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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that gamers can sacrifice a bunch of fps if it comes to that, but they should know why, and they should have an otherwise working game. If everything gets to work on a SteamDeck, that would be a huge booster in confidence. This one platform is a flagship of linux gaming not because it’s better, but because it’s a frame of reference we can use on other setups and distros.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea of unified interface layout itself wasn’t bad, that’s the implementation. It felt like they both didn’t have people testing desktop UI at all and didn’t have any idea how to leverage that idea on a desktop.

  Things they could do:

  1. Seamless device switching, projecting and control across Win platforms over local wireless;
  2. Crossplatform app development, with a wordpress-like UI wrapper;
  3. Tiling DE, so you can have a couple of vertical mobile-like apps contained in their constant positions for ease of use.

  Let it be an ecosystem where every new Windows device can be an opportunity multiplier. Like how KDE Connect makes my phone a media remote or a mouse+kb, and my PC a handler of recent photos I took with my phone today, no cloud involved. With their huge marketshare they could’ve pushed anything they wanted onto hardware producers as a demand and put Apple out of game entirely.

  Instead, we had horizontal scroll in Start menu, fullscreen Calc app, no third party desktop app bothering with Metro interface, everything being like a worse Win7 and the only living reminder of Metro phase ever existing being rectangular squares in w10 Start, now retired for MacOS copycat. GG WP M$. It could’ve been your turning point going into smartphone age, but you had too much money and yesmen to care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk what was your problem, but mine was not reading on filesystems when the choice occured and not knowing how awesome BTRFS is with incrimental backups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing with Valve is that, outside of this monetization of online games, they’ve unquestionably had an enormous positive impact on all sorts of things in this medium just by way of sheer market forces. They’ve done a lot of great open source work, and they’ve helped create a viable exit ramp from Windows.

  I don’t know about the exit ramp for a casual user, if you mean ditching Windows altogether, since that’s not really happening. But what did happen - Microsoft didn’t get to own the central position in gaming on their own platform, and Steam is a program that installs other programs uninterrupted - just to take a sense of what rights it has there for almost two decades. They had GFWL, now MS Store, integrated with XBOX, and they still aren’t mentioned as a PC marketplace anywhere besides having a monopoly on Minecraft. There hasn’t been their IE for games, and it’s awesome. I can’t say Valve and MS even compete there, but having eggs in two different baskets is better than having them in just one. Two different monopolies instead of one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Casinos and gambling venues IRL are almost always their own thing, you can’t go one by mistake and you shouldn’t see them surfacing in unspecialized common spaces, e.g. on Olympics stadium.

  In videogames the casino element penetrates recreational spaces that were mostly safe from that for years. Not as a shadow scheme with reselling/gambling on some third party site - this can’t be stopped - but in the game itself. Valve’s promotional algorythm walks around the lobby giving everyone free spins coupons, that not only reaches mentally unstable addicts, but also normalizes the practice of jerking the slot machine from time to time for the larger userbase. Every actor in that trend is a self-serving agent, but their collective influence puts a foot in the door and proclaims that gambling is a casual part of a daily life and there’s nothing wrong in seeing it everywhere, even parting with a couple of bucks recreationally, that in the end makes bazillions to the house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sad to see⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At least it took him five days, not five years to know they aren’t compatible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨thats all⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fella fails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨concert⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc ticket services helped it a lot. Having a sizeable market share they were able to rise them accross all events and venues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. But that assistance in retrospect feels like the first time we encountered something alike. It prints faster for you but it needs a constant supervision, so you end up glued to the screen, fixing the results. I recall printing a long word with t9, and it followed me for 6 letters, but completely changed the word at the 7th letter to something else entirely, because it’s dictionary didn’t have my word in it, or it thought it’s not as popular. Less control, more attention, frequent fuck ups. It’s close in UX to what I personally getting now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This was time consuming, so when features like T9 Predictive Text came along it really helped improve texting in the pre-smartphone era.

