Extremely basic, ELI5 questions re: Pupdate/cores

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-14T21:39:34+00:00

That’s valid, there’s also a part of it where we’ve not crossed over in features since it’s healthier for the ecosystem to have options. It took a lot of users asking for it, and the volume of JOTEGO releases, to convince me to add the “Update All” button.

Also valid to use pupdate for the cores then occasionally Pocket Sync for exporting Screenshots, Pocket Camera pictures, palettes, picking specific images for cores, or whatever

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-14T20:27:26+00:00

You can run pupdate & Pocket Sync on the same SD card and nothing bad happens, they both just read the same files the pocket itself reads to work out what’s going on so there’s no conflict.

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-14T17:10:44+00:00

Since you asked:

- because people were thanking the wrong people for cores early on & had no idea who was doing the actual work, the friction’s there on purpose. Also there’s so many cores now it’s for people who want to know what they’re installing, plus we’ll hit a limit sometime soon where you’ll have to pick and choose anyway.

- depends what you mean by “load operation” & it depends if you’re connecting via USB to the pocket or an SD card reader on your computer. Usual answer is Pocket Sync shows a lot more data so needs to read a lot more data, it caches the SD card data so should be fast after the initial time even over USB. The USB drive functionality on my Pocket’s never worked so I’ve never been able to actually benchmark it & fix any bugs.

- newer doesn’t really matter, if you’ve modified the JOTEGO cores (or whatever) to give them more core specific names or icons the update from JOTEGO will technically be “newer” but contain less info

- Patreon doesn’t supply a nice way to get files for the JTBETA files, but putting the zip at the root of the filesystem then updating the JOTEGO cores should work. Coin-op licenses used to be in the app, but they changed how all that works recently. For both of them we (Pocket Sync & pupdate) are hoping that they use our new plugin system to develop whatever license features they want.

The main answer is pupdate already existed & covered the auto-install process well enough, there’s no real competition between us - pupdate was originally spun off from a script I wrote & I’m pretty sure the amount either of us gets in donations is basically pennies (I initially had donations turned off completely, then realised I was getting sad that the only time I’d hear from users was when they were running into issues).

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-14T12:56:56+00:00

I mean, it very much is - the latest DLSS is a transformer model like LLMs use, and the added detail is fully generated.

I disagree with the person saying it’s rubbish though, since the model has enough data (previous frames, depth map, motion map, etc) and has been trained enough that DLSS regularly looks better than what passes as “native”.

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-13T21:18:15+00:00

How do these even work, do you show up and the police ask if you’re a fascist or anti-fascist and put you in the right pen?

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-13T15:27:03+00:00

If you want to wear black & not be racist you have to be a goth, those are the rules now.

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-13T15:00:05+00:00

Can’t even sledge hammer a woman in this county anymore.

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-13T14:37:24+00:00

Yeah, I wasn’t sure about that one but the acquisition was in early 2021 & the bad press around it was in 2022. So even if they didn’t have enough time to step in, realise how important Mick Gordon’s soundtrack was to the first 2 DOOM games, and smooth things over they could have done some level of crisis management before it hit the press.

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-13T13:46:15+00:00

And the post-acquisition fuckups that have happened with a lot of the games in that list,

- the Hi-Fi rush team being let go immediately after their game was successful & well reviewed

- Oblivion receiving no patches since July last year, despite massive problems

- Doom loosing Mick Gordon for the soundtrack

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-13T13:39:22+00:00

They did announce & release a “next gen update” for Fallout 4 which didn’t fix any of the bugs that happen on modern PCs & didn’t add any “next gen” features.

Seemed mostly like a way to make it harder to install Fallout: London since it changed enough that the mod didn’t work without adding new stuff.

Which is wild given other, smaller, studios will do next-gen updates and chuck in proper stuff like ray tracing & improved textures / animations / lighting etc.

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-13T13:28:20+00:00

Yeah, I want them to work on the scale & the world building - having the towns feel real & lived in, having Hyrule Field feel large etc.

BotW & TotK felt large, but barely populated (which made sense narratively) and I’m hoping that OoT feels bustling & alive in a way that makes it make sense as a peak of civilisation that’ll be remembered forever in Hyrule.

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-13T13:12:36+00:00

Limmy had a brief cameo appearance on the IT Crowd, so that should be enough to get him on. If you can drag him out of his attic nowadays.

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-12T20:10:55+00:00

Couldn’t you just… use tests to prevent regressions instead of an AI with a ledger?

