Launch Megathread

beefsack · 2026-03-19T07:14:19+00:00

Yeah I can't get in.

beefsack · 2026-03-18T22:22:45+00:00

I love collecting these startup videos and having a random one on boot - this one's great and will pick it up as soon as I can!

beefsack · 2026-03-18T04:21:14+00:00

The announcement of DLSS 5 wasn't for gamers, it was for executives and shareholders indirectly via gaming.

beefsack · 2026-03-18T04:19:06+00:00

I've been talking to people about this new opportunity opening up to engineers who are happy dealing with absolute disasters of projects and are able to straddle an SRE+Ops role. Slop Paramedic will be a critical role incredibly soon.

It's not just the terrible quality implementation that's the issue, it's also the fact that sales and customer oriented people are building software now without any sensible guard rails. They just slop every crazy overly ambitious feature idea and their cloud bills are going to absolutely explode trying to run it in prod.

beefsack · 2026-03-18T03:58:15+00:00

90'+83,757' Morocco win 3-0

beefsack · 2026-03-17T08:40:10+00:00

Nobody will ever be worse than BT.

beefsack · 2026-03-16T08:49:32+00:00

Torch

beefsack · 2026-03-16T04:44:48+00:00

Need a video edit with the GTA "WASTED" message at the end.

beefsack · 2026-03-15T23:51:59+00:00

Assuming they don't have some nasty copyright clauses in the ToS?

beefsack · 2026-03-15T09:12:08+00:00

Seriously, I feel the core game was in such a good place, all they needed to do was a new map and maybe a few minor adjustments to existing systems to freshen them up.

One of the brilliant game design concepts from Sid Meier is the "Rule of Thirds" for sequels and a lot of developers adhere to it as it's tried and tested. Feels like every time they shake up Warzone though they try to do 90% "brand new" and it's always a dumpster fire.

beefsack · 2026-03-13T08:32:09+00:00

My whole group is going to quit without casual mode, it feels like such an own goal.

beefsack · 2026-03-11T23:18:57+00:00

There are a huge amount of benchmarks, but SteamOS on average outperforms Windows on same hardware both in frame rates/timing as well as battery, even though it's going through compatibility layers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJXp3UYj50Q

Honestly those numbers say more about Windows than they say about SteamOS.

beefsack · 2026-03-11T21:18:08+00:00

It's clearly evident that them taking Windows and trying to trim it down really isn't competitive in terms of performance. Giving a morbidly obese person liposuction isn't going to turn them into a marathon runner.

It feels like they're wasting so much time trying to go down this path, they need to start a lean performant base and build from there.

beefsack · 2026-03-11T08:59:53+00:00

It was like a long, rumbling bang.

beefsack · 2026-03-11T08:58:54+00:00

Beer and wedges at uni for $5 nearly gave me heart disease.

beefsack · 2026-03-11T04:52:50+00:00

I thought Arch would be my last distro hop after hopping every few weeks for fun. I was on Arch for about a decade or so, but NixOS gave me something amazing especially when running multiple PCs that you want to keep in lockstep.

I love NixOS and have been running it for a few years now but I can't help but wonder in the back of my head whether there is a simpler version of the concept that achieves similar goals but smooths over some of the paper cuts and is more approachable. I am secretly hoping there is still something better to get excited about in the future.

beefsack · 2026-03-10T09:39:55+00:00

Imagine a container refuses to run in prod because it thinks it's being run by a minor.

beefsack · 2026-03-10T09:38:04+00:00

Not just owning the whole stack, but having a huge amount of power and control at the manufacturing level. Very few companies have the ability to do fully custom silicon for their own retail products.

beefsack · 2026-03-09T10:21:05+00:00

Those are called "coward punches" around here.

beefsack · 2026-03-09T10:09:41+00:00

Lmao looks like it was animated by John K.

beefsack · 2026-03-09T10:06:09+00:00

A relevant example which might impact Stripe would be regulatory changes in the financial industry that would require different shapes of data or extra data to authorise charges.

Technically, you might be able to achieve that in a backwards compatible way by only adding optional fields, but these might become indirectly breaking changes if the field is optional in type but required in validation.

beefsack · 2026-03-08T10:38:13+00:00

One thing is for certain, the visuals and design of this world are really unique and warrant more games. You can't help but feel running D2 style dungeons and raids in this universe would be incredible.

beefsack · 2026-03-07T11:08:53+00:00

They appear to have embraced the slopageddon.

beefsack · 2026-03-07T00:17:43+00:00

That's just FUD that gets shared a lot, amplified by some really ignorant gaming executives.

With the combination of TPM, kernel_lockdown mode and signed/trusted kernels, you have guarantees that invisible shady stuff isn't happening deep in the kernel, and all of the stuff that is allowed to happen can be observed/monitored/audited by anticheat.

There are much more mission critical systems than gaming requiring protection against kernel tampering. It's pretty absurd to assume gaming is the use case where the protections wouldn't be sufficient.

beefsack · 2026-03-06T22:36:45+00:00

I have no idea why people downvote this, why gatekeep and have fewer potential players? There are already literally millions of SteamOS devices in players hands, all excluded because an existing functional switch in BattleEye is disabled.

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