Do they even still exist?

I never claimed to speak for all of humanity.

Maybe not to you, but you don’t speak for all of humanity.

VDI has been a thing for over a decade now.

Not if they’ve bet the farm on income from AI hardware sales.

The agreements being made aren’t for existing stock; they’re for the total future production capacity. If the manufacturer produces a shit ton of AI hardware and the bubble pops, they’re left with unusable inventory and nothing left to put on shelves. It’s a fundamental flaw in JIT manufacturing.

This isn’t excusing anything. The manufacturers are being extremely short sighted to the point of negligence and it’s probably going to backfire on them. But if they go down it’ll greatly impact consumer hardware production, likely for years.

That takes time and money, though.

The problem is that the current production is for stuff that can’t really be used as consumer equipment.

If enough of the world’s component production capacity is dedicated to AI specific components, then when the bubble pops there won’t be anything to sell to consumers for months which could cause the manufacturers to go under.

My previous IT director used to work for the state, and had to fly across the state last minute because the server that had been set up wouldn’t power on. The people there swore up and down everything was connected properly. And confirmed it was plugged into the wall.

He walked in, unplugged the power strip from itself, and plugged it into the wall.

I’m not so sure about that. Businesses rarely drop prices when the demand that raises them abates. And a lot of people are going to get fired when the bubble pops.

Thanks for the recommendation! Sadly it’s not in my library, but it’s now on my wishlist

Something from my backlog, probably. Can’t justify buying new games when I have over 1k I haven’t looked at.

Plus, fuck buying games when they first come out.

Unless they have an employment contract that says otherwise, which is extremely rare in the US, this isn’t a reason that a court will side with.

I can pretty much guarantee that their employee agreement had verbiage prohibiting publicly criticizing the company, and that’s a legal clause to have.

It’s a morally wrong reason to fire someone, but that’s the way it is, unfortunately.

It’s not useless for things like walkthroughs and fixing common issues.

No it isn’t. Being publicly critical of your company isn’t a protected action here. Ubisoft doesn’t have unions here either.

Not in the US. Ubisoft isn’t unionized and in pretty much every state you can be fired for any reason, with a small number of exceptions.

Being publicly critical of the company you work for is not one of those exceptions.

It doesn’t really matter for the purposes of filtering out slop, although you’d need to account for people like me with huge libraries with tons of good games we’ve never played.

No single metric is going to give a good picture of what’s good or not. You’d need several layers of filters.

A ratio between hours played and sale counts would be a better metric.

If that was an option I’d still be rocking my i7 920 with tri channel ram. That sucker could take anything I threw at it until the mobo started dying in 2021.

The only new mobos I’ve found with an lga1366 are dual socket server boards.

It’s not the modding that’s the issue. It’s the fact that they were selling it.

It could totally be a hardware issue. I’ve seen something similar happen because the temperature cycles caused the RAM to wiggle out of the slot a bit, but it wasn’t far enough to cause issues until the stick heated up and got pushed a little further out.

I don’t think it’s likely to be a hardware issue unless it’s a faulty drive, but I can’t rule out other components until I can see some errors.