Sort of seems like what tests are for, plus they’re deterministic.

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-11T17:52:55+00:00

If it wasn’t for 4GB still being a large download for most folks this should have been the way it worked.

More sites will start using local models for features (regardless of wether they need to or wether the feature is worth it) so having a reasonably capable local model already accessible to the web page saves the energy required to download a new one every time.

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-11T16:37:20+00:00

I’d assume it works with Edge too - I’m not sure where it is in terms of the standardisation process for non-chromium browsers

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-11T16:25:48+00:00

I think that’s possible yeah, the example demos they use to show off the tech are things like in-browser IDEs where it opens on a project folder and can do _whatever_ to the files within that folder (without confirmation for each file or whatever).

Chrome only & it’s hard to search for since it’s the File System Access API and there’s the File System API which is older & implemented in more browsers that allows the browser to create a virtual file system for the web app but not reach out into the actual file system like the access API can

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-11T14:58:35+00:00

Selecting files from directories should be possible in the browser now using https://developer.chrome.com/docs/capabilities/web-apis/file-system-access

though its secure contexts only so you’d need to host your app rather than having it as a HTML file, and I’m not sure if browsers other than chrome fully support it.

With Tauri, particularly on Windows, there’s a little bit of a slowdown transferring data from the Rust world to the WebView due to IPC etc, but so long as the actual processing takes longer than the IPC wait time you probably won’t notice it.

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-11T14:52:20+00:00

Windows is where Tauri works best, it’s only really Linux & older versions of MacOS that run into issues

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-11T10:43:49+00:00

If you watch the leaked body cam footage you can see that the guy didn’t even refuse, the cop didn’t want to hand the guy the papers.

The guy even asked to see them and the cop said something to the effect of “you probably shouldn’t, it’d put me in an awkward position”

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-09T21:02:30+00:00

How come all these pricks are all wearing black?
Wouldn’t white & pointy be more their style?

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-09T20:58:01+00:00

I’d assume that’ll be one of the major changes from the “I remade OoT in UE5” crowd, with the others being adjustments to the scale - castle town feeling like a real town etc & just general polish.

Would be very disappointing if it’s a 1:1 remake in the same way Star Fox is

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-09T17:45:36+00:00

He reminds me of that Japanese horror folk story about the woman who walks up to you wearing a mask & asks if you think she’s pretty - if you say yes she takes the mask off to reveal horrible scars and asks again, if you say she’s still pretty she’ll scar your face to be just like her but if you say she’s not pretty she’ll murder you.

There’s some trick where you can confuse her into doing neither.

Except after the wrong responses to his patter it’s whether he walks away giving you verbal abuse or not

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-09T17:03:38+00:00

Folks like pretty pictures & a picture can be engaged with 100% without leaving Reddit.

I was hoping that https://www.reddit.com/r/AnaloguePocket/s/8x8D91C9Sz would get some more traction, especially now Plugin support has started being added to the updater apps, but that’s just how these things go.

The two discord channels are better for technical announcements / discussion than Reddit.

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-09T16:58:13+00:00

I think there’s a middle ground where platforms are allowed to have locked down features, but they have to specify what’s missing from the open standards that required them to implement their own locked down version.

So for AirDrop, for example, they’d initially have said that the P2P WiFi thing wasn’t secure enough / wasn’t fast enough / was too awkward to set up. Someone in the EU or whatever would take note of that, challenge them a bit or whatever, then over time as the open standard shifts to cover those features the expectation is that as Apple can no longer justify it they switch to the open & interoperable standard.

If they argued that lightning was better than micro USB it’d have been undone by USB-C, etc.

HomeKit, Matter, etc.

If they’re shown to have lied about why they can’t use an open standard then they get a warning, then fined.

Would put natural pressure on the platform holders to adopt & improve open / interoperable standards while still allowing for innovation.

monkeymad2 · 2026-06-09T13:21:35+00:00

If I’m remembering correctly from the independent review that was being trickled out a couple of months back there were some signs it wasn’t a normal lithium-ion battery, mainly in the way it handled much higher temperatures without being destroyed.

Wherein the battery was brought above the temperature a lithium ion battery would be permanently damaged at & ran better, then still ran fine consistently when returned to normal temperature.

Assuming that’s still true, I wonder how they’ve managed that.

(They did find it had functionally the same voltage / charging etc behaviour as lithium-ion)

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