Cloudflare would host it for effectively free

I imagine there will be for some games, but it relies on the game developer implementing it. Whereas foviated streaming works for all games.

One of the shots of the steam machine had a “SoonTM” sticker

This is foviated streaming. The PC still renders everything at full, but the streaming compression is optimized for where you’re looking

Yeah same. I’ve seen other people stockpile intermediate resources to try and smooth out bottlenecks, but I think that’s wasteful. Build extra throughout, and have as little product sitting there as possible.

Factorio sucks for perfectionists. You have to be able to embrace the spaghetti, and not everyone can

There’s no functional difference, we just use both terms. It’s a bit arbitrary, but generally once a mall is a mall we stick with that and vice versa. E.g. “Westfield St Lukes” is known as “St Lukes mall” colloquially by pretty much everyone.

Kiwi here. We have malls and shopping centers, but only mall Santas

It either happens, or it doesn’t, or the chances are not equal.

That’s 50/50/50 or 1 in 3.

Lutris for mods. You can point it at the game exe downloaded by steam in many cases (not all), and then run arbitrary exes inside the same wine prefix.

Arguably “we can just put it in docker, and create an auto scaling microservice with a load balancer, behind a CDN for avg request latency” fits this group too. The hoops I have to jump through to get a good user experience on top of our shitty PHP backend are unreal

Steve: “Hey Jim, what did you say that other extraction shooter was called?”

Jim (muffled): “Escape from Tarkov”

Steve: “Oh yeah Escape from Duckov, thanks mate”

Get your hands off my print server

Happipiness

That’s animal cruelty

I’m not one of those people, and to be clear I support for-profit companies open sourcing code. Mozilla is a unique case where donations are a tiny fraction of their income and Firefox development is a tiny fraction of their expenses. I just want to donate directly to the parts I care about (Firefox, MDN).

Open source projects shouldn’t have “making money” on their priority list. I would donate to Mozilla if I had some guarantee that my money would actually fund Firefox development

That’s what they get for not fixing the mac address. Massive security issue lol

Nah this is pretty concrete. There’s a flat screen single player game in active development with features being added like vehicle physics, surface temperatures, NPC AI handling for non standard gravity, etc. And there are half life related strings all through it. HL3? Who knows, but it would explain why they actually acknowledged their two anniversaries…

One of the things I loved about Reddit was the super niche experts dropping into the comment section. I’m so glad Lemmy has this too.