Regardless of budget, I have found the following setup has afforded me all the comfort upsides of mobility and console gaming, with none of the performance downsides.

1. Build a standard desktop gaming pc to your budget, setting aside ~$150, give or take.

2. Make sure it’s wired into your network and not using wifi. Setup Steam on it as usual.

3a. (Console experience) Buy a Google TV with Chromecast, or whatever it’s called now. Install Steam Link app on it and connect it to your gaming pc. Get a Bluetooth compatible Xbox controller, connect it to the chromecast. Enjoy a console experience with your gaming pc. If you have the chromecast on a wired ethernet lime you’ll have maybe 1ms of input lag, very playable.

3b. (Laptop experience), buy a dirt cheap laptop, install steam on it, use Steam Streaming fu ctionaloty to stream from gaming pc to laptop. If you plug the laptop into ethernet you should have sub 1ms input lag.

This let’s you get all the horsepower of a gaming pc, at gaming pc hardware prices, but the portability of a laptop and/or couch gaming comfort of a console.

And since it’s all centralized to your 1 “server” machine, of you make changes in setup A (ie change am in game setting or etc), it’ll persist even if you swap over.

IE if I change my settings or preferences on the console, I’ll persist that over on my laptop and won’t have to change it again.

Furthermore no network save game synching needed, no waiting for a game to download a second time, no need to update the fane multiple times, etc.

It’s all centralized to your own core machine and everything else is just a thin client.

PS: this works with the Steam Deck too, you can stream from gaming pc to steam deck and use it as a thin client 👍

The one thing that sucks is this doesn’t cover gear stored in the extra mog… whatever it was called storage you could pay extra for.

And you can’t pay just for that inventory, you have to pay for your account before you can pay to enable the storage.

And finally, if you had important shit stored in those bonus inventories, you can’t access it til you pay for it

Result: players that prior paid for and used the extra inventories basically can’t leverage the free login, they can login but can’t access their stuff unless they opt out of the free login and fully pay for the month + inventories…

RIP

There aren’t standardized screens for smartphones, as the inside of the screens typically has a bespoke aluminum chassis they are adhered to as part of their construction.

And since every single phone model has different insides, every screen is bespoke to its model.

You have to look on ebay for your phones screen model.

If you look for ones with a couple dead pixels they are pretty affordable though.

In this case its actually a lot of people.

In particular, clients really give a shit if you let their NDA signed proprietary info get leaked out to arbitrary third parties.

Wait you can remap those buttons too? Damn I gotta look into this!

Whether or not you care about ads doesn’t have any bearing on what is, and isn’t, misinfo.

I don’t like ads either and use piholes on my network.

Doesn’t change the fact the news article is misinformation, plain and simple.

Well the issue with what the above poster described is Samsung TV litters the autoplay on everything, so you feel like you are playing minesweeper trying to find somewhere you can leave the cursor without triggering an autoplay.

At least on the CCwGTV there’s just the one big ad at the top, but everything else is a “safe” zone to leave the cursor, abd the cursor starts out default on the app row.

Also, CCwGTV allows you to just switch to a different launcher (without ads) entirely if you wish.

I have this issue with Netflix’s app, pretty much every tile will loudly autoplay if you don’t touch the cursor for a second, taking over the screen. You have to hit the back button to pop-up the settings menu to stop that from happening otherwise you’ll walk away from your TV with some random 10s trailer playing on loop forever while you deal with something.

You and I have very different definitions of misinformation then.

Oh, yeah innthat case I agree.

Either way the mechanic of “you have to move the cursor to purposefully hover on the ad, abd then wait multiple seconds, and then not click anything” opt in behavior on the ads has lnt changed since day one.

So seeing news articles pretending this is anything new at all really just goes to show how shit “journalism” has gotten over the years. Literally like, 5s of looking this up and you’ll find out this isn’t anything new.

SMH

I bought CCwGTV when it first came out, I don’t recall the adbar at the top ever not being present.

It just was strictly ads for TV shows / movies for the first while and “external” ads for stuff like mcdonalds only showed up later.

But I’m pretty sure I remember ads for Black Widow on it front and center, and that was only 5? 6? months after it came out. (The ads were showing up 1-2 months prior to theatrical release iirc?)

So you think it’s okay to spread misinformation if it’s about a giant corporation?

Misinformation is never okay, as it muddies the waters and makes it hard to know what you can trust. If we idly stand by and let a lemmy instance degrade to the point where garbage posts like this are commonplace, it becomes difficult to sift apart the actual news and stuff that matters from the shit deluge of misinfo.

Which means, yes, calling out misinformation / shit posts even if it’s about a megacorp, because shit in the water is still shit in the water.

I bought the Chromecast with Google TV (older version, not the newer 4k one, which I also own now) when it first cane out.

The home screen hasn’t changed since day 1 when I plugged it in.

It always had an ad at the top, and you always have had to purposefully move the cursor onto the ad itself and not touch anything for multiple seconds before it played.

