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- Comment on Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. 3 hours ago:
It’s usenet.
- Comment on Streaming is cable now | Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever. 20 hours ago:
Don’t forget about newsgroups (⌐■_■)
- Comment on Nintendo Says It Will Reveal Switch Successor By March 2025, But Not At The Direct Next Month 4 days ago:
Oh no … Anyway
- Comment on Valve graphics dev gets Gamescope working on NVK with Explicit Sync 5 days ago:
I’m so stoked for this! I want this in Nobara and Bazzite Asap!
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA nukes 8,535 GitHub copies of Switch emulator yuzu 1 week ago:
Nintendo is going to be the company that makes or breaks the legitimacy of the DMCA. If it wasn’t for the DMCA they wouldn’t have a leg to stand on as they’ve lost in court several times before.
Honestly I think they’re going to start having problems in places like Europe if Nintendo can be classified as a “gatekeeper” on their locked down hardware.
- Comment on How working for Big Tech lost 'dream job' status 1 week ago:
This. It used to be the dream because we believed in what technofuturism had to offer. We believed in instant access to knowledge and we thought we could all make it cheap enough that it would be an uplift across humanity.
We came up with so many cool things in the process. Little did we know we were simply building the foundations of our dystopian cyberpunk corpo future.
“We just wanted ice cream cones and fast cars” (South park).
- Comment on MattKC announces plans to develop an open source DIY WiiU gampead 1 week ago:
There are a lot of Android based Pocket devices out there like the retroid. Imagine having a retroid or ayn odin that can also double as a wii u controller.
- Comment on Open source NVIDIA Vulkan driver NVK gets more enhancements 2 weeks ago:
Once Nvidia works with Gamescope, I think it will be high time to move the rest of my gaming PCs over to Bazzite. I hope these changes are getting us over to that reality.
- Comment on $70 titles are doomed to go “the way of the dodo” says Saber Interactive CEO 3 weeks ago:
Everybody who plays videogames has had this experience
Pay 70$ for a game:
- it’s digital only
- comes loaded with Micro transactions
- grinding mechanics that have a pay to skip function
- single player campaign: 13 hours
- buggy and unfinished glitches and freezes
- PC port locked at 30fps, runs Denuvo.
- gets removed from my library in a few years because “It’s too expensive to maintain and licensing reasons”
“I’m never getting ripped off like this again”
STUDIO executive “I wonder why no one wants to buy these games… Must be the price.”
- Comment on The Crew has started disappearing from game libraries after its closure last month 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon 3 weeks ago:
Abso lutely
- Comment on 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com 3 weeks ago:
Depends on the usage. That’s the gamble you take. I would maybe buy three and put two in a mirror and keep the third one as a replacement?
That’s 240$ for three drives without warranty though… Nevermind I’d prefer to buy two new Toshiba X300 new for 210$ a piece and forget the headache and get the warranty.
Sometimes you get what you pay for … Sometimes
- Comment on Eww, Copilot AI might auto-launch with Windows 11 soon 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know what to think about the rushed inclusion of Copilot. It’s so very very flawed.
The only thing I can think of is that users are training it by using it and therefore Microsoft is getting free labor from you (as well as search/advertising revenue through their lock screens, dynamic as based backgrounds, live tiles, etc).
I think we’re the product here guys.
- Comment on Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2 4 weeks ago:
There are a lot of things wrong with Microsoft as a company. It is too big and the pressure is very real, intense, and human. They have a culture of self cannibalism where teams compete for resources to appease the whims of their naked emperors. That spite lives on for years and almost any old Microsoft employee will brag about it like they survived the killing fields.
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 4 weeks ago:
Correct
- Comment on Microsoft is blocking Windows Customization Tools 4 weeks ago:
I really hate having the taskbar permanently affixed to the bottom of my screen. I’ve had it on the left side for decades now. They are really throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Someone at Microsoft “Customization is the enemy of progress!”
- Comment on Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2 5 weeks ago:
I feel like as someone who’s been through all the generations of windows as NT, Microsoft has a grand idea for how the desktop should work. It wasn’t until iOS came around the corner and landed on the iPad in 2010 that Microsoft felt the pressure to redesign everything.
At that point, surface was a design concept for a table top computer running an application on top of a windows PC. iOS had made the leap Microsoft never could. Rapidly Microsoft turns around a new interface for windows 8 in 2012 and since then we’ve been dealing with the fact that Microsoft wants to make every computer essentially an iPad … From 2010.
Everything they do from locking down the ecosystem, enforcing uniformity in design, force all apps to deploy via the store, always online design. This design philosophy was trust into the mainstream by Apple. However apple was right to fragment the ecosystem into Mac os and iOS.
Microsoft wants to beat them to the punch with one OS on everything and it’s just not doable without starting from scratch. It’s not stopping them from trying.
- Comment on iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery 5 weeks ago:
Nice!
- Comment on iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery 5 weeks ago:
It looks like funar2000 supported it at least at some point.
- Comment on iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery 5 weeks ago:
Can you put music on it without iTunes?
