minfapper

@minfapper@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft focus entirely on business customers. Xbox doesn’t align at all with any of their other business strategies.

  I’m sure they’d love to sell it off, but it’s like one of the biggest (if not the actual biggest) publishers in the world so I don’t think there’s any company that can afford to buy it.

  They could split it up and sell it off in pieces, but they’re not sure if Wall Street will reward them for it. So the best bet for them is to keep it as a buffer for layoffs whenever they need to raise their stock price.

  The bullshit part it that our current economic system makes this the most logical path.

  Instead of blaming Microsoft for doing layoffs, maybe we should be asking ourselves why we let 3 trillion dollar companies exist in the first place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  what we actually have a shortage of is the underlying memory chip fabs. That is, the machines that can take the silicon and stamp them into DRAM/HBM/whatever else you need.

  So, once the bubble pops and enough of those free up to (potentially) resume manufacturing DRAM sticks at the rate they were back in 2025, we’ll get regular inventory again, but there won’t be a surplus.

  You can’t pluck out the silicon from an already built chip and shove it in another, unfortunately 😅, and I don’t think anyone will be able to build an adapter that lets you plug HBM into DRAM slots because they’re architecturally just different enough for that to be infeasible.

  So that will leave all those AI machines as scrap the hyperscalers have to deal with, but won’t help the rest of us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Source: Trust me, bro⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Legit I don’t think I can recognize any of those characters, and I thought I was a pretty big weeb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Once Unimaginable, Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, it’s less about defeatism and more that I’m watching a fight between two assholes so I’m finding it hard to empathize with either side.

  Like… Publishers regularly screwed over consumers, content creators, and tried to break the web multiple times. They can bleed for all I care

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately, we’re not going to get an over supply of DRAM once the bubble pops.

  Most of the current production is HBM, which is just architecturally different enough from DRAM to not be useful for desktop computers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  https://keepandroidopen.org/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just make sure you don’t store any personal data on those devices. They become useless because they slowly turn into a security nightmare

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Player Voice Quickly Reveals What Players Want Most⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I work for Microsoft, and a lot of my former co-workers are still in the Xbox org. And can assure you they absolutely don’t have the ability to fake any of that.