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- Comment on Epic Games needs Fortnite players to "help pay the bills" as the multi-billion-dollar company raises V-Bucks prices while making Battle Passes and Crew way worse in value 4 hours ago:
Let’s not forget they literally build and license unreal engine, which most AAA games use. If they’re low on money that sounds like horrible business. They should be able to take even a meager amount and be wildly profitable
- Comment on Cheapest 14x4tb NAS 8 hours ago:
No more Storage Full warnings.
Is that a challenge?
- Comment on Fallout Game in Development at Xbox-Owned Studio Might Have Been Canceled; Bethesda Would Rather Staff Up Than Give It (or Elder Scrolls) to Others 14 hours ago:
Hm, still a bit butthurt that their best installment was made by Obsidian it seems
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 2 days ago:
I’ve heard the same. If you’re in the games industry and you finish shipping usually you’re laid off and then you move on to the next project. When a new battlefield comes along they’ll just start hiring everyone again whether they worked on the last one or not. It’s not really a long-term strategy but they don’t care. It’s about short-term gains.
- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 2 days ago:
'Chievos are a very personal thing, they were never important unless you personally thought they were. If you don’t think they’re important anymore, then great. If you want to chievo hunt, also great. Gaming is what you make of it.
- Comment on Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next 5 days ago:
Sounds like maybe you should apply
- Comment on Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next 5 days ago:
There are multiple solutions to this problem, and one job posting does not mean they are suddenly forcing changes into the linux kernel, the kernel that literally runs the entire internet, countless businesses, and governments to prevent cheating.
The facts are that we have a single job posting from EA where they want to investigate how it could be done.
There is a best case and a worst case scenario, with so many thousands of options in between. Immediately assuming the worst case here isn’t doing anything. All probability says it will probably be something in the middle.
- Comment on Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next 5 days ago:
It’s an assumption that because they use the kernel in Windows that they’re going to do the same in Linux. It’s not feasible for them to. Even if they did somehow convince all the maintainers that they deserve kernel access (and let’s remember we’re in a post-crowdstrike world and they’re messing with the same kernel base code that runs all containers and servers out there supporting the entire internet), they would still need to take into account that people can just fork the kernel and compile their own.
This is one single job posting where they are investigating how they could do it. Don’t be so quick to grab the pitchforks.
If a company the size of EA is willing to consider that Linux might be worth supporting, that’s legit a huge win for us. The power of the open source kernel will keep everything else in check.
- Comment on Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next 5 days ago:
Battlefield is pretty much the only big online game I enjoy anymore, and since I switched legit it’s the only game that I haven’t been able to play. It’d be great if they can figure out some way to make it work. Cheaters are such a huge problem in battlefield that I understand why they won’t bring it to Linux without knowing how to set up an anti-cheat solution. Battlefield 5 was just unplayable because of the constant bots and cheaters.
- Comment on Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next 5 days ago:
Literally no where does it say they’re attempting to modify the kernel.
- Comment on Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC 1 week ago:
Corporate suits love ignoring player feedback and telling people they’re wrong.
No, we’re goddamn sick of enshittification and would rather PlayStation failed than give into it.
- Comment on Sony PlayStation reportedly moving away from PC ports 1 week ago:
Sony reportedly not interested in my money it turns out.
The older I get the more selective I get about games. If you aren’t even willing to publish to the platform I’m on then there’s a huge reason for me to play all of the other games I’ve been wanting to. Not spending hundreds of dollars on a console for one game.
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- Comment on Renewable Energy Defies Trump’s Attacks, Reaching a New Record | Wind, solar and other green sources generated more than a quarter of all US energy last year. 1 week ago:
and it’s going to continue! It’s not even about being green, financially you can’t ignore it.
Do you:
- Put a solar panel up once and plug it in
or
- Pay people to mine old rocks, pull them out of the ground, and then ship it across the country at a regular cadence
It doesn’t take an MBA to see the financials here.
- Comment on Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC 1 week ago:
They keep forgetting this, Xbox thought it too. We are with our digital libraries, I’m not going to go buy a PS5 because of one game. The hardware is only the portal.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 2 weeks ago:
Anyone who thinks Xbox is still going to be worth anything is a fool. They overspent on gaming studios, didn’t produce anything of value, gamepass value went down, and now everyone hates them for the constant enshittification. Even stepping back from “This is lemmy and we all hate microsoft” they have done some horrible business moves with Xbox. I don’t know anyone who is positive about the brand. They have ran it firmly into the ground.
