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CouchDB (a no-sql db, but whatever) automatically provides a REST API that's designed to be exposed directly to clients. It even implements its own client-facing authentication system. "queries" are configured in advance from the admin side, and clients just pull the results, allowing for very efficient caching. Basically, if you RTFM enough to get a couchdb instance running, you have 90%-100% of your backend complete. You could create an entire scalable full-stack app using only client-side code... and if you're clever with HTMX, you might even be able to do it without writing any javascript at all! (I tried once, but failed because I'm not that clever, but it's definitely probably possible)

So TL;DR: I like couchdb, and the idea of exposing your database directly to users isn't unprecedented. I wonder if there are any SQL databases that offer a similar thing?

Eclipse Theia isn't classic Eclipse. It's basically a remake (not a fork) of VS Code, designed to be backwards compatible with VSC extensions. They even have their own plugin registry at https://open-vsx.org/ to avoid Microsoft's lock-in strategy that plagues forks like VSCodium.

The only Jetbrains product I've used is CLion, and I didn't like it because of how bloated it was. My PC fans would kick in every time I launched it, and none of the refactoring/auto-complete features were good enough to convince me to switch from Sublime Text + LSP plugin. At the same time, my work has forced me to become a build systems expert, so I have no problems having to set up everything myself. Project templates in Jetbrains IDEs may be a hard requirement for some, which I totally understand.

Use Sublime Text, or something opensource like Eclipse Theia.

Sure, you may have to learn how to configure the stuff IntelliJ does out of the box, but that will make you a better engineer so it's a win-win

Is it still fashionable to claim you were always an AI company, and just developed to build the capital to achieve your AI goals?

In any case, AI is (and always was) a meaningless buzz word. Worse, it's a pop-culture adjacent buzz word.

“I feel liberated,” one top banker told the paper. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled.… It’s a new dawn.”

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I don't think people realize how fucking smoothbrain incompetent the powerful and wealthy are. I think everyone understands that there is rampant nepotism in this country, but don't notice the scale of the problem. One of America's biggest weaknesses is the deference we give to people who have a lot of money, regardless of where that money came from.

These nepobabies will elect a fascist government that eagerly wipes it's ass with the US constitution, just so they can OwN tHe LiBs on social media. It's the type of thing that can only come from people who have never faced any kind if hardship or consequences in their lives. Who cannot even imagine that the same constitutional rights they're trying to trample are protecting them, because they can't imagine an existence where they need protection.

Fuck these clowns.

It sounds to me like you're looking for someone to give you permission to use AI code generation. If that's the case, then here you go:

I, Entwine, a professional software engineer, decree that DesertCryptid shall have permission to utilize any Artificial Intelligence product to generate code for his game starting today, and until we reach AGI (at which point my decree will hold no weight).

Anyone who disagrees with my decree shall have to face me in a code review (to the death)

No, I just don't like it. (I won't clarify why, because Godot has a bit of a toxic fan base, and I don't feel like dealing with that)

Just another game engine 🤷

I really hope so

I know, I've played with postmarket os before on an old Pixel. The issue is that the usability gap between even AOSP (which is barely usable) and the latest and greatest mobile linux distro is enormous. The issues that exist right now may or may not bother you and I, but they are showstoppers for normal people.

I just don't see what there is to be gained (for end users) from creating another Linux mobile OS instead of just building on top of AOSP. In theory, having a community-driven OS is a great idea because even a GPL fork of Android wouldn't survive long due to divergence/fragmentation. If a truly community-driven OS can achieve a sustainable development process, that'd be nice. However, in practice the evil stuff Google does is on the business side, not the code side. For example, if you port Phosh to Android as a custom launcher, you'd end up with a similar user experience, except with the added benefit of a phone that actually works and a massive ecosystem of working apps. Sure, you can't apt install blender, but nobody actually wants to run desktop apps on a smartphone.

And another thing is that a lot of the freedom-restricting bullshit on Android today is the fault of device manufacturers who lock the bootloader and make it difficult/impossible to run custom operating systems. Even if you build a feature-complete alternative to Android, you're still going to be struggling hard to get it running on real devices without buy-in from OEMs. How will you convince OEMs to ship your OS over Android? Answer: you won't.

So IMO, Postmarket OS and similar projects will only ever be toys for nerds like us who want to play with e-waste devices abandoned by the manufacturer.

Want to break Google's stranglehold on Android? Write to your representatives and start voting in more than just the presidential election (If you're American). We live in a democracy, and Google is obviously breaking antitrust laws. It's just that current politicians are corrupt and incompetent boomers who don't understand tech, and are more likely to listen to the billionaire's lobbyists than us internet nerds.

Besides myself, I think I've only ever met one or two other people who know enough about technology to even be capable of using something like that.

I don't think that's the right answer. Android isn't a good operating system, it's a great operating system for mobile. All these mobile Linux distro projects face a monumental challenge to reach parity with Android on almost any metric. Even if any one of them was backed by major investment, I don't think they'll ever succeed...and if they do, we'd just end up with multiple competing open source operating systems which just creates pointless fragmentation.

Android is open source, but it's held by an evil monopolist. The most effective path to freedom on mobile is legal/regulatory, and supporting efforts to break Google up. They've already been declared an illegal monopoly twice in two separate cases. The first one ended with a slap on the wrist, because the judge was a spineless coward. The second one is currently in the remedy phase, and hopefully will have a real impact.