mushroommunk
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- Comment on Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app 6 hours ago:
Think of wine as an emulator. It’s a program that runs in Linux that then runs Windows programs. Usually quite well. It’s all done without leaving Linux.
Dual boot is when you start the computer up you can either boot into Linux or Windows, both are options but they don’t run at the same time.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 1 day ago:
Although I agree with you, you chose a poor example.
Kilo doesn’t mean 1024, that’s kibi. Many of us in tech differentiate because it’s important.
- Comment on Samsung, SK Reportedly Hike Server DRAM Prices 60-70% – Google, Microsoft in the Queue 2 days ago:
It literally does not matter to the AI companies right now. They’ve convinced so many other companies to put every egg, including non existent future eggs, into one basket. They are buying so much RAM that the manufacturing infrastructure cannot keep up and would take years to introduce more.
- Comment on Steam survey for December 2025 shows Linux holding to 3.19% 1 week ago:
I’ve been on steam for over 10 years now. Was never picked for the hardware survey until yesterday. Glad I’m part of the Linux number.
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 1 week ago:
I know you’re rage baiting but touch grass man
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 1 week ago:
Your tastes may change and you might have changed as a person as you aged but there’s nothing to “grow out of”. Games aren’t inherently childish. Certain ones can be, but games as a whole aren’t
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 1 week ago:
Or maybe we don’t use the hallucination machines currently burning the planet at an ever increasing rate and this isn’t a problem?
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 1 week ago:
I don’t think most people know there’s built in instructions. I think to them it’s legitimately a magic box.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, thats the problem? I’m confused what you’re not getting here. Those programs are made to constantly run. Many people need both for various reasons. Add a main program like Photoshop and then you don’t have enough RAM. People don’t load discord, check a message, close it, load Whatsapp, check it, then load Photoshop.
The RAM usage doesn’t suddenly stop because you alt+tab to a different program.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 2 weeks ago:
You’re off by a large margin. I’ll use two well documented examples.
Whatsapp native used about 300mb with large chats. Cpu usage stayed relatively low and constant. Yes it wasn’t great but that’s a separate issue. The new webview2 version hits over a gig and spikes the cpu more than some of my games.
Discord starts at 1gb memory usage and exceeds 4gb during normal use. That’s straight from the developers. It’s so bad they have started rolling out an experimental update that makes the app restart itself when it hits 4gb.
These are just two electron apps meant just for chatting mostly. That’s up to 5Gb with just those two apps. Electron and webview2 both spin up full node.js servers and multiple JavaScript heaps plus whatever gpu threads they run, and are exceedingly bad at releasing resources. That’s exactly why they are the problem. Yes the actual JavaScript bundles discord and Whatsapp use are probably relatively small, but you get full chromium browsers and all of their memory usage issues stacked on top.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 2 weeks ago:
I try to follow the gaming space and I didn’t really see anyone talk about optimization until the Steam deck grew. I do wish more companies were open about their development process so we actually had some data. The switch/switch 2 very well could have pushed it, but I think with those consoles people just accept that they might not get all the full modern AAA games, they’re getting Pokemon and Mario and such. Where as the steam deck they want everything in their steam library. I dunno
I have no real data, just what I’ve seen people discussing.
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 2 weeks ago:
Those require the company to still compete against AI data centers gobbling up resources. Writing a more optimized program would be even more beneficial to them then to drop cost
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 2 weeks ago:
It’s not just garbage software. So many programs are just electron apps which is about the most inefficient way of making them. If we could just start actually making programs again instead of just shopping a webpage and a browser bundled together you’d see resource usage plummet.
In the gaming space even before the RAM shortage I’ve seen more developers begin doing optimization work again thanks to the prevalence of steam deck and such so the precedent is there and I’m hopeful other developers do start considering lower end hardware.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 2 weeks ago:
A lot of jackass answers in here but this is the answer to the spirit of the question.
Reaganomics or it’s other name “trickle down” economics is what you want to start looking into.
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 2 weeks ago:
Your definition of “reasonable” is way low I think. Especially with a lot of people working from home so their time isn’t eaten up by driving anymore. I do not know a single gamer who doesn’t consistently put in over 3 hours a day average. More broadly most people I know put that much time into their hobbies (many with kids).
- Comment on AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims 2 weeks ago:
A lot of the AI you hear about in the scientific community is likely not an LLM. It might use bits of similar technology behind the scenes but they aren’t using chatgpt to fold proteins or develop new weather models. That’s the problem with lumping everything under “AI”.
Unless you’re talking writing the papers afterwards, but that’s back into using LLMs for paperwork that every industry is discussing.
- Comment on AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims 2 weeks ago:
I mean Meta’s own chief AI researched, Yan Lecun (sp?), has stated that current AI models cannot achieve AGI and new unknown technology is needed. Circular investments like are rampant in the tech sector now have historically led to large market corrections. And most average people I know are getting tired of things crashing all the time and are starting to ask if it’s because of the current “vibe coding” trend they’ve heard about (yes anecdotal but the first two aren’t).
Sure the bubble might not pop, but signs point to it happening. We can’t predict the future, but it often rhymes with history
- Comment on AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output 2 weeks ago:
To be fair most humans don’t scrutinize themselves either.
- Comment on Is there a real, actually working way to earn money online without having a job? 2 weeks ago:
Just a simple loan to start off. Just a million dollar loan
- Comment on How do we know that the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle is preserved across radius sizes? 2 weeks ago:
There’s kind of a meek proof built of of work Euclid and Archimedes. There’s a paper that goes over it (I know skimmed) arxiv.org/pdf/1303.0904
- Comment on Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’d be more curious about the past three years combined. I know several friends still playing BG3 because they haven’t had time to finish it. As backlogs grow I feel like this will only become more common.
- Comment on Christmas Animals 3 weeks ago:
Just snagged this to watch next week
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 3 weeks ago:
Right now not really. Ladybird is coming next year and I’m hopeful for
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 3 weeks ago:
Just going through settings was not enough. The process was still running. I don’t know which toggle fully killed it because I clicked everything off at once.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 3 weeks ago:
12? Only 12? Bruh. My Firefox legit gave up and just shows an infinity symbol 😭
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 3 weeks ago:
Can I tempt you to join the fountain pen gang? We have shiny nibs and fun coloured inks to match your mood!
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 3 weeks ago:
We’ll just ignore the fact that the chat bot menu setting randomly appeared after an update. Very opt in. The only way to kill the task it sparks is to go into about:config and kill all the browser.ml.* options.
No one here cares what Firefox says because their actions have already hurt the trust in them.
- Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months? 4 weeks ago:
Welcome back to the digital world 👨🏼💻
Another vote for Expedition 33. Literally best game I’ve ever played. Loved it so much.
A lot of people loving Dispatch but not tried it myself yet.
Blue Prince is unlike a lot of games I’ve played before, bring a notebook though.
Heard good things about Metaphor: Refantazio
Not a 2024 game but I’m still gonna plug Inscryption too if you haven’t played it. Such a fun little game.
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 4 weeks ago:
The real reason to watch