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- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 1 day ago:
If I saw that obvious issue, what is their fucking problem?
The engineer’s problem is that the marketing and sales department started running all of the companies two decades ago. So, they’re constantly overruled.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 1 day ago:
Same here. I didn’t understand why anyone would want a double thick (or now triple thick) phablet that folds out into a full tablet.
The razr I bought two years ago is the first phone that comfortably fits in my pocket in like a decade.
- Comment on Who wore it better? 1 day ago:
J-Lo
- Comment on Deloitte allegedly cited AI-generated research in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government 1 day ago:
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I feel like streaming has led to things being more fragmented, both because you need to be subscribed to the one service that carries the show and because there’s so many more shows being made.
I’m not who you were originally replying to, but I think two seemingly contradictory things can be true at once.
Yes, there is definitely more content nowadays, and less people watching the same things at the same time because of all of the variety of services and content and platforms, etc.
But that content tends to still be homogenous. The settings and costumes of the shows might be different, but most content cannot pass, for instance, the bechdel test.
For all of the emphasis on “eradicating woke” in the last few years, there really isn’t a whole lot of actual diversity in most media. I could probably only name a single show that expresses, for instance, communist ideas, and I think it was cancelled in recent years alongside scores of lgbtq characters in shows.
Plotlines are typical, production values are stepped up but there’s a large amount of, for instance, ideological consistency among all media produced nowadays.
If you’re looking for a variety of typical genre shows, yes, you’re spoiled for choice. But when you’re looking for something that breaks the mold even slightly there are really only a handful of things from which to choose.
And that’s leaving out how much derivative media exists. Vince Gilligan in recent interviews even lamented how he was one of only a few people that could get a new show with a new concept even started in the industry. Many shows are set in “universes” that are decades old. A lot of “new” movies are reboots or sequels of old movies.
There’s a thread of choiceless variety that used to apply mainly to things like groceries that has now infected much of media as well. Whole political movements now push to eradicate the little diversity (ideological and character identity based) that exists.
All of this leaves out what happened to music btw, which is becoming so algorithm-driven that it’s hard for those using streaming services to even tell if it was produced by a person.
I’ll just leave this here as well:
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 days ago:
Dude, I think you’re making up a guy to be mad at. People more often like AI because of vibes. There’s a fucking thing called vibe coding, and I’m supposed to take people seriously as software developers as they use the phrase.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 3 days ago:
So, then you are in favor of the disclosures?
- Comment on Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC 3 days ago:
Sounds absolutely fucking awful.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 5 days ago:
I mostly agree with this, but in corporate software the stuff mostly either doesn’t exist or is outdated to the point of basic inaccuracy.
I’m talking readmes that still have the template information in them or have stayed the same since the first commit.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO Puzzled by People Being "Unimpressed" by AI 5 days ago:
IMO the best way to use this crap in software development for projects that already exist is to have the fucking things write up or amend docs.
Developers mostly hate writing docs, and in corporate software I’ve found that the docs are usually added once and then never verified again.
Writing up profuse gibberish that contains some amount of useful information is what these bullshit machines were made to do. Have it write up some docs, read them and make sure they aren’t completely insane and get a pat on the back from your boss for working with “agentic AI”.
- Comment on By technical standards were 3D TVs impressive, Why didn't they catch on back then? 5 days ago:
Nobody wants to wear dork goggles to watch TV.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 5 days ago:
Bought a lifetime Plex pass a few years ago so this doesn’t affect me. It’s honestly worth the cost especially over time.
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 6 days ago:
Dude containers are often easier than running the underlying programs.
- Comment on Microsoft says Copilot will 'finish your code before you finish your coffee' adding fuel to the Windows 11 AI controversy that's still raging 1 week ago:
It’s great at bullshitting that it did what you wanted, which I guess is what counts for results at Microsoft.
It would be much better if they treated it as the slightly better (yeah, I said it) auto complete that it is instead of the beginning of fucking sky net – which was supposed to be a bad thing anyway, remember?
But that wouldn’t move the needle on all the share prices, so instead we have to pretend it can do people’s jobs when it fucking obviously cannot.
So instead they keep pushing this as AI (auto-complete insanity), and keep burning more and more cash. Imagine if we just put a portion of these billions into anything that could actually help anyone. Or don’t, because it’s pretty fucking depressing to think about.
- Comment on Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats 1 week ago:
But I’ve never had sympathy for engineers who think all the process around them is net negative, because nothings ever stopped engineers from striking out on their own, without all that, and making great businesses.
Not all process is pointless, but needless process by definition is.
If your PM and VPs are bringing you down, go it alone. If you can’t pull that together into a paycheck then maybe it’s not all as useless as some say.
The whole talk of “go it alone” kinda strikes me as bootstrapping non-sense.
I don’t want to do marketing, sales, finance, and product bullshit myself. That’s why I’m an employee.
Two things can be true at the same time, for instance, a company can have a lot of bloated, needless process that stifles people and still pull in enough money to be able to pay for their employees to live a life.
With the amount of market concentration there is in every sector as far as the eye can see, nearly every tech company has a cash cow of some sort, and then has a bunch of complete money losers that are subsidized by that cash cow.
So it’s completely possible that the company fully sucks and hasn’t developed anything new of value to someone in decades, but the legacy business keeps the miserable employees from the bread line.
- Comment on Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace 1 week ago:
I agree AI could easily take on the role of the biggest dork in the company, which is largely what the CEO is.
- Comment on Devs gripe about having AI shoved down their throats 1 week ago:
The problems in software still remain the same though:
(1) Bureaucracy
(2) Needless process
(3) Pointy headed managers
(4) Siloed teams
(5) Product people who have no idea what they want to build
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Goes Haywire, Boasts About Billionaire’s Pee-Drinking Skills and ‘Blowjob Prowess’ 1 week ago:
Jordan Peterson would not approve…of the cleanliness of his living quarters
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Framework laptops are about as upgradable as you’re ever going to get. The 16 now even has a video card upgrade.
- Comment on Trump scraps tariffs on beef, coffee and tropical fruit in a push to lower grocery store prices 2 weeks ago:
Dude the ground beef you get at the store is often from like three different continents. We’re deep into late stage global capitalism. We aren’t farm to tabling shit in this country.
- Comment on Trump scraps tariffs on beef, coffee and tropical fruit in a push to lower grocery store prices 2 weeks ago:
I dunno at Costco the eggs i got last time were like $2.50 for two dozen.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 2 weeks ago:
No
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 2 weeks ago:
Dude the switch 2 is $500. Having a general purpose computer that hooks just as easily to your TV as a gaming console for double that price is perfectly fine IMO.
- Comment on What if tRump is Secretly bisexual but forced to be deeply ashamed of it like the rest of his generation? 2 weeks ago:
All the talk about Arnold Palmer’s dick size would suddenly make a lot more sense.
- Comment on Deep throat 2 weeks ago:
Importance: high
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
That’s awesome. I always wondered why more computers didn’t add support for that in general.
I’ve seen dongle-style things to add CEC support, but I heard mixed things about those.
- Comment on I didn't verify the headline. 2 weeks ago:
Apply holy water to deactivate the magnet
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if the steam machine supports hdmi cec.
- Comment on When Xfinity has an outage, I don’t pay for those days. The government’s been shut down for 39 days so can I pay 39 days less in taxes? 3 weeks ago:
It is being run like a business: poorly. Exactly how most businesses run.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 3 weeks ago:
All of the games you listed here were pretty under hyped IMO except for perhaps Silksong.
I understand this is all subjective, but I think you’re leaning toward like indie gaming hipster material with this comment…and that’s my opinion.
