On Android we have five year old games disappearing from Play Store, including games you’ve previously bought, because Google cannot be assed to support older Android versions.

An unexpected obstacle! I kinda assumed that everyone in technology community would use an Android phone with a dark theme and a Linux emulator app.

Nothing stops you. The app is open-source, so you can add T9 swipe typing yourself.

Because there still are 12-button numerical keyboard phones with T9 text input.

Well, my Raspberry Pi 5 works perfectly.

Is it sleep mode not waking up?

The fork is a traditional tool for poking manure-code.

It’s hard to say until we have a working emulator. You don’t need CPU instructions translation, so it should not be 20X as the case with NES, however even with the same CPU architecture it takes 1.0 GHz host CPU to emulate 66 MHz machine, so it’s actually 15x multiplier.

PS5 emulation is a long ways off, because you generally need 2X faster processor to emulate any console processor.

PS5 has the same x86-64 CPU architecture as PC, but you still need 2X faster graphics card to emulate those fancy raytracing units.

It works over WiFi, so you can improve your coworkers’ mood with fancy flickering magenta illumination!

“New users” as you describe them don’t even know that the mouse wheel can be clicked at all. The only thing to be fixed is consistency with Ctrl-C clipboard.

Middle click was standard initially in Unix world, then Microsoft Office came with it’s Ctrl-C, and users now expect every text editor to support Ctrl-C to copy (and not abort the active command like all terminals do).

As if there’s any alternative to Android. Ubuntu Touch or KaiOS will allow you to send SMS and pretty much nothing else, opening email from a web browser will instantly dump 20% of your battery.

As for languages that are acceptable for business logic, C++ is lolno, Java is kinda surprisingly okay because so much business logic is already written in it and debugging is trivial, Python is not worse than Java for the same reason when you are using proper linter to catch typos, C# / Go / Ruby are probably the best because they are most modern with the lowest footgun ratio.

JSON-in-a-string is a commonplace method of having a generic or any type when you are too lazy to write a proper structure for it, or want to save an object into a database without creating an additional table. In all fairness it has nothing to do with the language itself, and more with lazy coders. Postgresql even have additional SQL operators to access individual JSON fields inside a record, so yeah, you can dump a whole new unstructured database into a row of your existing database, it’s totally an acceped practice.

I’ve successfully used pyenv in the past, although uv claims that it includes all pyenv functions and more.

It’s Javascript with types. You are still using one hundred NPM packages to do the simplest thing. Any string can be JSON. And Node is single-threaded, so if you plan to create some kind of parallel computation, you’d need to run 16 Docker containers of your Node server, one per CPU core, with NGINX or some other load balancer at the business end, and hope that your database engine won’t reorder transactions. And yeah, Docker is mandatory, because Node version in your latest Ubuntu release is already outdated.

TypeScript and safety-critical paths should not be in one sentence.

Wake me up when they recreate the ultimate power of Regedit.