I’m talking about things like “python3-blabla” and “libsomething”. How bad would it be if nobody used these library-packages and everyone just added all kinds of libraries as part of an application’s package?
Yeah, this is what windows and osx do. Two games/apps don’t share the same dlls. The os can do some stuff to reduce memory footprint if they do, but it requires them to be the same version, effectively the same dll.
Generally apps on windows and osx do not share libraries between apps, they ship the libraries they need and run them.
You’re presenting it like most libraries an application will use are system libraries, and a few exceptional cases they will bundle a dll. This is absolutely not the case, the vast majority of libraries are bundled.
This is a lot of exciting words to say “instead of digging up the effectively limitless amount of rock under our feet we can go into space to do it in the least efficient and most expensive way”
It’s very cool, but I would rather we spend our time and resources on more pressing things, given we have the rocks right here.
The scale is just a little bit different here, isn’t it. One guy (maybe a few more) and an indie sensation that makes a ridiculous amount of sales vs. a company that needs to pay wages for 30 people.
We can have a discussion here, but comparing standard run rates vs. a massive exception isn’t a great starting point.
Hmm, Twitter used to at least try before. Advertisers don’t like Eat Fresh! Running below a nazi tweet. There are at least some market forces keeping them at bay, which is why their social platforms keep failing.
Nothing Beats communities that are willing to oust bad elements, though
Eh. He doesn’t pay rent to cut costs, he fires to cut costs. All of this is because he wants to run twitter as a nazi platform that doesn’t have advertising backing. Advertising is the only reason a free service like Twitter can exist, and the nazis are the reason that the advertisers left.
If only there was a way of avoiding coal furnaces! I have this freaky idea from this sparky rock I found. It might be related to those times when the sky gets angry and makes loud bangs and flashes.
oh okay as long as it’s on pc we don’t care. cool. Honestly I have such a hard time with the video games community. for a long time I was a big supporter of the idea that a certain company shouldn’t be buying up exclusives because games should be for all.
but as soon as Microsoft started doing it, everyone has this apathetic response suddenly because “i got mine”. As soon as the shoe is on the other foot gamers show themselves real quick.
honestly i was never making the “you aren’t a real pirate” argument, people just want to have that fight, i don’t care what people are or are not. but yeah you hit on the head
historically, no. most pirated content comes via centralized sources. The last time I was involved in anything like this it was people at stores who could rip dvds, cds, games because they worked there and would get a kickback, that’s how different groups (those words at the end of the filename) would get the relases
I think it’s silly to not call Bethesda a first-party studio tbh. But you know microsoft, they are gonna win that war by buying studios so now the good games that would have come out everywhere are now an xbox game, woo.
It takes like five minutes before these guys start complaining about the “wokercist” and pivoting into Disney hiring a non white person for snow White.
Honestly, I can’t stand watching their videos anymore, it’s just endless boring takes about everything.
Hi all, Dublin resident here, trying to figure out some data related to car pollution. I stumbled across this google study: insights.sustainability.google/labs/airquality?hl… which purports to map out the air pollution in a few cities in great detail (hyperlocal, street-by-street, air quality data). Remarkably, Dublin seems to...
Ireland is right there on the Atlantic, with big blustery winds flowing over it. Amsterdam doesn’t have this privilege and has pollution from Europe and the uk blow onto it.
Unions don’t stop lay-offs, but this is still a strong move and probably the most likely to succeed. CDPR needs to find new income now that they don’t have a game on the horizon, so they need devs to produce.
Literally, the power is in the devs’ hands here. CDPR’s only option is to either work with the union or lay them all off and then not release any new products and go bankrupt.
Hopefully, it spreads to more European countries and becomes normal business for games to be made with unions in Europe
eh no. it’s not like saying that at all, as you point out yourself, they are very different in terms of scale.
However we do have actual data here, because CDPR is publicly traded and produces financial reports. according to their Q1 financial report, gog had a net profit of around 56k euros. this is after it’s big comeback from being “unprofitable” in 2021, where they basically moved everyone out of gog and onto other projects or laid them off.
So we are talking about a situation where CDPR would have to lay off everyone aside from the few gog employees that are left, and exist as a shell company that just pays the hosting bills.
this is not “like saying valve would be broke if it didn’t release games” as valves primary source of income, is not making and selling games, it’s getting 30% of 99% of game sales on the pc platform via steam.
i don’t buy into this defeatist attitude at all I’m sorry.
to do that without working with the unions in good faith, they would have to lay everyone off then meander for a few years rebuilding somewhere else. it’s not a quick process. and then probably release something of even lower quality than their recent releases.
the only way to do what you are saying is to work with the unions for the current projects and work to build non union studios for future projects. which unions would probably fight.
