MeaanBeaan
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- Comment on Space Marine 2 Devs Cancel Beta To Focus On 'Best' Possible Launch 1 day ago:
Is that not the purpose of a beta? That doesn’t seem like a good sign.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale - Top Deals 4 days ago:
Holy shit. Completely forgot about rollcage. Wild to me that anyone remembers that game enough to make a spiritual successor.
- Comment on Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly 6 days ago:
Oh. This looks great. Thank you for sharing.
- Comment on Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly 6 days ago:
AI as in machine learning? No I dont think that’s bad. It’s a very useful technology that we’ve already been using for decades in a bunch of different fields. But I’m assuming you’re referring to LLMs which are what’s being integrated into Firefox.
I would argue that LLMs ARE bad. For multiple reasons. At least the big ones run by these giant tech companies.
If you’re locally running one with training data provided by you then I don’t see an issue with that really. (except maybe energy consumption issues. Though I don’t imagine a personal use LLM run locally would draw anywhere near the energy that something like Chat Gpt is drawing.)
I’m very much on the side that believes that what these LLM models do essentially boils down to theft/plagiarism though. So if you disagree with that you may disagree that LLMs are bad.
- Comment on Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly 6 days ago:
I did. I’m not needing to switch. At least not right now. (hence the ‘may’ in my original comment) But given the Laura Chambers interim CEO thing and now this LLM integration. Mozilla seems to be making moves that I don’t agree with. But as long as they stay true to their key tennents I won’t need to switch. Which would be good. Because I really don’t want to. But I’ve seen a enough good companies become bad companies that I’m weary for the future of the app. So being aware of what alternatives may be out there would be helpful.
- Comment on Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly 6 days ago:
Well shit.
- Comment on Changes in Forza Horizon 4’s Festival Playlist and Delisting from Digital Stores. | Forza 1 week ago:
Was going to be upset because I played the game through game pass and bought the Lego dlc for it but not the actual game. Looks like they’re sending out free copies of the game if you are in the same boat. So that’s good.
- Comment on Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly 1 week ago:
Anyone have any other good suggestions for Firefox alternatives? Sounds like I may be needing to switch soon.
- Comment on The Official Trailer and Key Art for Season 2 of Animated Series Star Trek: Prodigy Is Here 1 week ago:
Wait, are you the t-shirt guy?
- Comment on No, you don't need a 'very bespoke AOSP' to turn your phone into a Rabbit R1 — here's proof 1 month ago:
Yeah I do genuinely think the pocket operators are cool. At least I did when I thought they were cheap. Had no idea they got that expensive. Though that’s obviously not at all expensive when you’re talking about audio gear. So I’m willing to give them a modicum of leeway there.
- Comment on No, you don't need a 'very bespoke AOSP' to turn your phone into a Rabbit R1 — here's proof 1 month ago:
Imo TE has always been a shady company in terms of business decisions. I still for the life of me cannot understand why the OP-1 is over 2 grand. It’s a music making machine with a cruddy keybed that’s not even volocity sensitive that’s also intentionally limited in terms of how you can use it.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I definitely think it’s a cool little device capable of doing cool things. But there’s no way in hell this tiny thing is worth 2k. You can spend 1/4th of the price on something like an elektron Digitakt or a polyend play and get very similar functionality in an arguably better more robust package.
TE are a boutique company that intentionally releases overpriced products so they can have this reputation of being a “premium” company. Just like Apple. If it weren’t for their pocket operators (which are arguably closer to being toys than actual audio equipment) I wouldn’t think they’d have anything remotely worth buying.
Side note: the playdate looks adorable. But, similarly to the OP-1, is very overpriced for what it does.
- Comment on Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business 1 month ago:
IA aka Inept Assholes
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 2 months ago:
I mean, sure. But your dick isn’t your brain. No matter how much you allow it to dictate your actions.
- Comment on If a universal basic income started today with the stipulation that you had to put 40 hrs/wk towards making the world a better place or solving societal problems, how would you spend your time? 2 months ago:
Make a bunch of politically conscious punk music.
- Comment on i tend to agree 2 months ago:
In Montana, presumably.
- Comment on Woman removed from Delta flight over 'too revealing' clothing, calls for policy change 2 months ago:
I’m not convinced that’s the case honestly. To me the color looks too uniform for it to be caused by her skin underneath. But even if that is the case her nipple is not at all visible. Their justification makes 0 sense to me. This lady is fully clothed. I don’t see how she could possibly cause any kind of danger or disruption.
Fucking Utah.
- Comment on Woman removed from Delta flight over 'too revealing' clothing, calls for policy change 2 months ago:
I don’t see where the shirt looks see through. It’s just an off white shirt.
