Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · hace 25 díasDiscord's PC system resource-hogging days are numbered-- a new 'Game Mode' is coming to reduce CPU and GPU usage while gamingwww.techradar.comexternal-linkmessage-square43linkfedilinkarrow-up172
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minus-squareDjangoFett@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up72·hace 25 díasAm I missing something here? Wasn’t that the original purpose of Discord? Like, for gamers by gamers? Everyone loses the fucking plot so fast these days.
minus-squarestoy@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·hace 25 díasThis is actually what pisses me off with modern tech, we have soo much computing power that we have forgotten to properly optimize. What used to be a software problem, writing code efficiently has turned into a hardware problem, with only one solution: Throw more computing power at it.
minus-squareschipelblorp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·hace 25 díasDevelopers slowly realizing that RAM and CPU cycles aren’t forever getting cheaper.
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·hace 25 díasJust buy more RAM, bro! RAM prices skyrocket 1000% Just sell your house to buy more RAM, bro!
minus-squareSharkAttak@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·hace 25 díasThe SUVs of software, basically.
minus-square0xDREADBEEF@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-2hace 25 díasI remember the og 2015 discord homepage said it was performant as a selling point the random shit i remember lol
minus-squareJanx@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·hace 25 díasEnshittification. It seems to eventually come for every corporate, for-profit product…
Am I missing something here?
Wasn’t that the original purpose of Discord?
Like, for gamers by gamers?
Everyone loses the fucking plot so fast these days.
This is actually what pisses me off with modern tech, we have soo much computing power that we have forgotten to properly optimize.
What used to be a software problem, writing code efficiently has turned into a hardware problem, with only one solution:
Throw more computing power at it.
Developers slowly realizing that RAM and CPU cycles aren’t forever getting cheaper.
Just buy more RAM, bro!
Just sell your house to buy more RAM, bro!
The SUVs of software, basically.
wirths law (I think?) in effect
I remember the og 2015 discord homepage said it was performant as a selling point
the random shit i remember lol
Enshittification. It seems to eventually come for every corporate, for-profit product…
It’s called VC funding