I think it’s just that the iPhone processing gives it a certain look that people associate with ai for possibly incorrect reasons.

I think the average American is making just about enough to get by, and probably would have a hard time, though not an impossible one, affording an extra ~$2k a year. (I can’t find a solid figure for the average household living wage in the US, but from what I’ve seen it’s pretty close to the average household income)

It is a bit weird to define above average wage as rich though. But there is really no definitive class border so I think it’s slightly useless to argue about. You can also define above average as rich while still directing your hate towards the .1%.

Also I don’t really detect any hate there?

I feel like generally a good way to summarize it is that em dashes can be used basically anywhere there would be a pause in natural conversation. You pause to include some content, you switch topics, etc. It’s fairly intuitive.

I have this chromebook that has some weird keyboard setup where depending on the keys you’re trying to press you might be able to press 7 or you might just be able to press two out of the three. IIRC your scenario probably would have worked fine, I think they probably gave it better abilities in that area of the keyboard.

Anyways, there’s always autohotkey for setting up macros

The giant is easy. The ground is easy. The lava though… Do you want the particles to stick together? To visually connect? To collide with each other? To interact with dynamic objects?

Game design is a big part of this too. Particularly first person or other fine camera control feels very bad when mouse movement is lagging.

I agree with what the other commenters are saying too, if it feels awful at 45 fps your 0.1% low frame rate is probably like 10 fps

You’re still perfectly visible in shadows and reflections. Anyone who catches you in a mirror will see you completely naked.

Ambient light occlusion counts too, the area covered by your feet looks perfectly black.

Edit: You can create this scenario pretty easily in Blender. Here’s what it might look like:

Is that a term people use to describe eating in real life? Not just Minecraft?

The ice created has an index of refraction of 1 and extremely low surface reflectivity. It is almost impossible to see and can appear anywhere within 5 meters of you.

Does a capacitor count?

xkcd.com/1203

I recently switched to Android. IPhones work great, the hardware is all there, the software is probably more polished, etc… but on Android you can get the phone to do basically anything with a bit of effort. There’s an app that lets you easily install most linux packages, and one that can emulate most Windows apps and games. There’s a ton of open source software, and you can actually find apps that don’t shove in-app purchases in your face (because devs don’t have to pay $100 a year just to stay on the store)

I got PrusaSlicer to work on my phone, through the Windows emulator, and sliced one relatively complex 3D model with it. For some reason it crashed every time I tried to start it after that, but it’s still pretty neat that it worked at all. PrusaSlicer has a linux build for ARM so whenever I find the time to set up one of those linux desktops on my phone I’ll probably try that.

A lot of people play online games. They aren’t exactly rare.

Something that is actually a lot less used (and probably a lot of effort to maintain as well) is webxr. It’s a cool technology but not very useful right now (although I could imagine it becoming more important in the future)

Why is webgl garbage? You don’t think 3d online games should be able to exist?

Yes, 1 just looks like the bare minimum stamped sheet metal

You can’t really kill a programming language though

Companies are going to continue using it just because it’s what they used before

Linux is between the requirements of a raspberry pi pico and a raspberry pi zero I would say

Although some crazy person did get Linux running on an esp32 once

I agree, you can use an old desktop, laptop, or if you don’t have something I had good luck with the local university surplus store.

If you’ve seen that blue-ness in the sky you’ve seen air.

Just scoot forwards a bit?