pivot_root

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[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Step 1 to Making Europe Great Again: Ignore every idea that comes directly from a Make America Great Again mouth piece.

Step 2: Educate the member states' populations so they stop voting in fascists.

Step 3: Congratulations, you're done!

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That was something they could actually market to the consumer as a necessary upgrade, though.

  • "Sure, you need a new cable, but component video has cleaner edges and less color bleeding."
  • "Sure, you need a new cable, but HDMI has better resolution and no fuzziness."

Going from HDMI 2.1 to DisplayPort 2.1a doesn't offer anything other than higher bandwidth, and not even high-end PCs are capable of pushing resolutions at high enough framerates for that bandwidth to have been the limiting factor for games.

Because of that lack of perceptible benefit to them, the optics of replacing HDMI on consumer devices that are meant to be connected to TVs isn't going to be good. Even if it's an objectively better standard from a technical perspective, it will just come across to consumers as an unnecessary change meant to push their TVs towards planned obsolescence.

They're going to complain about it, the media will pick up on the story and try to turn it into a scandal, and then legislators and regulators will step in and make decisions based on limited understanding of the technical reasons. By that point, one of the console manufacturers will have been pressured into backing down and promise to keep HDMI in their next-gen console, and the other ones will have followed suit because they don't want to lose sales over it.

The only way console manufacturers are going to stay united in kicking HDMI to the curb is if the organization behind HDMI pulls a Unity move and starts charging royalties to the manufacturers for every time a consumer plugs the console into a TV.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

Musk's strategy is to constantly build hype and gain investments by promising something will be "ready by next year", even if it's nowhere close to ready. And then, when those investors start pressuring him about timelines, he pushes a half-baked, low-quality dumpster fire out the door.

It's hard to fuck up worse than that. And to Newell's credit, he's run Valve in the exact opposite way that Musk runs his companies: waiting until they have a working product before saying anything.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Can gop bail out the store or is that strictly for ~~farmers~~ their corporate donors and personal friends?

FTFY

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

And native software.

Because JavaScript runs everywhere, we have companies creating "apps" and PC "programs" that are little more than glorified web views. There's normally nothing wrong with having shared code across implementations, but when that shared code is a 4 MB bundle of crap that creates 100s of MB in dictionaries and JIT compiler caches, you're ruining the end-user experience.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

They make entire SOCs. None of them are x86 because of the duopoly that Intel and AMD have thanks to their cross-licensing agreement, but they still have functional CPUs with a common ISA.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (5 children)

AMD: "Our partners will fry your expensive CPU on some boards."
INTEL: "Our software will fry your expensive CPU on all boards."

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The only way that username would check out is either if it was owned by a pushy and holier-than-thou social progressive with zero self-awareness, a conservative with a small world view that feels "owning the libs" is a personality trait, or a troll.

Now, considering your account was created on this platform two days ago, just called the resident population of Lemmy stupid, and drink whatever kool-aid Musk is selling, it's a toss-up between the last two.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Much like Musk himself, it seems.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

He wants to allow AI slime on his own platform

Don't forget the ~~blatant scams called~~ crypto games! He proudly announced Epic Games Store would happily sell games centered around NFTs and crypto after Valve said they wouldn't allow it.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

OP frequently posts pro-Russia articles. I suspect they don't want to see the difference.

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