MudMan

Hah. The machine I’d burn down is social media, in case it wasn’t clear.

Also, don’t fret for… I don’t know, my immortal soul, I have to guess from the severity of the warning? I am confident I’m not in some corporate body horror thing where I gradually transform into some weird yuppie werewolf, but I appreciate the concern.

I would counter that not recognizing the humanity in the… “dystopian slide engineers” would make me more worried about slippery slopes. My stance on corpo middle management and their output has remained neither slippery not sloped for many, many years.

See, but that’s the thing, it is not.

You’re making it out to be a binary. If I agree, why would I caveat it, or call out any nuance, or minimize it.

But it’s not a binary. The truth is, yeah, this guy made a bad, out of touch post on his corporate bullshit social media you’re pretty much mandated to have if you’re in the games industry because you may lose your job at any point and need to be ready to go in making yourself visible and available for a new one at all times.

I would recommend not engaging with it at all, myself, but this guy tried to have a presence and was bad at it for a bit and stepped on a landmine. Sucks for everyone involved and I don’t have that much schadenfreude or indignation to add to the situation.

I don’t know the guy, this was bad but not that big of a deal and hey, at least I’m glad that he’s savvy enough to have shut down every single angle of exposure he has to the Internet before checking if it was gonna get bad.

It is, but I guess Civ always was. From the start the whole “leave Earth, go multiplanetary” thing was baked into the endgame. If anything AC was a post-history sequel.

I mean, honeslty, it was mostly a popular sci-fi mashup, but… you know, that as well.

I mean, we could use some mindworms right about now.

Yes. We have, in fact, agreed on this. To reiterate my first post:

This guy is painfully out of touch

I’m not excusing the guy, this was a pretty dumb post,

See, it’s one thing to demand that I acknowledge that this guy’s post is tone deaf. It’s another to demand that I only acknowledge that, presumably to give ourselves the license to go drag the guy with zero limitations.

For the record, he does not specifically shill Microsoft AI, although he does include it as “LLM tools (like ChatGPT or Copilot)”. The transparent attempt to de-brand his suggestion while still including his current employer is probably part of the remarkably tasty ragebait at play here. Social media sucks, corporate social media sucks even more.

All of those things can be true at the same time. I don’t need to take absolute, unequivocal sides down arbitrary party lines.

I hate modern reporting.

So, ok, here we go, fact checking dot lemmy dot com.

Tihs one seems to come from Google’s 2025 environmental report, which the article mentions but does not link despite being publicly available. The message Google would like you to take here is that while their power consumption has increased significantly their emissions have not (key chart below).

I guess that’s what you get for trying to spin these things. You get spun right back.

Anyway, Google would also like you to know that:

“However, it’s important to note that our growing electricity needs aren’t solely driven by AI. The accelerating growth of Google Cloud, continued investments in Search, the expanding reach of YouTube, and more, have also contributed to this overall growth.”

This tracks. While power consumption seems to be speeding up a bit, it’s been climbing for a while pretty consistently. I don’t know of Google’s implication that less CO2-heavy power generation is enough to not have to care about it, but I also don’t really see a way to reverse this trend. Data centers are data centers, and whether they’re crunching AI numbers or running every spreadsheet in the world, a bunch of big companies are committed to continuing to own a disproportionate chunk of the computing power of the entire planet so they can sell it to you by the minute.

I mean, sure… it’s just that GloboCorp builds a whole lot of stuff and this guy is upper-middle management on one of the less pizza-heavy parts of it. Looking at his resume he’s been a producer in the publishing trenches for quite a while. These aren’t the corporate overlords you’re looking for.

Jumping into LinkedIn with “here’s some how-to-get-hired tips” in general is an extremely dystopian, funhouse mirror thing that people in corporate jobs tend to do. I know those guys, some are super earnest and kind (and most are more self-aware than this guy), but it’s all the same blob of online posturing in the alternate reality of corporate social media.

I don’t know that I see much of a difference between the dissociative tone-deafness of the original post and the performative outrage of the reaction. It’s all the same dystopian mess of fake, dehumanized pretense. And man, is it horrifying when that mess decides to become pin-sharp and target the one idiot.

I’d burn it all down at this point, honestly. It’s not worth it.

I do appreciate LinkedIn because it helps surface how social bubbles distort perception.

That includes Fedi/Lemmy. This guy is painfully out of touch, but so is everyone else. That’s the entire problem of the unmoored, atomized media and interaction landscape we’ve built for ourselves this century.

I mean, I’m not excusing the guy, this was a pretty dumb post, but my first reaction to these is to wonder what dumb, unhinged assumptions my personal reality filters are inflicting on me that won’t make headlines, you know?

I have to say, I normally find the “ha-ha, this word sounds like something else in English” stuff to be a bit… provincial, but I’ll admit some are a bit .

