Personally I don’t consider it a con unless rampant. However in many cases they’ve dumped the projects. It is effort that could have helped along another project.

imo the negative side effect is the wasted effort and the abandonment.

Same, I was very sad wheb they gave up in Unity8. I do check in often on the project as I felt it provided a very good mobile experience.

The thing is. Snaps isn’t the first controversy.

Canonical, with Ubuntu early on was helping drive things forward, but they reached a point where they started to do things their own way with disregard to the broader ecosystem.

Each time they did this, they cause fragmentation, struggled, and then deferred to the choice the rest of the ecosystem has. The problem with this is that they’re not sharing their effort, they’re just throwing it away.

They merely doubled down hard on snaps which is the latest controversy.

Snaps have their own advantages, but Canonical owns the store. Which becomes its own stalewort

It’s great with navi, its also great at finding businesses, even offline.

Organic has saved my tail a few times in state parks where I didn’t have cell service. I tell everyone I know to install it just in case of emergency.

It can be more up to date, or out of date depending on the area. I pair it with Street Complete, which makes it easy to update info, or notifies you information you could provide.

Its gotten very slow and laggy and crashes often.

In my experience, ever since the layoffs, most google apps have had a negative experience.

Gmail layout shifts when selecting now. Maps crashes or displays the PIP ui by mistake. Too Many extra clicks added to maps as well. It’s more confusing to navigate.

YouTube… The ad nonsense. One could go on

I wanted to like Steep but the Controller experience, even on the Steam deck is so horrible I didn’t last a full hour

But I need that to block the 15 bots that follow me each day

I definitely encourage it!

It’s one of the most polished games I’ve played, that is currently in circulation, as of the 2.0 update. I think you will like it now if you previously were disappointed

Idk Cyberpunk makes GTA look like a intern project.

This.

I follow code of ethics and raise concerns where applicable. But even if you refuse, they’ll just pick another development team out of their hats to implement anyway.

So many are afraid to lose their jobs now they will keep their heads down and do it anyway.

Yes!

90% of the games I buy now are couch coop. Was sad about Halo abandoning it.

Couch coop defined my view of what video games are.

I wish Google would just switch back to Qualcomm but keep Titan security chip. Best of both worlds now that Qualcomm has decent NPU onboard.

Its very bad when you have a predictive back enabled.

It’ll just skip the animation entirely. However you won’t go home until the animation “finishes” so it just freezes for a second

Walmart online is eating Amazon they don’t have a monopoly

We built a Durable task workflow engine to manage infrastructure and we asked a new hire to add a small feature to it.

I checked on them later and they expressed they were stuck on an aspect of the change.

I could tell the code was ChatGPT. I asked “you wrote this with ChatGPT didn’t you?” And they asked how I could tell.

I explained that ChatGPT doesn’t have the full context and will send you on tangents like it has here.

I gave them the docs to the engine and to the integration point and said "try using only these and ask me questions if you’re stuck for more than 40min.

They went on to become a very strong contributor and no longer uses ChatGPT or copilot.

I’ve tried it myself and it gives me the wrong answers 90% of the time. It could be useful though. If they changed ChatGPT to find and link you docs it finds relevant I would love it but it never does even when asked.

Not anymore since it’s spreading news instead of remaining on YouTube

iirc CyanogenMod was trademarked so the creator no longer had rights.

Its kind of sad, but I’m sure the author knew what they were getting into

Oh thanks! I switched to Bruno but much of our company still uses Insomnia and I’ve been pushing to get it blacklisted, because of the dark pattern, and the likelihood of tricking staff to upload credentials.

Insulting black and hispanic people just isn’t hitting the same, what do I do? Oh yeah, let’s blame the jews

Can’t wait to send this to my Trumper dad who keeps shouting fake news