The crispy aliasing of the audio has always felt cozy to me. It’s also a bit of a signature of the system, like the wobbly polygons on PS1. I appreciate that there are ways to change the sound, but it feels a bit rude to label it broken or defective.

I strongly disagree here. I was so hyped for the GBA that I bought it on release day, only to be disappointed later. One of reasons is the lackluster sound; seriously, Nintendo had already built an impressive sound system for the SNES, and then the GBA just had a software-driven DAC? Why did the cheapened out so much?

Same as for the PS1, I always found the wobbly polygons and warping textures painful to watch.

Sony made the SNES sound chip, and the GBA was power-constrained by AA batteries. Those are the two biggest reasons I can think of just off the top of my head.

I know, but I think that a simple 8-channel ADPCM mixer would not have taken a lot of power, and would have resulted in much better sound.

It would be interesting to show the effect of the feature in a video. I can appreciate the theory, but a video would sell it better.

I think they're showing it in the two videos on the page, though it's a bit subtle.

From what I understand, they were struggling to have good color resolution (distinguishable colors) at lower brightnesses. The first video demonstrates that well, especially if you look at red, which seems to be almost the same pale red color throughout the 10 or so LEDs that color occupies.

The second video, I assume, is after the temporal dithering is applied. If you focus on red again, you can see a much more smooth transition from red, to magenta, to blue.

Boyscouting works because you don’t need to get permission to fix tech debt when it is bundled with something else. 98% of those tickets you file to fix warts will never be addressed because the business demands that time is spent on features that make money.

Isn't the point of OP of this thread that most of those wart-fixes are pointless?

I tend to agree, if you can't sell it as a ticket you probably shouldn't work on it. And "boyscout" PRs are pain to review.

Wholeheartedly agree. This issue comes up in job interviews and forces people into faking confidence in spite of not knowing. Honest people be damned if they give the impression of anything less than absolute confidence.

Just an anecdote, but the Arc A380 on my kids’ Fedora gaming PC has run everything on our Steam library just fine. A mix of older and more recent titles. I’m sure there are games that don’t work well, but it was cheap and it’s been rock solid.

I might be a minority here, but I don't really consider the Android OS a feature I want. As a Remarkable 2 owner, I've come to really appreciate the long battery life and purpose built OS. There are no "app" distractions, and it has become an essential part of my daily work flow for note taking and e-book reading.

I wish Daylight success, but at their price, its not a compelling offer for me.

Yeah I was surprised to see it ran Android after watching the trailer showing a lady doom-scrolling on her iPhone before accepting the warming comfort of using the Daylight. Another trailer showed happy contemporary hippies in the forest, or their modern workspace with more plants than walking space.

I figured it was a breath of fresh air from modern devices because it was simpler in its capabilities. But if it's running Android it seems like you'd just be doomscrolling in black and white.

Seems like something that could be solved pretty easily by having self-control and not installing those apps on the device.

Besides, I would have no interest in doom-scrolling black and white anyway. My app timers on my phone, when they switch to greyscale, I immediately lose interest on whatever it was.

System Settings > Workspace Behaviour > General Behaviour: In "Clicking files and folders" then switch the option from "Selects them" to "Opens them".

I like that when KDE expresses an opinion in its defaults, they are user-malleable.

Since we know is a central thing on which many users wish to change it, the option is also right there in the first page when you open System Settings

This is a great use of the format. I love to see novel uses of existing technologies.

Hard pass for me due to the electron based client.

This is great! I always felt like cut was really handicapped by lack of negative indexes.

The biggest handicap of cut for me has always been that it cannot split on blanks (TABs or SPACEs), you have to choose between TAB or SPACE. So I wrote an awk script that can print field ranges like cut, but recognizes blanks. Now I will see if I can get tuc worked into my muscle memory.

I usually just pipe through sed to normalize the separators before applying cut.

That's also a little awkward, when there could easily be an option to split by all blanks.

I’m not defending cut here, but using sed is also pretty straightforward and fits its purpose. I’d argue that using the existing general-purpose tools is better than creating custom narrow-purpose tools in simple cases like this one. Besides maintainability and familiarity, it also exercises your proficiency in applying the standard tools.

You have a point, of course.

awk can do something like negative indexes if needed:

  $ echo "a b c" | awk '{print $(NF-1)}'
  b

When I want to use negative indices, I pipe the string through rev first, then do my cut, then rev again

That's the classic solution but blows up when using multibyte characters since rev just reads the bytes in each line in reverse.

What do you mean by negative indexes?

I believe "negative index" means array[-1] is the last element in array, array[-2] is the second-to-last element, etc.

In the context of "cut", it would mean being able to do something like:

cut -d" " -f1--2

the "-f1--2" (read: fields from 1 to minus 2; it's a range) means to select from the first field to the second-to-last field. (that double "--" is pretty awkward, to be sure!)

Some programming languages (ruby is the one that I know) have this feature for accessing array elements.