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- Comment on Apple's mobile chips are now made in the U.S. — TSMC produces the older A16 Bionic at its Arizona fab 1 day ago:
Yeah, they’re essentially doing trials where Arizona fab provides small amounts of sillicon that’s being validated against what Taiwan fab does. While it was planned for 2024 I’m guessing everyone thought it would be delayed. It’s quite a big win for US, they’re on track to secure domestic supply of fairly modern chips in case shit hits the fan in Taiwan.
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- Comment on YouTube is limiting videos about weight and appearance for teens 2 weeks ago:
Scandalous attack on free speech
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- Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on What's the oldest game anyone here has played in 2024? 4 weeks ago:
I played countless hours of Cave Noire this year. It’s a coffee break roguelite that released in 1991 on Gameboy.
I fuck around with old games a lot but there are not that many games I get really into these days. Cave Noire is similar to Desktop Dungeons where every attempt is a short puzzle so it fits pick up and play nature of Gameboy. Can’t recommend it enough if you’re into this kind of stuff.
- Comment on Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on Pixel phones, and it’s a train wreck 5 weeks ago:
That brief moment in time when we had dirt cheap Nexus phones, Google Now and Inbox was peak Google. Just 5 years later it was all gone.
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- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios developers form 'wall to wall' union that includes artists, designers, and programmers 1 month ago:
How are the decisions taken by the highier-ups related to workers unionizing?
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 1 month ago:
I give up. Are you an American or something?
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 1 month ago:
There you go: www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwyj6v24xo
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 1 month ago:
At some point you’re so entrenched in the market you don’t have to do anything anymore. I was quite surprised that Valve somehow evaded EU Digital Markets Act gatekeeper criteria. That would mean they’d have to ensure interoperability with its competitors which would restart competition, similar to how we got rid of telecom monopolies.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 2 months ago:
Yes, it’s a nice cage.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 2 months ago:
Boutique shop successful, therefore Amazon is not a monopoly.
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- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 2 months ago:
If EGS mandated those things it would be as successful as GOG. Which is irrelevant compared to Steam.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 2 months ago:
Those free games weren’t actually free, Epic paid for them, you know.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 2 months ago:
EGS would have all this in that hypothetical scenario, why wouldn’t it?
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 2 months ago:
Those things are up to developers / publishers, not the marketplace.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 2 months ago:
Leveraging dominant position to keep your monopoly is illegal even in the US.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 2 months ago:
Yes, developers are also victims of this monopoly. It’s obviously better (“worth it”) to pay 30% for visibility on the biggest marketplace.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 2 months ago:
You don’t seem to understand what a monopoly is. Having some small competition that’s not ever going to threaten you because you can leverage your dominant position is also a case of a monopoly.
Epic poured billions of Fortnite money with little to show for it. How is anyone going to compete with a platform that most gamers have all of their games on? This is why they need to be broken up or brought to order via regulations. Companies are not your friends.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 2 months ago:
Yeah, I gathered as much while trying to figure out who that is :)
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 2 months ago:
The cut would be less if competition was possible. I will bet my arm, first child and souls on this.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 2 months ago:
Pain tolerance to prices, how good the support is, how snappy the app is etc. Within the space of game marketplaces they’re average and that’s because every one of them kind of sucks. If Epic was first to monopolize PC game marketplaces people would be defending them like they defend Valve now because they want all of their games in one place.
Linux gaming was stable before Proton. It was never big but mainstream titles were getting released. These days there’s nothing. Titles could be broken at any moment by a developer and nobody will have any responsibility to fix it. I very much doubt that a for profit company does anything because they “like” something like Linux. They’re there to make money, period.
I’m not saying Valve should port their games to ARM or update them, it’s up to them and they don’t seem to be interested in developing games all that much these days. My point wad that plenty of games run via Rosetta2 fine. Steam doesn’t run fine because essentially it’s a web browser and that’s where you can say that 80 developers might not be enough to support this money printing machine.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 2 months ago:
I’ve been reading Ars Technica for over 20 years now but that’s because I like their points, not because I write for them xd
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 2 months ago:
Their cut is mathematically fair but the inputs for this formula are mostly pain tolerance levels of consumers and producers. I meant fair for having a monopoly. Either you’re a utility or need to be broken up so that actual competition can take place.
Steam Deck and Proton killed Linux gaming because nobody bothers to do native ports. While I don’t agree with that approach it kinda works but it’s not that Valve does this because they like Linux. They’re scared of losing their monopoly in case Windows changes too much.
There are ARM native games on Mac (Disco Elysium for example) and Steam has no issues with them. Not having ARM client though means that you’re running a dynamically recompiling web browser through a translation layer resulting in terrible performance.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 2 months ago:
Also explains why Steam is still a 32-bit binary and didn’t get ARM port on any platform.
I think the point is that with this kind of upkeep costs it’s hard to argue that Steam sales cut is fair, especially given near-monopoly in PC gaming space.
- Comment on World's First Dreamcast FPGA Core Shown In Action | Time Extension 2 months ago:
I wonder when will we see community settling on some new standardized FPGA platform since Mister and Analogue Pocket have their obvious limitations. I’m only familiar with Analogue side of things but Analogue 64 seems promising.