I think the inspiration behind uxn is game “Another World” which was made very portable as it is actually implemented as a VM: https://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons/
The idea is that if your work is implemented on a VM that is very easy to implement. Then you can port all your programs to past and future computer systems by just implementing that VM on the computer you have at hand. This is the “permacomputing” part of uxn and has nothing to do with reliability or performance (although Another World was quite impressive as for Amiga 500).
Another thing is that uxn was designed with games, arts and music in mind and not with replacing life critical systems with.
So what it says is:
- we will spy on you and sell data collected to unknown third parties for our profit, or you can’t use the TV
- you don’t own this product and we can take parts of it’s functionality away from you at any time for any reason
- we will make more money off you by selling ads directly to your screen based on data that we have collected on you to maximize our profit and effect of advertisement on you and your family for our partners gain
Yeah, still the case. Even if ME is not made for malicious purposes, it is a very bad idea to begin with. It is only useful for enterprise customers and not in a way that would not have been possible before.
Some say that Netflix has a blob in ME :)
Good watch: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8782-intel_me_myths_and_reality
Well, I switched to Wayland (sway) exactly because mpv could not do vsync with X11. So I guess frame callback is how you get vsync working by default and client timing loop is how you get no vsync by default. And getting the other than the default thing is always a major hack - in last 20 years I wasted days trying to get X11 do proper vsync and it never really worked and probably will never do work.
Another think is that in one paragraph the complaint is that Xorg supports to many features and on another that Wayland is slow to adopt and requires justification for adding more features… so have cake and eat it too?
Also please don’t complain about missing features when you know they are not there just because the thing did not get all the development time the other thing did… unless stuff is broken by design/culture (like with the scale factor it seems).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
If you are interested in learning, check out SDF’s Plan9 bootcamp running from June 20th: https://sdf.org/plan9/
I am no Android developer but apparently you can use Kotlin for that:
There were good reasons to think that silicon based electronics will have exponential advances (basically scaling down components makes them exponentially faster by default). Do we have similar physical properties of quantum computing tech? Perhaps silicon was special and now we are at the end of it with nothing that has this exponential property anymore to replace it.
The worse kind of technology is one that promises things and then delivers only 80% of the time. It works enough that it gives you hope that it is usable, but when you need it the most it fails without any way knowing why. Also Bluetooth is a security nightmare, every few months there is some serious problem found and many of them are “by design” so cannot be fixed properly. It is also use for location tracking (beacon).
Wired headphones are like 100x cheaper, don’t require charging and will work for many years if you get one with good cable. There are only few failure modes that are easy to troubleshoot. But cable management can be a pain if you are not tidy.