rofl, I hate billionaires but this would be peak trolling
Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux
tty5@lemmy.world 5 days ago
HDMI Forum has fewer than 80 members and membership fee is 15,000 USD/year. Valve could spin up 80 companies, have them join the forum for a low low price of 1.2M USD and outvote remaining members to open source the entire spec.
hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 5 days ago
[deleted]Croquette@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I fucking hate this phrase. You have the choice to not participate and be a normal human instead of a sociopath.
Hate the players because they perpetuate the game.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It’s even more pathetic than that. They aren’t just expressing their will to play the game, they are asking for approval despite it. It’s similar to the “nothing personal” disclaimer which is usually followed by something with significant personal disruption.
Most honestly expressed, they’d be, “I’m doing/about to do something that impacts you negatively, please don’t retaliate against me because I don’t like it when negative things happen to me.”
Kellenved@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
No players, no game
ripcord@lemmy.world 5 days ago
What does this even mean in this context
Cybersteel@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m pretty sure the saying goes, “don’t hate the player, hate the game.” Which implies that you shouldn’t be blaming the bad actors but the bad system that causes it to be that way.
demonsword@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I can easily hate both of them
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Does it have to be companies? Could individual people just have 15k, and join? We just need 81 new members.
Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Unfortunately it not only has to be companies, but unless you are a producer of products that are HDMI certified already your membership will be denied. It would take a lot of fuckery to make that many corporations and not have all of their membership applications be denied. Also I’m not sure that it’s even a voting democracy in the traditional sense even if you could.
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev 5 days ago
Don’t you just need to setup a run of HDMI devices and have 80 companies invest together as a group for manufacturing, then have each company put their own sticker on it.
tty5@lemmy.world 5 days ago
While doing that for 80 companies is not feasible I doubt all 80 members are opposed. Valve and AMD could talk to video card, monitor, laptop and handheld makers to pad the membership enough.
As for the democracy question a quick skim of their bylaws suggests it’s close enough.
BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 5 days ago
This is hilariously plausible. Someone SCUBA down to Gabe and give him the idea.
Katana314@lemmy.world 5 days ago
dives to 50 feet, removes tube from mouth to shout to Gabe, and fucking drowns
utopiah@lemmy.world 5 days ago
FWIW (and I know it’s not the joke…) it’s perfectly fine to remove the mouth piece while scuba diving. In fact it’s part of basic training. You should be able to remove the mouth piece and take another one, your octopus or the one of your buddy, in case there is an incident.
No… the real question for a good diver is how the heck you’re going to say HDMI 2.1 with hand signs! /s
zerofk@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
You breathe through an octopus? Don’t they need that oxygen themselves?