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- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 days ago:
I’m not saying it’s a good strategy, just that since SoftBank it’s basically core to the VC default playbook.
I believe it’s been tweaked, thanks to Musk, Enron and banks to subsidies transitioning to too big to fail.
So, it might not work, ever, but I still think if you look at the large VC rounds, that’s what they are funding, to be so big nobody can reach you at any cost.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 days ago:
Damned, edited, thanks! (shows the benefit of discussing ;)
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 days ago:
Indeed, as they said in Italian “if my Grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike” … the reasoning might be theoretically correct but in the current situation it’s not the case.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 days ago:
Run up their bills until they can’t afford to be speculative any more.
Sadly I don’t think you’ve met venture capitalists… they will use your usage as a KPI for success. They have a runway longer than you can imagine, check the history of Amazon or Uber. They can be unprofitable for years, heck longer than a decade, and they are fine with it because they are claiming (and sadly sometimes right) to be cornering a trillion dollar market.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 days ago:
Won’t repeat what I wrote just hours ago in lemmy.world/post/44130119/22616090 but just the ending :
"I would personally consider instead Bottles, GOG (have different problems), Steam (obviously not open source and basically monopolistic position), etc.
Overall I think preventing discussion is healthy (even though sadly sometimes needed, here I lack context, maybe the issue poster did this numerous time on other platforms, title definitely was provocative) but removing provenance is NEVER a good choice. They want to use Claude on their repo? Absolutely fine (even though not to me) but hiding it makes it instantly untrustworthy to me. In fact I even argued in the past that even though I personally do not use GenAI/LLMs (for coding or otherwise) except for testing it should always be disclosed precisely so that others can make THEIR choice in consequence, including using or contributing, cf …benetou.fr/…/AgainstPoorArtificialIntelligencePr…"
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 4 days ago:
In retrospect that whole value proposition is nuts.
The suggestion here is to spend 10min, let’s say 1h if the connection isn’t far and the USB stick (or microSD) is slow… for something you will then use for years onward. Typically one does NOT re-install an OS frequently unless they want to (e.g. tinkering quite a bit or distro-hoping).
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 4 days ago:
Right, and to be clear I’m not suggesting to “just” buy a PC without an OS.
I’m suggesting both PC manufacturers and OS providers make an effort to facilitate that step.
One good example IMHO would be Raspberry Pi and its Imager. Yes you get your Pi but that’s not just it, you can get install Raspberry Pi OS … or Ubuntu, Apertis, RISC OS Pi, … but also media ones e.g. LibreELEC, OSMC, etc … or emulation with RetroPie, Batoccera.linux, … but still more with RaspAP, MoodleBox, … and countless others. You follow the steps thanks to a colorful GUI, put a microSD card in when prompted, wait, remove it, but in the SBC, boot and voila.
I’m not claiming it’s perfect or that anybody could do it but I believe it’s a good compromise ihelping people getting the OS they need if only they are genuinely ready to spend 10min for it.
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 4 days ago:
Unfortunately for you you don’t have what it takes. You need to be a proper psychopath to scam others.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 4 days ago:
You’re English is good don’t worry about it. What I meant to say is that we should stop talking about a hypothetical time when Linux would become mainstream, that’s in the past. It’s mainstream since at least since February 2022.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 5 days ago:
Right but Framework is basically new, founded just in 2020. Also I believe most people who go on their website is precisely because of this kind of options. I don’t think, sadly, they are representative of the broader market.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 5 days ago:
Well 100% in fact as that’s NOT the definition of “out of the box”.
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 5 days ago:
There you go stockanalysis.com/stocks/…/revenue-by-segment/ but TL;DR: AWS is more than 15% of their revenue and it keeps on growing.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 5 days ago:
Genuinely no idea why people keep on using YouTube.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 5 days ago:
I don’t understand the argument. Linux already is mainstream since there are millions (number out of my ass, I don’t actually know) of devices people buy and “just” use Linux. Those clients are no tinkerers or developers, “just” gamers including I bet a significant proportion who are not even adults. My bet is when those people are asked “Are you using Linux?” they either don’t know, or don’t care, and yet when they finally realize they are actually using Linux daily they probably think “Wow, it’s not that complicated, it just works” and thus it will change mindsets at scale.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 5 days ago:
You can buy computers without an operating system installed on it
AFAIR that hasn’t been the case in most places for a while precisely because Microsoft made partnerships with OEMs to avoid that situation.