I’m guessing that’s the equivalent of a human going on a cruise and spending the entire thing in the buffet table.

I support this. Seagulls belong in the trash anyway and the human versions should be in isolated vessels out in the ocean as well.

Cool.

But the pitch wasn’t “everything will be interoperable unless the company doesn’t mean it or wants to make money or we aren’t “morally aligned”, whatever that means”.

I don’t understand how you can be a “walled garden” and still feature interoperability with a set of open source platforms under a pre-established set protocol. This is not an ethical problem or a problem of ideology, those two things are mutually exclusive.

This also sounds a whole lot like it disproves skrlet13’s point on the heterogeneous Fedi where everything fits under different but overlapping bubbles. Seems to me you think Fedi has the one moral and ethical position on this.

They already had a FPS counter on Windows, but they’ve expanded that with CPU/GPU/RAM usage, a frametime graph and that separate FPS/DLSS frame counter. No battery stats, surprisingly, even on handhelds.

I don’t know what they’re wrapping on Windows, but they definitely have decent access, and yeah, the Nvidia overlay sometimes loses the FPS counter where Steam keeps it on Windows. Don’t ask me how that works.

Yeah, we’re almost there. If you buy a pre-packaged box with Home Assistant you’re most of the way there. If you look under the hood most commercial NAS options and even some routers are scraping that territory as well.

I think the way it needs to work to go mainstream is you buy some box that you plug in to your router and it just sets up a handful of (what looks to you) like web services you can access from anywhere. No more steps needed.

The biggest blockers right now are that everybody in that space is too worried giving you the appearance of control and customizability to go that hard towards end-user focus… and that for some reason we as a planet are still dragging our feet on easily accessible permanent addresses for average users and still relying on hacks and workarounds.

The tech is there, though. You could be selling home server alternatives to the could leaning into enshittification annoyance with the tech we have today. There’s just nobody trying to do an iServe because everybody is chasing that subscription money instead, and those who aren’t are FOSS nerds that want their home server stuff to look weird and custom and hard.

It’s about time they ported their Deck performance viewer back to other platforms. It’s still a bit touch and go whether it picks up some things. No GPU readout under Linux, for example, as far as I can tell, at least with an Nvidia GPU.

The DLSS stuff is interesting, but it wasn’t much of a secret before. They took the way they present it from the generally amazing Lossless Scaling and, if anything, I like that you can now compare their solution to DLSS apples-to-apples. I’m a bit confused about their graph display, though. I’m guessing the red line is supposed to be native frames and green is all frames? That’s a bit weird, since the color coding on the text is backwards from that.

As a side note, it’s weird and has always been weird that Steam’s performance monitor has a way better time picking up apps than Nvidia’s on Windows. You’d think owning the drivers would give you the edge, but nope.

Yeah, that’s exactly where it comes from. And it fits just fine for people like you, doing it for a living. It’s just a bit obnoxious when us normies dabbling with what is now fairly approachable hobbyist home networking try to cosplay as that. I mean, come on, Brad, you’re not unwinding after work with more server stuff, you just have a Plex and a Pi-hole you mess around with while avoiding having actual face time with your family.

And that’s alright, by the way. I think part of why the nomenclature makes me snarky is that I actually think we’re on the cusp of this stuff being very doable by everybody at scale. People are still running small services in dedicated Raspberry Pis and buying proprietary NASs that can do a bunch of one-button self-hosting. If you gave it a good push you could start marketing self-contained home server boxes as a mainstream product, it’s just that the people doing that are more concerned with selling you a bunch of hard drives and the current batch of midcore users like me are more than happy to go on about their “homelab” and pretend they’re doing a lot more work than they actually are to keep their couple of docker containers running.

I mean, those work fine and are fast. You mean we’ll get those for cheap.

In any case, the image is about physical dimensions, and SD cards are tiny! Considering we’re comparing to a 40 MB mechanical drive, I’m gonna say the comparison is valid and they aren’t even near the bottom of the specs table.

Of course people like it when ALL the specs get better in these things, but that’s because people like simple things more than true things.

Wait, 1tb?

You’re leaving impact on the table, I have plenty of 1tb micro SD cards.

Yeah, well, don’t tell them. The fields of Mastodon are still full of the debris of the Great Threads Arguments. Seemed to me everybody thought they had the correct and only Fedi.

I am remarkably annoyed by this guy making predictions on measurable things that he then entirely vibe-checks.

I am more surprised than I should be at how quickly the Fedi pitch went from “we want a future where everything is interoperable everywhere” to “we don’t want any interaction with for profit companies”.

I don’t mind either way, it’s all bad and I shouldn’t be here in the first place, but… you know, it’s weird seeing social patterns develop in real time.