Not to disagree with you, but I would say Valve has a good track record of specifically not trying to fuck people over and they tend to make high quality games. But that can always change so it is good to always keep that in mind.
Not to disagree with you, but I would say Valve has a good track record of specifically not trying to fuck people over and they tend to make high quality games. But that can always change so it is good to always keep that in mind.
that doesn’t make sense in the context of the post you replied to
summed up: well i dont read shit so you’re gonna have to spoonfeed it to me so i can spit it out in your face without even tasting it
the CIA, NSA, and other ALPHABET agencies created and basically run Google… i can’t imagine this going far
flux seems to do a pretty decent job most of the time
one of the most horrifying short stories I’ve ever read is about this subject matter. https://qntm.org/lena
my best guess is monopoly rent… once you’ve moved all your stuff to the cloud you become dependent on them and they know that
once hundreds and thousands of companies do it the cloud providers gain a lot of leverage
i imagine there are some pretty hefty operating expenses they have to pay as well to operate at such an enormous scale, so their costs don’t necessarily decrease when they add more customers
oh i think in general it applies to the big 3, but it may extend to others as well, but i’ve only seen the insane costs from AWS and GCP personally
so many people do this because they sign up for a 3 month trial or whatever and just end up paying for the shit because there’s a show or whatever on each service they like so they just keep paying
i pay about 400 a year for my piracy tools and services… which when i say that out loud sounds ridiculous, but it’s still far far cheaper than paying for multiple streaming services and/or cable
plus i can watch whatever i want, binging or not commercial free, and i can get games and whatever else thrown in at no additional cost
the cloud is so ridiculously expensive that the company i work at which has a number of early Google employees and is backed by the Google mega rich is now looking to pull away from running everything in the cloud because it is simply untenable. And we’re in a goddamned hurry to shift everything to our own equipment in rented data center space before another insane jump in cloud pricing kills us off which is virtually guaranteed
they say it’s because of national security concerns… if you can crunch more numbers more faster then you can make gooder weapons and gooder plans
i want one if for no other reason than to make everyone else uncomfortable
it would be shooting the US in the foot… there is a large push to move to risc-v for govt national security reasons out of the realization that China now has all the necessary info on ARM to be able to produce them from scratch with modifications that may be undetectable because they’ve pieced together the proprietary info over the decades they’ve been manufacturing the chips for the West
i was told all of this by some guys i work with who used to work for TLAs and Google and whatnot
but isn’t RISC-V now being heavily funded and subsidized by the US govt because ARM’s proprietary info had been fully garnered by China since they’re the ones who mass produce most of the chips?
i thought the entire shift to risc-v was to ensure that the chips themselves are auditable
Titan deep sea submarine
i agree, it is always a race to the bottom