This lines up with my completely unscientific observation that the people who have started relying heavily on AI are dumbasses.

Indeed, how did they fuck that up so badly? I feel like you have to be trying these days to embed a map and address picker and not have it support global addresses.

What about lasers?

Honestly, the only way I see is by staying under the radar. Right now Lemmy feels like early-days Reddit - most people haven’t heard of it, and the content is skewed heavily towards privacy-focused tech nerds. As soon as it becomes mainstream and everyone has a Lemmy account, that’s when the corporate trolling and bots arrive.

The one good thing about Lemmy is its distributed nature. Like we used to have private or invite-only forums back in the day, perhaps some servers could implement this kind of approach and only federate carefully with other servers. Would require a lot of coordination. But there’s definitely more hope here than on a commercial and centralised platform!

This seems especially handy for anyone who wants a snapshot of Reddit from pre-enshittification and AI era, where content was more authentic and less driven by bots and commercial manipulation of opinion. Just choose the cutoff date you want and stick with that dataset.

I really hate late stage capitalism for this. Any useful invention is quickly captured and enshittified for profit. If this came out 20-30 years ago I doubt anyone would have reservations.

Set yourself clear milestones. When will this project be “done”? What features is the engine going to have? What is in/out of scope?

And be aware, as an indie you either make a game engine or you make a game. It’s near impossible to achieve both without sinking a crazy amount of time into it.

Making a game engine is an excellent way to sharpen your skillset when it comes to programming, math, physics, and graphics APIs. But it’s an awful way to make a game. Just be sure you’re going into it for the right reasons.

Neither did Sony, lol.

Definitely the former. Most people have just hung onto their PCs for longer. Steam’s userbase keeps climbing.

If you have the room, why not go full ATX? More compatibility with available parts and room for future upgrades! Drives, GPUs, NICs, HBAs etc.

It’s a sign of the times that the effects of rapid weight loss are attributed to a drug since most people don’t know what it looks like!

In my experience it always goes wrong at the least opportune time. Before an important zoom call, as you’re about to leave for the airport etc. My NAS and services (especially Home Assistant) are so mission critical now that I like to have a warm backup ready to go, even if it’s a stop-gap measure.

https://youtu.be/fOVHb4-4ry4

This, except it’s the CEO being questioned

I DIY’d a PIKVM from an old Raspberry Pi 4 I had lying around for use in a homelab server. It’s been great, no complaints here, very handy if you need BIOS or direct console access from a phone or laptop. I especially like that you can hook up the PC power buttons to allow hard power cycling via the web interface. Though if you’re looking for something portable you’d probably skip that part.

Used enterprise drives are amazing value though. With enough redundancy in a RAID array it’s a great way to get storage in bulk.

Nice try Satya.

Please drink a verification can.

And it’s getting worse. Locking down bootloaders, priority firmware, “safety” checks on devices for banking apps, inability to repair/replace hardware components. The industry is actively hostile to competition, especially open platforms.

If personal computers were invented today, there’s no way we’d end up with open standards like ATX. Every company would have their own lock-in ecosystem that prevented DIY assembly and repairs. And they’d probably throw a subscription on it too.

At some point tech companies stopped focusing on what customers want/need, and started chasing their own delusions on what the next big thing is that will make them money. Solutions in search of problems, with billions of dollars of hype and marketing behind them. Crypto, NFTs, the metaverse, AI… it’s sad to see.

I really hope they come up with some kind of certification system for games targeting Steam consoles, in the same way Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo do. All the boring stuff like making sure controllers connect and disconnect gracefully, the console can be slept/woken at any point in gameplay without bugs, consistent language/UX etc. That stuff goes a long way to making things “just work” on a platform. IMHO it’s the one edge console still has over PC gaming. Even if it was an optional certification, it would give players some decent guidance as to what will work well.