Just having a digital archive of yourself is kind of cool. Future historians (if there are any) will love that, too.

Do you get scammers much?

I tried looking for camera lenses, logged out and with some scripting, and ran into some pretty clear scams immediately. Like no-one is even policing the site.

Not sure why you’re so sure that cloud would be the next winner either.

Because, in aggregate, gamers are stupid consumers.

I hate to be so blunt, but they have, repeatedly and demonstrably, made uninformed purchases. They buy bad games on launch day, complain, then turn around and do it again. They buy hardware known to be a lemon. Heck, they’ll hardly even look at AMD or Intel GPUs now simply because there’s isn’t a minimum amount of effort made to shop around.

They are going to just buy the cloud gaming subscriptions if that’s all that’s financially viable, and it’s what’s popular in their YouTube feeds or Discord channels or whatever.

Keep in mind that I’m talking about the bulk market. Sure, plenty of us will turn our nose up. But the R&D required to develop consumer hardware requires volume, so updates will get slimmer with less money in the pool. It’s already happened with the AMD 9000 GPUs (as shrinking sales could not justify a big-die 7900 successor).

Many do have automated checking, testing, rules for the PR maker to follow and such.

If they don’t have it set up, and the project is big, TBH the maintainers should set it up.

The issue is that these submitters are (often) drive-by spammers. They aren’t honest, they don’t care about the project, they just want quick kudos for a GitHub PR on a major project.

Filtering a sea of scammers is a whole different ballgame than guiding earnest, interested contributors. Automated tooling isn’t set up for that because (outside the occasional attempt to sneak malware into code) it wasn’t really a thing.

Which would you rather have as the dominant platform. Consoles, or cloud gaming?

Because if “market conditions” kill consoles, they will shrink PC gaming hardware sales too, and I don’t want a world where devs target cloud gaming first.

I’m not trying to defend consoles and their predatory practices, but you can’t separate them out. If subsidized console hardware is too pricey to sell, then PC gaming components will absolutely atrophy too.

Godot is also weighing the possibility of moving the project to another platform where there might be less incentive for users to “farm” legitimacy as a software developer with AI-generated code contributions.

Aahhh, I see the issue know.

That’s the incentive to just skirt the rules of whatever their submission policy is.

I don’t even know what they’re using the SSDs for.

Most businesses are too stupid to train their own models from scratch, and won’t use “foreign” ones so they won’t finetune them either.

On the inference side… SSDs aren’t used for much. Just storing Docker stuff/dependencies and model weights for the initial load, and that’s it. Maybe some data for bulk processing, but that’s no different than existing software. The one niche may be KV cache swapping for re-using prompt prefixes, but this is limited and being obsoleted by new attention mechanism.

So WTF do they even need SSDs and HDDs for? Honestly it feels like FOMO purchasing.

A lot of scientists, tinkerers, 3D renderers and such would love cheap A100s and up.

On the contrary, I don’t think they will get cheaper. Somehow they’ll get bought back and trashed (like Nvidia has done in the past), hoarded, tasked with busywork, something that that.

1st party engine devs have been stuck in dev hell, mostly. There are some exceptions, like you said; I’d cite Decima as another success.

But think of EA’s Frostbite, Cyberpunk 2077, Halo Infinite, Clausewitz, BGS, many more. Especially indies that try.

It’s not just that old games crunched, but making a new engine that supports modern platforms and modern hardware is just an immensely complex task. There’s just too much to worry about.

The best success seems to either come from:

• Hyperfocusinf one’s engine’s scope to one game niche. Larian’s divinity engine, for example, makes BG3-likes; that’s it, that all it does. It cannot make an FPS or even a different RPG.

• Engine shop very, very carefully. For instance, KCD2 leaned into CryEngine’s strengths hard, especially that dense, well-lit European foilage.

And either case needs a lucky roll of the dice anyway. See: Cyberpunk 2077 in utter dev hell (even if they eventually pulled out) from wrangling their engine. Or the latest Borderlands being a technical wreck even though they basically invented Unreal Engine alongside Epic.

globalists

This person is so close.

