t necessarily the same.

Which is why I mentioned it’s an hypervisor, not running as if it were natively supported. It’s more analogous to original hardware than a FPGA, though. Your analogy to DOS and Windows 2000 however shows you really do not understand how GBA2Runner or FPGAs work in general.

Your comment is got any point or it’s just these two incoherent sentences?

Even hypervisors can have software bugs - running GBA games on the ARM9 core in the DSi is possible and even closer to “actual hardware” than a FPGA, but there are still weird side cases and glitches that only happen on this setup rather than actual GBA hardware.

FPGAs aren’t some magical hardware clone that bypasses software issues.

The only reason we still have this plugin paradigm is because that’s how N64 emulator culture evolved over time. That’s deliberate though, there’s no “mess” here.

I can easily download a cycle-accurate N64 emulator that depends on zero plugins. However, being the N64, it obviously takes a lot of power to emulate in such an accurate way.

Well, if you look at my downvotes and read the upvoted reply below, you’ll see you do not exist! Yes, apparently regular users do not have hardware that requires any out of tree drivers. Your very reasonable 2.5gbe card probably does not exist, it’s all a product of your imagination! Bazzite is perfect!

They did try loot and difficulty changes that are closer to Diablo II in style. Players moaned endlessly until they gave up.

if you need specific drivers that arent in a generic kernel you’re already out of everyday user territory even on a normal distro.

People will say some absurd statement like this one and then pretend to be confused when Linux adoption fails to grow faster.

That’s why we got dem tar and dnf

On Fedora, sure. Not Bazzite, on Bazzite you’d need distrobox to use it - users barely understand what Linux is, good luck with distrobox instructions.

I’ve also been able to find 99% of what I need through discover.

If what you need is Discord and Chrome, sure.

When you need specific drivers things change dramatically. And some packages technically exist as Flatpaks, but with permission issues that no regular user is ever fixing

I’d say their software limitations are the reason they failed, not the keyboard. In fact, people really liked the final BlackBerry devices with Android and a keyboard, but at that point the company was already gone.

But while iPhones were at the boom of Fruit Ninja, Angry Birds, iBeer and using Skype, and Google’s Android looked like ass but already had ad-infested versions of the same titles, BlackBerry had… corporate messaging? A really robust email app, I guess?

I hate to go against the flow here, but I absolutely do not recommend Bazzite as a desktop OS. Surely as a living room or handheld PC thing, but not your main OS.

Immutable distros create a lot of pain when you need a package outside of the also problematic Flatpak world, and whilst there are ways to install them on Bazzite, regular users with no Linux knowledge would scream.

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Misbehaving pets can be sent to Mars for training

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There was a “ultra private” messaging app that was actually created by a US state agency to catch the shady people who would desire to use an app promising absolute privacy. Operation “Trojan Shield”.

The FBI created a company called ANOM and sold a “de-Googled ultra private smartphone” and a messaging app that “encrypts everything” when actually the device and the app logged the absolute shit out of the users, catching all sorts of criminal activity.

I have no proof, but I do have a small list of companies I actually suspect of pulling a similar stunt… perhaps not necessarily attached to the FBI or any other agency, but something about their marketing and business model screams “fishing for people who have something to hide”

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I already dislike ads in general, but ads on things I pay for, be it physical goods or digital services, is crossing a line I find unacceptable.