Eggyhead
@Eggyhead@lemmings.world
- Comment on AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley researchers found the opposite. 1 week ago:
My goodness! How did you upscale that image so beautifully??
- Comment on Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit? 1 week ago:
The taxes are really high, so Nordic folk tend to base their online businesses in countries with lax tax laws then live off the proceeds in their home countries where the benefits are great.
- Comment on Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit? 1 week ago:
I don’t like how the specific IP address is simply no longer listed.
- Comment on Musk fails to block California data disclosure law he fears will ruin xAI 1 week ago:
He probably doesn’t want to disclose that CSAM was included.
- Comment on Xbox Project Helix may cost $1,200 with massive performance upgrades 1 week ago:
I hate Microsoft and I would consider buying it if I can purge it of windows and install Steam OS on it. :)
- Comment on Xbox Project Helix may cost $1,200 with massive performance upgrades 1 week ago:
My assumption is that it’s a living room PC with a windows equivalent of steam big-picture mode on it.
But knowing Microsoft, there will be shenanigans.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games 1 week ago:
Why does that foot have a hole in it?? Shoot it!!!
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games 1 week ago:
Is there anything other than the widespread assumption that you’ll actually be able to play PC games from competing store fronts? I’m enough of a corpo skeptic to expect this to turn out to be a locked down PC that exclusively operates through the Microsoft store.
- Comment on Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC 1 week ago:
You want some reasons why they shouldn’t? The PS5 is wildly successful. Moving to PC means they need to migrate the PS store to PC with all their players and their libraries as well, probably renegotiating on publishing rights for every game on PS, spending all that money, and then ultimately end up with fewer customers, 70% on Sony titles and nothing from third parties sold to people playing on Steam.
Or they can just keep doing what they’re doing and get 100% on Sony titles, 30% on everything else, and remain the dominant gaming destination for most households.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 2 weeks ago:
Honest question. As someone who has used and loved MacOS for many years, what would be the best Linux distro for me?
- Comment on Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC 2 weeks ago:
I think this is more about user retention than additional sales. In a world where PC players stay on PC and console players stay on console, porting games to PC makes sense. However, with Steam OS making things easy and Microsoft’s plans for making the next Xbox a consoled-PC, there’s a much higher risk of PS players migrating to PC -particularly if their favorite exclusives are landing there anyway. And of course there’s no indication that PC players will ever invest in a console unless there are exclusives.
Furthermore, with rising costs of computer parts, Sony might have to subsidize their hardware a little bit more than they’re comfortable with, and that means they need players in their store buying games and not buying games from Steam.
And finally, it’s worth mentioning that Sony fumbled bad with first party games this gen, meaning the PS5’s success has been carried solely on the backs of 3rd parties. If PS players were to buy a Steam Machine, they would have almost no reason to ever buy a PS again unless Sony starts giving them a reason to.
So as much as it disgruntles all of us to not be able to buy all our games exactly where we want, it’s probably a smarter investment for Sony as a video game company to not be porting their games to PC.
- Comment on Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ 3 weeks ago:
Is this why I can’t buy a steam machine?
- Comment on Nintendo Wins $2 Million Lawsuit Against 'MiG Switch' Distributor 6 months ago:
Then it seems that Nintendo is also in the extreme minority by claiming this guy’s efforts have done them any harm. How they won this is beyond me.
- Comment on Nintendo Wins $2 Million Lawsuit Against 'MiG Switch' Distributor 6 months ago:
Nintendo’s asinine anti-consumer anti-piracy measures are probably causing more harm to the company than this guy ever did.
I might have actually bought a Switch 2 if Nintendo hadn’t pissed me off with their pricing and game cart shenanigans.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 6 months ago:
The question is still valid, even if the meaning changes.
- Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users 6 months ago:
They never specified who’s security…
- Comment on Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch 6 months ago:
But it’s not hard to find examples of similar games that don’t reach server-crashing levels of popularity. Axiom Verge, for one. Beautiful art, runs on anything, affordable, no modern fuckery. It’s also a metroidvania. Not to imply it’s a better game, but I personally enjoyed it way more than Hollow Knight.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 6 months ago:
I sometimes approach this like I do with students. Using your example, I’d ask it to restate the source, then ask it to read the title of that source directly. If it’s correct, I might ask it to briefly summarize what the source article covers. Then I would ask it to restate what it told me about the source earlier, and to explain where the inconsistency lies. Usually by this time, the AI is accurately pointing out flaws in its prior logic. At that point I ask again if it is 100% sure it didn’t make a mistake, and it might actually concede to having been wrong. Then I tell it to remember how and why it was wrong to avoid similar errors in the future. I don’t know if it actually works, but it makes me feel better about it.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 6 months ago:
I’m more inclined to believe it’s gotten better at being convincing.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 6 months ago:
And you can tell clients that it’s just made up and not actual confidence, but they will insist that they need it anyways…
That doesn’t justify flat out making shit up to everyone else, though. If a client is told information is made up but they use it anyway, that’s on the client. Although I’d argue that an LLM shouldn’t be in the business of making shit up unless specifically instructed to do so by the client.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 6 months ago:
It annoys me that Chat GPT flat out lies to you when it doesn’t know the answer, and doesn’t have any system in place to admit it isn’t sure about something. It just makes it up and tells you like it’s fact.
- Comment on Meta investors settle $8bn lawsuit with Zuckerberg over Facebook privacy 7 months ago:
Why aren’t Tesla shareholders suing Elon, I wonder?
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
How do I replicate this myself?
- Comment on The Switch 2's price won't be impacted by Japan's new tariffs, but its games might 8 months ago:
Clearly the Japanese shouldn’t be making all our Japanese games! We need American businesses making Japanese games!
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 8 months ago:
No one’s silencing him, though right? They’re just reacting to what he said, which is consequence. Is this somehow challenging gods right to make his voice heard?
- Comment on Google is launching Offerwall, A new tool for publishers /websites to paywall their content. 8 months ago:
The cost of consuming media doesn’t match its worth.
I never used ad blockers until they became invasive and disruptive.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Price Has Been Confirmed 8 months ago:
I haven’t been a real borderlands fan since 2. The gameplay is fun enough, but the dialogue kind of gets cringy after a while.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Price Has Been Confirmed 8 months ago:
I’ve decided amongst this push to $80 games that even $70 is too rich for me. With very few exceptions, the only launch games I buy will be the $40-50 ones. Otherwise I will just wait until the $70+ ones that interest me to get there on their own. If i lose the urge to play them in the meantime, oh well. Money saved.
There are just sooooo many great games out there at much better prices.
- Comment on MindsEye - Official Launch Trailer | 2025 9 months ago:
NGL, this trailer made me more interested in the game than the original unveiling trailer. It’s still not really on my list of games to play, but I’ll pay attention if I see it brought up in the news now.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 9 months ago:
It’s the Wild West days of AI, just like the internet in the 90s. Do what you can with it now, because it’ll eventually turn into a marketing platform. You’ll get a handy free AI model that occasionally tries to convince you to buy stuff. The paid premium models will start doing it too.