Comment Re: Apple doesn't have any games (Score 1) 19

by Nadir on Saturday August 22, 2026 @02:36AM (#66301392) Attached to: Apple Cuts Jobs In Siri, Vision Pro Immersive Video and Gaming Teams

The GPU is more than capable. Nobody wants to code against Metal, though.

Comment I red that as... (Score 1) 19

by Nadir on Friday August 21, 2026 @12:37PM (#66300206) Attached to: Reverse-Lookup Service Exposed Millions of Photos of People's Faces

Millions of Photos of People's Feces

Comment Re:Sell it for $350... (Score 1) 89

by Nadir on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @04:27PM (#66118932) Attached to: Apple Gives Up On the Vision Pro After M5 Refresh Flop

What about the $700 for the Mac Pro Wheels kit ?

Comment Re:Explains a lot (Score 1) 98

by Nadir on Monday January 19, 2026 @03:49PM (#65935342) Attached to: Netflix Wants Plots Explained Multiple Times Because Viewers Are on Their Phones, Matt Damon Says

I don't know what ST:Discovery you watched, because I found it pretty awful.

Comment Re:They are super super far-left. (Score 3, Insightful) 92

by Nadir on Friday October 17, 2025 @11:42AM (#65732008) Attached to: Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

You call it "leftist", I call it "fact". The conservative slant is always going to get things wrong.

Comment Japanese ? (Score 1) 34

by Nadir on Friday August 08, 2025 @03:40AM (#65574634) Attached to: First Ever Reviews of Mario and Zelda

Wouldn't the first ever reviews of Nintendo games be Japanese ?

Comment Re:FF is in a mediocre state (Score 1) 240

by Nadir on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @10:00AM (#65458123) Attached to: 'Firefox Is Dead To Me'

You can now run extensions in Firefox on Android

Comment Re:PSA: Use OpenJDK...everyone does! (Score 1) 30

by Nadir on Saturday June 14, 2025 @05:15AM (#65448865) Attached to: UK Universities Sign $13.3 Million Deal To Avoid Oracle Java Back Fees

Oracle are actually quite good as stewards for OpenJDK: the platform has been improving steadily. The problem is Oracle Java.

Comment Re:TFS is an odd read. (Score 4, Insightful) 41

by Nadir on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @11:26AM (#65289717) Attached to: India's 'Frankenstein' Laptop Economy Thrives Against Planned Obsolescence

Friends don't let friends use the abandoned Apache OpenOffice, but suggest Libreoffice instead

Comment Re:Give Windows a try...see if you still dislike M (Score 1) 85

by Nadir on Friday March 28, 2025 @02:10PM (#65265773) Attached to: 'Apple Needs a Snow Sequoia'

Intellij crashing daily ? I run it on Linux and it never ever crashes (I have 4 projects open, one of which with 1M lines of code).

Comment Re: A Razzie Award for UI (Score 2) 72

by Nadir on Monday March 03, 2025 @01:58AM (#65206295) Attached to: Blender-Rendered Movie 'Flow' Wins Oscar for Best Animated Feature, Beating Pixar

Yes.

Comment Meloni has denied this (Score 2) 27

by Nadir on Thursday January 09, 2025 @09:13AM (#65074927) Attached to: Italy Plans $1.6 Billion SpaceX Telecom Security Deal

In an interview today, Italian PM Giorgia Meloni has denied talking to Musk about Starlink in her recent trip to Mar-a-lago to discuss the arrest of Italian journalist Cecilia Sala in Iran.

Comment Re:Y2K was a PC/Windows problem..... (Score 1) 134

by Nadir on Monday December 30, 2024 @12:41PM (#65050489) Attached to: 'Y2K Seems Like a Joke Now, But in 1999 People Were Freaking Out'

The problem was with databases, mainframes, all sorts of stuff. And Macs.

Comment Re:ORACLE = One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison (Score 1) 76

by Nadir on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @11:15AM (#64632579) Attached to: Latest MySQL Release is Underwhelming, Say Some DB Experts

Yeah, that's because it supports MVCC. And vacuuming is automated unless you want to control it. Go back to your toys.

Comment What about Tiny-LFU ? (Score 2) 24

by Nadir on Monday July 01, 2024 @03:29AM (#64591469) Attached to: Caching Is Key, and SIEVE Is Better Than LRU

Where is the comparison with Caffeine ? https://github.com/ben-manes/c...