Microsoft set themselves up the bomb

For the CCP arbitrary enforcement is less a risk and more a guarantee.

This looks pretty interesting! I haven’t used fedora before either so could be good to give it a go. I’ve had some issues with my Pop OS install so could be a good excuse to try something new.

Oh dear, well at least I picked it up for cheap I guess. Maybe I should just replay Shadow of Mordor

Picked up Shadow of War. Only ever played Shadow of Mordor so interested to check it out especially given the 90%+ discount.

I simply don’t understand how you can shut down a studio right after they make an amazing game like this. I hope whatever number it changed in whatever spreadsheet was worth it.

Man, this brings back some great gaming memories. I think there was actually a statue of a Dragon Age 2 enemy in one of the Mass Effect games right?

If only every journalism team was as honest and tenacious as the Gamers Nexus folks no matter what the subject matter the world would be a much better place.

Huge respect to them for consistently calling out bs and using their platform to advocate for customers and hold these companies to account.

Been using this recently and it’s great. I have it on my Mac for work but I should really set it up on my personal Linux PC as well because I really like it.

Get it to debug itself then.

If you have a Tesla and you’re worried about this it’s probably worth enabling pin to drive. Not sure about all the other brands that are impacted but hopefully they have a similar feature.

Greed, same as everything else

Guess it’s time to use the other download feature.

Or filter it in

Sure but… what do you propose? Saying be mindful of our energy use isn’t actionable. Are you saying we should cap energy use and have a bidding system for industries who want to use new capacity, have a carbon price so industries are encouraged to use non carbon producing energy? I still don’t understand what you’re suggesting. Or maybe if you think entertainment is a waste of energy we should ban non educational use of video on the internet as I’m sure that is an insane amount of energy use worldwide.

What do you propose, exactly? We have the technology right now to decarbonise our grid, it’s even the sensible move economically now. Are you saying we should all stop having kids and building anything new that uses electricity? I’m assuming that’s not your position but that’s what I took from reading your comment.

I have no idea, that’s kind of my point. I’m not trying to argue that it’s not much, or that it’s a lot, or that it’s worth it or not, just saying I have no idea and neither that article nor any of the ones you linked gave me the answer.

I think it’s an important consideration, so I’d love more information but it seems that it’s not available. Maybe it’s hard to calculate because things like the energy used and exact amount of compute are trade secrets or something, I don’t know. It’d be nice to know though.

An interesting topic but the article has virtually no information on it and what was there was unsourced and confusing. Maybe I’m just tired and not seeing it but damn, the taking 50 Belgiuns to the moon comparison really got me confused. I agree in general though, new technologies take energy and we need to decarbonise our energy generation as quickly as possible.

I’d actually be really interested in an actual deep dive into this topic though. What kind of tasks are people using these assistants for and how does energy use of an assistant compare with how people would do that before? I’m sure it’s more energy intensive but it’d be interesting to understand more at least for me.

Flexibility is a huge one too. Much easier to upscale / downscale.

Yes I think that’s the part where you have to, you know, compete or whatever.