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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL the etymology of goodbye is a contraction of “god be with you.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 takes a break on updates until 2025 | Digital Trends⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re just now doing phased roll outs of 23H2 at work, so haven’t paid any attention to 24H2. What issues is it having that you’ve noticed?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, lithium mining and processing is extremely toxic and destructive to the environment. On one hand, it’s primarily limited to a smaller area, but on the other hand, is it sustainable long-term unless a highly efficient lithium recycling technology emerges?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was referring to Google banning ad blockers more than Opera’s move to bypass the block in chromium. I should have clarified that in my original comment, but I was quite sleep deprived when I wrote it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve been actively fighting libraries over the years, with renewed fervor in the last decade. As numerous others have pointed out before–including the article I linked–if libraries hadn’t already been such a long-standing concept for centuries, they would 100% not be allowed to come into existence nowadays. Hyper greed has poisoned every facet of modern society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I truly hope this leads to the collapse of Chrome’s sheer market dominance. Fuck Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trickle down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t watched Wolverine in a long time, although I’ve heard the new one with Deadpool is actually pretty good. (It’s the ad on the TV)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Tech Coup: A New Book Shows How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is incorrect. Look into how SuperPACs get around the normal laws for donator transparency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Is Stuffing Annoying Ads Into Its Terrible AI Search Feature⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  it is literally the whole damn point of shoving AI down everybodies throat…

  To be fair, it didn’t start out that way. A lot of tech companies just didn’t want to be seen as being behind while OpenAI was making shockwaves around the globe. Iirc, after ChatGPT hit the mainstream a couple years ago, Google’s CEO was said to have sent a company-wide email demanding their own AI research become their number 1 priority.

  Now that they finally have their own competitive model, they have to justify why they spent hundreds of millions of dollars over numerous years on this tech. Unfortunately for the rest of us, this just means enshittification will reach new levels… sigh…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc, didn’t the article say that was one of many hypothetical scenarios they try to plan accordingly for? Like you said, it’s been awhile since it came out, so I could easily be wrong. I imagine it won’t be a problem any time soon, though. There are always desperate people, and simply changing policy to allow rehiring people that had previously been fired/quit would open eligible candidate pools back up.

  Or, y’know, they could just make working there not be miserable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been using a Steam Deck for almost a year damn near daily with maybe 1 OS crash that was largely due to a very unstable game. How is ArchLinux unstable, exactly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy: Poll⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess the anecdotal evidence I’ve seen among all my peers and social networks contradicts those numbers, so we can agree to disagree. It’s easy to massage those stats, especially with the advent of bullshit jobs like “AI prompt engineer,” as an example.

  Anyway, good luck to anyone that gets laid off. Shit sucks regardless, and that was really my main original point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy: Poll⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh for sure, it’s just that lots of folks want pure WFH so they can live wherever they want, especially since the cost of living near these companies tend to be stupid expensive. So while hybrid is better than nothing, it still greatly reduces flexibility in that regard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy: Poll⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I should clarify that I was referring to the US. And I have to also disagree it’s voracious for all tech workers, that’s why I said depending on your specialty within the IT field. Hell, there was just a post on the r/cybersecurity subreddit the other day with hundreds of comments agreeing that it’s not a great time right now in the US. It hasn’t just been FAANG companies laying off tech workers, it’s been all over:

  forbes.com/…/the-great-tech-reset-unpacking-the-l…

  These are not isolated incidents. According to Layoffs.fyi, 384 tech companies have laid off more than 124,000 employees in 2024, adding to the 428,449 tech workers who lost their jobs in 2022 and 2023.

  That’s over 500,000 tech workers in just under 3 years. A huge chunk of job postings for IT jobs are just ghost jobs, meaning they’re perpetually posted without actually ever intending to fill that slot. There are lots of reasons why companies do this, but that’s off topic and lots of articles already cover the topic, e.g. stackoverflow.blog/…/the-ghost-jobs-haunting-your…

  Anyway, hopefully this slump recovers soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy: Poll⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just Amazon’s way of cutting employees without having to pay severances/unemployment. Those workers looking for new 100% WFH jobs are in for a rude awakening. The market is not what it was a couple of years ago. Tons of companies have moved back to onsite or a hybrid model, requiring 1-2 days in office per week.

  And if you’re in IT, good luck. Thousands of IT layoffs this year alone, so there’s a lot of competition in that field. My job forced us back to a 3 days in-office per week policy about a year ago, but we were getting a new director who promised more flexibility so I decided to just passively look for jobs here and there versus really trying. I now wish I had focused more aggressively on looking. Ah well, 'least I still have a relatively reasonable job, which is more than many can say.