A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment....
depends if nvidia care about improving wayland, they don’t really have any reason to care today. Maybe if people start purchasing hardware from their competition enough.
I’m having a perfect time on intel at least. Though I have no video game requirements.
Yeah, but kde is also heading down the same path. The world can’t keep maintaining a legacy stack forever just because a private company doesn’t care about the problem.
I know people want things to just work and don’t care about the rest but the reality is that unpaid volunteers do 99% of the work and I don’t really think they should have to do extra work just because of nvidia. Maybe nvidia users get left behind, that would suck. I hope nvidia choose to fix their shit instead.
All the TVs built in stuff is not going to be the best experience. Doubly for self-hosted. A tv with android os, or a dongle inserted into a tv will do much much much better than samsung or lgs apps. An appletv too but then you’re spending a lot more
cool, then it’s 20% of your “games” revenue if you want to do that.
Epic generally let companies self report, when using the engine you have to agree to allowing them to audit if they think your self-reporting is incorrect but that’s not a very usual situation
This is a sore subject, but I feel it necessary to add to the gaming layoff news: Telltale laid most of us off early September. Status of TWAU2, I can’t say (NDA)....
The games industry is getting absolutely hammered by this stuff.
If there’s a game currently in development, that doesn’t have the backing of a large company and has more than 5 people working on it, there’s a good chance its going to get canned because venture capitol backers aren’t going to pick up the next bill.
Whilst I’m not gonna act like the other guy. This “if you bought into the clearly false marketing then it’s your fault” crap needs to die.
It’s not consumers’ fault for thinking that a superman movie has a flying superman when they talk about how superman flies in the movie. It’s always the companies fault. I do not think it is at all helpful to blame the consumers foe cdprs faults.
oh sure, for a specific community. it’s not for a wider community. you don’t see said competitive multiplayer game communities patch notes here, you see it in those communities
Nvidia purportedly wants its name on the Nintendo Switch 2 due to custom chip work and limited DLSS 3.5 support (www.notebookcheck.net)
How much bigger would a gnu/linux operating system be if there were no library packages and every program included its own libraries?
I’m talking about things like “python3-blabla” and “libsomething”. How bad would it be if nobody used these library-packages and everyone just added all kinds of libraries as part of an application’s package?
Space is starting to look like the better mining operation (arstechnica.com)
Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added | GamesRadar+ (www.gamesradar.com)
Got to love Mastodon (files.catbox.moe)
EU reopens probe into Adobe's $20 billion acquisition of Figma (www.gizchina.com)
Nintendo says it has a ‘great relationship’ with Microsoft, after it emerged Xbox wanted to buy the company | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
‘Forever chemical’ bans face hard truth: Many can’t be replaced (www.japantimes.co.jp)
As lawmakers around the world weigh bans of 'forever chemicals,” many manufacturers are pushing back, saying there often is no substitute.
Nintendo of America President: “Everyone Has the Right To Form a Union” (www.inverse.com)
Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal approved by UK regulators (www.theverge.com)
Why aren't there more pirated audiobooks considering how easy it is to rip them from Audible?
edit: Libation apps needs you to give it your amazon password and ID, it’s foss and I trust it. (editing because seemed important)...
Israel's siege of Gaza is illegal, EU says (euobserver.com)
The Windows 11 problem (www.spacebar.news)
Forza Motorsport has released on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
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Half in the Bag: The Exorcist: Believer (www.youtube.com)
Air quality in Dublin, Ireland vs. Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hi all, Dublin resident here, trying to figure out some data related to car pollution. I stumbled across this google study: insights.sustainability.google/labs/airquality?hl… which purports to map out the air pollution in a few cities in great detail (hyperlocal, street-by-street, air quality data). Remarkably, Dublin seems to...
CD Projekt Red devs are forming a Polish games industry union after a wave of layoffs earlier this year (www.vg247.com)
From the article:...
GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support (www.phoronix.com)
A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment....
World EV Sales Now Equal 18% Of World Auto Sales (cleantechnica.com)
Tizen vs WebOS for self-hosted media apps?
I’m planning to buy Smart TVs for my house and I wanted to know which TV OS has better support for homelab media apps....
Epic Games to update Unreal Engine pricing for devs not making games (www.gamedeveloper.com)
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Telltale Games has reportedly laid off most of their staff (nitter.net)
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Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Sales Breakdown - with PC making up a whopping 68% of units sold (lemmy.prograhamming.com)
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Cyberpunk patch 2.01 now available (www.cyberpunk.net)