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Is there a way to install a linux OS on a 1st gen ipad? in c/linuxphones@lemmy.ml

[–] selawdivad@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

PostmarketOS have a wiki page for it. Looks like it's tethered only, and pretty limited.

What is the best game engine/framework for a absolute beginner to learn? in c/programming

[–] selawdivad@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd suggest maybe stick with Godot 3 until 4.1 comes out. I just started playing with 4, and hit a bug where Godot will hard crash whenever you try to view the Terrains tab if you've created terrain sets, used them in your scene, then deleted the terrain sets.

Also, Godot 4 doesn't have as good support for older systems due to the new Vulkan backend. I worked around this by switching to the mobile renderer which works better on my old hardware.

A nifty website I've been using to learn the basics of SQL in c/programming

[–] selawdivad@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Hanukkah of Data by the Visidata team was fun.

Is SQL a good language for data transformations? in c/programming

[–] selawdivad@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Can I suggest duckdb? You can start out writing SQL directly on top of CSV and Parquet files. But then if you want/need to do something more complicated, you can import duckdb into Python, keep running the SQL you already wrote, convert it to a Pandas or Polars dataframe, transform it, then query the result in SQL.