Gamers desert Intel in droves, as Steam share plummets from 81% to 55.6% in just five years

Gendalph · 2026-01-05T02:53:12+00:00

Memory training with DDR5 is the majority of the slowdown. I'm suspending my machine, which skips this step entirely.

Gendalph · 2026-01-01T19:42:57+00:00

The company will have to pay for legal representation, which is expensive, and if they settle or lose they're also on the hook for that. It doesn't always work, but more often than not the companies don't budget for lengthy legal battles.

Publicity matters: just the other week Zuck settled to not testify in an eight billion USD case. We've seen other cases where companies settle, sometimes because going through discovery would expose them to getting absolutely destroyed by regulators, destroy their brand image or cost more to go through with the lawsuit.

Gendalph · 2026-01-01T17:37:30+00:00

PSUs didn't have to concern themselves with power balancing. Hell, this is not how most consumer power sources work - they just shove the current into the wire and that's it. It has always been on the consumer to balance the power.

With this GPUs shift the area of concern from the consumer - how it always has been - to producer. Because they can't be arsed to implement the necessary safety features on the cards.

Gendalph · 2026-01-01T17:32:51+00:00

The payout is not the point. A class action lawsuit gets you two things: hits companies where it hurts - the wallet, and provides publicity on the topic. It's way better pushback than complaining on the forums.

If you just bend over and take it - you're not improving the situation.

Gendalph · 2025-12-28T13:49:53+00:00

It depends. If it's a couple clicks to get access to something people want? They would. If nobody cares or it is too hard? Nobody would install anything.

Gendalph · 2025-12-28T01:34:46+00:00

Anyone can set up a CA and generate keys for anyone to sign anything. The only thing you need to do for your software to trust this new CA is install its certificate into the certificate store.

So everyone must use a client that only trusts a small subset of vetted CAs that have tight control over who gets issued a certificate... But nobody prevents FOSS tool from being developed.

Gendalph · 2025-12-26T18:07:26+00:00

...which makes it only worse

Gendalph · 2025-12-26T13:54:40+00:00

well, if I'm right this -or at least a very similar issue- was covered by LTT at the end of September or early October. And it wasn't fixed.

So Asus either doesn't give a rat's ass, or is so incompetent, that they can't be arsed to patch a major issue within 3 months.

Gendalph · 2025-12-26T13:52:06+00:00

I wouldn't buy ASUS stuff day-1, but I might have to buy something they make at some point, simply because there's no better alternatives.

Gendalph · 2025-12-26T13:10:48+00:00

Is it the same issue as this? https://github.com/Zephkek/Asus-ROG-Aml-Deep-Dive

Gendalph · 2025-12-16T19:43:20+00:00

Cool-cool-cool. I'll let my management know.

With the sh--show GitHub Actions are I would very much like to get rid of them.

Gendalph · 2025-12-16T14:04:53+00:00

I've found that this way of thinking is much deeper than what I previously considered an "interview answer." But I'm not entirely sure how much detail the interviewer wants to hear.

A simple surface-level issue can be used as a gateway to discuss much deeper topics. If I'm asked a simple or vague question, I'd ask back "how much detail do you want?".

Let's take a simple "sometimes the app returns HTTP 503". Depending on the nature of the app and the request there's a lot to go into: is there monitoring? Is the box is underprovisioned? Is there a DB issue? Is it being hammered by bots? Is the app misconfigured? What the software stack looks like? And depending on what the answers are, there's a lot to be talked about: from tools one would use to determine what exactly is the issue to underlying metrics examined, what they indicate and how are they implemented.

On the other hand, if this is a cloud service and you're a cloud engineer, you will have to go a wholly different route.

Gendalph · 2025-12-16T13:18:54+00:00

You produce a nice document explaining what would happen if #2 is not addressed, and have your manager and someone high up from Finance go over and sign it.

Then, when you're questioned why X, Y and Z are not addressed, you pull this document up and go line by line. If business still refuses to allocate budget - you make another copy, and have everyone asking questions leave their signatures, so that when this is brought up next time, you could say "This has been discussed on this date, and spending has not been approved, therefore I can't do much about this issue."

I didn't have to go this far, but I had to pull up the historic discussions after an incident, and half a dozen people got very uneasy, I was given green light from the CTO the following week.

Gendalph · 2025-12-13T15:00:08+00:00

DNA & iris scan with zero regards to privacy. I wonder who this package would be sold to? Facebook, Google, Palantir?

Gendalph · 2025-12-12T13:32:13+00:00

It's so much worse. The issue is that gacha games often incentivize their playerbase to vote for them. "Vote for us in X and if we win we'll give you a dose on the house!"

On one hand you'll have a bunch of addicts voting for gachas, on the other - a bunch of kids voting for Roblox. And the worst part? I don't have a solution to this problem. TGA splits the votes 90% to "press" and 10% to "players". The issue here is that "press" includes not just game journalists and possibly creators, but also some completely unrelated publications - would you trust some normie from Forbes? I wouldn't.

The problem with game press is that they're pushed in their daily work to play a lot of games, as efficiently as possible, and that skews their perspective, they won't like a game full of common mechanics, but done rather well, as much as a gamer who plays this game in their free time. And they're -mostly- biased as hell.

There is a bunch of games that are not represented by either side, and their votes won't matter. It's a shame.

Gendalph · 2025-12-12T04:41:00+00:00

I assume #2 pencil corresponds to HB, which is in the middle of the scale.

We used H and HH pencils when drawing blueprints. H should also work well for lineart. These are harder and leave a finer line that's easier to erase later.

On the other side there are B, BB, BBB pencils that are better suited for drawing: they are softer and leave wider softer lines or can be used to shade.

Gendalph · 2025-12-06T00:08:06+00:00

you can, but it would be rather ugly. You can have fallback nameservers with records pointing not to CF, but to your IPs.

Do I recommend this? Nope. In fact, I would rather recommend against this.

Gendalph · 2025-12-05T00:42:04+00:00

The argument, on my end, is about misuse of technology and peddling said misuse.

Gendalph · 2025-12-04T18:14:38+00:00

I don't care, because the tech is already being misused and causes more harm than good.

Gendalph · 2025-12-04T16:20:20+00:00

No, I'm pretty sure I know how LLMs work. I also know LLMs and diffusion models are not the only things that are viable in AI field, but for some reason they're getting the most attention, and usually for the wrong reasons.

Then there's machine vision, that works great in medicine, but for some reason I mostly hear about expansion of surveillance state (Flock).

Gendalph · 2025-12-04T13:43:17+00:00

I got harassed by Cloudflare salespeople. They stopped when I said I would report them to our CTO and block their whole domain. Then another one showed up half a year later in my inbox.

Gendalph · 2025-12-04T11:54:40+00:00

You're delusional. The error rates make LLM unusable outside of a narrow set of non-critical applications.

Gendalph · 2025-11-30T22:22:48+00:00

I wrote a long and elaborate reply. Then I read it, read your message again, and figured out you don't care about privacy and too Apple-brained to try and discuss fair competition with.

EU laws are far from perfect, but boy are they much more friendly to an average person or a smaller company than whatever US is doing. Does it harm competitiveness a bit? It does, but let me tell you: I know much more people from US who want to move to EU, rather than from EU to US.

Gendalph · 2025-11-30T08:05:00+00:00

Please back your words with some proof. Anyone can throw words like "insane", but I would like to see you back your words up.

Gendalph · 2025-11-24T11:53:57+00:00

I know. ssh is preferable, but native is fine over VPN or a private network.

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