I’ve started my own project a few months ago (fully free mobile game on Android and iOS), it can be a fun hobby, but when it’s not so fun you burn out even quicker. So I guess it depends on if it’s just a small project for yourself or if you make it public…

When you work on backend services you have a local DB running 24/7. Changes don’t go onto the actual dev environment until locally tested, or you might just break things for 50 other people.

This is on my work PC, I can’t just switch there (:

For .NET development Visual Studio and Rider are the only decent options, everything else is “trash”. Teams is the company communication tool (besides Outlook).

And we run SQL Servers in Azure, PostgreSQL would cost the same (but I’d love to switch to it myself).

You don’t need 64 GB of RAM, I was happy with 48 GB too, but the headroom is nice. 32 GB would be borderline for my work though, especially as I often have two heavy backend services open (2x Visual Studio) plus a Python project for automated tests (VS Code).

Visual Studio, VS Code, WSL2, docker containers, SQL Server + SSMS, MS Teams, …

Usually all at the same time. Not everyone is doing just web dev.

It depends, how big is the suitcase with the bribe?

Don’t tempt me to rewatch all of SG1 again >.>

Oh, I already did that in the past. But with dual booting you first start to set everything up twice (I want to check my email at any time for example).

Then you have a game or two that only work in Windows (Apex Legends). And over time you start to mainly boot into Windows just on the off-chance you want to play a quick round.

I still use Linux on my server of course. Recently I also got a MacBook Air for portability. But Windows really is just my “everything works” box.

Hell, even Nvidia GPU features I use on the daily (Like Broadcast) have no Linux support. So the switch isn’t worth it for me while Linux support is still seen as an afterthought.

Huh, cool that The Finals work, seems like developers can enable EAC for Linux. Bit dumb that not more do it.

I’m hoping with the Steam Machine getting more popular that we get even more of a shift in the future.

When you say gaming, mostly indie titles and singleplayer?

I’d love to switch over, but a lot of games don’t run on Linux (especially multiplayer games with anti-cheat). Yes, it’s mostly on the developers, but it’s annoying as hell.

At this point nuclear fusion seems to easily win.

Nah, they did that in the past, then demand suddenly went back to normal. That’s why my 64 GB DDR5 RAM was 200€ last year.

They are scared shitless to expand, because if they do and the AI bubble bursts they won’t make their money back. So they obviously prefer to constrain the supply, rake in massive profits and just wait it out.

They are open source models, nothing malicious about them. I’d be much more careful about where you run your agents on. The wrong prompt can even make a non-malicious model misbehave.

DeepSeek has really led the way here, especially as they are a bit more hardware constrained. Plus they openly publish their findings and release open source models, so high hopes there.

It’s probably China’s play to pop the AI bubble, but I’m all for it (:

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Careful, “foundries” usually means CPU and maybe GPU. Anything memory related at the moment is just “announced” or “planned”. You could say Micron spent $20B, but that’s global not just US.

Besides Micron no one is planning to build memory fabs in the US.

It’s RAM, they can ramp it up in 2-3 years tops.

They just don’t want to. When they did it last time demand plummeted and we got cheap RAM.

For my 64 GB 6000 CL30 I paid 200€ last year. They don’t want a repeat of that, especially with the Chinese now catching up.

Indie games are better anyway and don’t need much hardware power :)

Luckily Australia is their largest source and they upped the amount. They can also get more shipments from the US.

Ignore the downvotes, that account is 100% a bot. Every single reply looks generated, plenty even have em-dashes.