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  • Wodge@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldGoogle is the new IBM
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    8 months ago

    Stadia’s shutdown reallly pissed me off. The problem it had was the monitisation, not the actual thing it did. Stadia worked in places with crappy wifi, like the 2.4ghz only I had at my Mam’s house, when GeForce Now, XBox Cloud and Amazon’s Luna, all shit the bed. Really well optimised, it also worked at higher quality than everything else when you actually had a good connection.

    If they’d actually built out the infrastructure properly, had all the features, like being able to play a game via youtube after watching a video on it, and the quasi split screen thing, it would’ve done a lot better. It also needed a bit of time, which Google seems hesitant to actually give any of it’s projects.


  • When I was a kid, I was really into driving games, started off with Mario Kart and Stunt Race FX on the SNES, later moved onto F1 World Grand Prix on the N64, for which I had one of these bad boys.

    You put your legs either side of the wheel to hold it in place. It wasn’t very good at all if I’m being honest. Even at the time, 9 year old me thought it wasn’t great.

    So during covid, I saw that V3 pictured above being sold on facebook marketplace for 20chf (swissbux), and thought I could do better. Started off with a Logitech G29 and ended up with this:

    Yes, cable management is not great, but I’m in a relatively small apartment, so gotta wedge it in a corner, but it’s my corner, the Corner of Speed