Had to look this one up to understand it.
Given the spread of expertise in this community, I think that’s probably the experience of all of us at least every other post
Had to look this one up to understand it.
Given the spread of expertise in this community, I think that’s probably the experience of all of us at least every other post
Shattered pixel dungeon has been a mainstay on my phone for what feels like a decade now
I guess the main ones for me are the improved federation capabilities (wordpress, discourse, etc) and the image proxying. But there’s a few smaller nice-to-haves too.
I’m assuming this isn’t also the update to 0.19.5
No rush or anything, but do you have a rough ETA for when that is planned?
Why the fuck did I never think of this—I was out there buying floppies like an absolute rube
Holy shit, I did my equivalent of this class over 2 decades ago and I remember this bloody joke.
Whoever wrote that book has got a lot of mileage from it
Edit: oh the screencap is older than a decade lol
Ah fair play, I didn’t realise unrar was from the same guy, cheers for the extra context.
So I guess we go back to what else it could be:
There’s probably other reasons I’ve not thought of, but just a couple of the above are enough to explain it IMO
We’re talking about Android, unrar doesn’t have anything to do with this really.
RAR is and will continue to be a proprietary format with an owner who can seek royalties.
It’s like saying Google should stop licensing MPEG because ffmpeg exists—it simply doesn’t work like that
And there’s not really any money to be made charging licenses to open source projects—see ffmpeg/vlc
Google including it in android though means they can charge licenses as a per unit fee because, basically, Google (or phone manufacturers) is a company with money.
I think a big part of it for RAR specifically is that it’s a proprietary format that would technically require Google to license it, and for the tiny percentage of users that would benefit, they don’t bother.
A seemingly random but relevant example is the Japanese travel card situation with Pixel phones—every pixel on the planet has the necessary hardware to support Japanese travel cards since the pixel 6, however only pixel phones bought in Japan can use the feature (locked by the OS) because it would mean Google would have to pay a per-device cost worldwide.
This is kinda a similar situation I’d bet, they’ve proven they would rather not include the feature than pay for licensing
I suppose you’d fall into my “you’d install a file manager app if you actually needed it” category
People don’t tend to need to browse local archive formats on their phones I guess, and if they do, they’ll have a file manager app with support.
There’s support for some formats if your files are in cloud storage like Google drive, which is a more likely use case for phone users
Dicksplash is not in common usage, but it’s real
Not that they were a great company to begin with, but nice one Mike Ashley, killed off another brand basically
That’s a weird emoji to use for elixir
The crazy thing is they are basically selling the same models this whole time too
You don’t need to be skilled in something to get enjoyment out of it
Likewise you don’t necessarily get enjoyment out of something just because you’re skilled in it.
Not allowed to credit the site in your text editor?
Is the owner in the room with you now?