DarkMetatron

joined 5 months ago
[–] DarkMetatron 8 points 4 months ago (10 children)

The problem with cloning would also be that a clone of a human is a human with all rights and limitations, the "buddy" would be a slave.

[–] DarkMetatron 12 points 4 months ago

Where are the infectious prions coming from if it is lab grown meat? There should be the same risks with any other lab grown meat then, because prions are not something special to only human meat.

[–] DarkMetatron 21 points 4 months ago

If you get paid for it you are a whore, if you do it as a hobby you are a slut.

The stigma is there, regardless of the money aspect. They will just use a different word.

[–] DarkMetatron 2 points 4 months ago

Ja, ich verstehe schon wie es dazu gekommen ist und warum es eingesetzt wird. Aber trotzdem finde ich es persönlich sehr schade. Dinge ändern sich, und das ist oft auch sehr gut so weil sonst gäbe es ja Stagnation, und das kann man auch nicht wirklich ändern oder verhindern, aber gefallen muss es mir ja nicht. 🙀😔

[–] DarkMetatron 2 points 4 months ago

My oldest running system is a Commodore 64C with a 1541-2 floppy drive but that is for years only a nice accessories on my wall, because my MiSTer Multisystem completely replaced that (and my Amiga 500 and my SNES and all other retro consoles I own) in every way.

[–] DarkMetatron 1 points 5 months ago

Sounds complicated and like a lot of potential legal trouble, have it done by their own staff seems easier.

[–] DarkMetatron 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There are not much good commercial emulator projects, and open source emulators are not easy to license due to the nature of the open source licences (often GPL 2 or 3) used.

[–] DarkMetatron 1 points 5 months ago

Sorry then, English is not my native tongue so most likely it got lost in internal translation.

[–] DarkMetatron 1 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I would not say everyone but everyone in power is incompetent and dumb.

The normal employee who just hast to do as told can only do as told and if that means that all the good features and functionalities are out of scope then that it is. It has nothing to do with the competence or intelligence of the employee

[–] DarkMetatron 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

FOSS developers have no cost reporting, no meetings with C level and stakeholders, no shareholders, no release plans, no schedules. What they have is passion.

They just created what they want to create, they have a deep personal agenda to make something they want to use for themselves and that has to have therefore the polish and quality they want to have it to have.

The corporate developers wanted to make a good product too I am very sure, but if the higher ups say that it has to be released by a fixed date then there is not much that the developers can do about it.

So yes, the company has no real excuses, besides money.

[–] DarkMetatron 49 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

Creating a good emulator takes a lot of time and money, and that I think is the true reason why.

What they have released is a MVP, a minimum viable product, it checks all the boxes for a releaseable thing and that's what the higher ups, the product leads and other finance stakeholders want to hear.

Additional features or proper scaling? Yeah, nice we put that on the list for MVP+, for sure! When will that come? Nobody knows and we have no development time to work on it because now with the release the focus was shifted to the next project, but it is on the list and we will come back to it.

I have heard that so often in so many projects I was part of, as a grunt with no power, and for nearly all of them I still wait for the MVP+ time to ever happen.

[–] DarkMetatron 3 points 5 months ago

I quite often recommend the atomic flavors of Fedora to people and have it set up for a few people (my mother for example). I think atomic distributions are perfect for tech unsavory people, because they can't really damage anything and it mimics/reproduces lots of the things they are already used from their phones.

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