I owned the OG chromecast and chromecast 2 before that, and you are right, that one didn’t have ads, but it also didn’t have much of anything really.

It’s one thing to advertise a show or an app / service that is in the App Store but another to show actual ads.

Most of the time it’s this, rarely mcdonalds or Harvey’s has an ad like this you need to hover over for several seconds to play, intentionally, and people turn it into rage bait garbage posts.

90% of the time it’s just an add for a TV show or movie, and you still have to purposefully hover over it unmoving to start it playing, it’s pretty opt in.

I don’t even notice it, the ad starts out small at the top and your cursor starts out on the Apps row, you have to very intentionally trigger the ad.

90% of the time the ads are for movies or TV shows on the streaming services you have installed (and presumably an account for) anyways, so there’s been non zero times where I did go abd hover the ad to watch it cuz I was like “oh hey I actually wanna watch that, is it coming out soon? No shit!”

The other 10% if the time it’s mcdonalds or Harvey’s or whatever, I barely notice it as I spend pretty much all of my time with the Google tv “inside” an app.

Very little time gets spent on the home screen, it’s a glorified Start menu to pick an app and open it up, so I don’t, to be blunt, give much of a shit that for half a second I can see a big Mac at the top of my TV screen before I click the 1 button to open Netflix.

Also more often than not I use my phone app to push to the TV, so my process is:

1. TV is turned off atm, I open on my phone (Netflix, Disney plus, crunchyroll, Amazon prime, YouTube, etc)

2. I click the cast button on my phone

3. TV auto detects activity, starts turning on, meanwhile my chromecast is already loading up the app and booting into it

4. By the time my TV screen flips on, the app is opened as well and my content starts to play, so u never even saw the home screen in the first place

End result: I rarely even see the app realistically anywho.

You have to cursor over it for several seconds and click nothing before it plays, you have to intentionally opt into triggering it.

Nope.

That’s just how the ad at the top looks and always has, and yes, it plays if you hover over it, they always have, and yes, it expands out if you keep watching it and don’t touch anything.

If you use the UI normally the ad doesn’t play, the person in that video explicitly played the ad.

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Get this clickbait shit outta here. It’s literally an ai generated article that stole content off a reddit post as it’s “source”. Have some standards people.

NYT hasn’t actually won that case yet, so it’s pointless to bring up. OpenAI has publicly stated that NYT heavily has misrepresented their findings.

OpenAI’s value would plummet and crash if they gained a reputation for using illegal material to train their AI on, investors would drop them so fast.

This is just a simple fact. LLM providers reputation is heavily staked on the legality of their data.

So far the courts have ruled in these companies favor.

But it’s extremely likely illegaly scraped Dara from reddit would not pass the sniff test and debestate an offending companies reputation.

If you don’t understand why, you have to do some brushing up on why these LLM services are worth so much and who is using them and for what. Once you understand that, it becomes extremely apparent why legally owning the entire history of every reddit post ever would be extremely valuable, and why a 5bil price tag is actually not that crazy.

Scraped data isn’t legal to resell, scraping isn’t even legal in the first place.

Just because you can scrape the data doesn’t mean it’s worth anything.

Companies like MS, Google, OpenAI, FB they make money by selling the usage of their LLM services to other companies who then they use that service to make their own products.

If it came to light that MS/Google/OAI/FB were using illegal training data for their LLMs, it would get all those other companies hit in the crossfire.

So these companies have to do a shit tonne of diligence to assure their investors and clients that their LLMs are purely trained on legally obtained data and are safe to use.

And you know what is a super easy way to assure them of that?

If they literally own the original data themselves

Do you actually think this has any impact? That’s silly.

Reddit’s servers have the original copy of every single post made, undoubtedly, and everytime you edit your post, they store that copy too.

So not only has everyone “poisoned” their data ineffectively, they literally have created training data of “before” vs “after” poisoning to compare the two for training the LLM against poisoned data.

Whoever buys the right to that is going to have a pretty huge goldmine, and perhaps they will rent it out, or perhaps they’ll use it themselves.

Not legally / free.

And yes, that very very much matters if you intend to actually sell the service to companies that they themselves dont want to get hit in the crossfire of potential lawsuits for building their products on top of stolen info.

So if you can own the data itself (via buying reddit), you now have an ENORMOUS quantity of prime training data that you’re investors and potential customers know is legally clean, because you literally own it.

Most LLMs have tonnes of NSFW data in their training.

Typically, if this wants to be blocked, a secondary RAG or LORA is run overtop to act as a filtering mechanism to catch, block, and regenerate explicit responses.

Furthermore, output allowed lexicon is a whole thing.

Unfiltered LLMs without these layers added on are actually quite explicit and very much capable of generating extremely NSFW output by default.

I 100% can see it easily selling for that much.

You want to know why it’s worth that much?