  That’s brave to print that on Lemmy in times of LLMs, I give you that. It’s 20 years late too argue about that, but I do miss convenience of reliably printing whole paragraphs without even looking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The obvious strong link is reddit+email. Someone could have got into his personal, probably old mailbox, where original registration letters (with r/handle) and notifications still are. I find it more probable, but since government is under MAGA, they could’ve used some way to ask Huffman if some account matches the mail address.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In the age of social media, content has a strong boost of community participation. Those who pirated [x] talked about it and therefore added to the hype, gave incencitive for other to try it or buy it. After a month or so it’s hard to hook anyone other than with big sales or updates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I don’t see that, am I the problem? 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phil sieged for David can dab over Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Being a stupid person drinking stulid juice, I think they should be a bit more responsible than me with their media visibility.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue, that it sometimes adds complexity to an already fragile system. Like when we implement touchscreens instead of buttons in cars. It’s akin to how Tesla, unlike Waymo, dropped LIDAR to depend on regular videoinputs alone. Direct control over systems without unreliable interfaces, semantic translation layer, computer vision dependancy etc serves the same tasks without additional risks and computational overheads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  LLM is what usually sold as AI nowadays. Convential ML is boring and too normal, not as exciting as a thing that processes your words and gives some responses, almost as if it’s sentient. Nvidia couldn’t come to it’s current capitalization if we defaulted to useful models that can speed up technical process after some fine tuning by data scientists, like shaving off another 0.1% on Kaggle or IRL in a classification task. It usually causes big but still incremental changes. What is sold as AI and in what quality it fits into your original comment as a lifesaver is nothing short of reinvention of one’s workplace or completely replacing the worker. That’s hardly hapening anytime soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If we actually want to maintain our standard of living and reduce the population size, we may very well need AI automation utilities. They can keep scaling down in size and power consumption in the way that a real human can’t.

  Theoreticisizing LLM’s usefulness and resourcefulness doesn’t help you there. For now they are rather useless embaracingly inefficient resoucehogs existing purely because of the bubble. It’s a gamble at best, or a waste of resources and a degradation of human workforce at worst.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Drunktexting and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

  The main point why I wrote it was that I don’t find them either bots or artifical influencers. They do probably want to have some reach or fresh blood, but don’t want their local culture to be spread too thin like it’s reddit 2.0. They are anything but cancer that I’ve met seeing real botfaming ops.

  And, although I don’t share many of their thoughts, most of the posts I see in my feed discuss common issues where we aren’t that far from each other. Closer, than to maga/zionist/z-crowd. And in that context I find it alright to not draw any lines and just talk.

  When things start to get overly political, well, that’s a whole another thing, where different bestest solutions are incompatible, historical betrayals are dugged up and the internet infighting ensues. It’s exhausting and pointless with just 2mil mostly irrelevant nerds on Fediverse. It’s easier to just scroll through some amuzing takes, and instead focus on things where we can cooperate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve ignored whatever I said to drop a one-line generalized response, not an organic one, and didn’t elaborate why it relates to what I said.

  Isn’t that a behavior of a useful tool you alert others against? I don’t assume you are one. But I get some vibes you don’t act in a good faith there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are obviously agents from elsewhere, and some of them may be pretty effective, but it’s nothing compared to Trump and Co getting money from the likes of Saudis and acting like they own the place. If the main concern is american politics, well, the real worms aren’t theoretical or real foreign enemies, but corrupted fuckheads that ignore human, state rights, shutdown government, pack people from the streets to deport. No enemy could’ve done such damage so-called friends are doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coordinated Pro-Russian Propaganda Network Targeting ActivityPub and ATProto Services⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t call them that. Most if not all of them are genuine people with some having accs for many years before Reddit crossed the line for most of us and them becoming anyhow relevant to interfere. In a recent hexbearean post about fediverse negativity I’ve read a couple of opinions with a notion that federating with others wasn’t that great, and they were pretty happy just by themselves. I assume, it’s the same for other two too. That’s a game too long and effortful to be a psyop imho. Their positions and where they get their info are things to argue, but let’s not get as far as dehumanizing them.

  Almost everywhere I soundly proclaim that I am a russian dummy anarchist, that I live in that state for I have no options, and I angrily disagree with their fascination, mystification of what it is, I hold a grudge with anyone who wants that russki mir to be the model the whole world should share.