- Comment on Valve: Windows 11 market share on Steam drops to 41.61% 5 weeks ago:
I agree with this. The ease of use is the biggest thing to get right.
With that being said I recently built a small form factor PC and installed chimera OS on it for my TV in the living room. It works just like the steam deck. Very low maintenance. I’ve been spending more time gaming on that than my actual PC. It’s always up to date, ready to go and I start playing when I’m ready.
- Comment on After 114 days of change, Broadcom CEO acknowledges VMware-related “unease” 1 month ago:
I never thought of hashicorps products as a replacement for VMware but more of an add on to it.
- Comment on After 114 days of change, Broadcom CEO acknowledges VMware-related “unease” 1 month ago:
I think this is very interesting. I’ve been investigating the solutions and found that a lot of other platforms like scale hci, virtuozzo, and oracle VM are all based on the oVirt/Openstack platforms but have been customized.
Openshift and Suse Harvester both have a very similar Kubernetes first approach which I think is interesting. Harvester seems to rely on KubeVirt to deploy “legacy workloads” (probably windows).
The reason I mention openshift though is because I’ve been paying attention to Wendell, level1techs, and the level1 forums and Wendell keeps hinting that Redhat/IBM openshift + intel is being used as a VDI platform featuring Intel flexGPUs for a secret customer (I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a government facility like the national laboratory near Knoxville). I’m just trying to envision how that deployment looks.
- Comment on After 114 days of change, Broadcom CEO acknowledges VMware-related “unease” 1 month ago:
A lot of people talk about Proxmox but I wouldn’t be surprised if redhat open shift decided to throw its hat into the ring as an HP or Dell partner.
- Comment on Electric cars will be cheaper to make than gas vehicles but with much higher repair and insurance costs 1 month ago:
They listen and say “We hear you but the data shows you much rather have the Witcher 3 running on your dashboard and webcam more easily monetize this.”
- Comment on As more developers confirm, it looks likely that ALL Adult Swim Games titles will be removed by May 2 months ago:
Yeah I think this is actually it. They fattened up the pig and now they’re butchering it down. Extracting every last ounce of value for shareholders.
- Comment on More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities 2 months ago:
I am using NUCs.
- Comment on Nintendo Is Telling Game Publishers Switch 2 Will Be Delayed 2 months ago:
Knowing Nintendo the Switch 2 will already be obsolete at launch
This is the reason I believe it’s delayed. Tinfoil hat rant incoming:
Nintendo usually is ready to go for obsolete cheaper designs to maximize profit on hardware. However the Nvidia tegra family successor for entertainment devices never materialized (I won’t count anything on the Jetson platform). These chips never came down in price either. Nvidia pretty much dropped everything related to gaming once deep learning became its future cash cow. No shield tablets, android TV’s, or gaming devices anymore. Nvidia has disappeared from the consumer arm market.
Until now. Nvidia recently been looking to bring derivatives of its Grace Hopper platform to desktops and laptops in the near future. I’m sure the timing has to do with the rumors that Qualcomm is going out as M$oft’s exclusive arm for windows partner. There is a major urge in the AI field to have development uniformity across platforms and therefore arm coming directly to the developer is speeding up everyday (apple is the only name in the game atm).
That puts Nintendo in a place where to get priority, they will need to bid high for hardware. I don’t think they will. They know they make toys and they will just keep stretching the life span of the switch. It’s probably a better strategy anyway as Nintendo Remains in demand and they have no need to be a loss leader on hardware.
We think 8 years is long for a console but Nintendo dragged out it’s Gamcube, Wii, Wii U dynasty of hardware for almost 16 years before moving to a new platform. The DS hardware line lasted much longer.
We’ll get a switch 2 when Nintendo can get cheap Arm Chips.
End of rant.
- Comment on More 128TB SSDs are coming as almost no one noticed this launch — another SSD controller that can support up to 128TB appeared paving the way for HDD-beating capacities 2 months ago:
That’s some nice density you got there. While you’re at it…
Can I get a 12.8TB drive 1/10th the physical size (m.2 2230) and has a steady transfer rate of 2.4GBs that costs <$200 dollhairs? Pretty please 🙏
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 2 months ago:
I have tried (story option below):
Currently virtualization for the desktop, even though that is in fact the future, there are many issues at the moment. For instance, graphics are holding me back.
Wendell on level 1 techs has plenty of these videos and there is one specifically where he goes in depth on spinning up a windows virtual machine and essentially using a GitHub project to make registry hacks to turn that windows VM into a fake RDS app server then using those apps via the RDP protocol.
I really like this solution but it is still less than desirable when attempting to save files, pass through devices to apps other than keyboard and mouse, run corporate ssl VPN Clients (they often enforce desktop sessions non-rdp via policy).
I follow these threads closely: forum.level1techs.com/t/…/199671
I sometimes think maybe moving to an Intel processor with onboard video for my displays and then using the Nvidia driver patch like this github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock or this github.com/ProTechEx/vgpu-proxmox to drive local 3D apps and pass GPUs into VMs is potentially something that can be used to get this going (without the need for a second discreet GPU).
I just don’t want to have to do this. So I just have a windows desktop (still).