MooseBoys @ MooseBoys @lemmy.world

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Diablo Immortal is 18GB.

weirdly high cost

Price is completely independent of cost. Products are almost always segmented into three tiers. The lowest tier enables breadth and is sometimes sold at a loss. Middle tier is where most money is made, by having vastly higher margins. High tier is mostly to capitalize on people with money to spare, and to provide a psychological boost to the middle tier so those people think they’re making a balanced choice.

This is how all consumer electronics are priced.

Always has been

This is the third post I’ve seen on Lemmy recently where people seem to overwhelmingly think the word “scam” just means “something I don’t like”. To be a scam, something needs to be dishonest in its representation, usually either by falsifying the true cost to the buyer, or lying about what is being provided in return.

Give Burke a break, man - he just made a bad call. No need to nail him to the wall or anything.

Aliens (special edition)

This dismissive sentiment is actually why I think eventually many Millennials will end up clueless as they age. Yes, Gen Z might not know how filesystems work, but that’s because they don’t have to. It’s fast becoming an obsolete user abstraction, replaced in many places by tags, dates, and other contextual / searchable hints. If I want to find photos of my sister’s wedding, I just tap the map where it was and I see the entire gallery - no need to navigate to /home/MooseBoys/Photos/2017/JanesWedding.

Being able to adapt to new tech is as much about the ability to learn something new as it is to unlearn something old. The amount of people criticizing Gen Z for not knowing how some antiquated system works suggests to me that plenty of Millenials are holding on dearly to their mental models of how technology works. When presented with something vastly different, like a computer without a screen, they’ll probably be just as clueless as a boomer trying to figure out where to put the postage stamp on the email to their nephew.

OpenAI has a valuation of $29B. They could easily afford to license the entirety of the NTY content but did not do so.

unbelievably vast cost

A quick search indicates training ChatGPT-4 cost around $100M - really not that much for a company valued at $29B.

Updated my comment. Apparently it’s not KNotes proper but a simpler version of the sticky note applet bundled with Plasma. I tried finding ways to remove it, but the consensus seems to be that you can only suppress its activation, not remove it completely.

The problem is that only half of the chiplets have access to the large cache. If the scheduler isn’t aware of that and a lot of data is shared across cores (as in the case for many games), you’ll miss out on most of that performance. AMD wrote a driver for Windows to help optimally schedule threads with high cache intensity to the expanded cache chiplets, but they didn’t do it for Linux. If your workload is not very chatty between cores, and threads don’t need to synchronize at 60Hz, it won’t matter as much. But for game workloads, it makes a big difference, and can actually result in worse performance than the homogenous chiplet design of the mid-tier 7800X3D if you get it wrong.

I’m not forced to keep anything on Linux

KNotes has entered the chat…

Edit: apparently it’s not KNotes proper - just the built-in KDE sticky notes applet that is bundled with the environment and is impossible to remove if you want to use KDE Plasma.

AOSP has no Google at all

…? dafuq u smoking?

Android is a very secure system

Except for the ridiculously powerful permissions you need to give most system-type apps in order for them to function (i.e. read and paint over all screen content) because the accessibility APIs are shit, and password manager APIs too fragmented to be useful.

Sometimes the policy of “you will use our API and you will be happy” is actually beneficial for users.

That’s kind of my point. Linux supports it, but Windows doesn’t anymore. Why? Money - OEMs aren’t selling them anymore, so why spend time to support new features on them? On the flip side, the heterogeneous chiplet structure of the 7950X3D was supported on Windows from day 1, while on Linux the scheduler is still unaware of the different perf characteristics to this day. Why? Same answer - money. AMD doesn’t make money selling 7950X3D on Linux, so they’re not going to spend time writing a kernel driver to optimize perf on it.

Did you ever attend school?

I hate to break it to you but 4 years old is nowhere close to “bleeding edge” when it comes to PC hardware.

Linux has better support for the long tail of hardware. Windows has better support for bleeding-edge hardware. The main reason for this is money.

I game … regularly and have never had a driver bug

Presses X to doubt…

They can’t force you to use it.

No, but they can fail you for not participating in required class exercises.