Billionaires. They hates billionaires, and what they’re doing to the planet. He/she just doesn’t realize it yet.

Maybe they will if they starts writing lyrics and one song ends up eerily close to RATM.

AAA expectations are astronomical, AAs take some extra time to keep up, and indies that actually make it take the time to do their own thing, otherwise they’re almost certainly part of the vas, unseen sea of failed indies.

Also, oldschool game dev was toxic. It had some serious crunch culture, just to start. But I think it also attracted talented devs into “sweet spot” dev team sizes; not too big or too small.

And now, if you do software and want to make any money or provide for a family… well, you don’t do game dev. And that phenomenon has gotten worse and worse.

There’s nothing to it, you literally just download an app, text your friend the server name and it connects. And if you have enough bandwidth for Discord or Lemmy, this will work too.

The big caveat is if your internet is bad enough to drop packets or randomly drop out a ton, it’s going to cut your audio off. Discord would work really poorly too, but it would more aggressively auto-reconnect and buffer.

I got no advice on coffeetime, sorry. But I’d keep a lookout for Skylake Xeons, or maybe whole motherboards with embedded CPUs.

Also, on your heating troubles, you can definitely undervolt Ampere. The cards are designed to clock up to high temperatures and stay there, but your 3060 will work better undervolted and capped at a reasonable clockspeed. I’d recommend the MSI Afterburner’s curve optimizer on Windows, and a pyNVML script on Linux.

May I recommend a duct too? I have my 3090 “sealed” against the edge of the case with weather sealing strip foam, and it pulls in ambient air from a different spot where everything is exhausted. This is especially nice because it cuts down on noise, and your GPU fans become “case fans.”

the people you claim to oppose

This is exactly what I’m talking about in another reply. Its what I was trying to make fun of in the original comment.

“The people I oppose.” Us vs them, the enemy. This thread immediately going to a bunch of shit the US did (which, to be clear, they absolutely did) is “How to think like a tankie 101.”

Putin is an open murderer, and I’m not veering off into whataboutism to paint him as some kind of unfairly treated victim.

Yeah.

It’s less trouble for, like, a two-person food truck. Perhaps that‘s what OP is seeing. But cash quickly becomes plenty of trouble.

Credit cards have hazards too though, like chargebacks/fraud. I read some horror story about that sinking a healthy business.

Yep. But in practice it’s been intuitive for everyone.

Because the focus is on the enemy.

Whoever’s pointing the finger is idealized. They’re the protector, the rebel, or whatever you want them to be. The focus is on “them.” That’s why every other breath of a tankie (or Trumpster, or liberal extremist or whatever) is whataboutism.

That’s how authoritarian nationalism works. Same thing’s happening in the US, and Europe. The US Army depicted it quite well:

https://archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947

Unfortunately, with current social media, that trick works very, very, very well. Algorithms are literally built to tell you what you want to hear (including Lemmy to an lesser extent), so it’s easy to fall into these spirals.

All western propaganda and coincidence, I’m sure, as our tankie friends will point out. And he was a corrupt western plant anyway.

Just like how Prigozhin‘s private jet inexplicably exploded mid air, not far from Putin’s Estate, after Wagner’s definitely-not-coup-attempt. Happens all the time. And the Wagner boss was definitely a plant too, oh yeah.

One might think it’s odd that Putin critics die exotic deaths with such… regularity. Could there be some reason for that?

Nah, that’s just the US hegemony talking.

It’s language for people who advertise they know something about “AI,” but couldn’t implement it if their life depended on it.

TBH I’ve never heard that one, but it sounds like they’re trying to use “gradient descent” in a sentence.

SonoBus:

https://sonobus.net/

It’s dead simple, free, P2P, and designed for remote music collaboration, so much lower latency than Discord. Even compression is optional and configurable, and it includes built in, tweakable filtering and gain settings.

And it works on everything. Android, iOS, desktop, all without any login. There’s a public server to start the initial connection (after which it’s purely P2P), but that’s self hostable if you wish.

It is a crime it’s so obscure. It’s basically perfect voice calling (and only voice calling), as long as everyone’s internet isn’t truly awful.