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10 votes
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Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its bills for rented cloudy GPUs
28 votes -
More ways to play your GOG games – we’re teaming up with Luna cloud streaming service!
16 votes -
A 2024 plea for lean software
36 votes -
Netflix is reportedly exploring adding in-game ads to its gaming service
43 votes -
Google promises unlimited cloud storage; then cancels plan; then tells journalist his life’s work will be deleted without enough time to transfer the data
90 votes -
Cloud exit - cloud is NOT cheap
35 votes -
Netflix is testing a game streaming solution in Canada and the UK
19 votes -
PS5 cloud streaming launches this month for PlayStation Plus Premium members
6 votes -
You can't control your data in the cloud
19 votes -
Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud
72 votes -
Microsoft Cloud hiring to "implement global small modular reactor and microreactor" strategy to power data centers
18 votes -
Microsoft to sell off Activision cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft in bid for UK approval
25 votes -
Baldur’s Gate 3 could have saved Google Stadia
40 votes -
Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3
6 votes -
The cloud is a prison. Can the local-first software movement set us free?
35 votes -
Cloudburst
17 votes -
Cloud Servers for the Broke
Just wanted to put this out there as a little PSA in case it's helpful: if you want a cloud server but don't wanna pay anything, Oracle's Free Tier is a life saver. Discovered it a year ago and...
Just wanted to put this out there as a little PSA in case it's helpful: if you want a cloud server but don't wanna pay anything, Oracle's Free Tier is a life saver. Discovered it a year ago and couldn't be happier I did, since I'd never pay for cloud computing otherwise 😭.
Quick Specs:
For free you get:
- 24/7 uptime
- 200gb of storage space
- 24GB of RAM
- 4 OCPUs
- 4 Gbps Bandwidth
That's been more than enough for me and honestly feels too good to be true. Some things I've done with this:
- Minecraft Server
- Radarr/Sonarr Plex Setup
- I'd like to make my own backup solution as well!
If anyone has any other ideas for cool projects I could self host, please do tell I'm curious what else I could do :)
48 votes -
Windows could become cloud based in the future
16 votes -
Apple tests ‘Apple GPT,’ develops generative AI tools to catch OpenAI
17 votes -
Why do cloud providers keep building datacenters in America's hottest city?
33 votes -
InfluxDB has apparently shut down - and deleted! - two of its data centers and some customers did not get any warning
23 votes -
Cloud Native Software Engineering
3 votes -
Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud
72 votes -
Microsoft's $68.7bn (£55bn) deal to buy US video game company Activision Blizzard has been blocked in the UK by the Competition and Markets Authority
13 votes -
A gift from the Stadia team & Bluetooth controller functionality info
14 votes -
Anker’s Eufy lied to us about the security of its security cameras. Despite claims of only using local storage, Eufy has been uploading identifiable footage to the cloud.
18 votes -
Stadia is shutting down
38 votes -
Stack Overflow trends: Weekday vs weekend site activity
5 votes -
A dad took photos of his naked toddler for the doctor. Google flagged him as a criminal.
14 votes -
Broadcom announces plans to buy VMware in $61 billion deal
16 votes -
All-new PlayStation Plus tiers launches in June
4 votes -
Analysis by computer science professor shows that "Google Phone" and "Google Messages" send data to Google servers without being asked and without the user's knowledge, continuously
11 votes -
Google Stadia has reportedly been demoted
21 votes -
How I got pwned by my cloud costs
14 votes -
A look back at Q3 '21 public cloud software earnings
3 votes -
PlayStation plans new service to take on Xbox Game Pass
5 votes -
AWS embraces Fedora Linux for its cloud-based Amazon Linux
5 votes -
Tell your hopes and experiences with cloud gaming
So I just upgraded to an M1 Mac Mini. I was a little iffy on it, part of me wanted to build a PC just to play games but I really like MacOS and I mostly play on PS5 and the Switch with the PC only...
So I just upgraded to an M1 Mac Mini. I was a little iffy on it, part of me wanted to build a PC just to play games but I really like MacOS and I mostly play on PS5 and the Switch with the PC only being for indie titles and stuff that only works with a keyboard and mouse like RTS, 4x, or city builders. I just don't play PC games enough to prioritize gaming as a use case in buying a computer, but I also really like RTS and city builder games.
I figured WINE and Parallels would meet most of my gaming needs but my forays into WINE have been frustrating and buggy, and this reddit thread about what works on Parallels is, frankly, just kind of sad to look at. What's worse, apparently the new Age of Empires has some kind of pathfinding instruction set that ONLY works with x86 architecture. So it won't work under any kind of virtualization or emulation.
Enter Cloud gaming. It seems the big contenders right now are ShadowPC, GeForce Now, and Paperspace. Has anyone tried these? When I last costed these out Shadow was only around $15-$20 a month which was almost a no-brainer. But it seems to have gone up to $30 a month now, which gets costly enough to where it almost seems like I'd rather get a Steam Deck. Paperspace is like $10 per month plus another ~$1 per hour of play, which would probably end up cheapest for how little I play. But how it is in terms of configuration and latency I have no idea.
7 votes -
GeForce Now cloud gaming service adds new RTX 3080 membership tier, supporting streaming at up to 1440p and 120 FPS
10 votes -
The worst case: What would happen if AWS us-east-1 went offline?
8 votes -
BlueStacks X is a new and free way to play Android games in your browser
8 votes -
Ighor July "unlocks" GeForce Now
9 votes -
As it turns out, “Netflix Gaming” isn’t a streaming service
7 votes -
Xbox and Xbox Game Pass are coming to more screens
7 votes -
Do you use game streaming services? Which ones and why or why not?
I wanted to get a general discussion going on the opinions of game streaming services. This is a potentially huge market and the big companies out there are really trying to break into this...
I wanted to get a general discussion going on the opinions of game streaming services. This is a potentially huge market and the big companies out there are really trying to break into this market. I personally use google stadia and love it, there is a slight amount of latency in movements but it feels no different than a larger dead zone to me.
I love the idea of game streaming as it brings more games to more platforms like Linux, macOS and mobile devices. I know the big argument against them is that you don’t own the games, but from my perspective, you don’t own the games on steam either, you own the right to play someone else’s game just like with Google stadia or Luna or xcloud. If you want to own an actual copy then you have to buy the game from a vendor like gog or itch.io.
So let me know your opinions on this market, do you think it’s good, bad, or somewhere in between and why? If you play on any of these services what are your thoughts and experiences? Has it worked well for you and do you see yourself using services like this in the future? I genuinely am curious as it’s a completely different mindset than what we’re used too and it can really disrupt a market that hasn’t seen proper innovation in years.
13 votes -
Finnish telecoms giant Nokia is to axe between 5,000 and 10,000 jobs worldwide in the next two years as it cuts costs
7 votes -
Stadia developers can't fix the bugs in their own game because Google fired them
13 votes -
Microsoft xCloud for Web - First look
3 votes -
Google Stadia shuts down internal studios, changing business focus
24 votes