Mustachius_Grumpius@thelemmy.club to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoDiscord'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-square39linkfedilinkarrow-up170arrow-down117
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minus-squareDjangoFett@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up71·4 days agoAm 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-up37·4 days agoThis 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-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 days agoJust buy more RAM, bro! RAM prices skyrocket 1000% Just sell your house to buy more RAM, bro!
minus-squareschipelblorp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·4 days agoDevelopers slowly realizing that RAM and CPU cycles aren’t forever getting cheaper.
minus-squareSharkAttak@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoThe SUVs of software, basically.
minus-square0xDREADBEEF@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-23 days agoI remember the og 2015 discord homepage said it was performant as a selling point the random shit i remember lol
minus-squareJanx@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 days agoEnshittification. 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.
Just buy more RAM, bro!
Just sell your house to buy more RAM, bro!
Developers slowly realizing that RAM and CPU cycles aren’t forever getting cheaper.
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