- Comment on Crazy how nature be like that 3 months ago:
I once applied for a job at a plasma donation center. They keep their sample freezers at -40°. During the interview process the hiring manager was going over basic info for the job and when they went over the freezer they said “And we keep the freezer at -40°C. I don’t know what it is in F though.” I then explained that they’re the same at -40° and that’s why their job posting doesn’t list the unit. They then acted like I was incredibly stupid and told me that “no, there’s a formula to figure it out. I don’t remember the formula but theyre definitely not the same” I didn’t feel the need to argue the point further so I just dropped it and moved on.
I never got a call back from them. I’m 90% sure that’s why I didn’t get the job since Before that point they were telling me how they thought I’d be great manager material.
I still get mad every time I think about it. Jokes on them though. I since learned they were a terrible employer. I got a way better job than that place like a week later.
- Comment on Alan Wake 2 is Remedy’s fastest-selling game yet, shifting over 1.3m copies, but hasn’t made a penny of profit 4 months ago:
A part of me thinks you’re right but another part of me sees games coming to steam after being on EGS for a while and they’re often on the top sellers list like they got a second PC launch. I’d be willing to bet that when AW2 comes to steam in a year it’ll sell great again. Might be a long burn but I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually end up making more in the long run being an initial EGS exclusive then releasing again later on Steam.
- Comment on Chill Sunday 4 months ago:
Hell yeah brother
- Comment on DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH – State of Play Announce Trailer 4 months ago:
Jesus christ. I think there’s a lot about that game I’ve blocked out. Piss grenade was definitely one of them.
- Comment on Electro posting 5 months ago:
It was actually Edison and Westinghouse. Tesla and Edison having beef with eachother is a complete myth. Edison never wrote about Tesla at all and had a gigantic beef against Westinghouse. Tesla was actually a fairly minor player whose only real contribution was his invention of the multiphase motor that he licensed to Westinghouse. Not only that but another guy by the name of Galileo Ferraris independently made the exact same discovery around the same time as Tesla. Meaning Tesla’s contribution to AC electricity wasn’t even strictly necessary.
After that invention Tesla did practically nothing at all of consequence other than grifting Charles Schwaab out of a bunch of money and falling madly in love with a pigeon.
Tesla also never really had anything negative to say about Edison at all. In fact he actually briefly worked for his company. He ended up quitting when the manager he worked under reneged on a deal they made to give tesla $300 for a task the guy didn’t think Tesla would be able to do. When Tesla actually did it the guy said he was only joking about the $300. Tesla got super pissed and quit.
Not to mention the fact Tesla was batshit insane and had all sorts of weird pseudo-religious beliefs about how electricity works. The money he grifted from Charles schwaab was used to fund his idea of transmitting electricity large distances through the earth; Not through wires buried underground, but literally through the earth. As you can imagine it didn’t work.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
It’s just a sale on simulation and strategy games guys. Steam isn’t being meta.
- Comment on Is this Retrocomputing? 5 months ago:
Recipe for honey garlic chops to be precise. Sounds delicious.
- Comment on Wi-Fi 7 Signals the Industry’s New Priority: Stability 5 months ago:
I feel like this is really dependent upon the game. Guilty Gear Strive for instance uses roll back net code and my personal experience playing it online over wifi is that it feels practically identical to playing locally. Here and there I might have minor issues if the person I’m playing against has horrible Ping but for the most part wifi is flawless.
- Comment on Rule of Acquisition #10: Greed is eternal 6 months ago:
Oh great, sexism solved then.
- Comment on Video of ceramic storage system prototype surfaces online — 10,000TB cartridges bombarded with laser rays could become mainstream by 2030, making slow hard drives and tapes obsolete 6 months ago:
Something I sometimes think about is how much of humanity’s history is just like, gone. Completely forgotten to time. Great works of art that’ll never be seen. Amazing compositions that’ll never again be heard. An uncalculable number of lifetimes reduced to nothing more than food for the dirt.
The proposition that we could store vast amounts of our current experience on archival slabs and preserve it all far into our distant future is incredibly exciting to me. It wouldn’t only allow us to indefinitely preserve all of these incredible works of art our modern world has enabled. But would also allow us to more effectively learn from our collective societal mistakes. It would hopefully be more difficult to ignore our past foibles when we keep such detailed receipts… Hopefully.
If not at least they’ll have SpongeBob in 7023 to distract from the cyber-nazis.
- Comment on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - Booster Course Pass Wave 6 - Course Overview 7 months ago:
They didn’t. It’s $25 for the 48 DLC courses. Base game is still $60 in the eshop.
- Comment on Over 10 Years After It Was Announced, Star Citizen’s Single-Player Squadron 42 Is ‘Feature Complete’ - IGN 8 months ago:
Mostly agree with you here but I do have a minor correction. Cyberpunk was announced in 2013 but it didn’t actually start development until sometime in 2016 after cdpr release The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine DLC.
Meaning cyberpunk only took roughly 4-5 years of development time before being released. Though it arguably needed much more time than that.
- Comment on Just a file clerk 9 months ago:
Too bad no one gave him medical attention when he was stabbed at the end of the episode and they just stood around him watching him bleed to death.