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Take-Two CEO believes AI will actually increase employment and productivity
7 Feb 2025 at 12:00 pm UTC Likes: 1

Soooo.... we're going to increase productivity.... while also employing more people?....
that is possible if by increasing productivity you sell more and as an result you can hire more, the issue is that you selling more means someone else is selling less, you are just moving the marketshare from one company to another.
so you lose thousands of jobs in one side and get a few new ones on the other...
but, with less competition you also have less reasons to hire a ton of people...

so , no.

Take-Two CEO believes AI will actually increase employment and productivity
7 Feb 2025 at 11:58 am UTC

" and we've used digital tools forever. "
the bullshit starts here... or a bit latter, but this part is already missleading

What Valve would need to do to make a Steam Console a success
6 Feb 2025 at 1:42 am UTC

Then you would change the one way setting and say you were sure to leave "S mode" and become "normal" Steam OS.
horrible idea, imagine using the S mode once and realizing you cant play online games anymore?
or having the other stores in an ransom state... you are sure you want to install other stores? you might lose access to some of your online games!

its better to never have then than to have in this state, not to mention, how that gonna solve the issue for all of us who use linux but dont use this console?

What Valve would need to do to make a Steam Console a success
6 Feb 2025 at 1:22 am UTC

a lot of factors.
1)lack of an marketing campaing, how many times we saw the trailer of an game, announcing it is avaliable for playstation while also ignoring in the trailer that its also avaliable at steam or xbox? sony was the king of pretending that something was exclusive when it was not using this technique, all you need is to distribute in a few channnels your version of the ad, and prefentially exclusive rights for the advertisement in an region.
if valve wont pretend that something is exclusive, at least they should make sure that all game trailers feature the steamdeck/steamOS/new console logo.

2)exclusive games, just look at how xbox is struggling to sell, most people dont see a reason to get one if they can get the samething on other platforms+the platform exclusives, if they wont make games then at least they need an exclusive service like gamepass, or bundle the console with something like 400$ worth of games.

3)again lack of informing people that steamOS actually have more games than any console and have most of the big games that everyone want to play

4)an good hardware for an cheaper price, lets say , playstation 5 pro specs at ps5 base price.

Blocking Linux / Steam Deck in Apex Legends led to a 'meaningful reduction' in cheaters
6 Feb 2025 at 12:37 am UTC Likes: 2

I wonder if the meaningful reduction in cheating activity was actually because of their reduction in the playerbase in general...
well, maybe they should shutdown their servers next time, no one can cheat if no one can play

GDC 2025 survey shows PC game development growing with lots interested in Valve's Steam Deck
23 Jan 2025 at 10:14 pm UTC

i wonder how the hell the chart was generated, i mean, how the computer read 114% to put on the chart, and still draw it correctly?

Steam Deck sales drop hard following the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement (updated: Valve fixed it)
23 Jan 2025 at 12:05 pm UTC

steamdeck launching didnt seemed to affect the nintendo switch sales (vg chartz track the switch sales) but the opposite is true?
i hope its just an error.

AMD reveals AMDGPU Composition Stack, a fork of Wayland's Weston compositor for advancing the Linux desktop
23 Jan 2025 at 4:52 am UTC

To provide a middleware compositor which extracts the best out of AMD Display and Graphics HW (We don't mind being biased to AMDGPU HW)

To host some of the AMD HW specific code, which can't be merged in weston mainline due to its bias towards AMD HW.
that is quite nice, i mean, either nvidia do something similiar or amd will get an performance benefit.
it may sound bad for the users, but being impartial often means not using 100% of neither hardware, so if the vendor want to provide biased solution...
To be the space where AMD specific in-house SW tools (performance tweakers, multimedia players, 3D games, profiling tools etc) can be saved in future.
wait, amd develop games? they will ?

Multi-seat config support.
HELL YEAH!

NTSYNC driver for improving Windows games on Linux with Wine / Proton should finally land in Linux kernel 6.14
13 Jan 2025 at 1:31 pm UTC Likes: 2

wait... 860.7 fps? is there even an monitor with that refresh rate to confirm its was runing at that speed? probably is a old game but i doubt the performance would be comparable on windows

Google and The Linux Foundation team up for 'Supporters of Chromium-based Browsers'
11 Jan 2025 at 2:33 am UTC

i suppose for the same reason you might want to support a desktop operating system that has a tiny market share.

not the samething...
the linux foundation initial goal was to fund linux, regardless of marketshare, it make sense to support other projects that are essential for linux (eg: git or some other components, low level stuff that dont fir the kernel but is deply integrated... like i dont know systemD...

but nowadays they are quite off topic, an game engine? an browser? if you donate money to then and have no idea/control where your money is going anymore.

firefox is not running the risk of becaming orphan and the linux foundation wont need to divert to much fund in theory in order to keep the browser competitive, so at least in theory not much money will be ...
i dont know the word for that