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- Comment on Be Fast. Be Spontaneous. Don't Suck. Get Paid. 2 days ago:
Read this in Nathan Fielder’s voice.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 5 days ago:
And the worst part is even if it succeeds you’re still running Windows.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 5 days ago:
They’re easily conned and they love yes men.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 5 days ago:
I’ve never heard of this jackass nor his shitty software. I feel privileged.
- Comment on Now I finally get it 6 days ago:
Fucking thing’s got plot holes big enough for a sperm whale to swim through comfortably and yet it’s regarded as 100% literal truth by most lunatics governing us and most of the mouth breathers that voted for them.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 1 week ago:
Corporate execs literally cum over MS’s next big thing. A lot of companies use MS-based infrastructure and applications.
Yeah, I mean I’m in that boat myself. But I have the option of SharePoint or Confluence at work and despite the fact that it also sucks, I’m choosing Confluence ten out of ten times.
I get that some people try to do actual work in these docs, but it strikes me as junk every time I encounter it.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 1 week ago:
I honestly don’t understand why I would ever write up or share a Microsoft document.
It’s just fucking rich text format. It’s obvious they’re manipulating the format to lock down users with less computer knowledge. Otherwise, why is it so fucking complicated?
Markdown accomplishes 95% of what a word doc does and it is legible with or without rendering.
All of the “special features” of office docs wind up being security nightmares, unusable junk, or both.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 1 week ago:
For some reason, corporate just can’t stop itself from slaughtering its own money cow.
- Comment on True art is polarizing 1 week ago:
feeling something at the extream makes it pretty fucking good Art.
Uh, no. A good movie should make you feel something at least close to an intended emotion set, or at least get you thinking about its content.
I’m gonna venture a guess that nobody intended for the reaction to the movie to be someone having trouble thinking about how to write a 0.5 star review for it and then quit and tell other people not to waste their time.
The people watching yet another rehash of war of the worlds are not going to be (for the most part) art snobs. When the audience that would bother watching this watch it and say it sucks, I fucking believe them.
I haven’t wasted my time because I heed warnings rather than touching hot stoves.
- Comment on Roku launches Howdy, a $2.99 ad-free streaming service 1 week ago:
What I find funny about this is that often the quality of the shit on the service decreases as the price continues to rise.
To see the end state, just check out trying to stream all of the NFL games of an out of market team. It’s like $1000 a year to watch mostly beer and truck ads broken up by thirty minutes of “football”.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
Nah, they’ve done studies and most people find it fucking annoying.
The whole thing is an obvious supply side economics push.
- Comment on If you were born after 1990, you've never had this experience 2 weeks ago:
They’ll also never understand the pleasure of finding a dusty machine like this on a hot day after biking a long distance, putting in a quarter and being shocked when it works(!) and the sodas are ice cold.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 2 weeks ago:
This is such a stupid name for this.
- Comment on Adobe was sued today in another class action about its subscription practices. Plaintiffs claim Adobe intentionally misleads consumers 2 weeks ago:
This is what happens when software companies adopt the business model of LA Fitness.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 2 weeks ago:
git remote add origin ssh://<<username>>@<<host>>/path/to/test_repo.git - Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 2 weeks ago:
Yup
git --bare init - Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 2 weeks ago:
You can literally run a single command to setup a remote git repository on a server that has ssh.
- Comment on Rockstar Games Plans Age Verification For GTA Online 2 weeks ago:
Not really, the assholes used the last four of it for college emails in the 2000s FFS.
- Comment on Rockstar Games Plans Age Verification For GTA Online 2 weeks ago:
With the reputation most companies have with leaking data, who wouldn’t want to have their ssn and license on file with rock star games?!
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 2 weeks ago:
Claire Obscur has rpg elements, like level ups, skills and equipment.
Pretty much those elements are my definition. I feel like what you’re describing with nonlinear storylines with lots of choices isn’t all necessary for a game to be an RPG either. But I’m not a purist about any of it. Genres in general are approximate markers, and you can argue all you want about what belongs in what category.
If asked to describe the genre of Clair Obscur I’d say JRPG because purists have bickered enough to make me add the qualifier. But I’ve seen it described as RPG in lots of places, and given my thirty years plus of playing games it’s very similar to other games I’ve seen described as RPGs.
But I’m no d&d player, and I don’t really like the Renaissance faire that much.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 2 weeks ago:
Yeah ten years seems like plenty of notice
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 2 weeks ago:
Yeah part of the reason that Disco Elysium isn’t the “greatest RPG ever made” is that there’s no objective way to rank such things and stating that as a fact seems on its face kinda absurd.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 2 weeks ago:
Nope, Clair Obscur is a better RPG (and game) than Disco Elysium IMO.
I didn’t even get through Disco Elysium because it was kinda boring. I get how some people could really dig it, and I plan to attempt to pick it back up for the third time. But it was much closer to being an old school point and click adventure game (albeit with a lot more reading) than an RPG anyway, and it’s certainly not the “greatest RPG ever made” IMO.
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’d argue clair obscur is better and that’s only talking about recent ones.
- Comment on Big tech has spent $155 billion on AI this year. It’s about to spend hundreds of billions more 3 weeks ago:
Nobody seems to have noticed that the business model here is to funnel as much traffic and spend to the big AI corporations as possible with no foreseeable return (except vague nonsense about “productivity gains”).
- Comment on Yeah 3 weeks ago:
You can serve up a git repository remotely on any machine that has an outside access path.
- Comment on Yeah 3 weeks ago:
It’s easy to do a lot of things people don’t do.
- Comment on Yeah 3 weeks ago:
Git is so easy to host yourself and everyone went and handed over all their code to evil corp to farm on anyway.
(Though I do understand that they were bought, but that was a while ago and it was only a matter of time before the evil seeped in.)
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 3 weeks ago:
I think some representative of mobile gaming should be on this list (as much as I hate them). Probably either Candy Crush or Angry Birds.
There should also be a motion gamer entry somewhere on here like Wii Sports or something.
And maybe a casual gamer entry…like the Sims maybe (the first one).
Relatedly, I think we’re still waiting for a VR or AR game that anyone gives a real shit about.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 3 weeks ago:
Link me to your wonderful social media utopia that isn’t an echo chamber.
Facebook - Echo chamber, actively managed to make you be the most pissed off and spend the most time on it as possible and click on customized ads
Instagram - Echo chamber, specifically tuned to make you feel jealous of others and buy shit covered in the ads
Nextdoor - Basically Facebook but with a “locals only” theme
LinkedIn - An echo chamber tuned for people who nod ferociously to everything the CEO says in the “all-hands” meeting
Threads - Echo chamber, tuned toward people to click on ads just like other Meta properties
YouTube - Practically a right-wing echo chamber, you can watch a video about cute puppies and with no watch history turned on you’ll be on Infowars-like content within 2 degrees of Kevin Bacon (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon)
Twitter (I’ll continue to have this as my only deadname) - A right-wing echo chamber full of bots including “MechaHitler”
Bluesky - An echo chamber similar to Twitter before it was musked up
Mastodon - A left-wing echo chamber (similarly to Lemmy it’s decentralized, and similarly to Lemmy it is somewhat moderated in a way that rids you of most right-wing / hitler-focused media)
Truth social - I mean, obviously a right-wing echo chamber
Reddit - An algorithmically tweaked astroturf echo chamber full of bots and serving up a daily AI training ground that gets more right-wing as time passes
Hacker news - A libertarian-leaning tech-literate echo chamber
Shall I go on?
I have an RSS reader too. People like yourself act like because you’re tolerant of some junk food in your diet that that is all you eat.