  I, nevertheless, find a lot of points, like personal stuff and grieveancies, theoretical things, sympathy to protesters, to Gazan survivors that I share with them. Unlike transparently racist/fascist troll comms that were there, unlike their campaigns I’ve noticed, there is a huge population of real people worthy of talking, arguing with.

  Call me any names and ban me, but as long as any person or community is supportive of basic pillar causes like body autonomy, you, like, can at least talk to them and find something in common.

  What I missed though, is that Diva said the same, but misleadingly doubted the existence of russian bot networks. Them and state suppression ruined the rusophonic space to that degree I dropped it altogether. I don’t know how their actions affected other countries, but as a nolifer shitposting addict trying to trust them just a bit, I came through fire, water and copper tubes before dropping them altogether. They are like current Twitter, but worse. And, well, fuck, I wasn’t abandoning that to find the next option already corrupted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s your alt, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Move Fast and Break Nothing | Waymo’s robotaxis are probably safer than ChatGPT.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That test sounds like a model trainroad but for billionaires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say I’m not a fan of their main monopoly getting bigger. Hardware lock or not, I want MS competing on par with PS, Nintendo, even though I cringe at buying a console for a game. This field got a bit leveled due to Sony giving up on some past exclusives (with a tasty price, nonetheless), but I just don’t trust a personal PC monopolist to be the one to dismantle the current dumbness and taking the higher ground from the very start.

  Btw, I now recall some future Rouge Alley handheld version on Windows got announced as xbox-branded, with a probable verification status. It’s not a bad decision at their part, but I feel like that’s not only sneaking into another niche-move, but also a move to bite Valve, still-irrelevant on general console market, before they take some ground with their, ugh, Leenix or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They tried to push w11-xbox compatibility to push all consoles aside, and I can’t say if it works and if it means stonks, but I can see the current lead not being enthusiastic about R&Ding and producing new hardware, exclusive games. OEM software is a stable bird feeder, and AI integration is their next big king, so they just fixed their position in gaming market by buying several big companies and seemingly quit plans on console market. They are too big and to diverse to fall, but I think ditching a brand equal to sweaty Halo parties of the past and all these long-going console holywars wouldn’t bring much in the perspective of years, not several quarter past today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That calls for another question: would Google vet and mod content on other stores joining in? From their logic, installing apps from Epic Store is a sideloading too unless they themselves approve it, no? I hope that this act would be seen as a violation of a current decision, them going for a second round with EG.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  lets just say you shouldn’t talk about Gabe Newell while standing on or sitting in a Microsoft campus

  Ugh, that evil G-man with his S-word!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JFC, who did this?!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s in the end of the last Dark Tower book. What he wrote can be reworded as ‘Do you have sex only for the orgasm alone, or for the whole process of it?’. And it wasn’t the weirdest part of said series.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Much more relevant are the last two numbers in nvidia classification. A 2060 is miles behind a 1080. The first 2 numbers just represent the generation, not how “strong” it is.

  I know what these numbers are. I thought it’s obvious from my comments.

  1060 was always an entry level gpu, and is outclassed by even modern integrated graphics.

  1050 was an entry level garbage of this generation, going as low as 3GB of VRAM, while 1060 got 4-6GBs. The latter is not in the best position now, after 3060 dropped, and affordable VRAM got into 10GB+ territory, but it’s still capable of enduring tasks on it’s budget. 4060 and 5060 didn’t brought as much to the table as 10xx-30xx jump did after failed 20xx imho.

  Since new vcards are still trapped in an overprice bubble, used 1060s are still nice, especially coupled together. And I doubt that this discrete card is worse than integrated graphics of, say, 13gen i5 Intel, that is, by defenition, uses a part of availiable RAM rather than having it’s own soldered-in VRAM of the next gen, and also steals computational power from the CPU, that is rarely a bottleneck but cpu-heavy tasks still happen. In games, it’s titles like Vermintide 2 that exhaust mid-range machines by calculating horde logic.

  Source: I do live VJing and occasional v-render on contractor’s hardware, ranging from sexy 5080 speeds to vcardless trash setups, and just a couple of days ago I was forced to use a 730 vcard that could hardly handle OBS and projecting software at the same time.