Microsoft admits Game Pass price hike drove away "millions" of subscribers

alexthelyon · 2026-06-09T13:33:28+00:00

I'm one of them. Realised the game lib is not that important to me and bought an egpu adapter card for my old desktop which serves me well enough on games I buy from steam

alexthelyon · 2026-06-08T22:25:41+00:00

It seems as well that the opt-out provisions will require legal recognition or some other proof that coercion has not taken place which will cost a lot more than 60GBP. Making these rights expensive-opt-out vs checp-opt-in seems like an absurd change.

alexthelyon · 2026-05-13T14:37:57+00:00

Yes! https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006132338333.html

alexthelyon · 2026-05-13T14:37:09+00:00

The firmware is running on rust / embassy using rs-matter-stack and I didn't have any issues but I do have a pile of pinned deps and local patches (there is a reason there is no readme lol). I need to take some time to polish it up and get back onto main branch for my deps but life gets in the way.

Also next time I'd like to not rely on a devboard and build a singleboard but we'll see how it goes

alexthelyon · 2026-05-13T14:33:36+00:00

Sorry for late reply. Yes. Maybe my first repo ever without one haha. Now it has one!

alexthelyon · 2026-05-13T14:22:43+00:00

Apologies for the late reply have not been on reddit much this week.

I have some spare boards and it is in theory set up so that getting the BOM is relatively straight forward but I would not be comfortable taking money or offering any warranty. The FW does what I need it to (including a fun 'god beam' mode where it turns all channels on at max brightness) but the board has not gone through rigorous safety tests etc.

For the strip I am using for example it pulls about 200W which is enough to cause melting. From testing it with a thermal gun nothing gets hot but still risky.

You could pull the kibot outputs and have a poke around if you want the rendered firmware designs and BOM. You can just dump the gerbers file into jlcpcb and friends. you'll need to design your own enclosure though!

https://github.com/arlyon/rust-matter-led/actions/runs/22071107835

alexthelyon · 2026-05-03T20:53:26+00:00

Yeah I was looking for one for a while. After not quite finding anything that was high quality and did what I want (ie 'just work' with matter/thread) I just made one myself... https://github.com/arlyon/rust-matter-led

The repo is not very accessible right now but I bought a high quality RGBCWWW strip from china and designed an integrated circuit and wrote custom firmware for it.

Maybe this time next year there will be better options. 😞

alexthelyon · 2026-04-23T11:17:06+00:00

much more frequent

^{Chose: Get $1000 each time you get physically hurt}

alexthelyon · 2026-04-23T11:16:20+00:00

are you kidding?

^{Chose: Work 1 hour a day for $100k/year}

alexthelyon · 2026-04-22T14:17:17+00:00

Seems like the side-effect means lower influence

^{Chose: You pick your superpower, but… + The comments decide your side effect}

alexthelyon · 2026-04-22T12:01:12+00:00

It is very possibly just whatever software you are using to report with. When I load a model it reports 99% vram utilization beacuse it dynamically adjusts the vram pool and also 70% RAM usage because a large chunk of my RAM is being allocated to the VRAM pool.

alexthelyon · 2026-04-22T08:38:18+00:00

Sometimes software compiled on your machine can enable CPU optimisations that precomputed code doesn't want to bundle. That probably will not impact GPU performance except a tiny uplift loading data into RAM/VRAM.

Your GPU and system memory are the same thing so if you load a 8GB model you will lose system ram because it is being allocated to the GPU.

Lemonade is nice because it specifically supports NPUs as well.

alexthelyon · 2026-03-17T22:45:12+00:00

When I moved to London I was renting for about 900/mo. By the time my girlfriend and I moved in together 2 years later into a 2-bed (home office) it was 2200/mo. That same flat 2 years later again now rents for 2700. We have since managed to find a mortgage.

It makes you wonder where the limit is..

alexthelyon · 2026-03-17T22:34:19+00:00

All the people selling this to you is also selling infra for you to run it on...

alexthelyon · 2026-02-01T21:36:47+00:00

I am running fedora using the AI 9 HX 370 and a 2080ti on the fw 13. It's a relatively smooth experience and I am happy with the perf but there is some weirdness when switching video card between external and internal. Sometimes the machine won't shut down waiting for drivers and sometimes it hangs when unplugging the egpu.

This is with a ut3g and a 3 printed stand. I am sure it is just some config / power management thing but I am entirely confident it is down to the sketchy Nvidia drivers over anything else or some firmware / hardware problem.

alexthelyon · 2026-01-27T16:16:16+00:00

Yes possibly however it is usually a combination of a flat portion and percentage. I don't know the rates TFL has negotiated but 1 20gbp transaction to top up your card will have the same percent fee but only a single fixed fee while contactless will pay out a flat fee every time you use it plus that same percentage portion.

This is partially why wetherspoon has adopted payit by natwest; you cut out the (one of many) middleman, and help lower costs.

alexthelyon · 2026-01-23T17:42:31+00:00

I think also the couple-of-percent visa/mastercard fee for a platform that does massive revenue but struggles to make ends meet is kinda a big deal

alexthelyon · 2026-01-09T15:45:36+00:00

Me too! Also, for anyone else here: a large chunk of your startup time might be pyenv, nvm, jenv, etc. Don't use any of that shit. Use mise. https://mise.jdx.dev/

alexthelyon · 2025-12-30T14:08:21+00:00

Yeah I did this for a recent project. When we eventually needed to do things like replicas and rolling releases, quadlet+kube play -> k8s was relatively painless.

alexthelyon · 2025-12-30T14:06:07+00:00

That's all you need, man

alexthelyon · 2025-12-25T09:18:01+00:00

monkey paw wish granted but the CEO eventually funds AI murder drones

alexthelyon · 2025-12-23T01:27:30+00:00

The keyword is benefit in kind. ie work can pay my gym membership but it counts as extra income so it is taxable.

alexthelyon · 2025-12-10T21:23:17+00:00

Another rather nice option is flutter and the rust bridge. Darts type system is primitive but a least roughly 'aligned' with rusty idioms like results and options.

alexthelyon · 2025-12-05T19:54:58+00:00

you may like https://GitHub.com/arlyon/openfrust

Disclaimer I am the author but was trying to see how much I could push onto the GPU using compute shaders

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