I believe new laws were added, e.g. in Europe, but I would be curious were this was the case. In fact I remember the opposite, namely that most computers one would buy always came with an OS, Windows for PC and MacOS for Apple computers. Even computers that one would buy in part that would be assembled for them from non OEM would also have the options to have an OS. In fact I’d be curious about example of fully assemble PCs, not just parts, that could be purchased without an OS before the law in the places where its the case now, would prove an OS-free option. Can you please share examples?
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 5 days ago:
Linux will never be the mainstream OS
The SteamDeck prove that wrong, it’s already mainstream.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 5 days ago:
Learn about a tool that is basically in the middle of most of the crucial interactions in their lives? From receiving an email to vote, to booking an appointment to get a password, to working, to dating, to browsing an encyclopedia, to entertainment broadly, to creating music, to …?
I’ll stop there but yes, even though learning is scary I think if the safety net is clear enough (namely you just can’t mess up so badly your brand new computer won’t work) then it’s worth investing in.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 5 days ago:
… or maybe we can finally decouple from OEM for OSes? Maybe could JUST buy a computer and not be forced an OS on it?
Sure I admit it feels nice to unwrap a new device, turn it on, set up few options and use it. Yet, the alternative it to turn it on, plug a USB drive on it, turn it on, set up few options, wait for 15min tops for installation to proceed and use it.
It’s actually a ~15min difference but it could bring so many good practices.
- Comment on LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats 1 week ago:
Ah, so niche but of course there is a great Wikipedia article for this, thank you!
I was listening to the podcase episode 318 “Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein w/ Tim Schwab” of Tech Won’t Save Us thinking that honestly I had such a low esteem for Gates surely it couldn’t get worst. Well, I was clearly very wrong.
Now to read this after listening to the podcast is a great example showcasing how dearly Microsoft KEEPS on fighting for its monopolistic position. It’s not a “oh it just happen” kind of situation. It’s a constant investment of resources in the worst kind of ways, not into making the product better, but rather this. Again, unsurprising but whenever people argue about Gates being a “good” person or how Microsoft “changed” and isn’t what it was in the 2000s they are unfortunately very naive.
Anyway, digging into this, thanks again.
- Comment on LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats 1 week ago:
It’s like noticing a car crash and looking back… you know you shouldn’t and yet it’s somehow mesmerizing. So… where can I actually read about this please?
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 1 week ago:
I’ve been using a CMF Nothing with /e/OS installed by Murena for a year now and I can say it’s been a breeze.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 1 week ago:
a special case somehow.
IP, e.g. Mario, Zelda, Pokemon.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 1 week ago:
Better integrated than Steam? I’d be curious to hear how.
- Comment on Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect." 1 week ago:
To be fair I think that’s a very harsh depiction of the events.
It’s totally lacking the perspective of the shareholder. They were promised money and they have emotions too. Google shareholders deserve better representation!
/$ obviously
- Comment on Website 4 weeks ago:
That’s actually a great question, safer to ask your LLM directly! So helpful. /s
- Comment on Website 4 weeks ago:
Eh… don’t want to be mean but that’s what’s called an “IP address” for Internet Protocol Address… but this one is for your LAN, aka Local Area Network.
So that won’t work, people outside your LAN can’t reach it. What you need instead is a domain. What most people don’t know though is that there is a special domain name anybody can use for free! Check this out, assuming your LLM did the right setup do all that step, making website, starting Web server then try :
localhost and voila, free domain from your newly generated websites!
… /s
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 5 weeks ago:
Damn… money laundering though LIVE with its “gifts” I never thought about this. Everything else is wrong, at scale, but this surprised me.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 5 weeks ago:
Fucking manipulate idiot.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 5 weeks ago:
Classic GenAI marketing BS :
- show a superficial demo (literally it’s JUST the surface of the things you claim you can “generate”)
- imply that we are on the “brink” of radical change so we “just” have to wait then the “rest” will be generated
- move on to the next grandiose claim to make sure nobody goes beyond the surface
It’s so obvious it’s painful. Sure it’s not random, sure there is “progress” but it’s NEVER tackling the hard problem. What makes a game fun or exciting isn’t the generated world, only a non gamer would claim that.
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 1 month ago:
you would be surprised how much work a CPU under 100mhz can do when there isn’t an operating system/browser in the way
Latest cool thing I saw : Doom on my earbuds doombuds.com which IMHO demonstrate greatly how much more powerful so many tiny things around us really are.