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- Comment on No, you don't need a 'very bespoke AOSP' to turn your phone into a Rabbit R1 — here's proof 6 months ago:
The hardware team made a device that just couldn’t be turned into a good product no matter what the software team did. None of those AI-in-a-box devices are good products because they simply don’t have a reason to exist. Everything they can do, phones can do. If you have a phone, you don’t need one of those AI boxes, however if you buy one of those AI assistant things, you’ll still need a phone (which, again, can completely replace the AI box with no loss in functionality).
- Comment on Starfield's New Maps Are Great, But Boy Those Cities Are Tiny 6 months ago:
And the problem with Starfield’s cities is that they didn’t do that. Since Oblivion the charm of Bethesda’s city design was that every NPC (who wasn’t a guard) had a “life” of sorts. They’d tend to their businesses, but they’d also go home and sleep at night, go to the tavern in the evening, visit friends, etc. None of that is happening in Starfield, and as a result the cities just feel dead.
- Comment on this one goes out to the arts & humanities 7 months ago:
So, nothing? Because you still need professional translators for creative works, plenty of writing simply doesn’t directly translate as it relies on culture-specific context that readers in other languages and countries don’t have. So you need someone who is well versed in both cultures to find an appropriate alternative for the translated work.
- Comment on What are your complaints about Lemmy? 7 months ago:
Lemmy doesn’t have a left-wing bias as much as it has a far-left and authoritarian bias. Though this heavily depends on instance. Continental European instances tend to be far more moderate than Anglo-dominated instances, probably because at least parts of continental Europe have actual experience with real socialism.
- Comment on The next Cortana: Copilot on Windows is no reason to buy a new PC 7 months ago:
It’s the same story with Google Assistant. Started out as Google Now and was genuinely useful, but there apparently wasn’t any real way of monetising it so we got Google Assistant/Discover and now Gemini.
- Comment on Two people 7 months ago:
Bombing Yugoslavia to prevent a genocide. Serbia was actively engaged in ethnic cleansing by the time NATO intervened.
- Comment on Pre-IPO Reddit lets ads be dressed up as promoted user posts 8 months ago:
uBO can bypass it too, if you don’t want to have to deal with old.reddit on mobile.
- Comment on Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads 9 months ago:
We’re gonna have to rethink definitions at some point. Yes, video games are still a comparatively new medium, but nobody would call a 2010 film a retro film, nevermind books or paintings.
- Comment on One of capitalisms biggest tragedies 9 months ago:
Doesn’t really help if you never make it to uni because your parents weren’t able to help you out with schoolwork and couldn’t afford/didn’t care to get someone else to help you.
Bildungsferne is, sadly, often passed along from parents to children.
- Comment on One of capitalisms biggest tragedies 9 months ago:
That’s a fair point, especially about the low income areas which is definitely also a big issue here in Germany.
- Comment on One of capitalisms biggest tragedies 9 months ago:
That’s an America problem, not a capitalism problem. Free, or at least highly subsidised, higher education isn’t exactly limited to communist countries.
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide 9 months ago:
I’m not. I’m calling out people who call me a bigot for not living up to their standards on ethical consumption. Personally I avoid Nestlé and the billion subsidiaries wherever humanly possible, but I am not calling everyone who doesn’t pro-slavery. That’s my issue, not the (warranted) labelling of Rowling as a bigoted piece of shit.
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide 9 months ago:
What a ridiculous take. First of, outside of certain parts of the internet most people aren’t even aware of the issues surrounding Rowling, secondly you can very much acknowledge that she’s a terrible excuse for a human being while still enjoying a game she had nothing to do with (yes, she gets royalties, but she has the kind of fuck you money that multiplies by merely existing anyway).
- Comment on Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch 9 months ago:
They intentionally decided to reinvent the wheel instead of using and contributing to ActivityPub. I wouldn’t get my hopes up.
- Comment on How Quora Died 9 months ago:
Wikipedia is run by a nonprofit. They don’t monetise volunteer contributions and they don’t paywall the knowledge on their site, they run on donations. It’s not really a comparable situation.
- Comment on How Quora Died 9 months ago:
Do they pay the people who answer the questions? I genuinely don’t know. But if they don’t then, yes, it is scummy to just profit off of someone else’s work and not pay them.
- Comment on Every race needs at least one. 10 months ago:
Random chance produced advantageous trait. Advantageous trait gets propagated because it’s a competitive benefit for the individuals carrying it.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
It also doesn’t allow you to actually exclude keywords. Which can be utterly infuriating if you’re looking for a specific entry in a franchise or a lesser used definition of something.
- Comment on The EU common charger : USB-C 10 months ago:
Appât faible, pote.
- Comment on can chromeos be hacked?? 11 months ago:
Or just straight up mine that crypto on someone else’s power bill. Much less obvious, so people may not even realise that their systems are compromised.
- Comment on Crystals good, fungus bad 11 months ago:
I don’t pretend to be. It just strains my willing suspension of disbelief beyond the breaking point. I don’t even know why it’s the spore drive that does it instead of telepathy or fucking Q, but it is.
- Comment on One thing the fandoms can agree on. 1 year ago:
It is now.
- Comment on Phasers set to "Bitch please" 1 year ago:
Rule one of STO - if you value your sanity, turn off zone chat.
- Comment on "Do Not Track" is a legally binding order, German Court tells LinkedIn 1 year ago:
It’s almost certainly going to be litigated at some point, so a court is going to define “essential”… eventually.
- Comment on Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome 1 year ago:
To Firefox, sure. But if you’re on Windows and your preferred alternative is Chrome you really might as well stay with Edge and benefit from the integration into Microsoft’s ecosystem. Either way your data is being harvested.
- Comment on Outpost layouts and guides? 1 year ago:
You don’t really need any excuses. You can build cargo links, there’s no reason for them to not simply connect all outpost storage. Yes, instantaneous access to everything, everywhere might be a tad unrealistic but is it really any more unrealistic than one person just plonking down a whole mining operation in an afternoon? I’d argue the added convenience would more than make up for needing a tiny bit more willing suspension of disbelief.
- Comment on I have never seen an ad in the past 6 years. I use android phone, windows PC and Android TV. Keen to hear when was the last time you saw an AD ? 1 year ago:
No idea then. I use adblock on all of my devices, but sometimes things slip through. And I sometimes click on one of those SEO fake “articles” that are really just ads when I’m searching for something.
- Comment on I have never seen an ad in the past 6 years. I use android phone, windows PC and Android TV. Keen to hear when was the last time you saw an AD ? 1 year ago:
Today. The entire city is filled with billboards and posters.