BlameTheAntifa
@BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 1 day ago:
The poor user experience is intentional. Compare FireTV to AppleTV. Everything about FireTV is carefully designed to coerce you into spending money. Easy access to the content you already have doesn’t make money, so the UX serves Amazon, not you. Apple does it, too, but with a more subtlety.
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 1 day ago:
Star Citizen works well on Linux via a community-maintained tool called LUG. Getting other fancy peripherals like head tracking requires some creative use of a Windows VM, because those peripheral makers don’t support Linux. If Squadron 42 ever actually materializes, then the community will have it covered.
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 1 day ago:
I backed it a lifetime ago and have gone back and forth between “it’s a scam” and “maybe it could happen” so many times that I just don’t care any more. As broken as it is and as slow as progress has been, there has never been anything like it. I check in a couple of times every year and usually have fun seeing the sights for a week or two. I think I’ve had enough enjoyment from it to justify my original cost.
Even though their goals are unreasonable, irrational, and completely mad, they have somehow managed to fund stable development for over a decade and have actually made meaningful progress. Will I live to see it realized? Who knows. I wish them luck for both their sakes and the people who spent big money on this ridiculous dream, but unlike many others, I have no hard feelings personally. I’d like to see it realized someday, but I have no more money to give them even if I wanted to.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 1 day ago:
The blue line is male and the blue line is female.
- Comment on Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics” 3 days ago:
Lots of conservatives there?
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 4 days ago:
Implies Capitalism is not at fault, proceeds to outline precisely why State Capitalism is melting down over declining birthrate. This comment is so ironic it cured my anemia.
- Comment on Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached 4 days ago:
Mostly. Official releases are licensed MIT only as compiled software. Derivatives are explicitly required to be AGPL 3.0 but they muddy that with trademark terms that give them a lot of ways to excuse crushing genuinely AGPL 3.0 forks. It’s a minefield and it’s designed that way on purpose. In reality, it’s more “source available” than “open source.”
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 5 days ago:
I played the game very shortly after release and I read all the newspapers. There was a lot of storytelling going on in them and they definitely weren’t this. Was some prerelease build or placeholder? Because if so, this controversy is pedantic garbage, and I say that as someone who is violently anti-AI.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 6 days ago:
WinBoat is amazing, but it doesn’t have GPU passthrough yet. That one feature is the holy grail for Windows virtualization on Linux. I hope the WinBoat team can solve it.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 6 days ago:
You can be happily off Windows in less than an hour.
- Comment on YSK: if you dont have Kagi, the next best thing is to search DDG with date range set before 2012 (ish) 6 days ago:
This reminds me that I need to give Kagi a try. Even DDG is getting worse because the internet itself is getting worse.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 1 week ago:
Oh, hun. You didn’t even get your Bible topics correct. If you had turned this in at the most hateful, ignorant, backwards, antichrist church in Texas as a Sunday School assignment it still would have been a zero point paper. What was that quote at the end of Billy Madison?
Mr. Madison, what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
That applies to this paper.
- Comment on YSK: The pulled *60 Minutes* CECOT segment aired in Canada and is available online 1 week ago:
And Epstein wrote a letter that directly accuses Trump of being a pedophile child rapist, and the DOJ then tried to delete it before remembering that the internet is forever and re-uploading it elsewhere.
- Comment on “They burned millions but got nothing.” Japanese game font provider’s aggressive price hike could be result of parent company’s alleged AI failure and financial struggle 1 week ago:
They were purchased by Monotype, a global font monopoly, and the whole “buy all competition, send prices into the stratosphere, then sue whoever can’t pay the extortion or change their fonts” is Monotype’s entire M.O.
- Comment on Is the RAM prices explosion another manufactured crisis to corps drain money from people before the AI bubble collapses? 1 week ago:
What is happening to RAM now is what happened to the housing market a few decades ago. It is unlikely it will ever recover because Capitalism demands that whatever makes the most profit, no matter how harmful or unethical, is what must be done.
- Comment on Tencent ‘Horizon clone’ pulled from stores as Sony settles lawsuit 1 week ago:
Someone didn’t live through the 80s, I see.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 1 week ago:
- Comment on Coursera to buy Udemy, creating $2.5 billion firm to target AI training 1 week ago:
God. Fucking. Dammit.
- Comment on Total War: Warhammer 40,000 wants to be "the seminal Warhammer 40K game," says its devs, who sell me in just 8 words: "You can customize the fingers on Space Marines!" plus Gamestar article 2 weeks ago:
This sounds so good, but Creative Assembly and Sega infects everything they touch with Denuvo malware. I wouldn’t buy a Denuvo-infected game for $1.
- Comment on Windows Marketshare since 2010 2 weeks ago:
At this rate it will only be relevant for another 15-20 years.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 weeks ago:
Even monitors are having smart TV antifeatures added. Soon you won’t be able to find a “dumb monitor” — and this is why.
- Comment on Hmm 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Accidental rapture 2 weeks ago:
You’re cool. I like you.
- Comment on Accidental rapture 2 weeks ago:
I love what @JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org is saying, but there’s no mystery about the nephilim.
Adam and Eve weren’t the first homosapiens, they were only the first Jews. They were the true children of Yahweh/El/Elohim, the only created things that were imbued with divine breath. Other humans were considered subservient like other animals. The Sons of God are Jewish men, the Daughters of Men were outsider women.
Most of the oral traditions in Genesis were ancient before they were written down, so they could even be echos of early homosapiens cross breeding with neanderthals. Remember what Jesus called the gentile woman who begged for help? He said helping her would be like throwing the children’s food — the children of Yahweh — to the dogs. Those who weren’t the ethnicity and the religion were not only outsiders, they were akin to “beasts of the field.”
- Comment on It didn't rise... 3 weeks ago:
Next time, put it somewhere warm and moist and let it rise before you turn up the heat.
- Comment on wow, I just found out that Donald Trump has been awarded inaugural FIFA Peace Prize 3 weeks ago:
It’s a piece prize. In remembrance of all the pieces of Venezuelan civilians he’s filled the Caribbean with.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 3 weeks ago:
ISE.
Integrated Slop Environment.
- Comment on I hate how inescapable politics are on Lemmy, but ya know, at least nobody's constantly asking how I wipe my butt or pick up my dog's poop then completely ignoring me when I try to answer. 3 weeks ago:
It would be great if my existence and the existence of my friends and family weren’t considered “political.”
But here we are. Sorry that our not going quietly into the camps inconveniences you.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 3 weeks ago:
This is primarily because search engines have become so unreliable and enshittified that they are useless. It’s not a mark in favor of AI as much as a reminder of how bad search engines have become.
For the record I do the same thing after failing to find anything on DuckDuckGo after multiple attempts. Maybe I should give Kagi a try, but AI is making the entire internet worse, so I feel pessimistic about that, too.
