wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Windows 11 Copilot now tells you what’s slowing down your PC, while using 1GB RAM itself 1 week ago:
But that’s kind of my point. 8GB was a good amount of RAM for heavy use with Windows a decade ago. It’s unfortunate with the current costs of RAM, but 16GB is kind of the floor for modern computing with Windows.
I know the struggle. Around a decade ago I took an Android programming course. I was using a laptop on Windows 7 with only 8GB of RAM. It was fine for most of my other courses and for the light gaming I did on it, as long as I didn’t have much else open. But Android development uses Android Studio. A Java IDE built in Java as IntelliJ, with a whole bunch of awesome but RAM guzzling features. Then Google strapped all their additional Android shit on top. Then to test the app you made, you were supposed to run an Android emulator that used at least 4GB of RAM.
I ended up having to borrow someone’s old Android phone for testing, and I had to use another program to shut off all other programs and Windows Services while I worked. And saved up, and upgraded to 16GB of RAM, because it’s what I needed for how I was using my machine.
It sucks. Developers, especially those making shit built into an OS, need to be far more aware of the resources their programs use and optimize better.
But at the end of the day our options are limited and we have to accept the changing times.
Or work around them. There are plenty of flavors of Linux if you need something lighter, or options to strip down Windows like tiny11 or Windows Ameliorated for 10.
- Comment on Windows 11 Copilot now tells you what’s slowing down your PC, while using 1GB RAM itself 1 week ago:
Yep, plus, who is running Windows on a machine where 1GB of RAM is precious?
My work laptop has 16GB. It runs the full suite of Microsoft bloat (CoPilot, Teams, Edge, OneDrive) plus various antivirus and work security/monitoring tools constantly. I usually also have Outlook open, ~5 active tabs in Edge (with up to 20 inactive), an RDP session going, Excel, VSCode (often with long running scripts going), OneNote, Notepad++, and either YouTube for music or a teams meeting with video.
I’ve never had to close anything for the sake of performance except when I was installing a big program, doing a deep search through tens of thousands of files using very inefficient PowerShell code, while having all the rest open.
I’m not saying CoPilot using a gig of RAM at rest is OK, I’m just saying it’s not the huge performance impact being implied.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Except all of those have titles outside Piefed buddy. Check the original instance directly, or from any Lemmy instance.
It looks like this is an issue with Piefed not properly getting post titles from other instances, so maybe next time you can stop being an aggressive asshole.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’ve legitimately never seen this user post with that as the title.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
What the hell are you talking about? I’ve checked OP’s post history and everything has proper titles. Checked your comment history and the last post they made that you brought this up on likewise has an accurate title, and I’m not seeing any evidence that it was edited after posting.
Most of all, why waste time complaining about it? Just block and move on with your life.
- Comment on Top-down PvE extraction shooter ZERO Sievert is getting a co-op sequel 3 weeks ago:
ONE Sievert
- Comment on Dinosaurs have arrived in the latest Dwarf Fortress update 3 weeks ago:
We’re gonna need a bigger asteroid
- Comment on UK | Labour 'doesn't understand the internet', tech giant 4chan’s lawyer tells LBC 5 weeks ago:
Really? I’m honestly surprised they haven’t been in the news more over the years.
- Comment on "Hell or high water": the System Shock remake's co-director on the sneaky step taken to get the game made 5 weeks ago:
What a substance less article. Like two whole sentences of meaning.
They ran out of funding in 2018, and some of the devs focused on getting more funding while a different group focused on actually building the game.
Additionally, the dev who modeled out the station had no previous experience with Unreal Engine 4, which is what they used to make it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Fuck. Roving bands of empty robo taxis DDoSing local roads wasn’t on my bingo card.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
General opinion I’ve seen online over the past year or two is that the Verge has started following the same downward trend as nearly every other online news source, unfortunately.
- Comment on Windows Update gets new controls to reduce forced restarts 2 months ago:
They’re starting to roll out live patching for certain updates, like most Linux distros have had for ages.
- Comment on The sequel to Garry's Mod releases this month, and Valve will let you publish your creations as standalone Steam games, like dafty Finn sim My Summer Cottage 3 months ago:
Shit, really? I hadn’t kept up with the news on it. That majorly sucks.
I guess it makes some sense. A lot of other games and “creation systems” have come out since and somewhat ate garrysmod’s lunch in terms of “digital sandbox with a shit ton of included resources that you can build other games in”. Plus, game engines themselves have become a lot more accessible to new developers than they once were.
Like, what was competing with Garry’s Mod when it was bigger? Flash? BYOND? Second Life?
Beyond game creation, it did a lot of stuff that no tools existed for just well enough that no one was pushing for dedicated alternatives. Machinima, 3D posing, that sort of thing. But when dedicated tools became more available and easily accessible, it lost that draw too.
The glacially slow development sure as hell didn’t help things either. I have no idea why they didn’t more widely release the in-progress builds so the damn thing didn’t get completely forgotten.
