What do you think of this project and cloud gaming in general? I thought it’s dead already

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    5 months ago

    Not fully open source and trying to get paid subscriptions even before having a product doesn’t sound too good to me…

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      5 months ago

      Well you do need paid subscriptions in such services. Nobody will buy hundreds of $2000 GPUs and give them for free use

      • Telorand@reddthat.com
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        5 months ago

        Even the Fediverse isn’t free. Running functional public instances costs money, and thank goodness for everyone who contributes to theirs.

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            5 months ago

            Well, sure. But the point is that server administration isn’t free and it still requires somebody to actually do the administration. Open source is great, but people have to eat, and getting fair compensation for your effort isn’t an unreasonable ask.

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              Some people just want to do good things to others if they can. They get some donations and more importantly love and respect from the community. It’s enough for them, at least as long as the project doesn’t become very popular. Unfortunately many people now don’t care about anything except money so they can’t understand. And the problem with paid subscriptions is more about privacy I think

    • SteveTech@programming.dev
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      5 months ago

      Just curious, what parts aren’t open source? At a glance it seems like they’re working on supporting self hosting and I couldn’t find any binaries.

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    5 months ago

    Does anyone know why its called “netris”? The first time I saw the name, thought it would be a network Tetris game. :D I get the N, but why etris?

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        If anything, they are playing on similarities to Stadia (even adding a keyword in the repositorys keyword list). I found this issue talking about the name: https://github.com/netrisdotme/netris/issues/48

        • Name is confusing, sounding either like a TETRIS clone or some type of network tool (other than “game streaming”).
        • Several preexisting projects on GitHub share the same name, not helping beating the confusion of the name. Not to mention other companies or software projects globally using the name already (a quick Google search will show up Netris VPC for example).

        And this response from a dev (only part of it): by wanjohiryan

        Regarding the project’s name, you’ve raised some valid points about potential confusion. While it’s true that different entities can share the same name without issue in non-competing sectors, your concerns about clarity and uniqueness are well noted. We’ll take a closer look at how our project name might be perceived and consider the possibility of a rename to avoid any confusion and ensure our project stands out.

        But I don’t know, together with the rest of the reply this sounds a bit robotic like from an AI. I’m probably wrong here, but nowadays can you blame me for that? Whatever. My point is, they may even change the name if they are serious about this topic.

  • variants@possumpat.io
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    5 months ago

    Cloud gaming is definitely the future, I stuck a oldish amd video card in my server and use it for plex transcoding and steam headless so van play a decent amount games on my phone anywhere I have 5g, I hardly turn on my gaming desktop anymore and opted for a thin client laptop.

    • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      self hosted cloud going you might be right. But I’m currently forced to use geforce now to play fortnite with my wife cause Epic hates Linux and goddamn is it a miserable experience.