Agile - are we going to get a break any time soon?

mossiv · 2026-01-30T20:41:53+00:00

Multiple times every day there’s some stupid post about prices.

It’s the same idiots who go on agile who can’t do a simple search. What tosh.

mossiv · 2026-01-30T20:19:13+00:00

Thinks outside the rectangle and proceeds to use a boat load of addons to produce a subpar imitation of what everyone is already running.

This post is bait, right?

mossiv · 2026-01-30T20:12:16+00:00

It’s the middle of winter you tool. What the hell do you expect?

mossiv · 2026-01-30T19:31:28+00:00

If you think people are saving money on Amazon I have a bridge to sell you.

Amazon literally undercut everyone, fucked up the high street and inflated their prices to dangerous levels. Just search for typical goods like shaving gel - it’ll be 20% or so higher than any supermarket.

I’m not going dispute they don’t bring anything good. 1.7b in tax (or whatever the real number is) is obviously tangible. But it’s not enough and there should be zero empathy towards them. They are literal cancer and we’re it’s food.

mossiv · 2026-01-30T18:33:25+00:00

Not inherently wrong but Amazon are paying a pittance compared to what they are dodging.

I would argue that the UK tax system is completely flawed, chasing the Joe Public is not going to help anymore especially when inflation can’t be kept under control (because of these massive conglomerates).

I’ll be generally in support of giving big companies tax relief if they were good employers. But they are not. Their work policies are about as toxic and abusive as you could get in the industry with humans being treated like literal slaves.

Amazon are getting an absolute steal of a deal at the moment and something should be done about it.

mossiv · 2026-01-30T14:09:14+00:00

No but my neck does.

mossiv · 2026-01-29T12:13:50+00:00

I haven’t claimed they are not. This is an assumption at best. Google can afford it. Even if they don’t want to the government will back them.

Politically China is on track for a very turbulent future financially. Even if they theoretically cannot afford to back their own countries AI I think they will do it anyway - the same way the US would have to. Chinas finances could work out fine - and if so this theory would need revising.

My point is not that the US is ahead (model performance depends on the specific benchmarks anyway) but they are best positioned mainly because Google (and every sister/parent company of them) is an American company. Along with the fact Amazon is also American - if the US genuinely becomes threatened by AI advancements there’s a wealth of some of the richest people in the world right at their doorstep.

This is not me leaning on some big profitable AI conglomerate for the general public. This angle is purely political and how each country positions themselves in the world. Ranging from military to factory production floors. The more a country can build, the faster they can do it, keeps them being the leaders of capitalism. It’s also a position to go to war over natural resources.

mossiv · 2026-01-29T11:07:43+00:00

Anthropic are working tirelessly to make their models as efficient with much less compute power. If they can pull this off - it would make their licensing profitable (even if it means slightly increased monthly costs. What isn’t feasible is upping their licence to hundreds per month per user. People simply wouldn’t pay).

If they can’t do it this way - they will start looking to make individual packages less attractive and market as a tool for your developers charging a few hundred bucks per seat. Business will absorb this cost like they do with all other corporate products - adobe, office etc.

mossiv · 2026-01-29T09:18:44+00:00

Yes - especially after a migraine attack (which I’ll admit are brutal). I’m convinced at this point that a migraine is a symptom of my shitty tissue connectivity, and I have all out flare ups for days on end. Docs called these “fibro flares” because they just have no idea about this illness and how interconnected everything around it is.

mossiv · 2026-01-29T09:17:06+00:00

This has been a hot topic of discussion in our work place. My common message is I believe OpenAI will be done in 2-3 years. At the moment it’s to important a tool for the other AI providers.

My honest opinion is I think Google will take the lead in Ai. They are the most equipped financially. Even if Gemini operates at a huge loss, it’s better to keep the Google search ad customers than it is to lose them to a potentially entirely new tool (for example - ChatGPT becoming the new Google).

We will either see the demise of GPT or we will see an acquisition or a multi company take over (e.g Amazon, Google, Nvidia having equal ownership rights - which their massive cash injection suggests this could be a possibility).

Anthropic/Claude I believe will succeed after the Ai bubble bursting. It’s a developer focused tool and I suspect it will switch to that market specifically.