- Comment on The sequel to Garry's Mod releases this month, and Valve will let you publish your creations as standalone Steam games, like dafty Finn sim My Summer Cottage 3 months ago:
I really hope this doesn’t mean thst instead of one server browser for a wide variety of game modes all using the same common 3D models and textures, it’ll be a diaspora of unmaintained free games on Steam.
- Comment on “Educational” AI YouTube videos accused of teaching kids to play in traffic & eat toxic food 3 months ago:
Heads up: If you’re looking for anything more, all of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood is on Internet Archive. My kid isn’t old enough to navigate anything like Jellyfin themselves yet, but it’s been a good calm show for when we need her to start settling down.
I did need to rename them so they’d be recognized though, which was a pain in the ass.
- Comment on "At this rate, why make game art at all?": Nvidia DLSS 5 demands a sale damaging and stock tanking fightback, argues New Blood boss 3 months ago:
I feel like some words may have been added to that “quote” over time
- Comment on Office.eu officially launches in The Hague as Europe's fully sovereign office platform 4 months ago:
- Comment on Microsoft forced to issue emergency out of band updates for Windows 11 after latest security patches broke PC shutdowns and sign-ins 5 months ago:
And yet another reminder of why industry standard for pretty much any software is to delay non-security patches for a set period of time.
It’s just extra bullshit that Microsoft’s QA department is so godawful. No excuse for a company their size to not have these patches thoroughly "dog food"ed before they even think about pushing them to the public.
- Comment on My Winter Car is out now - a frosty early access sequel to the hateful motoring sim that has you "spiraling even deeper" 6 months ago:
Martin will never escape.
- Comment on OpenAI's ChatGPT ads will allegedly prioritize sponsored content in answers 6 months ago:
That’s the neat part, they won’t highlight the ad content. The entire plan, from the start, was to weave ads in seamlessly.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 7 months ago:
Even today, people value photos differently than paintings, at least in part due to the amount of effort that goes into each.
There’s no reasonable argument to preventing people from having the information up front to make the same sort of value decision about a game.
You’re free to use AI, just declare it. The purchasing public is free to decide if that changes how much they’re willing to pay for your game.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 7 months ago:
Unity doesn’t work by hoovering up the collected works of humanity, mixing it all up, and extruding it as a paste as a response to a sentence or two prompt (yes, image generation is more complicated to prompt but it is still roughly a paragraph of text).
Look, if you personally don’t see the issue with AI, I still have a hard time believing that you haven’t seen plenty of varied arguments against it. Ignoring all the varied reasons to pretend it’s only some needless hand-wringing at this point just feels like bad faith.
And either way, we’re talking about a tag/label. I see no issues with games having a tab/label/etc on their store page indicating the engine they’re built off of. Some people don’t like horror, puzzles, always online, forced PvP, or a particular art style. Some people don’t like generative AI. I don’t think there’s a strong argument to be made that usage of generative AI should be a special case here. If no one’s harassing people, I see no reason to prevent people from making informed decisions on what they purchase.
If your counterargument is that AI is just a tool, and we don’t tag whether the artists used a mouse or a drawing tablet, I’d counter with this: hand drawn art is a selling point due to the increased workload to create it (and implied extra quality). Now “no generative AI” can be the same. An indicator that things were done “the hard way”, with an implication (but no guarantee) of higher quality.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2's dev team is set to double in size by the end of 2027, hopefully meaning its cyberfoundations'll be laid by then 7 months ago:
For anyone who missed the trailer: youtu.be/jjhRSNkquOc
- Comment on VVVVVV and Super Hexagon's Terry Cavanagh is back with a joyfully potty platformer about eggs 8 months ago:
Oh no, real egg-like
- Comment on A famous meme comes to life in This Is Fine: Maximum Cope with a demo out now 9 months ago:
Can we stop trying to make everything into a marketable product for 5 fucking minutes?
Who asked for this?
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 9 months ago:
Yep. Pump the numbers and try to retroactively justify the absurd spending on it all. Everyone who accidentally opens it is another tick up for the user numbers.
I’m sure they also have some stats based on installs that this will spruce up too.
- Comment on Super Mario Bros Remastered open source fan project brings an impressive remake to PC 10 months ago:
It requires a ROM to extract the assets and levels, which so far has kept a number of reverse engineering/decomp projects like this one safe, even from Nintendo. Argument being that it needs to be your ROM that you dumped yourself of the game in question, which is legal.
The majority of users are just going to download a ROM, but Nintendo hasn’t gone after these so far.
- Comment on House Republicans Investigate Wikipedia Over Alleged Bias 10 months ago:
Sounds like a good time to download a local backup, before they inevitably pressure Wikipedia.
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 11 months ago:
This has been my argument for a while. If you’re doing boilerplate once in a while, it’s a good way to keep even the boring part of your skills sharp.
If you’re doing it regularly, just make a fucking template you can copy paste, or set it up in your IDE’s code snippet functionality.
- Comment on Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default 11 months ago:
What do you mean? They are literally using the Microsoft provided solution.
