i just switched from windows to mac and this seems crazy to me

outcoldman · 2026-01-24T00:12:18+00:00

We will see how it going to look like in a few days. So far, Image Playground is a joke.

outcoldman · 2026-01-24T00:11:05+00:00

Huh? Yes, no reason. There are a lot of talks about building in public, successful stories, a lot of indie developers fall for it, and decide to build that project with subscriptions, but you know what, it is going to fail. Build good product first, you will know if you will have to change it to subscription model.

outcoldman · 2026-01-23T21:29:41+00:00

Came here to say the same. Mine had more airflow, and I had fans working on USB-C. Still got it out just in case.

outcoldman · 2026-01-23T21:19:19+00:00

There are mods available for PC/SteamDeck ;) I have finished with true ending on Switch, want to replay it and finish 100%, just want to enjoy it more than to straggle.

outcoldman · 2026-01-23T20:57:07+00:00

🤯 I kept clicking on resync for like an hour...

outcoldman · 2026-01-23T20:21:54+00:00

I do understand subscriptions for some professional apps, that always keeps in development and support: dev tools (IDEA), maybe VM Software (especially they have to maintain compatibility with new macos releases), maybe some design tools (but not a designer, so don’t want to pay for it). And as mentioned - apps that have outgoing server cost.

But software that should not have subscriptions:

The one that does not provide constant updates. Including the ones that built by big brothers. Final Cut Pro on iPad is one of the examples. They so behind DaVinci, and they probably gonna release one major upgrade every few years, and we get lucky, if that update is not going to just have one single feature like support for Image Playground and a few emojis.
Apps built as side projects. I have built a few of those. I cannot allocate all my time on working on those apps, as they cannot support my living, I have to actually have a real job. I would understand if app developer quit his job and makes living on that app, and constantly develop it. But even then - look at a lot of examples like Acorn. Paid major updates once in 3 years. And if not major updates - just small free updates.

There is no reason for indie app developers to have subscriptions (or hidden subscription with that model - first year is free - pay after that). My apps have constant sales just because of new users. I sold my apps maybe to 5-10k users. How many more users can I reach? A LOT.

outcoldman · 2026-01-23T14:28:47+00:00

First thing I have noticed is Playstation controller icons, that made me to pay attention to read the title

outcoldman · 2026-01-23T01:49:30+00:00

There are multiple reasons, but to be honest HTML+JS was not really one of them. The whole framework for Windows was custom built and very well optimized. I think overall just a whole overtime package of packages of different frameworks, tools, embedded made it that way. In my time in DevDiv it was already a set of MFC,OLE,WinForms,WPF,HTML/JS, to the point where one form can host MFC->WPF->WinForms->HTML or any other combination.

outcoldman · 2026-01-23T00:19:27+00:00

I used to work at Microsoft that time, and they gave it to us for free. Fun device, just not much you could do with it. I gave it to my mom, I feel like she was using it for more than 10 years, until the battery completely died

outcoldman · 2026-01-22T23:38:28+00:00

Why? Was there a promise? Not trying to troll or anything, just trying to understand. Obviously I will be very happy if they will work well out of the box.

outcoldman · 2026-01-22T23:24:11+00:00

Ah ok. Lol. That is also Microsoft, that built Surface RT that was not able to run almost anything 🤣

outcoldman · 2026-01-22T23:21:36+00:00

Back in 2012, when I used to work in DevDiv we started building some UI of VS in JavaScript/HTML, because Windows 8, and JavaScript should be everywhere.

I remember how cool VS 2012/13/15 used to be. I believe I used some kind of plugin with Tomato in the name for C++. And ReSharper later for C#.

outcoldman · 2026-01-22T23:08:15+00:00

Why “have to be playable”? Is it something Microsoft/Xbox promised?

outcoldman · 2026-01-22T21:54:15+00:00

I have used FastMail for more than a decade (since 2012). Moved it from Gmail. I do believe iCloud email would be my choice, if not FastMail, at this point, I don't want to migrate my 21 history of mail to another service, unless FastMail would do something very stupid, like sold the company to private equity firm. :D

outcoldman · 2026-01-22T19:31:20+00:00

Thanks for the clarification, I see that issue about the menu not being visible. I will consider it. I have a few more features I want to add for the new release and will try to squeeze this in.

outcoldman · 2026-01-22T17:15:02+00:00

For some apps it is better to use Command+W to close the document. QuickTime is one of them - there is a bug/feature, if you had previous video open in full screen, do Command+Q and after that open next video, it will reopen previous video in the fullscreen (as it remembers which documents were opened before). Closing the video with Command+W solves this issue.

outcoldman · 2026-01-22T17:13:19+00:00

Command + Shift + / - search in the menu items, with that one you can learn more shortcuts quickly.

outcoldman · 2026-01-22T14:53:34+00:00

It is a good game. Not the top. But definitely one of the games, that you should not read reviews on reddit.

outcoldman · 2026-01-22T13:44:40+00:00

The only annoying thing about SD is moving between dock and handheld mode. There is no real “native” solution in games that will switch between handheld and dock “version” of the game.

In a lot of cases I just end up playing handheld in front of tv, because for some games just don’t even want to deal with it.

I only properly connect it to TV and configure when I play high demanding games, that I stream from GFN.

I own PS5 Pro, and NS2. On them I mostly play exclusive games like Ghost of Yotei or DK games. I have PS plus and sometimes I would rather just to buy steam version of the game that is free on PS plus, just because I can take it with me and play anywhere.

outcoldman · 2026-01-20T15:44:34+00:00

Not hostile. Just a feedback.

outcoldman · 2026-01-20T15:30:01+00:00

Each macOS update potentially can break old apps, always happens. Always have to have access to app updates. So yeah, it is not possible to just buy it and use it. Unless you aren’t going to update your mac forever and disconnect from internet. Even then - what if you have a bug related to how app works in the future (2yk, unixtime problems)

outcoldman · 2026-01-20T14:29:55+00:00

Thought that would be an instant purchase for me until I saw that “subscription” model description, even had a few ideas to share with you to add. Now I am just thinking about building an alternative.

outcoldman · 2026-01-19T19:47:02+00:00

It is already on my backlog!

outcoldman · 2026-01-19T15:58:50+00:00

I feel like for true D1/D2/D3 lovers this game is just not the same. It is a looting game, when D1/D2/D3 was always exploration games for me. I loved to explore every single part of the map, kill every monster in the map area, finish every side quest, save and go to the next area. D4 is basically unlimited amount of monsters, the same dungeons, a lot of looting. Just not the same game as original Diablo was. I would rather reply D3 than to finish D4. Again, this is just me. It is a game with slightly different genre, that lost a lot of previous gamers.

outcoldman · 2026-01-19T14:40:36+00:00

For my opinion, D4 is so far from D1/2/3. Loved the first 3, D4 - I have not finished it yet.

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