EncryptKeeper
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- Comment on Dynamic pricing could be coming to your local supermarket 1 day ago:
That’s a shame because Lidl is the only affordable grocery store to begin with around here.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 2 days ago:
The law was designed this way specifically so that people won’t fight it as hard because it doesn’t provide any verification requirements. That bill would come later once the outrage over this has waned and the age gating becomes normalized in the local culture so that people just shrug off the verification requirement in the future
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 2 days ago:
System 76 have very controversially committed to supporting this in Pop OS, so there would be at least one Linux option.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 3 days ago:
I never had a problem installing Debian on those Wyze boxes back in the day.
I have a couple Minisforum boxes at work with Linux on them running some metric monitors. And I have a Beelink s12 pro that does an absolutely beastly job at being my Jellyfin server.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 3 days ago:
Not sure why they would be. There are plenty of these on the market already with no issues accessing the bootloader or installing other OSs on them. Same goes for Microsoft Surface device, Chromebooks, etc.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 4 days ago:
This is horrifying in that it signals a concerted push towards getting consumers on cloud computing.
But in terms of self hosting your own computer these actually look great, especially if they’re subsidized to get you into a subscription fee. As long as we can break into the bootloader and run Linux on these, they look to be very capable and efficient small compute box. Self hosters and homelabbers will be licking their lips.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 4 days ago:
Far more, in fact.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 4 days ago:
Self-hosters will be all over these
- Comment on Resident Evil Requiem currently peaking at over 300,000 players on Steam 5 days ago:
The last 10 years or so, there was a sort of “Old RE” and “New RE” set of fans. The new games have really kept their distance from existing lore, and the gameplay has been very different from the older games.
This is the first new Resident Evil game in a long time that promises to bring the old lore back to the forefront, as well as merging the two styles of game.
- Comment on Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up 1 week ago:
Bruh, you’re the one who called them massive companies
- Comment on Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up 1 week ago:
Something tells me you’ve never worked for a massive company.
- Comment on YSK that treatments for back pain can cost thousands. But some of the best fixes are actually free 1 week ago:
A big part of science is proving long held assumptions.
- Comment on YSK that treatments for back pain can cost thousands. But some of the best fixes are actually free 1 week ago:
If any part of your spine is out of place that’s a serious medical issue that cannot be resolved by “Cracking it back into place”.
The cracking in your spine is synovial fluid changing from a liquid to gaseous state. The relief you feel after this happens is primarily in your mind as a sort of placebo effect.
- Comment on Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up 1 week ago:
No. AI companies have huge storage requirements for training data. Flash storage is not cost efficient for mass storage quantities.
- Comment on Docker Hub's trust signals are a lie — and Huntarr is just the latest proof 1 week ago:
The account is 2 days old and this is its only post.
- Comment on Storyden: A forum for the modern age. 1 week ago:
I think a blurb would be a great idea, especially for your project.
I feel like the biggest hurdle for your project is that the people it speaks to, especially the way you market it (analogues to natural, organic things like plants, the purposeful methodology intrinsic to gardening, as well as the nostalgic throwback to a simpler time of the internet when everything was more hand-made and deliberate) are the same people that will be put off by AI, being that it’s the antithesis of those things.
Making your case for why and how it’s used, (IE Not just vibe-coded slop but something that matters a little more to you) might be enough to keep people on board.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 week ago:
Now that several of the points you’ve made have been proven concretely wrong, and you just keep moving the goal posts further and further each time, I feel like your argument has been muddied to the point that I don’t really know what it is anymore. “Yeah Xbox was the first to build a product like that, but we used to have 30 different products that did some of those things, entirely separately from each other without any integration or cohesion, most of which have been largely lost to time because the way Xbox did it was so much better it became the expected standard for the next 20 years for everyone else to copy, so therefore they don’t get any credit”
OK.
Let’s recap:
- You thought that infrastructure doesn’t have an associated cost in the real world like it does on Xbox and PlayStation.
We proved that was wrong because there are all kinds of fees, taxes, and mechanisms in the real world that exist to fund infrastructure.
- You thought that game developers on PC invented the unified identity system that’s now an industry standard, which is the thing you’re paying that subscription for.
We proved that was wrong because Xbox Live was the first to do it in 2008. Prior to Xbox, there was no app that provided this functionality.
- You thought that the infrastructure behind these things doesn’t cost any many and that Xbox only started charging for it out of greed because they were making billions of dollars in profit with or without it.
We proved that you don’t know the difference between revenue and profit, or the fact that this infrastructure and hardware subsidization lead to Xbox being unprofitable for years after you thought they were profitable.
Now you’re changing directions to other products that did something entirely unrelated to what we’re talking about, in order to find some parallel in an entirely different market. We’re REALLY grasping at straws here now.
Think of any other system that incorporated already existing features together to form a more convenient enjoyable experience and you’ll see that there isn’t a subscription fee.
Such as?
Public malls
You mean those things that have proven to be economical failures? This just disproves your own point??
smart phones (still replaces multiple products without a data plan)
So hardware that doesn’t cost you a dime to use day to day unless you… use their infrastructure to make it interact with other people in a more convenient way? You mean exactly like Xbox Live
Like you’re arguing against yourself at this point so you don’t really need me anymore? I’m just going to “declare victory and walk away” so to speak unless you can figure out what point you wanna make.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 week ago:
Xbox Live, the very thing we’re talking about, was the original unified party system. Prior to it, there were third party voice chat systems and third party lobby systems, but these were disparate systems you had to maintain separate identities for. Difference games supported different lobby systems so you couldn’t even have just one of each either. Xbox was the first to tie these things together under one “Gamertag” as one persistent presence and identity you could use to coordinate all your friends together in to chat, join in games through, collect persistent achievements, etc.