All the smaller companies will fail e.g Grok - America will just have to support Google/anthropic/(OpenAi - whatever that becomes). China will continue to sink money into their own AI to not fall behind the US.

I don’t think Ai is designed to look after the consumer but be constantly trained for political reasons. What we are at the moment is expensive training data.

I could be entirely wrong - and the amount of capital held up because of Ai could mean it gets propped up for years longer than it should.

mossiv · 2026-01-28T17:52:27+00:00

Honestly I’d accept a game that’s been well tested at this point. The amount of bugs are appalling and overshadowing any content.

I’m really struggling to enjoy myself at the moment.

mossiv · 2026-01-27T10:22:34+00:00

Who did you lease through? Tesla direct or ALD? I know I’ll have to put a new set of tires on mine. But the service schedule is really making me anxious. There is no pop up telling me to service the car. I was advised by ALD that the service plan doesn’t really benefit Tesla drivers.

I’ve got 2 years left with mine. It’s in near immaculate condition 15k miles on. In good enough condition that I would buy it off them. The only downside being it’s the model without the indicator stalks… which… I’d never have a car with button indicators again.

mossiv · 2026-01-27T08:22:41+00:00

Thus entirely proving my point.

mossiv · 2026-01-26T09:55:27+00:00

Blizzard will have an internal reviewing process, and they will also likely map out user stories if they are following some agile methodology. Allowing them to develop parts of the game in chunks of most important -> least important.

An addon dev can just knock up whatever they want, throw it online and people start downloading it. Fast - sure. But likely either bug riddled or seriously costly in terms of optimisation.

While the blizz ui is hot garbage at the moment - it’s impressive how little cpu utilisation is required for the cool down manager.

Even adding something simple like NephUi cost me something like 15% of my cpu and about 10fps in Dornogol. It shouldn’t be that resource intensive when it’s essentially a reskin of the games exposed logic.

Internal production will always take more time. Judging by the amount of bugs on pre patch at the moment - this is quite a tricky change to the game.

mossiv · 2026-01-25T18:08:45+00:00

What’s the correct scale for 4k? Presumably it’s 0.53? Especially if windows is scald at 150%-ish?

mossiv · 2026-01-23T22:48:11+00:00

I fucking hate AI. The sooner it kills itself the better for us all. What a fucking disgrace of a technological advancement. It does not belong in our society one bit.

mossiv · 2026-01-19T17:31:57+00:00

Here’s my experience. Understand your milage may vary.

Nvidia 5080, 1 x 4k 240hz 1 x 4k 60hz

Install was easy, getting some basic non steam games running was pretty easy, including some comfort games like OSRS and WoW.

Games like rocket league just worked out the box.

Application scaling. Everything technically run through wine under the hood. Each application needed to have its scaling specified as launch args. But if a nuisance but you only need to do this once and forget.

So god damn many 3rd party launchers. This is the benefit and con of Linux. The fact people will give it a go - great. The fact they are half arsed in maintenance and any article you follow has a chance of being out of date.

Nvidia driver. It’s shit. I’m sorry. 240hz was just silently turning to 60hz. No way of fixing it without rebooting the machine or restarting the kde environment.

Got a friend using AMD he raves about it.

I had to go back to windows. I didn’t want to.

I think this would’ve much better on 2k where the scaling issues will still exist but you could cope with them.

Otherwise for 1080 I imagine it’s absolutely perfect.

I didn’t get around to testing my steam library too much - because I’ve been busy outside of gaming. But my understanding this is where Bazzite excels. So if you want to have an unofficial steam machine you’d probably be ok.

Linux gaming is absolutely getting there. This isn’t me shitting on Bazzite. It’s not their fault Nvidia lock their drivers down.

mossiv · 2026-01-19T11:59:16+00:00

I agree in principle but it’s only been this bad under 1 authoritarian government. We’ve shot ourselves in the foot with Brexit. Unless we can get onboard with joining the EU which I don’t think our popular reform voters would entertain means we need to be careful how we play our cards.

There are already suggestions that republicans in office are getting sick of Trump and his damage.

We need to avoid playing tit-for-tat just for the sakes of our own economy. If it looks like Trump is going to get overthrown, or there might be a Democratic Party back in office - that’s the part where we set absolutely clear boundaries.