  Anyway, good luck to them. Fuck these parasitic C Suites and fuck this corporate and governmental anti-WFH movement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Ragnarok Mod Removes PSN Requirement and Creator Vows to Maintain It⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s because PSN isn’t available in a number of countries, so it’s an arbitrary obstacle to an otherwise fully functional game that doesn’t and shouldn’t need an account. Requiring external accounts to play a game is nothing new, but I’m happy to see people reaching their threshold for these ridiculous practices and openly complaining. If people didn’t complain and simply didn’t buy the game, how would Sony know why people aren’t buying it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are thongs less prone to whale tailing than strings?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what my wife and other friends into fitness use while working out. I don’t think I’ve seen non-high waist leggings in workout settings in years, come to think of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Cache Is Now Fully Dead.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was super annoyed when they first took away the links. “Pages are more dependably available now,” is such a lazy excuse. Storing the cached content probably wasn’t even that expensive for them, as it didn’t retain anything beyond basic html and text. Their shitty AI-centric web search was likely the main reason for getting rid of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which Countries Have The Most Data Centers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this dataset seems very incomplete/limited. I’d also argue that the US probably doesn’t have over 5000, as many of these vendors have their “own DC” that’s just hoteled inside the same giant multi-building complex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Avalanche of Generative AI Videos Is Coming to YouTube Shorts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’d dismiss the sarcasm and make it genuine, “Yes, Timmy, we really are very impressed. Good job, Billy!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered confirmed by ESRB rating⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. HZD always felt like a game that was built around a story premise first and foremost, which sort of makes sense as that studio had never done a game like that before.

  I remember an interview where they were struggling to shift gears from Killzone and looking for new ideas from among their staff when one of their devs pitched HZD’s premise. As a result, they approached making an open world action adventure game as complete noobs. This doesn’t excuse any of the poor design decisions. I was hoping they’d learn from their mistakes in FW, but they instead made the open world part somewhat better and then forgot to keep the focus on the main quest and characters in the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 55 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I logged about 20 hours on it before my desire to play just kind of slowly faded away. The game was too large and long to warrant such basic gameplay mechanics. You could be fully upgraded within 5-10 hours and then you’ve essentially seen all the gameplay there is. There’s maybe 6-12 random “quests” you’ll see while traveling (those dynamic events, e.g. a wagon being robbed), so even that part of it becomes repetitive pretty fast.

  I’ll get downvoted, but RDR2 is a really overrated game, in my opinion. The game was well made, no doubt about it. Its graphics and environmental design are still gorgeous even to this day, despite being 8 years old. The voice acting, writing, direction, cinematography, etc. are all very well executed. However, at the end of the day, I just found it kind of boring to play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one wanted these PS5 Concord discs until Sony stopped making them⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? For a game to be a collector’s item, it needs to still be able to function in its intended capacity. Additionally, they need to be considered good. Most games that become a collectable do so when they transition into the “classic” category, usually 20+ years after they released. In 2050, no one’s going to think, “Oh man, Concord was hailed as a masterpiece in its day, I need to own that piece of history!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And how much of those profits go to those workers? Let’s take a well known Marvel movie, the Avengers. It cost roughly $220 million to make. The total global box office for that movie is estimated around $2.8 billion. That’s ~$2.6 billion in profit. Please tell me how much of that went to the film crews and various film departments? Hell, a huge chunk of the budget cost probably went to the actors to begin with.

  Anyway, my original point wasn’t even entirely around sticking it to the billionaires. Until laws are made to protect our ownership of digital licenses, I have zero problems with people pirating. The majority of folks are going to be paying, so a minority of people–who typically have lower disposable income–pirating content are not destroying regular peoples’ livelihood, this has been proven for over two decades now.

  Bottom line: Come down from your ivory tower and just let it rest. Regardless of what either of us says or believes, pirating will continue with or without us. You can disagree with it, which is fine, or you can justify it, which is also fine. It won’t change reality either way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Defending multi-billion dollar corporations in this day and age is absolutely bizarre.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t understand why some folks pirate by this time, you never will. There are plenty of valid–and not-so-valid–reasons to pirate. If you actually care, just type the question into a search engine, there’s a plethora of well written articles on the subject.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is there a trustworthy SMS MMS app for Android that's not Google?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Feels like that keyword phrase would fuck up a lot of legitimate automated messages I actually do want (e.g. pharmacy refills, food delivery, appointment reminders, etc). Regardless, a custom keyword filter would be excellent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROMhacking.net shuts down after 20 years; database has been moved to the Internet Archive⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeesh, I’ve never used the website but that NightCrawler person seems like they have some serious control problems. The fact that the whole community was willing to chip in/pay for it and take it over and the admin still refused to cooperate is pretty shitty. At least it looks like someone managed to convince the admin to let them host and takeover the site’s wiki.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 5 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh, okay. I actually really enjoy hub design when it’s done properly (e.g. Dark Souls 1). I’ll probably start Survivor after I finish Nier Replicant remake (and game that’s got kind of a primitive hub design, come to think of it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 5 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man, more open? That makes me nervous. I liked the linearity of Fallen Order and was hoping Survivor would have more of it, just with more depth.