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if this is a huge demotion for the AI guy. AI teams in Microsoft are “good” right now, I wonder if he fucked up in some way and they put him on xbox.
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
Hey don’t discount them that much, they also can’t make games either. They’re going for full on business-only approach, consumers are not a priority for them at all anymore.
- Comment on Private Equity Targets Clean Energy After Steep US Drop-Off in 2025 | Investment firms, including KKR & Co. and Energy Impact Partners, are scouting for possible acquisitions. 2 weeks ago:
Fuck private equity. Its always a pump and dump. They don’t care about the mission, they want to holding, strip it for parts, and sell to a bigger sucker later.
- Comment on Ubisoft Toronto the Latest Ubisoft Branch to get hit With Layoffs, Work on the Splinter Cell Remake Continues 2 weeks ago:
And they want us to stay hyped about games. I refuse to believe any marketing garbage because I know now they’re just measuring hype to determine if they should keep making things. That is not a long term strategy
- Comment on hot midi trax 3 weeks ago:
The shame, the people should know!
- Comment on Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux 3 weeks ago:
it’s not entirely clear if the HDMI Forum can (or will be able to) block people going with a trial and error approach to getting more modern HDMI features working in the open source drivers
Hey this is our monopoly! You can’t just come in here and use your brain to bypass our arbitrary rules!
- Comment on Battlefield 6 sets out to rally flagging player numbers with a big dose of hallucinatory gas 3 weeks ago:
I wanted to try it, but they specifically banned Linux players, so they didn’t want my money I guess
- Comment on System requirements for a Matrix server? 3 weeks ago:
Good practice. Good luck then! Let us know if you need anything, on matrix I’m @scrubbles:halflings.chat, feel free to DM with questions
- Comment on System requirements for a Matrix server? 3 weeks ago:
That’s how I started too, so very good plan, and good way of thinking ahead. Ssd will be fast so the app will load fast for your users, and images can take a few seconds and no one will mind.
Make sure you have a solid backup plan for both
- Comment on System requirements for a Matrix server? 3 weeks ago:
Basically for a cloud provider s3 storage is just any storage. It’s not a disk that needs to be high availability with programs reading and writing to it with an OS on top, its just blobs of data. Images, video, isos, whatever. Its meant for access that is lower than what a VM would need for an active program.
For matrix this is ideal for its content. An image uploaded will be read a fee dozen times, and then less and less until eventually it isn’t really needed ever unless someone scrolls and scrolls up.
So for hosting, if you store that on a disk you’re saying “this is critical to the operation of the software and must be highly available and optimized for vms reading and writing to it.”. Think like m.2 ssds. Blob storage then analogous to us home labbers to throwing it on a giant nas. Its there, may take a bit to load, but its there.
Then s3 has classes too, where if you need your data even less you can pay even less trading off access times, you can get even better rates if you know you need it extremely infrequently, like audit logs. Tape drives are actually used quite a bit for those opt-in low access tiers because if you think about it the data storage is incredibly dense, but opening up a tape can be minutes or longer to access. No problem if you’re pulling up some archive from 20 years ago.
- Comment on System requirements for a Matrix server? 3 weeks ago:
If you’re running locally on your own system then yes you can use your own. You can use something like MinIO or Garage to self-host an S3 bucket, and then point Matrix to that
- Comment on System requirements for a Matrix server? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure your level of understanding of cloud infrastructure, so let me know if you need me to go into more detail. Disk storage, like what is attached to a VPS/VM is very expensive, and it’s the 100GB drive you have attached. What is much cheaper is object/blob storage, known in AWS and most cloud providers as S3. This is far far cheaper for many reasons.
Matrix (and really I should say Synapse, what I use) can be configured to save images, photos, uploads, etc to save to a blob storage “bucket” instead of disk. So you can lower your disk from 100 down to something lower because your data is stored in blob storage (fully encrypted). For synapse, the module you need is here: github.com/…/synapse-s3-storage-provider
- Comment on System requirements for a Matrix server? 3 weeks ago:
You can set it to use object storage instead, much cheaper
- Comment on Element/Matrix Official Docker Install Method? 3 weeks ago:
My friend group has already moved to Matrix, and we’ve been happy