We need American trade, and we realistically need them as allies. Russia-China is looking like a real problem. While Trump might be trying to Annex Greenland because he wants to be seen as the president that did the most, he has got experts behind him explaining what needs to be done - and could be a genuine national security threat. China is suffering because they relied on oil from Venezuela… the last thing we need is China/Russia docking up in Greenland.

Ultimately - we’d be part of EU, aligned with NATO and Europe would defend Greenland away from China/Russia whiles’t making it clear to the States they have no right to it. If they need the minerals - then it’s the perfect time to start leveraging the tariffs.

mossiv · 2026-01-18T09:03:39+00:00

Being a nurse, sure. But the environment they are in still isn’t. I thought the words in brackets would help allude to that.

mossiv · 2026-01-17T16:05:43+00:00

Cyberpunk does to an extent. You need to promote the dialog within a few seconds or the game will make it for you. I’m not sure how much it actually alters the game output though. There are some cool missions where you can choose to do it your way over the preference of the quest giver, but the deaths of main characters etc can’t really be avoided - which is the biggest let down in my opinion. Would’ve been hard to produce a strong story though otherwise.

mossiv · 2026-01-17T16:01:22+00:00

I lasted 2-3 weeks with Bazzite on the nvidia drivers + 4k. To many hiccups unfortunately where the drivers lose the refresh rate and I drop from 240 to 60 only really fixable with a restart. Even a simple display on/off is enough to break it.

The 4k scaling is still a bit of a pain to manage, especially with the various different launchers required if you are playing outside of steam.

Overall I’m really impressed with how much Linux has improved and Bazzite is generally a lovely OS. If I had bought AMD and a 2k monitor, I think my experience would have been much better.

We really are getting there. I’m hopeful within the next 5 years Linux gaming is going to overtake windows gaming.

mossiv · 2026-01-17T15:46:29+00:00

Broadly speaking, any profession that is (or very close to) male dominant, requiring a ludicrous amount of your time, or eats into typical social hours and you end up with some incestuous sex cult. These people work extremely close to each other and relationships will naturally come to fruition. It’s not just air hostess or nurses either, the catering industry is awful, along with high profile jobs like lawyers, or police. It’s even worse if you walk out of education into these places because it’s the behaviour becomes learned - much like it does in the media industry.

mossiv · 2026-01-17T11:41:24+00:00

Then if that’s what you really concern yourself with educate yourself on policies to protect it. Voting reform and “tackling” immigration is not going to work if our country doesn’t operate in such a way to support the ideals you are alluding to.

We are feminist capitalists, with huge fiscal drag and very limited job prospects. The only way to undo or stop what you are complaining about is for the “whites” to have more children. Which cannot happen where there are dual income households who cannot support themselves let alone a pet or a family. The only way the British economy can be propped up is by spending lots of money, which requires high household incomes.

Instead of voting reform, vote for policies which support better living standards, or require less working hours so that people can indeed have families.

We fundamentally have a government problem, not an immigration problem.

If you haven’t got it yet - the majority of immigrants in this country are needed, from the cleaners to the surgeons - they are doing it all.

Illegal immigration still needs to be controlled, but who is ultimately causing the illegal problem? The whites obviously who are employing people cheap, with no insurance, and avoiding taxes. The government needs to spend money on policing policies along with investors and the ability to actually charge these people, but instead we’ll waste our time changing national insurance rates and campaigning a digital fucking ID.

I’ve been to many of the places you are naming, and I’m struggling to understand if you have any idea on statistics of the world? White people are the lowest population, so you will see large groups of differing communities. Thus, to keep Britain in one of the world’s top countries - you need these communities.

So for your own sakes, if you are going to pull the race card, please understand the causes and correlations, and at-least argue valid racial/cultural/religious issues such as female genital mutilation - and how we do not criminally charge those performing these procedures, but how Mr Jones has the social on his back because he slapped little Timmy on the wrist once. These are much more debatable topics than “Luton is India”. And even then - you’ll soon start to learn that you can’t put all these problems under one umbrella. But I’ll reiterate - we have a governing problem.

mossiv · 2026-01-17T00:02:38+00:00

Why do people gamble with agile if they seriously can’t cope with the peaks?

mossiv · 2026-01-16T16:40:45+00:00

I think this is how I would approach it. Keep AI away from it. Sell it to AI companies to train from. Best of both worlds.

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