One project that can help with this is the OUI-SPY, a small piece of open source hardware. The OUI-SPY runs on a cheap Arduino compatible chip called an ESP-32. There are multiple programs available for loading on the chip, such as “Flock You,” which allows people to detect Flock cameras and “Sky-Spy” to detect overhead drones. There’s also “BLE Detect,” which detects various Bluetooth signals including ones from Axon, Meta’s Ray-Bans that secretly record you, and more. It also has a mode commonly known as “fox hunting” to track down a specific device.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice

I can tell you that when I use GameHub Lite on my Retroid 5, the stats widget sometimes shows Zink, along with DXVK, DXVK+, and VKD3D

Money-making is an orthogonal issue. LLMs subvert engagement with open source projects, which is important for their health whether or not there’s anyone trying to monetize that engagement.

“If you put money in a vending machine and got two items instead of one, would you put additional money in for the second item?”

That is wild.

The vending company factors this into the prices they charge for the items, the amount they spend on the machine to ensure accuracy, and the amount they pay the people who stock the machines to do it properly.

If you take it upon yourself to unilaterally re-balance the equation, you’re not being noble, you’re just a fool.

It’s classic MLM dynamics

• The money makes itself! It’s impossible to not make money with this system!
• You get to be the boss!
• If you’re not making money, you must be doing it wrong — my (paid) training course can help
• Heaps of unsold product rotting in garage/warehouse
• Religious-coded language
• Requires infinite growth to stay profitable for all current players
• FOMO, “getting in on the ground floor”
• Mid-levels taking huge financial risks to onboard more down-levels

Or the original upload: https://youtube.com/watch?v=39jsstmmUUs

Not to be confused with SOLID, SolidJS, or Solidity.

It’s a neat idea. Because of the need to operate on data close to web servers and backend services for potentially long timeframes, I think we’ll need a widely-adopted CRDT solution in order for something like Solid to really take off from a technical standpoint.

And from a business standpoint, there’s really no upside. Sure, you delegate some cost for storage, but compute tends to be the more expensive aspect, and if you’re spending more time to interact with these external data stores, it may be more expensive in the end.

It’s weird that “legacy code” is a pejorative.

If your code has lasted long enough to be considered “old”, but is still so useful that it can’t just be deleted without a dedicated replacement effort… it’s doing something right.

I’m gonna need to see that math

Conceptual analysis of proximity isn’t exactly what I expected to see when I joined Lemmy

But it’s… 😎 close

Gamehub Lite is pretty wild. It does take some fiddling, but it’s amazing how well (and relatively easily) you can get x86 Windows games to run on a $200 ARM Android device.

I’m 12/13 so far on getting games to work at an acceptable level.

Inexplicably, Vampire Survivors causes the entire device to crash. I guess they pull some pretty silly memory tricks to keep that game responsive with potentially hundreds of thousands of projectiles, so maybe it’s not so surprising.

Got Megabonk working on my Retroid, and can’t stop playing it. I thought I would try getting some other games going, but I just play Megabonk instead.

Opus Magnum

That game scratches my brain in such a satisfying way

Turns out we were better off piping data to /dev/null

Fuck AI

Sure, but do you need a discrete video card if you’re gaming on an ARM SoC? And we’ve seen from the struggles of x86 iGPUs that graphics APIs pretty much have to choose whether they’re going to optimize for dedicated VRAM or shared memory, cuz it has inescapable implications for how you structure a game engine. ARM APIs will probably continue optimizing for shared memory, so PCI-E GPUs will always be second-class citizens.

Nvidia does not care about the ISA of the CPU at all.

That’s kinda my point. They’re stuck communicating over PCI-E instead of being a first-class co-processor over AMBA.

1. Nvidia abandons x86 desktop gamers
2. The only hardware that gamers own are ARM handhelds
3. Some gamers stream x86 games, but devs start selling ARM builds since the x86 market is shrinking
4. AI bubble pops
5. Nvidia tries to regain x86 desktop gamers
6. Gamers are almost entirely on ARM
7. Nvidia pulls an IBM and vanishes quietly into enterprise services and not much else

Nix, but I’d only recommend it if you share my same brand of mental illness

They’ve been telegraphing this for a while — long before the RAM crisis