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Not even being a doomer here, but it really is just... interesting to see all these climate predictions play out right on schedule. Almost like all those scientists might be on to something.

The prediction that NVIDIA's open GPU Linux kernel driver would be the default for Turing and newer GPUs, I assume.

It's honestly hard to explain just how cool it is. If you watch the trailer and think it's a cool idea, just know that the game absolutely delivers on it 500%.

Oh man, I could go on lol. Here's a few notable ones though:

Factorio
Noita
Stardew Valley
Terraria
Project Zomboid
FTL
(Etc.)

A lot of people are having a lot of issues with video games these days, and I experience almost none of that pain, because I (generally) stick to indie titles. These days games have never been better, but publishers have never been worse.

It's true. I even live in a place where the "Software Engineer" title actually does require a special designation, and I'm a "Software Engineer", and I have no such designation, so there's that.

People might be more familiar with this viral picture as well, if not the name.

"Margaret Hamilton shown in 1969 standing beside listings of the software developed by her and her team for the Apollo program's Lunar Module and Command Module."

Then you pass out and dream the solution lol.

I misread that at first and got really excited about a Resident Evil SimCity for a second.

This is largely semantic, and highly subjective, but to me "Engineer" implies more design, architecture, and planning (ie, meetings).

A Senior "Developer" would imply more day-to-day coding to me. Not that companies care what I think, of course.

Not to turn this into a sociology discussion, but for anyone unaware: this is a fairly common pattern.

Women often pioneer fields like this, but as soon as it becomes seen as something "important" out "respectable" then suddenly it becomes male dominated.

The opposite also happens, where as society deems something as unimportant, a male dominated field will become female dominant - see teaching for an unfortunate example of a field that used to be highly paid and respected, and is now largely looked down on.

Sorry, don't mean to go off on a tangent - it just bugs me and I think more people should be aware of it.

For anyone unaware, Ada Lovelace created the first programming language - all before a computer even existed. Absolute Chad of a woman.

I use Connect, and I have no complaints.

Tried Jerboa early on, but at the time it was super buggy. Hopefully it's better now - I feel like a FOSS app is a way better option for Lemmy just on principle.

I prefer calling it Canolturnip.

Ahh, I didn't know that was an option. I'll give it a shot - thanks!

As much as I get what you are saying, the United States has continually expanded the rights of corporations to essentially be.. people. So on that they seem to have some legal standing?

Afaik, the Citizens United case - which gave corporations First Amendment rights - was won based on the idea that the government can't stop a corporation from publishing books. It'll be interesting to see how this ruling goes when it's not about books, but about an online media platform.

That said, I agree that the national security aspect will definitely come into play here. As a non-American, I'm curious to see how it goes.

With corporations so consistently and vehemently acting in bad faith, I honestly don't think we need a further justification for piracy.

Because how do you implement equality when dealing with privilege? You take from the privileged to level the playing field. So when you apply that to being privileged because you aren't being discriminated against, the solution is to remove that privilege? So... do more discrimination so everyone is equal?

Hmm? The way to address privilege isn't to take from the privileged, though. Maybe I'm missing something in your hypothetical? The goal isn't to reduce privilege, but to raise everyone up to the same level so that no particular class is "privileged".

Reparations are a thing, which can potentially be what you're describing, but overall this isn't a zero-sum game or a math equation. The bulk of the solution is simply for people to respect other people.

Sure, respect alone won't necessarily address class or wealth privilege, but it would address most forms that people normally talk about (and that are being talked about here) - preferential treatment due to race, culture, sexual orientation, sex, gender, ability, etcetcetc.

Like, all of those could be addressed entirely by a change in culture, with not a single person being worse off than they were before, so to view it as transactional can become misleading, I think.

"vampire."

Sadly, my current server is an old all-in-one, so adding a GPU will be difficult. My plan is to make due for now until I can get some proper hardware.

The current plan is - rather than bringing the hardware up to spec - I'll try bringing the spec down to the hardware, by pre-encoding everything to something like H264. (While keeping originals, since I have the space.)

Thank you for the response and the resource, though! I'll definitely check it out!