Many years later we now have that on PC via Steam, but even then that doesn’t cover all games on the platform since there are games locked to Epic, Uplay, or indie games sold direct through a website.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 week ago:
To be fair you would need to take into account every available piece of software to make the determination if those features were available for PC before, at the same time, or after consoles
Taking into every available piece of software, those features appeared on PC 15 years or so after consoles. And only really achieved similar feature parity with early consoles in 2018.
Big successful companies generally don’t come up with big new good ideas, they steal them from other products that have already been proven.
In this case the PC company Valve “stole” them from Xbox and Sony. That doesn’t really help your argument at all here, in the contrary it just goes to show much much easier valve has had it as all they’ve had to do is follow a blueprint.
In 2004 the Microsoft video game division reported profits of 2.75 billion.
In 2004 the Xbox division of Microsoft reported $0 in profits. Xbox division became profitable for the first time in 2008. Know what was the driving force to that sustained profitability? Yup, Xbox Live.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 week ago:
Yeah sorry, what is this… Like the third time I’ve stated this? PC did all of the things you’re claiming without an extra subscription fee.
It did not do all those things. Not until very recently, and only through Steam. You can say it as many times as you want, that doesn’t make it true lol.
My point is they didn’t need to, as evidenced by someone else who did the exact same thing without the subscription model.
Sony did it for awhile without the subscription model too. Thats not evidence that they didn’t need to. The cost of infrastructure needed to maintain this model has gone up in the last 25 years with more players, higher expectations, and added complexity contributing to more manpower and higher salary expectations.
A free service doesn’t scale very well when it gets exponentially more expensive to maintain as time goes on. Sony was able to subsidize that service at one point in time but very understandably they can’t do that in the big 26. They already sell the hardware at a loss, if they continued to provide that infrastructure for free, leaving them only with commission on PS store sales, but also we don’t want them to take that big a cut from game developers, and we want them to still provide disk drives so we can buy and share games outside their store, and also we don’t want them to buy studios and make games exclusive to their platform… like corporate greed is one thing but also god forbid we just pay a reasonable price for the things we use.
Valve on the other hand doesn’t have to worry about this because they were never in the hardware game to begin with, and now with the Steam Machine they’ve already confirmed they’re not subsidizing hardware.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 week ago:
We already discussed this. The Playstation Plus subscription isnt paying for internet infrastructure.
It is. The party system, voice chat services, and the ability to join on or invite friends in a universal way regardless of the game without having to make an account for that game all requires expensive infrastructure and manpower to build and maintain.
Oh I was… So Xbox game pass released in 2002, PlayStation followed much later in 2010.
Xbox GamePass released in 2017 and has nothing to do with multiplayer. The multiplayer service Xbox live released in 2002 and PlayStation followed in 2006. You’re not beating the allegations.
the subscription “fee” isn’t what fixed multiplayer design, that was fixed by… Game developers.
Game developers were uninvolved in the fix for multiplayer design. Game developers are unsurprisingly, only involved in the development of their game. The reliable third party social systems were designed by engineers at Xbox and Sony, and on the PC side at Valve.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 week ago:
I mean where they spend the money is irrelevant.
So it’s ok to pay money for infrastructure for your car to use, but when you have to pay for the infrastructure for your video games it’s robbery? Now I feel like you’re the one being arbitrary.
PC has had online multiplayer since the creation of the internet
This tells me you weren’t around for the early days of PC gaming. On the contrary, PC gaming went through a couple phases when it came to online multiplayer. Early multiplayer games often didn’t have matchmaking or dedicated server discovery at all, then there was the Gamespy era where a bunch of games delegated their multiplayer matchmaking to a third party with limited functionality and ads unless you paid a premium subscription.
It was the game consoles that really fixed multiplayer early on with their party systems that persisted outside of each game.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 week ago:
It works pretty well. The console network fees fund infrastructure, the employees that run the infrastructure, etc. neither the gas tax nor the console network fees are arbitrary. As for the “required renewal despite not using it” thing we just have other things for that in the form of vehicle registration.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 week ago:
Consoles will be the last to go because they’re the only gaming hardware sold as loss leaders. The days where you could “Build a better PC for the same price” are long, long gone.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 week ago:
Literally like selling someone a subscription to drive your car out of town.
We do have that. It’s the gas tax we pay to the government.
- Comment on Storyden: A forum for the modern age. 1 week ago:
Could you us give a brief overview of the use of AI in the production of Storyden? Like which components are ai-assisted, and to what degree?
I think this is the main sticking point people have with the project, especially since it is apparently in use but it’s made super clear how.
- Comment on AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year 1 week ago:
Three months ago I put two 20TB hard drives in my cart for $350 each. This week I had to pull the trigger on them and they were $420 each
- Comment on Heaper, new tools to organize docs, photos [YouTube] 1 week ago:
Does it store uploaded files in plain text on the file system?
- Comment on Heaper, new tools to organize docs, photos [YouTube] 1 week ago:
Can’t really tell if that’s the case or not. It looks like the base files you upload are stored on the filesystem as normal, and the “blocks” (metadata) is what’s stored in the DB?
- Comment on I wrote a blog post on selfhostesd software to be more organzed 1 week ago:
Great post. Just a heads up, I feel like the “loading” screen with it’s fade in and out animations and all actually make your website feel slower than it needs to.