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  • It’s pretty f. weird that Lisa Su is the CEO despite being so closely related to Jensen, I would dislike this if I were an AMD investor. However this is not a family monopoly, since neither Su or Jensen own these companies, not substantially anyway. (well below 1% & 3 something % owned respectively) Meaning of shareholders at large disliked Lisa Su’s way of doing things, she would be booted without too many hurdles I would think & the same is true for Jensen.













  • I would assume that the real alternative would be a right-wing -still bigoted- party that recognizes that Trump is retarded, recognizes that Russia is problematic & alongside all that they can still do the borderline fascist migrant policy & all that jazz. It’s really not that hard, alas they are really a Russian asset, they don’t really have people that actually believe all this crap. Perhaps we are lucky that they are, otherwise they could really sweep the elections like no one else has done in recent years.


  • Building an app in python reliant on pyqt is simplicity itself, vibecoding or not. If you have a Linux phone you can run these simple boiler plate apps. For Android you need a build chain & everything is just more complicated, including testing. (as far as I understand it anyway)

    Suddenly it occurred to me that perhaps my LineageOS phone needs some sort of a Linux runetime, Vm whatever to run my weather app…


  • I legit don’t know what to do.

    There is nothing much you can do, maybe you could tell your representative that they would lose your vote if they voted for this…

    Well, unless you are willing to dedicate your life to create a new populist (doesn’t matter if it’s left-right or center) political force to actually get somewhere, like some Serbians & Hungarians have done in recent years.

    The kind of protest that would have actual impact will not happen in Canada anytime soon, almost no matter what happens.


  • A well manufactured laser disc can easily last 44 years as -somewhat- proven by the history of the compact disc. A solid state memory chip that can hold over 10 gigabytes of data -at a reasonable cost- cannot say the same. Maybe really good quality chips that nobody would ever pay for alongside a game could last 20 years, but realistically 10 years is a stretch without rewriting the data.

    Even Switch 1 catridges are a bit suspect despite most of them being less than 32GB in capacity & thanks to scale being much much cheaper than anything GoG will be able to get their hands on for this.

    I mean yes they could get manufacturing costs down to $3 per unit I’m sure, but that kind of defeats the purpose of anyone ever wanting to have a physical copy of a game. I think discs are just a much better long term storage medium.


  • The problem is convincing developers and publishers that it’s worth it.

    I don’t think this is difficult. On GoG you are allowed to download your game installers & burn them to physical media if you so please. It’s not unreasonable to think that GoG could do the same at your behest, with some professionally printed art added in. I don’t really see a circumstance where anyone would oppose this.