ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
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Aug 9, 2026 6:39 AM
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
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Tinsoldat
I've been volunteering at a repair cafe for six years. There is now a Linux manual for repair cafes to help people install linux and keep their old machines functioning, reducing costs, or keep more of their data private and off line.
https://www.repaircafe.org/en/linux-repair-cafe/
GravyEducation
Yeah stop me if you've heard this one before
myth1250
It’s incredible how many problems can simply be solved by taxing billionaires out of existence. Take all the dragon hordes of wealth, reinvest them elsewhere, and make life more sustainable for everyone. Suddenly instead of a handful of rich twats and everyone else struggling to survive we have a world where everyone can breathe a bit easier. One of my biggest campaign promises is to break billionaires and corporate greed. Patsy 2028, dealing in hope!
TheFullLength
What a great time to be a retro handheld hobbyist.
SlavaUkrainisaysSteveBuscemi
Raoul97533
You will eat the bugs, you will live in the pods, you will own nothing and you will be happy slaving away for the oligarchy!
Frenchgeek
Neat, lag in single player... With a wait list for the next GPU slot. Perfect to play the average shooter. I wonder how fast he'll decry his need to pay to become available on the one gaming streaming provider who manage to outdo the competition (because there are only so much available disk space even on servers). When was the last time he played something more advanced than minesweeper?
Nnoodles
The only fucking reason there is a "hardware pricing problem" is because jackoffs have price fixed memory and video cards, cutting supply, shifting to ai data centers.
pocsaclypse
remember the run away success that stadia was? no? me neither
winternal
Having been a gamer for over 35 years, it's truly sad where this is going. I'll refuse this and stick to playing older games.
qtRaven
"You will own nothing and be grateful for it peasants!"
Grimlinnan
surveillance of everything tou do
ChoonahFish
Data has been a bigger industry than oil for years now.
The thing that concerns me the most is the surveillance.
Hexrowe
And the concentration of economic and social power.
HeresYourSauce
They've been attempting this for years, and yeah it's part of datacenters, but it's not really a part that concerns me.
I've tried streaming games, if your internet is *perfect* and you live near a server it's fine. But mathematically it can not have as low of latency as having the hardware in your room.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
Now, everybody is near a datacenter.
HeresYourSauce
I can't get reliable phone signal where I live. It would surprise me if they could get datacenters that close to everyone. Shocked if it were somehow cost effective either.
Then the logistics of computers talking to each other. That's not instant. I don't know. Google shut down their attempts after spending billions on it. If their engineers couldn't do it, I would be surprised if we had the tech at all yet.
Cactus21
Nvidia have been doing game streaming for years with GeForce Now - https://play.geforcenow.com, it’s not something new. I saw a BBC article recently with Amazon extolling the same thing for the future of gaming, again with no mention of Nvidia. A friend used it and thought it was ok and the client is already built in to some TV’s
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
Various companies have been trying to make it a thing for a couple decades now, that's not the point of this post. It being ok is also irrelevant. The point is that you not being able to reasonably purchase the hardware means you have no choice, will pay for the service that you have no control over what games are part of it, the quality of the service, the limits, the ads, the data, the lag, games being removed mid playthrough, only renting never owning, and so much more.
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
And like with PlayStations move to digital only, this isn't taking into account the areas of the world that simply don't have the same Internet access or permissions as the west. Not to mention as weather continues to become more volatile and infrastructure is not being built to withstand it we will simply be cut off from what we are meant to own access to.
Targe0
No it won't.
Because it just moves the hardware problem to another place.
It won't fix the issue of there not being enough, it will just become them who are struggling to get it instead of you.
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
They aren't struggling to get it, though. They are having a fine time.
They're taking away supply, and encouraging a move to streaming everything.
Think Mark, think.
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
The big companies won't struggle, but if people stop having devices able to run games and it all needs to be hosted and streamed, then small and indie developers will struggle to be able to provide the same experience unless companies like steam start offer it as part of their service, which they will charge for on both sides of the business, again increasing barriers to entry.
Targe0
Actually many of them are struggling to get supply.
Because all the supply has been sucked up by like 3 companies.
And those are the ones building AI only data centres which are not made to deal with cloud operations.
For example Microsoft has been open about how they are struggling to get memory chips, and they are one of the biggest players in cloud operations.
afatality
finally,
Targe0
And you will end up not being able to do anything, because their servers are offline.
afatality
and the world gets to breath without a global economy.... money should be forgotten for a week
Targe0
Sadly that's not going to be how it works.
More going to be mass chaos and disruptions causing huge economic turmoil and a lot of people getting hurt.
afatality
mass amount of people are already getting hurt, wtf are you knowing now, human
VulcanTourist
Surprise! They want to remove even more of your agency. And how do you mod a game that is streamed rather than executed? You can't. Goodbye, modding!
This is far more sinister than it appears at first glance.
Omnimorph2112
There will still be a market for people wanting games they own and mod. Maybe you won't have the large devs doing it, but I'm more than happy to tell them to kick rocks. Also piracy has some very talented people doing stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if they found ways to do stuff
VulcanTourist
I once resorted to the latter, but I was desperately poor and would have been homeless if I'd been buying games and subbing to cable or streaming services.
I'm waiting for the DSA to help bring us open source game development as a common thing. :-)
JackIsLacking
What do you do when they decide to stop supporting your single player game like Skyrim? You know, because they came out with a new game for $120 that is just Skyrim with more micro transactions and somehow more glitches than the original skyrim...
The second any streamed gaming platform succeeds, we are cooked. Because all the big companies will start pushing it as hard as they can.
VulcanTourist
I will simply STOP BUYING GAMES. If everyone did that, we could take back control and FORCE them to do OUR bidding.
Consumers as victims of the One Percent have far more agency than employees as victims of the One Percent. They're idiots and don't organize like a labor union to exploit that agency.
JackIsLacking
Sorry, I just realized my tone sounds critical. I was just adding my own 2 pennies to your argument. Definitely in complete agreement with you.
VulcanTourist
If everyone agreed, we could DO something!
ItTookMeAGoodWhileToComeUpWithAUsername
The new modding system is called paid DLCs :(
VulcanTourist
Ugh! Not for me! I'll re-learn programming first!
ItTookMeAGoodWhileToComeUpWithAUsername
I guess that will become much harder when it’s streaming only though. Rockstar already implemented safeguards with mandatory “anti-cheat” software that gets installed along with the launcher.
VulcanTourist
I will never buy such a game. NEVER. I doubt that I'm alone in that conviction. Sure, idiots will do it, and later regret it.
ItTookMeAGoodWhileToComeUpWithAUsername
The issue is that pc gamers have no other choice if they want to play GTA or RDR games. Luckily there are workarounds and players can disable the service after installation and play the story/offline mode with mods - but I wonder for how long. If they plan to pull that off for GTA, it will be the first GTA I won’t touch.