Kairos

I don’t know maybe 2023?

And the account had to have a Plex pass at the time.

Only old accounts are grandfathered into this for sharing libraries to other plex accounts.

Or ChatGPT

I’m not the best at gauging this but it seems it’s meant to be carried around and plugged into a 4K TV and operate okay at 60fps for most games that multiple people would play while in the same room. The specs seem to align with that. What would the GPU be comparable to? A 6700 (non XT)?

How exactly are they different?

Yes. And it could end up being sold to an entity such as blackrock and still be “privately owned”

‘Legally’ they may be the same, but they’re functionally very different

Yes that’s what I said.

You mean they don’t turn on JavaScript?

Holy fucking shit Lemmy is becoming like Reddit. Can you guys learn to think please. This whole thing stated because I replied to this message

As long as it remains privately owned, it should be OK. The day shares go public, god forbid, will be the beginning of the end.

With something “that’s not true because private equity is bad and that’s still privately owned” and you all act like I said that all private ownership is identical to private equity.

This is a very plausable thing that can happen to Steam. Doesn’t Gabe not have kids?

Like what the fuck?? Am I going insane? Am I dreaming?

The profits are taken away from the trading price, yes

Although it still helps the long term price

Yeah?..

Yes that’s what I said.

The first sentence

When you choose a software vendor, do you question how the company is financed? Should that be part of your evaluation?

This article seems to be about the ethos of private equity. Legally they’re nearly identical.

Thats not true. Privately owned firms tend to be really bad because they don’t have a feduciary duty to long term value. They suck everything dry. Private equity is the reason why daycare costs so much yet the daycare workers make minimum wage.

Steam just happens to be fine under private ownership because it makes enough profit for Gabe to be satisfied.

Game distribution platform Rokky has just released the results of a study it conducted with 306 senior managers of PC game developers (all from the US or UK), and it makes for some interesting reading.

This study has a chance of being reasonable, but this article is junk. No word on methodology. I’m sure(/s) that the 306 managers aren’t skewed because they’re known by a non-steam platform.

Its what the executives are currently learning with

Yeah probably.

Even big Minecraft servers are just many servers with load ballancers. The game has server redirects built in for this reason.

Actually I can provide a little more detail. Check out how Matrix handles event graph resolution/desync. It’s why messages sometimes come in out of order. This is a fundamental problem with decentralization: authority breakdown. The homesever in Matrix is considered the authority for the clients, but within the Federation itself there is no true authoritative party or event history. If a server goes off federation for a while, a room will split, and once it re-federates it and other servers will have different event graphs, assuming something happened in those rooms in the meantime for both the defederated server and federated server(s).

Basically: videogames assume that within a certain amount of latency the server’s state is permanent and authoritative. Federation breakdowns even for 500ms can destroy a games running state.

The game has to be made for distributed servers. The game software expects that everything the server says is authorative, including for rollback. Multiple servers introduces an extra source of latency and it’s just so hard to deal with.

I don’t know too much about this.

Chat server is easy: Matrix (actually multiple servers but same effect)

Game server is very hard. The game has to be made for it or you have to be very good at network application engineering to hack it in.