Croquette
@Croquette@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 4 days ago:
It is how its done today.
Every semi-big or big corpos gamble their money trying to be the one coming on top and capture the market.
So it is not surprising to see that.
- Comment on Plan to extend Queensland coalmine would bulldoze ‘critical’ koala habitat 1 week ago:
You forgot to take into account that the company management will line their pockets and that it worth to destroy the habitat of every fucking living thing.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a 'real' server browser, and it's about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed 2 weeks ago:
Bring back community servers, so the developers can keep their official servers and people that want to play on community servers can do that do.
It’s a solved problem that publishers tells you is hard to do in the name of money.
Don’t look harder into it.
- Comment on How do I get started designing and making and/or acquiring my own pcb? 2 weeks ago:
Not OP you are replying to, but make your own library of parts and footprint, and back it up.
Nothing worst than finding a library online with the part you need only to find that the footprint is not the right one for whatever reason when you ordered the pcb.
It takes more time, but once you have one or two projects under the belt, you will already have 90% of the parts and only need to do a few parts.
When doing your own footprints, if you have the part with you, print the new footprint in the original size on a printer, as they will appear on the PCB, and put the part on the footprint to see if it makes sense. You will see right away if you have a glaring issue with the footprint.
Spend a few hours double, triple checking your PCB design before fab . It takes a lot less time to do that than debugging the hardware. It will reduce your costs, especially as a hobbyist where you aren’t paid by the hour.
If you need a batch order, order prototypes first. A lower volume first will be a bit more expensive, but buying 50+ borked PCB will be a bitch to fix.
- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 3 weeks ago:
I got the meaning of it as well, but I recoiled a bit in my chair when I read the meme.
- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 3 weeks ago:
That’s you and me being old.
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 3 weeks ago:
I had a rough morning and your comment made it worst.
- Comment on Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update 4 weeks ago:
In GrapheneOS, Settings -> Battery -> Charging Optimization.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely. Fuck payment processors
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 4 weeks ago:
Someone’s gonna process the payment between the two banks, adding an intermediary between both banks won’t help much when it will be denied processing as well.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 4 weeks ago:
Credit cards companies forced itch.io to remove these games, otherwise they would stop processing their transactions, effectively bankrupting itch.io.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 4 weeks ago:
Without payments processors, they can’t sell games.
Having a federated platform wouldn’t mean much if the payments processors blanket ban the platform.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls Online devs detail “inhumane” Microsoft layoffs as Xbox expects the “carcass of workers” to “keep shipping award-winning games” 4 weeks ago:
The Excel Spreadsheet is sacrosanct. A bean counter predicted that you should make more money than last year, and if you don’t, you are worthless.
- Comment on Has the live-service dream crashed back down to earth? | Opinion 5 weeks ago:
Games as a service could work. The issue is that making money isn’t enough. You need to be making more money every year and bean counters have hijacked games as a way to squeeze as much money as possible from players.
- Comment on Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist 5 weeks ago:
Every AI company CEO/C-suite is gambling that they won’t be left holding the bag.
Either AI fails and CEO/C-Suite made their money already, or AI succeeds and they carved an early lead in the market and gamble even more.
Workers are only there to build the biggest stack of chips possible before it gets cashed out.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 5 weeks ago:
With how many games are released on Steam, how can AI be quantified and enforced?
- Comment on ‘An uphill battle’: why are midlife men struggling to make – and keep – friends? 1 month ago:
I have had the same 15ish friends for more than 20 years and we live in different cities, a few hours away from each other.
We don’t see each other frequently because of the distance, but we usually spend weekends together and it feels like we have not missed a beat since the last time we saw each other.
I think it is natural to have more than 10 close friends, it is like having a small community, but modern life made it very hard to keep close friends like that. And it sucks.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 1 month ago:
We haven’t seen antitrust with teeths for a while now.
Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple should have been broken up in a million little pieces a long time ago, but it won’t happen.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 1 month ago:
The goal is to lose money to capture the market and once it is done, to recoup their loss and bleed the market dry.
- Comment on Connor Myers: As if graduating weren’t daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI 1 month ago:
It reeks of shitty boss. I’ve heard the same bullshit from old folks 20 years ago that couldn’t use their computers to save their live.
When everyone’s an asshole, the common factor is you.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I can’t get anything cheaper than that because it’s a price I got when the reseller started business and as long as I don’t switch, I get that price.
Good for you that you can get better, but coax still has its place until internet providers up their game, but I won’t hold my breath.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I still use coax because I buy internet from a reseller third party and this is what they have. I have 400/50 for 35$, which is a lot cheaper yhan the competitors. No reason for me to change.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 1 month ago:
I am a 4K PC little bitch, but playing games on my 1080p TV reminded me that it isn’t all that important. Fun > Smoothness > Graphics.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 1 month ago:
I think that xbox controller are the best controllers for PC, so I don’t need all the advanced features, but otherwise, you are right.
Their market is now clearly gamepass + Windows. Microsoft is banking on their market share to sell gamepass and capture the market.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 2 months ago:
I bet my hand to the fire that Bill Gates didn’t eat avocado toast and made coffee at home and that’s why he is a billionaire today.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 2 months ago:
And it is still true today. Windows has the lion share of the market because we were raised with Windows and the vast majority of people don’t want to learn a new OS.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 2 months ago:
A big corpo comes in and offer you a life changing amount of money. Very few people can say no to that, myself included.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 2 months ago:
Socialism is the means of production owned by the state or the workers.
Communism is a subset of socialism, where you have a classless society. Different communist doctrines have a different view on how to achieve that.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 2 months ago:
Capitalism created this expectation. That’s how corpos operate. Capture the market then bleed it.
- Comment on Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads to 6 Minutes Per Hour 2 months ago:
Cable TV was originally paid for so that channels wouldn’t need to play ads to be profitable. We know how this ended.
Steaming services were originally paid for so that they wouldn’t have to run ads to nlbe profitable. And we’re almost back to where cable TV is. Soon, all plans will have ads no matter how premium is a plan.
Fuck that noise