Allero
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- Comment on Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage 8 hours ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage 13 hours ago:
I couldn’t look the same at Windows after about two weeks on Linux. Seriously, Windows is THIS bad.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage 13 hours ago:
Most people are actually passively opting for Windows.
Computers just come with it, or if somebody install it for them, Windows is the default expectation.
MacOS comes with very expensive Apple computers, and most people just choose Windows. The idea of Linux either never crosses their mind, they may not be aware of its existence, or think it’s some geeky server thing.
Most people opting for Windows, thereby, don’t make a rational decision between Windows, Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD or whatever. For them, Windows is just how computer works.
- Comment on What is the General Consensus of Web3? 2 days ago:
Web3 is a marketing term for Web2 sites that usually involve crypto/decentralized crypto-driven “metaverses”.
Web4 was employed by Meta/Facebook as a marketing to their “metaverse”.
Web 3.0 is a real term meaning an evolution of Internet oriented at establishing a universal framework for machines to easily process Web data.
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 3 days ago:
Open source is the only way for anything that should enter our brains.
Really hope regulations will come to this.
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 5 days ago:
Center left to center right by American standards, I suppose?
(It’s important to clarify as American center is way more right than normally considered)
Thanks! Wide scope is appreciated.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 5 days ago:
Still some narrow scope communities holding some people back (but it changes slowly).
Also, variety of porn is still better there(but lemmynsfw.com for the win) - Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 5 days ago:
Because none of the big companies listen to the privacy argument. Or any argument, really.
AI in itself is good, amazing, even.
I have no issue with open-source, ideally GPL- or similarly licensed AI models trained on Internet data.
But involuntarily participating in training closed-source corporate AI’s…no, thanks. That shit should go to the hellhole it was born in, and we should do our best to destroy it, not advocate for it.
If you care about the future of AI, OpenAI should long be on your enemy list. They expropriated an open model, they were hypocritical enough to keep “open” in the name, and then they essentially sold themselves to Microsoft. That’s not the AI future we should want.
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 1 week ago:
Thanks! If I’m not mistaken, Thomas Sowell, who is often cited under the post, changed to the right-wing after discussions with Chicago students - must be quite solid.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 1 week ago:
Yes, that very sodium. The one that combines with chlorine to give you table salt.
Super abundant, incredibly cheap, much more environmentally friendly.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 1 week ago:
It’s a great development that we should keep our eyes on, as some years into the future it will most certainly be available for regular consumers, including you with your install.
- Comment on Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production 1 week ago:
Some EV manufacturers, especially in China, have already shown interest in the technology, for all I know.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
Completely depends on who is allowed to vote.
If slaves would have a vote, they’d certainly strongly choose one option :D
Same for the discriminated groups.
If they don’t have a vote, this depends on the rest of society in the short run, but can cause violent rebellions in the long one. Democratic system does not eliminate possibility of revolt.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
That’s what I normally do - pirate or ignore AAA’s, but always buy indies.
The problem with the union idea is that most games just won’t pay off huge investments, so there needs to be someone competent who filters out profitable games, and funds games based on expected returns…and at that point we get, essentially, a publisher company. Or maybe a cooperative. But barely a union.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
Many countries actually have such systems in place today, even Russia (lol) - not that they work too well.
Normally, there are two sources of issues here: petitions can in fact be declined, and, in cases where the signature count depends on scale of the petition they can be intentionally escalated as to make it impossible to gain enough signatures.
Long story short, the system is open to shenanigans and doesn’t make the government truly accountable.
We need the system that would actually make politicians rapidly lose their jobs when they ignore public opinion.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
If that would be true, all games would be indie titles.
Unfortunately, those promotions DO matter, and absolute majority of indie games never pull it off, because we never even get to hear about them.
Promotion makes a difference between a cool game no one knows about and a game everyone plays.
And when everyone is expected to buy your game, you have much bigger budgets to make the game not just conceptually good, but also greatly executed.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
Two-party system is the enemy of democracy to begin with
But maybe even they would be more inclined to do better everyday
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
Made me imagine a page where everyone everyday can leave 1 vote on how good the government performs
If the scores are too low for a prolonged period of time, the government is dismissed.
(Obviously a very first-second concept with millions of flaws - just a thought)
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
Honestly I’d rather have a cheater in my lobby than Riot Games deep into the sections of my PC they should never have accessed.
With that said, I do not play Valorant for this reason (and also because it would require me to dualboot since Vanguard cannot be ported on Linux, lol)
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
Yeah, like, you know what is best for PC players, it just doesn’t come together with financial interest :D
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
Developers generally have a choice between going to one of the massive publishers (which allows for better promotion and for expensive games to pay off, but comes at a cost of their will over devs), or to self-release, which means way less players will even know about the game, not to mention buy it.
Arrowhead realistically only had the first option.
That’s not to say there’s no fault of theirs in the situation, just that it’s not a free choice abd that Sony is still the main culprit
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 1 week ago:
Long story short: Sony decided (after sales!) to make it impossible for players to get into their already purchased copy of Helldivers 2 without a PlayStation Network account. Originally, players could just use their Steam accounts.
The problem, aside from bloating and privacy concerns, is that there are many regions in which PlayStation Network isn’t even available, meaning hundreds of thousands of gamers would just be locked out of the game they bought.
Now, after immense pressure (players immediately dumped game reviews into oblivion, and bombarded the developers, forcing them to renegotiate with Sony) it was decided not to make PlayStation Network linking mandatory.
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 1 week ago:
SearxNG, much like original SearX, pulls data from a variety of search engines, reducing their bias, and also has great filtering options, including filters for academic/IT/social/etc.
Aside from that, it is decentralized and private. Everyone can kickstart their own SearX server, though it might need some minimal juice to work quickly.
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 1 week ago:
I see. Thank you anyway!
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 1 week ago:
Thanks for your opinion!
Any other Nazi books you’d recommend?
(Gosh, I never thought I’d say something like this)
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 1 week ago:
Sounds like a great find! Thank you
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 1 week ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 1 week ago:
I’m not here to love these people, I’m here to hear them out :D Thanks!
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 1 week ago:
Great! Something to definitely check out Thanks
- Comment on [Serious] Any high-quality right-wing media, books, explainers? 1 week ago:
Thanks! Yes, I see how this might be infuriating Took a glance over Project 2025, it’s not just wrong and dystopian, it’s literally self-contradictory, sometimes in the same paragraphs.
Like when they say that free competition generally reduces costs of healthcare, but then the literal next paragraph saying government should allow prices to soar to “foster innovation” - like, make up your mind! And then proceeding to say that insurance ends up in a lot of “unnecessary” appointments and that healthcare should be everyone’s own financial responsibility.
And a lot of similar examples of self-contradictory and dystopian stuff carefully covered in positive wording.