It depends entirely on the needs and skill of the developers. There’s no one size fits all.

Maybe. Depends on the use case.

• vi
• grep
• curl

They recently experienced an self-update hijack. Plenty of room for improvement.

I would recommend taking a crack at some frameworks and engines while simultaneously reading up on how games work (in general, as there are no hard rules).

Broadly speaking though, games are basically control systems. It’s one big loop where the output of the previous loop affects the state of the next loop.

Modern engines and frameworks schedule the game updates and rendering separately to provide better/consistent frame rates.

Some engines I’d recommend checking out:

• https://ebitengine.org/
• https://godotengine.org/

Honestly the UI is so slick even a one-user setup will benefit in my opinion. Even when not requesting media I use it extensively to look up actors and directors.

Possibly the best foss UX I’ve ever used.

Game dev is multidisciplinary but let’s get real, you need to know to code. Without this you won’t get far. Realistically it will take you years to learn the fundamentals.

Yep, totally fair question, and one that’s being tested legally on many fronts. Rulings are generally siding with AI companies on the training side (using copyrighted works to train models is fair use) but there aren’t many decisions yet about output. The next few years will be interesting.

Unlikely since, as you say, it would deter business. OpenAI already assigns rights of output to the end user according to their licensing and terms.

I feel like a lot of concepts are being conflated.

Plug and Play arrived. Windows abstracted everything. The Wild West closed. Computers stopped being fascinating, cantankerous machines that demanded respect and understanding, and became appliances. The craft became invisible.

I disagree with this. The craft is still alive and well, it’s just specialized. As complexities in approaches grow, it’s not possible for a single person to know every register of every subunit all the way up to high level application software in any reasonable manner. You can totally write your own bootloader for your current hardware. Nothing is stopping you. Is the argument that the financial utility is lowered? Is it that he chose voluntarily to focus on application layer development?

This is like someone who built their own bicycle lamenting they can’t do the same for a modern EV.

This is also my recommendation. Working with an OS on an SBC is fine but won’t give you the fundamentals like this.

The PIC family of micros are also great. I also recommended trying a few assembly programs to get a feel for those induction sets.

I’ve been around long enough to question this kind of advice. It depends, in so many ways, on the goals, strategies, and platforms.

I think that’s how this meme is mostly used (least knowledgeable to most) but if we are getting pedantic we have to acknowledge the axis is labeled.

In fairness I know very few people writing code when development isn’t their profession, for any language.

I’ve not worked anywhere that didn’t own/maintain their own source control. Even privately I self host gitea.

Don’t be a stupid shit. You use things on the daily without full comprehension of them.

I wasn’t aware. Which ones?

Davinci Resolve is also free and supports Linux. Maybe the best non-adobe video editor I’ve ever used. I do use kdenlive for smaller jobs but davinci is on another level entirely.

I’ve got a host running FreeBSD, I use it for pfsense. It’s probably my most reliable machine. Limited use case but would recommend.