Petabytes of raw training Data for LLMs. Arguably atm reddit us one of the better gold mines of LLM training data on the internet, bazillion of posts already formatted as post-response chains, which is the exact type if format an LLM wants to train on.

Can you imagine how valuable those servers loaded with posts are to a company like OpenAI, Google, or Microsoft?

5 billion is quite reasonable to harvest every reddit post that has ever been made ever and cut it off from your competitors.

This, my machine is in the basement inside my server rack lol.

I haven’t found a compelling reason to not just build a solid gaming pc, then buy a Chromecast and steam link to it.

Latency is quite low on a wired connection, I can stream 4k to my TV, and I can use an Xbox controller. You literally couldn’t tell me the difference most of the time.

I’m rocking an 11th gen Intel i9, 4060 ti, and gigabit network wired between PC <-> chromecast.

Just make sure you get the latest chromecast that can handle 4k streaming though!

Not to wire ethernet into a chromecast, you need a USB c adapter, those dongles that take in USB C power, ethernet, etc. It has a single fully functional USB c port, so you can also connect wired USB and all the jazz to it if needed.

try to keep the franchise on the road roughly in the same direction it has been going and avoid crashing into stuff.

Based on their last attempt they couldn’t even manage that. Have we already forgotten that as soon as Kojima left the company, Metal Gear Survive came out?

PS, Kojima has a really cool Instagram where he posts his thoughts and stuff he likes, if anyone is a big fan and wants to sub to him. Dude has some radical tastes lol

You have to be able to convey business value to get approval on anything corporate deems “extra”

At the end of the day, the project manager is going to have to be able to “prove” that color blind settings will translate to $$$ to the people above them, and not only that, but reliably more $$$ than it will cost to implement.

Which means first you need to know how much money it actually is likely to make, and we have actually very little data on what % of gamers that enjoy (genre) are colorblind.

So you’re already off to a pretty dang rough start.

Usually you only actually get these features when the CEO themself has buy in, like, “Oh yeah my cousin is colorblind and told me how much games suck about it, so make sure we include that feature”

Thats pretty much the only way you’ll be seeing that sort of inclusivity, when you have direct buy in to the movement of inclusivity coming from the very top at a company culture level.

Closer to a week or two, speaking as an actual software dev.

You have to first include the investigation into “how do we do it? What our are best options?” which is a day or two

Then the couple meetings as you go over your findings and get the sign off and approval that you can go ahead with it.

Then a couple days to implement it, write some tests for the code.

Another day for all the documentation to be added to Confluence, detailing all the above.

Another day or two for the code review process back and forth.

Another day or two for the QA testers to validate things are working.

There’s many many steps involved in going from “Idea” to “Implemented, reviewed, and tested”, and the human element in the back and forth stretches it out as you wait for people to take their lunch breaks, join the zoom meeting, the usual “your mic is muted mate” “oh jeez sorry” back and forth, etc etc…

The important skills haven’t changed in awhile.

Version control still works the same overall.

The concept of CI/CD are still just as important.

Understanding A/A/A for unit testing is still the same.

All the useful patterns are just as useful.

All the same antipatterns are just as important to watch out for.

Largely speaking while languages may evolve, the core foundational principles of how to write Good Clean Code remains the same.

Feel free to try and horizontally scale your databases. If you figure out how to do it you will become a billionaire.

No idea what you are talking about. Ethereum can handle enormous TPS and the network hasn’t ever come remotely close to throttling since sharding and layer 2 rollups have been introduced.

If you understand what horizontal scaling is, it’s clear how trustless distribution is effectively horizontal scaling taken to the utmost limit.

Lemmy is an example of trustless distribution, and it demonstrates the infinite horizontal scaling that it is capable of.

Horizontal scalability mostly. Blockchain tech works on an international scale without you needing to manually go and setup servers all over the world. It’s good for the middleground of “We want our service to work on the international scale, without having to invest in standing up servers all over the place and writing the massive amount of code required to keep them all in synch with each other”

If you can afford your own personal servers all over the world, then its not much of a selling point. But typically it works out to being cheaper when you actually need it.

So for example if you wanna sell the deed/rights to to someone on the other side of the world, it works quite well.

It’s extremely difficult to horizontally scale databases and is notoriously the biggest challenge for going international.

For some perspective, even Amazon, the company that literally owns and operates AWS, uses a totally separate copy of Amazon for its various areas of the world with no crossover. You cannot use your US amazon account for the Europe version of Amazon, you must make a new account on the Europe server.

And if you have ever played a videogame that is international scale with multiple servers, you also likely know that the process of “migrating” your character from one server to another actually requires a bit of a small process.

There are some games that actually provide the ability to login to any server with the same account, but they are the minority and the actually use a similar algorithm to how Lemmy works, where all the servers act as a federation to stay in synch with each other.

Blockchain tech has its own methods it has used to solve these issues, its called the Byzantine Generals Problem if you wanna read up on it more.

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