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New comment by vitalyan1234 in "The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games"

vitalyan1234 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 19:29:03 +0000

it is possible to adapt to input/network lag, sure. I played Doom 3 at 10-15 FPS in 640x480 and Warcraft 3 with 300ms latency, and I enjoyed it at the time, but I don't think I could endure such underwhelming experiences after many years of much better ones.

New comment by vitalyan1234 in "The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games"

vitalyan1234 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:03:17 +0000

fortunately, that's been already attempted and despite the best circumstances imaginable resulted in a much welcome failure.

>On September 29, 2022, Google announced that it would shut down Stadia, citing its lack of traction with users. The service was shut down on January 18, 2023, and Google refunded all purchases for hardware and games made through the Google and Stadia stores.

even more fortunately, further attempts will fail for the same reason - input lag.

New comment by vitalyan1234 in "Ask HN: Is it feasible to run a model on device for complete privacy?"

vitalyan1234 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:32:54 +0000

the Gemma you tried is tiny, there are 31B and 26B (A4B) variants. there's also Qwen 3.6 with 27B and 35B (A3B) variants, reportedly pretty good. try them on open router or something. these require 30-40 Gb of memory to run between RAM and VRAM, less if quantized beyond near-lossless 8 bit.

there are near-SOTA open models, but they are 1T+ parameters, i.e. they require over a terabyte of memory to run.

New comment by vitalyan1234 in "Field of clones: How horse replicas came to dominate polo"

vitalyan1234 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:11:29 +0000

yeah, I can't really tell whether that whole thing was serious or satirizing something.

New comment by vitalyan1234 in "Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them"

vitalyan1234 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:43:16 +0000

>Upside: zero subscription cost, only one time purchase cost.

the world has long since moved on from that business model, unfortunately.