arran 🇦🇺

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  • I think it was smart phones which killed the handheld market, but the switch matches your usecase well and there are plenty of handheld devices on aliexpress (usually emulators.) However you might be giving the games that worked on small screens a little too much credit. They were good for what they were at the time, but hand helds were mostly good for puzzle like games, and a lot of platformers did work in a severely cut down fashion.

    TBH laptops becoming a dominate platform probably had a major impact too on handheld devices.

    But I do strongly agree with the touched upon idea that graphics and 3d platformers/fps has been a major cause of the general decline of diversity in gaming, in a way that even impacts indie. It feels like make design itself has decided there isn’t anything better than a FPSRPG.













  • I mean there is only so many ways of representing a data structurally clearly. I find that yaml is good enough but like XML leads to a lot of bloat, but unlike XML isn’t nearly as complicated. I’m not sure making it a library resolves the issue better than creating a custom grammar that appropriately accommodates what people want to express in the language easily, make the possible and desired easy, the impossible and undesirable states hard if not unrepresentable. I mean having a custom language does allow for loops, and functions which isn’t something I find I need too much in CI. Perhaps templating / functions but having a full Turing complete language leads the way for bad states / nonideal uses.







  • arran 🇦🇺@aussie.zonetoLinux@lemmy.mlTool to automate Linux reinstall?
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    There is a lot but I think you will find a lot of them more enterprise focused rather than consumer. For apps installed to home, why aren’t you preserving your /home partition? For system apps, could you create an image? (Although it should be basically a one liner?) There is a lot of missing detail, why are you reinstalling, what distribution(s)?

    It’s probably better to write a script in a repo that downloads and installs everything…

    Then for configuration files create a dotfiles repo. I use chezmoi but there are a bunch of solutions for this.